Samantha

Thanks so much. There was sort of a big hole in that "Six Is News" era. The clips we have on YT now show how quickly WITI was changing — the use of the original "TV6" brand, "Six Is News", and then a more provisional "Fox Six" prior to a reboot in 1998. It must have been a revolving door of brand identities and collateral there!

Tease, open and story for KNTV in 1984:

WEAU is really doing a good job with its Throwback Thursday content. We've identified a really obscure image campaign ("Here's Looking at You") and now Get to Know Us.

Yeah, the frosted glass is very similar.

Yeah, it's been about 20 years since KSAZ has used its calls for anything significant. You have to go back to the Spirit of Arizona package that was carried until 1996/97 for that. A lot of people in saleable demos in Phoenix weren't around then.

Another WITI promo from the Fox transition era? Yes please! The "Six is News" name wasn't in place yet, but the "FAT Package II" theme was: I'm actually finding more stuff:

In Phoenix, KSAZ doesn't even use KUTP for news overflow.

Could that WPCQ newscast have been the last one? That was around the time Group W was for whatever reason axing everything it could at WPCQ. The ending of "Bon voyage from channel 36" is weird too.

That's interesting too because it shows the original "SIX IS NEWS" logo set. In 1997, as occurred at many of the New World stations, Fox branding was made more prominent. At a few, like WITI and WAGA, the original brand was simply modified and lasted one more year.

That WGPR-CBS promo with the solar eclipse is similar to . The irony is rich... "CBS is bigger than ever" on a high channel number and it's going "where no network has gone before". When I wrote a New World at 20 piece titled "62's a Pretty Big Number", I didn't know that promo existed! WGPR was about to undergo arguably the biggest metamorphosis of all the new network affiliates. What a strange lineup they had to have had at this time with these local shows and the CBS network programming! The WJBK switch promo is pretty cool and is similar in tone (not entirely) to the one KSAZ did.

FOX SIX! WITI in 1997: EDIT: The open showed up!

A partial WCBD open from 1992 reveals Pride Inside:

Items from KUTV in 1987 and KTVX in 1995. Does anyone recognize the KTVX theme?

That might actually have been the first time We're Your Kind of People ever aired.

For a station that had lost almost everything in a fire and rebuilt *and* was with a number-one network by this point, WAFF was really stuck in a time warp. The opens looked more like 1983 than anything else. They were about to correct that. The "The News" look that launched either late in 86 or in 87 — which also brought with it a much-needed new set — truly was an improvement. ——— This, though, is not stuck in a time warp:

The trapezoid with peacock was still in use through 1986 at the network level, but the "uneven 48" did date to the 70s. It was on its way out and replaced the next year when WAFF's newscasts became known as "The News" ( ).

Another early News Station item - various graphics in this January 1994 KPNX story:

We're Your Kind of People...again! The video and audio quality are a mess, but this is a WAFF open we did not have before. This is from 1986 and is the "Nightcast" cut which is different from the one found years ago for "First News" and on the NMSA. It is definitely part of the same package.

Just had @TMBtD confirm a find of mine by getting in touch with the composer. I think you'll be excited. This is a lead I've had for years but was reluctant to go through because I thought the @pacbell.net email the guy had was dead as a doornail. It wasn't. While I wait for him to post some confirmation (the NMSA is also in the loop on this one)... I've had a few dead leads for years and I feel like posting them may open something up. Some have been languishing at the NMSA. -Some alternate titles for the "Turn To" image song revealed other localizations, but a few didn't have leads: "Tell 'Em You're From Duluth", "Tell 'Em West Michigan's Great" and "Turn To 26". -A Telemundo News Theme in BMI composed by Alvaro Morello and published by Nuevo Mundo Music. This led me to the discovery that the KBLR 2007 theme (used for Telemundo's "Conteo de Noticias" when they had major local news cutbacks) is his work: [URL]http://alvaromorello.com/[/URL] (go to Video and then click on TV). The site seems to be a bit out of date technically now but I do remember this from 2012. -WATE 1980 or 1984 was composed by Scott Hamilton Evans, a local jingle composer. [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5in_7BtH10']Perhaps his most enduring work was "Energy Express", composed for the 1982 World's Fair.[/URL] ([URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20080724141439/http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/may/04/trains-song-on-hit-track/']Just shy of half a million records were sold of that tune![/URL]) When I found this the 1990 and 1991 themes had not yet been traced as DeWolfe and a song. The theme has to be older as he was listed in SESAC with a 615 area code number — and in the 90s 615 was removed from the Knoxville area. I suspect 1984 over 1980, but who knows. -

This bundle of ABC and WSAV stuff from February 1985 (from WSAV's three-year stint with ABC) includes a news brief using And You (cued to start with the news brief). This theme was ditched when they went back to NBC that fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=OdNzKiC-I7k;t=539 A WSAV newscast (partial) from 1991: And a WJCL open from 1987:

Back to the future given that KUTV and KJZZ used to operate in tandem.

<3_<3 The first video has two KPNX opens (10pm and 5pm) from what I'm going to call the "Indian Girl" series. This was the first series of opens using News Station and the only one with talent opens. Only a morning open had shown up prior to today. These are seriously impressive and have even more excellent imagery than I knew was in this package. The second two are KSAZ promos from the Fox affiliation switch in 1994. One is a station promo "It's a Whole New Spirit". The other is a very well done set of news promos voiced by John B. Wells. Both are real treats!

The Phoenix Business Journal had an article earlier this week on the launch of Telemundo Responde on KTAZ/KHRR. It's not terribly good, but it does mention that the first Responde report will air next week.

Here's looking at you! WEAU's mid-80s image package surfaces with two videos from the station itself: The melody matches the news theme from this era which was just added to the NMSA.

An excerpt of WVIT news from 1987. There is also a close from this era, with the "typewriter" Connecticut News theme: