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More OKC potpourri. KWTV and KTVY included. From 1984.

Unfortunately, this might be the rarest large market tape-wise. Salt Lake Tribune, August 28, 1989:

There's also an image campaign to this. It's one of the larger packages we have little of. The Oklahoman's TV columnist was not totally fine with it, though, saying "It was pretty, but unfortunately longer than most hymns on Easter morning."

There's a lot to process here... -Note the lingering Fresh News graphics (weather and sports) mixed with CBS News L3s. I wonder if Fresh News was used on the other newscasts, almost all of which KPHO had to add upon affiliation. (Prior to the switch it had only 90 minutes of news a day, an hour-long 9pm and its 11:30) -That is a zippy and serviceable newscast. It's actually enjoyable. No wonder it stuck around. -That KFOR sample is mighty interesting. You can clearly hear the liner for the matching image campaign in that signature: "We are the strength of Oklahoma...4 Strong!" I am uploading something here that I believe is part of this theme (and sending it to the NMSA after 2 years). It is the audio of a 30-second sports promo that KFOR put up when Bob Barry, Jr. was killed in 2015. It has the same signature at the end. It must be from 1990 or 1991 when KFOR was still branding as News Team 4. Why is that important? 'Cuz KFOR changed out the Team for Channel in 1992. Listen to these promos, too! Seeing that also led to finding this KTEN item on the channel:

The two audio tracks on that KDFW lottery drawing are...wow. Also, those man-on-the-street interviews are absolutely painful!

A full one-hour morning newscast from KMEX in 1999 — in fact, the first edition of the first Spanish-language local morning newscast in the country!

More Des Moines with this 1993 KCCI noon show:

It was a combination of suddenly having to expand (they literally said of a full 10pm, which would have featured the 9pm duo of Karen Carns and Fred Powers, “We’re not staffed to do it” — though GM Pat North promised "We will do it as soon as we possibly can, probably midseason") and then finding that their stopgap late news was a ratings contender. It wasn't until the 1998 "CBS 5" relaunch that they had a full-length 10pm. That theme sounds like Kalehoff. I am anxiously awaiting seeing this — it's one of the last big gaps we now have for KPHO!

Time for more of Today's 10, a March 1993 weekend edition with Rick D'Amico. The Storm of the Century leads the news:

Roger Thompson is the voice of this KNXV station ID:

This is actually a condensed WSFA Ten O'Clock Report from 1985. And a full KOCO show from the same year: There's also this *third* KSAZ post-CBS promo matching the other two we'd already had: The KPHO materials, BTW, back up the 1981-86 assertion I outlined earlier. That theme/graphics package was new in '81.

From 1985, it's WAVE TV News Tonight: And WCCO's 10pm Report from 28 years ago today:

Ouch, that KJCT open is just...yuck. Fonts, colors, the whole mess.

WGBC and WMDN are expanding their most recent effort to their CBS and NBC streams with new 6pm and 10pm shows, "Twin States News". A 9pm is already airing on Fox.

A whole reel of KOAT footage from this photographer who spent five months there in 1998. Starts out with a shot of his John Christopher Burns-designed business card (and other graphics that still jump off the screen 20 years later!). How had I not seen this before?

The FCC complaint didn't work for KTVK, though it arguably saved WWSB.

A KNXV Fox 15 promo from Saturday, May 21, 1994. On Monday morning, they'd learn...they wouldn't be the Fox affiliate much longer. What's next on NewsChannel 3?

Coal train comin' through...two new WCHS opens! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=yBIhhWT_5CQ;t=2023

And to complete the set... Yes, that's Kari Lake anchoring!

Three news stories from the same night: September 22, 1996, when ASU upset Nebraska en route to the Rose Bowl. All show some interesting graphics: Note that Geoff Morrell is wearing a polo with a new KSAZ logo. We're just weeks away from the Fox 10 relaunch... And we also got 7 minutes of Jude La Cava's sports show from that night, too. Note the transitional "Fox 10" logo... And a little chunk of KPHO too...

[QUOTE="Info Junkie, post: 190336, member: 3593"]So recently we found KPNX's 1992-93 "Your choice for Real Life, Real News in the 90s" open, which resembled that of WCCO's open from that same time frame in some ways. I wonder if Wow & Flutter were also the composers of KPNX's 1992 theme besides their Everyday Music Package?[/QUOTE] That's a question I've had myself. @TServo2049 might have a clue. Wow and Flutter was founded by Jerry Brunskill, and he'd be the one that would need to be contacted. If it did turn out to be Wow and Flutter, it would mean two straight KPNX themes composed by Twin Cities composers.

That promo is amazing. Definitely has that David Miller feel to it.

YES! THERE WE GO! A very, very WCCO-inspired open (which is kind of what I expected). I've been waiting, what, 4 1/2 years for this? It obviously debuted sometime between February and April... That KSAZ open should say 1994, not 1993, by the way... Oh gosh, ctmikect had it. It was classic KTVK. It's also now seared into my head.

With ctmikect's channel going down, it's nice to have a KPNX open from this era again on YT. (Kirkpatrick's addition is a bit of a patch job though...) What I really want to see is the 1992 10pm open that the NMSA has. I've never seen video of it. It's not on YT, but this is a 1994 KNXV story. Yes, 1994. The only KNXV footage I've ever seen from between launching news and hooking up with ABC: http://www.abc15.com/news/crime/old-time-crime-parents-ditch-murdered-children-in-phoenix-sewer-in-1994

Not quite what I'm looking for...yet. But good to see.