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Impressive indeed. This era of KIRO probably tops my lists of "way ahead of its time" and "best orchestral news theme". That's also a variant not seen before — and since the only version we had was from TVNewsThemes, also in much higher quality.

An excerpt or two from KIRO in 1993, during the short lived "news outside the box" era:

That logo looks great. Also notable that WEVV is moving into WTVW's old digs.

¡Arriba KTAZ! Seriously, #1 at 10pm in both languages? Another crack in the armor at Univisión, where it seems Telemundo is making local news gains on them left and right. (I don't know if it helped that I appeared on one of those KTAZ newscasts.) I do see that they are using 18-34 and 18-49 demos though...kind of crafty given that most news programming is measured as 25-54. I don't know how they make the "first time in 25 years" claim though. Telemundo's history in Phoenix is decidedly shorter (and more complicated) than that of Univisión (which came to town at the end of the 70s). Unless they mean "first time in our 25-year history".

I agree on the date. Power News means it has to be 1985 or later, and there's no 3D compared to 1988, but the red-white-blue scheme is there. Heck, these are the WXFL years, too.

It is a slightly different cut with perhaps a longer beginning, but otherwise it is related to what FCN and KPNX use. Given how many stations in Texas they added with the Belo and London acquisitions it makes sense that they would perhaps extend the package and create a Texas add-on to it.

OK, so they were using that name for something. I kinda got that sense too. Probably helped them keep the trademark.

We also got World News Openings in the 80s, Part 8...though it might not exactly SOUND like it at the start of the clip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROT0kdXia5k By the way, Part 1 of the 70s collection, 4:34 — I think that's some of the oldest Mexico material I've ever seen. It's gotta be 1972 or earlier because it has a Telesistema Mexicano logo. I've done boatloads of Mexico TV research, but I've never, ever, EVER seen that before.

On Monday, WSHM and WGGB merged their news operations into "Western Mass News". The move means one suite of newscasts will run across all stations. Most of the newscasts are on WGGB or the WGGB "Fox 6" subchannel; the only WSHM exclusive is a 4pm weekday news hour.

Just when you thought there was enough Terre Haute archive material to fill 15 NewsActive3 parts, . Note the WTWO close from 1988 where it initially says "Teletective News". Oddly enough that name was actually used by WTWO for their newscasts, and they even filed a trademark for it and held it for 20 years! (The listed "First Use" date for this name? May 1969!) They owned three other trademarks, too: TV-2 Eyewitness News (listed first use date: April 29, 1973) TV-2 News and Farm Report "Mark Allen Is" These died much quicker, in the 80s. When I was searching the name I found an eBay listing for this ad (saved because eBay listings don't stick): The date listed is 1973, so this was at the end of this name's run. Note Mark Allen (who spent more time at WTHI). The "2" logo seen here is also present on the first WTWO Eyewitness News close we have available.

Me neither, but our own Thundershock MN had it first.

Not seeing any opens but here are a few Albuquerque news clips from 1983 and 1985 (the last half is raw video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO-xMPz2jA8

Another big anchor departure in Phoenix: Catherine Anaya is leaving KPHO after 13 years and 26 years in the business. She notes her children's father died six months ago and she felt she needed to be there for her kids. Odd to see the Republic do so much in-depth media stuff about another station...

They just get more interesting. Today azcentral.com received a minor redesign, and KPNX got its own website back: 12news.com.

A sampling of KHON's morning news circa 1995 (includes ID and open but clipped): Full WIXT and WTVH newscasts, 1998: and The WTVH clip features David Muir, too.

Can't they say "the Valley" instead of "the greater Phoenix area"? If you say it the latter way you're either the National Weather Service or from out of town. @_@

That's highly likely. Consider the owner of Serestar (whose name even seems like it's a play on Spanish words) used to be the chairman (and CEO) of Entravision.

Engineering item: Sinclair and Technicolor did the world's first live 4K+HDR, out of laboratory TV broadcast. It's clear they're gunning to be a leader in defining ATSC 3.0. And it sounds pretty impressive what they're doing.

They might need the Park City one but other than that, this is definitely an upgrade for them. That said Telemundo will kind of have to get KULX's Airwaves group to sell to Serestar...

A fairly large station sale for a Salt Lake City religious TV station. KTMW has been sold for $3,000,000 from Alpha Omega Communications to Serestar Communications Corp. Serestar's only television holdings seem to be KCSO, the Telemundo outfit for Sacramento, and KNSO in Fresno (operations only). Apparently NBCU didn't take back operation of that station after ZGS and gave it to this guy. The head of Serestar, Philip Wilkinson, apparently came from Entravision. Telemundo is in Utah on a network of LPTVs branded as Telemundo 10 (KULX), operated by Airwaves but with one of the translators owned by NBCU. There are no full-power stations in the system. Perhaps this is how they're getting one?

WRTV 1989 promo. The music was used by KUSA around this time as an open bump. Production or network track?

In re WNEG/WUGA: It was always an odd station. It signed on as a local independent serving an area too small to support it. The station was barely afloat for the first half of the 90s. In fact, it was saved by the Fox switch, which saw CBS move from VHF to UHF in Atlanta. Spartan Telecasting converted it into a semi-satellite of WSPA, but it was always neglected. Media General never bothered to give the station a crescent logo and left it with its logo from Spartan Telecasting. In 2008, Media General sold the station to the University of Georgia. From 2008 to 2011, WNEG was operated as a commercial independent relying on America One and This TV. But in 2011, with advertising having taken a hit in the recession and the station no longer being a CBS affiliate, the university transferred it into their broadcasting unit with the radio station, changed the calls to WUGA-TV. As to the station's programming, after a review that found the station was too costly to operate, the university discontinued its local program production and began to air the PBS World Channel around the clock on July 1, 2014. The university has wanted to shed the station since at least November 2013. It's worth noting that the station has always had an uphill carriage fight stuck between two media markets. You need satellite to see it in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville market, and some cable systems and DirecTV offer it for Atlanta viewers. Marquee will have to choose which market it wants to operate in in the interim, but this is definitely a station with spectrum speculator potential near a major city. The APA specifies that the callsign will be changed, too (there is a WUGA-FM).

WSEE has always never quite had it together. It's also worth noting that as a junior partnership it may make sense if their news schedule has been gutted. For a while in the early 90s, WHBQ Memphis, then an ABC affiliate produced exactly one hour of news a day, with 6pm and 10pm shows. That was it. The Fox switch led them to more than quadruple their weekday news output to 4.5 hours (two hours in the morning, noon, and hour-long 5pm and 9pm).

More astonishing is that the station was still using the WeatherPlus brand.

If US military news is your thing, here's some FEN (Far East Network) News from Iwakuni, Japan, 1990. The news theme is pieces of two different Network Music tracks. The guy who uploaded these items anchored. The same newscast. This is definitely more 1990, not 1980: