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KTVK/KPHO's got a logjam of talent it needs to fix, especially given the consolidation. I don't know if he jumps into that.

It was actually used in South Korea, too — it's in one of the "World News Openings" collections.

Crommy's return means we're going to be seeing lots and lots and lots of Spokane stuff. I've seen a lot of it (he pulled all his videos because of something with YT, voluntarily I believe) but there's also new stuff that's being added. He also has KXLY and KHQ stuff too, but he seems to be uploading things thematically and alphabetically. One of the first big things I recall him uploading was a KAYU (!) 1991 open when KREM produced their news — it was one of the first news shares of its kind in the country and I believe the first in the western US, but it only lasted a year. The 1995 stuff is John Christopher Burns. He had it before he decided to remove all his videos. It's a weird chopped-up version of the news open and graphic elements from that period. KREM went through a lot of themes and looks fairly quickly. They even commissioned one and it lasted a year. For that matter, KHQ seems like it really got confused in the 90s. Network Music tracks, Non-Stop, themes that are out of order in the NMSA, and I even think there's a misclassified theme. When the KHQ 1993 open reappears (it's a candidate for "worst news open"), that'll be awesome.

KSFY's Eyewitness News newsbreaks in 1992 with the WPTV 1989 theme:

Oh fun, that People You Can Count On theme! We've had an image song for WBRZ with it for years.

WTVO in 1993 with the WTVO/WLNS Young stations theme: A snippet of WIFR from the period. The NMSA just said they used The Coast's People You Can Count On. Even their logo matched KDLH: For a time in the 90s, KBJR had no full 10pm news and a taped five-minute broadcast, "Topline News at Ten":

The nation's "newest" full-power television station has run into a roadblock that has forced it off the air. You might recall that PMCM's station in New York was renamed WJLP, or that it has been in a tussle with WFSB over who can use virtual channel 3. Last month the station signed on with the PSIP number of 3-10. But it's off the air now after the FCC ruled in favor of WFSB, which would require WJLP to use major channel number 33—which, according to them, causes many of their contracts to be null and void. On Monday the station appealed to the D.C. Circuit of the Court of Appeals, hoping to get back on air.

Crommy5 is back! I never saw this, a KREM promo from 1985 with "We're the Team" imaging. Watch for the KING mug at :24! I don't recall seeing this KREM 1985 close, either: Or this different KREM 1985 promo (I've heard the background bed before, somewhere): Most of the material up for now is KREM stuff, but I imagine the KXLY and KHQ material will return soon.

I could see KUQI terminating its contract with Fox just to get MundoFox, as odd as it sounds.

Wow, so WKJG commissioned the package!? Complete surprise! I'd already figured out that the thing had an image campaign and had that title, but not that it was commissioned for Fort Wayne.

I think I made better websites in elementary school using Microsoft FrontPage (!). To be fair I think High Maintenance (which was run by three women and some family trust) was really banking on that sale to a sidecar of London. When it fell through, the station just absolutely fell through the floor and declared bankruptcy. The main technical challenge facing Corpus 18 is that the two LPTVs are broadcasting in analog and really need to be converted to digital. I don't think KUQI will be flipped to MundoFox unless Gannett or Cordillera make a move to steal the Fox affiliation for a digital subchannel, in which case that is a certain fate. On the management side, it is highly alarming that KUQI lacks a newscast (which is an obvious overture to make to KIII), a website or a social media presence. I really don't know how they will fare with Fox, but if they aren't up to the network's standards, don't be surprised to see them bolt either to KDF (their former home, part of the Cordillera operation) or to some venture with KIII. The affiliation contract expires in 2016. On the relationship between High Maintenance and GH, two of the three partners — Gillis and Hoffmann — owned 44% stakes in High Maintenance while Vanisha Mallory and the Gentile limited partnership each owned 6%.

KXTX news update, 1991:

I've made a major find: Telemundo 1999 (which in actuality is from fall 1998) was composed by Mike Greene. This find was made by putting the from Alain Hernandez together with ASCAP's repertory and this page from the Mike Greene site. He notes that he not only did the featured orchestral piece but themes for the news and sports shows. It's worth noting that the news theme is musically related to the rest of the image theme. That said, this theme has been revised, and much like Turning Point used to suffers from a "lumping" problem in the NMSA. There are several versions: -the 1998 original -a 2001 revision that was introduced with the newer, flatter logo (KTMD, Sample 2) - (which is claimed to be Frank Gari???) but which I don't think I've heard for any other Telemundo station

KMUV "Noticias de la Costa Central": — Station is combined with KION, and the hybrid branding reflects that. Very awkwardly.

There IS a list: http://realbencarson.com/a-breath-of-fresh-air-a-new-prescription-for-america/ Sinclair's LOGO is on the header of this. I do think this is airing in most SBG markets. I notice immediately it is not airing in Myrtle Beach or on WEYI in Flint (HSH). I'm also not seeing Tampa or Reno.

We missed an approval of a station sale, of KUQI Corpus Christi. The debtor-in-possession High Maintenance Broadcasting has sold to Corpus 18, LLC. The sale is related to the debts, and Corpus 18 is comprised of the noteholders involved with High Maintenance and a related company, GH Broadcasting, which owned two low-power television stations. One carries MNTV and the other probably MundoFox. You may recall that KUQI was the subject of a failed sale in 2012 under which it would have been combined with KIII in a shared services agreement. You may not know that their website, kuqitv.com, is, uh, one of the greatest websites in television history. The most important stakeholders of Corpus 18 are Robert Behar (HERO Broadcasting; KBEH, KMOH-KEJR) and Prime Time Partners, which owns a series of MundoFox stations.

I just found a lead on WVIT, but not that theme. WVIT News Theme, composed by Lance Lenhart and published by Pinnacle Group Publishing. Pinnacle was formed by Kurt Bestor and Sam Cardon when they left Non-Stop Music. It composed KSL/KSFY 1998. Lenhart is credited with no other news themes, but he composed a backing track for the Children's Miracle Network telethons run in recent years and composed for various video games on which Bestor and Cardon were involved. I suspect this is the 1998 theme.

I read an article from the Great Falls paper saying that: #1. The station is using 50.19 as its PSIP. (Why!?!?) #2. They got STA to sign on early because they feared they could not build the site out during the winter. In 2008 KTVH shut off its analog in November for this reason. #3. Charter's redoing their lineup in November and going all-digital, and at that point they will add it to Charter. — In other news, today was day one for the Telemundo news expansion at 14 of its 17 stations. Fresno and Fort Myers are coming online early next year; WKAQ already has a newscast in this time slot. The way the article was written makes me think NBC is running KVDA again.

Take a tweet: "Over the air customers in Great Falls can now view KBGF in HD on channel 19. Please re-scan your HD TV sets." That was on October 27. It is 15 kW and shows up in the FCC query as a NEW station on channel 19 with facility ID 198180.

That logo is bad enough to make me consider a concept redesign for them. Is their news in HD or not?

The One for All! Wow, WTSP's implementation of that package has to be the best of any station. Interesting to see there's no time or talent on the open, but that's because this aired after Monday Night Football (the date was a Monday) and apparently after midnight.

An odd piece of TV history, the second WKAQ ID in this clip circa 1970-71: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tWZhUUYZw4 The reason it's really odd is because I can't find ANY evidence that the 20 and 22 stations were in operation. Their history goes back to 1960s construction permits/stations: WITA-30 San Juan (which had been on the air at one point but went dark in 1967), WITB-22 Mayagüez and WITP-20 Ponce. In 1970, a sale was proposed to United Hemisphere TV, owner of a motion picture studio on the island. El Imparcial, the seller, changed the stations' callsigns to WUHT, WUHM and WUHP. But the FCC then dismissed the sale in 1971. The stations were probably never built, and new licensees built all of the allocations in the 80s: WRWR-30 San Juan (signed on 1984), WKPV-20 Ponce (1985) and WNJX-22 Mayagüez (1986). Perhaps a sale fell through and the plan was to turn 20 and 22 into repeaters of WKAQ, and it came so close to happening that they actually made an ID? ———— In incredibly poor quality, but KOAA in 1987 with VTS' NewScore. Note the ID with the new six-feathered peacock but the logo has the Proud N in a 3D animation!:

I'm going to quote David Eduardo from RadioDiscussions on the topic of English and PR, because PR is not my specialty:

So their local news is going completely to English?

KTVI, 1987 with Yours Truly (no surprise): WBRC in 1989: