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Ever wanted to see what WPTA was like in 1993? Now you can!

The Free Spirit is a Peters campaign!

A WTTV open and story from 1990 — Spirit of Texas theme, Your Place graphics! (The sung jingle part is clipped unfortunately but the resing is "The Heart of Indiana on T-T-V-4")

I hadn't seen those either. Definitely the same animation as WOWT.

Cokely had been working for two years as the consumer reporter for the Gillett stations, based in DC. He was only 33 at the time! Whoever consulted KTVI I think missed the mark with this promo, because it ended up accentuating that everyone wasn't from St. Louis. KDNL suffered through the same problem with its entirely out-of-market news lineup when they launched.

They all just got off planes and they're all ready to give St. Louisans the news — a promo for KTVI's new news team in 1988:

You would not be the first one to have the idea... News People itself appears to have been written in late 1976? Given that KESQ might have started using this thing in late 1986 or 1987, it could have been written for News People's 10th anniversary.

I'd wanted to see these for a while and they're all in this two-part report: all those old KESQ opens! Some of those 80s logo lockups with the three-stripe logo seem like Canadian TV branding... (Also I'd switch WWL News and Primetime News based on the WWL News open style and the 1998 date for Primetime News in a close) It also looks to me like KESQ 1990 might have debuted closer to 1987. KMIR's 50th anniversary special isn't the greatest, but it does have this snippet of an early-mid 80s news open:

They are. Also worth noting is that the thread was a bump. Woods Communications — which also owns WCOV Montgomery, AL — filed with the FCC last year (March 20, 2018) to sell KLCW outright to Ramar for the $100,000 purchase price; the FCC approved on April 22. Ramar was already running KLCW under agreement.

"Buy the music... Buy it just like you buy your cameras and like you buy your transmitters. When you buy it, you own it and you use it until it is no good and you can throw it away." –Buddy Bostick, 1985

Heads up the station's community outreach, charity and social programs.

It does feel like something from TVbD circa 1996-97... I think it's the typeface, honestly.

This WLEX excerpt appears to not be late 83/early 84 but closer to late 85 or 86. Two reasons why: WLEX had adopted an updated logo (ditching the plain Helvetica 18), and more monitors had been added to the news set. Compare with this 1/20/85 newscast:

Their national clients included ESPN, A+E Networks, ABC and NBC.

Yo, nice find by Ntropolis there. LoConte Goldman closed in January 2000 after seven years. It was based in Boston and I do see some chatter in posts here that they did the OG Hearst package in 1995.

A very short WDBJ clip from 1991: Mostly, but not all, additional WGRZ material: This Lansing news bit (I believe WILX but not sure) from 1979 is appropriate for this time of year: This cable newscast in Hazleton, PA, from 1994 is a little curious oddity:

It looks okay...but it also makes the other network graphics look out of date and overly glossy. Also, surprised they still use crystal bugs upper right (perhaps because of feed simulcasts?).

This WCCO 1996 news excerpt has elements with their use of the KCBS Michael Randall package—in 1996, a year before the NMSA has them using it.

That is something YouTube has disabled right now in the wake of the events in New Zealand.

Univision is bringing two-hour morning newscasts to San Antonio/Austin, Dallas, and Houston. The shows debuted yesterday. KWEX and KAKW simulcast.

Yeah, I can hear that too! (BTW, the first half has a promo for a game telecast using an instrumental bed of Hello.)

News reports (with opens) on the opening of Fort Worth Alliance Airport in 1989. The audio is missing from the back half and the audio deteriorates a good bit, too, but there's one open from each station:

From the Twin Cities, this is...—wait that's not KMSP...

That is how you broach the topic on your own air. Exemplary work in remaining impartial and covering a news story about your own station.

Too bad they didn't ditch the overly rounded "T13" logo... That T is awful.