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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:

Telemundo Responde is finally coming to Arizona this month. I kinda wonder what took them so long! It looks like they brought on a new reporter for this franchise.

Puerto Rico dump INCOMING: A close to a WAPA 5pm newscast from 1983: A promo from 1990 with Turn To...with an odd drum backing track: A news update from 1995. WAPA with Newswatch 24. It's real: Meanwhile... WLII in 1986. This was a year-ender news special "1986 in The News" but could this have been their actual news theme from when they returned to the air that year? I rather like it!

Some sloppy editing on this WAFF open from 1981: If you pause at 0:18 you'll see four small still frames of male anchormen...none of them at WAFF! Upper left: Doug Weathers of WTOC. The L3 reads "Doug Weathers / Channel Eleven News" Upper right: ?? Lower left: Mike Shain of KFVS Bottom right: ?? of KJAC? The source for the video is a station employee. I think this might be two videos sawed together. But still, interesting to see. ——— After the fire of 1982, WAFF changed its image, improved its facilities and got a new slogan, We're Your Kind of People. For the first time, the image song has surfaced on YT: There is a matching news theme but I have it only in audio. NewsActive3 had it for a while.

Surprising that some of the ZGS stations haven't ditched Azurite yet.

Well, those are new ones. This has been a very good year so far for finding new Spanish-language news opens. The WXTV one was in the NMSA, but not that early. By 1993, KMEX was using the 1990s themes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=UCeGMo6wlso;t=167

KXLY in 1984. They don't get much more sparse than this: A full WCPX newscast from 1983, with a close using their news theme from this era:

Promo for "The News at 10" from WAFF, 1988: The theme is in the NMSA as KTRE 1993. I had originally thought it might be Non-Stop's USA News, but this example makes that highly unlikely. This would have been used...alongside KSL 1989? We don't have enough WAFF from the period, especially opens.