Samantha

I agree on the early Tuesday/Network Music sound. But I don't know how we could source an ID of that package.

I would agree with that assessment. The themes are obviously from the same composer, with similar instrumentation (particularly the background rhythms and the jazzy cuts—this is why the WISC tease screamed at me). They also split the signature in the exact same way.

Some others I forgot: WBBM, graphics AND music, got ripped off in a couple different parts of the country. Their 1989/90 graphics were used on WHTM (which picked up an Enforcer-type theme from Sheldon Elias, who also seems to have composed WBBM 1988), while both those and their 1991 graphics showed up on KFDA (which paired them with a local theme, composed by Eric Enfalt). Definitely the latter qualify for the thread.

If he did, that would explain a lot, and it would also make a whole lot of sense. WHTM even ripped off WBBM's early 90s open graphics. (Also: KFDA, but that theme has a local composer.)

I wouldn't trust WeatheRate with a dime. In 2009 WFTV blasted WESH for using WeatheRate and promoting it, resulting in this gem of a post from this site: A couple years ago the topic came up and we had a discussion on it. I love how Bruce Fixman, who owns WeatheRate, did not even know of Bay News 9's existence.

And some fresh stuff from Jacky: a with 615's Power News and an unknown theme for this open. A open from the "Stay In Touch With 10" series, very late in the run. The top story, a Sarasota circus performer dies in Hialeah, Florida, dates this to April 17, 1988. A (love the logo with the shape of Minnesota in negative space) and a . A WRCB 1996 "Walls and Balls" open. For more Chattanooga, at one minute in the background music in the WDEF newsbreak in this video is TuesdayC, which was unknown for WDEF. And to round it out, a cut of Newsleader you *haven't* heard before in !

WHTM 1990 and WISC Early 90s even sound sorta similar, similar enough that I'd say you're right. EDIT: You nailed it! Listen to this WISC 10pm tease from 1993. The rendering of the signature is slightly different but there's no mistaking that this is from the same guy as WHTM 1990. We just needed the evening cut to do it. We have a 1991 CBS promo with the current "3", so it's not far off the mark to say WISC might have debuted it in 1991. 1990 is the earliest date I'd give for the theme.

That last link is mine because I remembered there's an NMSA entry with that name but no sample, and only one station is listed under it: WTOK.

Right, it was syndicated, but WABI didn't actually order the syndicated package. They recreated it themselves.

promoguy98 made the find, but it deserves to be shared because it's quite a collection. News 4 = KRCG 1986 = All We Are, We Are for You (under the latter title). The theme is listed THREE times in the NMSA and was in total used by four stations: KRCG (which had resings of it as "Depend on Us, 13", KTHI, WISC and WTOK. It appears to have been commissioned by WISC, and that's where we have the most examples of it. They used it up until the early 90s. Here's a full minute, undisturbed, of the theme (KRCG cut), and a promo with the WISC open cut. WISC also had Tuesday sing over that cut for the "city" jingle. There were other jingles: the rural jingle (second version), country, pop and contemporary. The last two have Wayne Nelson, of the Little River Band, on the lead; he later bought Tuesday and moved it to Florida. The WISC jingles are awesome stuff I hadn't heard before I got this one. He apparently once had the full demo.

I think the work was all done by the same company. The same company did a lot of work for other Cox stations as well, particularly contemporary packages for KIRO, WHIO and WSOC.

Yup, there's that too.

In a time before YouTube, there were knockoffs too. Someone at the Diversified stations, WCJB and WABI, produced ripoffs of other news opens. In 1994 rolled out an open that was heavily inspired by TVbD's WDIV open from 1984. Among the WABI ones were an open based off the from KMOV and others in 1995; a open circa 1996* and a KCNC Image X-era open adapted in 1999.

I'm not quite sure. For a time in the 90s the Charlotte site housed more than News Channel: it was the base for the NBC Nightside overnight news program as well as for the Canal de Noticias NBC Spanish-language news channel. Here are some possibilities: "...Old hands at NBC News have ridiculed NBC News Channel, saying it is a low-rent operation that lets the network claim it's expanding news while it's really cutting costs to offset drops in advertising revenue. They point out that North Carolina is a right-to-work state. ..." in an article on the launch of Nightside in 1991 "'We were better off getting out of New York and creating our own identity,' said Bob Horner, a former CBS News bureau chief who's in charge of what he describes as 'a video wire service.' Real estate costs, climate and access to a major airport also played a role. 'Charlotte is a thriving city with a good business climate,' he said. 'It's also blessed with strong local media.'"

It appears azcentral.com will go live on Thursday.

That's much better quality for WILX than we had from the Internet Archive.

It's all Internet Archive material.

News 5 Rochester (cable), 1991. This 10pm news evolved into the Time Warner Cable News channel there:

This is the Roger Tallman theme. It's not that, or WFTV 1988 from The Coast, or KLAS 1992.

I should also mention that I know of two news themes without any samples but with composer information. Both are in the same market: WLAJ 1990 and WSYM 1997, by Harvest Creative Services out of Lansing.

That's Brave New World on the 6pm as well. It's amazing to see that package in use somewhere.

The guy seems to be the originator of all the 70s/early 80s Alabama material that was then copied onto other tapes that, for instance, NewsActive3 had. Not all of it was in the collection, though.

KGW 5pm open, 1998. The John Christopher Burns package had been supplemented by an impressive 3D open that would look good even today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQkwfL1OpbI The ad at 1:01 is voiced by an unknown VO talent that did KXAS in the 80s and early 90s, plus some other stations such as WSLS.

That's correct: the NMSA lists three cuts of 615's On Your Side as being placed into production libraries.

Could KAZT make a play for The CW, perhaps, and the syndicated inventory? I agree that KASW would be a valuable property for someone wanting to launch a Spanish-language operation.