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The article also explains why Beartooth NBC (Helena, Montana) hasn't been sold yet, and this makes sense: The article also says that first in succession in the event of Rogers's death is his wife Beverly, then Nevada's state colleges. Would the University of Nevada system actually want to operate a television station? I'm not sure of the size/quality of UNLV's journalism program, either, and I wouldn't expect them to pull a KOMU in a market that large.

From 1980, it's the Nightly News on 5 from WPTZ!

He's got more: WBNS, 9/22/87: WLWT, 11/04/84: WLWT, 7/20/84: (morning update, and signed!) WLWT, 11/04/82: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7z59uS-uI4 WKRC, 1982 bloopers with The News Image (open at 2:15). 1981 isn't the correct year for this footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPH3IN4Hnjg WDIV, 1990 (24 Hour News Beat):

Nexstar's expansion has prompted the relocation of their corporate staff, effective today, to the 7th floor of this office building in Irving, Texas. (This was their former location, just north of their new one.)

Eek! Whoops: You might understand why I posted that one instead because KCMT/KNMT used the same theme. It's probably some NBC News ticker theme from the late 70s. KCCO/KCCW's Alexandria, MN-produced news was cut back to inserts and then eliminated in 2000. If KCMT isn't your thing, how about ?

If there was anything it was probably from Jim Heath, whose collection disappeared and has since been (partly/mostly) replaced. I do have something new. How does a whole goodbye special from 2002 sound? Starts with three news opens from KCMT/KNMT, later KCCO/KCCW, originally the NBC affiliates and later the CBS satellites for central and northern Minnesota? . I suspect the first one is an NBC News ticker from the late 70s. ——— Some more interesting stuff: An AFRTS newscast from Incirlik, Turkey, 1985: And more military TV material from the Korean branch, in the mid-1990s. Don't get caught off guard, there's unexpected cuts of Broadcast News from Non-Stop in here too!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89NtAFqBgXk ——— I really don't want to repost, but this is where those KHGI Advantage opens came from. A bunch of NTV newscasts with director's track, 1998-2000: These newscasts really bring into relief how TVbD's 2000 redesign of the station was a massive upgrade.

I was tipped off that there was something because an NMSA entry for this appeared. KTVK stuff in general is hard to get, but 1980? That's some of the oldest stuff I've ever seen for the station. This was also a logo treatment I'd never seen before; in the late 70s they used the KIII-style circle 3, and the red one debuted in 1982.

Whoa! The death of John Lennon: ABC News and KTVK "Eyewitness News", December 8, 1980! This is an absolute treasure of an open! ——— There's also this oddity. It's a short open from WJBK in the late 80s (and for its time, this was really short). I'm not sure whether this is the 1988/89 theme we already have or something else:

File this under the "we didn't even notice" column: For whatever reason, KGWN, the CBS affiliate in Cheyenne, Wyoming, decided it wanted to compete for the hearts and screens of northern Colorado (Denver market) on a subchannel with its own newscast. Well, Northern Colorado 5 is no more; apparently it couldn't keep up with the Denver stations. ––– Also, on the KSWT news: Finally. I'm not a supporter of the KPHO/KTVK combo (though it's legal and certainly to happen barring some miracle, I'm sad to see this happening), but this one I can get behind because the market so plainly sucks from an economic perspective (have you seen the unemployment rates? Preliminary October 2013: 31.9% in Yuma, 25.2% in El Centro) and the combination generates the necessary economy of scale to produce quality product in the market.

I think I know who you're talking about.

No surprise. Mission TV had been in some debt and had recently gone through bankruptcy reorganization (in 2007 or so). It was also a local ownership group. The press release includes this gem of a sentence: "Mission TV, LLC is not affiliated with Mission Broadcasting, Inc."

There's a little more from him. KDFW open, November 1983. It's the 1980 theme set, but the graphics have been slightly updated:

That is huge. For 1983 that open exudes the pride that Belo put in WFAA as its flagship.

Fox's streaming service *is* coming...soon. I think it may be working for some but is in the new carriage deals. Unfortunately my cable provider isn't in there yet—the only two large ones they have are Comcast and AT&T.

The part at :23 of this WBNG 1996 open sounds too familiar to me, like it's in another news theme. Can someone help me identify it? This theme is in the NMSA as WBNG 1996 but we haven't had anything but a talent open for it prior to today. It almost sounds a bit like WRAL 1988 but that's not a perfect match.

Exactly. Not only is he too late, he has no experience operating a network-affiliated television station.

That is just sad. Recently Pappas's liquidation trustee changed again (instead of Shubert, it's now David Stapleton; this change happened right after the letter). I don't think this guy will get it—though the fact that there seems to be a second interested owner could affect one of the claims of the failing station waiver.

Even more bizarrely, it's based out of Columbia, Missouri. Why? Does it have something to do with Mizzou's journalism school?

Over the weekend, the Seattle Times issued another editorial urging the FCC to hold off on approving more TV station acquisition deals:

That certainly would be a possibility particularly if Nexstar can actually get ComCorp. WTVW is a station with a much stronger market identity than WEVV (which most people at least on this board remember for its failed attempts at a local newscast).

Roberts must have been real desperate. Then again they were debtors in possession so they needed to sell to appease creditors.

WKAQ, Puerto Rico. Speaking of which, I just made a find of a 1991 theme that is not in the NMSA (Puerto Rico stations evidently have full NMSA listings): That's a great compilation. Probably wouldn't have seen most of those (a few, like the Seven National News/1983 open, I've seen). *** Also, KING 5, 1992. Two straight hours: a full 5pm newscast with commercials, NBC Nightly News and 6:30 Evening Magazine! The Internet Archive hasn't turned up anything new like this in some time: https://archive.org/details/Tobacco_egy27a00

A settlement has been reached in an anchor discrimination case at WGME/Portland. Former longtime anchor Doug Rafferty claimed that after he suffered a stroke, he was discriminated against by being removed from his job and getting his pay cut. The settlement was reached on Friday, four months before the case was to head to federal court.

Nightcap, the current and anemic news effort from KDAF in Dallas, is likely on its way out. The replacement? A Dallas version of the NewsFix format already at sister KIAH in Houston.

Time Warner Cable and the ACA are now challenging Nexstar's purchase of stations from Brian Brady. They see rising retrans fees if Nexstar can claim the three-of-four.