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Wow, "The Big News" in 1989? They were so far behind the 8-ball that it had lapped them.

Must have been a relic of when Viacom and Hubbard swapped one for the other.

From the land of rarities, here's one: a promo for WTHR's 10pm early prime newscast: We already had an open: Here's a bit more about the end of this experiment:

Not to mention Charlie Van Dyke also did a round of VOs around this time. The open VO progression goes like this over 10 years: (both 1985 theme and early NS2001) Thompson (up to the 1993 switch from NS2001 to the custom "Friends You Can Turn To" theme music) Clausen (after the affiliation switch)

An hour of WMAR's Channel 2 News in 1989:

They make a bit of sense in the multi-station (particularly multi-Big 4) clusters Nexstar has, but less so for markets where they acquired a single station (like WNCN). Additionally, I suspect Nexstar might feel like names like "TexasMatters" might seem like fake news when shared, which dents the stations' credibility.

Watch WEAU tear down its 1984 news set in 1988!

More goodies from the USA Broadcasting Archive: WHUB: WORX (which never ended up happening!):

It looks like these were mostly non-news positions in production, really.

There's also a 1998 KIVI blooper reel which features the floor director dancing to the Counterpoint close cut! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=bYCRR8ZXxOc;t=747

How many of the legacy Journal stations ever got The Now, anyway? This format will probably be much more scalable to stations.

The reason why they are ABC in the first place is their Mexico City station is XEABC-AM and has been since it signed on in 1964. The Paul Rand-esque lettering was not used until 1993, though.

Worth noting: 760 AM is in Mexico City and they have no stations in Juárez. They *do* have two in Mexicali, which is their only border market. But yeah, that logo is a trademark dispute walking. It's the radio arm of Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM), one of the country's largest newspaper publishers.

It's kind of hard when the market for broadcast motion design specific to TV news has become so concentrated among large clients that have at times brought the task in-house. ——— Meanwhile, in a rare dispatch from sort-of-Mexico, sort-of-not... K26KJ-D (El Paso)'s third digital subchannel was leased last year to a local TV station out of the state capital of Chihuahua, Canal 28 (XHABC-TDT). It was a move that allowed this station to get broadcast coverage in the Juárez-El Paso area. They're beginning program production in Juárez soon as well including local news and information. Because "Canal 25.3" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, though, the station system (there's also a direct repeater in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc) is using a different name, both in Juárez generally and to a lesser extent in Chihuahua Capital... ABC Televisión. Now, the logo of ABC Televisión will not make you think of the alphabet network. It is not the shameful ripoff of ABC Radio, another unrelated venture whose logo should be the subject of a trademark dispute: But still, calling yourself ABC in a border market? I get it, the audiences are kind of differentiated, and it'd be hard to mistake this for KVIA, but come on!

A surprisingly good news theme (given the underwhelming open) from the early '90s in Edmonton: Can someone identify this? I think it might be KCTZ's news theme from 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=MwVwRLFX1hQ;t=232

There's a massive article in El Nuevo Herald (Miami) on Spanish-language TV, and hoo boy, what's going on over there (besides a well out of date Telemundo logo)? "Tears, fears, frustration, intrigue and painful goodbyes. They're the ingredients of any good telenovela. But on Friday, those feelings jumped from the world of fiction and flooded their creators, the employees of America's main Hispanic television networks. Only a few don't fear for the future of their jobs. Between young bilingual Hispanics moving toward a la carte TV in English and the hostility of Donald Trump to immigrants bringing the addition of new audiences to a halt, uncertainty reigns in this fragile industry." At Telemundo, even with new studios about to open, the issue is layoffs at Telemundo Studios, where more than 100 people lost their jobs in technical positions and the facility "felt like a funeral home". Apparently the latter is the result of an increasing shift toward production in Colombia and Mexico spurred by high executive production costs. At Univision, the problems have been more widely reported: Falco's resignation, the abruptly canceled IPO, and a series of reassignments of other top Univision executives to positions at Televisa. Morale at UCI is low given that investors and the company's financial advisors want to see cost cuts on the order of $200 million.

Oh good grief, that's bad. In more ways than one.

Time for a small helping of Louisiana rarities: And one short-ish KTVY clip from 1989:

Along with 18 minutes of KIMT's 10pm news in 1994, you get a Buick commercial voiced by Ron Rolland and a commercial for Rod Grams's US Senate campaign (yes, that Rod Grams)!

Wow, the whole 10-minute version in one video AND high quality!?

Consider that it was only for three years, essentially, that KMSB had no umbilical cord to anybody. I especially can't see it now in this environment of station consolidation. Economically, Tucson isn't exactly Phoenix.

KDNL News 30 teases from 1997 sampling the station's Vance look:

Mid-90s KMSP is rare as heck!

No open, but this is one heck of a KTVM jingle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=XbfupMvEjpE;t=721

Time to get the news from WSAV NewsCenter 3 in 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=qYyj1aWJ0JE;t=339 There's Cablevision News from Yonkers, New York, in 1991, using Network Music's Action News track: And here's some KPNX election coverage from 1996: And a bonus ad read by Al Vanik: