Samantha

Wow, that KCOP stuff is raaaaaaare. (They indeed changed their news brand and look later that year.) It also is loaded with strange presentation elements.

We learned today that KPLR will be the host in St. Louis. KMOV, KTVI, KSDK and KDNL are also on board. Planned distribution of KPLR's subs: 11.1 -> KTVI 11.2 Court TV -> KDNL 11.3 Comet -> KSDK 11.4 Grit -> KMOV WSTR will be the host in Cincinnati. All of the major network stations will be included. Planned distribution of WSTR's subs: 64.1 -> WLWT Antenna and Comet -> WKRC TBD -> WXIX Dabl -> WCPO WMYV will host in the Piedmont Triad, where WXII is confirmed on board.

Did not know that, probably simply because we didn't have a lot of KSL from that era (and I believe we are still missing an open generation from 1992–93).

I still agree that it is Lubbock — no references to "Newsbeat" in the El Paso papers of the period.

Paging @Knoxville TV Fan...

KCWX is actually slotted in the SA DMA, though when the DTS is completed it will have transmitters in both cities.

WRIW has filed to shack up with WSBE.

There's probably a retrans and contractual benefit to having the two licenses. Especially retrans.

I saw this. My personal guess is that Telemundo was taking up space that Scripps wanted for itself and, as a CSA, it had to be terminated. There were several other Telemundo subchannels on Ion transmitters: Atlanta (// the LPTV affiliate there), Portland, Sacramento, Seattle. One of the Ion transmitters (WPXG Concord NH) has Daystar as a channel share (WYDN). Another has a UHF simulcast of the Scripps VHF station in the market (Tulsa). The other oddities are Columbus, a full-service license on an LPTV stick and there are only two subs Ion controls (shared with Daystar) and WKOI in the Dayton market, which is just one subchannel on a three-license mux.

WIS is not on the Peters client list.

KFNB had news briefly in the late 1980s (1986–87).

You should look for the late 90s blooper reel. Benedek improved the quality of that station quite a bit after purchasing the station (including a studio relocation) but could not get stable management and shuttered it as the company ran financially aground.

It's the Peters special. I can't describe it any other way.

KVVU wants less V and more U: it wants channel 24 instead of 9.

Very cool to see more of Arizona's News People Mk I — which included the 1986 theme. They weren't Arizona's Family until 1990 — the opens didn't change until independence, though, and in the case of the 10pm not until February 1996.

Gotta love how KUTV turns up everything but an open from this era... The theme package is killer from all I've heard of it (and we've been piling up non-news open uses of it). Also nice to see more of the Livin' in Utah short promos...noticed they changed the end animation between February and August to the one that matches the signoff supercut...but you have a different version! The partial one you uploaded has a different Utah Jazz section (there was a coaching change midseason for the Jazz and the full version has footage from a 2-1-89 game with the Atlanta Hawks), and it also attributes the beginning quote to "Al Seethaler, Vice President and General Manager". Seethaler left that year, or maybe in 1989?, for KMGH. Seethaler hired Mike Youngren for KMGH, too... Keep this in mind (and the fact that we have a 1983 mention of the Mike Post KUTV theme) while reading the Tulsa TV Memories material:

It is very clearly from a production library. Maybe Killer Tracks? Compare to the PRISM Sports logo on EDIT: KT31-15 "Zap Ya" https://www.universalproductionmusic.com/en-us/discover/albums/589/sweepers-and-stingers-volume-1 They've added some of the stings from Dawn (track 37) for WBNS...not sure if that was a separate edit.

An STA in San Jose might have changed the game a bit. Venture owns a bunch of 6s. They've been approved for now to run ATSC 3.0 in 5.5 MHz of the channel and then use the upper part for an audio carrier.

Oh my. Seems like nobody was expecting this. Can only think of his family and colleagues right now.

Both of those are confirmed Peters. That "Marketing Deli" account has it in a playlist that says J Hal Hodgson, Creative Partner at The Marketing Deli, has produced over a thousand musical themes (jingles) for use with radio and TV, winning dozens of awards in national and regional advertising creative competitions. But what are these... (The first one is KPDX Portland's launch campaign, and it sounds like KTXL might have used a piece of it — they were sisters, the station ID in their 1986 open seems to come from it... which raises a question or ten about KDVR using this too) There's a WSVN campaign of some sort: If you look at the folder, there's a "KPPL-TV" which is actually KPPL radio (107.5/Denver). Hodgson's bio says "Hodgson & Associations, San Diego, since 1973; president, Aloha Prodns., San Diego, since 1980." WCKT is in the Peters client list. KPDX? Nope.

KHLM-LD Houston's going to the Christian Television Network for $1.1 million.

In a rare case we do know this. This was an EGAD project! The music — which has somehow never gotten to the NMSA — was done by Kurt Bestor and Sam Cardon (Pinnacle Music), two veterans of Non-Stop; they also wrote the KSL 1998 package.

The actual stuff KSAT used is a composite of several Sonoton cuts.

He left in 1987, so it would have been work he probably did with Melanie Goux etc. while he was still there. Since I haven't contributed yet, I'll also mention Electronic Graphics and Design (EGAD) of Dallas which did a lot of typical 90s looks:

KNXT, KNXT-LP