Samantha

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:

Scripps is part of the consortium that runs RTM (which also includes Raycom and Cox I believe), so this makes sense. Ironically, in the market where it is produced (Phoenix), Fox has the rights to it instead (it migrated in the Fox O&O group rights deal for the show).

They did in the early 2000s. KMBC/KCWE and KCTV/KSMO do have such newscasts which may explain why KSHB doesn't; there's an unusual amount of competition in the timeslot.

I've seen most of the blooper reels but I did not see that snippet. What's interesting is they had a different theme as well which you can also hear on that clip. One of the blooper reels has a KDBC 1990 theme but out of pitch; I actually sent a corrected pitch version to the NMSA (I did audio correction myself based on the VO) but it has never been put up. It's gotta be among the worst news themes, in my book at least.

No idea, no clue, but Joles is their main evening anchor and he's been in the market for quite some time.

Oh boy, this isn't good. Apparently a fight broke out at KOB between an anchor and a reporter right before yesterday's 6pm news:

I've prodded him before to move it but it's never happened. I assumed it would have been correct for the c1990 period just based on the fact that Doc Morgan was the VO for KOTV by this time.

File this under "uninspiring", CFCN Late Edition News from 1982: On the other hand, I've never seen a KOTV open from the late 1980s era with the KSD 1981 theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwhDW8Hg974 [the NMSA horribly misdates this]