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NBC wanted to experiment with expanding Nightly News from half-hour to full-hour back in the early 80s. Those plans never materialized. NYT article from 1981: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/20/arts/stations-board-passes-one-hour-nbc-news.html If CBS were to expand from half-hour to full-hour, one of a couple scenarios would have to occur. Easy scenario I could think of would be CBS (A) rescheduling daytime line-up... The Price Is Right at 11AM eastern The Young & The Restless at 1PM eastern The Talk at 2PM eastern The Bold & The Beautiful at 3PM eastern CBS having the option of shorten Let's Make A Deal to half-hour, or cancel LMAD for either a new half-hour soap or expand B&B to full-hour. Or if CBS wanted to move The Talk to 3PM eastern, and put B&B in 2PM eastern. CBSEN air 6:30-7:30PM eastern or 7-8PM eastern. (B) CBS convincing its affiliates to air hour-long CBSEN, and having O'Donnell personally visit each of the affiliates. The only successful hour-long network evening news program would be PBS Newshour seen on most PBS member stations. It would be interesting to see whether or not NBC would also want to revisit the hour-long Nightly News idea again, or if ABC could be thinking the same thing with World News Tonight. Only time will tell.

Full broadcast encoded in 60fps? Check. Kent Ogle on a weekend 10p? Check.

All I know is that they are on an LPTV station in Columbus that I can't pick up even with an outdoor antenna and even though a tiny 120 watt VHF station comes in crystal clear. When it was coming in about a month ago, its sound level was barely audible.

KXAS had almost 1.5 million viewers for the game. By comparison, at 9, around when the storm hit, KDFW had just over 200,000 viewers. https://unclebarky.com/dfw_files/fe4c87f456f6f63c884d5cacf479db32-4482.html

It's weird because the previous FTN studio was perfectly serviceable for the Evening News and was only a year or so old - and IIRC Norah anchored EN from there a couple times and it looked really good. An 11PM or otherwise late national news won't work - too many are in bed by that hour and it would probably need to be "edgy" to have a snowball's chance. What I do think would work is someone expanding their evening newscast to an hour each night, so there's more opportunity to produce and air stories with depth and not try to jam everything most of the public already knows into 90 second packages--basically put on a watered down 60 Minutes, but every night. That's basically what Scott Pelley's Evening News was, and even in a 30 minute slot it was excellent. As the syndication market falters and more programming's coming in-house, I wonder what network would have the guts to try it. CBS, honestly, is a prime candidate. Their syndie arm just dropped the Insider and while Inside Edition filled the hole in a lot of markets, that time could absolutely be spent putting better content on the air. I bet plenty of station groups would love to not have to pay for another half-hour of programming for their stations.

KNBC 1988 Olympic News Break The ending has the synth bumper music that replaced News Center II cuts I thought didn't debut until a year or so later...it lasted into 92, 93 I think

You have. WFMJ used that theme as well.

A sign that the network will soon fold? That would mean bad news to the thousands of NewsNets streaming viewers........ in the Philippines!

Rick Mitchell was the chief at KOCO when I was in OKC and breaking into programming when needed was without question...so the smell here's coming from up on high, I have a feeling.

At least WFAA was on the ball Sunday night as they were quick to get on the air and stay on it (along with KDFW). KTVT was late and less active, which was problematic for a situation with a confirmed large tornado on the ground (would be okay if it was radar indicated), but KXAS definitely took a huge reputation hit there. My letter grades of the coverage: KDFW: A KTVT: C- KXAS: F WFAA: A-

To show how long it took for KXAS to even provide coverage of the tornado, the YT channel Random News Footage composed a six-minute timelapse of the programming on KDFW, KXAS, WFAA and KTVT during the period between the issuance of the tornado warning at 9:00pm until KXAS began their third cut-in of the warning timeframe at 9:24: Also of note, as basically referenced by KTVT meteorologist Jeff Ray in footage of their storm coverage on StormSpotterMike's channel, KTVT took quite a bit of time to provide tornado coverage over its airwaves. As Ray mentions, they continued offering only a Facebook Live stream of the storm coverage for about 8-10 minutes after the warning was issued (with KTVT airing the first act of that night's episode of Madam Secretary for about thirteen minutes after the first reports of the tornado having touched down near Love Field were made), and elected to commence television coverage on KTXA first, before throwing coverage onto KTVT, instead of starting a simulcast of coverage on KTVT and KTXA at the same time.

IMO, Marty Haag and Chip Moody would both be rolling over in their graves right now seeing what Tegna has done to WFAA. It's not surprising to see WFAA's Breaking News coverage being as undelwhelmed as it was

KXAS should be very fortunate there were no deaths. I'm sure if there were quite a number injured/killed there might be a different opinion towards them. I was surprised, before I went to work that night, that it was just the game and a little corner graphic, no cut ins while I had it on. Meanwhile, KDFW showed a red-by-green possible tornado signature on their radar. If the late/great Harold Taft were still around, there would have been more than a small corner graphic on KXAS.

It’s raining Tulsa: KTUL still using John B. Wells by 1989 KJRH kept using the same theme even during the morning hours (Russell Kinsaul worked there?!) One of the earliest “6 in the Mornings” on YT And Doc Morgan is a BIT TOO cheerful here.

Here's another clip of WNJU's Informador 47 from 1990. Featuring Jorge L. Ramos with a mustache! Opening and top stories.

World News Tonight Sunday with Sam Donaldson, followed by WLS’s Eyewitness News. 8/31/80