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That theme from 1992 is in the NMSA as WBAY 1989.

WHDH, 1991: And some US Galavisión/ECO Noticias material from the same year:

This may just be the longest clip ever posted here. Mostly KTVI, but some KMOV, KSDK and even a bit of also-rare KPLR... (Note: 6 hours!)

That's a John Christopher Burns package I've never seen before...

This 10 minutes of video includes more KPWB - a weathercast and a bump, with what must have been their theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=-GKAC_93VhA;t=386 They must have overhauled in 1996 as they became "Action News 31". There's evidence they used News Edge in the morning (which lasted into KMAX). There's even a partial news open at 3:24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=q8WFMdaYVHo;t=34

No open, but there are few rarer histories than ANYTHING channel 31 Sacramento... The year is 1995, so the calls were already KPWB. We don't even have a theme for this one. This is a huge find!

WOC in 1985... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Z5RVXT74rOw;t=1656 WANE in 1986... (This "latter-day" version of the CBS News ticker was also used by WLTX) WPTV in 1993... (Of note: if you like European TV DX, or news opens from elsewhere, this channel is for YOU!)

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]