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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.

3 hours ago, scrabbleship said:

 

Outside of this run-around to control WPIX, when has Nexstar used a shell to enter a new market? 

I think that Nexstar is holding out to buy Vision Alaska cheap and get the whole state. Problem is that operation is so eviscerated that there might be a good chance they either go full Billings and exist newsless or go full Utica, booting NewsNet out and taking years to build a skeletal department to satisfy the bare minimum of ABC/Fox. That might be why Nexstar passed here, an all-or-nothing strategy versus Gray.

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.

Just now, jbnews said:

Unique slogan replaced with a boring one. Also why "safe"? Safe from what?

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.

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

1 hour ago, Info Junkie said:

This screams Peters at the top of its lungs:

The KCRA and You theme line is all over this.

11 minutes ago, Newsjunkie24 said:

I always say the same thing myself. We have over 200 countries in this world and CNN just feels the need to focus on the same story or person for a long time. All the other big stories are on CNN International, which unfortunately, isn't easily available in the U.S.

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:

44 minutes ago, channel2 said:

I thought The WB jumped over from KXTX to KDAF right away. I know they were only doing two nights of primetime a week though...

Yup.

4 minutes ago, TSSZNews said:

What could Sinclair possibly want with a couple of LPs? ATSC 3.0 test stations?

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

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SALTILLO — Local television station RCG announced that after testing its employees for COVID-19, 14 workers have tested positive.

In a press release signed by director Roberto C. González, president of the company, the workers were said to all be asymptomatic and precautionary measures laid out in the health guidelines are being carried out to avoid further spread.

61 tests were taken, of which 14 came back positive. The affected workers were sent home to remain isolated, and the company is continuing to monitor their physical condition.

The 47 workers that came back negative continue to perform their duties, practicing social distancing and with hygiene measures and temperature checks.

5 minutes ago, GodfreyGR said:

Would picking WCCO make sense? O&O station, epicenter of what caused all the protests?

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