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  1. A necessary bump to this thread. WBNX is losing its CW affiliation, and quite soon actually... WUAB will take over as Cleveland's CW affiliate starting July 16 (this coming Monday). The move will result in WUAB dropping its 9:00 p.m. newscast and re-extending its 10:00 p.m. news to a full hour.

    And it's once again a dual affiliate-- it carried both the WB and UPN from 1995-97 until WBNX got the WB. This brings it full circle in a way.

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  2. It's NOT the studio that is the problem.

     

    It's the entire building that sucks. The electrical sucks...the hvac sucks...the place stinks.

     

    Moving out is the only viable solution, unless FOX wants to sink a crapload of money in the place.

    For once, I agree with you. That building has been in use since the days of DuMont! It's no wonder people are getting sick and leaving, the whole place is just waiting to be condemned. (Not to mention their laziness in updating the facade-- hasn't changed since the mid 80s.)

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  3. Not sure if we have an International thread or not (I can’t find one) but I am on an ITV kick right now. Specifically, ITV Central.

     

    This might be one of the best station startups ever. Flashy graphics and tremendous music that build up to a crescendo at the end. I love it.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfXziWcZ2P8

    Aw, yeah! Central had a shaky few years, what with trying to establish a firm identity and escape ATV's shadow, but by the time the cake rolled in, they had evolved into winners. The cake is one of my favorite logos, and all the graphics, idents and such that accompanied it over the years are all incredibly good. Catchy music, cool animation, and eventually a distinctive jingle-- but then Carlton came in and ruined everything in their quest to corrupt and take over ITV from within.

     

    But every so often, you might be able to find this endcap on an old rerun or what have you:

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  4. I've been downloading all of RIck's old LA TV clips so I can recover them all for you in the likely event of his acoount getting teminated. If it happens, contact him at [email protected] to convice him to open a new account (or to just send him a thank you letter for all the work he's done uploading these one of a kind videos!).

     

    And now, here's an overnight rebroadcast of News 4 New York from April 28, 1993, during it's tabloid phase:

    Also, why the heck was WNBC airing COPS? Seems pretty bizarre, were they just not able to find anything else to fill the prime access slot? (Also, the "Rebroadcast" card looks like it was recycled from the 1990 Hothaus look.)

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  5. I’m assuming this open debuted when Cox took over, and wow, Thom Allen voicing a non-Post Newsweek station in Florida?

     

    I wonder what WFTV used in the mid 80s before that open. We’re missing a good chunk from 1983-1986. (The NMSA says they used “And You” until 1987??)

     

    And Patrick Emory at KOVR is a new one. That’s possibly the third station he worked at that wasn’t anything St. Louis related - he also had stops at WTHR and KYW in 1979-1980.

    Thom also did VO work for WFTS' upstart news dept. after the switch to ABC, until the short-lived 28 News era in 2001-02.

     

    Patrick also was at WTOG in Tampa during the waning days of their news operation, during their usage of 615's Pinnacle; the clips of the final newscast (when they switched to The Paramount from Gari) don't have him present, I'm not sure if he wasn't there that night, or if he left beforehand.

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  6. If I was at ABC Daytime, I'd be filling the schedule with game shows-- Three on a Match at 10am, Winfall (an unsold Merv Griffin pilot from 1988) at 10:30, Run for the Money (a pilot shot for ABC in 1987 that became Going for Gold in the UK) at 1:00, Split Second at 2:00 and The Big Showdown at 2:30.

  7. This might be totally out there...but is there a chance that the WFAA 1992 Theme was done by Chris Crane?

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=IYsTaLA8cSU;t=11

     

    Something about the instrumentation in this close says "Crane" to me.

     

    As a counter-argument...it's otherwise unlike his other work. Who knows.

    I dunno... to me it sounds more like "The Paramount" (a Gari package intended for UPN stations in the late 90s, and only WKBD ever got a lot of use out of it-- WTOG and KSTW had their news ops shuttered shortly after they adopted the package), but it does sound a bit Crane-ish as well.

  8. [MEDIA=vimeo]52750093[/MEDIA]

     

    Footage from KRIV's old studios and holy moly..I can definitely understand why they got their new diggs off of the Southwest Freeway.

    Also, some interesting studio history there-- it appears they started with a copy of WTTG's set from the era (with the white panels above and the logo in the center that was changed to Fox logos), then had a bizarre mostly-chroma-key setup before getting a hand-me-down set from WNYW (that set dated to 1988-89 and was originally blue-toned with a duratran logo area above the center monitor, before it was redone in 1991-92 with the yellow lit paneling and the brass-y coloring).

  9. This is about the fifth set I've seen that has the girders, the monitor banks, the rounded desk, etc. The most infamous one would be KNXV's "spaceship" set, and I've seen similar ones in use at WGNX (during the late indie/early CBS era), WOIO/WUAB (during the "Cleveland Television News" period), and maybe a couple others. Does anybody know who designed all these sets?

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  10. Bumping this thread again to identify this guy:

    This guy (who was KLAS’s VO briefly in 2003) also has been heard on plenty of movie and VHS promos in the 1990s, and was the voice of the Arsenio Hall Show. The NMSA currently lists him as unidentified.

    I've never heard him on any movie/VHS promos, and the voice of Arsenio was Burton Richardson, who is most definitely not this guy.

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  11. These two are not local news but they are worth your time.

     

    I must admit, today I learned what "The Morning Program" was.

     

     

    And this...just watch a bit of it. At least the open.

     

    Yeah, "The Morning Program" was an utter disaster. Seriously, Bob Saget doing comedy on a morning news program? What the hell was CBS smoking? No wonder Rolland fled for WWOR (where he had to do

    Universal Studios Florida's Kongfrontation, and that was actually MORE dignified!)

     

    And.... Alex Trebek as an infomercial host? Wha...? At least he had experience for all those Colonial Penn and Hooked on Phonics infomercials he's been doing since the late 90s. And Meredith Macrae! While she was better known as a talk show host, she did do at least one game show pilot, the unsold 1985 Bob Stewart pilot $50,000 a Minute, as co-host with her Mid-Morning LA partner Geoff Edwards! (It was pitched to ABC, but they likely didn't take it because after Family Feud ended, they kinda lost interest in any daytime games, and any they did they only put in half-hearted efforts.)

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  12. While I posted CKVR's "VRLand News" the other day, I think it's worth putting into context how... out of character that look was for them! The 1990 open is new.

     

    In the mid-80s, CKVR used this pulsating ditty that is a production track (it was at least used by the UK's Channel 4).

     

     

    That production track is called "Flash", by Keith Mansfield, and was used as the theme for the 1983 pilot of Press Your Luck (when the series landed, they replaced it with an original theme from Lee Ringuette that sounded vaguely similar):

     

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  13. Probably my single favorite Canadian news theme...and I've never seen the original open with it!

     

     

    By early '97, they'd tightened up the open. And get a load of the set!

     

    I still like the 90s CityPulse themes better. That is one bright set. I like the superimposed map, that's a neat thing. And whose idea was it to call the news op "VRLand News"? That's just bizarre.

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  14. I always though WRTV's graphics looked terribly cheap for a market Indy's size in the mid 90's:

     

    As I stated on the Classic Video Thread, this may have been a temporary look after an apparently disastrous relaunch earlier that year (still don't know what they did exactly, since WRTV from the mid 90s is rare to begin with).

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  15. yea tbh i thought it wasn't that bad of a Package. the only ones left that will still use it is its former Fox O&Os like WGHP and WJW. WNYW hasnt switched to it yet either.

    WNYW seems to be stuck in a time loop or something. They haven't really changed anything since 2006, and the set has to be falling apart at this rate. (Plus, I think those indistinct monitors you always see in the back behind the smoky glass were used in the 2001-era set.)

  16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N42qFhUlCZY

    Has anyone ever found WNAC’s 1981 “News 7” open at the very end of this video? Now you have.

    Lots of interesting things in that video.

    • A promo for "Up to the Minute", but not the overnight show, but some sort of weekday thing. Any ideas as to what that was?
    • The quick Aquafresh commercial during the CBS Newsbreak has the announcer lady seen in early 80s ads for ShopRite (and she's still doing voiceovers to this day, though that speaks more to SR's outdated, stale advertising more than anything else)
    • It appears the layout of the newsroom and set was roughly the same as it looked a year later for NEWSEVEN
    • A young Charlie van Dyke on VO duties (possibly his only work in Boston?)

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  17. There is an ASCAP registration for "Real News Theme" by John Bauers, which also shows an alternate title "KCOP Theme." There's also a copyright registration for "Real News Theme", with John Bauers listed as author, and dated 1993. I'd guess that it's the same theme you're asking about.

    That would be it. I found his old Flash-based website, it has KCOP's UPN-era logo (the round one) there, so he may have composed for them into the UPN era; stuff from KCOP in general is pretty scarce, so I can't say for sure. I also sent him an invitation on LinkedIn; hopefully then I can ask him if he has any clean cuts laying around.

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