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Actually it was the first set at 855 Battery! Lasted about 4 years.

Yes please! As I've seen more mid-90s Phoenix TV material, I'm starting to understand just why News 15 was a jarring event and why its promotion was so on point. Phoenix — I mean, Arizona — TV newscasts of the period were really samey, and the way they were promoted was very sugary. Even KSAZ, which had a bit of an edge to its image and tried to cultivate that through the early Fox years, was and still is at its core a very traditional sort of TV newscast. KTVK had presentation that hadn't changed significantly since, like, 1987; KPHO had finally managed to truly come out of the 80s just months before, and even then changes in the anchor lineup and presentation barely masked the outdated feeling of their main newscast. KPNX was also in this mold. KNXV was scrappy, really fast-paced, and sugar-free. Their story density was amazing; they aired 43 stories in their first 33-minute newscast (August 1, 1994). While the station toned down some of what it might have done under Fox, it found that a fresh approach to news, with quite a bit of attitude, was going to be successful. News 15 impressed a lot of people — it was the second-place finisher in the 1995 local Emmy race, covering 1994, despite only having five months on the air. Between 1994 and 96, KNXV was something else. Then it went tabloid, started to pursue ratings, and it quickly fell into a hole. Outside of a time in the mid-2000s and arguably recent years, KNXV has been often describable as "barren". However, they're pretty good if a little over-the-top, and they have the best Twitter presence in town.

Here's more -- these promos give some indication of just how revolutionary KNXV's initial format and style were for the Phoenix market:

And here it is, the news from 22 years ago tomorrow:

Not sure when it happened, but realized this morning that they have new updated weather graphics. They're pretty nice.

Yay KPIX with the "set in the round" in action. I believe that this was the last set 'PIX used @ their Van Ness studios, before moving to 855 Battery....

Anyone think it’s somewhat cruel to have Ayman and Yasmin anchor so late in the day around the time they typically are getting ready for bed?

This is from Jan 1st 2015. before Mike's firing. It also shows how long they took to get Dionne Miller's bio up, who joined the station 2 months before Cheryl, October of 2014 to be exact. I'm sorry if I'm being rude.