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5 hours ago, Route66Fan said:
That's too bad. I wonder if that was the channel that also had the stuff from WQEX-TV in Pittsburgh, PA on it, including a recording from their Black & White days, as well as all 3 of the humorous signoffs that they had. Do you remember what the name of the channel was?
Check youtube channel "The Media Stash"...
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3 hours ago, Samantha said:
Finally, more Renaissance 2-era KDKA, and this time an actual newscast!
Transitioning to KD and You first generation, and also including long-time KD floor manager Victor Vrabel cuing you the viewer...
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1 hour ago, TServo2049 said:
Oh yeah, you're right. I forgot that it got ID'ed. I wonder what an extended chunk of it is doing on a Peters demo reel...
I suspect that it was used by Peters to show off several full service image packages that they had created,* not unlike what TvBD did in several packages, ie "Love on A real Train by Tangerine Dream..
*Remember this was the audio track of a video cassette tape...
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11 hours ago, KnoxvilleTVFan said:
I came up with the composer of the KUTV 1979 news theme. It was Peters Productions and you can go to https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZ10FpXZvpW4utLhTHSO1S34fpMSJpuznd6y&fbclid=IwAR0t088Cf65HT_H4t0uzeB6iXGP99fC-dUJp01IZJHgv5x6XW-LxVq87PJg to listen to the entire package. And I identified the composer, because of the news theme they play at 3:50.
And that's not all, if you go to https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZ72JpXZ2LzrBscemU4NL9plQHE9gSKfQcxV&fbclid=IwAR1a1fUAvrtkSMT6_lJeA0NDpjJi8lwjp6Tkw2troPtRlfbkE4VZx3pkgv8, at the beginning, you'll hear WNGE's 1979 news theme that was composed by, you guessed it, Peters Productions.In addition, at 4:34 in that second clip (Peters Productions Video Sound Track) is the primary Image theme/promo for WJKW/Cleveland "TV8-The Winners"
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7 hours ago, Breaking News said:
I always wanted to know who did this set back in the 80s for WJXT, WDIV, WSB & WTVF. The style was very modern for the 80s era and the last picture of WTVF they did change the anchor desk in the 90s.
Add WFSB (It appears the only Post-Newsweek station not to use this set was WPLG)...
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5 hours ago, Samantha said:
WIS didn't have a 6:00 newscast until the Gulf War, I believe, when they started "6:00 Carolina".
Can't say I've heard this exact cut of Tuesday WWL before:
Not unusual for anyone who watched WISN/Milwaukee when they used this package... They used the cut used in this open as their newscast close.
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7 hours ago, 8Viewer said:
The music in the WISC newscast must have been distributed to CBS affiliates. It was used in a 1981 WTVJ promo.
I seem to recall that this was the first Affiliate package CBS News offered to stations in the Dan Rather era... WJBK Detroit used it for Newscast bumps during their "2 is the One: NewsBreakers" era... Up I-75, WEYI Saginaw/Flint/Bay City also used this Affiliate package..
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4 hours ago, ns8401 said:
Not something a Scripps station does very often... This is their first win in any newscast in the demo in 8 years.
WTVF NewsChannel5 would like a word...
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6 hours ago, ttvn2000 said:
WTOL’s Dick Berry retires Sunday after 40 years:
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.”
19 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:He surely isn't mincing any words....
From the Jeff Heitz school of no BS truth telling journalism...
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1 hour ago, ColDayNews said:
I’m sick.
However, it was bound to happen. The paper was sold in 2014. Daily circulation for the Dispatch had significantly dropped before that. Real estate is the Wolfes’ main cash cow, not broadcasting.
Very sad day for Columbus media.
However, my focus is more on the guys who have been working at 777 Twin Rivers Drive for 30+ years and are now in danger of losing their jobs, or being forced into retirement...
Not to mention the pensions of folks like Bob Gregory and Don Hein in Indy, or Jerry Revish, Dave Kaylor, Andrea Camburn, or Fritz "the Night Owl" Perinboom in Columbus...
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On 3/10/2019 at 5:26 PM, hmaxhanson said:
They had been using that theme dating back to at least 1982, as evidenced by the end of this vid:
That theme was "Scrap Yard" from Tangerine Dream and their soundtrack for the 1981 film "Thief"
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5 hours ago, onthesea said:
One of the most bizarre moments on British TV: Des Lynam hosts Grandstand while two guys fight behind him in the control room!
That was done on an April 1st edition of GrandStand. Twas an April Fools joke...
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2 hours ago, 24994J said:
Walter left on his own, actually, but he was reading the writing on the wall. He had been demoted from the anchor desk, and his commentaries had been moved from the 10 o'clock news. He knew he wasn't going to last. Honestly, in retrospect, the product wasn't bad, but it was such a departure from their longtime image, it just cemented their 3rd place status. The theme was not great, the graphics were so flashy, and the pacing of the whole show was super fast, for it's time. The overlooked part of this era is the news team, easily one of the best ever assembled at the local level. Lester Holt and Elizabeth Vargas would go on to top dog network anchor status, Jim Avila, Rob Stafford and Larry Mendte would also go national, Jay Levine, Mike Parker, McPherrin, MacLennan and Baskerville are legends, and Bill Kurtis and Harry Volkman are considered some of the best to ever do the job.
Management just sucked.
Here's the newscast attached to that open.
Then consider what the #1 station in town looked like, at that point.
Chicago was very traditional and conservative in terms of news (still is, in many ways), so the WBBM makeover didn't sit well.
You forgot Bulldog.....
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A full broadcast of ABC News Weekend Report from Saturday, March 16, 1974 (anchored by WXYZ's John Kelly!) from ABC News studios in New York.
This must have been shortly after ABC/WXYZ lured Kelly away from 2 Storer Place (WJBK) to Broadcast House. (Kelly's co-anchor at 'JBK, Jac LeGoff joined the Magnificent 7 a couple of years later).
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both WJBK & WXYZ would bring in many columnist from the paper on the airwaves, and yeah that strike seem like it went on forever.
In the midst of the strike, legendary WJR Radio morning man J P McCarthy died after a short aggressive illness, another Motown media legend, Free Press columnist Bob Talbert crossed the picket line to write the front page obit in the Freep, becoming a "scab" in the process. Talbert himself passed three or four years later.
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Perhaps....That set looks just like the one WJXT used back then, same designer?Most of the Post-Newsweek stations (WDIV/WJXT/WFSB) had a similar set, as did WTVF ....
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Pittsburgh Television weather and the City of Pittsburgh will never be the same without the Dean of Pittsburgh Weather... Joe DeNardo... you're
irreplaceable... you're a quintessential weatherman... and when we look to skies tonight and when on sunny days and stormy nights; we see what's
happening in the weather... Joe Said It Would.
RIP Joe DeNardo and Godspeed.
Thoughts and prayers to Joe's family and the entire team of WTAE Action News 4.
http://www.wtae.com/article/legendary-wtae-chief-meteorologist-joe-denardo-dies-at-87/21550800
And before 'TAE he worked across town at KDKA w/ Bill Burns...
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Speaking of that, I just watched a 1984 Steelers game from December and saw a promo similar to KOCO’s “How will you know...” for Channel 11 News. And yes, they had that name in ‘84, but the logo hasn’t changed yet.
Uploading that clip to my channel...
"How will you know" was licensed to stations by Metromedia....I have never seen any of the MM stations use it, however I have seen the promos used by In addition to KOCO, fellow Gannett station KPNX, WPXI ,
WTVF, and WNDU.
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WBBM, Chicago; 10 p.m. news (in its entirety), 1978:
BULLDOG!!!!!!!!
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And I had no idea that Keith Radford worked in Utah!
Like fellow former Big 8 CKLW 20/20 Newsman Randall Carslisle, who also anchored at KUTV.
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He must’ve been replaced by Harry Porterfield eventually, as Mort went to WDIV to replace Wes Sarginson in 1978-early 1979.
Not quite... Mort came to 'BBM as insurance because someone wanted Kurtis. Mort was to become the new #1. But Kurtis stayed and Mort was plugged into Harry Porterfield's weekday spot. Which moved harry to the weekends....
Crim, tired of waiting for Kurtis to leave, went to Motown shortly after Post Newsweek took over Detroit's Channel 4.
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A WKYC weekend open from 1990, plus a Lincoln-Mercury commercial with John B. Wells on VO!
Actually the VO was Mike Lewis.
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Damn, TEGNA's changing logos like crazy. They should have left WWL's alone.
To be fair, what Belo did to WWL's logo for a few months post-Katrina was an abomination. This slight tweak imho is not so bad....
And speaking of Tegna changing up logos, why did they leave "ZZM's basically alone? I have often thought if they had adopted WKYC's "SlashSlant 3" and added a 1, that'd look good.
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Here's a weird one. I found a newscast opening from Dayton TV station WLWD (Now WDTN) and the opening is the same look that the Capital Cities TV stations used at the time. CapCities never even owned the station.
I seem to recall that the then KCMO-TV (now KCTV) also used that open in the mid 70's.
New CBS O&O Look Coming Soon?
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Take that up with Fans of the Stillers, Pirates and Penguins, all the same black and gold...