Samantha

The TV-ARK update (which is rather extensive — the backend needed to be overhauled too) won't come online for a few months. They've also been doing 50fps remasters of all their UK clips so it'll be a treat anyway. However, the international stuff might be at increased risk. Some of the materials (a batch of different TV station promos from 1993 including the only promo I've ever sen with the KOCO plain 5) are also in the NewsActive3 collection. Our own Roly (NCFLMedia) actually asked them on FB about some older clips, and here's what was said: "We are aiming to recapture them however we don't have the original tapes for all of them.. The ones the size of a postage stamp made with real video will probably be missed"

I've never seen that EQ Vance graphics package, either! And based on the update open you posted...did he do the KCBS Action News "For All of Southern California" set!?!?!?

That 3D animation positively screams Andrew Welch. KSNW had a virtual set in place. I kind of think very similar-looking KUTV might have had something like this... They *were* sister stations under the Hatch family, too, and this logo animation at the end screams early Welch: And this is a Welch virtual set, no doubt:

The 1997 Television Factbook says K66FN Salt Lake City signed on March 1, 1996, owned by Rolando Collantes. (A Salt Lake Tribune article suggests the sign-on was at least a month earlier.) This station is today K39JS-D, an Azteca América outlet simulcasting with KSVN-CD 25 in Ogden. The callsign came from KSVN 730 AM which has been a Spanish-language station for nearly three decades now but previously was known as "K-7". You're seeing KSVN in 2001 (the mention of the 154th anniversary of Pioneer Day seals the year). Collantes is the owner of Azteca Broadcasting Corporation, the current licensee, which has no relation to TV Azteca itself other than a business partnership and a shared name. His stations hooked up with la televisora del Ajusco in 2002, dropping Univision. In 2004 and 2005, they carried live Spanish translations of the LDS General Conference. Of all the Utah rarities I've wanted to see, this was one I didn't even know existed!

Albert Flores has called it quits at WOAI: http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/movies-tv/article/San-Antonio-weather-TV-vet-Albert-Flores-exits-12474088.php

Holy moly, it's Troy Hayden. On KVIQ! In 1991! A quick Canadian detour for MCTV's Sault Ste. Marie news in 1993: KTLA Morning News Early Edition in 1996:

The WISH-TV news for April 24, 1988:

A whole 18 minutes of WYTV's 33 Eyewitness News in 1993... ...and an entire NewsChannel 33 from 2000!

Straight off the bird, wild feeds for TV news use from 1995/96! Stations seen include WFTV and KPNX.

That theme is good... The graphics were very obviously done by the same group that did redesigns for sister stations WBNG and WTAJ around that time as well.

I've never seen the Noticiero Univisión open at 1:09:47. Pretty good stuff. Meanwhile, here's a KSDK news update from 1986:

Never seen this before! (This is in Portugal. Italy's TMC also used the open animation, as seen in the second clip.) Believe it or not, this theme is in the NMSA — WKCF 1993.

A KTVQ item from 1988:

Can't buy an NBC affiliation. (Or KSL.)

I'd argue what made those opens work was the voice of Chuck Riley. That guy could sell anything with his pipes. The Nick Michaels re-recordings are just...flat.

That looks about right. There was an update to the 1990 package in 1992 when "News Team 4" became "News Channel 4".

Wow, it's like Christmas dinner tucking into all of this. KSEE's all over the place. I got a 6pm open for KNSD for...something. Also, wow, the KFTV and KERO opens are definitely new!

"From KUTV channel 2, Utah's News Team!" Olsolino is back with new material from our rarest large market for the first time in more than a decade! There's even a KTVX excerpt, but no opens yet:

A brief extract of KWGN's "Region 2 News" in 1980...

That's among the best compilations yet! That KOCO open at 30 minutes in — how many branding ideas did they have just in the 1992-95 period? I mean, let's look. August 1992 - Still using the 1990 TVbD look (very Gannett red-white-blue) with some custom/station-made opens. April 1993 - New open and graphics with the 80s "5" in a box. (The whole open looks sped up!) Late 1993 - A slender "5" with the same graphics; the news is now "5 News". I believe this set was done by John Christopher Burns. The open reminds me a bit of WTLV at this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Vlq-pIpfbv4;t=774 1994 - The logo changes *again* along with new music. 1995 - By the time of the Oklahoma City bombing, KOCO has a new circle 5 logo and Primetime News. What were they thinking!? Four or five logo changes in just a handful of years!

Nice to hear some KTVY from that era... The news package does seem nice, but the audio quality on the tapes isn't the greatest.

We'd need more late 80s material and maybe an open that's not pitch corrected. There's also a hunk of KVIA News 7 Nightcast in February 1991, featuring Chris Chesrown and Raymond Mesa (who later became the main anchor at KDBC):

Yeah, I noticed that too. Also, it really does show how sedate the squares look was compared to what succeeded it at stations like KTVI and WNYT.

With the announcement of its impending loss of affiliation and closure of its news service, KENV in 2007:

Ya like old WFMZ? 'Cuz here's some old WFMZ — more accurately, a full documentary on the occasion of its 40th anniversary! There's a treat right at the start, too (a snippet of a late 70s/early 80s open; there's another snippet later), and the station history is fascinating! You'll learn things like: -The transmitter used to start the station was found in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where WHFV (also on channel 69) had failed the year before WFMZ signed on the air -The original newsgathering vehicles were AMC Pacers -Tons of other stuff! There's also a sampling of clips from the station's other local programming ventures. After the first half hour, it gets a little deep.