Ntropolis

 

KTGF in January 1992:

(another unknown theme, probably a production track)

 

Someone ID'd it to the NMSA as Finish Line by Network Music. WTKR used it on promos in 1991...

WROC sports/close from February 1994 (Newswire!!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF6j1WspPSc

WAVY promos from 1986...

WTKR signoff from 1995:

(What's most interesting to me is that the copy was generally unchanged

Part 1 of a WTKR 11pm newscast from October 1995:

 

 

Full WIXT and WTVH newscasts, 1998:

and

 

 

Total News. So cool. So incredibly 90s.

 

The reason I even suggested it was because Narragansett ran WPRI and WTKR sort of similarly from a design/presentation standpoint.

 

Here's WTKR's open from around the same time for comparison. It's pretty similar, just a little more fast-paced. This debuted in early 1992 (Jan/Feb)

 

Tornado coverage from WHBQ in 1994 (about a year before the Fox switch). Includes open.

 

 

Bringing this one back up... must have been a very short-lived look. Their "Eyewitness News" look was different in July of '94

 

Any Youngstown station open ever.

 

I like this one for some reason

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WECT Carolina in the Morning open from 1994. Their early use of News Series 2000+ or whatever it's called these days.

 

 

Same newscast, but with soon-to-depart sports anchor Bob Rathbun teasing a story on trades at Major League Baseball's Winter Meetings (a comment from a Raymie Humbert suggests some Television by Design influence in the graphics)

 

I wonder who did WTKR's graphics from that era...

Looks similar to WSAZ around the same time with the map

This video includes some of WTKR's "Live at 9" show and a WVEC 5pm close from 1997.

Ava Hurdle is retiring after 37 years with WAVY-TV. Her last report was tonight.

http://wavy.com/2015/01/07/ava-hurdle-retires-after-37-at-wavy-news/

Correct me if I'm wrong, but she's the second-longest-serving reporter in the Hampton Roads market, only surpassed by Nate Custer at WTKR (1966-2005).

WAVY is gaining a new meteorologist... Ashley Baylor from WWLP in Springfield, MA.

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/01/meteorologist_ashley_baylor_le.html

 

There are a couple other themes in NMSA which are like that. For example, the WVEC 1987 cuts based on the Turn To signature - which are listed as Turn To News, but which could possibly be from someone else, because I think they sound just a little too cheap to be Gari.

 

Those updates came about 1990... maybe late 89.

There are other Turn To updates only used by sole stations, like WMC... but those have the classic Gari early 90s sound. The later WVEC theme definitely has a unique sound.

WTKR Eyewitness News update during the 1994 Winter Olympics:

WTKR 5:30 news clips/commercials from 2001:

 

Also, it may appear that the station's GM, Brad Ramsey is on his way out as well -- his job is also being advertised as open.

 

He's on his way up... VP of sales at Gannett.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/78503/gannett-broadcasting-names-ramsey-sales-vp

WBTW "It's All Right Here" CBS promo from 1993. I haven't seen too many local versions of this promo...

WWAY's chief meteorologist Jerry Jackson is leaving the station for the same position at WNCT in Greenville...

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=823738390993532&id=479788102055231

They used that new(?) Spirit of Texas-ish theme to close the show. When Storm Mode is off we'll get a better idea of what cuts will be used regularly.

 

WVEC had some severe weather roll through the area this morning, and so they used their old graphics all the way up until 11:15am with extended coverage, before going to regular programming. Although I'm sure it's a relatively easy transition I'm sure, it has got to be a pain to try and change all the systems in just 45 minutes.

 

EDIT: They cut back into regular programming just 20 minutes later with a new warning, with the new weather graphics up on screen.

 

 

I was watching 13 this morning and was curious as to how this would pan out; if they would scrub the new graphics til 5 or not. WTKR and WAVY have been doing nonstop coverage all morning with no break.

 

I strongly think WVEC will be switching to This is Home next week. My speculatron is high on this one, based on this tweet:

https://twitter.com/13LaSalleBlanks/status/490078655507214336

 

They have no other major changes that I could forsee other than this. Again, pure speculation,

 

Next Thursday... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152570923308630

WBTW news from 2001. I wonder who thought it was a good idea to use hot pink in the open...

WCTI 11pm news open 1998: