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KQCD/KFYR open, 1990 with The News Image. KQCD is a semi-satellite of KFYR and only the opens seemed to be customized: About 14 minutes of a WSVI (yes, that WSVI) newscast and commercials from 1989:

More Japanese newscasts! "615", 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p24MLGSHdsg Another 1989 newscast, maybe a news brief?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyX5IYQU5ao NHK 1989 with an 11:55 weather update and noon news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyFnPUt5Lus Another 1990 news brief of some sort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwc9JNOHhqo

Have another WKY News Can from 1958: Included items are footage of police and fire inspecting a grocery store which had received a bomb threat; dedication of a new Civil Aeronautics Administration center in Oklahoma City; and flooding of a neighborhood. Another KNAZ open from the very late 1990s. This one seems to be possibly from 2000, using Non-Stop's Power News:

The Helena and Great Falls markets could be combined with no real effect on anything except CW. KRTV has a semi-repeater in Helena (KXLH) which produces its own weekday evening newscasts. KBGF is the Great Falls extension of KTVH and needs to be converted to digital. ABC and Fox originate from KFBB Great Falls, which has its own Helena repeater (KHBB). The only difference is that CW in Great Falls is a digital subchannel of KRTV while in Helena it is associated with KMTF. The DMAs, 205 and 191 on their own, together have 95,000 TV homes and slot in around DMA 176 together. It's worth noting that the history of television in this region of Montana includes an Equity station that somehow survived the digital transition (not smoothly) and now airs JCTV (!). It's KLMN now, but it used to be KTGF/NBC and then became a Fox affiliate. The question here: where could Gray possibly expand? Cowles is fresh off replacing Max Media and owns KULR (NBC Billings), KWYB (ABC Butte), KFBB, and KTMF (ABC Missoula). Cordillera owns the successful MTN station chain, all CBS: KTVQ (Billings), KRTV, KXLH, KXLF (Butte), KBZK (Bozeman), KPAX (Missoula) and KAJJ (Kalispell). I've bothered to list the repeaters because they each carry customized local news product (and are really the only ones to do so). Combined the media markets, as well as Glendive, are about DMA 80 or 81—didn't think you could make a Top 100 market of all these little ones, huh? Bonten owns KECI (NBC Missoula) and its semi-satellites KCFW Kalispell and KTVM Butte-Bozeman, the latter two producing inserts into the KECI newscasts. The only thing I can see being worth an acquisition is Nexstar's pathetic Billings cluster, which is an ABC (KSVI) and a Fox (KHMT). Neither currently have a news product and , at the time of the Nexstar acquisition. The ratings were weak, and the law enforcement thought their reporting was too aggressive.

More M&A with a Montana flavor: Gray is taking IWCC's second-to-last unsold cluster, Helena-Great Falls, for $2,000,000 (KTVH, KMTF, KBGF LP). This includes one station under a failing station waiver (CW affiliate KMTF). Gray will take over operations on June 1 pursuant to an LMA. Of the remaining stations owned by IWCC: KPVI/KXTF to Frontier awaits consummation. KRNV is operated by Sinclair and being sold to Cunningham pending approval. KTVH/KMTF just went today. KSNV is still theirs.

And to Canada:

KSAZ, 1997*: *The relevant part has been cut off now but when he uploaded this originally it was a special newscast for the swearing in of Gov. Jane Dee Hull, which happened on September 5, 1997 (because our previous governor was convicted of a felony and forced to resign).

"Verdaderos Profesionales" (Real Professionals) in this WLTV news promo from 1987:

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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