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Ohlmeyer mentions it being exactly one year since the tragedy unfolded, so this is June 17, 1986. By this time they were indeed no longer the ABC affiliate.

This KOLN/KGIN newsbreak with Mel Mains (who was there for 34 years!) from 1983 features the interlaced 10/11 logo that they used at the time:

Steve Krafft is retiring after 34 years with KSAZ. Tomorrow is his last day. He was the station's second-longest tenured on-air personality behind only Linda Williams.

Is that supposed to be a video? As it is it's just audio. Also, it's a *very large* file, especially for just audio. @MarkAP

Interesting miscue in the open video where we see that it was produced 9/7/81...

That's actually not that bad of an open... The PYCCO slogan seems to have outlived the image package, too.

This WRTV "trackside" show from the '94 Indy 500 is all sorts of interesting:

I recognize that bump cut...from a KRGV promo (!). Had no idea it was TuesdayA.

Why did this exist? Also, a KXJB open I can't embed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FTybbUNW7A

..!! A WSVI story from 1990! This channel seems loaded with a bunch of stuff, including...the oldest KOLD open ever found! (It's from February 1995, which should indicate how bad our KOLD history is.)

Wow, great find! Been wondering who that guy is for years! @Info Junkie you were wondering who this was in 2017. Stagg did a bunch of work for the Gillett stations of the 80s — KOLN-KGIN, WLUK, KSBY, WWMT, etc.

There were a lot of funky/fatface logos, so it's more of a trend than anything from the 70s that lingered well into the 80s with some stations.

Coverage of the death of Fahey Flynn in 1983, from WLS and WBBM where he worked. There's also some coverage (local and national) of Christine Craft winning her discrimination lawsuit against KMBC, which happened the same day. Joel Daly actually appeared on WLS while on vacation in Spokane:

That KTVB 5pm news set needed help — it looks to be a bit dated even for 1996 and hadn't been updated like their main one at all!

The KXTV 1999 open is interesting. Had no idea they branded as "Spirit of the West". Like the graphics and everything.

That's not Classical Gas, it appears to be a custom composition for an image campaign "Get the Action Spirit". The theme line is "Get the Action Spirit, Action 6". In fact, the theme was brand new. Here's a promo with it from two weeks prior:

KASW did something: they acquired Phoenix Rising (USL) rights for 35 games including all USL fixtures. It may be a second-division team established in 2016, but it's rapidly catching fire here and almost won the USL league this past season. The rights move over from YurView (Cox), so this is the first time games will be available OTA. The deal doesn't affect streaming rights, which remain with ESPN+ (though streaming viewers only get the PRFC commentators for home games). The first game is a tournament game against Real Salt Lake on February 16. The station will also produce a local halftime show. This is the biggest sports rights get in 61's recent history and arguably the most impactful development since becoming a separate concern. The station had previously carried some Coyotes games from 1996-2006 (and one in 2013) and was the local OTA simulcast carrier for the 2015 NFC Wild Card Game. Also, reading articles that say "Your Phoenix CW" is a massive, massive kludge.

84 mic flags. Wow. If you showed this to someone just...6/7 years ago, they'd be amazed.

Didn't realize KDFW had a resing of the thing:

The open to an edition of WKBD's "The Ten O'Clock News" from April 20, 1988. That "KDFW 1990" theme probably was used here first: Is the theme related to this image song? WGAL used it, too, and this theme!

Nice to have a complete and non-glitched open of the first WPTY/WLMT theme! All the opens we have from those first few months are either bugged out or incomplete. The 9pm show with Harleston and Houston was the first in Memphis (and in the nation!) to be anchored by two African-American men. Also, I'm a big fan of that theme bed. The first day of operation at WPTY News Watch 24 saw the 6pm newscast go out with a really harsh buzzing sound and the 10pm open air no fewer than three times (local newspaper accounts confirm this was how it went out!): The first WLMT 9pm show had its own big blunder, when Houston, who had been poached from WDAF, welcomed viewers to News Channel 30... Their launch was so bad they changed lead male anchors within two weeks of going on air and fired a producer in January 1996. Within five months, they had changed news themes. The problems weren't just presentation and technical, either (they kind of raced the clock to begin broadcasts). The opening night sports report mentioned "Memphis University" instead of the University of Memphis. The station essentially failed to convince Memphians that they knew the city.

More footage from that missing kid story from December 1994 in Michigan (believe it or not, he's still missing!):

The "KRON ON" brand is dumb...

A bit more recent fare... This KCTV newscast from 1988 even includes a political commercial voiced by Paul Anthony!