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3 hours ago, TVIntheDesert said:

 

Scripps Howard was doing that with all their Fox-turned-Big 3 stations (note that KNXV launched news with the so-called "Fox attitude" when they knew they were becoming ABC). They didn't have time to change their game plan.

 

It must have been a Pacific Northwest small market thing. I remember seeing KTVZ Bend in 1994 and thinking how low budget they were.

KNXV wound up having the right type of game-changer product for the market anyway. But yes, they were clearly going that direction. One can imagine Tampa was next on the list—though maybe further down the road because their existing building was insufficient when it did end up coming time (as things turned out, the news area had to use third-party production facilities for over a year until the Tampa Stadium studios were finished).

On 6/5/2021 at 1:37 PM, E. R. said:

Also, here's a collection of material from various Colombian newscasts in the 80s and 90s:

 

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.

2 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

It's been a long while since I've seen an analog TV station on the air, but several weeks ago, I picked up some of the "franken-fm" stations that broadcast on channel 6 and can be picked up on 87.7 FM.  Those are the most affected at this point, it seems.  Most cases, they are essentially programmed as FM stations with a video "slide" that makes them a TV station.  Back in the day, it was the added gift for a full-powered station on Channel 6 to let radio users tune in as well.

 

Since Low-VHF is the least desirable for DTV of any kind, why not keep channel 6 for analog use?  The dual-nature of the frequencies lining up for radio and TV would make it invaluable for emergency purposes.

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.

59 minutes ago, JosephH1998 said:

Any idea as to who did the WVIT 1998 graphics?, on another thread it was said that "A now-defunct company did the look for WVIT and WVTM at the same time, and they also did a few other NBC affiliates" (That's the only clue that I can give you).

 

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.

2 hours ago, AJClementeFan69 said:

The promo cut in this:

 

Sounds an awful lot like the early 90s KSAT theme...

 

 

Production music perhaps??

 

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

On 5/7/2021 at 8:03 PM, tyrannical bastard said:

Well, looks like TVBD did the others I was looking for including WTHR, WOIO/WUAB, and WSBT.

 

Was the original WOIO "nineteen" package a work of TVBD or just John Christopher Burns?  And at what point did he leave TVBD?

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:

4 hours ago, mvcg66b3r said:

Link please.

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.

2 hours ago, dman748 said:

Hate to bump up a stagnant thread but.. some interesting tidbits from some of the Bally RSNs namely, Bally Sports North and Arizona.

 

Sinclair is apparently going to be launching a 3rd channel known as Bally Sports Extra, which would serve as a multipurpose channel for at least initially, conflicts of at least 2 or more games. Depending upon the situation it'd be a mix of either or both OTA (within the market) as well as on services such as DirecTV (outside of the market) and on the Bally Sports apps for non-DTV customers that still gets the Bally RSNs.

 

In the case of Bally Sports North, WUCW will be carrying the T-Wolves games on 4/3, 4/16, 4/26, 5/5 and 5/7

https://www.foxsports.com/north/story/bally-sports-north-tripleheader-channels-minnesota-wild-wolves-twins-032621

 

And in the case of Bally Sports Arizona, some D-Backs games are going on Bally Sports Arizona Extra, on both Cox and DirecTV https://www.foxsports.com/arizona/story/bally-sports-arizona-announces-arizona-diamondbacks-2021-regular-season-schedule-032421 This part though I believe its the most interesting part 

2 things that jump to my mind right away when I see that piece of the article. It's either a sign that Sinclair is about to strike a deal with someone in the Phoenix area to carry the games or a negotiating plot to get the RSNs back on certain services. If I were a betting person I would say its the former.

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.

9 minutes ago, mvcg66b3r said:

Fort Wayne and Terre Haute are different markets.

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.

Quote

...the beginning of my goal to bring the quality and legacy of WISH-TV news from the capital city of Indianapolis to all television markets in the state of Indiana, and to the estimated 1.2 million Hoosiers that currently receive their local news from non-Indiana television stations, including the Gary region (Chicago DMA), and 15 counties in Southern Indiana (Cincinnati and Louisville DMAs).

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.

On 2/19/2014 at 3:33 PM, promoguy98 said:

Have another mystery theme to share that someone may be able to identity a composer or company for. It's not on the NMSA site as of now, but it was used by WTOG 44 in Tampa from (late 80s? or early 90's?) thru 1993. It was also used on WAKA Channel 8 Montgomery from (late 80s? or early 90's?) through defintely 1993 for sure. I know that from visiting someone who worked at the station. I heard the music in question when they were showing me some opens and bump animations, but have no idea where it came from. It was around 7 cuts on the ONLY master they had of it, a videotape! It included an open, close (which is used in the teaser below) and 2 to 3 odd-length bumpers, around :07 to :25 seconds, which featured a lighter bump and rhythm with keys.

 

WTOG was having some audio issues the night the newscast was recorded... like a missing anchor mic on tease, glitches and levels everywhere. Good thing is that it gave an opportunity for a quick music only piece.

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.

7 hours ago, Requiere said:

I honestly feel as though Scripps did not think this through. There are now three CourtTV Mysteries, one on WPTV, one on WFLX, and one on WPXP. WPTV is now occasionally breaking up, even though I live 5 miles away from the tower. They added too many subchannels to WPTV, WFLX, and WHDT many of them the same network. It gets me frustrated and it's only been a day. They could have used one subchannel for Telemundo or another spanish network since the market is underserved for the hispanic community. I was actually hoping this was going to be the case but it looks like Scripps is really trying to get people to watch Mystery and CourtTV.

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.

9 hours ago, Khojem said:

looking for the mystery VO on this clip.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w41NM5AEVa0

 

I know he’s a national talent.

 

Any help is appreciated.

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.