T.L. Hughes

If they ever did expand the 10:00 p.m. news to weekends, they could move Sports Sunday to 9:30 or 10:30. A few of Fox's O&O's (such as KTVU and KSAZ) already air their Sunday sports wrap-up shows after local newscasts aired in the traditional 10:00 (Central/Mountain)/11:00 p.m. (Eastern/Pacific) timeslot.

Apparently, yes. However, Fox O&Os have tended to use two sets of anchors on their weekday morning newscasts in some markets (some ex-O&Os like WDAF-TV still do that as well); so it's possible that Ryan and Pryzybyl will be shifted off at least part of the 4:00 to 7:00 a.m. portion of the newscast, to make way for additional anchors. The reports did say that KDFW was planning on adding staff for the expanded broadcast. The only existing newscasts I would foresee KDFW expanding in the near future would be the noon news (to an hour) and the 10:00 p.m. news (to weekend evenings). Yep. Though the newscast was titled Good Day Dallas from c. 1997-2004.

All I can say is... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=FyAsM9XovFk;m=3;s=18 It took KDFW ten years for them to expand Good Day to 9:00 a.m., and it was one of the last Fox O&Os to do so. Welcome to the club. That said, with KXAS running Megyn Kelly Today, KTVT running Let's Make a Deal and WFAA running Good Morning Texas at 9:00 a.m., once the expansion takes place, Live is probably going to be stuck airing on tape delay in DFW for the foreseeable future, unless it Disney-ABC chooses to move the show to KDAF, KDFI or KTXA (none of which are likely or tenable scenarios).

Sinclair's KidsClick block has a new (second) network home, TBD. The network began airing the block on Monday (May 7), and will air it weekdays from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. ET and weekends from 7:00 to 10:00 a.m. As a result, TBD will also begin airing its E/I programming for a half-hour daily at 9:00 a.m. weekdays and 10:00 a.m. weekends (instead of in 90-minute blocks on Saturdays and Sundays only). Even though the block has been added to one of Sinclair's in-house multicast networks, KidsClick will continue to air on This TV, at least, for now. BTW, how come Sinclair hasn't tried to syndicate KidsClick to CW, MyNetworkTV and independent stations outside of the group's portfolio? The 2018-19 season would be the best opening to offer it to other stations.

It's possible. Remember that ABC 33/40 in Birmingham retained several longtime personalities after Sinclair took over (James Spann, Pam Huff, Jeff Speegle, Brian Peters and Brenda Ladun, along with the now-retired Dave Baird). There are probably several other examples among the group, I don't know any more. I didn't know, either. How is she related to them? In-law? Cousin?

A couple of days late on the draw about this, but... former KFOR sports director Bob Barry Jr.'s 2015 death in a motorcycle accident has become the subject of a campaign ad by Gary Richardson, who is running for the Republican nomination to replace the term-limited Mary Fallin as Governor of Oklahoma. The ad -- which began running last weekend -- was intended to position Richardson as an anti-illegal immigration candidate, highlighting the fact that BBJ was killed when his motorscooter hit the side of a car driven an undocumented Mexican immigrant, Gustavo Gutierrez, who was driving without a license and was performing an illegal U-turn when the accident occured. (Gutierrez was given a 15-year prison sentence for vehicular homicide and cocaine possession in January 2016.) The ad omits mention that BBJ was not wearing a helmet, which resulted in the head injuries from which he succumbed. KFOR/KAUT General Manager Wes Milbourn noted that station management was "displeased with their advertising tactics and the exploitation of Bob Barry Junior," but FCC rules required them to air the ad as it met certain political advertising requirements. Richardson said he would rescind the ads from KFOR/KAUT, but he will run them on other Oklahoma television stations. BBJ's son, Matt, released this statement about the ad, and, to say the least, was not pleased, especially given that Richardson never sought permission from the Barry family and thought that KFOR/KAUT management would contact them about it: The ad in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDWg3POYVkE

As far as news at 6:30 p.m., that has been tried before more than once and failed (a situation that WPIX has experienced twice), presumably because the national network evening newscasts have dwarfed them in the ratings. That being said, NYC is the largest market where no non-Big-Three station runs a local newscast up against the network evening shows; I'm surprised WNYW hadn't at least experimented with a 6:30 p.m. newscast before 'PIX did. Quite a few Fox affiliates and a few non-Fox stations have six-hour-long morning newscasts. WGN is a key example.

FTS is expanding newscasts at its stations in New York City, Washington, Phoenix, Detroit, Minneapolis, Charlotte and Tampa. Among the additions include the return of noon news at WNYW after a nine-year absence, and new hour-long newscasts at 4:00 p.m. on KSAZ and WTVT, and at 5:00 p.m. on WJZY. News expansions will also occur in two other markets to be named later.

BTW, how long did that set (which has a vertically skewed version of the tri-lined "4") and newsroom paint job last? A brief glimpse of the set appears in a promo from around 1990 that was featured in Bob Barry Jr.'s memorial retrospective reel, though a tape I have from early summer '92 that included a few KFOR news promos (including a "Fresh News" promo promoting the 10:00 p.m. newscast) showed that the newsroom had already been repainted all white, and the station had converted its set to the "working newsroom" structure that was used until 2006 (after the wall that separated the anchor desk from the newsroom was removed).

A similar situation happened in Milwaukee, too. From 1990 to 1992, WTMJ branded itself as "Milwaukee's 24-Hour News Channel," while WISN branded as "Your 24-Hour News Service". Other than these instances, for the most part, the "24-Hour News Source" format wasn't used simultaneously among competing same-market stations in very many places during the period it was widely used.

And, apparently, KFOR's 1990-92 graphics package was a somewhat better put together version of KREM's package of that same period. As for the 1994 graphics, I didn't know that Television by Design was responsible for the KRON package; I'm just saying both packages are similar enough that they could be made by the same firm. Unless KFOR got someone who could do a knockoff that could convincingly pass for a TVBD package. KRON (1995-99): KFOR (1994-97) - Again, the opens are all we have to go on as far as YT content goes, since there yet has to be an upload of a partial or full KFOR newscast during that timeframe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=epUvR-XhlIw;m=11;s=21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=ba9FA6rL6_U;m=8;s=56

One white whale spotted. In addition to some of the other Oklahoma City TV news white whales on our wish list, I think one should be complete KFOR newscasts from between 1994 and 1997. NewsActive3 has a couple of opens from that period, although those were culled from editions of NBC Nightside. The graphics KFOR used then were the best they ever used prior to the modified version of the Tribune Fox package they introduced last August. I'm not sure, but the '94 package may have been made by the same firm that created KRON's 1995-99 graphics package, there are a lot of similar elements in both. (I do have a video featuring most of a 4:30 p.m. newscast from early 1997, but I can't upload it since I don't have a capture card plus my laptop is being repaired.) BTW, the "24-Hour News and Information Source/Station" slogan introduced with the "4 Strong" rebranding was the subject of a legal challenge filed by KOCO days after it took place. From Wikipedia (with articles from The Daily Oklahoman about the case linked in the quote): Within months, KFOR switched to obliquely referencing its 24-Hour News Source format in the news slogan it used until the fall(?) of '97, "Where the News Comes First, 24 Hours a Day," which was also used by sister station WHO during that period. In hindsight, KFOR's on-air look during the News Team 4 era was basically a knockoff (unintentional or not) of KOCO's then-recently-introduced John Christopher Burns package. The "4 Strong" branding is even reminiscent of KOCO's "5 Alive" moniker.

Yeah, that seems kinda piddly. Even when it was an independent station or a UPN affiliate, WJAX was more than likely worth more than that.

A mix of severe weather coverage from KFOR, KOCO and KWTV from July 20-21, 2000 (a line of severe thunderstorms packing straight-line winds moved through Oklahoma on that night):

Some KOKH material between 1997 and 2000, and more KWTV material from between 1988 and 1991 is also needed, too.

KSTP anchor Chris Egert is recovering from a partial amputation he had in December, and has already received his partial prosthetic leg. Egert's decision to undergo amputation pertains to years of ankle pain, what seems to be an atypical reason for one.

I could... if I had a video transfer card... and a laptop whose hard drive wasn't in the process of failing. At this point, I'm posting here from a library because of the latter.

About the KFOR open, I think it originally featured the custom 1990 theme when it was implemented. I have a tape that features a partial 24-hour news update from c. 1992/early '93 that included a slightly updated version of the original 1990 theme being used with that same graphics package; presumably, the Newsmusic Central theme didn't get introduced until sometime between May sweeps and September.

Which includes a borderline knockoff of WSVN's graphics package of the same time period. BTW, when did KTVI launch a 6:00 p.m. newscast? In the close of the first clip, Tom O'Neal noted that, in 1994, the station only ran its weekday evening newscasts at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m. (Ironically, the same timeslots that KDNL aired its evening newscasts from c. 1996? until its news department folded in 2001, as it did under the KSDK news share and now does for The Allman Report.)

And a few more... A KNXV 5:30 p.m. newscast from May 14, 1999: [MEDIA=vimeo]243397434[/MEDIA] A WISH-TV 6 p.m. newscast from October 19, 1999: [MEDIA=vimeo]243536472[/MEDIA] A 10 p.m. newscast from WJRD (now WVUA), again from August 29, 1998: [MEDIA=vimeo]243536746[/MEDIA] A WBZ 11 p.m. newscast August 16, 1998: [MEDIA=vimeo]243537918[/MEDIA] And finally, a WTHR 11 p.m. newscast from October 18, 1999: [MEDIA=vimeo]243537517[/MEDIA]

A few late '90s newscasts recently uploaded by Compubit (JRD) that were not mentioned here... WPGH's Ten O'Clock News (when the station still had a news department) from March 14, 1999: [MEDIA=vimeo]243537154[/MEDIA] A KPHO 6 p.m. newscast from February 3, 1999: [MEDIA=vimeo]243397722[/MEDIA] A WHEC 11 p.m. newscast from August 26, 1998 [MEDIA=vimeo]243535721[/MEDIA] A WUHF 10 p.m. newscast (during the days of its former in-house news department) from August 26, 1998 [MEDIA=vimeo]243536124[/MEDIA] A WHEC 11 p.m. newscast, also from the date above: [MEDIA=vimeo]243535721[/MEDIA]

Now, that theme is available on the NMSA, identified as the "KTAL 1997 News Theme". I still think, though, that the theme is actually production music. Hopefully, now that we have a sample of it, the composer can be identified.

A couple of things to unpack here. One, the 'stache that Kelly Ogle is sporting in the clip; and two, his obvious attempt not to speak in his Oklahoma drawl.

Actually, I submitted that sample a few weeks ago, but it was a lot longer when I emailed it to the NMSA's webmaster. The audio file included three cuts, two from the aforementioned sports and political promos that I culled from the respective YT clips (the only ones that were high quality) and excerpts from one of KFOR's "24 Hour News Source" updates and a 10:00 p.m. promo that were featured on a VHS that I found in my house a few years ago. The tape was recorded -- presumably by my mom -- in the summer of 1992, and included large portions of two "NBC Monday Night Movies" taped off of KFOR (the audio clips from that tape I had to record to WavePad using my earbuds, since I don't have a video capture card). The high quality cuts were meant to be included in the sampler, as was the news update intro that the NMSA opted to use as a sample open, since the tape didn't have an actual newscast from that period on it. The same tape also includes some footage from KOCB during that time period. I should note, though, that from what I saw on the tape, some elements of the "News Team 4" graphics package looked like a knockoff of KOCO's John Christopher Burns package of that same timeframe. BTW, Finally... someone has a full KDFW newscast from the early Fox era! I've also seen a couple of clips already available on YouTube (one of which was included in a compilation of the station's news opens I uploaded a couple years ago), and IMO, their 1995-97 graphics package was pretty slick and probably the best package that KDFW ever had.

KTEN-DT3 (the station's ABC-affiliated subchannel) uses a major ripoff of WGN's graphics package, with ABC Modern replacing Proxima Nova in the talent bumper. The confusing part is that KTEN now brands its ABC subchannel's newscasts as ABC 10 First News, but its website still refers to the subchannel as "ABC Texoma" (with two different logos for the main page and the subchannel's page, respectively). Anyone know if this is either just an oversight on KTEN's part or does KTEN-DT3 not use the "ABC 10" name universally?