Samantha

Everything in that logo is just so sorely mismatched.

The open to WOI's "Iowa News Tonight" from 1988: A chunk of a KSDK newscast from 1986:

This is...interesting:

I'm still trying to get my jaw off the floor and I'm halfway through that video compilation. Not just the KTVK stuff but the co-owned MAC America properties (Phoenix Magazine, KE(S)Z, etc. (Also, several Steve Wood-voiced ads, before he began working with Cox and by extension half our local TV advertisers...)

You wish every VHS capture was as good as this one! WBRC's "The Alabama Evening News" from February 1990 in 60fps:

This is certainly one of the stranger pieces of KPNX ephemera out there... (It's from 1994, not 1989, but you probably could tell anyway.)

A chunk of WDRB's The News at Ten from June 15, 1992:

Well, James Quiñones is out at KPNX. He left a month ago. https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/media/2019/07/12/weatherman-james-quinones-channel-12-jimmy-q-has-left-station/1720131001/

Jonathan McCall started at WDAF yesterday. (h/t asomrjsurf)

What a downgrade. They really need tightening up on the type size, placement and choice.

That 'TKR format would have been a good match for a Fox affiliate starting up a news department, but I can see why the presentation didn't work so well for WTKR. ——— This CFTO clip from 1991 includes a snippet of them using something I never knew made it to Toronto: the early 90s CFQC/CKCK theme (an underrated jam IMO)! Was it only used for this 5:30 newscast?

A section of WTLV news from April 1990. Part of a story on film production in the First Coast, worries about Maxwell House leaving town (Jacksonville eventually headed off a push from Hoboken, NJ, for Max to relocate there, and today this is the only plant the company has), a murder, murder statistics and part of a story on the death of AIDS victim Ryan White:

It's the end of the line for The Vindicator, the newspaper of Youngstown, Ohio, after 150 years—but don't expect changes at co-owned WFMJ as a result:

It's a Network track called Eyewitness News.

I wouldn't normally put an edition of Inside Edition Weekend in here, but it was taped off KYW on September 10, 1995... Several "Keep Your Eye On KYW" promos and this news promo:

Wow that B/W film from Winston-Salem is a treat! There's also Raleigh — the short-lived WNAO-TV 28. The KPTM clip is good stuff. The Old Mill Toyota ad has the voice of WCMH Columbus around this time, too.

Oh yeah, the Kansas City operation was definitely the model. (I also think they would have done Tampa in '95, though such was never specifically said.)

When a lot of Phoenix videos started showing up, I really gained an appreciation for how dowdy KPHO's product was as the 80s turned into the 90s. They really did start getting serious with the February '94 refresh (Fresh News and new graphics). They knew KNXV was coming into town — actually, their first show would have aired July 7, 1994, if the affiliation switch had not caused changes (they opted to reset a bit, and the first News 15 aired August 1). They say KNXV toned down its product to adjust for the fact they'd be an ABC, not a Fox, affiliate. Could you imagine? As it was, the early KNXV product shook the market. I think they would have blown KPHO out of the water within months.

Can't even spell Leupp... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Some vintage WMTV from the station itself: "Newscene 15 at 10" in 1989: The first "Wisconsin Today" morning newscast in 1991:

Some KMOV promos from 1992: Spokane TV station footage about a 1991 aluminum plant fire: (At about 5:15 is an unfamiliar KXLY open and theme!)

That's definitely the same theme set as the 6pm open.

My gosh, that WRAL site is really good... http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/news-people-action-news-people-image-promo-from-1978/?from=533 WRAL's "News People" promo A December 1978 newscast with a teletype sound open: http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/wral-action-news-5-newscast-dec-12-1978/?from=225 http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/bloopers-with-bobbie-battista-and-charlie-gaddy-circa-1979/?from=225 This blooper reel has the ticker bed once used by WBMG... http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/premiere-of-the-hour-long-action-news-5-newscast-at-6pm/?from=225 First hour-long 6pm Action News 5 (1982) http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/action-news-5-promo-image-promo-1982/?from=533 From the same year, an image promo "Get the action live on Action News 5" http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/action-news-5-600-pm-newscast-january-7-1985/?from=225 Can't say I've seen this particular theme mix before (January 1985) http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/sky-5-the-place-to-be-promo/?from=533 Mid-80s chopper promo using VTS The Place to Be http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/we-mean-a-lot-to-each-other-image-promo/?from=533 "We Mean a Lot to Each Other" song, produced for WRAL by VTS and sung by Lee Greenwood and Roberta Flack. Unlike a lot of VTS work, this was recorded in LA. http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/wral-news-coverage-of-switch-to-cbs/?from=225 Charlie Gaddy explains the CBS affiliation switch to viewers http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/wraz-50-goes-on-the-air/?from=225 A news story ahead of the launch of WRAZ in 1995

Gray has applied for the WSVW-LD call letters for an LPTV they are buying in Harrisonburg, VA, currently W30CT-D. That LPTV is a translator for WVIR, and along with W22EX-D Staunton, is being acquired alongside that station. With the acquisition of this translator, Gray becomes the only network operator in Harrisonburg. It already provides ABC (WHSV) and CBS/Fox (WSVF).

There are a *lot* of KZTV items... here's another partial open: Here's a WTMJ commercial with the Pride Inside bed: