T.L. Hughes

That's what I thought when I saw the image of the new studio building facade Georgie56 posted. [ATTACH=full]6488[/ATTACH]

I think one of the TVNT users with a YouTube channel and a capture card should try to record and upload the 43@50 half-hour special on their channel. It would seem like a good watch.

Question: Is KCWH-LD a CW Plus outlet or merely a direct KSNB repeater? The KNHL article on Wikipedia states that KCWH carries CW programming, but RabbitEars shows that the station carries KSNB's entire channel slate (NBC programming on DT1, MeTV/MyNetworkTV on DT2 and Ion Television on DT3).

From the same channel, the first few minutes of KTXL's 10:00 p.m. newscast from March 1995 (complete with news open, which for some reason, still shows them using separate logos with both the pre-1993 and the 1994-97 Fox logo as well as the station's iteration of the 1990-92 "It's on Fox" campaign):

Unfortunately, I've misspelled Cincinnati in the manner shown in the L3 several times before.

The noon newscast actually continued through the station's first ten years under Hearst. KOCO dropped it in January 2008, when it expanded its 5:00 p.m. newscast to Saturdays and its weekend morning newscasts to Sundays.

Yeah, the slogan's kind of clunky. One other thing, they included the date in the open. Including the current date in pre-open newscast teasers was unfortunately something that went out in the late 1990s; KTRK's graphics packages in the 1980s are the only instances I can think of in which the date was included in the main opening sequence.

In this situation, it's not exactly clear if CNN is solely at fault for this. The Intercept article notes that their source wasn't the most reliable in the first place. In essence, CNN should have used a better source than Lanny Davis, if he has such a history of lying in public statements ...and now what credibility it had has been jeopardized, because they trusted Davis when they should have verified instead of just trusting.

That cancellation has a consequential effect on KWKT. The NMSA notes that KWKT was carrying a simulcast of the KNVA newscast under the title Fox 44 Capital News, so the Waco-Temple-Killeen market is now without a weekday 7:00 a.m. newscast because of KXAN's decision to cancel KXAN News Today on The CW Austin. Very clearly, KWKT should have launched an in-house morning newscast when its news department launched in July of last year. The timeslot appears to now be filled by syndicated E/I programs (during the 7:00 a.m. half-hour) and infomercials (from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m.).

A triple play of Oklahoma City newscasts from Walker Brown's YT channel: First, a May 20, 1998, broadcast of KOKH's 9:00 p.m. newscast (then titled The Nine O'Clock News), nearly ten months after the newscast had expanded to an hour (on August 4, 1997): Second, the first ten minutes of the May 16, 1999, edition of KWTV's News 9 at 10:00: ...and finally, the first 17 minutes of KFOR's Oklahoma's NewsChannel 4 at 10:00 from October 3, 2002: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=0YBybDemzbU;t=607

KOKI's version of the TVbD package you mentioned has also stood the test of time, I might add. Same with WSBT's and with KARE's similar iteration by that same company.

Two more from Jacky9br: First, a 6:00 p.m. edition of KTAL's Newscenter 6 from May 19, 1997 (featuring the production music theme that still needs identifying for title and composer): Second, a weekend 10:00 p.m. edition of KALB's Newscentral 5 from May 7, 1995: P.S.: I may have seen aspects of this when I traveled to Shreveport annually as a kid for medical treatments at the city's Shriners Hospital campus for my club foot, but even for the size of its market at the time, KTAL's news presentation seemed far below par. This is especially considering that KSLA and, particularly, KTBS (the latter of which was under locally based ownership as KTAL was at the time) had far better graphics packages in the late '90s. Clearly, WEHCO's sale of KTAL to Nexstar did them some good.

You could also suggest that Nexstar could transfer news production for WDCW to WDVM, whether it be shifting the latter's news department over to the former (possibly under a joint branding scheme such as which exists between WTVW/WEHT or WBRE/WYOU) or simulcasting some of WDVM's newscasts on WDCW. There are cases here where Nexstar could easily decide to flip stations, and ones where they would mull over which conflicts to sell. Take Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Rogers for example, KFSM presumptively tops KNWA in the ratings, so they might consider taking KFSM/KXNW over keeping KNWA/KFTA based mainly on that reasoning. Though, the Tribune outlets in most of these markets outrank the Nexstar stations in terms of local news and/or total day viewership in most cases, which might blow the first part of my theory. I think Hartford and the Hampton Roads area are cases where the inverse is true, in which the Tribune outlet is outranked by the Nexstar station. Of the non-conflict outlets, WPHL is a crapshoot. It is not clear how much revenue share from political advertising they conceivably could get, given that WPHL presumably has a relatively marginal audience share compared to the Big Four and Spanish language O&Os in the market and even WPSG. It seems to me like duopoly bait for Fox, and Nexstar could easily leave it on the table for Fox to pick off just to stay under the national cap. The political ad revenue could be worth it for Nexstar to acquire it, maybe. The most interesting point is that, depending on how many stations Nexstar gets if it reaches a deal, the group could conceivably have (near-)ubiquitous or merely widespread coverage in several states where it has a few stations already (namely California, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and especially Texas). Though that really depends on which stations Fox were to pick off in between three and five of those states.

... and because WGCL pulled the rug out from under them, Viacom stepped in and turned it into a UPN O&O. Viacom was starting its process of selling its Big Four affiliates at the time, and chose to sell KSLA to Ellis Communications in order to free up cap space. (Something I only learned last week from a 1994 B&C article posted on American Radio History that was among several I was using as sources for an expansion of a Wikipedia article about KSLA as well as articles about other Shreveport-area stations on that site.)

As I figured would happen once the Sinclair purchase went bust, The New York Post is reporting that Nexstar is looking at attempting to acquire Tribune Media. It would be an interesting case of vengance, considering that Sinclair bid fairly higher than what Nexstar was willing to pay when Tribune was seeking bids in an auction-like manner in May of last year.

Would it be KMOV or KSDK? BTW, if you're going for St. Louis, I never was able to do a compilation of KPLR because I couldn't find enough clips to create an adequate one when I made or uploaded them. Maybe you'll have better luck with that station than I did.

[QUOTE="Info Junkie, post: 216704, member: 3593"]Hey @T.L. Hughes i know I might have asked you before but can I update some of your compilations? I’ve been getting requests since the beginning and plenty of them were to update your existing compilations. If I do update them though I won’t be doing every one of them - like if I were doing NYC I’d probably be here all day cause you know how much NYC stuff gets uploaded. And yes @NCFLMedia, I will update WJXT if possible. Also here’s some KOTV commercials from 1985 - including a newsbreak with CNN’s Bob Losure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrpbE2Rxm0Q[/QUOTE] Tell you what, you can create your versions of the aforementioned compilations. Though I'll also do my own update of those same stations, whenever I get my laptop back. Basically, I don't mind anyone creating their own compilations, so long as no one assigns lines as to who does which station or market.

Scripps CEO Adam Symson had some sharp criticism of Trump's rhetoric against the press in a memo to employees, comparing it to tactics done by autocratic leaders such as Recep Erdogan, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin and Hitler. His memo also cites polls that find large minorities of Americans of all political stripes (mostly Republican, but even some Democrats and Independents) believe that mainstream news media is "the enemy of the people” and that they believed that the President of the United States should have the power to shut down media for “bad behavior,” saying that the “vitriol and rhetoric in this assault on journalism is hitting the mark.” Symson also discloses in the memo that Scripps has had to increase security at its stations, partly because of the charged rhetoric.

A couple of St. Louis newscasts; here's a KDNL 5:00 p.m. newscast from August 20, 1998: Next, is a KSDK 6:00 p.m. newscast from July 30, 1994:

He said so in the description. That doesn't mean you can't do your own take, although take note it appears that there are multiple versions of the same exact open (with no variancies in stock imagery and/or voiceover) in some cases in DMA37dude's compilation, so anyone else's version may require some sort of clip sorting to reduce redundancy with another clip in the same compilation.

Possibly inspired by YT compilations on my channel and that of The ID Junkie, DMA37Dude has decided to create news open compilations, but is focusing solely on his home market of San Antonio. (He asks that no requests for other markets be given.) I don't know if he'll include KVDA and KWEX among the stations he'll focus on, or just the Big Four outlets. First up, WOAI-TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjAMHaSE2CY

A KSDK promo from 1997. Strange that what was then a Gannett station used a modified version of the Hearst "Camera" package, and a logo animation similar to what those stations used at that time in this promo.

Further proof the "KTAL 1997 News Theme" is really just production music (heard in the first 30 seconds):

There is another example of an online-only newscast that wasn't a short newsbrief. KOKH originated its 5:00 p.m. newscast as a web/app-only broadcast in February 2014; they quickly moved that broadcast to television in September 2014, as an hour-long broadcast.

Don't know if this has already been posted here, but WSB-TV has launched a competitor to WAGA's Good Day Atlanta during the 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. timeslot... but on the station's website and mobile apps. A two-hour extension of Channel 2 Action News This Morning debuted in that time period this past Monday (July 30) on WSB Now, the station's live-streaming platform that carries a mix of WSB newscasts as well as other local programs (including many exclusive to the WSB Now service).