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Somehow I'd never seen that. I doubt the '85 date, but yes, that's it. Matches with the fact that WOKR began using Hello x Great News cuts in 1987 too.

On 3/28/2020 at 7:25 PM, hmaxhanson said:

Can't say I've heard this version of the Hello promo anywhere else before......

It's a new one for all of us. When I showed it to @ChesapeakeTV she pointed out that the notes for "We'll take our time, we'll take you there" sound a lot like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJy909h6_YY

There's a surprise in the Univision sale filing: because some of the owners have attributable interests in WAPA, they are divesting third-rated WLII and not ninth-rated WSTE.

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Searchlight, which will hold an attributable interest in Univision after consummation of the Transaction, and funds affiliated with Searchlight and ultimately controlled by Eric Zinterhofer and Andrew Frey have an attributable interest in Hemisphere, parent entity of the licensee of WAPA-TV.  WAPA-TV is the top-rated station in Puerto Rico. Univision currently owns WLII-DT, which is ranked third, and WSTE-DT, which is ranked ninth.  Purchasers intend to divest WLII-DT and its two satellite stations, WSUR-DT and WOLE-DT. An application effectuating that divestiture will be filed promptly once divestiture plans are finalized. Accordingly, as discussed in Sections I and III above, following consummation of the Transaction, for purposes of the local television ownership rule, there would be overlapping attributable ownership interests in WAPA-TV (the top-rated station) and WSTE-DT (the ninth-rated station).  According to the attached BIA Puerto Rico Market Report, there are 18 independently owned and operating, full-power commercial and noncommercial TV stations in the Puerto Rico DMA.  Accordingly, Purchasers can hold attributable ownership interests in WSTE-DT consistent with the local television ownership rule.

The last 10 minutes of a WABI show from 1992:

There's also some Detroit material:

22 hours ago, hmaxhanson said:

Looks like Keloland started using First News before they changed to their current logo:

 

Lines up with what I found in newspaper clippings. My guess is that the 9/11/89 changes are when the theme debuted.

1989-1990 is a very interesting TV season for KELO because it was very clearly in the middle of a months-long modernization program.

In August 1989, KELO was still "The Big News" with the midcentury "kelo•land tv" lettering, which as far as I can tell debuted in 1964:

The first clipping I could find with the new KELO logo was in February 1990, though the title of "The Big News" hung around. This version looks a bit off model, too, with a more "organic" brush stroke.

By May, the news title was starting to transition out (and also the logo script looks right):

By October—apparently having been instituted for the new TV season—it was "KELO-Land News" at all times. In the Rapid City Journal, the title "Big News" last appeared in listings for KPLO on September 8, 1990, with "KELO-Land News" at 10 beginning Monday, September 9.

The latest Sloan dump includes KWHY's stock market program from "The Business Channel" in 1988:

Also, a WSMV story from 1994 (recorded off a TV):

NextGen TV comes to Portland. KPDX and KRCW's multiplexes will be used by four station groups and OPB.

Several staff at WVUE are out of commission after an attendee of the NICAR journalism conference in New Orleans, who visited their studios, tested presumptive positive for coronavirus. The station has sent home employees believed to be in close contact with the attendee.

The death knell has been sounded for KCPM Grand Forks, North Dakota.

The FCC today says the station incurred a 312(g) deletion for being off the air more than 12 months—because it hadn't operated from authorized facilities since 2014.

Gray had filed to acquire the station in 2018 and would have rebuilt it. Those plans have been dashed.

Some John Young-VO opens for KTNV...

The Chris Sloan archive gravy train keeps giving. There's even some rare KHJ from 1988!

The 9:00 VO at the time would later do a lot of ABC Sports work in the late 80s and 90s. The 1:00 one was a longtime station staff announcer.

Also some Louisville, including a variant of the Copeland/Symphony opens and a longer TVbD open with the "neo Home Country" theme:

And there's a cool Easter egg in this KCBS noon open from 1988:

3 minutes ago, scrabbleship said:

I know that WTEN picks up some WWLP stories and vice versa but clearly it wasn't enough.

 

If this feed could get the Patriots preseason games, which Albany stations stubbornly refuse to carry, it would be a proper salve.

I see that the congressional delegation got in on this one. It's being noted in local media as a "return" because WWLP was on the system until 2017, when WNYT must have pushed Charter to remove WWLP for network reasons.

What remains to be seen, and we won't know until 30 to 60 days from now, is what exactly the feed has besides the station's local output and presumably anything WTEN also has the rights to.

Curious little partnership here. Charter viewers in the Berkshires — a long-aggrieved orphan county in the Albany DMA — will get news from WWLP, and WWLP will add more features relevant to the Berkshires.

https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/245389/nexstar-charter-create-wwlp-local-news-deal/

There's a lot to take in in 90 seconds: a totally new KGMB open and theme from a newscast when KGMB made the news for a 22-minute power failure...during the Super Bowl!

This can't have lasted long. In 1986, KGMB rebranded its news as KGMB 9 News after the retirement of longtime anchor Bob Sevey—the "Walter Cronkite of Hawai'i"—but by late 1987, they had changed their logo to the sailboat 9.

Oh, and before Joe Shortsleeve was in Boston...he was anchoring eyeWITNess News, as this rare WITN newscast from December 1980 shows!

This video starts with a CKY (Winnipeg) news close from 1994 when Jim Wicks (later hired for KDNL) was still there:

That same channel has a WDAF report on him too from the same year:

Yo, let's calm down.

Sure, channel numbers are useful for most stations. But not all of them.

A good local brand is decided by figuring out what has brand equity and will resonate with viewers. Obviously, in Charlotte and Austin, that hasn't been a channel number for the Tegna stations in a long time.

This KMOV newscast from February 1995, using the "This Is Your News" moniker but the older imaging and music, shows how KMOV was starting to "soften up" compared to, say, a year prior, but they still had a ways to go compared to where they were by '96.

Huh, didn't realize she'd worked there too. At KPHO she was teamed with Fred Powers (real name Fred Fife), who was himself an ex-KTVXer (he used his real name in SLC but was apparently made to change it by KPHO staff).

15 hours ago, Info Junkie said:

So KJRH used the stylized “2” for Election night 1990 even though they had switched to the circular “2” by September:

The date is August, not November — it's primary night. He has them all misdated.

We have an anchor, and we have a launch date: Allison Rodriguez returns to 15 to host the KASW morning expansion with a late March debut. She'd been at KTVU for the last six months. A co-anchor is to be determined.

Part 2 is even more worth the watching: a full tour! The set is aesthetic as all get out, too.

This feels like a huge step back. Hopefully these are only for Super Bowl/NFL, like the current NBC SNF package.

Oh it's John Boler's LPTV—the first ever in the continental US! (BC 11/15/82 p88) He had a grant for a full-power conversion of 26 in the mid-80s as KXBJ.

In 1986, K26AC and K18AI were the second-to-last STV stations in the country (and even this is slightly incorrect as WFTY and WNUV exited STV at the same time)...

11 minutes ago, MidwestTV said:

Seems kind of messed up that Scripps has to pay for Cordillera's failings, but I guess they assume Scripps surely would have been aware of the state of the towers of the stations they were buying? And that two towers were bought without the FCC ever knowing? That or since there isn't a Cordillera to fine anymore...

That's normal in the course of business when you buy a company. Scripps also seems like it wanted to settle the matter quickly. Reading the consent decree, this one started when an aircraft hit the KATC-owned tower in Kaplan, Louisiana (which was home to an LPB transmitter and KAJN-FM).