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WLWT "News 5 Tonight", 1985. This was probably a new theme at the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LX15dT3CQ8

Who knew a KSTP semi-satellite in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, could cash in on Facebook? http://www.poynter.o...tion-big-story/ Also...KTXS and KTXE have debuted HD local news, making them the first in either market to do so: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/08/11/53197/ktxs-ktxe-debut-hd-local-news And one news anchor is making a career change to top all career changes. From morning met to...restaurateur? http://www.wptz.com/news/28824371/detail.html

I've enclosed some Phoenix oddities I've found. Some news packages that haven't made opens in six years are in use for other purposes. KSAZ commissioned Global Grid from Cue11 in 2002. It was phased out in 2005 for Fusion News (which they still use today alongside the Fox O&O package). But sponsor tags have kept the older theme. KPHO dropped News One for Enforcer in 2005, but the weather sounder from the package has remained since the Enforcer switch. Earlier this year on a live sports wrap, I heard a News One cut opening the sports wrap. I am trying to get some audio footage of that. To prove it's a current clip, it's a little longer with the Enforcer series 1 bump out to break included. These are my own audio recordings. Sadly, the right audio channel does not work. I also recorded a solid minute of KPHO's weather subchannel (which loops a weather cut of Enforcer with no VOs except for station promos) and some NMSA samples the same way — KTAZ's no longer got the Telemundo News Theme. I can't even figure out what they ARE using! KSAZ Global Grid 2011.mp3 KPHO News One weather sounder.mp3

Well, they didn't have a news presence — at least that one is not so repetitive! Edit: NC news odds and ends, 1994. Who decided The Image Leader was a decent package to use in 1994!? http://www.youtu.be/LwaecrkU6IA Edit 2: Jim Heath has more Phoenix awesomeness: KPHO, 1986 close. At this time they were airing 11:30 and 9:30 newscasts. And dig that set! http://youtu.be/3ANh5948Ws4 KPNX, mid-1980s sports theme. This has a 99% chance of being a Hello News cut: http://youtu.be/H57lhIlaAWU KPNX, 1986 credits and small promo. The credits feature their awesome "We're Going Where You're Going" image theme from the late 1980s, but the promo uses Hello News and the Action News imaging. There was probably a transitional period between these two: http://youtu.be/VADk_S-bMJE

Nice find! I'm digging that use of Counterpoint. A little weird to link it with 1993, though. They used quite a few cuts. Speaking of which, I'm linking to one particular cut of the 1990 theme I haven't heard before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FxRXPXcUm4 — the worst Turn To lyrics ever? KXLY, 1985

KATV 1994 (News Central): http://www.youtu.be/5TLc8pnMep0 WFMY 1996 (PNP): The WFMY open is kinda odd in the choice of cut.

WAWS, late 1996 11pm. This was the first night that WAWS was producing its own news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQmjUqArd3o

WFLD 1988. Did they have better ratings back then? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21e2O1bZDV0 Get a load of that top!

WDYR, 1999. VO is Carey Byars (according to uploader). This upstart indie news operation did not last long. The station is now Cornerstone Television.

KHTV, 1990: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsmUJMuZZrQ KXLY, 1998 5pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy417kbrCfY

KREM 1988 11pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiiFAcTLPc Not sure if I shared this one. It's a promo (essentially a redone news open) for KREM in 1995 with Brave New World and a John Christopher Burns-designed graphics package: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rEjFm4Vvbs If Crommy's firing back up the Spokane open machine, it means good news.

KXLY 1987 weekend open (Great News Package): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVqvRQzoSZE It's been a while since the guy posted an open.

Ever wanted proof that WJAR used, of all packages, Stephen Arnold's Building a Better Texas? We now have that plus a long close from this rare custom package. Also some WPRI and WCVB stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgpiVlzlLBQ

And NewsActive3 regales us to a 79th edition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KG8hPrJoDY That WTHR photog promo is just weird. And there are even some Phoenix news items to gulp it all down.

Another 15-minute video...it can only be the NewsActive 3 Collection! This time, part 78, with everything from a WHP open with two logos to a WDAF 1984 open, a KSEE promo with "News People" (oh, that's new!), two KOMU opens, a bunch of WTMJ stuff, and a WXYZ "Made in Detroit" promo featuring the making of the circle 7. (Did that move to China too?)

KNSD, 1991 11pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNx0qQmSnkg

Before Jim Heath dumped his collection of old Phoenix news opens, that guy had most everything that we had from Phoenix. He has a KPHO promo on there with Scott Chapin's voiceover (in Phoenix, big voiceover names never really caught on with the exceptions of Charlie Van Dyke, Brian Lee and David Kaye – no John Young or Doc Morgan, and John B. Wells, Paul Turner, and Scott had short stints with local stations).

Do you like TV camera batteries falling through your porch? In the perfect side meal to all the 17 (First Coast) News stuff... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEmL9aBGygs

There's more, more, more: KMGH's 10pm news after the affiliation switch from World News Now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDJ2ldokvA Three full Phoenix newscasts, including this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sjMYx7bm5I A KNSD open from the late 1990s is also there.

A delayed "NBC 24 News at 11" from WNWO, 1998 (though I have a nagging feeling it's two years old graphically). TVbD work when FF Meta was way, way in vogue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFgS7KU-OHQ

The debut WNCN newscast, September 4, 1995 (with a 3D-heavy open): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ5Dpy1BgRY

Yeah, I knew what the first three were. (They're not in the NMSA, though) #4 (WSFA) is a BIG mystery because... -It's from 1999. The only theme we know that WSFA used between 1996 and 2003 was a package called "Alabama's News Source", a custom composition by Ralph Ford. -We don't even have a single sample of it. (We may want to ask: there is an email address on his very sparse website. But given the date, I have a hunch that it really is this package.

Some of that stuff I've never seen or heard before, namely the WTVY, WJHG, WSFA, and WTNZ packages. (The WSFA package in particular. This might be the custom "Alabama's News Source" package, for which the NMSA does not even have a raw music sample. The date, 1999, is correct.)

WTVT 11pm open with the sax cut of Brave New World, 1992: Very much like what WTVJ had in 1988 IMO. There's more in that channel too that's new in the past few hours.

WSEE Newswatch 35 Weekend from 1991 (new theme, not Hello News):