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The use of the glassy effect and giving it some scale with the close up are improvements but the music sounds tinny and hollow.

KTVU Jan 1987 The 10 O'Clock News - weekend edition with George Watson, Claude Mann in for Leslie Griffith This was probably just weeks before the iconic SF bay 3D flyover intro launched. The opening theme was a 1985 update of the late 70s 'only one 2' news theme, while the bumpers sound like cousins of what would come weeks later with the classic Michael Randall theme. And an October 1986 KTVU Ten O'Clock News - weeknight with Dennis and Elaine. The end has a piece of the 1985 remix 'Only one 2' theme.

KCRA June 1993 10pm

KNTV Good Morning San Jose promo December 1991 - with the 'Do you know the way to San Jose' Silvertree theme https://youtu.be/uUsabJp07c8?si=D8BZWDWgyqd0tNvo&t=797

Speaking of WMAQ...a 1983 promo for Linda Yu with good shots of the panoramic set and using their second cousin of the WNBC theme. I like the use of the peacock color stripes in the newsroom and on the vans, tied together with the graphic at the end.

KTLA has a more memorable and better framed 2-shot with the masthead logo above and the horizontal elements. KABC has more memorable studio wide elements. For the KABC set I wonder what the desk that's positioned in front of the interview set will be used for.

Well done KABC - has a grand feel to it but enough dimension that it doesn't feel cavernous. I like the warm elements, sure would be nice if there were more of them but it's in the right direction after so much all cold white and blue on sets. There was a nice shot going into the break of the anchors walking from the stand up shot to the desk.

KABC 11pm January 1989 - this uses the 3D spinning globe with city names, similar to KGO's open around the same time, though here KABC uses the custom synth version of Cool Hand Luke by Frank Becker (not Gari). Versions of it were used from 1984-1990 by KABC, though the opens pre 1988 generally used the original Tar Sequence cut. This particular open didn't last long...used from 1988 until sometime in 1989 they went with a Miami style open for the 11pm and dropped Cool Hand Luke, but less than a year later switched to the Gari News Series 2000 version in 1990. I'm guessing KNBC and KTLA were squeezing them in the ratings during the late 80s so lots of changes until they found a groove by the early 90s.

KSBW April 1990 5pm intro/open - the set had just debuted and the bones of the set lasted into the 2010s. The music package switched from The Great News Package (here) to Brave New World later in the year or the following, so not quite aligned with the debut of the new set. KSBW 1989 5pm open (first part cut off) - you get a glimpse of the separate 5pm set they used until the 1990 set debuted KSBW November 1987 6pm open

A little of back to the future...Cool Hand Luke which has the urgency of Dispatch was the signature of KABC for the 70s and much of the 80s into 95. Also these O&Os go through phases of coordinated consistency. Pretty much all Cool Hand Luke in the 70s, some strays in the early 80s, then back to the Gari updated version plus Tar Sequence opens for some for the mid to late 80s. Graphics went through a somewhat consistent phase in the mid to late 80s with helvetica and red stripes. The 70s KABC set had a renaissance in the mid 80s at KGO, WABC, WLS simultaneously. KGO more of a wild child with graphics. I wonder how NY explained the changes to the local staff in LA and SF. Especially the EWN name to the SF staffers. Wasn't that long ago they had generic newscast names for Chicago and SF and it seemed the whole group might go the 'ABC 7 News' route. Maybe it helped to distinguish local from national news as well which these days the national newscasts carry the weight of perceived bias by some audience segments and local may be more trusted. Or maybe they're prepping for a sale and downplaying the network identify a bit. Also could have been some consumer research done on the branding and also on Dispatch as recognizable with the teletype or a sense of call to the TV when it's on.

Nice remaster though I think the music only saw play in this promo, and wasn’t a primary news theme.

I see NewsScene in TV listings in 1971. Can't find Action News. But....KFSN in Fresno was Cap Cities at that point and using Action News. Maybe that was considered too close. WCCO was using NewsScene as of 1970, that and a station in Illinois were all that popped up in a newspaper archive search.

Nice job creating warmth and depth / perspective.

That sax rendition of 'Good News' during the NBA scores at 1 hour in of the WEWS clip is pretty epic

I saw a recent clip and thought the KTRK screen was upgraded - any idea when that happened? They use a nice shot for the backdrop reminiscent of the chroma set from the Ward/Fryer days. Surprised KABC is getting a full new build - the prior set was distinctive but I suppose it’s been 10 years. Meanwhile KGO is set for a while with its light refresh which was the right move in my book for that market.

Too bad about those masters! But here are a couple places TV Production Music Museum, a number of composers have submitted material, and people here have supported the effort via being members https://tvpmm.com/ (contact / music donation upload) https://tvpmm.com/contact/contact.html San Francisco State TV news archives archivist https://library.sfsu.edu/people/alex-cherian

Congratulations, 10 years, that was a long run. Did you save your masters - there are some TV production archives that preserve this sort of thing, one in Northern California for example.

KNTV Sep 1994 6pm open. Intro dates to late 1990 and was retired in 1995.

KNBC 1971 Sylmar quake live morning coverage - David Horowitz, Tom Snyder; David sipping coffee out in the cold

Clever, just can’t unsee the oxymoron of “Local” 10 “World” News The network evening newscasts are heavy on feature style human interest reporting, curious how their ABC World News audience will respond to this version

Yeah that is a cool effect, taking cues and probably tech from the Depth Wall on ESPN.

Had the same thought... The legacy of GMA pre Times Square was feeling suburban. The original living room set. I get having the NY skyline in the set itself, making it central to the open feels like it's a local NY show. The set itself is a beautiful upgrade, feels like a Soho loft which I guess is the concept they're going for, though almost feels like when you first move in and the furniture hasn't arrived. It could use more furniture and elements to break up the cavern and have cozier feeling shot options. Home base is great - warm, professional, not distracting. They've become more like the layout the Today show used for decades - news desk, NY centric. When Time Square started the two living room chairs were home base, and evolved to be a desk sometime before Charlie left.

Last week KSWB Fox 5 moved into the KUSI building, and... KUSI got new graphics and after nearly 30 years dropped Gari's The One and Only. Not sure what the new package is, other that it sounds like pretty much every other generic package these days. De emphasizing the Good Morning San Diego branding - no longer featured in the bug. No more AccuWeather. And fewer cities in the forecast highs/lows section - gone from it is Rancho Santa Fe, home to the McKinnons. Graphics are still skewed to an older audience - big type, but less 3D.

Here is the remake of the close. Nice alternative, hits a lot of the sentimental tone of the original that remakes often miss, at least for the first 3/4ths of it. When you get to the lead up to the close where the original had prominent strings and a crescendo into a horn floursh this version feels a little thin, almost like a mixdown that deleted those tracks. Feedback on the Youtube comments is pretty positive. Hope they keep the original open and close on Fridays or something like that. The opens/bumpers in the demo are a little generic sounding to me, not as distinct with the signatures as the originals or this remake of the close. I suppose mgmt wanted some updates and as far as that goes could have been a lot worse. But hope there are some more distinctly melodic cuts that get used.

Looks like some odd filtering on that studio render. If I imagine how those materials look in real life it’s warm woods. And a lot less cluttered. More inviting and professional. Refreshing from the sensory overload of their prior studios.