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That's an incredible image for a station. TVbD graphics, one of the best music packages ever composed, and a really unconventional approach. Given the user and the station this is probably from the Internet Archive. Understandably for the focus of a tobacco repository the Piedmont Triad is one of the more extensive markets available.

WLAC's sample sounds different from all the others... And now that you point out the link to NBC... It's a different theme! For WLAC to use that theme would be like KSNF KTVJ using the NBC Newspulse theme in the 70s. When they were a CBS affiliate. That's the worst theme entry I've ever seen in the NMSA because it flies in the face of everything. (Though KOAM, which was an NBC affiliate, probably did use it.)

Listen closely: The News Image at the beginning, in the tease for the story! They probably debuted that in 1981 (at least) or 1982 (in my opinion). The News Image was out by 1984 when KTVK adopted Turn To. Which in turn was out by 1986/87 when KTVK became NewsChannel 3. I think the clip title here is an example of people still calling it that (though KTVK last actually used it in 2002/2003). Also, those Phoenix print ads are something else. I see some of them have the same KTVK 3 logo that was in the billboard, too.

Here's another one, unfortunately not as well framed but in color, from the same era. "A Very Special Season" is here on KTVK:

Not quite a video, but still a real treat of a photo. A 1967 scene of downtown Phoenix, with the Valley National Bank building (known as the Professional Building, it's a historic building but it's vacant now) and a KOOL-TV billboard for "The Big News with Bill Close":

Thanks. Didn't think it'd have a CD number that high. I know Network's music by its sound, especially the sort of stuff that stations actually used.

WKEF 1992 open with another different theme. Network Music production track, can't figure out which one:

News out of the world of public broadcasting: The future of PBS member KMBH in the Rio Grande Valley market is cloudy as the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville wants out. Apparently the station can be converted into a commercial license?

That's probably 1995. It's got the very short lived "10 News" branding that was used after the station became a Fox outlet. ——— Found thanks to an NMSA tip: KECH 1986 newscast (The News Image). The station later became KWVT, then KHSP and KBSP with home shopping, then KPXG:

Perhaps some electrical work prevents them from running all the equipment necessary or something.

More newscasts: WLNE, 1993: WCTV, 6pm and 11pm from 1992: KGAN, 1983 (full newscast!): WMT, late 1970s (back half of the newscast w/ Home Country close): And a KBAK station ID with Allegro, 1994: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-IZTqxzjE0

At the Federal Communications Commission, SSAs are going under closer scrutiny, says chairman Tom Wheeler: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/73226/wheeler-vows-to-take-closer-look-at-ssas

There's all sorts of stuff. C-SPAN ran the Soviet evening news like clockwork: the final edition of "TV Inform" produced in the Soviet Union and the first one after the dissolution of the USSR are among the ones in their library. The next month, C-SPAN picked up the replacement program "News 1" (with a cool channel logo), and C-SPAN continued to air the Russian news regularly into 1996. (The set, open and music changed completely by August, and by 1994 they were much more polished. They got even better in 1995 with a rename back to "Vremya".) They also ran other international newscasts on occasion: here's a Croatian program in 1994, a Japanese program in 1996 (nice open music and crazy news format) and a Chinese program in English from 1997. Looking for something more domestic, perhaps? C-SPAN liked WMUR excerpts as the New Hampshire primary neared one from January 1992. There are also good chunks of newscasts from KMOV (1992) and KSDK (1993).

Pieces of Phoenix newscasts tagging along other recordings are awesome: The late Bill Denney with sports and the close to KPNX's Action News, December 1985. At 4:55 is a fantastic bumper cut of Hello News, and at 7 minutes in the close from the We're Going Where You're Going theme (whoa, was not expecting that this early!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCD8ZgqjWp4 And there's a KPHO news/weather update with Stu Tracey at the start of this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K3HdpYlPPg And a KPHO promo at the end of this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkwzWLUa0_4 The KPNX close is significant because I didn't know they were phasing in the We're Going Where You're Going campaign in 1985—but they were. Of course the next year KPNX would rebrand its newscasts, hire Patti Kirkpatrick and Bill Austin, and begin using the theme for opens.

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."