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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

Another great newsmat set in that KMGH clip. What's the running tally on that.... KOMO - Seattle WPXI - Pittsburgh KTRK - Houston WLWT - Cincinnati WTVD - Raleigh

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Bunch of 80s KRON stuff here via Jim Paymar....Magid red white and blue in all its glory https://archive.org/details/jimpaymartelevisionarchive 1986 6pm open / parts of newscast [MEDIA=internetarchive]height=480;id=Paymar_chsugar_8609dd;width=640[/MEDIA] 1984 newscast [MEDIA=internetarchive]height=480;id=paymar_withroz_1984;width=640[/MEDIA] 1987 6pm newscast Golden Gate Bridge special [MEDIA=internetarchive]height=480;id=paymar_ggbridge50thanniversary_870722;width=640[/MEDIA] 1986 shots of the newsroom [MEDIA=internetarchive]height=480;id=paymar_libertyliveshots2;width=640[/MEDIA]

Today Show June 1986 full episode Good Morning America May 1986 full episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eooa9vX0KE

WLS 1989 4pm/5pm, beginning of 6pm This was from the days when they didn't use any music for most of the bumpers, but at 41:40 a bumper rarely if ever used by the other stations with the Gari Cool Hand Luke package.

KPIX 1981 clip

WABC Eyewitness News 5PM and beginning of 6PM August 1987 KABC Eyewitness News July 1991 Looks like there was a couple year period where KABC used the '84 vintage Gari package before transitioning to the early 90s synthesized update.

Funny they never name the fill in weather anchor. Here's KVOA in 1996, one of the later uses of the '84 Gari update to Cool Hand Luke, and you see a very young Savannah Guthrie

Yeah and Pete Wilson handing it off to him at the end is also ironic. I'm the one who dug up this tape over 15 years ago. Found it in the archives of KPIX - the CBS affiliate 2 blocks away. There was no fanfare or exploitation about his departure. Some back story... His brother was the GM at KABC for many years. When Cap Cities bought ABC in 1985 they were both in the line of fire and left their respective jobs within a year of each other. Cap Cities thought Van was overpaid, KPIX had overtaken them in the ratings, and they gambled the station would move forward with 'cheaper' talent (like Pete Wilson). Van was reportedly making over $1 million a year then (equivalent to $2-$3 million today). Van didn't back down and did well enough with investments that he didn't have to work. He probably entertained other offers but his retirement was a bellwether for the news industry changing. In the 70s he was the first anchor to bet a station wouldn't blink at an astronomical salary and he got it. Then 10 years later Cap Cities was the first big management team to bet that a star like that wasn't needed. The end result was this unceremonious but I will say dignified sign off. And he's been happily retired since. A great broadcaster - and a smart, reputable man. His son is a high level Hollywood executive now, so the talent runs in the family.

Yeah, hard life he's living... https://www.flickr.com/photos/33667219@N04/

KRON 1986 - satire of newspaper / TV wars. At 2:00 they do a send up of the news open with Ken and Barbie.