Samantha

Finally, more Renaissance 2-era KDKA, and this time an actual newscast!

Quite the story, isn't it?

Nexstar buys Tribune......Publishing's BestReviews website for $160 million.

What's weird is that's a "second wave" that not even KWTV used. The original debuted in 1985 at the latest.

We definitely do not have enough KLTV, and the clues we have are mighty interesting: Spirit of Oklahoma (Meeks), this whole thing, and the early 90s when they evidently kept using this theme. There's also the switch from "Pride of East Texas" to "Proud of East Texas". I did just find two Copyright Office entries for "USA image song" to Randy Thornton of Non-Stop dated 1985. There are also credits for Looking Great (1985), Nowhere Else (alt. melody of First News, dated 1986), Right Before Your Eyes (1985), (The) Place to Be (1985, with a news package dated 1987 titled Action News/The Place to Be News), and Spirit of the '90s (1990).

Done!

We're kinda thinking that KTRE 93 WAFF 88 and KSL 89 88 might be connected too. Now that I think about it, one of the many articles I've dug up on Non-Stop over the years might actually be mentioning this: https://www.deseret.com/1989/8/28/18821472/recording-whim-led-to-a-hot-impulse-br-top-10-status-of-his-new-age-jazz-album-surprises-orem-musici Roll the tape:

Thank you!! KLTV + KTRE used the news theme as well and it seemed *really* obvious there'd be a sung something or other. The Non-Stop "USA Package" is listed in ASCAP but with some surprisingly late users that we have never been able to confirm: KJCT, KOAM (which doesn't fit what we do know of their news music history), WAWS and WUSA. It appears to have been made in 1993 or so. Bestor and Sam Cardon (Tamara is his wife) did not join Non-Stop until 1986. I also went into BMI (that's ASCAP) and found a "USA FIRST NEWS PACKAGE" mention, but I dunno if that might have been the USA network or some sort of bridge package with First News.

The FCC greenlit Tegna's proposed V-to-U changes for KPNX, KARE and KGW today.

What is this theme doing on a low-budget capitol news roundup from 1996???

Another RUL today: it's KTUL, wanting 14 (currently on 10).

KIDK in 1994 (open at 13:34): https://archive.org/details/KIDK_3_Local_News_Signs_From_Satan_WOC_1994-05

It's been a while since I've seen an open so consultant-driven.

I would not be surprised one bit.

Yeah, it was Gray and Sinclair that were ready day one. ATSC 3.0 was hailed as an improvement for low-V and high-V, but it instead seems that the thought of mobile reception is sending broadcasters flocking to Us. Even if they have to buy other stations to do it (see KMPX). I have no idea why WAOE wants to change COLs (there's no facilities change and it's in the same DMA, allegedly). One of the mods was interesting on the Nexstar side: WDVM wants to move south—and closer to DC.

I hope you like rulemaking applications, because there are a bunch of them in the FCC today as the TV modifications freeze ends after 16 years! News-producing/airing: KAIT: 8 to 27 KBOI: 9 to 20 KECI: 13 to 20 KCRG: 9 to 32 KFVS: 11 to 32 KHGI: 13 to 18 KHQA: 7 to 22 KRCG: 12 to 29 KRCR: 7 to 15 KTVL: 10 to 16 KTVM: 6 to 20 KVAL: 13 to 28 KVII: 7 to 20 WCYB: 5 to 30 WFXL: 12 to 29 WLUK: 12 to 18 WMC: 5 to 30 WRDW: 12 to 27 WRGB: 6 to 35 WTOC: 11 to 23 Non-news: KHSV: 2 to 21 WAOE: COL to Oswego IL WLMB: 5 to 35

Wow, complete with the Roseanne ABC went to while the network scrambled! The first KABC special report has the close for the open. What. A. Treat.

Local ads from America's smallest market:

Holy heck. That jingle. It's the most KTVK-tastic thing ever. Truly the David Miller Special.

That's actually a few days later, which is even weirder... They were still running the signoff on a completely different set of sticks.

So EQ Vance's site is no more but the client list is available from the Internet Archive in this hard to read image. Yes, WLWT is on there. The list of TV station clients is

That's really more like three stations (KEJR-LD exists to bring KMOH into metro Phoenix since it's quite a ways out).

Ah yes, the Clarendon package! Very...different look for local TV. The theme they were using in the mid-2000s has to be another piece of David Miller work, even if the NMSA has no listing.

Oh yeah, Combined loved it some Alive. (WPTA kept that slogan through several transactions!) Seems to have mostly been used here in '77 and '78.

KTVK (1986–89) WTSP (1989–91) KPNX (1991–) From the article on her arrival at KPNX: Ford said she has been looking for another job for about nine months. "It wasn't working out here (at WTSP)," she said, adding that ownership problems "have made it a really unhappy shop." She was apparently headed to Dallas if not for KPNX reaching out! t also is worth noting that the view from Tampa was that, when Cole and Barresi left, it ended her dreams of replacing Sheryl Browne at WTSP. (She was replaced there by Sue Zelenko.)