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That open can't have lasted long, then - Works for You has to fit in somewhere! KREM really was a revolving door in the late 80s through the mid 90s... Meanwhile, in Yakima, a possible hint to KIMA using the 1997 CBS Special Presentation theme. I like the "ky-ma" phonetic pronunciation of the callsign! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=AUEuMMq0L5o;m=3;s=10 And from Portland, KOIN in 1991. We finally get to see Great News outside of KPDX.

This isn't that surprising...on the other clip of this open, we find this comment by one Eugene Reyes (excerpted): "95 does sound right as to when it changed. Becky Neighbors left Big 2 in '94 and I think it was changed shortly thereafter." And that WBRZ open...what an awesome use of effects there! Definitely one of the best opens from that time I've seen, period.

A name that hasn't been seen much lately...SanAntonioNews78 has tossed some goodies out. First up, KSAT's 6 PM news on May 14, 1993, still with "v2" of their 1987 theme (the two different themes in the NMSA are definitely the same package, as there's another clip on the channel of an audio-only close dated 1994 with "v1"...I'm not 100% sure on that year, though). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=cQjweV4dfqo There's also KABB's very first newscast, March 20, 1995... ...and this KENS promo from the mid 80's, for "Newscope". We've seen an open for this format from WGN...was it a syndicated hybrid package of some sort, a la PM/Evening Magazine, or just one of those brands that pops up in odd places? And on one final note, some more evidence that seems to support my theory regarding "The One & Only" and "Call it Home"...note the combination of music and tagline.

I checked at TVPMM - that's confirmed as an instrumental version of one of the main promo themes for We've Got The Touch.

A familiar open with a not-so-familiar VO (well, with this open, anyway). WHO-TV in 1992... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Z70qfnPBBFo;t=120

Calling it now...KFXF full power is spectrum/shaft bait.

Indeed, I've suspected that for years myself. "KWES 2002" is a dead ringer for the Tuesday sound, especially when compared to KAKE 1988. One thing about it though...if they truly used it up until 2008, that's a pretty great shelf life for a small 80s pack!

A new appearance by KTVW 1986 / News 80's v2 shows up...and it's on KIDK, of all stations.

Melody sounds like it spells "2 Steps Ahead" in the last four notes, but otherwise it sounds rather different. Perhaps a "v1" or a different theme that's melodically related? Whatever it is, it must have appeared pretty early in 1979 - the station ID from the 1980 clip appears at the tail end of this video, with different music carrying the same signature. The Chicago mayoral election mentioned occurred in April...

A blank filled...KCRA in 1984, with a theme carrying the WTNCF signature but which I don't recognize. Certainly doesn't sound like a Peters Productions theme like what the NMSA says... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Zz3vy-NsyKI;m=4;s=1 The channel also has KCRL in 1989, giving us a complete look at their open with WAVY 1985... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=zD0DLtUgRK0;m=5;s=38

A 1990 WTHR open with one of the oddest mixouts of Great News I've ever heard (and the TVbD "long box graphics" also used by WFSB and WFTV, among others):

Not just similar...I just listened to "Be a Part of It All", and they sound like they're the exact same package. We know KCCI was a repeat Tuesday client (well, we know they used Now More Than Ever...who knows where the NMSA's listing of KAKE 1980 came from), the beginning of the image sounds very much like the WRTV theme, and that theme .

That must be mid 80s at the latest with that logo...if only the promo had music with it. (Willing to bet that music would be Tuesday10...)

That clear a sample of it all but drips Tuesday instrumentation...and I can't really hear an edit between the TuesdayA melody and the other one. I'd say your guess might just be a correct one!

Remember ? And featuring the corresponding open? Said open has surfaced in the clear - even during a strike against the station, no less. The channel also has from WTVJ, also in 1980.

The irony is that clips that say they're in 50/60 FPS and are actually in 50/60 FPS are incredibly rare. That Zeit im Bild montage is a good example - most, if not all of the actual videos are in 30 FPS...

It certainly seems like it...complete with a cut of the We've Got The Touch package I certainly wouldn't have expected to hear in a news context. Speaking of WWNY, this little ditty of a theme ducked under the radar... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj_JG1PrGb0 These graphics were also used with two years earlier...and it's pretty obvious here that they were designed around that theme.

As those of you who frequent this forum know, KPHO was one of the users of Rick Krizman's 24 Hour News during its 15 minutes of fame in the mid 90's. The NMSA lists them as using it from an unknown start date until 1998, with a KPHO 1995 unknown from that year until some unknown time after. For several years now it's been assumed that this unknown is a mystery cut of Krizman's theme that the NMSA simply hasn't done anything about yet. I think I've just disproven that, through random listening at NMN. First, we step into the time machine, back to 2014 in the U.S. news music abroad topic: I have to admit, at the time I thought it was suspect too. The instrumentation in the clip referenced is quite Gari-like... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=9GdbOkjEXWE;t=13 ...and the signature doesn't quite work either. 24 Hour News tends to revolve around a 3 note cue, whereas this mystery theme uses more of a 6 or 7 note melody. Fast forward to this morning, and imagine my surprise when I randomly click on the Entertainment theme listed under series 1 of Hometown News on NMN. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? TL;DR: KPHO 1995 must be a Gari library theme of some sort, because it appeared in Hometown News, and the instrumentation matches Gari's work. Even if it isn't a Gari theme, the signature doesn't mesh with everyone's suspicion - Krizman's 24 Hour News - anyway.

A full newscast from WROC from late 1992, with the Otis Conner theme in the open:

Wow. Never thought I'd see Be There, John Young's voiceover, and On Top of it All together...

Sounds like a previously unknown theme to me. They were definitely using Spirit in some way just before the news operation folded.

That's a pretty cool way to transitioning from the movie to the open...and the open appears to be a knockoff of , interestingly enough. I guess this also disproves the NMSA's listing of them using PNP...though I sincerely doubted the truth of that anyway.

Yeah, they absolutely switched in 1985, probably fairly early on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=FZJPfVoJxMY;t=31

Yes, it absolutely did - the open appears in the 1985 TVbD demo, and they were using lower thirds along the same lines as late as 1989. I suspect they may have picked it up in 1984. I actually thought that was common knowledge and the NMSA had just never updated the ordering...