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Some more WWSB from the Heart Of era...

You like WVIT? 1993... 1996... Or WFLA? Or KOB? (I doubt the 1986 date, probably late '87)

"Local News at 11". It could be almost anywhere, but in this case, it's the KAPP-KVEW news from 1999. And in Spokane, a special KREM newscast from 1996 on a devastating ice storm:

This almost reads like a market consolidation move. They wanted to be Alaska's Fox affiliate.

That WMBD promo can be as early as fall '85. It uses the same CBS News network graphics from the "We Keep America On Top of the World" campaign. I've also never heard that variant of the image song before.

In regard to KMTV, yes! While we are missing a lot of material for KMTV in the 80s, we know that Chip Davis composed themes for KMGH, KMTV and KSHB based on entries in SESAC. KSHB is the earliest of the three. It was used in the 80s for their 41 Express flash newscasts: Of the two unID KMGH themes of the late 80s/early 90s, I believe 1991 is the Chip Davis set. I believe 1989 was commissioned somewhere in Salt Lake City by then-ND Mike Youngren, along with a mid/late-80s KUTV theme we do not have. Keep in mind that KMGH 1991 didn't even make it fully through 1992 because News Series 2001 and the "Colorado's 7" moniker were .

By 1997, KDLH had shed its late 80s logo and gotten a new logo, set, graphics and evidently music.

It's an old enough site that you will need to enable Flash. As I look at the WFAA open, I can totally see a few Vance-y elements of it, especially those letterboxes. ——— Some KOBR material from 1994. Here's a promo: Here's a story. Keep in mind while watching, THE YEAR IS 1994. Here's a potpourri of other stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0sGYgfca3M

1983 does seem to be when she jumped. On the topic of Duluth... All We Are, We Are For You!

My email to NashvilleTV has not been answered yet, but this did show up on YT, so that's basically what I wanted... @TheOneManHerd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtPCUWPis_o

Close left the 10pm (his own decision) in 1984 and retired from the 6pm on August 26, 1988, doing primarily the noon show until his full retirement on December 22, 1989. Fun fact: Close actually approached KTVK looking for a job in 1982. They rejected his offer!

Try singing "Count on us...NewsCenter 12...count on us" to it. I do believe it's from that package.

Orlando in the 90s could have been called Vance-lando — both WFTV and WCPX were using E.Q. Vance packages. Speaking of which, a very eagle-eyed viewer of the 11pm video might have caught this... We're Going Where You're Going — a variant of this image campaign I have never seen!

Whoa, it's some KTSP from November 1, 1982! No open, but it shows the existing KOOL News set with the KTSP sunset 10 logo on monitors and a story with a "TV10 News" end tag. I've asked if he has any more KTSP of this era — this is one of the next big question marks in Phoenix TV. Roger Downey has this KPHO news update from 1985: WBZ Eyewitness News from 1991: ——— As to the KTSP material, it comes from a period of turmoil that is not well documented in existing video. In late 1982, KOOL-TV was sold and became KTSP. It also went through several changes in branding as the new owners, Gulf, sought to overhaul the station's presentation. Ultimately, it was not until January 3, 1983 that NewsCenter 10 was adopted. "However, on Monday, KTSP-TV will unveil a new news set as well as a new name for its news programs Newscenter 10. The station has been utilizing the name TV 10 News, a stopgap title forced by the dropping of the KOOL News 10 designation when the KOOL-TV call letters fell by the wayside. The Newscenter name is one of a handful, along with Action News and Eyewitness News, that are commonly used by stations around the nation. [bill] Miller said it was chosen because it contained elements of the long-used KOOL News 10 name, "news" and "10." The new set, tan and brown with two pop-up monitors, was designed by a company in San Diego and replaces the two separate sets (newsroom and studio) that the station has used. This set adjoins the newsroom. A consultant from Los Angeles helped in lighting. Total cost of the project is $50,000-plus, a pittance compared to the $1 million the station has spent so far in technical improvements." (AZ Republic 12/31/82)

For whatever reason, the article on Robert Van Winkle's retirement has been pulled, though it still shows up in Google News. Apparently his mother, who lives in Arizona, was diagnosed with a brain tumor in May, though he had planned to retire before that diagnosis. Allyson Rae returns to Waterman after a stint in DC to replace him. She will become the chief met in November, and Van Winkle will leave in March, depending on what goes on with his mom. Van Winkle has been with Waterman for 31 years, 17 in Charlottesville at WVIR and the last 14 at WBBH.

It's The News! Show...with an exclamation point! Definitely sounds like another David Miller theme.

Sinclair could also conceivably buy the radio stations depending on their level of integration with the TV station — see KOMO. However, their M&A plate is more than full right now, at least under the current rules.

Cox would probably be the only buyer that would keep the radio stations, if they were to be sold as a unit.

Wow, that WXXA open is voiced by Larry Van Nuys! Also, that KPRC animation must have been made at the same time at this thing. They both have the same problem... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=tvGL7GbJ-6k;t=29

A WOKR promo from 1984...

KBJR did not have that jingle made for themselves (the news package is definitely a custom and you'll see why). There's an incomplete (old, one account probably deleted) YT comment thread in which it's sort of implied that the jingle might have been used in Nashville. WSMV did use "4 the Family" as a station slogan in the late 80s and early 90s, and they had a ton of image campaigns in this general period. (Seriously, the decade-plus of Hello usage masks a considerable amount of change at channel 4!) nashvilletv.org did have a copy of this, but the whole site has disappeared in recent months. On Internet Archive copies of the site, they list a 615 campaign from 1986 and a Florence Warner-sung Gari jingle from 1987. (The RealMedia files are no longer downloadable, unfortunately.) We do still have two of the later themes that used that campaign in some form. One is a resing of Turn To, again only used for image purposes: The other was The Diary, whose image song began airing in December 1992. This one did make it to the newscasts on January 4, 1993: (Also consult the WSMV-centric demo of Yours Truly from JAM — the line "We're 4 the Family, always here for you" is in that image song, too!)

I think this is the first image song I've heard from the People You Can Count On (The Coast) campaign! And this must be the image package that prompted the alternate signature of Great News/KBJR... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=7cYX2LRCZuo;t=264

Remember when KPNX was actually good?

To make up for that wall of text... ...we'll go from KSTWashington: ...to Washington's most experienced news team...News 7!

It had existed since the fall of 1981, in fact — and kept the name for 15 years! With its launch on September 7, 1996, Fox Sports Arizona and ASPN (or Cox Sports — Dimension had been sold at this point) began sharing a channel on the Cox cable system. Cox Sports held the rights to the Suns, but Fox Sports had Pac-10 football (including its opening night telecast of an ASU football game and quite a few games in the Sun Devils' Rose Bowl season, though it was not until 1998 that the university moved its own games from KTVK) and the newly relocated Coyotes. If you want to be more confused, ASPN apparently picked up Prime Sports programming. (Prime Sports' LA feed was even available for a time in Tucson!) It wasn't until June that Prime wanted to set up its own Arizona channel: "Prime move? Prime Sports, the subsidiary of Fox-Liberty Sports, is negotiating with Cox about leaving ASPN for a separate channel of its own. It would house the Diamondbacks (in two years), along with with Coyotes and its Pac-10 football and basketball packages. If a separate channel is landed, Cox may pay as much as a 50-cent-per-subscriber increase to Prime, which, in turn, undoubtedly will be passed on to subscribers in the monthly basic cable cost. Johnson says negotiations are ongoing, but said a decision hasn't been reached and ASPN remains a viable outlet." In between that (which turned out to be what happened) and September 1, the Prime Sports brand was dropped for Fox Sports. While it was announced that the rest of the RSNs would not change until October, the new Arizona network was exclusively referred to Fox Sports Arizona in the paper, though apparently it did use Prime Sports Arizona for two months. The Suns remained with Cox for some time after. For the 1998-99 NBA season, Cox Sports was replaced with the more general-themed Cox 9 (later Cox 7, then YurView Arizona — the rebrand also allowed Cox to give KAZT channel 7 on cable). Fox Sports picked up the Suns at some point after in the early 2000s. YurView continues to dabble in sports besides high school, particularly with GCU, though it has also telecast Arizona Rattlers and other smaller sports events in the past.