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The domain name is likely to remain with them, and indeed it just says "The Arizona Republic" at the top instead of "12 News & The Arizona Republic". I believe they've had the domain name since the late 90s. In the last month or two they've launched a separate Presto website. Additionally KTAZ is no longer crediting the Spanish paper La Voz (Gannett) for supplemental news footage but instead has a 12news.com courtesy instead. (While KTAZ has its own news operation they take some B-roll from KPNX to supplement their own coverage.) What remains to be seen is facilities. Seven years ago KPNX moved to the Arizona Republic building downtown with great fanfare and a streetside studio. They could remain there or move elsewhere, which would pretty much require building out their own facilities. That said the downtown location is decent and downtown Phoenix has done a 180 in the last decade to be really vibrant and active.

The KPNX split is getting more pronounced. They're promoting "12 Sports" instead of "azcentral sports" now.

A hat tip to KIRO for posting its own vintage material! This time it's the full 60-second version of "We're Working Together": (Though they are wrong on the year KIRO TV and radio separated. 1994, not 1993. Had CBS and Gaylord not gotten together KIRO might have stayed with the radio stations, which Bonneville still owns. Bonneville dumped KIRO TV because of its pending loss of CBS affiliation; really they didn't know what to do with a news-intensive independent, so they sold out to Belo. Belo, in turn, sold to Cox when they bought ProJo and KING, in a complicated station trade that involved KIRO, KSTW and KMOV St. Louis.)

The WSYX newsroom and studios were evacuated today after white powder spilled out of an envelope at the station's mailroom. It's not even their main news story right now on their 5pm show, as there is a tornado warning for two counties to the east.

Fields Moseley is leaving KTVK after this Wednesday to become Maricopa County's communications director. He cites the changes in his job responsibilities spurred by KTVK's consolidation with KPHO.

Suddenlink in Lake Charles carries KFDM and KLFY, KVHP (Fox), KATC and KBMT. Given that KBTV only converted to Fox recently, and prior to that was an NBC affiliate, it makes sense that they are not on the cable system in Lake Charles. In the HD tier they also have K-JAC, but for whatever reason it is not on the basic cable tier. The other stations in Lake Charles are KVHP (which could help keep the market intact), a retransmitter of a Lafayette-based family/Christian network, and the Louisiana state PBS network.

KPLC isn't in the same media market though it has long been the NBC affiliate of record for Lafayette. Likely it will be blacked out for NBC shows on cable and may disappear at some point.

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.