Samantha

The calculations for buying a Hispanic television station are very different. Nielsen has its own DMA rankings for Hispanic television households. The top ten Hispanic DMAs in this list are LA, New York, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, San Antonio, Phoenix and the Rio Grande Valley market. These DMAs, in 2012-13, included 51% of all Hispanic TV homes in the US; the top 10 DMAs for all TV homes the same year represented 29.5% of the entire TV universe. (2013-14 Hispanic DMA info was not available.) For NBC this is like buying a Top 10 DMA station. In fact KTLM was the last Top 10 Hispanic DMA station that was not owned by NBC or ZGS. The largest Hispanic DMA station not owned by NBC or ZGS after this transaction will be KCSO-LD Sacramento (HDMA #11), owned by Sainte Partners. KCSO does not have any local news.

As it should be. This is, what, the first time it's been back since 1994? That and the "Team to Watch" image tell me somebody's been looking at old Sydney/Melbourne videos from the 80s...

KGUN evening anchor Jennifer Waddell is headed to Nashville, where she'll work for WZTV.

I was wondering why that had happened. Last month Randall Weiss received $10 and an LPTV in St. George, Utah, in exchange for selling the one he had in Aspen, Colorado. Now he put that $10—and his motorhome—to good use.

In a Speculatron Time Machine posting, I mentioned WRAL and KSL as two of America's great stations. Turns out they're also the top two local TV news websites in the country. Each draw a majority of the area's adult population to their websites; for KSL, that's a whopping 67%, while WRAL pulled in 54%. The other three in the top five were WVIR, WMUR and KCRG. Also in re: Scott Light... Good luck. He's going to need it.

Given the market size, I'll give them a pass on everything except the miscolored peacock—oh wait, even did that.

WSJV promo from 1992: In the "I didn't know this existed" category, an All News Channel-produced Showtime update from 1991 using a Network Music track. I found another one of these with Gordon Steinke, who went on the next year to CITV in Edmonton, Alberta:

News Station gone from WSYR. Next stop...WIVT, the station using 17-year-old TVbD graphics? If there's any real bad sheep in that area of the country, it's WIVT. Seriously, those graphics are old (they blew KOTA out of the water years ago).

Is it a promotion? You judge, but Sheila Gray, who just recently left WXIX, is going to work for Sinclair. She'll be doing a syndicated report for the entire station group based out of Dayton while also doing some reporting for WKEF-WRGT. It's highly likely that the Dayton choice was made to allow SBG to circumvent Gray's non-compete clause; she can't work in Cincinnati until February.

WVII "Profiles", late 80s/early 90s: http://archive.org/details/tobacco_hrx27a00 You don't get this every day: Hong Kong news opens from 1986! These are shot with a camera at a monitor. Some are in Chinese and some in English: http://archive.org/details/tobacco_ljw27a00 WQRF, "39 Today" segment, 1980: http://archive.org/details/tobacco_dlx27a00 New Zealand full newscasts from 1990. The "One" network with a New Zealand Commonwealth Games 1990 ident and "One Network News" open, plus all of the news stories and commercials: http://archive.org/details/tobacco_orm02b00

WCIU close and signoff from 1989. What's the close theme?

It's been a fairly technical day. We've had an update on Dielectric's equipment fixes in Richmond, a list of proposals for ATSC 3.0, and now WTHR has announced its intent to seek a power boost to help improve digital reception. Apparently even Indianapolis viewers are having problems with the RF 13 signal.

I've always loved the TVbD demo reels (they've also been up there for years). The WDIV theme was used 1981/82 to 1984. We have a bunch of pieces of it but it's not in the NMSA.

Other stations that used them extensively past 1992: KGET, KOAA, WFMJ (debuted 1993?), WICU? (says 1990-96, but we have Signature in 1993), WTVA. I also found the source for a bunch of the Huntsville, AL market finds: WAAY 1988 with KOAT89 theme: (used beginning in 1987!) WAFF 1988 with KSL89 theme: WAAY 1990 with NS2001: (I think this was picked up in 1990, not 1986)

No, that's the station's on-air ID.

KSNF was using five themes at once, several of them hand-me-downs from Wichita. In the 1990-94 time frame, they were using Hello, Turn To, All the News (especially), News Series 2000 and NBC: The Place to Be; that's a lot, and it's a really bad jumble too. And we don't know which one was used in the open. And from 1994-97 they used three different music pieces (I suspect that aside from Heartland, the other two are actually production music pieces). KOAM, KODE and KSNF are still pretty Swiss cheese, KOAM not so much thanks to my finds (we have most of the key pieces back to their switch to CBS in 1983). KODE has lots of missing pieces (including 1990s-2003) and mostly no-name themes to show for it. KSNF is confusing in and of itself, but being in Joplin where the NMSA source information is really bad doesn't help.

KSNF news updates from 1994. This is why I say they used NBC: The Place to Be...

The whistle's been blown by a couple of free press groups about the Dreamcatcher shell for Tribune.

I hate to post again, but our Joplin connection finally dumped some more KSNF on us (repeated but important): Promos from 1986... I think the music in the first one is from TM's All the News: ...And more material. I think the ID has All the News (again), but here's Turn To showing up all of a sudden: Much like it seems like KSNW was using Hello, GNP and Turn To at once, I think KSNF was mixing Hello, All the News, Turn To, NS2000 (very limited) and NBC: The Place to Be (for news updates as late as 1994). That's a lot of different music.

You like that WFRV logo... Arial. Please. I do see where a certain J.C.'s style can show through (he seems to be retired, for what it's worth). But it's not him. Reminds me of the stations that aped TVbD in the late 80s and early 90s, like KAIT and WCJB. On the KYMA/KSWT watch, the unemployment numbers for July in Yuma County came in. 34.5%. That's more than four times the unemployment rate of Arizona, at 8%. In June, Yuma and El Centro were the two metro areas in the country with the highest unemployment rates. With unemployment rates like these, that failing station waiver has all the reason in the world to exist.

I have no good place for this. It's not in English: XHTVM 40 (Mexico City), 2003. XHTVM has had a very unusual and contentious history in its 20-year life. It started as the product of a company called CNI that mostly produced news programs. Later CNI entered into an agreement with TV Azteca to create "Azteca 40", run by the two companies. The contract was broken, facilities were retaken (this newscast is from the day when CNI retook full control of the Chiquihuite transmitter), then came an employee strike, the owner's arrest in Houston and a bunch of legal cases. Right now, it's TV Azteca's, branded as Proyecto 40. Lots of material here, ignoring the watermark.

Chuck George, chief met at KOLD who has been suffering depression and multiple leaves of absence in the last few years, has resigned from the Tucson station to pursue a doctoral degree at the University of Arizona.

"From the news center in Phoenix, this is KOOL News 10." 1979, and what a gem this is! *** Another international find with no good place. You might recognize the music! This was produced by Colombia's RCN (back in the days of the layer cake/programadora system) in 1992. The theme music is KPM's 20th Century Revolution, used by KCST c. 1986: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRDAV87DomU

All the KTVQ you could ever want. There are four different new themes for KTVQ here, three of them new to us as well (KTVQ used the WTHI 1985 theme in 1988). http://www.johninmontana.com/video/video.htm Each one of the four opens (one 1972/possibly later in the 70s, one 1981, one 1988/WTHI 1985 and one 1990) has something really intriguing. The music from the 70s open could be some of the worst music in history; the 1990 opens begin with a sung jingle "The News Station, KTVQ". The rest of the site is chock-full of photos of TV from the rest of the country and Montana, too, some of them going back into the 60s and 70s. I even learned a couple things—did you know that KPAX in Missoula, MT, is named for founder Joe Sample's favorite team, the Green Bay Packers? EDIT: Found the promo that matches the 1990 open. Looks like we know that KTVQ changed opens in 1988: *** WISN 1992 10pm: He has a bunch of other local news stuff taped as an incident to his abortion-focused YT channel, but this is the only complete open he has.

The retirement of a WMTV anchor from 1992 is cause for a news open. The theme is Network Music's Energy III, first known example of it in TV news: Also from 1992, I finally found the video for that KAUZ Wall to Wall News open. Heavily based off the CBS affiliate graphics of the era: