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Couple of stations in Charleston broadcasting from temp sets right now: WCBD and WCSC. 'CBD has been there for a few weeks while 'CSC moved to theirs just this week (I believe).

Will Kennedy, formerly of notorious ABC affiliate WEAR in Pensacola, joins Christine Noel and Morgan Fogarty as a 10pm anchor at WCCB in Charlotte. No word on Kirk Hawkins, whose bio has been removed from the site.

 

This is...I don't know how to describe it, just watch. KQDS, Duluth/Superior.

(Thumpity bump bump)

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The funny thing is that the set is decent and the anchors are far and away better than you'd expect for a small market.

Here's another one--WNEM's "attempt" at the Scripps standardized package.

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At KALB, WPVI happy people montage + WNBC 2010-2012 equals:

 

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Also, think whoever did the theme likes the drum effect?

 

A roundup of some more news opens from Europe in 1985/86:

 

 

And some Japan from the late 1980s/early 1990s. Watch out for strange commercials. Most of these stations seem to be from the Kansai region of Japan. (edited for more information):

 

KTV/FNN news, 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APfHuw9ExbY

NHK 6pm news, 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv_AQVbAFVQ (the ultimate in austerity)

News Wave ABC and "News Wave Alpha" program, 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh1K0PNfkmg (best morning set ever; worst music ever. The top story is about postmarks reading 1.1.11: the leading 1 is for the first year of a new emperor's reign.)

News Station, 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJHDZ7kij4A (the first report is on George H.W. Bush's inauguration and features reporter with a collage of newspaper clippings)

TXN "This Evening", 1991: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwa4T6YOhvw (graphics remind me of WNYC)

NNN midday news, 1991: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6sqqijEhvU

A weather report, 1991: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRaKQzjst8

KTV "Wide News", 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NR4vT_yD_o

NHK morning news, 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsFds4I3Rac

"Ohayo Asahi", 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txpwxzibI-w (Is that a studio in their TV tower?)

MBS news, 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcrfK55wj-Q

TXN "This Evening", 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZl3zGAorM (did they really have to have a voice saying "Evening" in there?)

FNN World Uplink, 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJSeCOofZfs

FNN Newscom, 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4um7nziCK8c (the set, the set, oh and that first commercial!?)

ANN News Fresh, 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUzWvtXR_WA (morning?)

"EYE" news, 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L30ee9Qz90

 

Lots of slides and hand boards—computerization was slow in Japan because of the language. I think "Wide News" might mean a national/world broadcast especially seeing as some of this product is local/regional.

 

Sign-off, JOHI Hokkaido, 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsd5u9izS1g — it's pretty textbook, with technical information, callsign and a list of repeaters.

 

 

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Am I the only one who thought of this when I heard the first few seconds of the "Wide News" theme?

 

MyGrandJunction.com?

 

Or WeAreWesternColorado.com?

Agree with everyone else. CircleSeven, you are way too emotionally invested in this. I know you have your opinion, but if something this (relatively) simple has you all worked up, then maybe it's time to take a step back.

[intended sarcasm]

 

If the newscast is successful, do you think they might start a 6pm weekday newscast?

 

Without a doubt. Remember, Fox owns the rights for TMZ for its O&Os. Once TMZ's agreement with WCCB ends, expect TMZ to jump to 'JZY and 'CCB to launch a weekday 6pm newscast.

 

Ahhhh HELL NO!!!!! That shit is UGLY!!!! And I mean UGLY!!! No one put any sort of effort whatsoever in the logo. The old logo lasted almost two decades, which looked a trillion times better than this piece of crap. Whoever made that logo needs to be fired pronto!!!

 

It's not terrible...not great either.

And I don't think the designer is going to be fired if they're using the logo.

So he moved Live! to 9am, Windy City Live to 11am, and got rid of the late night movies for infomercials.

I guess I'm not seeing what the big deal is and why that makes him a "dummy". I don't know...I don't live in Chicago and have never been, but isn't this all much ado about nothing?

I'm pissed off. :angry: :bang:

 

Another one of WLS-TV's hallmark staples could be out the door, and it doesn't involve its newscasts.

 

I checked out Channel 7 earlier yesterday morning after 2:35am, and it appears that it has now starting to air a block of infomercials during the overnight hours on early Saturday and Sunday mornings, in lieu of those Late Night "public domain" movies that they've always have aired. And if you think there isn't any significance, the station has aired those kinds of movies since the station bought a perpetuity license to carry those 1930s, 1940s "RKO, C&C Movietime" films in 1957!!! So they'd aired these movies for 56 years!!!!! Back when they were WBKB. This station was probably the last station in the country to air these kinds of movies on any television station.

 

I'm hoping this is not permanent and those movies come back, because I never remember at any point in time that they've didn't air those kinds of movies late at night on the weekends, and probably before World News Now, they would air this every night before signoff. Earlier on this thread, I'd mentioned that it did have a new late night movie bumper graphic, with the new ABC 7 logo on it. So in my mind, that would make me think they'll probably update the late night movie open. But now it appears, they probably have different plans. Now some of y'all are going to think, why is he bitching about some sort of movies and you weren't even around that time. It's a point of having those movies aired on this station all this time, makes it a tradition of its own. And this really blows, if this move is permanent.

 

Video Courtesy of lobsterstuffedwithta from YT

#splittinghairs

She wasn't even over there. Was she ever on the air on that new channel?

Apparently not...from what I've read.

 

I'm watching the stream now. Aerial doesn't sound right with WSYR. This just blows. I didn't feel this way since KTVU dropped the Randall theme three years ago. History and longevity went down the drain yesterday in Central New York.

 

If that's your reaction to WSYR dropping News Station, I shudder to think what you would say if WLS dropped NS2K+...

 

WKBW took it hard after Granite's bankruptcy, and they never really have recovered.

 

When your graphics department

, there is bound to be problems.

 

You heard me right... one guy. A Big Four affiliate in Buffalo has only ONE guy making an entire graphics package for their news department.

 

 

I think in this case Nexstar would be a MAJOR upgrade for WKBW.

 

Agreed! it would be stupid to have WAOE go to LIN when its a shell bait!

 

...but you were the one who suggested LIN buy WAOE...

 

AFAIK, LIN bought New Vision's station group and it came with the SSA agreement to operate three stations.

 

 

Yes, but that was because they acquired it as part of a station group. As far them buying WAOE outright as a standalone purchase? It's not going to happen.

 

Here is how I see the Peoria/Bloomington Market:

WHOI-Sinclair proper without the LMA, restart operations and potentally regaining Master Control operations from WEEK

WEEK-to Gray Television or Hubbard Broadcasting

WMBD-Stays with Nexstar

WYZZ-Cunningham or Excallibur Broadcasting, LLC with WEEK

WAOE-LIN Media, LLC

 

 

WEEK to Hubbard? WAOE to LIN? What reason would Hubbard or LIN have to purchase a station in a sub-100 market?

OK, there are a bunch of stations out there with this graphics package, mine included and it can be done well and not so much... This one is the latter...

 

 

Really? Using the "Live" bug for when the announcer says "live"?

 

That has to be the strangest cut of The Tower I've ever heard.

Hope to have more opens from Buffalo later tonight.

Some stuff from Buffalo i just captured and uploaded today:

YNN Buffalo "News All Evening" Open (YNN is a 24-hour news channel owned by Time Warner Cable):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWfGkJsujLY

WGRZ-TV (NBC) 6pm Open:

Surprised no one has mentioned or friends at WSVI. Take your pick:

 

Old version:

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New version (as of 4/14/09):

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I agree. As for the graphics' date=' I think we'll all be raving about them...if this was 1993. Alas, it's 2008 and they're getting left behind a 20-foot-thick cloud of dust.[/quote']

Don't worry...they should be getting the new Gannett package soon. BTW, WIVB (the #1 station in town) has graphics MUCH worse than these...

Current open from WGRZ in Buffalo--keep in mind that they have had the same GFX and music package (Image News) since '98...

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