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A very recent piece from the Denver alternative paper mentions this too. I can't find it right now but it's there.

The WOAY material on that channel is incredible. There's one other great clip: their first sign-on after the fire. They got interim equipment on air primarily to transmit network programs. Like, literally, ID slide until 8:00!

Laredo was exceptional. They probably didn't even need to shut off the transmitter while doing what they did.

The nation's oldest continuously family-owned station has sold. Diversified Communications is calling it quits and has sold WABI and WCJB for $85 million. Diversified will always be remembered for its graphic designer's unique talent to rip off other stations' opens...in the 90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=-KhUGrBLFQo;t=628

A WSBT open with Prime News on Mother's Day 1994, not long after the station debuted new TVbD graphics. Look for the exceptional use of line breaks in the "Hats / off / to moms" graphic! There's also a little WNDU in here...

Apparently there's a time brokerage agreement for the CP/PC stations.

To be fair, the SBG logo was very "90s corporate". This is only slightly better.

WAFF: The plot thickens! This theme apparently coexisted with the KTRE theme for beds.

The clock is ticking on WCMZ Flint. It's going bye-bye as a result of the auction. CMU netted $14 million and says 99% of households in its coverage area are served by other PBS members.

25 years ago this week, Uniroyal Goodrich, which had been the largest employer in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, closed its doors. Here's the closing announcement from 1991, including a WEAU open and 15 minutes of material on the closure:

No news open, just a tease, but any WFLA in 1965 is cause for an upload:

That is from the Cue11 Total News package used by KXLY. I know WYFF and WXII also used that Pulitzer-type open, as did WDAY in part, and WLWT as well.

It was the deal that would never end! And Sinclair was trying every end run in the book. Good times, when I got an email seemingly every week from Clifford Harrington and was mailed pages of redacted material. What a waste of black ink.

Well, it is Image VIII. There's no questioning that. The old Newsmusic Central site had a long sample for it, too. But it sounds incredibly unlike the other Image packages (even if there is a bit of a watershed break between IV-VII and VIII and up). Also worth noting...the NMSA has a "client primacy" error. WSB began using this theme in 1993 and is listed as commissioning it. But KCNC is listed as using it 1988-93. Client primacy errors are among the most easily detected errors in the NMSA and require date adjustments. This one might take the cake. I doubt KCNC ever used Image VIII. This cut has to be CEN-specific. It sounds a bit like Image VI, even.

Holy moly, it's even more KCNC, and from just months before the Newswire open, too! That almost sounds like Image IV or potentially VI, not VII and most certainly not VIII! I was just thinking today "we need more Colorado Evening News opens"... (Image VIII doesn't even sound like an Image theme, anyway...) That Rocky Flats channel has more reels but nothing new.

It was the only time they used a non-Gilmer theme between ditching Newschannel in 1986 and picking up 615's Newstime in 2003.

I have no idea, but that end *screams* them. As to KJCT, good luck. I have 1.7 seconds of KOAM with Get to Know Us. He won't recognize it. This is an even shorter sample.

There's barely a second of the KJCT 1984 open in here... I believe the theme is NMSA "KLTV 1985". But I'm not going to bother sending that in. Also, a WAFF newsbreak with the KTRE 1993 theme from the "48 The News" era... And...WMAR in 1997? Here's another unseen TVbD open on Dailymotion... [MEDIA=dailymotion]x5c22j[/MEDIA]

The December 1992 guess is definitely mine as well on that KCNC open. It is definitely a transition between the Image VII and Image IX eras (and even the Image VII opens changed with some regularity - the open before it in that montage would have been used earlier in 1992). Early January 1993 may also be in play. I did a little digging on the mention of a "public health emergency" in the Denver metro area...turns out there was a Hepatitis A outbreak that had to be contained around New Year's. The culprit was a catering company that handled nearly 100 holiday parties. ——— KREM and KHQ opens in 1993:

The whole open is. It's an unholy mashup of eras and some completely unexpected news music.

"It's time for News 4"...wait a minute, THAT'S NOT IMAGE IX! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=MRxBRb5p0aM;t=83

Holy mooing wow. It's hard to follow that but...WNEM with Allegro in 1993? Two news updates and an 11pm tease:

Probably, given that it's in the Las Colinas area of Irving — not coincidentally, up the road from the Nexstar corporate office off the John Carpenter Freeway.

That KWGN open almost has a hint of The News Image in it! I'd never seen a "cylinder"-type TVbD open for KWGN, either.

Hah! I looked up that registration and it actually belongs to one Phoenix-based Danzeisen Dairy. The accompanying drawing (more like a script typeface) appears on their milk bottles. They have some special edition bottles including Arizona Cardinals ones, too. They're pretty cool because they are a startup basically, bottling milk in *glass* bottles which pretty much hadn't happened in the Valley in decades. They have all this old equipment and whatnot. If Nexstar did operate a dairy, however, it'd be appropriate. They kind of stink.