Samantha

Want the 90s back? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvzesOcsCHQ Part 53 of the longest TV news open collection in history (I think?). Among the highlights: a bad WABG open, KWCH from the mid-1990s, an Alabama boatload (all new, as well), a WALA open from NBC Nightside overnight news, and the countdown clock that changed WBMG to WIAT in 1998.

I found this last month while perusing a large batch of opens from the English for the Children movement, including 2001 WGGB opens. WGGB 1993 coverage of a fire in Holyoke, Massachusetts; buried inside are three news opens from a previously unknown package. Chris Clausen voices. (2:18 - First at 5 open) (3:40 - 6pm open) (starts with the 11 @ 11 open) I sent this off to the NMSA but got no response.

Someone hit a gold mine in Spokane! All from the early 1990s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c32ktcrXh0 (1991 KHQ newsbreak: Image V...perhaps 1988 in fact?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ4cf3aDZrQ (1993 KHQ, already in the worst opens thread) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLUfCAZz2a4 (late 1987 KREM, a new open) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZtZ9zc9gTs (1991 KAYU KREM-produced)

Something a bit different, but great graphic design...in Spanish, no less. The network only lasted some three years. Telenoticias 1995: (possibly from the network's first broadcast; based in Miami) *"A new level of excellence in international news coverage" promo with spinning globe *Opener *3D ID More: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBZKwgm6PA *In addition to the promo above and some break bumpers... *Vida (lifestyles) segment opener *Negocios (business) segment opener (Isn't that music package beautiful?) Long close: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iktitT6vs74 Two years later, CBS gained control and added its name to the network... Telenoticias 1997 (transition): *Notice the CBS Telenoticias signage and promotions though the Telenoticias graphics appear at some points *A Telenoticias promo using the America's Station production music (sounds like 615's Pinnacle?) from FirstCom: "The Best Way to See the World Closer" CBS Telenoticias 1997: *Headlines *Opener with flying CBS eye and world element: "CBS Telenoticias...world news in 30 minutes." *Better copy of 1997 news theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZWl4CBef7Q (the beginning sounds like CBS, too!) Some American stations carried some of Telenoticias' newscasts, at least in late 1994 or 1995: WSNS, KUBD (now KPXC), XHRIO (now the Fox border blaster in Brownsville), and KMSG among them. Also Mexico City's XHTVM (a station with far more than a colorful history, which needs to be read to be fully understood) rebroadcasted some newscasts. The look is very nice, and I almost wonder if it's the same firm that did WTVJ in this time frame and/or the same designers as WSVN's Newsplex given the Miami connection.