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Some KRBK updates from 1986 using The Image Leader, plus Christine Craft (she of age discrimination lawsuit fame), Pat Flanigan weather tease and Rich Gould sports tease (looks like Koplar transferred him to St. Louis in 1988):

Good. Golly.

Coastal Television is so cheap that buying either of the Coastal operations of note would require significant investment.

Starting to wonder if they even used Classical Gas after the call sign change...

That WLMT open really does not know what it wants to be.

It makes me think "health" right now, though I wonder if the idea was "family-friendly"... There's a long history of that in this particular market.

Wow, still KTVY too. Less than two weeks to the call change. The channel has more wonderful material on it and the potential for even more, but this is another rarity:

Cinemagic likely made the WRNN open too...but yes, definitely more than an open designer there.

@TheGuru That race is really interesting from a production standpoint, and I imagine that truck had its hands full all day. Notice how only the final 20 laps have a US flag graphic on them. I distinctly recall Russert's death announcement on NBC. It was a Saturday, and the network was in the middle of a golf tournament and (out of nowhere) tossed to NBC News. I knew as soon as Brokaw (who had already semi-retired) appeared that something quite unusual was up.

...I sincerely hope that's a transitional product and not the final logo.

The KCRA and You theme line is all over this.

The problem is that this is the largest story of our lifetimes. Its effects are being felt universally. There are other stories, yes. But no one event has had this much global reach. Not even world wars, in many ways.

From 1987 to 1992/93 in one time skip, but a sighting of my white whale: the mid-80s KUTV (Mike Post?) theme! The channel has reams of other KUTV material, including Bill Lord (later of WUSA and WJLA) on the "Extra" news magazine covering the coverage of the Ted Bundy trial:

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).

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