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Love that this is back in the Quad Cities on that NBC station-- one thing I wonder: why does the announcer say "Celebrating 75 years", when the station ID says "Est. 1949"?

From KFMB San Diego: inside Tic Tac Dough from 1981

1 hour ago, WRNK said:

Didn't they drop it back in April?

On checking, you're absolutely right--there are, if this news is true of WBRE, no longer any NBC stations of the Eyewitness News brand.

If indeed that is the case, then that will leave only one NBC station of the Eyewitness News name (KOB in Albuquerque, where that's Eyewitness News 4).

On 8/26/2023 at 7:38 PM, TheOneManHerd said:

He was singlehandedly responsible, in the East at least, for CBS affiliates almost always dominating the noon hour because of the lead-in he provided. I’d say it fits here.

I certainly do remember that on WSPA down here where I'm from-- he led into Eyewitness News at noon, NewsChannel 7 at noon, and 7 On Your Side at noon (the Drew Carey version of today leads into 7 News at noon).

Two things that just came to my mind in seeing the openings of WNEP Newswatch 16 from '83:

--First, the noon edition had a sports anchor (J. Christopher) billed on it (this was also the case with the morning edition). Why did the noon edition have a sports anchor, when noon newscasts are usually simply about local happenings, gardening and pets, among other lighter topics?

--Then, on the evening edition and Update (11), Karen Harch's billing is differently-voiced between the two (on the evening one, it's Harch as in "Noah's Ark", and on the Update, it's Harch as in "Gateway Arch"). Why the difference in those two openings on her billing?

Here are those openings to illustrate what I'm wondering about:

On 7/17/2023 at 11:49 PM, VHSgoodiesWA said:

Yes they do! But NBC has so many episodes of Dateline in the can that you could probably run them all every night at 8/7c and it would be a couple of years before the first repeat (not counting the old format with Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips before it went all true-crime).

I think the same could be said of 20/20 on ABC.

On 7/14/2023 at 10:41 AM, east-tx-tv said:

Just heard about this on the radio.  Longtime DFW anchor John Criswell has passed.  He anchored at WFAA for 17 years, then moved to KDFW and anchored there for 7 years.  Criswell is likely the most notable for starting WFAA's regular feature "Wednesday's Child", where a child is profiled who has been fostered and would like to eventually be adopted.  "Wednesday's Child" is still a weekly feature on WFAA.  Criswell was 83.

 

https://www.wfaa.com/amp/article/news/local/wfaa-anchor-john-criswell-dies/287-84a009b0-db4e-4457-a2f5-22416b476aba

Sad! I remember many a time hearing (from YouTube) his billing in old WFAA Dallas openings of the 80s and 90s, one of which was for the News 8 Update late edition:

"It's 10:00, and this is WFAA-TV Channel 8. Working in the Spirit of Texas...this is the News 8 Update...with Tracy Rowlett...John Criswell...Troy Dungan with weather...and Dale Hansen on sports."

On 4/13/2023 at 9:02 PM, VHSgoodiesWA said:

Give me an old John Wayne or Perry Mason/Raymond Burr classic any day. Cheers, Seinfeld, Home Improvement too. The Conners is one of the few first-run sitcoms left that still follows a classic comedic format, not modernized and PC. It's been the trend for a good 10 years and especially took over during and post-Covid.

And I will always treasure Emergency! on DVD as well, especially in that that hit 70s NBC medical/action series w/Mantooth, Tighe, Fuller et al. was very much just about the work, both with the firemen and paramedics of Station 51, and with the doctors and nurses of Rampart General Hospital (that Chicago series that NBC has now doesn't come close).

19 hours ago, WNPM Newswatch said:

WNBC News 4 New York just reported that longtime former WNBC meteorologist, Dr. Frank Field has died. He was 100 years old. It was announced on tonight’s 6pm newscast. It was a great tribute reported by Chuck Scarborough. I’d include a link, but doing a quick search I couldn’t find anything; not even on nbcnewyork.com!

At least he made it to being a centenarian (Betty White and Hugh Downs came within striking distance at 99 each, but couldn't get there).

Field in his prime (from a 1981 WNBC News 4 New York late edition, at the weather area talking to Chuck Scarborough):

Friday, February 16, 1990 full broadcast of 20/20 on ABC, from KTVO Channel 3 in Kirksville/Ottumwa, IA

28 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:

 

 

And the description block tells all about how this new opening came about, and the genesis thereto.

1 hour ago, JosiahCubed said:

As of this morning, Sunday Morning has received a new graphical intro.

And the new opening (I saw it earlier) has the CBS News name as part of the title again, just like it was with Kuralt and Osgood.

Game 3 of the 1981 NLCS between the L.A. Dodgers and the former Montreal Expos, from the former Olympic Stadium in Montreal (NBC broadcast, rerun on RDS, with French-language announcers)...

On 3/16/2023 at 9:39 AM, FiveNews said:

I assume Colleen will continue solo at 11pm. She definitely has the chops to lead the 11pm on her own, she already does it at 7pm. KCBS/KCAL has Pat Harvey anchor solo at 11pm (6pm as well). Marc Brown anchors KABCs 11pm solo. KNBC could complete the big three network trifecta with this arrangement.

Why is Colleen Williams running a solo act on KNBC's late edition (as well as mid-evening at 7)?

A mix of news and non-news-- from graphic designer Jay Cordova, a sampling of work by another famed graphic designer, Bill Feigenbaum, who had worked for CBS Sports in the 80s (he did more than just them, as you'll see here):

39 minutes ago, mrschimpf said:

Exactly that; you're being transferred from the local station over to the network feed, where the curtain is being raised on both the network programming, and then a presentation produced by the network itself in that show. It's the same reason it originated even in the days of radio where you had 'The National Broadcasting Company presents...' lead into a show.

That explains it-- movie theaters used to do that as well (raise the curtains to get to the feature that one was seeing); not sure they do that anymore.

On 12/31/2022 at 11:20 AM, Tyler Tomasino said:

 

I’m a big fan of that animation. 

Something I'd like to know-- why is it called a "curtain raiser"? Is it because it's akin to raising the curtains at a big play, and on with the show, as they say?

Something I'd like to know-- do you think the new titling of the news on the CBS O&Os reminds you somewhat of when Sunday Morning used to have that panel of places around the world where CBS News has had bureaus (which said "CBS News Rome," "CBS News Nairobi" and "CBS News Johannesburg", among others) above a TV monitor at which Charles Kuralt sat when he was speaking to another CBS News correspondent-- to wit, this?

On 4/16/2023 at 10:30 PM, WWUpdate said:

 

It intrigues me that as late as 1985, WMAQ was still using news opens from the late NewsCenter 5 era (which ended in 1982), with "Channel 5 News" awkwardly overlaid on top of the original "NewsCenter 5" title:

 

 

And that that WMAQ weekend early edition still had traces of the Serif Gothic font, especially in the editorial segment at the end.

7 hours ago, VHSgoodiesWA said:

It wasn't pronounced that way until the later 1990s. Before that, the station was using the letters of their callsign like most other stations (i.e. "weekdays at 4 on K-E-P-R TV"). Ironically, sister station KIMA had a time around 1997-99 where the station was calling itself "Kima Television", "kai-ma" as if it was a word...

For the stations that have call letters that are pronounced like words, do they do it to save money, or for some other reason?

Bumping this up: did you ever see this one from ABC College Football in '85 (Jim Lampley, Doug Flutie and Beano Cook on The Prudential Halftime Report)?

On 10/12/2021 at 9:39 PM, VHSgoodiesWA said:

The worst opening montage that KIMA/KEPR ever had...the first version of Action News. This is with the Battery music package that was used up until 2018 when Sinclair finally started transitioning them. The same montage had been used a year prior with a variant of the CBS Enforcer music package and a different announcer.

It's not as choppy as I've seen in other videos, but the graphics scream "yuck"! Compared with KOMO and KATU at the same time, with the same owners, they treated these folks like the red-headed stepchild. 

 

 

I never knew up until now that KEPR was pronounced as it were a word (Keeper).

Also, it seems like the anchors there introduced themselves backwards.

4 hours ago, SoFloTVClassics said:

WTVJ News 4 1985

 

That WTVJ partial 1985 broadcast had a style of billing that I don't think I ever recall seeing from that former CBS station and now CBS O&O of Miami as WFOR (WTVJ being the NBC O&O there as NBC6)-- having the first name of each anchor to wipe on screen from the right in big letters, then having the full name zoom quickly down to the bottom under that anchor's likeness/video; the full title also got that treatment when all anchors were billed.

I also liked how the announcer branded the newscast-- "This is News 4: #1 in South Florida."

7 hours ago, sfomspphl said:

KRON NewsCenter 4 at 11 Nov 10, 1988. They had just introduced the '4' logo that's been used through present day, but wouldn't get around to updating the lower thirds for almost a year. 

 

 

Looks like the new 4 as of this late edition was made to stand up straight, while the old 4 was more slanted.