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I am starting to think that is actually part of the theme package. That is the correct era for 48 The News (it's also before "WAFF 48 News" was adopted in 1989 or so). If you listen to some of the samples, the package's musical signature is actually kind of similar. Here's News 12 Long Island in 1986: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp55Z572tLg

A couple notes: that 2000 WAAY lead is one heck of a story, and there's a bumper about 14 minutes in with a cut of KTRE 1993.

WBIN's getting a new owner — Univision, to the tune of $16.7 million.

I've seen it so many times in Mexico I think I'd need two hands to count all the stations I've seen using it (primarily state networks): (no longer thankfully), , the state network of Veracruz, and I am sure I have seen it in other places too.

That is a rare market. How a tape from Chico/Redding got to Yakima, another once-rare market, baffles me. Also that is some pretty darn barebones news presentation.

KRCR-TV? Whoa, that's rare! "Northstate News: Final Edition" from February 13, 1995. KRCR was still using the ABC WNT theme, though they were about to be bought, which would precipitate the end of the interstate shield logo.

A hockey variant of that classic sports and weather promo pioneered by KNBC? Yup!

A broadcasting pioneer who built several Michigan stations passed away June 1 at his Tucson home after a lengthy fight with cancer. Tom Scanlan built WBKB, WBKP and WBUP and owned WGTU-WGTQ for a time as well. He received the lifetime achievement award from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters in 2013. Scanlan had previously served in the military, helping run AFRTS in Turkey and American Forces television in Germany. He was 76.

WLNE promo in 1994. This is a rare era with an early version of their current 6 logo...

That's right. Thanks for the correction.

It's the end of a long era in Phoenix television. Tonight is Dave Munsey's final forecast for KSAZ. He started in the mid-70s at KOOL-TV and has survived a lot of change in Valley TV news. Unfortunately, what has not survived are good traces of KSAZ's old logos, evidently. They trotted this abomination out last night:

With so many stations, how are their newscasts structured?

It's the "10" logo which is a lot like the one they had in the late 80s.

Exquisite: a KSDK "Sports Plus" with Mike Bush from 1996. This sounds like an add-on to Prime News, does it not? This, however, is a little different. In June 2002, all seemed ready to go for Fox to bring viewers the Cardinals and Cubs from Wrigley Field. Suddenly, a delay is announced. As viewers watch the other games, the news breaks in the top of the second inning: Darryl Kile has committed suicide. KTVI runs a local crawl informing viewers of the breaking news and the game's cancellation. When the top of the inning ends, KTVI breaks in with a brief update. In the bottom of the inning, all national viewers are sent to Chicago to learn of the news as Joe Girardi informs fans at Wrigley Field. The Fox baseball coverage also features tributes after the recent death of Jack Buck. A fascinating look at how coverage of a very sad baseball event (something I still very much remember) was handled by Fox Sports and by KTVI.

Yeah, it definitely has an immediate "I've heard something like it before" vibe.

Wow, that graphics set is like the opposite of what they had in '92 — one of the most barebones opens you'll see:

A weekend edition of WCPO's 9 Newswatch in 1985:

Yup, I immediately recognized this from Kirk Varner's writeup! Heck, I even remembered the "ten minutes" line. I was expecting a stripey classically 80s "did Gannett own this station?" desk, and did 'FSB deliver!

Here's something: a short KCCI clip from 1991: And four years later with some by then tired CBS News graphics: (The Lary Lane Morgan story dates this clip to 1995, not 1997) WWTV/WWUP in 1986 (see KLTV 1985): WWTV/WWUP used Tuesday's Action News in 1991: WNEM in 1991, I have no idea: (That's not the 1987 theme)

KCCI "TV 8 News" from April 1984 (though I think this might be '83): A taste of how KCCI operated in 1980: And holy cake is this trippy or what: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXiwhxMdkLA

This isn't like some of the recent Gray and Nexstar acquisitions where an immediate LMA resulted in transfer of operational control before the sale was consummated. I did hear someone suggest that Bonten's stations had a similar conservative lean to SBG though...I'd have to find it.

Yeah, that's screaming a ripoff alright.

A taste of something different: KGMB in 1999. The news theme debuted two years earlier and was written by Audy Kimura. The graphics at least that accompanied this theme lasted into 2001.

One more I think is noteworthy:

It's the Gannett of the Mid-90s Grand Tour: