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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

My answer would be production music. The newscast was produced by INN out of Davenport, Iowa.

No. This Jim has worked at KYMA, WPDE and WBNS (in that order). He's a Phoenix native.

I put in a comment to Jim Heath. This guy, however irregular his uploads are, has been one of the best sources for Phoenix material we've ever had.

Wow, there's a whole song to the KOOL 1981 Theme! Apparently it was made in 1980 with members of the Phoenix Symphony. (with vocals) (without)

Now that I'm hearing this this morning I completely agree that this is Stephen Arnold. But how did an Arnold package from the 90s manage to go undercover for so long? I bet we're talking about a "WCSC Custom News Package" here.

They did use Stravinsky from 1997 on and other SAM packages until 2008. Charleston can be a hard market to build a news music history. I think a lot of material got wiped out when Hurricane Hugo made a direct hit on the city and so it is very, very hard to get Charleston material from before 1989. In the 80s we have one WCBD open, some WCSC Hello jingles, and that's it. No WCIV. No other opens. The only reason we know WCSC used MCTYW is because someone posted on a video of MCTYW that they remembered it being used on the station (and I found the comment and referred it to the NMSA).

I'm in love, I'm in love! WCSC 1995 "Live 5 Newshour" open with a new theme, the awesome voice of Don Harrison and great video work!

WJBF with a close from 1989. This theme is completely unknown to us: And continuing the theme, a WTVR 1996 news story on the Media General acquisition of Park Communications: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=WJBF%201996&sm=3

KDLH 1987. Man, this open is not great visually: A CKCK (Regina, SK) News Service update from 1988. Is that a Tuesday package? Never heard it before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNbC5aCS8vw A KAMR 5-second promo from 1986 with the WLKY/KAMR unknown theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BB4-fJqzU KTGF, 1986 with "Energy II" from Network: WISH, 1989 with Non-Stop's First News. Earliest use of theme by WISH:

ASCAP/BMI and the Copyright Office don't have everything. And only the latter covers the 1980s well.

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KDLT "12 at 10" 10pm newscast, 1996.

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What *was* Project Pride, anyway? Also, a non-news item: short-lived Richmond independent WVRN-63 in 1986 with JAM's " " (the one WJZ commissioned). And KBTX from 1985 with a jingle of " ". Sounds like Tuesday to me.

While not complete or exhaustive, this incomplete list of TM reference reels from the '80s does not include any Shreveport TV stations. We have some additional ones that aren't on there (WPDE with Get to Know Us) but we don't have everything that is (e.g. KDRV with Spirit of Ohio or KOLD with Spirit of Texas). (Speaking of that list last year I landed a 1.8 second partial sample of , which the list has (look for the "Action News" snippet) but the NMSA will not take it as proof because it's too short.)

I've made an attempt at correcting the pitch in Audacity: http://cl.ly/3Z0d2U3I0P1X/KDBC%201990%20CORRECTED%20PITCH.mp3 I won't submit this to the NMSA unless I get some assurance that it sounds normal. I used the voiceover as a sort of basis to do the work.

I'd need to hear the piece first before I could begin digging, unfortunately.

We believe it's Silvertree because their client list includes KGTV, and it has to be pre-2001. Also Silvertree was *in* San Diego, like Peters and Tuesday.