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I've seen it OTA here in NY and it's honestly a noble effort - I feel like news is a missed opportunity for subchannels (cough cough CBSN New York). Although it's a bit rough around the edges, I think they do a good job and I'd much rather see them succeed rather suffer through another ultracompressed MeTV clone.

Well, hard to believe it's been 25 years since the big network affiliation switch that took place on September 3rd to December 1994. September 3, 1994... Cleveland: WJW (CBS to FOX), WOIO (Fox to CBS) September 12, 1994... Phoenix: KPHO (Ind to CBS), KSAZ (CBS to Ind) Kansas City: WDAF (NBC to FOX), KSHB (Fox to NBC) December 11, 1994.... Detroit: WJBK (CBS to FOX), WKBD (FOX to Ind to UPN), and WGPR now WWJ (Ind to CBS). Tampa: WTSP (ABC to CBS), WTVT (CBS to FOX) and WFTS (FOX to ABC). Atlanta: WAGA (CBS to FOX), WATL (FOX to Ind to WB), and WGNX now WGCL (Ind to CBS). December 15, 1994... Phoenix: KTVK (ABC to Ind), KSAZ (Ind to FOX), KNXV (Fox to ABC) I could be wrong on the date in Phoenix's part of the affiliation change.

From the nice touch department... WXYZ has started using the traditional “Good evening I’m”... across all of its newscasts when there isn’t breaking news leading off... its been almost 10 years since they used this style of open consistently. They’ve started doubling down on hard news so this may be connected to that.

Not sure if I would call it groundbreaking. It looks like the 4pm was somewhat normalized by this time. If you go search for more videos with this 4pm set, the groundbreaking part was how the 4pm desk was extremely low. You were able to see pretty much what the anchors were wearing. I included a quick link of a that shows what I am talking about below

KNBC 1990 4pm preshow - there's a great wide shot at the end that shows how the 4pm set is connected to the main set Groundbreaking set - so many stations used variants on the main set for years to come

NewsNet is a joke, how does it stay on the air anyway?

I thought I was the only one. Something just didn't click when I watched her. Also, early in her time in Philly, I think I heard her refer to Center City as "Philly Metro".

Late entry in "Most Unexpected Story of the Year": Sinclair is dropping its Boris Epshteyn must-runs this Friday. (Also, Ameshia Cross, who worked on Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.)

The Cowles stations in Washington state and Montana were hit by a cyber attack: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/dec/10/khq-tv-part-of-cyber-attack-that-hit-news-stations/

Well, they have the look, but judging by that echo (echo echo echo echo echo) they can't afford acoustical treatments in this "state of the art" studio. Or maybe, they just don't know that there's more to building a TV station than fancy graphics and sets.

St. Louis from 1987! KPLR (no open): KSDK with a young Janice Huff: And a KMOV open I’ve never seen before!

Furthermore, the WFLD package shown in the clip lacked a key component of TVbD/JCBD's graphics of the 1980s and early 1990s. The layer effects of the name banners and title logos in the news open just slide from left to right, not zooming out or coming together at a split point. Basically, every package from those two companies had that element at that time; this package doesn't. Compare the WFLD open to the WGN midday open and to these...

I think it was in-house. The graphics look a bit less slick and colorful than what TVBD and JCBD were going for at the time.

Do not hold out hope for Move Closer To Your World sticking around. Tegna (then Gannet) shattered my dreams when it ripped the Spirit Of Texas out from under WFAA for no good reason at all. This company’s main goal in life is to take away anything that made a station unique, watchable and likable and replace it with cheaply designed, grossly underpaid, non-focus grouped cow manure. Thus, they will take great pleasure in sending MCTYW down the Lougee Loo and replacing it with their new age scat-snap-and-clap-fest as the viewers of NE PA light their torches and call for some heads—that I can assure you. They will spit in the faces of their valued viewers and laugh as they smash WNEP under their boots. As an aside, can someone please bring back Belo? I will buy you lunch! (For context: I’m not some old fart reminiscing about the good old days. I’m in my early-mid twenties, you know, the demographic Tegna is trying to reach with their crap. Just sayin’.) Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

KCRA May 1983 weather - still using 'KCRA and You' package - that puts the intro of the Where the News Comes First package sometime between May 83 and January 84

By November 1982, KETV still had the old logo, along with “Newsbeat” and the recycled 1980 graphics: However they do have a slide at the end for their meteorologists (Jim Flowers, Rob Dixon, Don Novak), which were later used for the 1983 graphics with the KSNW theme. Also of note (not news): an ATARI commercial from KMART

This demo reel from Jeff Hertrick offers a rare look at ill-fated Martinsburg, WV Fox affiliate WYVN's newscast. Also includes some clips of his time at WTOC. WYVN used the "USA News"-copycat production track "America's Station" from Firstcom.

WJZ transitioned..... j/k it will be ages before they transition.

KMTV In 1979 with the “Dream Team”:

It appears WSB was using News Leader by 1987:

...Why. Just why.

Hey, it’s the weird KOVR news open again!

Some new OKC stuff from Chris Sloan...... KWTV in the later days of Newsline 9: KFOR with their Vance/EGAD look: KOCO with the current logo but still under Gannett ownership:

TV1 in Bosnia-Herzegovina is now O Kanal. The earthquake that devastated Albania and caused some damage in Bosnia-Herzegovina is the lead story of today's edition of their main newscast:

Even considering its small market size, this doesn't feel like a newscast from 1990:

KOCO (June 1994) featuring the Gannett Deathstar from the 5 News era

WTOL’s Dick Berry retires Sunday after 40 years: https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/tv-radio/2019/09/27/after-four-decades-at-wtol-tv-toledo-reporter-dick-berry-retires-sunday/stories/20190928049 Candid interview and great perspective from an actual journalist. "The whole media business has become more corporate ... which is affecting how the news is covered, as well as the people you see entering the news business," he said. "A lot of them are not qualified to be in the news business. I just wonder how they got to be where they are.”

Milo Yiannopoulos is kind of a token queer on the right. He used to be with Breitbart until he made made some off-color comments about sex under-age. Then everybody cut him loose. With Shepard Smith being your avatar, there's got to be a joke in there somewhere. From what I've seen of their product, it's not really far right. Of course, I can't get the TV station there on anymore because they have such a crappy signal. Milo was kind of like the Richard Simmons of Breitbart. Just enough of a flamer to be entertaining but not so much to turn people off. Kind of like Elton John in a way, without the talent.