Samantha

Ran into this while looking at a Phoenix memories thread on another forum. An undated KOOL News ad (maybe from the early 1970s), with the team of Bill Close at 6, Dave Nichols at 10, and Kent Dana on weekends: Nichols later went to KTVK in the late 70s and was there through about 1981. Dana, of course, landed at KPNX and finished his career in the 2000s at KPHO. Sports anchor Bill Denney was at KPNX through the 90s, while Joe Dougherty stuck around at KOOL for at least another decade.

I posted more from this channel earlier this week, but this video deserves a special mention. You wouldn't misspell your own call letters when you're making a station ID...

KCPQ is entering the 11pm news race beginning August 17.

Effective Tuesday, ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication takes over KAET. The channel had previously fallen under the purview of Public Affairs. (ASU press release.) The changeover means that the Cronkite School will handle all of KAET's news and public affairs programming and also that Cronkite NewsWatch (their 4:30 weekday newscast) will move from digital subchannel 8.3 to 8.1. (Fun fact: Mark Curtis is the VO for Cronkite NewsWatch's opens! The school has a close relationship to KPNX, which is pretty much right off campus.) Highlights from the press release: KAET will become the largest media organization in the world run by a journalism school. Cronkite NewsWatch will be expanded to become one of the nation's few daily newscasts on a PBS member station. Most changes will be seen this fall after a summer of planning the integration process.

It's in the NMSA, actually.

Fox's massive local news expansion continues, and here's what's coming next: KTTV's noon news will be expanding to a full hour on June 30; WAGA will add another half-hour to its Saturday morning news (8:30am) on July 5; WHBQ adds a Sunday morning newscast on July 6; WTTG expands its weekend morning newscasts (two more Saturday hours and one more Sunday hour) on July 12 and 13; KMSP will have an hour-long Sunday 10pm newscast and a Sunday 10am hour beginning July 13; WJZY will debut several newscasts. A 6pm hour is programmed for July, while August will bring a 4:30-9 weekday morning news, 5-8 Saturday morning news and 5-9 Sunday morning news; On September 6, WTXF adds three more weekend morning hours, while KMSP adds a weekday 6pm newscast; and KTBC will return to 10pm five nights a week for the first time since 2000*, listed as coming in August. *Not a misprint. KTBC inexplicably had no 9pm newscast until 2000!

This is the same cut KPNX uses for its noon news. They use a different cut for their evening newscasts that's a little more authoritative.

KAAL is on the move: it will be building a new studio in southeast Rochester, with the old facility maintained as a bureau.

Those Image West "grid and Gill Sans" animations that wormed their way into so many 1980s news opens... , at least on KVVT Victorville/Barstow, California! The channel is a gold mine of finds from the station, which became KHIZ in 2002.

Some highlights from the end of KSAS's first try at a local newscast (produced by KSNW), which ended in December 1998 after a brief run:

Something else interesting, the image campaign from the WBNS "Take a Good Look at 10" package produced by Gavin/Conner in 1977. This goes with the news open in the same package (NMSA name "WBNS 1977"): Also, a behind-the-scenes of a KMIR newscast from 1994. Listen closely within the first minute and you can see/hear part of the open:

Look at the comments: we have confirmation of this from Hal Brown himself.

I don't normally embed clips but I think this one's worth embedding. It's from Joe's return to WBRC in 1982. Rest in peace, Joe. You've certainly earned it.

Here in AZ you do need a map. Counties are huge in size (we have 15, 11 are in the Phoenix DMA) and the NWS likes to issue warnings for non-county areas here. We have 40 different forecast areas in AZ, including "Northeast Plateaus and Mesas (N of Highway 264)", "Southern Gila/Tonto National Forest Foothills" and "Northwest Deserts" (full list).

Fox is doing a lot of weekend morning expansion lately.

Nice catch. Looks like a solid upgrade.

NABOB says "we like the deal, but...": The National Association of Black-Owned Broadcasters wants the Marshall deal to go through but also wants to see annual reporting requirements, examining things like sales personnel, payments to the brokering stations, terms for guarantees, etc.

I'm with you on the design. It looks...cleaner than I think a lot of us are used to seeing in American TV news. It's also brilliant with its cross-coordination with the USA Today colors and thus the station websites. The best design principles work in any medium. Many TV station graphics would not cut it on the Web or in print. This is excellent.

Vertigo is the name of a broadcast graphics platform.

Smells like a format flip is coming. Caballero seems to be tied to Viacom and its LPTVs broadcast the Tr3s service (on further reading, Caballero and its Más Música network (most of the LPTVs have MM in their callsigns) was acquired by Viacom). WIWN will probably be speaking Spanish soon. They won't do this, but Milwaukee is one of the larger media markets in the country without Univision (others ahead in DMA size: St. Louis, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis*, Baltimore, Nashville**, Columbus). Even more unusually it has MundoFox and Telemundo but not Univision. *Once had Univision (WIIH). **Has UniMás (!!) but not Univision. Pro forma, Pappas will have these remaining assets: WLGA. KBBV-CD, Estrella TV in Bakersfield. While listed by Wikipedia, Pappas sold it to Jaco Communications LLC in 2011. The principal of Jaco is Fernando Acosta. 80% of the license of KAZA, Los Angeles, which Azteca directly controls through LMA. For obvious foreign ownership reasons Ricardo Salinas Pliego can't buy the other 80%, and a sale of this station would be primarily of its license. (It's worth noting that this isn't the only TV joint venture that Azteca's had that went sour really, really quickly.) KDMI and KCWI, Des Moines. WMMF, an LPTV in Vero Beach, Florida. The station appears to be rebroadcasting TBN from WHLV in Cocoa. NTV.

Something finally interesting, though it's been hard times finding new good news material lately: KGUN story, 1975: (no open, but it's some of the oldest AZ TV news video out there) Well, no news opens in this set, but it's more Arizona material, more recent: KTVK 1992 (notice the bump from break identical to the close): Also, KDFW from June 17, 1994:

All I was doing was responding to the others' discussion. Because IWCC has mostly been sold off to this point in the last two to three years (to the point that Las Vegas is the last station to be sold), it is probably a topic worthy of discussion to consider a potential near-term sale of KSNV. I believe the station does go to Beverly, but in cases like this, it is impossible to know how much the widow wants to remain in the broadcasting business. In other acquisitions news, from the Virgin Islands, CW affiliate WCVI (channel 23) is clear to be transferred to LeSea Broadcasting of St. Croix, according to the FCC Broadcast Actions from Friday. The sale had been filed at the Commission in April and will convert WCVI into a World Harvest Television transmitter.

Our condolences to the family of Mr. Rogers. What excellent philanthropy (here in AZ the law college at the University of Arizona is named for him) over his life. The Las Vegas Sun article says he donated 40% of his earnings to higher education. The gift to U of A, his alma mater, totaled $137 million and is the largest donation ever made by one donor to one law school in the US. One fact I want to point out about KSNV: it's another low-VHF station (it's on RF 2 and was one of the first DTV DX catches made via E-skip). If Sinclair wants to spin off a station to a spectrum speculator it would need to close down one of KVMY or KVCW.

The mops are coming out at KING, which is apparently now running a promo featuring mainstay Jean Enersen mopping away the old graphics. Gannett's look is coming June 18.

KPHO would have been a new find except that when I found an ID of them with Part of Your Life, I suspected they used MCTYW because WHEN/WTVH, KCMO and WNEM all used MCTYW, then POYL, in the 70s. I then fished up a newspaper ad from 1973 (can't get a good picture thanks to paywall and tiny thumbnails, but I have text) that went like this: The funny thing is that I'd never heard of any of those KPHO personalities. I was also surprised that they continued carrying a 10pm newscast well into their independent days; in the 80s that 10pm became a 9:30 newscast, which was a 9pm for several fleeting months in 1994. KPHO kept the Eyewitness News name until around 1978 or so. Two years later, the name promptly reappeared, on channel 3 when it shed the Total News name and music (KTVK kept it until 1986). I'm half expecting the 5 and 3 combo to brand as Eyewitness News like some of the Nexstar duopolies.