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Fixed, at least according to many after Pizzagate 2: The Pizzaning...

You can really see the TVbD influence in this one, especially in some elements that were pretty much recycled verbatim from their previous graphics (e.g. the talent shots). That definitely isn't him - compare his work for WBBH in the same timeframe.

Considering that the theme carries the signature of their news package, I'd count it. Meanwhile, KALB in 1992...the start year for Advantage moves even further back. Note one of the anchors here - Steve Coco further south in Lafayette.

Their arch-rivals WTVZ had them in the timeframe as well (the...lacking quality of the open was the direct inspiration for some of my own work): That sounds nothing like Gari at all. Could it be something locally produced, maybe?

Not to mention, the timing of those WHP clips (the 32nd Annual Grammy Awards were held 2/21/90) was enough to firmly establish some dates in the NMSA...relatively minor, but something I'm glad to see happen anyway.

KLAX in 1995...good-yet-corny 3D graphics? Original logo still in place? The One and Only? Oh yes. I'm starting to think the NMSA's dating is switched...from the compilation jacky9br did, Ultra News was being used in the 31LAX era...which comes immediately after this.

I'll say this much: both logos are big improvements over what they had before. No apparent music or graphics changes at either station...in fact, WABI's old logo is still present in more than a few elements.

Oh, this piece isn't unknown - it's part of "Clear Choice" from the Robert Hall production library. It's also the last thing I would have expected to hear...

VHSgoodiesWA posted that 1991 KECI/KTVM/KCFW newscast, but it's missing the first few minutes. So much for finding much of - is that WWL News?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=X0h6-agshb4;m=6;s=6

VHSgoodiesWA strikes again, this time with a tape haul from Bozeman, MT. Not much to see so far (though he's promising a KTVM newscast from 1991 soon), but there is this little bit...KXLF followed the lead of their Billings sister in image, it seems. (The music is an instrumental version of the image song accompanying KTVQ 1990 - The News Station, KTVQ.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=rpVYpGpZ5o8;m=2;s=30

Yeah, it was a bit of a hoot to hear that. Not something you'd expect to see on a normal show... re: WAFF - interestingly, they must have been using it alongside KSL 1989 too...that or the timing is a bit confused. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=5zldxtuRU-U;m=6;s=3

We finally get to see News Edge on WAAY, with an open from 2000... ...and one from 2001, with a heavy dose of technical difficulties on top. Plus a very odd little open from WAFF in 1989. I suspect this may be related to KTRE 1993 - they were definitely .

At least it wasn't the synthesized version like I was half-expecting, given what they had in 1981...

Just as a clarification, I'm quite certain TVbD did not make the camera graphics. They don't share any of the group's major "fingerprints", and certainly would have shown up in a demo reel or on the client list on their website... As for the ring graphics, the Newsmusic Central package did indeed come first...this is well-documented on WKLY and WESH, aside from the KETV open above.

Yeah, it would make a bit more sense if they were using a separate image by a different composer. And sheesh, that one sure dates itself...

KCRA and You sounds very Tuesday-esque to my ears too. The instrumentation is very reminiscent of the older parts of the 1-16 + A-H series. And what of "We Take You There"? I've never even seen any documentation of its existence beyond the totally blank NMSA listing, and I find it hard to believe that KCRA would have been using two different themes from two different companies at once.

I'll be honest - I could definitely see KTNV 1981 and WTVD 1979 being Peters, but I'm not so sure about KTVX, WJBK and KVIA, just going off the general musical style... Then again, Peters didn't really seem to have as much of a distinct "signature" to their work as, say, Tuesday. You could be forgiven for thinking that X Belongs and the WXIA themes were by completely different composers.

I was referring to the ANT1 open, not the WMUR one.

ANT1 in Greece took a few cues from WMUR's early 90's look around 1995... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Ot62saDSm1U;t=10

[QUOTE="Info Junkie, post: 181250, member: 3593"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EnnB0GyVeo Don't think this has been posted yet - this is an evening newscast from January 4, 1983 on WFSB and WTNH. A WFSB open appears halfway through, using the pre-1984 Gannett graphics (you know, the red & blue lines crawling across a black screen with random shots around them).[/QUOTE] I [I]knew[/I] we'd find that WFSB open someday, and I knew exactly what to expect when we did - that look was what a certain group that would go down in television history [URL='http://jcbd.com/kv.php']was tasked with replacing[/URL]... (@Raymie) On another note, note the theme used in this KLTV snippet. This is in the NMSA as the WDIO/WIRT 1985 theme, and it must have been production music, because KLTV 1985 was definitely in use alongside it (seen at 1:43). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=41_QU87K79Y;m=1;s=12

Blacker's is still alive and well, though they're down to just two locations nowadays. Maybe they had the same ad agency at the time?

A quick KTVB ID from 1999 shows them using Broadcast News...but I'm linking the whole thing because of a very certain production track in the commercial preceding it. This part also provides more of a look at the jcbD graphics of the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=M1jua28mABw;m=2;s=10

Ah, Release of Energy...one of my favorite tracks from KPM (especially with all the synthy sound effects presumably added for TVQ).

WHTM in March 1987 with Reaching Out To You:

Ha! I just submitted a cleaner copy of this open (and an unknown theme that came after it - both were actually posted on here ages ago) that I stumbled across on Facebook to the NMSA the other day. Now I know when they changed to that unknown...it also had a 1988 date on it.