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Vintage KWTX in 1997.
It's weird to actually see this look and sound when it was relatively new (minus the last few moments, which were definitely not from 1997).
I think I have a tape of 10's morning news from around '02 or '03 and thinking how nice but dated the very same update graphics looked. The Lower-thirds had been modernized a bit but still looked pretty close to fitting the character of the overall graphics package.
Bostick was a quality owner based on everything I have seen, and they really invested in KWTX prior to their sale to Gray. The look, sound and direction of the newscasts even into the early years of Gray's ownership were very well executed. Not what you'd expect of of #90 or so market.
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I guess TVbD was left unnamed due to not being local.
Unfortunately, there's not much footage of KMPH's non-news image elements online, but I happen to have an ID followed by a stereo L3 graphic at the beginning of a program, which I got on VHS almost 20 years ago. I believe the same person sent the Fresno clips to TV Ark back in the 00s.
The ID music is great, and the announcer even says "Now in stereo!"
It's too bad the few clips that are around are the TVArk ones and a few with the camera pointed at a TV. It does sound like a really nice package.
These are some examples from a YouTube page with the aformentioned camera pointed at a TV. The user's titles hint at 1989-90 even though they are from the same feature.
Station ID / Cinema 26 Primetime Open
A couple of movie bumpers and a news tease near the end of this clip
Station ID and Movie Bump on this one
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Bryan/College Station, TX
KBTX News 3 at Ten, 12/22/2017
KAGS News at 6:00 - 12/22/2017
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Waco-Temple-Killeen, TX
KCEN Channel 6 News at Ten - 12/21/2017
KWTX News 10 at Ten - 12/21/2017
KWTX 10.2 - CW 12 News at Nine - 12/20/2017
KXXV Central Texas News Now at 10 - 12/20/2017
KWKT FOX 44 News at 5:30 - 12/21/2017
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San Angelo, TX
KSAN News at 5 - 1/2/2018
KIDY Fox News First at 10 - 1/2/2018
KLST Concho Valley This Morning Newsbrief - 1/3/2018
Midland-Odessa, TX (kinda)
KUPB Noticias Univision Oeste de Texas Open, 1/2018 - Recorded from KEUS in San Angelo
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Abilene, TX
KRBC News at 10 - 1/3/2018
KTXS News at 6 - 1/4/2018
KXVA Fox 15 News at 6 - 1/3/2018
KTAB News at 5 - 1/4/2018
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Back from my trip... Part I of a few posts starts now.
Wichita Falls,TX/Lawton,OK
KFDX 3 News at 10 - 1/5/2018
KAUZ NewsChannel 6 at 10 - 1/5/2018
KSWO 7 News at 6 - 1/5/2018
KJTL Texoma's Fox News at 9 - 1/5/2018
KAUZ/KSWO Texoma Weekend Morning News Debut - 1/6/2018
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KTVY actually began Going All Out 4 Oklahoma as early as ‘86
That guy has been posting some great OKC stuff for a while. I'm a bit envious! I've hit a number of thrift stores both in the OKC Metro and in southern Oklahoma for tapes over the course of the years and I've come up short. The stuff I've picked up is mostly cable or DFW which is fairly easy to come by in comparison.
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Lori is still there. There until the end.
That's too bad about the Elko station, but Lori is one of the best out there in my humble opinion. Whatever she does next, she will excel.
About 6 or 7 years ago, a firm I was working with was developing a news department at one of the radio stations in town and she helped us build our network of contacts in the area. She helped share leads and resources when possible. She didn't treat us as a competitor and thought it was more important that additional voices were available to get the word out about stories in the community. I've never forgotten that and appreciate what she did for us to this day.
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KFDX & KJTL moved to the updated graphics packages last week. KFDX has the KETK look, and KJTL the KWKT look.
Both have retained their existing music packages though thus far.
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I never adequately promote my stuff... but here's a recent complete newscast I uploaded
KHOU - 11 News at Noon complete broadcast from November 1993
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Because I don't hawk the stuff I upload to my YouTube so often...
KWTX News 10 at Ten Weekend (Full Newscast) - 1/7/17
KCEN Channel 6 News Weekend Close (New Set) - 1/7/17
KXXV NewsChannel 25 Good Morning Texas Weekend Open - 1/8/2017
Back a bit
KHWB WB 39 News at Nine Debut Newscast (Full) - 9/2000
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More uploads from my YT Channel...
Dallas
WFAA News 8 Midday Close - Summer 1990
Houston
KPRC - Channel Two News at 6:00 (Most) - 5/17/89
KPRC - Ron Stone's Scene at Five World Tour '89 Promo - 5/89
KHOU 11 News Update w/ Marlene McClinton - 5/89
KPRC - "59 South" Community Affairs Program - 12/89
KHOU - For Your Information... and Anyone Else's (2 Reports on Personal Privacy) - 1990
KTRK - Eyewitness Houston: Divorce & Child Custody - 10/90
KPRC - John McPherson Promos - 1/91
KHOU - Election '91 Promo
KPRC - Channel Two News Long Close 11/5/91
KHTV - 39 Houston TV News Close - 11/5/91
KHOU - 11 News at Five Open & First Story - 5/92 (Annoyed this one cut out early... one of the stories teased was the last day of KHTV's news department at that time)
KTRK - 13 Eyewitness News at 6 Close 11/16/97
San Antonio
KSAT NewsWatch 12 at Five (FULL) , 2/28/83
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Houston
KHOU - Spirit of Texas Promo - Summer, 2001
Corpus Christi
KZTV Newswatch 10 at 6 Open & First Story - 9/11/01
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Some cool finds from the El Paso/Las Cruces market...
1989 El Paso Press Club Blooper Reel:
KVIA Open from 1989 (Spirit of Texas):
1991 El Paso Press Club Blooper Reel:
KVIA Open from 1994 (Reeks of WSVN and Bill Ratner):
KDBC Open from 1997 (Wall to Wall and Ratner... oh boy):
KDBC Open from 1998:
KVIA Talent Rejoin 1999 (With the Score ABC Affiliate Pack):
KDBC Open from 1999:
I think most of those individual opens are taken from NewsActive 3's compilations. Great stuff though.
The 1990 EP Press Club Blooper Reel:
Still scratching my head over what the warbled KDBC theme at 10:26 actually is.
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Back from a trip, so a bunch of updates...
Wichita Falls
KFDX 3 News Today Open (HD), 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWthiunpck
KAUZ NewsChannel 6 at 10 Open (HD), 2014
KFDX Time Warner Weather Channel Sample
Houston
KPRC Local 2 News Midday Open (HD), 2014
KPRC Local 2 Breaking News Alert Intro (HD), 2014
KHOU 11 News at Noon Close + Gannett ID (HD), 2014
KTRK 13 Eyewitness News This Morning Open (HD), 2014
KTRK 13 Eyewitness News at 6:30 Open (HD), 2014
KTMD 47.3 "Placeholder" Screen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzUTc6v18QE
Sherman/Denison,TX - Ardmore/Ada, OK
KTEN News at 5 Montage (HD), 2014
KTEN-DT3 - ABC Texoma News at 4PM Open (HD), 2014
KXII News 12 at 6 Montage (HD), 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w_yOhkHsCU
KXII HD News Coverage Promo, 2014
KXII-DT3 - News 12 Good Day Open (HD), 2012
Oklahoma City
KFOR NewsChannel 4 at 4 AM Open (HD), 2014
KFOR 65th Anniversary Promo (HD), 2014
KFOR 65th Anniversary - Weather Promo (HD), 2014
And as somewhat of a blast from the past... although it was only about 5 years ago; I found a few of the "Right Here, Right Now" promos that KPRC aired. I apparently saved them on a DVD back then, so here they are now. Actually survived being rendered and re-converted into passable HD!
Primary Promo
Anchors
Local 2 Investigates
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Oklahoma City
KOCO 5 News In The Morning Open & Talent Rejoin, 2013
KOCO 5 News Close, 2013
KWTV Gary England's Departure Promo
KFOR The 4 O'clock News Open, 2013
Tulsa
KOTV The News on 6 at 10 Open, 2013
KOTV Six in the Morning Open, 2013
KJRH 2 News Today Tease & Open, 2013
KTUL Tulsa's Channel 8 News at 10 Open, 2013
KOKI FOX 23 News This Morning Open, 2013
Topeka
WIBW 13 News at Six Montage, 2013
WIBW 13.2 - 13 News at 9 Open, 2013
KSNT Kansas First News at 5 Montage, 2013
KTKA Station ID + Kansas First News at 6:30 Open, 2013
Wichita
KAKEland - Good Morning Kansas Talent Open Blooper, 2013
Kansas City
KMBC 9 News at 9 on KCWE Open, 2013
KMBC 9 News Generic Morning Open, 2013
KMBC 9 News at 5 Promo, 2013
KCTV 5 News Its Your Morning at 4:30 Tease & Open, 2013
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I've uploaded a bunch from Wichita in recent days...
-KAKE News "Coverage" Promo - 1985; You can clearly hear Gari's "We'll Take You there" as the music, but it's the only instance I've found of the package being used on the station at this time.
-KAKE News Brief w/ Dave Evans, 12/1985
-KSNW/KSN News Extra w/ Greg Gamer, 12/1985; KSNW had an interesting assortment of music during this time. The unknown theme used for newscasts, TM's "All The News" and Gari's "Turn To" package for promos and image in addition to the occasional use of "Hello News" for image purposes.
-KWCH Eyewitness Newsbreak w/ Julie Becker + Station ID, 12/1985
-KWCH "The Look of a Leader" holiday promo & Station ID, 12/1985
-KWCH Eyewitness News Nightcast Promo & Station ID, 12/1986
-KSNW Holiday Station ID's, 12/1987
-KSNW Channel 3 News Nightbeat Promo, 12/1987
-KSNW Mike Smith Weather Promo, 12/1987; See what I said about "Hello News" just showing up sometimes?
-KSNW/KSN Kansas Update w/ Bob Vernon, 12/1987
-KSN Kansas Update w/ Melissa Beck, 2/1989; Recorded from KSNC - Great Bend
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Here are a few recent uploads from my YouTube Channel that may be of interest
KAKE News Weekend Edition Tease & Open, 12/3/1989
KTRK 11 PM Late Show Open - 1985
KSNW NewsChannel 3 Kansas Update - 1992
KSNW NewsChannel 3 Nightbeat Open & First Story - 1992
KAUZ Channel 6 Newsbreak - 1/1983
CBS Newsbreak w/ Marlene Sanders - 1/1983
KFDX NewsCenter 3 - "The Class of '82" Promo - 9/1982
KFDX 3 - "NBC - Just Watch Us Now" Promos - 9/1982
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A few selections from WRCB anchor David Carroll's YouTube Channel...
1972 WDEF-TV 12 Chattanooga 11 pm newscast
WRCB Chattanooga 1976 local newscast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwAzOqreFM8
Live at 530 WRCB Chattanooga News Open 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-xf0tvK7EY
There are also a bunch of other promos & clips worth checking as well
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From Chuck D's channel; here's a promo for possibly the first airing of CBS' Morning Program train-wreck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpPPJ6KM1R0
It is. It was clipped from a commercial compilation I uploaded a few months back (it appears at 6:59).
Here are a few new clips of interest that I've uploaded...
KTRK Breaking News cut-in from 1990 about a Toxic Cloud at a school
KSNC 2 - Great Bend, KS Station IDs from 1988-89
KPRC - The Scene at Five (Part) 2/10/1989
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SESAC lists Chip Davis of Mannheim Steamroller as having done a news theme and other on-air music for KSHB. Could this be his work? We don't want to blindly speculate, of course...
There are also SESAC records of news themes by Davis for KMGH and KMTV. Maybe the KMTV 1990 clip in the last page is his theme? (I dunno what KMGH theme could have been his - the 1989 one?)
It's possible - the music does have a certain element of the band's 'sound' to it, although somewhat toned down to a point.
I'd love to know who did the jazzy theme for the early 90s newscasts they aired as a FOX affiliate. I have a newscast of theirs from 1993 or 94 that I'll have to post at some time.
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KSNF 10pm, May 25, 1992:
(A block missing but it has a close)Interesting to see how KSNF was branding at this time. In 1990, SJL Communications bought the Kansas State Network and cut costs by severing the microwave link between Wichita and Topeka and Joplin. While their Wichita (and Topeka) outlets had rolled out new logos in 1986 and slick Television by Design graphics in 1988, their Joplin station was using a modestly updated version of the network's mid-80s branding, complete with old "KSN" logo and that yellow-orange-blue stripe pattern.
Just saw that... I have a bit of the Today show from KSNF during the 1988 Olympics and it appears there may have been no change in branding up until some point in the 90s. They had the same logo/color scheme & were using "All The News" in said clip. Even then it looked dated in comparison to KSNW & the rest of the network.
A note - TVbd's influence on KSN actually began at some point in 1987. I have a few tapes from then, and I think they may have used an interim, 'older' (relatively-speaking) graphics package from that firm, before the one that appears on NewsActive3's reel. They also introduced Gari's 'Great News' at this time as well. A February '89 tape I have with material recorded from KSNC, the station in Great Bend, shows that even they picked up the updated look by that point. KSN definitely stayed with them for a while - they updated the graphics for the network in the mid 90's and also did the graphics for the short-lived newscast they produced for KSAS, the FOX station, in the late 90s.
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Wichita
KSNWNews Tonight (Most) - 10/1986
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9SUwk99qvQ
KSNWNews Digest w/ Bob Vernon - 10/1986
KSNW 3 "The Best News of All" Promo - 10/1986
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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!