Samantha

Gray has bought more stations of potential interest from large LPTV station owners. In a $470,000 deal with Randall and Adrienne Weiss, Gray picked up two LPTVs in Alexandria, Louisiana, and a third in Monroe; two LPTVs in Meridian, Mississippi; and one station in Branson, Missouri.

We'd really need a 1986/87 clip of WLOX to ascertain a potential progression.

I think that first track is a Network Music piece. I've heard it somewhere before.

A donut filled: the WHNT noon news in 1986:

WNEM in 1988:

WDAF in early 1992:

I just fixed it. You'll enjoy it though.

Just when you think you've seen everything, along comes...footage of a Kingman, Arizona Wells Fargo bank robbery with a unique TV news connection.

Ah, alright. I sure hadn't seen that shadow-box 2 before.

A KOOL story from the 1980 Salt River flood: And which station is this?

Gray spent $720,000 to acquire various LPTVs from DTV America. They acquired WGEI-LD and W41EJ-D in Enterprise, AL (Dothan market); WIDM-LD and W16CX-D in Panama City, FL; W22EE-D in Rockford; W14DG-D Bowling Green, KY; and K49LC-D in College Station and K31LQ-D Sherman, TX. Could another acquisition and shelling be afoot? A couple of these might be for putting secondary affiliations on LPTVs in HD (like Sherman and Bowling Green), but why acquire more stations in Dothan and Panama City?

Let's time travel through WSJV history: 50th anniversary video, featuring highlights of the station and Michiana history, and NEWS PEOPLE: And elsewhere: KQTV news promo, 1979: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=keadVEd1MqI;t=282 And a look at WECA (!!) Action News from 1979. There's excerpts, weathercasts, part of an open and part of a close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=YlsyzhgKjAU;t=632 There's even WTOC from 1972, when Jimmy Carter was the governor of Georgia (!!) and the news was titled Kaleidoscope (!!!):

The oldest clip yet uncovered from Eugene... KEZI Eyewitness News, December 1986:

Similar service to the one that did the tobacco archive stuff, I think, maybe even the same one. (They obviously had some old station IDs on file.) I'd actually never seen a KTVT open from that era either — pretty nice. The second video has a longer close than the NMSA!!

I'm feeling like Corpus Christi: A 1990 open with some theme of some sort, and a 1989 close with the WDAF 1987 Silvertree theme. It is worth noting that KRIS indeed is on that mythical list of Silvertree clients — along with WDAF and WWTV.

Hah!

WGGB, January 1991. No open but news and weather from the Gulf War. Get a load of the map background set!

I've been the one on the NMSA's case about WDAF having commissioned the 4-note variant. I do agree with your timeline (the Impact remix debuted in January 1997 when Fox had Super Bowl XXXI).

Everything but the open in this October 1994 WDAF 9pm newscast. Prime News (4-note)! The end has the 10pm open of this era. John B. Wells on WDAF? You bet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=nEWkswccu_8;t=848

WTVE? Early 80s? Yes please...

More Working for You? Why not? There's also a KAPP news teaser from early 1991 with an unknown theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Gnlye4560TU;t=224 Or if Yakima's not your cup of tea, 2 1/2 minutes of rare pre-1982 WAFF news bloopers:

Have you ever seen the segment bumps from the Univision 1996 package? Well now you have: (Also, yes, 199*6*)

No opens to be had but WSNS in 1988/89 is rare in and of itself:

And more KSNF. The open is a new find: During this time, they were still using select and cuts for news bumps.

Sounds like someone heard my call for more KOAM...and gave us an unexpected gift! This 1994 open features Working for You, just the third station ever to have this package. Bits and pieces of KSNF from June 1994. They hadn't changed much since 1992: