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A few to tide y'all over for the long weekend. KBTX (Bryan/College Station, TX) September 27, 1991 5pm [MEDIA=vimeo]231366179[/MEDIA] KRBC (Abilene, TX) August 27, 1992 10:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]231366686[/MEDIA] KTAB (Abilene, TX) August 27, 1992 6:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]231367339[/MEDIA] KVUE (Austin, TX) September 28. 1991 6:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]231367884[/MEDIA] Happy Labor Day! Jim

I'll see what I can find in my archives from Phoenix - definitely have some 90s KNAZ coming soon. (Unfortunately nothing new can be uploaded until Monday...) Jim

4 More... WBBM (Chicago, IL) August 1, 1994 10:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]231324082[/MEDIA] KCBS (Los Angeles, CA) July 8, 1991, 11:00pm [MEDIA=vimeo]231325465[/MEDIA] KMOV (St. Louis, MO) July 30, 1994 5pm [MEDIA=vimeo]231327272[/MEDIA] KSDK (St. Louis, MO) July 30, 1994 6:00 pm [MEDIA=vimeo]231329321[/MEDIA] Almost full for the week, but will have a few more later... Jim

Two more - I'm getting stuff uploaded to Vimeo as quickly as I can, until I hit my weekly limit... WMAQ Chicago, August 1, 1994, 6:00 pm. Storms were rumbling through Chicago and something went awry in the WMAQ control room, resulting in "Non-Stop News, Weather and Sports" - no commercials (though they were able to get 1 commercial to run before "Married with Children" started). (I was stuck under the bleachers at Wrigley that night...) [MEDIA=vimeo]231321853[/MEDIA] WTTA Tampa/St. Petersburg, March 23, 2006, 10pm. This aired about 1 week before Sinclair pulled the plug on News Central. WTTA had just hired Wendy Brockman from Denver (KWGN), when everything was shut down. [MEDIA=vimeo]231321388[/MEDIA]

From the bottom end of the market list: Victoria, TX, 2003: [MEDIA=vimeo]231312191[/MEDIA]

KSTF had separate news programs, as stated, but the effectively died in the 90s. Can't forget that KDUH (predecessor to KNEP) had local news through the early 2000s - with KOTA newscasts gradually phased in. The last full local newscasts on KDUH were at noon, but were titled KOTA territory news (just have to find the DVD to see if it mentioned Scottsbluff in the title). Plus I giggle when you notice that Gray effectively owns the region through 3 distinct out-of-market stations they own, save PBS. I'm surprised they haven't slipped a Fox affiliation in there... J

Nexstar can't pick up WHDF - not enough full power stations in the market (unless they can pull a failing station stunt). J

Interesting - I now have 2 channel 811s: The first 811 is HSNHD, and the second is WDVMHD - and both have the correct programs as listed in the guide... Curious if this is happening in other parts of the market? Also need to officially update the local DC-based stations news list: 4/5/7/8/9/14/20/25/50... (If I throw in what I get over the air, it becomes: 2/4/5/7/8/9/11/11.2/13/14/20/25/45/50 - just not including the other 25 in the market - WDVM...) Jim

What a load of crap, on Comcast's response. They don't want to upset the viewers of Sewing Channel 6 in HD... Last go round of "Must Carry", I'm sure WHAG opted out, so as not to compete directly with WRC in DC itself. I wonder when they can force the issue? I agree - I see more Northern Virginia suburban news on WDVM than I do on the other stations... Granted a lot of the stories are short SOT, but still better than what we get from 4/5/7/8/9/14/25/50... J

Arlington County. WDVM isn't on in the 1000s yet, but took over HSN on 811 and in SD (clipped) on 24. I figured Loudoun would have it before Arlington would... It's listed as H+I in the guide (but there's also H+I on WDCA 20.2...) Jim

Check your lineup... I was at work today and was playing TV Channel roulette in the break room and saw Channel 811 was listed as H+I and had "WHAG News" at 5pm. I cut out of work a few minutes early and headed home and yup, WDVM is now on 811. Not sure where HSN is now... My PC still says the channel is HSN, but the programming is WDVM. In one of the leadins during the 5pm newscast, the VO was "Covering Hagerstown, Frederick, Alexandria, and Winchester, you're watching WDVM News, your local news leader". Pushing the NoVa coverage... (Next leadin had Hagerstown, Martinsburg, Leesburg, and Silver Spring) It'll be interesting to see how they promote in as well as cover the local area... 5pm - Regional News 5:30pm - West Virginia Tonight 6:00pm - Local (Hagerstown/WV Panhandle) news 7:00pm - Northern Virginia News 7:30pm - I-270 News (Frederick/Monthgomery counties) Also, the FCC database has been updated with the new call sign (yesterday - Sunday - it still had WHAG in the database) Interesting...

I drove up from Arlington to Hagerstown to record the last newscast on WHAG. It appeared that the 10pm was live, but the 11pm NoVa News seemed to be taped (10pm anchors and stories mentioned 10pm, whereas 11pm didn't mention a time) and had a slightly different feel. No promotion of the change except one reference of "for the last time" during the open, a reference to the new website near the end, and the same promo already posted run a few times. Everything else (promos during the newscast) still was referencing "WHAG News" and "Your4State.com". I can see them dropping the Pennsyvania coverage, since Comcast dropped/is dropping the station in PA (receivable OTA, but not in market)... (But Comcast doesn't' carry the station in DC Northern Virginia Suburbs...) IMHO! The graphics need a little work - the WHAG/your4state.com rotating bug looks weird over no background, as do the Facebook/Twitter/other social media links, I can see them going for full market coverage - the weather included down to Woodbridge, and stories included Fairfax and Springfield as well as the Winchester area. Jim

Remember, this is also the market where KATC has its own musical opening...

Tongue was firmly planted in cheek... J

Nice open "stolen" off of WSVN...

I remember visiting my Grandparents in Western Michigan and WUHQ had a customized version of ABC's Still the One - We're Forty-One... Wish I had recordings - but "Why would anyone want to record TV?"... Jim

My question on repacking is: will they "block" a city (especially where most towers are collocated) in frequency spectrum (i.e., put all 6 full-power UHF stations in a block - say from 14-19)? J

Yes, but in today's digital landscape, it's much easier for an owner to put two HD streams on 1 signal - effectively 2 separate stations, one chunk of frequency spectrum (and with the auction, $$$ in the bank...). (As well as "play" with LD stations, *cough* Laredo *cough*) J

I had a friend who worked a short time at KLFY, and she had nothing but praise for Blue. And this comes from a time period where stations were often bringing in youngsters to displace the "senior" news anchors (cough, KPRC Dominique Sachse, cough). Best of luck in retirement, Blue! J

WNBC had some similar graphics in their talent opens (Names scrolling down)...

Also WMAQ (where I first ran across it...). Based on the set, it was probably December of 92? The open used the Circle 4, which then switched to the "extra bold" block 4 (used by the other NBC O&O channel 4s at the time). November 92 (Monday after Thanksgiving) was when WNBC changed their 4, and WRC was about the same time. In April '93 KCNC was using Image IX, but the open gfx had the elements used in the Image IX package. IMHO, Image IX is one rocking package! Jim

All 3 are deeply saddened...

I think the KOLD theme is part of the CBS "We've got the touch" theme - I'm trying to track down more details, but if you Google "CBS We've Got the Touch 83" or "CBS We've got the touch 84", you'll here the musical themes... (Edit) It appears that WAKA also used this theme - check the NMSA(/Edit) J

Back then, many newscasts were shared, but 7pm was on 25 only and 12 had the first (half) hour of morning news, and I believe noon. J

WRC has a sunrise graphic that doesn't seem right to me - either the sun is rising ENE over DC or they're using a sunset shot. The buildings are silhouetted enough that you can't really tell the direction the shot is being taken from... J