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The title "News 88" was in use as early as 1985 and I have proof if you want it (actually ancillary from something else). KGTV likely commissioned a 1988 update package to it (the TVbD opens). Note its use alongside News Image elements, and also some changes to the set from how it looked in this clip.

The country's first black-owned TV station will be honored with a historical marker at its former studios. The marker will be for WGPR-TV, which apparently also has a highly active historical society. WGPR-FM 107.5 also broadcast from the site until the Freemasons opted to LMA it out to Radio One in 2011.

Time for more lowest-budget news, this time from West Liberty State College in West Virginia: And CBC Manitoba "News at Noon", 1982:

A KTVU news crew was attacked and robbed while doing reporting in Hayward today. The reporters lost a microphone and a live transmission unit.

I didn't realize until more recently how much WPDE's 1986-89 series opens were a direct ripoff of KPNX c1982-83: versus

I think there are two reasons they would give: #1. They own multi-station markets. "fourstateshomepage.com" allows them to combine the websites for KSNF and KODE, for instance — and Nexstar has many of these multi-station operations. #2. Attempts to make them portals less tied to a station, as they'd also feature other content.

You think they'll take the KPHO studio facilities?

I suspect this debuted with the Proud N/peacock combo in 1980 — Serif Gothic was the network house typeface at the time, and local promos showed a 12/peacock lockup.

In Phoenix, KTAZ flipped its weekend and weeknight anchors. Daniel Aguirre is now paired with Rebeka Diaz, fresh off a stint with Efekto Noticias in Mexico City, while Ruben Pereida slides over to weekends.

A house fire in Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky had viewers in the Paducah/Cape Girardeau market unhappy last night, as the fire may have prompted the nearby WPSD transmitter to shut down in order to avoid power disruptions. Of course, keeping the transmitter safe led to a spectacular loss of the Super Bowl.

Brian Brady!? What can HE do with either of those stations? Not the buyer I expected in the least. That said UHF discount limbo made Ion unable to take on the stations themselves.

Note the odd linear 1 that they used in the 80-81 era. That 60 second version of WGWYG is one of the most amazing things I've heard in a while.

KPNX, 1981 10pm: (It's All Right Here)

The formup of the main logo is a disaster, but that is the O&O look.

That first one is the definite "voice of KTVK" in its zenith. That promo goes with some others NewsActive3 has in style and tone.

That's kinda cheap looking. Right before the switch WHBQ had only a 6pm and 10pm newscast and the market's smallest news staff.

KTVU 1986, The 10 O'Clock News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSqFTEy9TSI KING 1989. I wonder if this really is a separate theme from the other 1989 one: and

A Harrisonburg, Virginia, realtor is suing WHSV for defamation (and $1.1 million) after teases for a story talked about a real estate con while showing pictures of his "House for Sale" signs. — Meanwhile, here in Phoenix, Cronkite News got a major exposure bump yesterday when it moved from KAET's DT3 subchannel to its main and to a new 5pm timeslot (becoming the Valley's eighth local newscast at that hour!). KAET, which was absorbed by Cronkite in July, also reshuffled its daily schedule to create an early evening news block incorporating the PBS NewsHour, its local programming and BBC World News America.

The peacock is much harder to integrate into a logo with all its various colors. That said NBC was the first of the Big Three (as soon as the mid-90s) to really begin pushing its affiliates to brand as "NBC Stations". It helped that network branding really was a necessity after all the massive affiliation switches.

I believe that one was designed by John Christopher Burns. It's actually aged decently.

He's finally uploading stuff, and it's awesome.

Thanks. I knew it was production as soon as I heard it in use in Chile. I've found it myself. It's called "Network" on the same disc as 20th Century Revolution — I won't submit it, though, out of deference to you. The CD it's on is from 1984.

Interesting. The bumper at about 7:00 is another cut of the 1986 theme (more specifically its close), but there's the production music theme again! It makes a lot more sense that it's production music now—it had to be a pretty cheap library if TVN of the late 80s (which was cheap overall!) was using it. They seem to have only used it for opens when they didn't have a talent open.

What's odd is that WGWYG was for sure introduced in late 1985 (which surprised me when I saw the other newscast). There are two versions of even the promo: one ends " " and the other " " with the open animation. Also note that the Bill Austin clip in the promo is the same one used in his intro. One commenter on YT says "early 1986" which sounds right.

Likely because the KDNL studios (they have the space) are not HD-ready. I'm sure they haven't really been touched since 2001 or so, likely a lot of original 1995 equipment.