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KRDO's "News 13" from 1997:

The lower thirds were made available in a network package that was used by several local stations including KLBK and KVAL.

This newscast is so dry they should have called it "Just Add Water" (but it is actually a very good newscast):

No open, but here's a full KCRA (not KOVR) 5pm newscast from 1995: Speaking of January 1995, here's a full KVIA 10pm show: And from the *same month*, a KVUE open:

The package has been around so long that graphic design trends and needs have very clearly bypassed it, much the same way that the WNBC "red line" was at the end of its run. Also, 2012, when this pack was made, feels like eons ago from a news industry POV (both the news itself and the industry). It's actually kind of a parallel for the people that made it, too. RenderOn is very clearly a shop that has gotten behind the curve in their work. It's also been two years since they did any broadcast work, a revamp for KLAS.

Equity tried local programming? Wow!

That channel of Cuban exile stuff has...WKAQ Puerto Rico material! With the legendary Aníbal González Irizarry. "Aquí las noticiaaaas en detallleeeee"... The theme is the newsbreak theme from The Osterman Weekend, which KOMU also used. Also some WLII and WAPA clips:

Some rare WXEX material from 1985:

That is from the AirCraft library, which the NMSA for some reason cites as Soundtrack. The AirCraft site also has the long cuts of the pieces from them. The Visionary is on CD ACL-032 "Image Makers II". Other common tracks from this library are on ACL-011 "Image Makers", like The Leading Edge, News Breakers and Always a New Horizon. ACL-040 has some political tracks that got used and have NMSA entries, and there are a couple of other 90s tracks I think saw some use in sports.

KENS Eyewitness News from February 7, 1987:

WROC News Eight for April 7, 1986 (that set!): KTSM news from December 26, 1987:

We do know McGraw-Hill was the client. Transdiffusion, whose archive is mostly UK stuff, does have a Tuesday reel from 1979 narrated by Bo Donovan (!): The date on this item cannot be earlier than '79 as it includes two TV image songs from that year: WCCO's "4 Friends" (which was commissioned in light of the affiliation shuffle consuming everything else in that market at the time) and the WRTV theme for their ABC affiliation switch. The other TV item on the reel is KCRA from their brief "News Team 3" era (also as in this promo and this newscast). (It also includes radio work from a variety of stations.) The part that matters to us belongs at 8:15, when Donovan introduces News People by saying it was "for McGraw-Hill Television". The sample is sung for "channel 10", so it can't really be anyone else, not that you'd suspect otherwise with a San Diego shop...

The Omaha-fest continues: KETV's Newswatch 7 Update from March 1980 using a long cut of News People! Another Newswatch 7 update, from 12/31/79: KETV had introduced News People by early 1978. (The original station was KGTV San Diego)

Sandy Gibbons, former KPHO news anchor and presenter of Dialing for Dollars, died on December 29. Gibbons also was an actor in quite a few movies. He was 85.

There's even a sung "Action News is Everywhere" promo from 1977: These 1980 WOWT promos use what must have been the theme at the time: This is the Omaha stuff we've been waiting to see!

More KAAL from the mid-90s. Still no full open, though.

No ownership mention—probably because NBC had already bought WTVJ at this point... Here's a New Year's rarity: the Final Edition pre-signoff newscast, with its own open!!, from KOLN-KGIN on January 1, 1985. The close mentions "10/11 Strong". The signoff follows, with the National Anthem by the Scarlet and Cream Singers and a visual mention of the employees' IBEW local. Right before cutting the carrier, KOLN itself throws up an even earlier logo slide:

As a note, this thread is now stickied, replacing the HD News Thread! Out and About has become a TVNT fixture since @TexasTVNews established it in August 2011, and it's exciting to go into 2019 with it assuming its proper place as a sticky thread for all the latest bits of news from around the country.

Goodness, it's another one of those logos (see: KDLH, WIFR)... Here's a WILX weather bump from 1986: And a WOTV news promo from the same year: Speaking of that market... Friday night high school football on an ABC affiliate in 1988? Was WUHQ expecting viewers who wanted to see Friday ABC shows to just tune elsewhere?

The launch of Florida's News Channel in 1998: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncPnT--eT7A

KCCI in 1986 — and it's not Good News! (Well, it's good news if you like 80s news themes...) The theme is a custom called "Be A Part of it All". It has at least two image songs: It was also short lived — introduced either in late 1985 or early 1986 (potentially coinciding with new studios for KCCI in October 1985) and ousted sometime between late 1986 and early 1987 (when the station adopted Spirit of Texas).

Wow, that signoff looks like they slapped a new graphic slide over much older material — the station owner is listed on an 80s chyron graphic (very likely added when Great American bought the station in 1987) and the logos are on visibly dirty slides. The voiceover by Ron Moore was probably recorded at the same time, but the script was probably similar (guessing though not done by Overland Park-based Moore, who voiced WDAF between 1987 and 1992) when Taft owned WDAF and the slides have to come from something older.

Looks like the answer is, believe it or not, October 2002. Worth noting: despite becoming a Fox affiliate, KFXB seems to have kept its late news at 10. It ran either a 5 and 10 or a 6 and 10 in its later years. I found an interesting 1997 filing in a case on LMAs from the owners of KFXB, who said without Second Generation (which then owned KFXA Cedar Rapids), the station would likely have failed. Second Generation paid for technical improvements and the reinforcement of the tower, a new news set and weather graphics system, and other upgrades.

No presentation material, but...KDUB!!! By this point they were known as "Newswatch" instead of "40 News" as they had been in the mid-late 80s. I also found this story from 1994, with the same NEWSWATCH logo in evidence:

WWTV's 50th anniversary special (two parts on channel), from 2003: