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On 2/15/2025 at 11:19 PM, J.W. Rodriguez said:

Thought I'd keep this thread alive by asking a question.

 

A friend of my family that watched a TV station that used the theme and promo in question is wondering which composer came up with it in the 1980's?

 

HINT: It was a nod to a longtime slogan famously used by American Express. The two station IDs attached will explain.

Sounds like VTS Productions.

Any idea why Gray is removing the NBC branding from all of their affiliates?

6 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

Not TV news, but still important enough for this topic:

 

Bob Barker has passed away at 99 years old.

He was singlehandedly responsible, in the East at least, for CBS affiliates almost always dominating the noon hour because of the lead-in he provided. I’d say it fits here.

Nobody circles the wagons like Newscenter 13. 

22 hours ago, 10Viewer said:

Sounds like a bunch of examples of separate packages. Is there anything 'revealed' here?

Towards the middle is an unaired, and until now unknown, package presumably composed for KTVI.

Just gonna leave this here. Discuss away...

Ladies and gentlemen, the next mayor of Jacksonville:

I thought it was a late April Fool's joke at first, but I'm sure the staff there is breathing a sigh of relief.

On 2/25/2023 at 1:25 PM, DENDude said:

Put baseball back on local broadcast stations again & add a streaming partner.  Broadcast worked for years before the RSN's, it can work again.

That is, quite honestly, a very good idea. It's well known that the only thing many people still turn to linear TV for is live sports. If I was running an independent station, I'd most definitely be looking into some local sports rights...if the price is right.

What a find: Chris Thomas' last sportscast at WBAL before leaving for an illustrious decade and change at WFLA. A bit of melancholy seeing him with Vince Gibbens, seeing how they both died so tragically young.

On 2/2/2023 at 4:13 AM, bmasters1 said:

Vintage WJZ EWN openings from 1980-83, both with the same music, and a different title formation:

 

--First, the late edition from that time, with title music in a more stereo format, and shots of late-night activities (fireman sliding down the firepole, carhop moving among cars at a drive-in, toll booth worker enjoying her job, etc.); the different title formation has the two parts of the Eyewitness News title coming together from the left and the right against a black screen (the way we were used to seeing it, the last shot [don't know what of] slid up and revealed the studio with the title superimposed on that shot):

 

I think they might have actually managed to out-happy WPVI's "happy people" open.

WESH newscast from September 1990, with one of the clunkier slogans I've heard. It didn't last long, the slogan that is. Also one of the only newscasts I've seen outside of New England that opens with the lottery numbers from earlier in the day.

I don’t know if anyone knows the composer, but you probably remember it from this WKBW promo.

17 hours ago, CircleSeven said:

Back to WSMV. They've made a small branding change this Labor Day.

 

The news brand has changed "News 4 Nashville" to "WSMV 4 News". They've also the first station to use new theme music from (founder of 615 Music) Randy Wachtler's new music firm, 11 One/Music.

 

 

 

Did they have a staffer voice those opens?! 

I don’t think there’s an affiliate in America that wouldn’t approve of this. I’m sure they’d all love to have an hour-long 10.

Well, the one thing people watch local news for more than anything these days is for the weather. Even with that in mind, 7 or 8 mets on staff seems like overkill; but then again I'm not the one hunkered down in the weather center during a EF5.

On 8/4/2022 at 6:44 PM, PKATL said:

 

I followed him on Instagram, though I didn’t even know his name. After all, it wasn’t his account, but the helicopter’s account. Nonetheless, a wonderful ambassador for WFLA.

The list of locally-produced sitcoms is, unsurprisingly, short. A lot of people in the TV business know of Park Street Under, the sitcom produced by WCVB that's believed to have inspired Cheers and is still remembered by Bostonians of a certain age. On the other hand, you have this: Hamtramck, a production of WDIV in Detroit. A disaster according to almost everyone, it caused the station to be inundated with phone calls from offended viewers, mostly from the Polish community. In fact, according to Mort Crim's memoir, word of the show and it's portrayals made it to Poland itself, and those Poles who heard of it also hated it. In fact, when Crim was on assignment there, his interpreter nearly deserted him when she learned that he worked for WDIV. She stayed on only after Mort and crew convinced her they had nothing to do with Hamtramck.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IZiVLneyHRpQqQuEXlUgRZW8tasZIaEt/view

One of the all-time great station campaigns, WJZ's "Pictures In The Skies". A campaign that, hilariously, Al Sanders did not like. "What does that mean?!", he would exclaim. That tidbit just adds to the campaign's charm, IMHO

And I might as well shoehorn this in too, a version of "Pictures" with the incomparable Ernie Anderson.

1 hour ago, Kenneth Kissel said:

New GM Chris Cotugno has already stumbled with saying that Pittsburgh isn't a sports town. I'm very worried about Pittsburgh's long time ratings leader due to these two new hires. 

"Pittsburgh is not a sports town." Yeah, and New Yorkers aren't picky about their pizza. If these are the kind of people CBS are hiring to run their stations, some of you might have a point about a possible sale down the road. These are the actions of a company that doesn't see broadcasting as a priority.

On 1/30/2022 at 12:07 PM, tyrannical bastard said:

One "vintage logo" we'll never see on TV again for sure is likely the 1980's WVUE logo.

During Hurricane Katrina, the station was badly flooded by the levee failures in the area, resulting in the station having to be re-built from the inside out, literally.

 

Since then, the station has risen to become the #1 station in New Orleans, with it's own doing, and helped by the declining fortunes of WWL, mostly at the behest of their owners and CBS.

That's some unfortunate foreshadowing coming from that logo.

Good luck finding an aircheck this old in this good of quality. WTMJ April 10th, 1968.

3 hours ago, H-Town TV Fan said:

News open and snippet for KMSP "Minnesota News Tonight", January 10, 1993.

 

There's No Substitute...

4 hours ago, Bob-F said:

My guess: she joins the burgeoning community of real estate agents. Happened to two couples I or people I know have known and loved: Curt and Dee Miller formerly of Curt's Cyclery, whose closing was reported last month on 69News; and Tim and Hala Bonner, who operated the Taza (Eat Egyptian!) food truck and, briefly, a stand in the Easton Public Market.

The Lehigh Valley is one hot market.