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Orange County NewsChannel, 1990s. This same theme was used by UGA's student-produced "News Source 15" in 2001. http://archive.org/details/tobacco_vxx27a00 While looking for stuff I found something from "KOLD" that was actually from KOLO, a completely mislabeled clip, and something that said it was about Kansas but came from Kentucky, plus "WSPA" somehow becoming "WDPS" in "Spartensburg" (typo) and someone putting WLKY in the Cincinnati market. Also, the "NBC Evening News" [sic] from January 1978 — notably, without any tobacco-related material. There's even a WNBC close in here: http://archive.org/details/tobacco_giw27a00

From 1988, WVLA's 10pm open. Longest cut of this theme I've ever heard. Also includes a rejoin. Jacky also has a hypothesis about the name of this package, which he thinks might be titled "A New Vision for Louisiana" or similar:

From 1992, news opens throughout Michigan. Highlights: -A WLNS open with the WTVO 1992 News Theme! -Another WILX open from their basic graphics open (the morning open is in the NewsActive3 collection amidst a bunch of Fresno materials) -A "Get the Facts" WJBK open -A Sports Update open from WXYZ. KYW used this as production music in 1987 for lottery numbers, not sure of theme though -A WKBD open http://archive.org/details/tobacco_feq23e00

It's Part 95! Some stuff is new, though most of it isn't. Among the more intriguing items is a British clip of an Anglia News teaser and ITN's News at Ten from 1997. This Anglia theme really sounds nice (TV Ark has a full open from this era).

From late 1987, WRBT's Baton Rouge Today. What makes this notable is they would change calls the very next day (though the music and graphics remained).

From 1981, it's WTVM's Action 9 News — the oldest Columbus GA news open we have! What is the theme? http://youtu.be/kfB80kyTDjQ From the same year, WBAY's Action News at 6. I believe this might be a CBS News/affiliate theme. I've heard the opening sound effect before, on a CBS News/WBTV combo promo. This is the oldest Green Bay market open we have. http://youtu.be/Dqu5hK1Y71g

American Spirit Media : Raycom :: Mission : Nexstar Also, the "[market] News Now" appears to be a new naming standard in the Raycom group, probably started with Hawai'i News Now over in Honolulu but more in earnest when KOLD took over KMSB in Tucson.

A new part of the NewsActive3 collection has shown up, and rather stunningly it has some brand new stuff from Alaska to Florida. New material from WTVY, KTUU, WCJB, WBBH, WESH, and more! The WCJB open at 10:37 is a particular must-see.

The matching open...

A minute of C-SPAN2 continuity precedes this "TV Inform" Soviet evening newscast from 1991: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/23524-1 Compare that with a 1995 Russian evening newscast, with some later C-SPAN continuity: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/68315-1 C-SPAN has a lot of debates, as you might expect. Though you may have seen this one before (Jim Heath had it), it doesn't hurt to repeat it: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/33725-1 But even I haven't seen THIS one: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ArizonaSenat A week after that one, it was time for a gubernatorial debate. Held in Tucson, the open has the same graphics (which I would bet KSAZ furnished) but different music and VO: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ArizonaG

From 1990, the opener to WENY's 36 Eyewitness News. What's the theme? @fox2: here and see if you recognize a certain promo tune. I know I did.

You impress me by showing some piece of Phoenix TV history I've never seen. This Pets on Parade clip from the mid-1980s does that in two ways. The real interesting part, though, is at 5:13. Let's just say I may take back every word I've said about repetitive Turn To campaign songs.

There's more where that came from: KPNX 1986 10pm. Notably, this is a cut of the "We're Going Where You're Going" package I've never heard:

North of the border, but with Pride Inside: A CHCH news update from 1989. The package cut is strange. So is the TV border (in more ways than one): Also from CHCH, a 1992 newscast, though stripped of its commercials and anything they didn't have the rights to:

KTNV, 1990 5:30 open. The music is still Palmer, but the TVbD package has been ditched for the syndicated graphics also used by WTMJ and quite a few others: From 1993, a KLAS promo and open. While the promo features the 1992 theme's jingle, the station has by now changed its news music to Real News. The graphics are CBS affiliate graphics. Though this is the second sample of Real News we have from KLAS, it's still missing from the NMSA. In addition, the NMSA has another order error (NS2001->PYCCO8*->RealNews is the order, not NS2001->RealNews->PYCCO8) *"People You Can Count On 8" — "People You Can Count On" otherwise specifies the WBRZ/KTNV/WCHS package.

The answer is no. The first news shares in the country started in 1991, when WNEP began producing WOLF's 10pm newscast; WJKS created "First Coast News at 10" on WAWS in Jacksonville; and it wasn't uncommon even on the West Coast either (KAYU got a 10pm news in Spokane, produced by KREM). But it is an early example of what would soon become common. Also...KATU 11pm, 1996. This is the highest quality sample yet of their Spirit update. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Q9KiatcdA

This Aussie treasure showed up on YouTube this morning. I can't say I've seen any Aussie news opens...from the 70s!

@WWUpdate: The American themes picked up in Australia were probably re-recorded Down Under. TServo (Jeffrey) theorized that this was done to avoid issues with the Aussie music unions. We've found Turn To in one of the Aussie music union repertories — co-listed between Frank Gari and another name that didn't ring a bell with him, lending further credence to the theory. In the TVQ clip, the end of the "Stand Up" bumper sounds a little different. The TVQ open is rather closer to the US version except toward the end. The close is *definitely* a remix and matches the closes used across the Ten network in 1988. They show more of a synth mix. Of course the image songs used local voice talent. Other packages show more thoroughly elements of change — look at Tuesday's WWL package which sounds like a completely different mix, the 1980s MCTYW redub and the Nine Network's long running Cool Hand Luke mix.

Oh my, Chris Reed is back! He has just proceeded to crack or shatter much of our knowledge of Charleston news music — both the WCSC and WCBD materials show uses of their late 90s packages earlier than expected. I'm starting to think there may be an order of packages error in the WCIV history. I think Brave New World *preceded* this theme — which would be indicated by the fact that the Brave New World open looks more early 90s and uses the title News 4 (and IIRC has some news item related to the Gulf War!) In addition, the 1994 copy of this era of WCIV opens has the VO of Chris Clausen — just like the Brave New World package. The NMSA has refused to respond to some of my emails related to similar errors at KOTV and WJSU (both in the 1980s). Gosh, that WCIV package is severely underrated. Note that this is a different VO than the known 6pm version of this open. Also note that the uses The One and Only. I do believe the open and close, which are related, are not from that package.

Another Internet Archive find. KXAS, 6pm, 1992. Note that this video is mislabeled as a teen smoking piece aired by KCAL. ttp://archive.org/details/tobacco_gxx27a00 From May 1986, WCMH's Newsconference 4. Notably, it looks like the Outlet-WAGA-KSAT-KTVK theme found use beyond 1980: http://archive.org/details/tobacco_iey27a00 WETA's Metro Week, 1994. This production music was also used by CBS Sports. http://archive.org/details/tobacco_gbw27a00

applesauce2100 (whose uploads mostly consist of WJBK, WSYX and WAGA material) now has a capture card... — WSYX 1993 open (still using VTS Prime News — they would switch news packages before the end of the year) Also... http://youtu.be/MZ3KqfAfgr0 — WDAF 1992 open.

WAAY weekend, 1994? (Wikipedia indicates they were still using Eyewitness News, which is correct in 1993 as he also has some WAAY news briefs, but look, Ma, no Eyewitness here!). This is a "post-jcbD" open; the background looks like WXIA but nothing else matches that WXIA open, such as the talent name graphic which instead invokes a very different school of design: http://youtu.be/RvS4Uw846rI

KTBS 1996, with the original Palmer package: WDAM 1989. This is a Network Music theme: WBRZ 1991. Noon broadcast. Pride Inside with original 1987 TVbD package.

Wow, that looks impressive — and sounds much better than the replacement four-note Prime News and Ed Hopkins VO. I think that's the same Chris Dunn now in Phoenix at KPHO.

Larry Van Nuys!? Oh boy. That's well past the Paramount era, which is really intriguing.