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During the 1994-5 affiliation switch in Phoenix, all of the four networks changed stations -- except NBC, which stayed on KPNX. Promos on KPNX emphasized the station's long-term connection to the network:

The switch left KTVK without a network, KTVK became an independent and began to heavily promote its newly-forged relationship with CNN:

Returning to KPNX, this promo features Willard Scott with Sean McLaughlin, then a meteorologist at KPNX, now an anchor at KPHO/KTVK:

WFLD, Chicago, 9 p.m., 1994:

6 hours ago, sfomspphl said:

 

Here's why

 

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/12/29/kpix-at-70-remembering-newscaster-stan-bohrman/

 

 

As a footnote, when the hit television show “The Streets of San Francisco” was filmed in the Bay Area in the 70s, one of the stars — Michael Douglas — watched Bohrman on KPIX. Douglas later cast Bohrman in his movie called The China Syndrome”. Bohrman played a television news anchor.

 

Separately, no lower thirds from WTCN in that newscast? Just saw them in the network piece and the health report (syndicated?). 

 

Did Stan last at WTCN until Magers came on the scene?

 

 

Here's a tribute to Bohrman (sorry for my earlier misspelling of his name) aired on KPIX in 2018:

WFLD, Chicago; 9 p.m., 1991 -- with a newly heard theme or just a different cut from the Tatgenhorst package?

WTCN, Twin Cities, 10 p.m., 1979:

The anchor, Stan Borman, is perhaps best known for playing a newscaster in The China Syndrome. I suppose this casting decision is one reason why the movie's portrayal of local TV news feels so real:

WBBM, Chicago, 10 p.m., 1986:

16 hours ago, 24994J said:

Also WGN, early 1980, with an open I (and surely most of you) have NEVER seen before...

 

 

And here's John Drury anchoring WLS's 10 p.m. news 21 years later on 9/11:

KTVT, Dallas/Ft. Worth; 10 p.m. (repackaged rebroadcast), 1979:

Speaking of Headline News, the audio portion of the channel (not to be confused with short, custom-produced "CNN Radio" newscasts) was simulcast by a number of radio stations. Here's a commercial for one of them, KNNS ("K-News") in Phoenix:

A set of WMAQ news promos from the early '80s:

WMAQ, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1972:

Miami independent WAMI's newscast from the day the Concorde crashed outside Paris:

This January 1995 KCOP newscast must be from the tail end of the Real News format -- many of the CityTV-inspired elements were gone by this time:

For comparison, here's KCOP at the height of its "CityTV phase":

KABC, Los Angeles, 11 p.m., 1987 -- several air incidents and concerns about air safety are the lead story:

The last day of WNBC-AM as seen on several WNBC-TV newscasts (including relatively rare footage of Roger Grimsby at that station), 1988:

WGN; Chicago; morning news, 1995 (first anniversary of the program):

WMAQ, Chicago, 10 p.m., 1993, right after the Cheers series finale:

KTLA, Los Angeles; 10 p.m., 1974:

A sales presentation produced shortly after the launch of CNN2 (later Headline News, now HLN), urging local TV station managers to subscribe to the service, both in the form of simulcasts at certain hours of the day and as a source of national/international stories for the local newscasts (a service that evolved into CNN Newsource):

A 1978 edition of New Jersey Nightly News:

From Los Angeles, a 1972 promo for KNXT's The Big News:

Various Chicago stations' coverage of the devastating Plainfield, tornado, 1990:

WFLD, Chicago, 9 p.m., 2001:

WBBM, Chicago; talent bump, 1999:

WMAQ, Chicago; news promo, 1996: