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Apparently it began as a receivership proceeding in state court two years ago and now Radio Perry is a debtor in possession. Chapter 11 was filed on November 15, 2016. Some databases show some of Radio Perry's creditors. ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, lawyers Fletcher, Heald and Hildreth, the state of Georgia plus three different counties for taxes, the city of Perry and something called Green Bull, which apparently was the receiver. That article says Register owed $7.5 million in loans, property taxes and payroll taxes. At that time, Register failed to find buyers. Earlier this year, a motion to convert the bankruptcy to Chapter 7 was denied.

Been to Joplin lately? Let's fix that. KOAM News at 6 from 1987, using Tuesday's News 88: Also highly unusual material: an EARTHQUAKE CRAWL from KNBC over commercials and promos! (There's even a Spanish translation, though I spy a spelling error.) Also at 1:56 is a commercial voiced by Ed Hopkins. Ends in a news open...with a repeat. There's also an Entertainment Tonight segment on the death of Anthony Perkins on the same channel with this crawl, so this is from sometime in the third week of September 1992. No open or continuity, but TIL KOFY had local news in the late 80s and early 90s:

It's not the old stuff which I enjoy, and it's rather market restricted, but WHP Newsight 21 is enough of a rarity to make me interested.

What a day, NewsActive3 with new vintage video (courtesy of one stevieboy, so it's all PA/MD): Included are tastes of a WMAR graphics set I've never seen, a WHP Newsight 21 (!), etc. Also... WTVJ. 1981. Full newscast with commercials.

That is the wrong sort of 9-pack — it hides half the graphic space you throw at it. Get Devlin to build one like KSAZ has or something. Please.

And 16 minutes of the WLVI News at Ten from 1992!

!!!!! (Especially the first video! KPNX from this era is *extremely rare* and it's been 7 years since this theme has been on YT!) Some Cedar Rapids/Waterloo market material from 1997: And...a snippet of WEHT in 1980!

The 31LAX era had a news package that didn't debut until the mid-late 90s *and* Hearst-inspired graphics. Yeah, that's probably accurate.

At least translated, this has some comparisons (KOLR in the early 90s). Yeah, WSCV's "news, news and more news" was pretty bad.

That open is ALL over the place. "Where the Experts Set the Pace!"

Yeah, that's an improvement for WABI. The lighting on the WCJB 20 is kinda ehh.

Presented without editorializing...though he donated to a guy who beat a reporter. "Sinclair VP donated to Gianforte after 'body-slam' incident"

Did the idea of super-serving the WHAG area just not work out?

News for the 90s or the 80s? WDHN sure made you wonder... Also... I normally avoid this channel but the original material is on Facebook...and it's Pete Rose, WKRC sports reporter!?

Turns out the channel with the Vicki Van Meter KNSD video has a couple more. No full opens, but the rarity of these clips makes them prime viewing. KPHO, showing their early 1990s (to March 1994) look. Reporter Sergio Pedroza had previously worked for KTVW: KWTV: KRQE: Clips from OKC and especially ABQ are extremely rare (this is the first clip of KRQE between KGGM in the late 80s and Balls and Walls in the mid-late 90s), so this is awesome to see. If only we had some of the other rarities: KUTV, KTVX, KFOR in the early 90s...

Well then. It looks like these graphics were orphaned a long time ago.

Is there such a thing as Fox Sports Japan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn-xZR2ncS4

KPVI! It's not much, but not much is better than nothing especially for this station.

This station sale in El Paso won't make sense if you don't know the players. BGM License, LLC is selling K26KJ-D (an LPTV using VC 25) to Martín Lorenzo Smith in a minority shareholder option for a grand total of $750. It might seem like a mundane sale for a low purchase price, but it gets far more useful. BGM License is majority owned by members of the Cabada family with American citizenship. Members of the Cabada family with Mexican citizenship are in the broadcasting business in Mexicali and Ciudad Juárez (XHILA Canal 66 and XHIJ Canal 44). These Cabada companies hold the FCC licenses for two stations in Calexico and Yuma that rebroadcast XHILA, and for K26KJ, which in a past life relayed XHIJ. Smith, or Larry Smith as he is known, is the Director of International Public Relations and Sales for Grupo Multimedios. Multimedios has been programming this station for several years now (ever since it signed on in digital) and uses it as its station to broadcast to El Paso, Las Cruces and Juárez. The shareholders agreement in the application says that the shareholder is Texas Multi Tele Ventas, Inc. A search of the name brings up addresses in Houston and McAllen. The Houston address is occupied by KHLM, the Multimedios station in Houston. This is El Paso's only LPTV (due to the obvious constraints that come with having to fit two sets of national TV networks into effectively one city of spectrum).

A taste of KNSD in 1994 and 1996: "What's that translator callsign again? I can't be bothered to find it...the ID will just say K63."

WSMV in 1994 (The Diary era):

Yeah, that's typical. I guess the geoblocking is for the stream of the station's programming, which makes sense as that's a whole other can of worms.

I have to ask. What is the point of geoblocking an entire local newscast? Is it because it's tied to a stream of the station's entire programming (in which case it makes sense)? Is there some segment (sports, for instance) to which they only hold the rights in Boston?

WFLD Fox News Chicago from 1991. Haven't seen this one before! And continuing with the "it ain't much" theme, about a minute of western Montana's WMNews from 1989: