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Wow! Canal 2 today is a channel called CDR which consists of television simulcasts of radio programming. (It's co-owned with channels 4, 6 and 11.) The video is apparently from 1993.

Wow, I don't even think I've heard that cut of the package...

That's awful. Everything about it is poorly executed. The 21 isn't even at the same perspective as the rest of it.

Definitely feels like it could be a sibling or cousin to the late-90s Media General pack...

That is definitely the Cue11 Total News — though I never knew they had used it prior to changing logos. The music bed is from that package and is closer to the use KAPP/KVEW gave it.

A full KITV 10pm newscast from 1994: Some WREG material from the same year: And a KICU excerpt from 1991:

Whoops, I was wrong — it was March 1981 that they dropped "NewsCenter 2". Sheesh, KTVI was changing imaging more than its underwear... (The Fox OSI theme has lasted longer than the last four music packages they used combined!) We don't have any early-80s 'HTM to really say, unfortunately. Though I did find this 1979 WTPA (!!) sportscast (the callsign change was in 1980 and this is January 27, 1979):

In the mid-80s (about 1985?), WHTM actually updated to it. In '86 they were even still using the late 70s Times-Mirror stations theme (NMSA "KDFW 1979"). Even WETM used the same typeface, though we don't have any newscasts from the period when T-M still owned the station. (WSTM never seemed to, and then Elmira, Syracuse and Harrisburg were sold off in 1986.) KTVI seemed to never be part of any standardization. If they were, it might have been in late 1980-1981 (T-M did not own KTVI until 1980). That said, it's unclear quite what they were like between 1980 and 82 or so. In 1980, they dropped the NewsCenter 2 imaging they had been using. There's not much of that, but there's a demo reel from a graphics company with a KTVI 10pm open: In 1979, though, they hadn't yet adopted that logo (there's a snippet in the final second showing their set): Times-Mirror in general had more standardization than many groups in the 80s, especially early in the decade and then in the 1987-88 period. (The Yours Truly graphics package comes to mind.)

Even then, channel 41 seems to consistently put the middling in middle Georgia...

That WCWB "set" and the news anchor's delivery is...not good. It seems like they used "Headline News" as an opportunity to refresh their brand from where they were in 1981, though. "Welcome to a Tuesday, 28th day in the month of June...it's a Tuesday..."

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We've had a lot of permissions issues with the migration, so I'm pinging @Weeters to have this taken care of. Not quite news, but people here will definitely appreciate the Ron Boltz voiceover on this close to a KTVU Giants telecast from 1987:

WAVY's 11:00 The Daily News for May 17, 1989:

The actual open bed from KXLY 1992!

More WJLA, this time a series of feature promos—one of which certainly has my attention: A KTAB story from 1986:

A bit of a diversion, but Smith is apparently kind of legendary (he got a nice union award some time back)... He also is the voice of political ads for Republicans in all 50 states and Guam and has been doing political ads for 44 years.

A WWAY 1992 newscast. The Image Leader...in the 90s...yeah not such a good fit.

I wouldn't normally post an EBS test, but the beginning of this one must have been scary to lots of Michigan youngsters way back when, and it's an odd bird as far as these tests:

@hmaxhanson there's been a big uptick in fake signoff tapes lately...

Look what the lion brought in — KCRA in 1979! And I do mean a lion!

What's this!? Another KOVR surprise — a piece of a noon newscast from November 15, 1988, using a news theme I've never heard. Is this related to EarWitness News?

I truly don't know how PYCCO (The Coast) survived that long. It was a package behind the 8-ball when WDEF picked it up in 1995!

90 minutes of WDEF News 12 from 1997 — still using People You Can Count On (The Coast):

When I did New World at 20 a bit back, they *were* at one hour a day. In fact, there's even a promo for 13 Eyewitness News, Live at Six and Ten from the same year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Y8X6reUMGeM;t=18 They also had the smallest news staff in the market. They made a major news expansion with the Fox switch — they immediately changed the 10pm to 9pm, they had a newscast at 5 and then the morning show which started at 6am. By the way, that video contains a KTHV break bump with a Gilmer package from right before the "Today's THV" rebrand (which it seems was sorely needed)...

WYMT's very first morning newscast, aired 26 years ago today: