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A classic look inside WEAT (WPEC) in west palm beach from 1973! (no audio) A news close from WTVX.

It occurs to me that *all* future PR material is going to be exceedingly difficult to find...

This is a particularly cool clip for me...the music for the close is "The Dream Is Always The Same" by Tangerine Dream, from the soundtrack to the movie Risky Business - which also has the two tracks used in the 1985 TVbD demo ("Lana" and "Love On A Real Train"). Great find!

They are still in the honeymoon phase. After about a year, IMO it will start to get ugly because since both have been in this market for such a long time, both will fell "I belong in the power chair". And in a co-anchor set up, there is only one power chair.

It sounds like it's been digitally altered.

Actually, there is. Here you go:

You never know, we're still finding old New Orleans TV footage long after Katrina....

Ok!

Weekend Treats! Grand Rapids, MI; Kingston, NY; Lincoln/Grand Island, NE; and Philly! WWMT (Kalamazoo) September 6, 1996 11:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]240942744[/MEDIA] WOOD (Grand Rapids) September 7, 1996 11:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]240942373[/MEDIA] WRNN (Kingston/New York City) February 7, 1997 10:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]240942061[/MEDIA] KOLN/KGIN (Lincoln/Hastings) June 19, 1997 6:00am (First 15 minutes) [MEDIA=vimeo]240334504[/MEDIA] KYW (Philadelphia) April 24, 1997 11:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]240941645[/MEDIA]

More Vimeo, because there's great material... No opens but snippets of primarily KHSL and KXTV reports from the very early 80s/late 70s. The reporter you see here, Mary Bird, apparently died covering a news story in 1982. [MEDIA=vimeo]15010981[/MEDIA] Director's cut of KSTU's "Fox News at Nine" with Nick Clooney from December 14, 1992. This is the oldest footage available of KSTU's news operation in its first year! [MEDIA=vimeo]201757675[/MEDIA] A KFSN 5:00 show from 1992, also with director audio: [MEDIA=vimeo]171492601[/MEDIA] WDAF's Fox 4 News at 6 from 1997. Six people have died in a Kansas City house fire and Phil Witt is at the fire station: [MEDIA=vimeo]17478929[/MEDIA]

An Arizona Republic high school sports show from the late 90s that aired on KPHO? Wowza! (Can't have lasted much longer than 2000 on channel 5!) [MEDIA=vimeo]217235567[/MEDIA] A couple non-Phoenix rarities... [MEDIA=vimeo]5017304[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=vimeo]34137418[/MEDIA] These aren't news, but holy heck they are rare... KAET's "College Beat" student-produced variety program from 1970. [MEDIA=vimeo]156495361[/MEDIA] And I had to save the best for absolute freakin' last. WALLACE & LADMO! [MEDIA=vimeo]72845609[/MEDIA]

It definitely was--they cut every frame of dead air they could out of Chapin's VO to fit the open.

You might see Rosanna back on evenings within a year.

Great stuff...but I couldn't help but put my four years of French to work here. As the names are La Première and La Deuxième Chaîne, the names are correctly translated as the First and Second Channel, rather than First and Second Network. (The term for network is réseau - TVA of Quebec calls itself as such, dating back to when they were a cooperative like CTV.) Meanwhile, back in the plains, 6 and 10 PM opens from KOLN/KGIN, featuring series 2 of Making a Difference in all its 90's glory.

Motherjones.com did a story on Sinclair from the start of the company to current times. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/ready-for-trump-tv-inside-sinclair-broadcastings-plot-to-take-over-your-local-news/

I found this **Gem** of a promo for WTSP from the mid '80s on this bizarre YT channel. (Don't watch the rest of the video!). This is a high budget promo with an "actor"(?) telling us why "Action News" is the "New Leader" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=0dWO2YfjFwc;m=7;s=2

The latest gems from Daniel Cole include the full "We Know What Matters" image song from WEEK in 1988: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXDO6cfWpOc Another WYZZ station ID with the "Clearly the One" theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or7XaM8vvmE A promo for WMBD's noon news during the CBS 31/Counterpoint era (late 90's): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hddZsmGSM6g And a bonus from Mike Panonni, a rare bilingual sign-off from WKAQ-TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=CMpDnYoP9ec;m=11;s=25

However KFSN used MCTYW using the same visuals as WKBW from a 1976 Newscast Ditto for WTVD using the same as KFSN And WKBW using the Same as KFSN and WTVD, period.

Boy oh boy, Chapin's voice does not sound good at all.

Alright I have a question: KOKH in Oklahoma City uses a different news music package for their opens and teases, but they still do use the 615 Music package for other things such as reopens and teases to weather and sports segments. But what music package KOKH uses for their opens and teases to commercial breaks (not the weather or sports segments but the teases to commercial breaks) they use?

Not local news, but still interesting. A full weekend episode of Extra from May 18, 1997, back when show wanted to be more like Inside Edition instead of ET: Plus the weekend Hard Copy & George Michael Sports Machine from that day: Note that it was taped off KNDO/KNDU, yet another YT channel with stuff from Yakima/Tri Cities!

Clausen was dumped a couple of years before Primetime News was ditched and the L3's changed in late 2005. Momentum News didn't come until the start of 2007 when they did a music change alongside an anchor shuffle. The time when KSAZ gave someone good to the Albany market rather than bring a living debacle as when Kari Lake had her fifteen month detour to WNYT.

WTMJ, May 20, 1993 (man, how many final Cheers newscasts do we have!?)...

Just dying to know what the news on ORTF's Second Network looked like on this day in 1973? Here's YouTube to the rescue: WTOP, Washington D.C.; 6 p.m. news, 1978: