ToriElectra

Here's the two music packs I want to find the composers of and/or clean cuts: KCOP's Real News pack from 1993, and WLWT's 1997-era theme, during their Nobody Brings You Closer era. (NMSA claims it's part of Gari's Advantage which they'd been using prior, but it doesn't sound anything like it so I highly doubt that.). Anybody know anything about these two?

Albany TV seems to take graphics and imaging from larger-market stations (WTEN using the 1990 KCBS open and then using the WJBK/WMTW/WDRB open for 11 years, along with the aforementioned WRGB images) and WNYT using KMOV’s “Flying TV screens” Package as well as the “Squares” Package (which may have started at WDSU??)

I know that "flying screens" package was also used at WMUR and WLWT, in addition to the two mention there. Anybody know who created those?

As for the "squares", are those the ones used by KTVI and KSTW at different points, or is that something else?

Although not involving a broadcast station, Altice USA (Optimum) in NJ, NYC Outer Boroughs, LI and CT dropped Starz and Starz Encore on Jan. 1. Optimum claims that Starz wanted a significant fee hike while customers can purchase their OTT service directly from Starz for less. Optimum also claims that Starz had low viewership (which based on some of their other stations is hard to believe). Starz claims that Altice has no desire to negotiate in good faith. Altice has added the Cowboy Channel, Hallmark Drama, MGM and Sony as "replacements" which is total crap. Altice does not plan to adjust fees accordingly either claiming Starz was part of your bundle and we have the right to change service anytime. Many subscribers are upset and getting nasty towards Altice, and rightfully so. This is turning nasty and worth watching.

The Cowboy Channel? Where did that come from?

And I just found something pretty damn unexpected-- awesome-quality footage of WBZ in 97, during their NewsWorks/News 4 New England era, although the opens are chopped up and it appears to have been taken off of WBZ's website (somehow); regardless, it's a nice find (we need more of NewsWorks-era BZ).

I'm putting everything out there I can - as I said before - it does absolutely no one any good sitting in my basement!

 

Here's my last compilation post before Christmas - I'm on holiday for about a week, without access to my "stuff"... (I may be able to get 1 or 2 items uploaded before I leave, but no guarantees!)

 

California, May 1993 - about 24 different stations

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Notes:

- The KCBS theme is one of my favorites, especially the long close.

- I'm not a fan of KNBC's "transitional" open they used for about a year.

- Sorry for the quality on KEYT - the feed in the hotel was horrible...

- I appreciate Jerry Dunphy's classic staccato "From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California, a good evening"

- Not that impressed with the stations in the central valley, save the solid look and feel of KFSN...

 

KTTV 10pm, KEYT 10pm (bad video), KCBS 11pm, KNBC 5:30am, KABC 6am, KTLA 7am, KNBC 5pm, KCBS 6pm (Long Close), KCAL 10pm, KNBC 4pm, KCOP 10pm, KCBS 11pm, KCBS 6am, KNBC 6pm, KCAL 8pm, KCAL 9pm, KTLA 10pm, KMEX 11pm, KGTV 12pm, KNSD 6pm, XEWT 6:30pm, KUSI 10pm, KFMB 12pm, KGTV 5pm, KFMB 6:30pm, KFSN 5pm, KJEO 6pm, KSEE 6pm, KSEE 5pm, KFTV 6pm, KMPH 10pm, KJEO 11pm, KGET 5pm, KFSN 11pm, KERO 11pm, KERO 12pm, KSBY 6pm, KCOY 6:30pm, KBAK 11pm

 

Jim

Man, it seemed like for 1993, everybody except KABC and KCAL were trying unconventional news intros. I love those KCBS opens-- the hyped up music and the ALL of Southern California mantra really works, but they ditched those intros disappointingly fast.

As for KCOP, Real News was kickass, the closest to a direct American copy of Toronto's CityPulse, but thanks to nobody knowing it existed, it got neutered by May of 94. 13 really should've marketed it better, maybe done 24-Hour News Source style updates like CityPulse had (where they'd show the busy newsroom and you could hear the police scanner). And that's the clearest intro for that look yet-- I've been wondering who composed the theme for Real News, it's so badass and I'd love to have clean cuts.

WRTV's open looked weird around then.... It looks cheap. No effects, just a zoom in on the WRTV logo.

I'm wondering if this was after their apparently disastrous 96 format change. That may explain why it's so simple. Also, Diane Willis from WNEV!

Haven't seen anything about a suspension of Jim Dolan. Was this reported somewhere?

I just saw him on the air yesterday. If there was a suspension, it must have ended.

Philadelphia, December 1991

KYW was simultaneously running two separate formats: Eyewitness News at 6pm and The News Tonight at 11pm, even with different reporters on the same story... I have no idea what other dayparts were running (early morning and midday - if they even had a midday newscast). By February, everything was was new format/theme/graphics.

Also WPVI and WHYY...

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Sorry for the earlier mis-post - the video wasn't rendering properly...

Per

I find it incredible how incredibly successful they have been over the years certainly considering that it seems to somewhat be a hotbed for great journalism and somehow great local ownership. I know this probably won't happen, but for whatever reason, if the station ever was on the selling block, what do you think would happen to WFMZ?

I'd honestly like to see either Hearst or Cox in charge- the former because their stations still have strong local identities and personalities despite standardization and network branding, the latter because of their family ownership and lack of standardization- outside of the disaster are that is WFXT, they run their stations competently and with minimal oversight, so WFMZ wouldn't be all that different under Cox.

Before calling it a weekend... Philly (just found this today).

 

WPHL (Philadelphia) April 24, 1997 10:00pm

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Later this week (and in December), I'll have some "20 Years ago today" newscasts.

 

I have lots of opens from the late 80s and early 90s, but not as many full newscasts, as I had to cart a VHS machine when I traveled, and that usually meant traveling by car... (though the stuff from Thanksgiving 1992 came from checking my S-VHS machine in my suitcase...) ~93/94 I picked up an 8mm recorder, and that's when I started getting more full newscasts. As for right now, I'm getting things off of DVD - once that's done, I'll start attacking tapes.

 

Jim

That clip is unusual- a music package I haven't ever heard before (I don't think it's Power News), and the set is a leftover from the trainwreck that was Inquirer News Tonight.

NewsActive3 has served up more vintage WABC, including stuff with Tom Snyder!:

WABC, New York; late news, 1976; the Yankee's American League Pennant win is the top story:

 

Wait, hold on. Tom Ellis of Boston? How and when did he work at WABC? That's bizarre.

I do have the full 7pm 12News Sunday newscast - will have to wait until I have more storage on Vimeo (next week, as I've already nearly hit my limit of this week's content uploaded...)

Why are you even posting there to begin with? Why not just use YouTube? (As far as I know there isn't a limit on how much you can upload....)

And finally, from Portland, some...odd usage of the Fisher sounder, and a slogan so bad it absorbed the station ID!

 

Didn't know that Marler and Marshall ever worked at KATU.... and yeah, that is one bad slogan.

Well this makes more sense now...

 

 

 

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And it's back to channel 10 we go... *eagle screech*

 

And another of the badass Spirit of Arizona intros is uncovered! They can't hide forever.

[ATTACH=full]4371[/ATTACH] All the PNS stations except WPLG used the same set during the mid 1980s. The same set design was used by WSB and WVEC around the same time, plus WTVF circa early 1990s.

Add WGHP to that tally. And WTVQ. Also, why didn't WPLG use that set? Limited space?

I've noticed that sets used by WOR/WWOR, WTVJ and WTSP all kinda looked similar, so add those to the list. All these sets had to have come from somewhere.....

I was driving in Bethlehem and saw a lottery ad on a digital billboard aside the Hill to Hill bridge; it had WPVI's logo on it. Either it was a mistake, or 6 is about to get the lottery drawings back.

They lost them at some point?

Cool. How many sets have other stations been through while WNYW is still on the same one?

I think Fox TV Stations is being lazy.

I've found two of the "transition" intros- one from WYFF:

And another from KMBC:

As for the "camera" opens, I think WCVB was the first one with them way back in 95- mainly because an image of their satellite dishes would be used for every other station's intros (the image of the dishes that would "shrink" to reveal the images of anchors). WBAL and WTAE I believe started using the graphics/music around the same time.

WSOC, WLVI....

Here's something interesting- anyone remember the USA Updates that were shown on the USA Network in the late 80s and the 90s? Everyone thought that they moved from being produced at KYW to the All-News Channel in 1991 after KYW's infamous revamp (causing the departure of Steve Bell, likely one of the reasons USA approached KYW/Group W to produced the updates). And yet, I found an update from 1993, still produced at KYW with Beverly Williams anchoring from one of the Art-Deco styled sets, just with a grey chrome-key BG. It makes you wonder why they moved at all, then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=zBrxnPFZi1U;m=0;s=10

The last time WABC had in-field security was during the 1998/1999 ABC lockout.

ABC lockout? What happened? I've never heard of such an incident. (

Yeah, there's something called WIKI you may want to try, welcome to the world of 2017 and good luck in your news career, try to stay away from the investigative stuff - you may want a career in reading words off a Telepromp

I actually don't want to be on-camera, I'd rather work behind the scenes, technical stuff.