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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:

Let's not forget that WIVT's current graphics package is older than some of the people on this forum — it's turning 20 next year (WIVT has used it since 1998, but WIXT picked it up in 1996).

WEYI will take over production of WSMH's 10pm newscast on April 27, while WNEM is moving their production to its digital subchannel.

A KTVK 1986 news brief with the close/bumper cut of the Arizona's News People theme:

A deal to make you go "huh": Gray TV bought a CP for channel 33 in Wausau, Wisconsin (where it has WSAW) from a Christian group for $32,000. The CP would be for a 5 kW station to serve Wausau. But why? To put the MyTV subchannel on there?

It also uses a lot more 3D. The WPRI open is unusual for being an all-2D open at this time but it does have a strong TVbD influence to it.

The reason I even suggested it was because Narragansett ran WPRI and WTKR sort of similarly from a design/presentation standpoint.

Erie 1985: WSEE (Hello) and WICU (Tuesday3!!) opens in here: WSET 1989 with The Leader: WPRI 1991, News Series 2000. Is this Beau Weaver? Earliest open from WPRI with this package I've seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmZy4NlbxUU

Break out your violins: KTXD Dallas's "The Broadcast" ended on Friday. The rumor is that other local programs on the station could face the ax soon.

KNXV has its news director; they're promoting Chris Kline, their director of new media, to the spot.

Well that's an innovation; I've never seen a live toss to the anchor of the network news for a preview of upcoming stories, but I just saw a toss to Scott Pelley on the 5:00 (wound up watching channel 2 this time). Then again I don't usually find myself in the Central/Eastern time zones.

...Do any other Fox O&Os push Empire this relentlessly in their newscasts? WFLD sure does, with infinitely more intensity than KSAZ.

Watching WFLD right now since I'm in Chicago all this week. It's so different from KSAZ it's amazing to think they're co-owned. KSAZ has a whole separate presentation package for its opens and promos, doesn't include a forecast in its lower left bug, and has its own weather graphics that are nothing like the standard O&O package.

KBAK 1995 open with Allegro. 11pm open with a strange One and Only/Allegro hybrid cut!

Scripps has its first rudder for KMGH: Brad Remington, whose last job in television was at KTVK, has been tapped as VP-GM. Apparently not only did he work at KDVR in 2006, he moved to Denver after leaving KTVK to become a "business entrepreneur". Someone from Denver can probably say how KDVR was in the mid-late 2000s, but I know KTVK was kinda unremarkable and turned a real corner after he left and Cameryn Beck (now also in Scripps as a "senior director of news strategy" based out of Phoenix) was brought in. KMGH still needs a news director.

WTHR 10pm (!!) open, 1991 (We Know What Matters). I had to look this one up — it turns out WTHR did an early prime experiment of its own!

This reel of KIMA commercials from 1995 includes a bumper (near the end) with Gari's Working for You (!!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2pXAPvvCFQ In late 1994, they were using the same theme but a different newscast title: [Edit: A better audio version: ]

A chunk of WEEK from 1987 with Hello: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgJjj8aJ7lE Note the Live at 5 promo near the end with the WNBC "News 4 New York" theme as well.

What is going on in Albuquerque? Now we have word of a woman who got so irate after hearing how her daughter was portrayed in a KOAT story that she threatened to blow the station up. The daughter is an absolute gem: