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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.

Another issue with the list. WTLV/WJXX and WRAL/WRAZ are both commonly-owned duopolies that were created within the first year or two of legalization of duopolies. They were permissible because WJXX and WRAZ were new stations that had just recently acquired network affiliations. They'll stand. KPHO/KTVK would also be an owned duopoly like this; the snarl in that case is the JSA with KASW.

FCC chairman Tom Wheeler will propose the JSA attribution ban on March 31: "The JSA and retransmission consent bans will become effective immediately, assuming a majority of the agency’s commissioners vote in support of the regulations, an FCC source says. A senior FCC official also says the JSA crackdown will apply to pending station transactions at the FCC, and provide up to two years for existing JSAs to unwind. The official also says Wheeler is proposing to adopt an expedited waiver review process under which broadcasters will be able to seek waivers for JSAs. If a broadcaster can show that a particular JSA serves the public interest, it may be able to get a waiver to continue a joint sales sharing deal, the FCC said."

New M&A: Bob Prather's Heartland Media is buying Chambers Communications's Oregon stations (KEZI Eugene, KDRV Medford + KDKF Klamath Falls) for $30 million. Chambers cites issues with network economies of scale and increased costs to ABC.

An unfortunate acronym, but the National Association of Black-Owned Broadcasters is proposing a JSA/SSA compromise under which most agreements would be unwound and those agreements that serve the public interest would be reviewed annually by the FCC, with a guarantee that a station would be transferred to minority ownership. "Also according to the filing, NABOB had previously opposed JSAs and SSAs altogether, on grounds that they “appeared to be mere gimmicks for group licensees to avoid the intent of the local ownership rules.” Nonetheless, Winston said that two of the three full-power TV stations currently licensed to African Americans in the U.S. are being operated under JSA and SSA agreements." Howard Stirk Holdings looks like a solid investment right about now.

The azcentral.com website hasn't been done either, and that's KPNX and the Arizona Republic.

Jessell's always been very conservative in his editorial line, apparently dating back to when he was with Broadcasting magazine. Also, remember when WXIX anchor Sheila Gray left and began working for Sinclair's outlets out of Dayton? Surprise! She's back on Cincinnati TV with WKRC! ...I guess we ALL expected that one. http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2014/02/28/sheila-gray-joins-wkrc-tv-morning-news/

But KTVK is still waiting, with an expected close by June 30. It must be held up in the JSA blockade. I'm wondering if that deal may not go through completely. The KMOV acquisition needed to go through because of the second review's 120-day timeline. They got it in in about 65 or so.