Samantha

Some of it's been reposted from other YouTubers (and a lot of it somehow I'd never seen!), but I think it's important to point out that all these newscasts aired on just two channels! Colombian mixed system TV is both a delight and also a nightmare to figure out.

An STA in San Jose might have changed the game a bit. Venture owns a bunch of 6s. They've been approved for now to run ATSC 3.0 in 5.5 MHz of the channel and then use the upper part for an audio carrier.

Oh my. Seems like nobody was expecting this. Can only think of his family and colleagues right now.

Both of those are confirmed Peters. That "Marketing Deli" account has it in a playlist that says J Hal Hodgson, Creative Partner at The Marketing Deli, has produced over a thousand musical themes (jingles) for use with radio and TV, winning dozens of awards in national and regional advertising creative competitions. But what are these... (The first one is KPDX Portland's launch campaign, and it sounds like KTXL might have used a piece of it — they were sisters, the station ID in their 1986 open seems to come from it... which raises a question or ten about KDVR using this too) There's a WSVN campaign of some sort: If you look at the folder, there's a "KPPL-TV" which is actually KPPL radio (107.5/Denver). Hodgson's bio says "Hodgson & Associations, San Diego, since 1973; president, Aloha Prodns., San Diego, since 1980." WCKT is in the Peters client list. KPDX? Nope.

KHLM-LD Houston's going to the Christian Television Network for $1.1 million.

In a rare case we do know this. This was an EGAD project! The music — which has somehow never gotten to the NMSA — was done by Kurt Bestor and Sam Cardon (Pinnacle Music), two veterans of Non-Stop; they also wrote the KSL 1998 package.

The actual stuff KSAT used is a composite of several Sonoton cuts.

He left in 1987, so it would have been work he probably did with Melanie Goux etc. while he was still there. Since I haven't contributed yet, I'll also mention Electronic Graphics and Design (EGAD) of Dallas which did a lot of typical 90s looks:

KNXT, KNXT-LP

It's been silent nearly a year and challenged by its NCE status, but the Diocese of Fresno has finally found a taker for KNXT Visalia CA and its associated LPTV in Bakersfield. The buyer is two companies, Vita Broadcasting and My Central Valley, LLC. They have pretty much the same principals. Vita is paying $50,000 for the NCE license; the LPTV and all the other tangible assets, including tower land for the Visalia station, are going for $450,000.

Scripps is buying a pair of LPTVs in St. George, Utah, from Cherry Creek Radio. The LPTVs are fixer-uppers because they need to be converted to digital and Scripps won't even get the tower leases. KVBT-LP has a long and interesting history. It was established by Washington County as K79CA, translator for Las Vegas's KORK/KVBC, and moved to channel 41 in 1981. It was acquired by radio cluster owner MB Media in 1993 and continued on with local ad insertions. In 2001, a kerfuffle about the ability of KVBC to permit local ad insertions led the deal to be dropped and MB signed on to rebroadcast KVWB. It is very hard to ascertain the present program source of these facilities. CCR also owns four translators that appear to be KSTU relays. There is no filing to sell them, but that also must be part of this. They need digital conversion and channels for them were accommodated in Utah's transmitter repack plan.

Yes! KTXS had appeared on Facebook a couple years before. It's a wireframe of what looks to be some sort of final product, too.

I don't know quite how it showed up since it's now vanished, but I was able to get from one of the university databases reading access to Back Stage, a (still extant) industry publication that had a decent amount of press releases on news music material in the 1980s. There are truly some gems and a few composer IDs. Tuesday There's a lot about Tuesday Productions work. Now More than Ever was composed for KCCI and debuted January 12, 1981. (1-30-81) The News Image was composed for KRON. (4-24-81) News People was written for a Portland station but rejected. It was Robert Rimes of the McGraw-Hill group who gave them the golden ticket. (Rimes...would end up succeeding Bo Donovan as the head of the broadcast division of Tuesday when Bo left to found Silvertree.) There is a mention of a strings and percussion-based package by Phil Davis for KSL that would have been have composed c. 1979 (it could very well be KSL '81). By this time, The News Image had some 20 clients, including the Seven Network. (9-17-82) WPDS '84 is Tuesday and it is part of a custom station image package. Reaching Out to You was made for WHBQ and debuted in the last week of 1983. (2-10-84) Fred Weinberg Productions of Stamford, CT, produced a "TV-10, The Winners" theme package for WTEN. Presumably WTEN '85? (5-4-84) Hmm...... (6-19-81) March 23, 1984... Is this WRGB '86 which WLNE once used with the tagline "We're Looking Out for You"? There's a new day dawning, and it's not necessarily in Boston. WMAR '85 perhaps? We have no KATU from this period. (3-15-85) The only other thing I have from this is that Tuesday did an NBC 1988 affiliate package, the Business Channel (KWHY) was done by Telezign graphics and 505 Productions; and WCIX had something done for them by FourScore Productions in New York in 1990.

Further notes: the Arizona carrier on Cox is YurView Arizona "at this time". (It started as an RSN 40 years ago, so...) In LA, KCOP is carrying a few Angels games for overflow purposes. I could not find any other cases of "Extra" feeds.

I've split a bunch of material out of the Classic Video Thread to keep it for videos.

Sinclair is selling its de-CBS'd station in the Rio Grande Valley: KGBT is going to Mission Broadcasting in a $2 million transaction. Today was unusually busy: Weigel is buying six LPTV permits from HC2 for $145,333: K15IQ-D Portland, Oregon WZDS-LD Evansville, Indiana W30EM-D Orlando, Florida W32EQ-D Birmingham, Alabama K36LI-D Portland, Oregon K20OO-D Sacramento, California Little Rock's KTV Media is snagging two HC2 permits in Paragould, Arkansas (K36MT-D and K35LN-D) for $20,000.

Yes, but DuJuan McCoy has had some statewide ambitions for a bit now. WISH's news is airing on a subchannel of WRJK-LD Chicago to serve the Northwest Indiana area, and their newscasts are also airing on WHME in South Bend. This doesn't help with the "unserved Indiana audiences" problem, but he kinda needs Fort Wayne and Terre Haute if he's going to be bringing WISH-TV news to every market in the state. Lafayette, Louisville and Cincinnati are the last DMAs he needs a presence in (though WISH's signal reaches Lafayette). Louisville looks like a tough one to crack as it does not have many LPTVs.

After 7 years...finally, some WAKA with the WTOG '93 theme!

I have the same problem with this pack that I do with everything else: it feels behind the design curve. That's a feature of every single Gray pack.

I suspect that, in the coming days, a lot of the subchannels that are duplicated between Scripps-owned stations in the local division and the Scripps national muxes will move over for good. You have to think they are working to have a standard mux of channels but that the existing carriage agreements with other multiplex holders (such as Univision) are impeding them. Keep in mind that in 2017, Univision signed a renewal with Katz until 2024. So it could be quite a while.

That would be Ed Hopkins, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2019.

KBCB Bellingham, WA, is being sold to Radiant Life Ministries for $7.74 million. It had been owned by Venture Technologies. That valuation definitely reflects the fact that Vancouver and Victoria are in the signal contour...

Not exactly local news, but with plenty of interesting presentation: CBN NewsWatch Today for November 4, 1995, with a custom Gari package and voiceover by Hal Brown:

This move reinforces that the Ion transmitters are acting more like a national digital multiplex licensee in a European-style DTT system than anything that exists in the US. About all that's missing is one national channel number.

WWCP in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is being transferred closer into Sinclair's orbit. Peak Media is selling the station to Johnstown (WWCP-TV) Licensee, which will be a Cunningham subsidiary. Peak already had brokered the station's time to Cunningham. Cunningham will acquire WWCP-TV's antenna, its Fox affiliation agreement, and its 1996 Interim Operating Agreement to operate WATM-TV for $2.85 million. This marks the exit from television for Peak's owners, Elliot Evers, Gregory Widroe and Brian Pryor. Evers and Widroe hold minority stakes in five Chico market radio stations in the Deer Creek cluster, and Evers is trustee for three divestiture trusts of radio stations run by Cumulus and Cox.