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Him, and Bob Eubanks and Chuck Woolery, among those I remember.

From KFMB San Diego: inside Tic Tac Dough from 1981

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).

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."

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).

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

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

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)...

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):

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.

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?

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

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."

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

Rare NBC and ABC Sports baseball openings from the late 70s and early 80s:

Vintage WJZ EWN openings from 1980-83, both with the same music, and a different title formation: --First, the late edition from that time, with title music in a more stereo format, and shots of late-night activities (fireman sliding down the firepole, carhop moving among cars at a drive-in, toll booth worker enjoying her job, etc.); the different title formation has the two parts of the Eyewitness News title coming together from the left and the right against a black screen (the way we were used to seeing it, the last shot [don't know what of] slid up and revealed the studio with the title superimposed on that shot): --Then, same music, but with shots of evening activities for the evening edition (putting supper on the table, getting something out of the oven, someone lighting a menorah, ballet dancing, juggling, you name it); same title formation:

Never would have imagined that Mormons would be objecting to YouTube videos.

Who is Latter-Day Saints?

Full debut broadcast of the expanded hour evening edition of Action News 5 on WRAL w/Charlie Gaddy from Mon. June 14, 1982 (when that was the ABC station of the Triangle)...

It's a low-rent MTV version of AFV, so it shouldn't be.

Don't think I recall that one that Channel 6 in Columbus had.