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Take a look at around 3:30 in - looks like they did produce one for Patti.

I’m thinking the MO was cold open then talent at the first break.

That Linda Alvarez one ends with her saying “coming up next...” so it might be mislabeled as an open when it was instead used for the first break.

As to the lack of an open, KPNX never bothered to produce a new open for the 10pm show when Linda Álvarez left for Los Angeles.

 

This was the 10pm open that belonged to that set:

 

 

They were also at that time in the middle of a two-phase brand transition. Around November 1985, KPNX debuted the sung We're Going Where You're Going image song and began using it as a close. Keep in mind that this accompanied not only Álvarez being replaced with Patti Kirkpatrick but also

(Dewey Hopper left and then resurfaced in Sacramento — his media career was best described as bizarre). There were very good reasons for KPNX not to have a 10pm open.

 

The April 1986 change was much more wholesale — revamped news set, new logo, end of Action News — and included a more comprehensive news package composed around the WGWYG theme. It was in 1989, again in two phases (apparently), that KPNX phased it out for work done by TVbD. As in 1986, the second phase included a new logo, but set changes did not occur until 1992.

Holy crap that is really awesome. They picked the right promo to redo - One 4 All is one of my favorite promos ever to begin with - and they completely nailed the execution.

 

They actually posted a story on their website about the reshoot. It's a must-read:

 

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/03/26/wbz-one-4-all-promo-remake/

"Many thanks to WBZ-TV Creative Services Director Peter Masucci who dreamed up the idea; to Promotions guru Sean Barnacoat who produced it; to photographer Sean Collins who shot every scene; and to editor Michael Ruzicka who spent hours bringing this together."

Make sure you add comments in the bottom of the article to express appreciation. Amazed the archives even still exist, let alone they spend months producing it. My favorite detail is how they managed to get a sales guy who looks just like the old fisherman.

KGO Nov 2002

Last days of Ahern's WLS style set which lasted a good 4 years or so.

They went to this set next that lasted in some form until 2016 - had a nice rear projection skyline view. That got nixed for a live feed a few years later.

Not quite 20 years just yet.. music debuted at the end of August 1999 so Fall 2019 will mark 20 years. No need to change it in my opinion!

Gari would have to come out of retirement given he sold the business to Warner. Still sounds fresh but then I still think his work on the Cool Hand Luke theme sounds fresh.

Going with 'international broadcast *centre*" instead of "center"!

Keeping the KDKA theme going...here's a full KD&You promo from 1985

Looks like Arthur Greenwald was the creative services lead who can probably fill in some of the gaps about packages then - he probably commissioned it.

On his own YouTube (comments in the below video) he says he has some additional KDKA video he'll digitize at some point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Cem3axUjAtI;list=UUtx-ZQ5lTazLSj3478FnVoQ

Anyone ever figure out the story / origin of the WMAQ early 80s theme that sounds like a cousin to the WNBC theme?

I'm sure Ed Peters and his colleagues are very talented, but those station lists aren't exactly filled to the brim with longtime market leaders.

Here's a demo reel from the site:

https://nebula.wsimg.com/527ea4c42051bc1c7b87af5770ade007?AccessKeyId=66DF0260B5371BCE06BB&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

I wonder, when Ron Dylewski says Jeff Sutton did "KD & You," does that mean we also have a composer ID for the "tunnel"-era theme that has been misidentified as The News Image for almost 20 years?

Probably.

I think KD got mixed up with News image because, well try humming the words 'KD and You'. Almost the same four notes as the News Image signature.

So looks like Sutton did the KD work...now to track down version 1 (pre 1985 or so) and version 2 (with the jazzy sax versions) - a great package.

And a glimpse of KBTV 'Sundown!' - the 6:30pm newscast. Looks like it had a cool special set.

KUSA Feb 1986 partial newscast - that '9 Country' theme is one of the more under rated ones.

And gotta love that toss to a live interview at 5:45 in the first clip. Great use of the screens and nice depth in that 2 shot.

Newsmat in all its glory - inspired by the clip above - KMGH 1986 6pm full broadcast

Yay KPIX with the "set in the round" in action. I believe that this was the last set 'PIX used @ their Van Ness studios, before moving to 855 Battery....

Actually it was the first set at 855 Battery!

Lasted about 4 years.

Earliest KTSF newscast.

 

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As long as we're down that path, here's the image music the theme is based on (dates to the late 80s)

And a longer version of the news open - one of the underrated themes in Norcal from the 80s (this one, KNTV, KCRA among them)

Plus, here's a KICU ID that's basically the KPRC 80s news open almost in the clear - from 1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=afeJJOk__KM;t=26

KNTV's "Do You Know The Way to San Jose". Sensational Theme. And I haven't heard the closing theme in a long time since it was posted on Jim's TVNewsThemes.net website.

In the early 2000s I was in possession of a CD with many of the tracks from this great KNTV package. Was doing a project for work and reached out to the composer from Silvertree about licensing it for internal use. He sent along the demo CD of the package along with a price that included the license fee for Dionne - which wasn't off the reservation.

Had that jazzy early 90s nightime version of it along with the full 1987 close and the full 1991 close for the early evening newscasts. Was missing some of the bumpers from the original 1987 package though.

Unfortunately, returned it per his instructions after we went a different direction on the project and he has since passed away. So no idea where it might be archived anymore.

I must say, Megyn Kelly Today doesn't feel like Today at all. It feels like an NBCU talk show passing itself off as a network morning show.

Pretty much what it is - except it's not taped up in Connecticut.

That Central Park shot is gorgeous though. Nice job with the set.

Another from Rick Thomas

KABC 1974 with full close

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rRuqyggWoo

KNXT 1975

KNBC 1989 4PM David Horowitz clip

Nice view of the special 4PM set from the 1985 studio

KNBC 11PM May 1989

Guess it was sometime in the spring of '89 they stopped using the 1985 cuts of NewsCenter.

You can hear the updated bumper about :25 in of the second clip

Jesse Palmer is leaving GMA for DailyMailTV. It sucks because Jesse is a good host and fits in well.

 

http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/jesse-palmer-leaving-abc-news-for-dailymailtv/337821

First time I saw Jesse was a few weeks ago on $100,000 Pyramid, which Michael hosts. Was surprised how quick and on point he was with the game play.

They mentioned he was part of GMA - thought he was part of the weekend team. Didn't realize he had come on the weekday show a year before Michael.

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KCRA's knockoff (not sure who designed/fabricated it) of the NBC Nightly News set back in the mid to late 80s. They also used brownish light gels instead of the blue on only the 6:30pm show to turn the set to a tan color to match NBC Nightly that ran at 6pm.

Never put that relationship together, but yeah it's a dead ringer.

As for Gil Jimenez, G&G, Graphic Express...they did the KNBC 1985 set that was the basis of so many other sets. There's a clip floating around somewhere of the debut of that set with him explaning the choices.

Also apparently the only company really dedicated to set making for most of the 80s. Good article here on the history:

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/nov/04/business/fi-39104

Looks like they ripped up the main area of the set including the video wall and the crystalline skyline. I guess after 8 years of the same set and graphics they figured it's finally time for something new.

Hope they find a way to work in the crystalline skyline again. It's a nice Action News signature.

Maybe they're replacing the video wall if they rest of the set is intact.

Are they building a new set?

Last night the show was done on the CBS This Morning set.

Someone took a few cues from News '80s v2...

 

I'd love to hear that cut in the clear someday, especially the end.

I can say there isn't much more to the end. It was a 30 second cut that ended with a riff on the WTNCF signature. Maybe there's a longer version that wasn't used on air.

There were also some mixdowns of that cut used for bumpers.

Still wondering if anyone has reached out to Grizzell to see if the original 1983/84 era cuts of WTNCF are around. Classic stuff, especially that preshow bumper - it just screams 'news'. Amazed someone who was green to composing news themes came up with it.

The 65th anniversary segments on the Friday formal anniversary were painful.

None of the prior anchors showed up live (Meredith aside). They briefly interviewed Brokaw, Couric, Norville, but nothing with Gumbel or Pauley.

The current hosts looked drained and awkward during the segments.

And not a note of the old 80s theme that's been trotted out for every anniversary the last 30 years or so. This show has lost all semblance of its tradition, and it's not a forward progression.

There was an air of 'not sure this show will be relevant going forward' when they toasted to the future.