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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]

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.