Samantha

Yup.

WIAV-CD hosts WMDO-CD (UniMás), as a note. I suspect this might have something to do with ATSC 3.0 myself. Notably the related WAZT-CD Vienna VA was not sold.

From 2007:

A number of groups used that CG, including TSN/Canada.

KOTA and KDUH switched affiliations to ABC in the middle of 1984. That noon open is the only one from KDUH that doesn't show a network logo. This is the only one of the opens we have for KDUH post-switch: The NMSA has a long-running and really understandable mix-up between two news music packages... It needs its own thread.

Huh, that's an interesting thought. We know that it's from an image package called Looking Better All the Time which WBTV also used. (We know WLKY used the image, too.) KAMR also used the theme. They also emerged around the same time (circa 1983). WBTV would make more sense of the stations that used it to have it written. 'BTV had a lengthy history of custom music (Part of Your Life, Bringing It Home to You, the "Turn to People You Know" image they used in 1980-81, this, and Signature). But not everything the station used was custom (particularly the WCCO '83/84 set, or the Palmer package).

WHEC's News Team 10 in 1989. Eastern Airlines has been sold—and WHEC's changing networks:

Back up the truck...it's clips of WJW 12/24/95 and late August '96! By the time of the stuff after a few minutes in, the station was starting to go verbally by "Fox 8" and "Fox 8 Is News"...and was on a temporary set... This might be the best of several late 90s WJW clips on the channel though: the first four minutes are the ultra-rare "Fox 8 Is News"!

Didn't know it was Making A Northwest Difference... The open I can't say I'd seen. Maybe a hint of KIRO...?

WPEC in 1993... Note — MAJOR audio lag (23 seconds).

A Mexican radio-TV operation announced this evening that it had 14 cases of COVID-19 on its staff: https://www.zocalo.com.mx/new_site/articulo/detectan-brote-de-covid-19-en-televisora-local

That newsroom is gonna need a break and relief, maybe from other CBS O&Os.

Note a young David (Dave) Lougee as a producer!

Whoaaaaaaaa. Didn't see that coming. For context: https://www.foxcarolina.com/investigations/doj-asheville-man-defrauded-investors-of-13-5m-in-ponzi-scheme-defrauding-more-than-23/article_fabe97ee-da90-11e9-a1ac-af8b001b5238.html https://www.foxcarolina.com/news/feds-asheville-man-pleads-guilty-to-22-million-ponzi-scheme/article_00ab454e-3d97-11ea-80c7-ffb6ea5ccb81.html I'm not gonna derail this thread, but....... Wow. Meanwhile, speaking of Nashville... Here's some pretty high-profile broadcast work from 1986. TV Worth Watching, anyone?

The WLKY close is from an image package called "Looking Better all the Time" that apparently originated with WBTV Charlotte in 1983, but we know literally nothing else. KAMR also used this theme.

So this turned up on YouTube and the uploader wasn't sure what it was: A radio program? Part of a special? No, it's a 30-minute vinyl record! It's not from 1988 but rather 1991 (though it appears the idea originated around 1989). The Taking Pride In...series was actually something sold to a whole bunch of TV and radio stations. (A list is at the end of this) It was produced by Impact Broadcast Marketing, a Nashville shop. According to this 2014 article on the KREM version (which already was online), apparently the lyrics were nearly the same for each market (with two songs being altered) — just the narration changed. Found a mention of it on this site: The article mentions some of the more than 25 (!) versions that were made, and there have to be some more: Inland Northwest (KREM) Nashville (WSMV) Topeka (KSNT) Dayton (WHIO) Portland (KOIN) Peoria (WMBD radio and TV) Maine Wichita (KSNW and KFDI radio) Cedar Rapids (KGAN) Nevada (KOLO) San Antonio (KENS) Rochester (WOKR) Omaha (WOW radio) Georgialina (WRDW) East Tennessee Central Florida Four States (KSNF, I'm sure) Eastern Carolina (WITN) West Michigan (WZZM and WMUS radio) Greenville; Spartanburg; Asheville; Anderson (WSPA, four separate entries) Amarillo (KAMR) Mid-Missouri (KOMU) Austin (KTBC) Macon (WMAZ) as "Straight from the Heart of Central Georgia" Springfield [IL] (WICS) Texoma (KFDX) El Paso (KTSM radio and TV) Buffalo (WIVB) the Tri-State (WOWK) South Bend (WNDU) as "Celebrate Michiana" Lubbock (KAMC) The Coastal Empire (WTOC) Celebr8te Oklahoma (KTUL)

Don't normally squeeze something like this in here, but a promo from the Australian half of the Adelaide/Austin news anchor exchange in 1986: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoYdn0zClmI (As a note for people who didn't realize, including me: the full KTVV newscast we have is from a second trip Fulwood did to Austin later that year, not the straight up exchange that occurred in May)

TServo2049 actually talked with Byrne in 2014, but he did ask me not to share the information he told me with the public. Unfortunately much of what was said has not circulated publicly since. KMOL '79 is also his work (he did a total of 3 to 4 themes) as is WAGA '79 (which the NMSA has since incorrectly lumped into X Belongs as sample 3). Not everything Hayes did had Byrne's music.

Ooh, even some early 2000s KTVA: This guy has had a LOT of career stops (there's also WAAY, KIVI and KRGV on his channel!).

Yep, and I didn't see that. Oops. (The April '82 videos weren't up when you posted.) Removing the ones you posted.

This channel's adding WALA material and it's a positive treasure trove. News film as old as Camille: There are 6 and 10pm newscasts from April 1982 (before the fall '82 theme change): A WALA sales presentation from 2002:

This WITI promo from 1981 is, uh, something.

It's almost American: John Lindsay VO, "coverage you can count on" slogan...but this ain't America:

Not many! Kari Lake at KSAZ has spot filled in at times when necessary, but...that's spot duty. KOLR weather and close from 1986 with the unique "The Quest" theme music they used at the time (and uploaded by Ted Keller himself):