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Couple from me as I continue skimming through tapes for some "new" vintage materials - stuff that wasn't posted on my previous YouTube channel. An open from a KPRC 10 PM weekend newscast from April 1991. A news update, also from KPRC, from May 1985. I have a complete newscast from the same evening that I'll upload in the near future. An observation during one of the breaks on the same tape: I'm thinking there may have been some demo work that John Christopher Burns may have done which ended up on air prior to the look they ultimately ended up using when they launched the "Channel Two News" brand/logo/set, etc. about three months later. I don't have much from this particular stretch so far, but I hadn't seen it elsewhere. At the least, it sorta feels like some of the stuff he did earlier in the decade...

Sign-offs & Sign-ons still occur. I managed to snag this during a recent trip to Abilene, TX. It is the first video I've uploaded as part of my second YouTube channel - TV Travels Archive. I'm looking to bring back the promos & newscasts from around the country that I had on the old HoustonTVNews channel, seperate from the Houston TV History channel I've got up and running. KTXS 12 / KTXE 38 Sign off & Sign on from June 2019

Finally uploaded the KRIV 1991 9 PM open I had teased a while back. Sadly it's the only part of the newscast that was on said tape, and it wasn't the best quality picture...

A couple of news-related uploads from the archive I'm working on rebuilding... A fairly short-lived news capsule offered by KTXH at the end of their evening movie, circa 1985 A news update and part of a sports update from KHTV from November 1988 - just after the music & graphics Gaylord had launched across it's stations was put in place. Can't say I'd heard the brief sports cut before, but it's definitely from that same package.

As much as I dislike necroposting (although is it really necroposting if it's an active thread and I just found this by happenstance while searching for something? Whatever...), I wanted to add a bit to this. I think KRIV's original "set" as such for news updates was a fairly basic silhouette of the downtown skyline. This was before they started doing full newscasts in the mid 80s. I'm reasonably certain that at about the same time, Metromedia provided both stations similar sets, with some lighting tweaks and a different desk between the pair. There's not a substantial amount of either station's news coverage from that period out there, unfortunately. Was able to find this image circa February 1986 though. Came across a 1991 open on one of my "newer" old tapes, and it seemed to be a fairly wide set and desk - something I didn't really catch before. I will get around to uploading this clip at some point in the near future... The chroma-key set set was an interim fix that occurred in 1993-94, and even then the old desk (and parts of the maroon paneling on the farthest edges, for a time) was retained. The WNYW set went into use when Fox started airing NFL games in August of 1994. It survived until they moved to their current facility in 1997. ***Ahem, you may return to your previously scheduled classic video thread...

Thank you for the kind words. Thank you to everyone else who echoed similar sentiments as well! The copyright concern debacle was an interesting one in that NBCU's person(s) chose a number of clips that ran the gamut of what I had uploaded. They included a few of the complete newscasts from Telemundo O&Os KTMD & KXTX to the sign-off of the low-powered WBGH in Binghamton, NY circa 2006 (Because of the peacock on the static image? I don't know...). The few attempts I made to get reversals on decisions regarding a couple of videos were rebuffed. I also had a lot on my plate at the time on the personal and professional front and just let it go. I still have pretty much everything that I uploaded on the original version anyway, so it's just a matter of time before some of it starts to return. As for a dedicated site - stay tuned for news on that front. Both of the sites you mention are great and an inspiration regarding what I would like to accomplish with the content I have down the line.

Hello all, I have started uploading videos at a new YouTube site - Houston TV History. I only have a few clips up right now, but am looking to bring back some old favorites as well as some "new" classic content in the coming days and weeks. The first three are examples of the latter - stuff I haven't posted before. A rare editorial statement from KTRK's Dave Ward on crime from August 1991. A promo for KRIV's 7 PM newscast from mid-1986, during the transition from Metromedia to Fox And not news... (well, there's a quick spot for it prior to the open) but the intro to KRIV's late night movie showcase, "Nightwatch 26" from the same period.

A behind the scenes look at the making of a KTRK promo from the "Houston's Coming Back" campaign, captured by a suburban school's news crew, circa 1988.

KTRK - Live at Five - most (10/20/1994) Though the station couldn't provide a date on their clip, I was able to figure it out based on the live coverage of the same event that I had uploaded almost 2 years ago...

KTRK - A public affairs program called "Issues and Answers" from 5/30/1976 And an edition of The Late Report anchored by Sylvan Rodriguez from 5/11/1982

Another from KTRK... Clip is split between a 6 PM Saturday Newscast from 5/24/1986 & half of a 6 PM weekday newscast from 4/25/1986

KTRK - Eyewitness News Tonight (Weekend) 5/24/1987

KTRK continues their uploading spree... 2/21/1986 - Eyewitness News at 6

And more from the above... 5/17/1982 - Eyewitness News Tonight 5/16/1983 - Eyewitness News Tonight 5/20/1983 - Eyewitness News Tonight 5/19/1987 - Eyewitness News Tonight (No commercials, but during the breaks you can see how shots were set up with the virtual set)

They've been adding a fair amount of vintage material in the recent past. Some are parts of newscasts while others are the full ones... minus the close in some cases. 5/11/1976 - The infamous ammonia cloud in Southwest Houston 2/2/1980 - Clips from a weekend newscast 5/15/1980 - The Late Report 5/16/1980 - Live at Five

Pretty close - The Network/Affiliate Graphics during the first half are from the 1990-91 era campaign "The Place to Be". Not sure about the news elements on the second half.

I'm reasonably certain it was The Express Group.

I'm pretty certain that the theme listed as "KHTV 1989 News Theme" is just one of the cuts from the music package that KHTV and and the other Gaylord Broadcasting stations were using starting some time in 1988 or 1989. I've been curious about who did it for years though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=JzIRG8EFXd8;m=1;s=1 An example from KTVT using it Maybe it is tied to the one listed as "WVTV 1987 News Theme" as well? Clips from the station's news updates from the period feature both playing in the background.

Great find! I had been looking for something else that proved they used "It's All Right Here" during this period for some time. I'd guess this is maybe 1988 or 89? I have some KJAC content from late 1987 and Bob Becker (seen at 0:35 in the clip) was the weather personality present. He may have jumped soon after, as did Albert Zipp who was still at KFDM based on a December 1987 newscast I've uploaded before. Only other thing out there featuring it's use is a 1989 commercial compilation with a promo for their morning news at about 5:15 that I updated in the past.

Bored and skimming through DeWolfe's archives, I found the NMSA-listed WTVF 1987 News Theme is actually a production cut called "Briefing" http://www.dewolfemusic.com/trackdetail.php#!/?id=10922786&code=TermE7

More from my archives, this time from August '03. More to come from this part of the world and time at some point - I have a few tapes from that particular trip and was using multiple VCRs at the time. KLDO Noticias Univision 27 Edicion Nocturna KZTV CBS 10 News at 6:00

Not to go too far off tangent, but what's more annoying is the only other stuff that that I have from KSNW from that period is on a tape that rewound off the reel and I just haven't had a moment to get it fixed. It's most of the same elements that have been uploaded, in either SP or LP quality. Not too much new, but still, it's more than was there before. For me, the big one I'm trying to track down is KWCH's "The Look of a Leader" era stuff, especially when it comes to newscasts and similar shows. The few things I have uploaded on YouTube are all that I have so far so I'm not sure if some of the stuff I've heard on other tapes I have is part of it or is just production music.

KXLN Noticias 45 a las 5 - 3/5/2005 I've also uploaded that 5 & 10 PM newscasts from the day KTMD launched from their current studios. This was also they day they had switched to the Pyburn graphics the other O&Os were using at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6-r9ghPmqY

Never ceases to amaze me when I'm beaten in linking to things I actually uploaded... heh. I was actually uploading a 5 PM newscast from the same day that has a formal open, but it's not much better. What's interesting is that it was actually a deviation from the stuff KIII & KUSI were using during the period. All three began using the same general set of elements, albeit with some variations, in 2000. KUSI was the graphics hub for the trio of stations during their shared ownership. KBMT had just about all of the other basic elements but different L3s that the other two stations. KBMT actually had their graphics updated a couple of times, in 2002 or 03 (a brief glimpse of the remnants of it are visible at about 33:00 with the email address) and then again in 2006 or 07. It was tweaked about a year later but was later dropped in favor of an HD-friendly and contemporary look when the sale to London took place at the start of this decade. KIII did have some changes along the way as well. Maybe some rejoins that were updated around 2003, new opens & talent bumpers in 06, and then not much else until the sale to London. KIII and KUSI were still using elements from the 2000-era look until at least 2010 or so, if I'm not mistaken.

Great observation! The final three years of ownership represent a sea-change of sorts in that line of thinking across the Bostick stations. Within this period, each of the stations in what became Gray's initial Texas-trio (KWTX,KBTX & KXII) received or were in the process of receiving on-air updates. KXII actually gained a news set that had a set of windows onto the newsroom and a fully-functional on-air weather center, all the work of Devlin Design Group. The graphics and music took some time to improve, however. That actually launched before the KWTX look that we are talking about now. Early to Mid 1996 maybe for KXII. There isn't a ton of content available online for them from that period. This one clip below represents the bulk of it, actually. KWTX made the updates at some point in 1997 as mentioned. While there were some tweaks here and there, it more or less remained intact until 2005 when they picked up one of Gray's standardized sets. KBTX, which there seems to be even less of online, was midstream in those changes when the sale to Gray was announced. I believe it was May of 2000, when they began using updated graphics, a new studio, whose floorplan is basically still in place to this day (Open studio with working newsroom in the background). They also started using a greater variety of cuts of "This is Your News". One of my big regrets as a news/media junkie actually came about a month prior as I was in town for an extended class field-trip and stayed overnight in a hotel in College Station. KBTX actually was running the full-length image commercial of "This is Your News" during just about every commercial break in the late evening/early morning hours from what I saw and that had to be the ONE time I didn't take my VCR along. It was also interesting as I recall they were running what would've been the "new" logo and graphics during those spots, but nowhere else on-air so it was a sneak-peek at the look that would've been debuting soon. Those graphics remained until 2004 or 05. The set remained until some point this decade, if I'm not mistaken. I've gone into my archives and found some photos of the KXII & KWTX sets. They are from 2002 when I was still in high school, but should give a better look at what we're talking about!