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My guess is that is production music or something.

Could they have waited a bit to drop this given, you know, KTRK? That can't be good for morale at the station.

This merits its own post. Snippets of the CNN Airport Network from 1997, including coverage of the death of Princess Diana. In Part 2, Airport Network's own news loop coverage is chopped off for a time to join CNN. Lots of cuts in the video. The uploader is also your anchor, Brad Johnson.

That's VTS.

WPTA in March 2000: And WTVJ's 5:30pm show in 1991 (this particular open has never been on YT before and it's one of the best samples of this theme):

KXAN in December 1990: A WCAX snippet from 1992:

This might be one of the best station promos of the 80s...though you'll see why its lifespan might have been shortened... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=sz05iZKhn-8;t=598 Need more KIMA?

Some of this has been seen before and some of it has not: And two full KIDK packages:

A WGN newsbreak from 1982:

Is it this guy? There might be a Latin artist involved if that explains stuff...

It's for BG cues, so I doubt it's a full news theme... :/

The "People You Can Count On" image song! The guy also had a stop in Lynchburg:

It's a potpourri with some New Orleans material, random other stuff, and tens of minutes of blue screen:

Wouldn't surprise me if they came from the same animator.

Anyone recognize this image song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Ds2JQJjZJRQ;t=52

Not often you see a Canadian open you've never seen before, but here are two from Edmonton:

A KSWT promo from 2003-05. Note the Television by Design package similar to what then-sister KDBC had:

Things are very poorly labeled. This is actually Jon Fox's broadcast demo from 1990 which includes the WTVJ and WNBC redesign reels, plus KHOU, KOVR, KIRO and a KPNX "Town Hall" open: WPTV on Christmas Day 1989: That KOTV 1991 newscast in full: Edit: A WRBL *reel* with an unidentified news theme! This one is bizarre. Apparently WRBL presented their news in the early 90s in front of a green screen. Also, Rece Davis! The elements in this reel appear to come from a newscast around May 3, 1992.

CM Sloan, one of the first major uploaders of news opens, has new content for the first time in more than six years, with this WPEC open being the best new piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxJqtzkNWRk

I'm in a WBMG mood tonight... Whether that be a big hunk of 42 News Plus from 1978... Or the 1989 Christmas tape... (All 45 minutes of it!) Or a 1994 newsbreak!

That's gotta be it!

Might be time for an NMSA date tweak. This ran in the Tennessean on December 9, 1973:

This isn't quite the same thing, but... I've been trying to find proof that KOLD used the TM Spirit campaign in the mid-late 80s. Tracy Carman's jingle reference list has them using it, but I wanted something more. I think I've got it. They didn't use this slogan long, it seems. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/164320589/

Now that's good stuff. Really really good stuff. The first 6 minutes is packed full of stuff I've never seen. Old stuff, KGSW Albuquerque (!!!!!), KNBN's callsign change to KRLD-TV (!!!!!) and their mid-80s news open with Newschannel, etc. Most of the back half is station IDs and promos, as well as a set of test patterns dating at least to the late 70s.

A KMSP interview in late 1995 or January 1996: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODQdBxtzNRo