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Here's a new one. WMBD in the late 1990s looked like a Media General station:

KTVU 10pm news promo, 1992. "The Original Ten O'Clock News" is the tagline from a period when both KRON and KPIX had gone early prime and were competing against KTVU at 10:

At the same time, repealing it has very little effect because now, unlike then, ABC has a massive kids' cable presence. The CW, through its association with Time Warner and Turner, and CBS, through its cousin Viacom, also do. (Not so coincidentally those are now Litton territory.) Media diversification and conglomeration mean that kids' programming on broadcast TV no longer makes sense because most of those households can get Disney Channel and XD, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, etc.

Things are horribly catalogued in this user's collection, but there's a WBBM promo AND a KPHO bumper in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zp371ESoGY (what music is that for KPHO?) And speaking of KPHO... The end of this has the proof to something very interesting (but expected) about KPHO, namely that they used Part of Your Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRdntWlZCg There's more Phoenix ID material: a bump with Ray Thompson for KTVK's Total News AND a (clipped) ID from 1979 promoting the KTAR to KPNX call sign change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RicV94UEQFE

Today's FCC Daily Digest includes the news that Bob Prather's Heartland Media now has the licenses of the Chambers stations. The licensee is Oregon TV License Company, LLC.

He also held a Reddit AMA today. Some highlights: I also had my own question for Bruce: Though between Bruce's relationship winding down and Yetta's own decision, I think the winds of change are finally blowing at 5555 North 7th Avenue... (The perfect address for a Channel 5 and 3 combination!)

Wow. Anything from Charleston pre-Hugo (1989) is very hard to find.

Here's a far afield story for Out and About, but it's certainly television news: The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners has unanimously declared (Spanish) the owners of the Venezuelan television network Globovisión to be personas non grata in their county. Commissioner Francis Suarez says that municipal governments like his "have the obligation to take a position against organizations or persons that do not respect human rights in countries whose peoples also live in Miami and whom we represent as the capital of Latin America in the United States". Globovisión, if you might recall, was the last bastion of anti-Chávez sentiment in Venezuelan broadcast television. However, last year, it was sold, and under new management it adopted a more Chávez-friendly editorial line. If you're wondering what these people—Raúl Gorrín, Gustavo Perdomo and Juan Domingo Cordero—are doing in Miami, well, they own several properties in the expensive neighborhood of Cocoplum, including two valued at more than $4 million each

Tribune: Ready or not, here comes more news! And lots of it!

On the same day that WGN announces it's expanding to 4pm, no less.

For more than a year now I've been looking for video of KPNX's 1992 open after they dumped TVbD (the audio is in the NMSA). I've come the closest to that yet today, with this 15-minute reel of Vietnam memorial coverage from KPNX in 1992. Notice the graphics and "12"-without-map logo. Those certainly were not the case when 12 became "Arizona's News Station".

Boston: WHDH's news helicopter crashed while taking off from the municipal airport in Beverly, Massachusetts. Nobody was injured; the chopper apparently had an engine problem at takeoff. Boston: Too many young people, too many New Hampshire residents. That's what Hearst says is responsible for an unusual ratings decline at WCVB—and at other stations in Boston. Longtime WJHG anchor Joe Moore is retiring after 43 years with the station. The video shows some early WJHG sets including a use of the ABC-style circle 7. In the 6pm video which features an interview with Moore for a moment you can see a red line over a "13" on a door (interesting jab at the competition).

Sit through an anti-smoking commercial and you'll find a freeloading KPNX open from the fall of 1994: https://archive.org/details/tobacco_lcw27a00 The headline on the newscast: 29 football players will miss a Friday night football game. (Said football players wound up winning a state championship that year.)

The traffic lights portion when the toned-down version was introduced by WBBM.

KSEE in the mid-90s ripped off WBBM's 1994 series of opens:

Their last ad in Broadcasting magazine was in 1983, for a package of movie opens for stations. In USPTO's trademark database, their logo is listed under Hayes Productions, with a First Use in Commerce date of June 23, 1978. The logo trademark was cancelled in 1990. Hayes also apparently had a large commercial production business, so there's that. Records for two people that worked there (including someone on LinkedIn) both have them leaving by 1984. It appears Hayes Productions was the primary name of this business.

More ads out of Broadcasting magazine... The first one ran in 1979 and the second one, which is from the same time frame, appeared in 1981. These incredible finds, including We're Putting It On, correlate to , the demo reel (the "Package of Packages") from this company (Hayes Broadcast Promotion and Syndication aka Hayes Productions). Combined with that video, San Antonio-based Hayes can be said with confidence to have produced the following news themes: KMOL 1979 KTVY 1980 (also: KMOL, KTPX**) WAGA 1977 (also: KSAT, KTVK, WCMH, WJAR, WSOC) (also: WTLV)* From top to bottom, the items featured in the second image are WTLV ActionNews from 1980 (presumably from when they joined ABC), KMOL from 1979, and a "Campaign 80" bumper that probably is from CBS. It's worth noting that in the demo reel a WAGA open is overlaid with KMOL's news set for the demo—this explains why, since Hayes was based out of San Antonio and had KMOL as one of its clients. *Listed as X Belongs; WAGA debuted X Belongs from Peters later in 1979. WTLV used the same theme as WAGA and so it is mislabeled. Notice the San Antonio usage of KTVY 1980 and WAGA 1977; Outlet owned KSAT at the time. **Known only by the demo reel, which features an animation with the slogan "There's a New 9 Coming"; I asked what it was on an earlier version of the video and I got this answer. KTPX later became KWES.

KING 5 newsbreak with Aaron Brown, 1984: A whole *unused* WBNB news open made in the mid-1980s: And WSVI in 1989, again: And since there are photos here, why not some more! A little background: Some of the worst flooding in Arizona history took place in February 1980. A dam was inches away from bursting and collapsing upstream, but as it was, the Salt River was at flood stage. At the time most river crossings were either bridges prone to erosion or they weren't bridges, since the Salt River was all dammed up. Only two road bridges were open to connect Mesa and Tempe with Phoenix. There were 10-mile-long backups to get across these two bridges. With relief more than necessary, the state, Amtrak and other entities cobbled together an emergency train service, called the "Hattie B." for governor Bruce Babbitt's wife. It was a smashing success in its short run (February 25-March 7), carrying nearly 25,000 passengers in twelve days (it quickly earned the name "Sardine Express", ferrying 5,350 passengers on its most successful day while running 17 hours a day), but as an emergency service with dollar one-way fares it lost $30,000 a week. Keep in mind the Valley had (and does not have) NO commuter rail service*, and it was operating out of disused stations. So enjoy these photos. Unfortunately I can't link them in: KTVK news cameras film passengers waiting at the Phoenix station: http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/histphotos/id/27639/rec/168 — notice the KIII-type circle 3! KPNX reporter conducts interview at Phoenix station: http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/histphotos/id/27546/rec/132 *We got light rail, which at least is something, but we don't have any other heavier commuter rail system.

KQCD/KFYR open, 1990 with The News Image. KQCD is a semi-satellite of KFYR and only the opens seemed to be customized: About 14 minutes of a WSVI (yes, that WSVI) newscast and commercials from 1989:

Have another WKY News Can from 1958: Included items are footage of police and fire inspecting a grocery store which had received a bomb threat; dedication of a new Civil Aeronautics Administration center in Oklahoma City; and flooding of a neighborhood. Another KNAZ open from the very late 1990s. This one seems to be possibly from 2000, using Non-Stop's Power News:

The Helena and Great Falls markets could be combined with no real effect on anything except CW. KRTV has a semi-repeater in Helena (KXLH) which produces its own weekday evening newscasts. KBGF is the Great Falls extension of KTVH and needs to be converted to digital. ABC and Fox originate from KFBB Great Falls, which has its own Helena repeater (KHBB). The only difference is that CW in Great Falls is a digital subchannel of KRTV while in Helena it is associated with KMTF. The DMAs, 205 and 191 on their own, together have 95,000 TV homes and slot in around DMA 176 together. It's worth noting that the history of television in this region of Montana includes an Equity station that somehow survived the digital transition (not smoothly) and now airs JCTV (!). It's KLMN now, but it used to be KTGF/NBC and then became a Fox affiliate. The question here: where could Gray possibly expand? Cowles is fresh off replacing Max Media and owns KULR (NBC Billings), KWYB (ABC Butte), KFBB, and KTMF (ABC Missoula). Cordillera owns the successful MTN station chain, all CBS: KTVQ (Billings), KRTV, KXLH, KXLF (Butte), KBZK (Bozeman), KPAX (Missoula) and KAJJ (Kalispell). I've bothered to list the repeaters because they each carry customized local news product (and are really the only ones to do so). Combined the media markets, as well as Glendive, are about DMA 80 or 81—didn't think you could make a Top 100 market of all these little ones, huh? Bonten owns KECI (NBC Missoula) and its semi-satellites KCFW Kalispell and KTVM Butte-Bozeman, the latter two producing inserts into the KECI newscasts. The only thing I can see being worth an acquisition is Nexstar's pathetic Billings cluster, which is an ABC (KSVI) and a Fox (KHMT). Neither currently have a news product and , at the time of the Nexstar acquisition. The ratings were weak, and the law enforcement thought their reporting was too aggressive.

More M&A with a Montana flavor: Gray is taking IWCC's second-to-last unsold cluster, Helena-Great Falls, for $2,000,000 (KTVH, KMTF, KBGF LP). This includes one station under a failing station waiver (CW affiliate KMTF). Gray will take over operations on June 1 pursuant to an LMA. Of the remaining stations owned by IWCC: KPVI/KXTF to Frontier awaits consummation. KRNV is operated by Sinclair and being sold to Cunningham pending approval. KTVH/KMTF just went today. KSNV is still theirs.

And to Canada:

KSAZ, 1997*: *The relevant part has been cut off now but when he uploaded this originally it was a special newscast for the swearing in of Gov. Jane Dee Hull, which happened on September 5, 1997 (because our previous governor was convicted of a felony and forced to resign).

"Verdaderos Profesionales" (Real Professionals) in this WLTV news promo from 1987: