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That KVIA theme (aka KNTV 1986) is curious. Is that a Peters composition, maybe?

The 10PM Report from WCCO News for June 8, 1988. This would have been a brand new look, too: And a KCCI noon show from 1996:

I think that's the oldest Spanish-language newscast in the US on YouTube. (The theme is in the NMSA as WTOP 1968.) Holy cake! This is from September 25, 1974. The newscast is extremely heavy on national stories. In fact it has no local stories in the A block and none until three into the B block. The lead story in the B block is about the Honduran foreign minister describing the impact of Hurricane Fifi on his country at the UN General Assembly. That hurricane struck the country in September. Another story in the B block, and the first local story, is on the then-upcoming sentencing of California Lt. Gov. Ed Reinecke for perjury.

Why couldn't they have simply offered to surrender KFNE's license?

That's probably dead too. I imagine Mark III/Wyomedia will search for a new buyer, but I really want to hear more about how this one fell apart. Interestingly this comes three months after WXNerd warned the deal, which had received FCC approval, was on hold and the lawyers were being called in.

Wow, that is a big surprise. There must have been a hold-up somewhere in the line. I also have to wonder if, given the nature of the market (and the number of network affiliations that would be commonly controlled), the recent concerns about local TV ads caused problems at Justice.

KAVU celebrated its 35th last year:

A communications tower in Lincoln, Nebraska, might be going back up after it toppled a year ago. Speedway Properties, which bought the land for nearly than $1.1 million last month, is assessing the feasibility of building a new tower on the site. The existing 500-foot tower's collapse affected telecommunications services as well as two television lessees, stations KFXL (which was put out of commission for three months) and K18CD-D (which repeated KSNB and just relaunched as CW affiliate KCWH-LD). There's still no word on why the tower collapsed. As crews worked to dismantle it, a spark started a fire in the TV transmitter shack which caused an additional $100,000 in damage.

It's all the rural Minnesota news. Here's a KTTC open and a KEYC close in one clip from 1984: This 1985 KTTC open shows a new look and new open music: And a WTHR 11pm open from 1996:

The open (and part of the newscast) from KCBS's Action News in 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=yovn5U6pgBY;t=2507

Yup, found that while digging through libraries... Sonoton is a new library to the NMSA, I believe. It is a European library, so it wouldn't have seen so much use stateside. (Other notable Euro libraries include DeWolfe and Music House.) It's not a theme, but the stings that KSAT used in its famous last names open are also in this library as "Mega Cut A7". "Mega Cut A1" was used as the headline bed at the end of the open. I can't find the swoosh. They even used Newscast A for the close:

More to the point, a lot of people in TV have made the leap to more stable careers in PR.

A shaky KEYC aircheck from 1990 — it's a noon open and close, with the station using People You Can Count On (The Coast):

Governmental and educational access, yes, but public access, no. We had "Leased Access" on our cable system which was literally an excuse to have an infomercial channel. The local police department also once had a channel.

22 minutes of WSB news coverage, including of the fatal helicopter crash killing NASCAR racer Davey Allison in 1993. The station is already using Image VIII but not the Vance graphics: And a KOVR 13 News brief from 1989... Kizzume's got the quality and the clips! :O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=mrJS9UUxvQI;t=1070

KNXV has its new news director. Mark Casey was the ND at KPNX from 1999 to 2012 and then was the station manager until 2016. He most recently was the public information officer for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. https://www.abc15.com/about-us/news-releases/mark-casey-named-news-director-at-abc15-arizona

Is this maybe a markets show? Interestingly, the Gaylord-esque map animation has the map configured as it would be in most of Asia... The open itself is a "What were they thinking" mish-mash!

Interesting they had it resung and kept using it after rebranding away from 5TV (and getting new news music).

Better yet, the whole newscast is available, in 60fps: Worth noting — this is a generation of KCRA opens I had not seen. They'd change again in 1996, including an updated music package (the NMSA groups both).

The news for June 2, 1987 from WLIO's News Journal: The commercial load is exceptionally low. This entire 30-minute newscast contains just four commercials and one promo for Hour Magazine. That's it!!

Interesting promo from the early 80s for regional news coverage on KTBC, using the Times-Mirror news theme as its background:

The frequency's definitely increased lately, primarily onthesea with Argentina clips. I personally don't mind Canada or some Australia — there's enough US similarity that those go here. (And you know I'm a hound for vintage Spanish-language material from the US and Puerto Rico.) It might be time to move the "International YouTube Findings" from the International board over here, where it could see more activity.

A KTXL news brief from 1995 (60fps!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=mJ8aGywB7XY;t=251

I gotta say, that's kind of...a petty thing to say. None of those things should matter.

A KPLR news update from 1989: And then there's...Mark Curtis at KTVI!