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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

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.

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

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.

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.

Never put the two together but makes sense. Telesound did some great funky work. Hope you manage to reach him (and Randall, and Grizzell).

Didn't realize KENS did a 'audible chit chat during the close' thing. And they did it for years and years. Found one as late as 2000. Awkward conversations but a priceless tradition. SAT seems like a cool market - KSAT was a mini KTRK with the Newsmat thing going for a while.

It has Michael's fingerprints on it. His 80s KNBC work and the KTVU package he did are sorely missing from any good archives. Same for Earl Grizzell's KCRA work. Both have pretty visible contact info - would be great to have their work preserved at TVPMM. BTW, Michael was a composer for Motown in the 70s, worked with the Jackson 5 and others.

KNBC May 1992 open Updated music package, and a refreshed set, but the same 1986 era animation. This was the brief last incarnation of that 80s logo before it went tabloid with the red '4 News' branding.

11PM October 1987 KNBC From my favorite era at KNBC... At around 24 min you get the jazzy Nightside closing music and a great wide shot of the set

Has anyone reached out to Earl Grizzell? I hope those original themes are preserved / have some way to be preserved. Would be a great TVPMM addition.

My money is on Carson Daly. He was awfully sheepish this morning. And plenty of TODAY legacy allies in that organization who didn't care much for Billy to begin with happy to leak once they caught wind of what Access had found. Wonder if Natalie brought a producer from TODAY with her.

Looks like they riffed on a few eras... The spinning globe early 80s Statue of Liberty 80s Rock Center 90s/2000s

Love it. It's uniquely NBC and easily identifiable. Unlike CBS that walked away from its heritage this year to its detriment, NBC is embracing it. Well done.

At first I was put off by Bush. But I watched him this morning. As a joke, he brought Al a metal stirrer that jingled around the cup. He's definitely playing the alpha male role, and aggressive with his posture, which makes Al uncomfortable. But there's something oddly captivating about it. He has a bit of commanding arrogance in the style of Bryant Gumbel but some of Regis' gift of gab. Not sure on the intelligence front - time will tell. What still is a mystery to me is the Bush / NBC connection - between him and Jenna. Billy's a talented guy, but to go from fired local radio host to hosting a national prime time game show in a year (conveniently while his cousin was in office) is uncanny. As is Jenna's contributing role later on.

KVOA August 1996 10pm with Savannah Guthrie....and one of the latest dated, or the latest seen uses of the Gari Cool Hand Luke package https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=zWzP-Hkf90I;list=PLB95VD_9buUBVWlYM-w_OoOSdvhABBEL5 correction... Looks like they still used the 90s WLS update as late as late 2000, with the Cool Hand Luke melody, which I thought was the subject of a royalty dispute / rate increase that caused most stations to dump it in the mid 90s in favor of version that stripped the melody.

It was 'Close Up' (close enough...) And that dated to the Gumbel / Pauley days The 3 signature Today phrases... "This is Today...on NBC" "insertleadthatendswiththewordtoday, Wednesday, July 12th, 2016" "On Close Up this morning..."

KTVU 1986 promo

Yeah, the KDLH is the TV You Can Feel campaign from CBS. And that was around 88.

Great piece of history. That was one of the greatest local station turnarounds in the business. Right up there with WLS around the same time and KTVU a few years later. Though in this case there wasn't a big personality GM driving things. More of a team effort.

Good catch on KUTV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=d3XLFaUJOZ4;m=1;s=44