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Wow, that's interesting. I have to imagine some of it was pumping the stations up for sale and some of it was needed to compete with the other stations.

Bostick was an owner that was notoriously cheap on his station music (we even have a quote about that from him — they wanted to buy, which is why they were still using The News Image in 1997) but the follow-up package is among my all-time favorites. They basically sent the market quality soaring with that music and graphics set. "Buy the music... Buy it just like you buy your cameras and like you buy your transmitters. When you buy it, you own it and you use it until it is no good and you can throw it away."

WPCQ...just as underwhelming as might have been expected. Also, the poor guy just could not escape Power News, could he?

WKYT's 27 NewsFirst from 1994:

More precisely, here's the Fresno Bee article from January 25, 1988:

Time for KAMR Action News 4 in 1989. The theme is custom. A bumper, 30-second image theme "Channel 4, People Like You" and news theme are included. Is this a second KAMR Peters package?

They had to scrub out so much of WTLV's news identity for the simulcast (NBC chimes and peacock especially) and were in a transitional phase.

Some more rarities...

Some short WBRC clips from December 1989:

There are color bars. And then there are extremely rare color bars, worthy of a post here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVbW29VvGg You're probably asking, "What in the world is this?" It dates to March 9, 1994 and comes from a key chapter in the development of HDTV standards. In 1994 and 1995, the Queen City was king for high-definition television. PBS conducted HD testing for the Grand Alliance DTV system (which became ATSC A/53, the core of the ATSC 1.0 standard). A VHF and UHF transmitter were mounted on the old WPCQ-TV tower, which had been vacated when channel 36 carried out a signal upgrade in the late 80s. The two stations were WWHD channel 6 (10 kW in analog and 3.16 kW DTV) and WUHD on channel 53 (500 kW analog, 158 kW DTV). It is worth noting those are peak analog powers and the averages were quite low (page 12). Much like the WJW/31 ATSC 3.0 tests in Cleveland with ATSC 1.0, the Charlotte tests also included periodic analog transmissions to provide comparison. Channel 6 did not do much testing, with the reason being cable ingress. Ironically, WCNC was on channel 6. When WWHD was operating, it created signal interference for cable subscribers, so its activity was curtailed. While looking through old issues of the VHF-UHF Digest, I found a DX report, and then a picture, of WUHD. I had never heard of either of these stations, but the fact I wrote about it at the time is the reason why the uploader put this up! This was what Eric Voytko of McLean, Virginia, experienced on July 31, 1995: Eric managed to get a hold of WUHD's chief engineer, who promised to do more station IDs before tests ended in September. Eric ended up getting more than an hour of IDs on tape. The next year, the Photo News column of DX pictures featured what, until today, was the only pictorial evidence of the Charlotte HD tests: Later that fall, ATSC A/53 was released, and the FCC adopted it the next year. So I wrote my post in 2015, and in August 2016, someone came by and asked for more information, saying they had two minutes of WUHD's color bars on tape from 1994. (In fact, this was at the start of the test period. WUHD had just taken the callsign two weeks prior, having originally been assigned WAHA. The WWHD calls given to the VHF had previously been given to two earlier test facilities in Washington, on channel 58 in 1986 and channel 59 in 1988.) He finally showed up with the video today.

Yeah, then it makes sense that it's VTS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=G9JZ1ozbivo;t=1419 Finally realized this one...

Your Friend 4 — wait a minute, Oregon? We're not in Greenville anymore... Compare to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=G9JZ1ozbivo;t=870 So I'm a little conflicted here. This is reported as being VTS. But boy oh boy, this is so un-VTS-y. Both stations were Peters clients. Is there a relation?

[quote name='TServo2049']On that note, is the long 2 Together promo still up anywhere? I saw it about a decade ago, but did it ever get reuploaded after it disappeared from YT? I think I can hear the same 4-note motif that's in the KUTV 1981 package open, at the very end of this promo, seeming to provide still further evidence that said package was by Peters and tied into the image campaign. But I would certainly love to watch that longer promo again, to see if it has a more audible example of a "2 Together" musical logo.[/QUOTE] It's in the NewsActive 3 collection...which part, I couldn't say off hand. EDIT: @TServo2049 Found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=G9JZ1ozbivo;t=659

The image campaign: not new. All the footage in this clip: stuff that wasn't in the other (longer version) we had.

My guess is that KTVI might have originated the squares package.

Listen to the KNDO/KNDU mid-80s theme... ——— KVIA in 1986...no more 7 Together! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=MVskZm4xkm0;t=1881

That was not Greg O'Neill. Nope.

"A Big Name, A Big Commitment": it's what you'll get from WAGA's TV-5 Eyewitness News Update in 1981! And it was "Something Special" on WLEX 18 News in 1991: Didn't know WHBF used the "flying TV screens" package: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=imja5XfHalc;t=401 It had to have been adopted late in 1995 or early 1996, because WHBF used The Hour and those pink and blue slab graphics (which admittedly were dated for 1995) a year before:

There's no place for this, but the ads are running so incessantly during KSAZ's newscasts I think it merits saying... What do you get when you mix a recently retired meteorologist, pieces of an old news set, and a carpet cleaning company? This: The two-tone wood panels can be seen at the edges in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=06bX1jPpUfk;t=72

The entire 1993-95 Sky branding package, covering all their channels, was done by Gari, so this is a real "Great News II"... Here's a compilation. [spoiler=I like the next package better, though...]

Did you know KXLY's late-80s opens were seasonal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=41QkHSUA6ew;t=3110

Some video has surfaced of KAMR bumpers using the same logo as is on the Peters FB page. The tagline for them was "It's 4 Sure". Three-note musical signature?

That KAMR video has the logo they used when Peters did "It's 4 Sure" for them... Staying in Amarillo, various KVII items from the 90s (both TVbD and Enforcer):

A WYFF story in 1993, showing a hint of their look pre-John Christopher Burns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr1yslPW6_k And some shots of the KTVN newsroom and set in 1988. The real treat is at the end: an "off-air recording" (sort of) with We Know What Matters! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwSymvEHyzg KKCO in 2002 features at the start of this clip... KUSA meets TVbD?