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Looks like KGAN had just changed logos—the open is from October 18, 1984. WCIX, February 1992 (Internet Archive): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TezVdZCWrY

I thought KTNV had a 3pm news...

Great find! I never even knew they used that variant. That 5 had debuted in March 1994 as a blue-and-white logo. Now it was purple and teal? There's also an attack ad against J.D. Hayworth (KTSP sportscaster turned 12-year Republican Congressman) and an ad for John Shadegg (another Republican Congressman who had a good run). He also has a WTVJ commercial reel from December 1988, complete with "we're switching to NBC" promos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F61X_so6t0 And another KPHO reel from February 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-y5smook2s (news promo at 10:36) KETV 1989 (new theme, Pulitzer late 80s animations): https://archive.org/details/tobacco_rnx27a00 WTXL 1989: https://archive.org/details/tobacco_ynx27a00 WOTV 1990, Live at 5: https://archive.org/details/tobacco_onx27a00

There's a C13 news open in the NewsActive3 collection (and the NMSA). By the early 90s "C13 News Tonight" had a news anchor and a sports presenter.

There's nothing to see, but there's plenty to hear in this one (just click, trust me it's good): First iteration of WTHR's Hello News III intros. The station was months away from rebranding to NewsChannel 13, not NewsCenter 13:

Good point. And WFMY's open from 1989 also has some TVbD influence. The chyron really startled me. Times and Univers Condensed Italic were TVbD staples in their 80s work.

Yeah, that WXII one is amazing. I think that may be an actual Television by Design open but TVbD's 30 Years site does not credit them with any work for WXII. If it isn't it's certainly heavily inspired by their typography and motion graphics choices. Also, I failed to see the KOOL/KTSP material. There may be another music theme lurking from that super short lived "TV10 News" era. It's so short-lived I think that's the first anyone has unearthed of it. Two to three MONTHS.

Wow. The early EWN ones are amazing with the "KTVK-TV is totally Arizona owned and operated" line. Actually, right now, discounting the pending sale to Meredith and assuming that Gannett does not have any control over KTVK's operations while said sale is pending, KTVK *is* totally Arizona owned and operated...

WKYT open, August 1, 1986. This theme is in the NMSA as WKYT 1991, though quite clearly it came about five years earlier: https://archive.org/details/tobacco_gmw27a00

Another military newscast, from Iraklion Air Station in Greece, 1985: WAVE 1987 11pm open. Another new theme: Meanwhile, the Oklahoma Historical Society's uploading of the WKY/KTVY/KFOR archives continues. Here's a sample can (of film) from 1958:

KTVK went through a bunch of logos in quick succession in the late 1970s and early 1980s: The one used with the Outlet/WAGA open (circle in square) The KIII 3 (used either from late 1978 or 1979 to 1980) The italic circle 3 (at left) which debuted with the Eyewitness News name, apparently in 1980 The red, straight circle 3 (which they have used in some form ever since) The one from December 1980 was being phased out by 1982 at which time the station picked up Tuesday's The News Image.

Yeah. I'm guessing they're the work of Image West or some other large firm.

Sent to the NMSA already — he said it's not important enough to list but will keep it on file. Yes, that's News People. But he will be getting these: WANE 1984: KCNC 1988 (Image VII but NewsCenter 4):

WBNS 1977 is "Take a Good Look at 10" by Gavin/Conner Productions (Kevin Gavin, Otis Conner, short-lived partnership from 1977 to 1979): Broadcasting September 12, 1977

Thanks for the ID there! I'd been looking for that recently too. WAGM partial open and first story, 1991. That's right, WAGM. The theme is the 1989 CBS affiliate package:

KRTV 1984 open. The theme has been seen before on KTVQ (from 1981) but is not in the NMSA: WTSP, February 1986 (ignore the date on the video, the lead story should say it all): CKKX (Calgary 2/7)* Newsfirst (10pm) and Sports at 11 intro, 1991. Apparently Hello was on the way out. Where have I heard this theme before? (John Tesh?) *Station went through different callsigns. It was CFAC until 1989, CKKX until 1993 and then became CICT with its rebrand to Calgary 7.

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WPDS, 1984, the first chunk of a "59 Headline News" 10pm newscast: This was right before the newscast was canceled. Some sort of production music theme for it.

WBTV, 1991 with Signature. This is a VERY early example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX4S2L1CSZ4 A chunk of a WJZ weekend newscast from 1988: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMOQAmnBqek

Nice catch. Yeah, that sounds to me like it could be Deaf Dog.

One of my personal favorites of fake things. The 1983 movie Special Bulletin follows a nuclear disaster in Charleston, South Carolina, through the lens of the television network RBS. The first minute or so shows some good "presentation" though I feel like I've seen some of the elements before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKY-2zkWJuo (I particularly like the logo.) The film was shot on videotape to allow for a more realistic feel (and it does look very real, too real in fact), but they sometimes pushed the limit: the Charleston station was "WPIV", and the network that aired this film was NBC (then-affiliate WCIV). Other familiar elements include the CBS slab serif chyron typeface. The credits list Image West as providing some effects and Ferdinand Jay Smith as composing the promo and news music. The latter, under the name Jay Advertising, is credited with a WHEC theme from the late 1970s.

Here's another one of the same newscast, but from December 1987 when it was known as "Local Cable News": https://archive.org/details/Newscast19871230 — the theme is Mannheim Steamroller's "Dancin' in the Stars" From Canada: "Atlantic Pulse News" from ASN in 1993. This news theme replaced Hello: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laG-Uht_i_g And ASN in 1995, same theme but slightly updated open:

Headline News promo, 1988: — The "Headline Sports" snippet features the voice of anchor Don Harrison (who spent a bunch of time at KCMO/KCTV and WTSP then did VO work for Turner, WFLA and WCSC). And here's Don's video obituary from a decade later. He had the Georgia vanity plate "VOICES":

Now we know where this comes from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr-DTyTJkG8

WMUR 1982, a new theme from the station itself!: WKBW 1983, news of a propane explosion in Buffalo with really old-style EWN open: KCNC 1988, seven minutes of "NewsCenter 4" with a police shootout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkryL2ela6I