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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

Sometimes you strike gold. That's an article from 1996 on David Miller (aka David Miller Music), a KTVK employee who apparently wrote the themes the station debuted in 1995: "Miller's Channel 3 playlist includes theme songs for Good Morning Arizona (sung by local country entertainer Ray Herndon), Good Evening Arizona (sung by Molly Molten, a former Channel 3 correspondent) and the new Tonight Arizona (sung by Los Angeles-based studio pro Mark Campbell). Yet the composer calls Channel 3's longtime promotional theme, Arizona's Family, "by far the most important I've ever written. That song is about everybody I work with, and it really means something to me," said Miller, whose father, Bill, is Channel 3's general manager." He also did graphic design work for the stations. Apparently the KTVK circle 3 was known around the station as the "meatball". KASW is explicitly mentioned and I'm led to think the NewsNight theme (1995-97) is from him too. He's now a partner in MagicDust Television, the producer of RightThisMinute and worthy of the title "spiritual successor to KTVK's glory days".

One weekend weather personality here in Phoenix is leaving the profession after tonight: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1534702089929969

KSAT in 1989. Longest cut I've heard of their late 80s theme:

Idaho ahoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nezeGNdjK5I

KSAZ is a funky station in a lot of ways. For one, creatively it's long done its own thing. The Fox O&O theme has been used to open their newscasts for, by my count, as little as five months this decade. I mean, here's the open sequence for KSAZ since 2010: There's also News Now, which has become a most unusual beast in TV news. It has a national audience but is not coming from a Top 10 market; while it will cover local news when warranted, it quickly understood that Trump and police chases were among its biggest viewer getters. Putting a taste of News Now on TV is a smart move to raise its visibility. Such is the case that their fall upfront presentation boasted "the world is watching Fox 10 News Now". But come on, this logo is an abomination.

The MyNetworkTV brand and logo are pretty long in the tooth anyway. No wonder it's disappearing nationwide.

KPIX in the 90s? Yes please:

KVUE in 1988...

That WAGA open is a treat. Definitely the same shop that did the WBNS and KMID opens.

If KTUU 1990 was used in October 1989, it was a local composition. Anchorage Daily News, October 10, 1989: They did so many commercials in Anchorage that they had to start using other vocalists because, well, let Chris Kay explain: "I used to use Beth as the vocalist almost exclusively, until it got kind of ridiculous. You'd turn on the TV, and hear her singing five commercials in a row." WCAU 1972? This ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1985. Whatever it is, we don't have it: Could additional early-mid 80s WTVR themes be lurking? This from the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 1986 (and yes, this is JDK Music described): The date on this piece is December 2, 1993. Keep that in mind when you're looking at the NMSA and at this paragraph from the Boston Herald. Looks like the NMSA has a mistake! And what the heck is this from Philadelphia, July 11, 1979? Did this guy get involved with 10 Is (Klein &)? Is Jim Ball the same thing as Metro Music? Baltimore Sun, November 21, 1993: ...OK, I want to hear this. (Dallas Morning News May 29, 1989) So is this why Symphony is, well, Symphony? (Syracuse Herald-Leader November 16, 1990) Jacobs & Gerber was apparently tied into the KYW 1983 relaunch: (Philadelphia Inquirer, May 16, 1983) No composer IDs, but want to hear what this newspaper columnist thought of ? Did you know the KATC Michael Doucet theme has an orchestrated version that was put on an album??? (Birmingham News, 1997)

KAMC update in 1985. What's this theme? Graphics elsewhere included some materials also used by WFAA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Z5LJXRwPIxM;t=939

It appears that Michael Randall composed the unknown theme used by WRC in the mid-80s, at least according to the guy who posted a clean copy of that open (and was obviously involved in WRC promotions during the period). See the comments on It kinda makes sense. I get a real WNEV vibe out of the end even though that theme was not introduced until 1989. The WJW theme that was rolled out in 1985 is also a useful comparison.

It's the Weekend Report from NewsCenter 13...KLBK in Lubbock, from 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcO38Nkw8W8

A We're the Team promo set...for WRC, the original client! Another WRC promo, this time from 1980... "We Can't Wait to Show You!" (You can hear how this tagline was worked into the We're the Team promos.) And the highest-quality cut you'll get of WRC 1986: Did WMAQ ever use this?

His first VO appearance was KFVS, I believe. I've been searching for years. He hasn't done VO work in years and could no longer be with us.

A KPIX news break from their interesting (and pretty) 1990-92 package:

KSTF used to have news programs, later changed to inserts and eventually phased out. So this is not a "new" service historically speaking. Scottsbluff viewers get a KGWN satellite, a KNOP satellite, and a KOTA satellite, plus the Nebraska PBS state network. Fox is not available OTA but KLWY claims Scottsbluff. That is essentially its own market. Yeah, we need a redraw of the DMAs here.

I think it *still has* news. Their program guide lists "St. George News at 8" which appears to be a partnership with this website. Here's a taste: The music is a production track; I heard it on an open from Belize once.