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Draper Communications (WBOC) has bought a Delmarva-area LPTV for $125,000. WSJZ-LD transmits on channel 33. I'd expect it to provide channel capacity relief for the main station, particularly with the Telemundo launch. Also, their Fox sub is not in HD OTA.

A WCNC close from 1990:

A KIRO news tease from September 8, 1993, two weeks into the post-box era of KIRO:

The graphics in that WVIR open set, especially the beginning and end animations and the lower third, have a very strong NBC News early '90s feel... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvE-9X1SdE

Ever wanted to watch the implosion of the Kingdome...in 60fps glory? Now you can, thanks to this copy of a KING special (helpfully cued up right to the good part):

Yes please! As I've seen more mid-90s Phoenix TV material, I'm starting to understand just why News 15 was a jarring event and why its promotion was so on point. Phoenix — I mean, Arizona — TV newscasts of the period were really samey, and the way they were promoted was very sugary. Even KSAZ, which had a bit of an edge to its image and tried to cultivate that through the early Fox years, was and still is at its core a very traditional sort of TV newscast. KTVK had presentation that hadn't changed significantly since, like, 1987; KPHO had finally managed to truly come out of the 80s just months before, and even then changes in the anchor lineup and presentation barely masked the outdated feeling of their main newscast. KPNX was also in this mold. KNXV was scrappy, really fast-paced, and sugar-free. Their story density was amazing; they aired 43 stories in their first 33-minute newscast (August 1, 1994). While the station toned down some of what it might have done under Fox, it found that a fresh approach to news, with quite a bit of attitude, was going to be successful. News 15 impressed a lot of people — it was the second-place finisher in the 1995 local Emmy race, covering 1994, despite only having five months on the air. Between 1994 and 96, KNXV was something else. Then it went tabloid, started to pursue ratings, and it quickly fell into a hole. Outside of a time in the mid-2000s and arguably recent years, KNXV has been often describable as "barren". However, they're pretty good if a little over-the-top, and they have the best Twitter presence in town.

KOMO News 4 teaser from 1993:

FINALLY! I've only seen that logo once before — a one-second billboard shot in KCNC's The Big Switch special. (No, seriously!) It was ditched when KNXV became the full ABC affiliate just months later. Apparently the GMA promo is not alluding to KTVK airing GMA out of pattern. For whatever reason, KNXV began airing the show on an hour delay when it was picked up in late August and was only able to clear it in pattern by the time this aired.

What's on tonight's KTLA News at Ten in 1988?

Half of another edition of the Arizona 5-Minute News, from 1996 with the new set, logo and graphics in evidence:

23 minutes of WGN News in 1994:

Two WNJU news briefs from September 1995. The bed in the second one is Global Plan by DeWolfe IIRC (it was used by Canal 13/Chile as well):

A chunk of WJLA's morning news from September 1995, cued up to the close (in the final days of the 1992 music package)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=RPhsAGNW_lI;t=1552

I feel like SoCal, so here's some SoCal... A full KABC newscast from November 1992: And a short KFMB segment on, of all things, yellow jackets with the late Loren Nancarrow in 1994:

It's almost too syrupy for Beau Weaver, but I think that's him. Also, Carns and Powers on a Sunday night (that's May 1, 1994 BTW)? Very curious indeed. Did KPHO run their main anchor pairing Sun-Thu? ——— I figured it's worth noting just how much Arizona material we've gotten just in the last month. It's like a laundry list. For KTVK, we got some material from as far back as 1981 and additional newscasts. We cleaned house at KPHO and identified no less than three unknown generations of opens and two new NMSA entries. (The "News 5 Theme" from 1981-86 is really, really good!) The Visionary was a total surprise, and Fresh News was long awaited (and finally put in its proper time slot). We even got to see the Arizona 5-Minute News for the first time. It really struck me how, through 1994, KPHO was constantly a couple years behind the curve. No wonder they were having trouble in the early '90s — had KNXV Fox 15 News been able to go ahead as originally conceived, KPHO's news would have been blown out of the water almost immediately. The KTSP/KSAZ material wasn't all new, but we finally got some vision on The Vision era — though I am going to be fiending for that image campaign. (Another excellent theme — and something I'd been waiting years to see.) And anything relating to the affiliation switch is gold to me. For KPNX, the 1992 theme open finally showing up was a surprise, but the Real News search is on. Additional material from some eras of KPNX that don't show up often was a nice treat. As for KNXV, the vintage promos and stuff are nice, but the only meat and potatoes KNXV I want to see is from 1994. Someone has to have recorded that first newscast — 43 stories in 33 minutes!

So here's another KSAZ halftime promo pack, featuring the mysterious Aerial as well as the current KSAZ primary theme (during the Monday news teaser): This one does have the matching *open* as a sample:

Well, here's stuff from one rare market I've never seen before. The oldest known WEYI footage! An hour-long WJRT "Video Scrapbook" on their 30th anniversary in 1988 (the news stuff is toward the back) WJRT used Hello in the mid-80s...and then a local radio station in Flint created a parody of the Hello image song! Some kid for a public access show did a whole behind the scenes of WNEM circa 1990... (Note: 43 minutes!)

That was what they did in '86 with "News 2Nite". Go to 5:10: [MEDIA=internetarchive]height=480;id=tobacco_ltw27a00;width=640[/MEDIA] ——— Also worth posting: this look at KPHO's set in 1999:

Holy moly there's a lot to digest here. That KPHO open is a surprise. My date guess is 1991 to 1993?. The KPHO 9:30 news expanded to an hour in 1991, and I'd have to imagine the presentation refresh accompanied it. When it was replaced with Signature, channel 5 also got a new logo, the circle 5 that lasted just two years — at the latest, in April 1993. There are a lot of missing newspapers for the Republic in August-December 1992 on newspapers.com which hinders this search considerably. During the Signature era they really remained dead last. In the February 1993 sweeps, News 5 at 9 managed to place behind the Big 3 networks *and* Star Trek on KNXV! That's actually a *second* version of the Can-Can promo! Totally different people in the second half. The other one ended with kids. And that's a *third* (sequentially second) variant of the KTSP Pinnacle (Round the Clock News) open set. The first said "Channel 10" at the beginning. The third actually had the sunset 10 logo in that beginning piece. That KNAZ open is just...bad. Also @Ntropolis that close is Bellavia which KPHO had used as its close music for more than a decade at this point.

Entravision and Univision own many competing radio clusters. Between the two they account for most of the popular Spanish-language radio stations in Phoenix.

Entravision announced on Thursday that it and Univision had extended their existing business arrangements through 2026. Univision not only has affiliation agreements with Entravision, but it lets ECC run some of its stations under several JSAs, and Univision negotiates many of Entravision's retrans agreements on its behalf (where only Entravision owns stations). It is worth noting that the extension from 2021 to 2026 does not cover Entravision's deals to run the Orlando, Tampa, and Washington DC Univision clusters. UCI may be preparing to take control of those markets itself. It will be business as usual through 2026 in Albuquerque, Boston and Denver.

Also, the sales staff may nominally be employed by the sidecar owner. In the NPG Yuma-El Centro cluster, Blackhawk Broadcasting (Brian Brady) handles sales for KYMA and KSWT. The sales staff are not NPG employees. NPG handles everything else for those stations, however.

A pair of KTVK news promos from 1996:

They were also the ad agency that coordinated The Best News of All in 1985. It won an Effie!

So a few items relating to existing themes. KHON probably used MCTYW in the mid-70s. An NBC-KHON newspaper ad from September 21, 1975 shows KHON's slogan as "Closer to your world" and exhorts viewers to "Move closer to your world" by watching the 10:00 edition of Eyewitness News. WLUK used News People. Not much else to say, but "News People, in touch with people, TV-11 News" can't be anything else. (c. 1979) The newspaper described WBAY and WFRV's openers this way: "Channel 2, which perpetrates the pseudo-religious "2 Power," opens Action (!) News with a symphony and fanfare for Chuck Ramsay. A nice musical version of a teletype underlies the main melody. Judging by its opener, "5 Country" is located somewhere in the balmy Pacific. Nowhere in Wisconsin." WSMV was using Hello as early as early 1982, when it was reported that the station was getting constant calls for records and lyric sheets for "Hello Nashville". There is apparently a "Hello Macon" version, probably for WMAZ. WCCO-TV went to Tuesday to commission image songs in 1979. They got six of them, trying to make itself heard amidst the affiliation switch clutter of the other stations. "The songs play on local pride, Minnesota's climate, WCCO's Image and, In the sixth song, the fact that Channel 4 will remain stable while the other stations change. Channel 4's musical message started on radio stations two weeks ago, and on television last week. One recurring theme is to refer to WCCO as "Four Friends." The other slogan developed by the Carmichael-Lynch advertising agency Is, "You Know Where to Find Us."" Another article, from when KSTP was commissioning part of The News Image, suggests the music for WCCO's version of PM Magazine was also Tuesday.