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Not much normal material, but it's nice to see some KAET from 1990. A very end-80s/early-90s look:

That is definitely the noon cut from WNDU 1986 — I mean, really should be WKRC 1985 — I mean, I think it was called News Beat but we can't confirm that. The 1985 close cut sounds like the instrumental to a sung image campaign of some sort. The slogan at the time was "Delmarva Spirit". Here's another close from 1982: And a joke news open with Meco's Theme: And remember when Major League Baseball almost contracted? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHS_U1gOoo0

Blink and you'll miss the Proud N/peacock...still in use on KXAS's pre-roll in 1988!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=JkwzWLUa0_4;m=1;s=40 The next theme was in use by July 1987. There's a comment on one of Jim Heath's KPHO videos: "Some of the various opening themes used during this era were: *1981-82 (approx.)—funky bass open, main melody played by electric-guitar vibrato chords *1982-83—trumpet-based theme, with string bridge [quite clearly this theme] *approx. 1986-92—just a short musical stinger for the open: a bass and electric piano riff, ending with a synth crescendo [NMSA "KPHO 1988]" This would have been bookended by Part of Your Life in the late 70s/early 80s (used by all the Meredith stations) and Signature, which probably debuted in 1992. ——— And a dash of Tampa news promos:

NEWS 5! From 1986, but the PATCO striking workers in the open indicate 4-5 years of additional use beforehand! (it cannot be older than 1981) As to the theme? Late last year I did find this 1984 item from The Arizona Republic...

What's coming up on 12 News Tonight in November 1990?

That's the first thing I thought of. "This almost sounds like something 3 would do!" And this is the first time I've heard the "full" Pinnacle newsbreak cut. It's good. Really reinforces the idea suggested by the original name: Round the Clock News. The KPNX newsbreak is also interesting: it features The Coast theme (used with the apparently second generation of TVbD graphics) with the next generation's graphics package. And then there are these sung ID tags for KNXV...

The problem is that acquisitions in broadcasting require different approvals and license transfers. There also is an outside date that will need to be considered. With Allbritton, SBG wanted to get the deal done before that date and made several concessions.

Having this entire acquisition, especially if this takes a while, hanging over so many stations is bad for morale. KTVK/KASW suffered from that during the prolonged Belo/Gannett/Sander/Meredith acquisition process.

To Des Moines we go: Fun fact: The VO in this open series is David Oman, who was at the time also the co-chair of the Iowa Republican Party (and is still important in Iowa Republican politics). The next KCCI open series survived until 2000, but in a cut-down form:

The KTVK video is pretty good. The days when local TV actually aired major college football games... That sponsor bumper is pretty familiar-sounding, too...

Wow, I've never seen that before and it's been on YT for years. The music comes from this (probably Copeland) package, "WAVE 3, Part of Your Life":

In the Providence Journal today... "WJAR forced to run pro-Trump programs"

Never knew they updated the opens to replace Channel 10 with Today's 10. EDIT: Have you had enough KTSP yet? Look at this set for high school sports coverage, back when that was a thing at channel 10! Also that's my high school!!

KPNX WITH REAL NEWS! (Listen at 0:27!) And what appears to be an undiscovered TVbD package! This can't have lasted long because it falls between this: and the more familiar early 90s TVbD package...

More like a gazillion of them. Keep watching. You'll see that when the lady is at the graphics computer, you can see some small previews of documents that are a bunch of less transitional KSAZ logo concepts... The F(10)X logo is definitely more in line with what other stations (KSAZ, WAGA) did after 1996, but what ended up happening was much more "complete" — the Impact News I era.

Have you seen the 1996 station tour video? It may be one of the greatest TV news videos ever uploaded to YouTube. It also includes something super special beginning at 17:55...

There's a good reason there's no Fox branding in that promo — this was during their three-month gap between network affiliations. EDIT: He had the date wrong. It's from March of 1995. So that concern is there. Later in '95 they dropped the "Channel" and became simply 10 News, but with the same graphics.

Would be nice to see some KNXV from this era, too... Then again, given what's been uncovered, who knows.

A hunk of WYOU from 1994: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=0pKl-mEHfbQ;t=99 From the Phoenix Faucet, some KTVK news teases and syndie show promos from 1988. I believe the end tags on the Oprah and Donahue promos are voiced by Tony Evans: ...And it's time for Arizona 5 News at 6:

I was on TVNT at the time, lurking. Probably one of the last package sets ever associated with a particular designer by name. Looking back, the lower thirds especially were...cheap.

Some KPNX teases from October 1994:

Since we're already on a KSAZ kick...here's some Fox 10 News from 2005. This was the package that debuted Fusion News and only lasted a year or a year and a half until the O&O look was created. Features John Hook and Kari Lake, along with Yetta Gibson (now of KTVK/KPHO) and Marc Martinez (now the weeknight 10pm anchor).

He's been having audio encoding issues and has had to reupload a few videos. There was a commercial missing its sound entirely. Seconded on the KPNX part. I really, really want that "Your Choice for Real Life, Real News in the 90s" open.

That's rare. In case you don't realize what station that is, it's the NBC Montana station system headed by KECI. (Jill Valley went to KPAX by the early '90s and remained there.) I wonder if this is the real Tuesday9 or the Telesound NBC affiliate package? My guess, based on the market size, is the latter... (Especially given the dates we're talking!) The promos are also good. That NBC-ABC primetime lineup (complete with 11pm late news!) is one heck of a relic. That's gotta be from May 1989, because of the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retirement special (from NBC).