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Someone mentioned the studio got upgraded recently - I noticed the backdrop is seamless now which looks great - anything else change, only caught a glimpse

Ah yes the casual low desk (or high chairs) I remember that - a take on the Live at Five format Ground breaking was the main KNBC set this was attached to - so many stations used a variant of it And here's a KOVR 1989 weather segment Yet another transition period for 13...brand new station logo / graphics and News Watch package, along with a refresh of the set...but with another refresh to come months later Here's what it looked like a few weeks prior And here's the next change months later...skyline with blinds... Followed by a newsroom set months after that

KNBC 1990 4pm preshow - there's a great wide shot at the end that shows how the 4pm set is connected to the main set Groundbreaking set - so many stations used variants on the main set for years to come

KCRA May 1983 weather - still using 'KCRA and You' package - that puts the intro of the Where the News Comes First package sometime between May 83 and January 84

I also just learned about W call letters west of the Mississippi

KOMO 'Live at 4' open 1984. Looks like the KTRK Live at Five opening animation, plus a special set - looks great in the wide shot

Not sure where this came from - maybe that WGN night where they recreated the NBC mid 80s Thursday night lineup - but first clean version of the long '85 Let's All Be There ID I've seen Not sure where this came from - maybe that WGN night where they recreated the NBC mid 80s Thursday night lineup - but first clean version of the long '85 Let's All Be There ID I've seen

Cool - Welch style graphics but without a Newsmat set That's a bare bones newsroom!

I was going to say that was peak Udell market wise then looked online and saw he did stints in LA and NY early on. He figured out settling down in Hawaii though...long long run there. Looking good in retirement here

WLS 1990 preshow Uses a bed that's a mixdown of the News Series 2000 main theme that eliminates the horns. Never heard other stations use the stripped down themes from that package - and have yet to come across clean versions of those mixdowns on anything discovered to date. Wonder if WLS was the only station sent those cues.

KNBC 1988 Olympic News Break The ending has the synth bumper music that replaced News Center II cuts I thought didn't debut until a year or so later...it lasted into 92, 93 I think

Nice to see KNBC kept newscast archives after the move to the current building

Like that KVUE set!

Great find - funny it was being mocked back then as elevator music. But now that we know yeah those horns are signature Gari, and probably his collaborator at the time Danny Baker.

I've read old newspaper articles about it. Pretty much 3rd place except for a brief year or so around 1985, another blip around 1988, and then became a real #1/#2 in the market around 1995 when NBC went on a streak, they cleaned up the presentation, and Pete Wilson / Pam Moore were the leads.

Just dawned on me the last notes of the News Series signature represent 'Sevens on the move.'

KPIX, KGO, KRON 1987 clips No opens / closes, but there is the bumper music for KPIX from version 2 of Signature (the 1985 package refresh rarely heard online) at 32:17

KICU 1988 promo They're using the '86 cut of the KPRC news open for a station ID. The 'Ten O'Clock News' used the KPRC theme from around 83/84 - 1990.

KSBW 1993 open Also has a 40th anniversary commercial at the beginning They started using Brave New World around 1990 or 91, when they rolled out a new set and refreshed the purple TVBD 1987 era graphics The bones of this set stayed around for over 25 years

KCRA 1985 promo With a cut of a 'Where the news comes first' theme bumper

Cool - didn't realize WOWT was a sister station with KRON (just remembered KAKE). They kept that theme / open longer than KRON. The theme lasted mid 87 - fall 89 at KRON, and the open just from mid 87 to fall of 88.

KCRA 1985 noon preshow bumper The great Mike Boyd and a young Sydnie Kohara (who went on to many years hosting the morning news for KGO and later KPIX) Plus that instant classic authoritative Channel 3 Reports music bed

KRON Midday preshow / open 2/1984 The set would be retired a few months later for a more barebones all blue 'make the talent pop' Frank Magid playbook call. The intro would go 3D about a year later. Lloyd launched the early morning Daybreak newscast in 1986, then was let go in late 1992. He's retired in Pensacola, FL these days - hosted things on the PBS station there several years back.

Great one - has anyone tried reaching out to Dan Dean about his early KOMO work?

WUSA / KARE 11 News Sunrise Nov 1, 1985 And here's a fun find - clips from KARE 11 Sunrise in 1990 - where they're using a smaller scale version of the national Today show living room set