Samantha

Both KDNL and WXLV axed their newscasts in late 2001 in the throes of the post-9/11 recession. They were dragging through low ratings, and KDNL had some sort of transmitter failure in the spring of 2001 that led to audience loss and prompted the news to be axed. WXLV's news ended in January 2002. I don't think that decision would have been taken today, but at the time and with Sinclair being a much smaller broadcaster, things were different. That might not have been a bad idea with St. Louis, as that's a pretty stagnant market without a lot of growth potential.

This predates Symphony by about a year. There's an unknown WTLV package in ASCAP known as "The Works" by Shelly Palmer. This theme certainly merits that title.

One of my favorite news themes. Ever.

Looks more like they had someone go up to Nebraska and take the old KHAS/KNOP logo set and modify or update it.

That type is bad. Not suited for this.

A full WIS newscast from 1981: There's even their afternoon show, "Carolina Today", from 1986:

I'm agreeing too on the WRTV/KCCI connection.

I saw them in reverse order because one of them was put up today, so...

Not exactly video, but NewsActive3 put up two nearly 13-minute slideshow of local news print ads from TV Guides. Lots of cool and retro rarities! The first part features WJRT when it used Home Country, KDNL in its "News 30 Now" era, WTVQ's "62 NewsWatch", and a KCBD promo for "Eyewitness News" in which the N is made of two 1s. (And could WMTW have used On Top of it All?) The second part is all Indiana:

KNDO in the fall of 1990:

Definitely not John Christopher Burns or TVbD. But those opens do have some similarity to them.

A bit of Youngstown!

A WCCO news promo from 1985 (prior to The Best News of All):

The news opens are dated January 24, 1986 on the test pattern card at the beginning. Speaking of 1986, WZZM presents the Mount Rushmore of news opens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z35szQXFqA

A bit of KCCO-KCCW from 1988, after the presentation relaunch at WCCO and its satellites (WCCO 1990 Theme, which debuted in '88):

WOLF looks to sever ties with WBRE and start its own 10pm news department...

It might have at one point. Given that later on KGWC and its repeaters became semi-satellites of KGWN, that possibility does exist.

It was the air show club in Casper and there's a chance it could have been KGWC's news operation if they branded it as "GWN News". I think the other clip is KTWO.

No opens, but some Casper, Wyoming news clips from 1990/91. That "GWN News" set!

The opens are heavily clipped, but KSAZ and KNXV in 1995!

You want an interesting hire? KTAZ got a weather guy from Cuba. His last job was working at Telecubanacan, one of Cuba's telecentros (regional television services that produce some hours a week of local news and programming inserted into national television).

True, maybe only a couple of videos reaped the benefits. Speaking of Flint, where is this WNEM 1986 close from? (They went and trimmed out the open, of course.) Sounds like the VTS "Looking Out For You" pack to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=N5ZubvXeyn4;t=830

In 50fps, no less! Now that's the way you upload old video. And WWOR in 1988 with its noon news. You've seen the matching 10pm open before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upcRzXef-2g

It feels like every reporter made it into this WWNY open from 1985!

Raycom would probably be interested in the Abilene-San Angelo station too as a complement to their acquisition of Drewry as well as their Lubbock station. When they bought Drewry they picked up stations almost surrounding KTXS/KTXE — Amarillo, Midland-Odessa, Wichita Falls, Waco — and they already owned in Lubbock.