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WISH 11pm from 1993. The one cut of Newsleader we HAVEN'T heard from WISH yet: KYW promo for The News Tonight, February 6, 1992:

KTVA's new set has debuted, designed by Devlin Design Group. It's rather similar to the KSAZ 2013 set from them, especially the shape of the desk and the layout of the weather center.

WGHP had Allen and the EWN name even in the first years of Turn To.

Another VTS? Sheesh, these composers have aces up both their sleeves.

There goes my theory that KLBK 1996 was a CBS affiliate package... That said KNAZ's history is one of the most well-discovered for a small- or no-market station.

It's in the Ntropolis-produced montages from before the most recent wave of videos. When I went through the Phoenix research for the affiliation switch, I also read the articles about KNXV's first newscast, which had a cold open: "no pretty pictures of Arizona", no shots of news personalities with their kids, etc. (that's how they described it)

It doesn't help that the Internet Archive uploaded 1,200 videos (they're about 75% through their tapes) or that he is seriously backlogged on unknown themes. I've been rolling in finds this month, with some showing up in the NMSA and some not.

The WTOG listing is not my find, it's TServo's. Here's the full list, though it may not actually be complete. Not all of this is news music, and keep in mind that this was from the 2001 version of the website. Red coloring added to show known works: KFMB, KGTV, KNSD, KLST, KCPN, KNTV, KRIS, KPNX, KOVR, KIEM, KHNL, KUTV, WQAD, WVUE, WFTV, WSIL, WDAF, WHNT, WVTV, WFIE, WRC, WPTZ, WAGT, KULR, WBPN, WICZ, KSBY, WTWS, CFCN, WDTV, KCBA, CKRD, CKSA, KERO, CFPL, WTOG, KPBS, CFJC, KWCH, WCBI, KFBB, WWTV, KCEN, WBOY, MGN Cine TV Roma, WJTV, KBAK, WXFL, WTVJ, WREX, WOKR, WFMY KNTV and KWCH are known and in the NMSA. The KCBA/KFMB/WBOY/CFPL and WDAF/WWTV themes are highly likely to be Silvertree but not in. KGTV 1994 is also likely to be Silvertree off the list, as well as WFTV 1986 (which was also used by WQAD). I believe WTOG 1993 could be Silvertree. I speculate KPNX 1985/86, "We're Going Where You're Going", is Silvertree as well. Many of these stations have insufficient available information, like KLST, WICZ and WAGT, to do anything. Silvertree was founded in 1984, so these stations had Silvertree between 1984 and 2001.

Hot off the 1987 WWLP blooper reel... http://cl.ly/020D113J3d0N/WLOX%201990%20Theme%20%E2%80%94%2030%20Second%20Clean%20Cut.mp3

Well, it's certainly not legal right now, not until 2015.

WAPT 6pm, 1986: WVUE, 1987 (what the heck?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_GK9-4tFjc

You may also want the WANE 1987 open from that package: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jypyg4ifkxlbluy/WANE_1987_WLOX90.mp3

I'm about to shock you. I think this might be Silvertree. WTOG (but not WAKA) was on the Silvertree client list. I'm slightly reminded of the KWCH 1993 theme.

I've seen both videos and the NMSA has the audio (KTSP 1990 and WCMH 1992 are new themes still not in), but wow, I didn't even realize the similarities...

I found that WGPR theme as well. It is quite something to have WGPR material. Easily the rarest stuff in there. And we've found WPTF with Great News and WBMG, so we're not exactly talking a low bar. The WRGB 6:30 theme is new to me, but the noon theme is a cut of what they were known to be using at the time (the WLNE theme).

So did KNXV. It really is, though some people will not like it being responsive around here.

The secret package is from the 80s. The name was found amidst a listing of two other major works from the music company. When I saw it with those names it made immediate sense though I had never heard that name for a news music package. I've been sitting on this for eight months awaiting confirmation through my partner in news music crime. @promoguy98 Consider talking to TServo2049. He's the other news music guru on this site, and he has contacts with the composers. Did not know about the WLOX theme. Oh yes, and I've been hounding the NMSA on the CBS 1988 Affiliate Package for years—in fact, I did it for a third time in an email I sent today. It's one of the worst errors on the site, besides the absolute trash that is the Joplin records (I've written forum posts on that too). Also, KTLA 1990 is VTS? Well, that's interesting. The ending is a dead ringer for a lot of the VTS packages from this era, so I'm not terribly surprised.

Whoa! Another great find! I have some in my pocket, but they're waiting to be confirmed by the composers. One I am particularly eager to announce because it would be a larger find than either of these two. I think I hooked a name for one of the most popular unnamed themes. But I can pull this fresh find out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyT3XbQLug4 — KGMB, 1999 with newly found 1997 Theme (composed by Audy Kimura). I found the theme entry while looking for Hawaii News Now. It's likely that he composed the 2009 KGMB/KHNL theme as well but I cannot be sure.

Hummingbird, and out of Nashville, no less! Nice find! Their only other known news theme is that WEAR 1994 custom package. Should have known that a local company would have done the WSMV stuff. Well, they also apparently did some WJLA promos from the mid 80s: And a 1992 KCRA promo: And the mid-90s "Here's 2 St. Louis" campaign KTVI used when they went Fox: On the subject of WSMV, they commissioned JAM's Yours Truly—they're the credited commissioner on the JAM site, the image songs were originally written with Nashville references, and Nashville native John Young (instead of Charlie Van Dyke) voices the demo.

I wouldn't post an EBS message under normal circumstances, but this one's pretty chilling: it's from the LA riots of 1992, announcing expanded curfew boundaries. KCAL's presentation of the whole thing, over aerial shots of buildings on fire, is also peculiar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRCjbpAj_kM A WTHR newsbreak from 1994, still with the Hello package's 90s updates: WDIO/WIRT 10pm open, 1990, The Leading Edge. Complete with sponsorship tag right in the open!: WANE full 1987 newscast. Corinthian-era logo plus the WLOX 1990 theme, previously unknown for WANE: WLOS full 1987 newscast. With the music of locally-based VTS Productions, "Count On": The matching 6pm open also shows a Turn To ID with the then-new look. Interesting combo: A KDFI "Texas 27" news break from 1985: 10 minutes of WLEX news from 1985, no open but there is a short close: WHBQ 1979, Weekend Report: WEVU, a show called "Lunsford at Large" featuring John Lunsford of the Naples Daily News. The music is production music, "The Winning Instant" from Killer Tracks:

I know that—I was just pointing out that it had kinda gotten that way by the mid-80s. (The theme and the opens did not age well at all and stuck out like sore thumbs. In the mid-90s someone at Gateway came to their senses and began modernizing their stations' image.)

By the mid-80s, you could certainly say that of the Action News Theme persisting on the Gateway stations (WTAJ, WBNG, WOWK and WLYH) into the 90s. In fact WTAJ commissioned its own version of the theme.

Even the set is identical to WHTM! I wonder if KTVI, WSTM and WETM used this package (it's highly likely). According to the NMSA WSTM didn't use The News Image until 1984. Of course, WETM would be a much harder find.

A WBNG 1989 news break—a rare example of a Gateway station not using the Action News Theme. Instead, it's the WJSU 1985 1988 Theme, a known CBS affiliate package based around the campaign of "Television You Can Feel" and forever incorrectly dated in the NMSA:

My guess is that the second is WMYD, which would form a duopoly with WXYZ. No other Granite station is interesting enough to Scripps. (did not see NewsMaster's above post)