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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.

That theme has a very Tuesday/Network feel to it. I've heard it somewhere, too.

Mmmm, Real News... One of the essential opens of the 90s, no doubt about it. Also, all those KCBS opens really emphasize not only how nice that package is but what a break it was with their recent past.

An All the News close...in 1994! Only at KSNF... And... HOLY CAKE IT'S THE FABLED CHRIS CRANE KTVI PACK!

The open graphics were sort of lackluster — they were an affiliate package that a couple other stations used (KCCI, WBMG) — but the music was and remains incredible, and the in-show graphics were definitely ahead of their time. 25 years on, it still sounds amazing. The v3 Sunset 10 that they introduced with it was also very good and an improvement at small sizes over the v2 that was used in The Vision era.

Can't say I've seen this TVbD open before...

Time for the Channel 10 News...

Wow, never seen that before! Planer died in 2011. He was a producer for Today at the time. Later he would become the head of the network's European news operation.