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Another long contribution, and that's because this is a 40th anniversary special produced by KLAS in 1993:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq9dXfJaRaE

 

The history of the station under Howard Hughes is fascinating and so are the anecdotes.

 

From a presentation standpoint, there isn't a lot, unfortunately:

 

At 35:15 there are several morning news opens (covered up by narration unfortunately). Both have themes I've never heard. One is from a generation of opens I've never seen and is from 1989.

 

You can also see at 30:20 some clips of KLAS in the (late?) 70s as "Newscenter 8" with a wild, vertically slanted OCR-font 8! At 33:15 is a clip of a different, virtual (almost Newsmat-esque) set that was used in the early 80s with the same name and logo.

At 34:47, a news open voiced by Charlie Tuna! Odd seeing that right after I heard of his passing.

There's also this clip, which is noteworthy. Can you identify the theme? (I know what it is.)

New Jersey Network news.

Sad Breaking news everyone. WBNS Drops This Is Your News after it has been used since 1998.

 

The sad part is what they replaced it with. Aerial is such a cheap and uninspired theme.

KING in 1997:

 

 

And WIVB's PM Magazine, 1979. Who did the jingle at 2:33? "And That's Why We're Four"

 

They were singing "That's what we're Four"; and I'd be stunned if that wasn't Klein& (stunned, I tell you).

Does it have large picture windows visible from an adjacent parking lot?

Got the address????

 

Sounds totally yummy!

(ankle bracelet gps alert)

You are the height of just too muchery.

A national-quality promo for a local station (WTMJ 1986).

Where else could he end up in the Tampa Bay area? WFLA has Cate, WTSP has Roundtree and Billi, and WTVT has Wilson and just acquired Chris Cato. I'm not familiar with BN9 now since my parents have Fios so what else could he do unless it's a lateral move to mornings or weekends or maybe just special reporting?

 

I can only see him going to WFLA to be in a Wes Sarginson type of role and anchor only at 5.

That's what I was thinking, too. I have a hunch Brendan's headed to Bay News 9; but it's just a hunch.

"We FIRST told you last night at 11p" meaning the first time they first aired the story was at 11pm...not that they were the FIRST to tell anyone.

 

"We JUST checked" ....yesterday....

 

Kill me now...it's gonna get worse i promise.

Sounds like the Cliff's Notes version of Tired TV Terms.

Brendan McLaughlin will leave the ABC affiliate WFTS in Tampa on Dec 18 after 21 years with the station.

 

http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/brendan-mclaughlin-leaving-wfts/159766

Here's a quote from his FB post:

“A six month sabbatical starts then, followed by a return to productive and meaningful work.”

Sounds similar to what Martha Sugalski did when she left WESH; we all know what she ended up doing.

This deserves the double post. They don't get much rarer than this:

 

They had enough money to spring for a good news package (Non-Stop's First News), and an experienced anchorman (former KMOX-TV anchor Steve Schiff). They clearly had high hopes.

A WVLA Reporter Claims He Was Fired for Asking Louisiana Senator (and candidate for Governor) David Vitter About His Past Prostitution Scandal

 

http://theadvocate.com/news/13402223-123/reporter-claims-he-was-fired

It's all about access; in this case access to that sweet, sweet campaign cash.

Found something interesting on Google Play.

 

1. There is a new (tentative) logo of WFMY News 2

2. All TEGNA Media's apps are now using DoApp platform.

Definite improvement on the logo.

Don't know how many stations were still making "There Goes That News Van, Again" promos in the late 90s; but KVBC decided that the 1998 public wouldn't find silent home film reels too dated.

 

I recently came across something rare on YouTube. From 1982, here is the first moments of a WNGE-TV 2 newscast and features a report from Jeff Eller which was posted on his YouTube account two months ago. WNGE's "NewsWatch 2" featured the classic KDFW/WCBS/WBTV news set that was used in the 1980s and includes the classic GE news theme package used by another former station owned by General Electric, KCNC.

 

You can check it out at

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKuCBA5NYHM

 

I recently came across something rare on YouTube. From 1982, here is the first moments of a WNGE-TV 2 newscast and features a report from Jeff Eller which was posted on his YouTube account two months ago. WNGE's "NewsWatch 2" featured the classic KDFW/WCBS/WBTV news set that was used in the 1980s and includes the classic GE news theme package used by another former station owned by General Electric, KCNC.

 

You can check it out at

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A very rare WJXT open from sometime in the 70s; as part of a larger retrospective on Tom Wills.

Does this mean the lottery numbers won't be shown on Action News anymore, or is that "general information" once the drawing happens?

Fox 29 probably fought hard to get the drawings, I doubt they were the lottery's first choice. Aside from that and WPXI, all the other incumbent stations kept the drawings. WNEP, for example, still has them. They've been very good to the lottery; they air every drawing, including the multistate games, live. Most stations air Powerball and Mega Millions on tape delay.

One has to wonder: was WEWS (which also called their newscasts TV-5 Eyewitness News) used as a middleman to get ABC's golden voice to a non-ABC affiliate?

WAGA Open from 1988. Warning: your mind will be blown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkxGyftjvos

 

An excerpt or two from KIRO in 1993, during the short lived "news outside the box" era:

 

 

 

If Brian W Brady were to sell off any of his assets to Perry Sook's Nexstar, it would more likely be Blackhawk's KSWT and KYMA in Yuma and Eagle Creek's KVTV in Laredo or still sell off KSWT and KYMA in Yuma to Nexstar but sell off KVTV to Sagamore Hill. It is very possible for Sagamore Hill to purchase KVTV from Brady's Eagle Creek and be able to see much of KVTV operations get farmed out to ex-former sister station KZTV studios in Corpus Christi to become sister stations once again and since Sagamore Hill has already sold off KGNS in 2013 to Yellowstone who in turned sold KGNS to Gray Television in late 2013/early 2014 meaning it is very possible for Sagamore Hill to re-enter Laredo by purchasing KVTV while Gray owns KGNS. KSWT and KYMA would be a great fit for Nexstar since Nexstar now has KASW in Phoenix and KLAS in Las Vegas in those markets closer to Yuma. I feel Nexstar would be a lot better fit for KSWT and KYMA and even KVTV since Nexstar has more resource and leverage for operations TV stations affiliated with CBS and NBC than Brady and Blackhawk and Eagle Creek parent company Northwest Broadcasting. my idea of Brady selling off KSWT/KYMA in Yuma and KVTV in Laredo to Nexstar or selling KSWT/KYMA to Nexstar while selling KVTV to Sagamore Hill would make Brady much more focused on streamlining Northwest operations to only focusing on operating Northwest TV stations affiliated with the FOX Network affiliates in Spokane, Yakima-Walla Walla, Medford, Binghamton, and Syracuse.

 

It could be possible for Brady under Eagle Creek who already sold off KZTV jointly to Sagamore Hill and Cordillera/Evening Post would allowed Cordillera and Sagamore Hill to jointly fully purchase KVTV in Laredo as a way for KVTV to become a sister station to KZTV again and also to KRIS in the future. In my opinion Brady has no chance of being able to continue to operate ownership of his own stations throughout his Cedar Creek, Stainless, Bristlecone, Eagle Creek, Blackhawk, and Northwest Broadcasting banners of his ownership group structures. Brady's Blackhawk outsourced operations of the ex former late James (Jimmy) Rogers-Intermountain West Communications Company/Sunbelt station KYMA and ex former Harry Pappas-Pappas Telecasting Companies station KSWT in Yuma to News Press Gazette station KECY in Yuma as NPG has the resources to keep KSWT and KYMA going under KECY and NPG control than KSWT and KYMA together operated seperately under Brady's Blackhawk control as Brady and Black Hawk got very burned out from operating KSWT and KYMA itself due to KYMA being the weakest performing station of IWCC and KSWT being as one of the weakest performing stations of Pappas when Pappas went into bankruptcy and receivership with KSWT being held by Lee W Shubert when Brady proposed to purchase KSWT and David Stapleton when the purchase and acquisition of KSWT was completed under the Pappas Liquidating Trust.

 

Pappas weakest performing station were KSWT and WIWN while continuing ownership of weakest performing station KDMI and WLGA with NTV/KFXL as the only cash cow left for Pappas.

 

NTV/KFXL still struggles as well as stand alone KLKN to fight and compete with top dog Gray owned 10-11 due to 10-11 being more widely available over the air, cable and satellite as well as signing on from Lincoln as KOLN on Channel 12 in February 1953 before moving to Channel 10 by taking over KFOR Channel 10 in 1954 while Channel 12 became KUON as part of UNL's NETin December 1954 from Lincoln when NTV would sign on as KHOL (now KHGI) on December 24, 1953 from the Kearney area serving Kearney, Hastings, and Grand Island, later adding KHPL (now KWNB) Hayes Center in 1956, KHQL (later KCNA under NTV, later KBGT as an independent station, later KCAN as satellite of KCAU, now present day KLKN in Lincoln) Albion in 1964, and KHTL (later KSNB under NTV, KSNB as satellite of KTVG, dark between December 2009 and April 2013, KSNB as 10/11 Central Nebraska with My Network and METV, now KSNB the successor of the ex-former KHAS as NBC Nebraska) Superior in 1965 and 10-11 would finally be completed with KGIN signing on in 1961 from the Grand Island area serving Kearney, Hastings, and Grand Island. 10-11 now mostly focuses on the Lincoln area while sister station NBC Nebraska mostly focuses on the Kearney, Hastings, and Grand Island areas.

 

Brady could've wanted to sell WICZ/WBPN to Mission to focused on WSYT/WNYS and likely was counting on the sale of WICZ/WBPN to Mission under Nexstar to possibly compete with 14 other broadcasters I could think of possibly wanting to acquire NTV/KFXL from Harry Pappas/Pappas Telecasting under the Pappas Liquidating Trust with David Stapleton as the receivership trustee since Brady already had bought KSWT from Pappas: David Smith/Sinclair Broadcast Group, Mark Nalbone/Wyomedia, Terry Hurley/Cordillera Communications TV, Perry Sook/Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Vincent (Vince) Sadusky/Lin Media-Media General, Schurz, Morris Multimedia, Randy Bongarten/Bonten Media Group, William Pollack/Pollack/Belz Broadcasting, Gene Loving and John Trinder/Max Media, DuJuan McCoy/Bayou City Broadcasting, Bob Prather/Heartland Media, Saga Communications, and KLKN with owner-parent Philip Lombardo/Citadel Communications LLC with the possibly of Harry Pappas preferring to sell NTV/KFXL to either Sinclair Broadcast Group, Brian W Brady/Northwest Broadcasting, Mark Nalbone/Wyomedia, Cordillera Communications TV, or even Max Media with Sinclair Broadcast Group, Brian W Brady/Northwest Broadcasting, or even Max Media as the potential finalists with Sinclair Broadcast Group to reunite NTV/KFXL with KMPH/KFRE, KDBC, KPTM/KXVO, and KPTH/KMEG under Pappas and WWHO under Fant and Brian W Brady/Northwest Broadcasting to reunite NTV/KFXL with KSWT under Pappas as the contenders and front runners to be one of the winning bidders of NTV/KFXL over the objections of David Stapleton in selling NTV/KFXL with Stapleton likely preferring to allow KLKN with owner-parent Philip Lombardo/Citadel Communications LLC or Perry Sook/Nexstar who is trying to acquire KCWI from Pappas to acquire NTV/KFXL while Pappas preferring to sell NTV/KFXL to one of the broadcasters (Sinclair, Brady's Northwest under Eagle Creek, Nalbone's Wyomedia, Cordillera, Max Media) who owns and operate a station in the same TV DMA where NTV/KFXL competitor 10-11 and NBC Nebraska owner-parent Gray Television has TV stations there as well to acquire NTV and KFXL is more of a way for Harry Pappas to see NTV gets to keep the ABC affiliation and continue to be the separate independent ABC station for the Grand Island, Hastings, Kearney, and North Platte areas to remained independent of Philip Lombardo and his Citadel Communications own Lincoln area based ABC affiliate KLKN within the Lincoln-Grand Island-Hastings-Kearney TV DMA market and trying to be able to have KFXL the ability to continue having their own over the air signal inside Lincoln independent from the now Sinclair Broadcast Group owned KPTM out of Omaha. Also has to do with those broadcasters and the broadcasting groups (Sinclair, Brady's Northwest under Eagle Creek, Nalbone's Wyomedia, Cordillera, Max Media) they are associated with also having to deal with competing with 10-11 and KHAS (now KSNB to become NBC Nebraska) various sister stations across various TV markets under Gray Television ownership.

 

Brian W Brady and Harry Pappas had criss cross with each other in the past due to Pappas buying what was then KBKI in Walla Walla, Washington as an unbuilt TV station while Brady keep KFFX/KCYU-LP as the FOX stations there while Pappas built KBKI to became KAZW as an affiliate of the Azteca America network in 2002 and finally as KCWK as an affiliate of the CW Plus before signing off in May 2008 due to the Pappas bankruptcy crisis later in an ironic twist of irony Brady acquiring KSWT from Pappas to from a duopoly with KYMA in Yuma, Arizona.

 

Speaking of KOTV, here's a open from 1996 or so with "any two of the following".

 

I did not know what to think of that video of the Indy 500 that Milt Spencer presented. Was it about racing or softcore porn?!! Haha! That same person also uploaded 90% of that newscast later on in cellcam-o-vision.

 

Also again we hear the NBC News Tabloid production music which makes you wonder if they used Part of Your Life as only an Image Campaign and not a news theme like they did with Turn To during the Power News era in the late 80s-early 90s.

 

He also uploaded a set of 1983 Joe Mannion editorials

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkUx0Gcfp_c

 

That's 3 different graphic variations of the editorial intro on YouTube during "The Spirit of Tampa Bay" era.

1982- Red, Green, and Blue pre-call letter change "Figure" 8 logo

1983- Flipping gold version of the "Figure" 8

1985- Gold "Figure" 8 with Blue background. It looks like that editorial video montage overlapped the beginning of the Power News era in Fall 1985 in one of the editorials showing Steve Andrews.

 

Cedar Rapids news from 1993, begins with a KGAN TVbD open with Real News.

Speaking of KGAN, here's a brief clip of Bob Hilton anchoring the news (yes, game show fans, that Bob Hilton).

 

Out of date yes, but i cant help but like that open.