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Doing just that yields a pretty close match, so I definitely agree that it's the 1991 theme. The melody even seems to spell out "10 T-V, all you need". That makes me wonder if it did, in fact, debut in 1990. (That would certainly give the 1989/1990 theme - the two unknowns there are probably one and the same package - an awfully short run...)

This was too interesting to pass up. I just randomly managed to stumble over to this newscast from Murr Television (MTV Lebanon), and found the theme to be rather interesting. It sounds like it's a variation on Gari's Where It All Happens, of all things...with a custom signature too. Take a listen:

Yeah, that's definitely Tuesday2. Ties in with the end of the NMSA sample (0:50 on) and has the right instrumentation. Nice find, thanks for that sample!

WTKR news clips from May 1987. At 2:35 is a second example of that synth-dependent cut of Discover the Land of the 3.

Ch-ch-ch-changes at WAVY/WVBT... Anita Blanton, currently the weekday 4 and 5:30 PM anchor, will be replacing Nicole Livas on the 5, 6, 10 and 11 PM newscasts alongside Tom Schaad. As was mentioned here a few months back, Livas recently left the station to join her husband in the Washington D.C. area. Blanton's replacement at 4 and 5:30 will be Laura Caso, formerly of WTLV/WJXX, whose first day is today. Caso and current weekend evening anchor Deanna LeBlanc will be the anchors of a new 30 minute 7 PM newscast on WVBT, to premiere March 28th. This will compete with an existing 7 PM show on WGNT, produced by WTKR. Brandi Cummings, currently a weekday reporter, will replace LeBlanc on weekend evenings, in addition to her reporting duties. (source) And speaking of Hampton Roads, VARTV is reporting that WTKR/WGNT anchor Laila Muhammad will be moving to Dallas to co-anchor Tribune's EyeOpener. Her last day is tomorrow, March 4th.

Okay, hearing the bumper/close music in the clear proves to me that WAVY 1982 = Tuesday2. As if KGTV just so happening to use it at the same time wasn't enough evidence...

I feel 95% certain it's News Watch based on the bit at 13:47 - it lines up perfectly with this from NMN (though they label it as News Station, the signature lines up with News Watch). As for the graphics, TVbD's list on their site did list KIFI around the same timeframe as that zombie KOTA package...

To me the production track sounds like it has that "90s FirstCom" vibe, particularly with the string instrumentation.

The mystery that is KREM continues...yet another unknown theme from them has surfaced, this time from late 1990. If I had to hazard a guess at a timeline, I'd say this may have been picked up in '89 when Eric Johnson left, and was probably dropped for PNP in 1991 (it seems to go with a newsbreak theme I posted quite some time ago, and which was definitely used into '91).

Well, except for the cut from News Now that shows up way ahead of schedule for the topical... Definitely the same (WRAL 1982). Do we even know anything about this theme? It almost has a vague VTS feel to me, but I forget if anybody's ever explicitly mentioned anything about it.

Maybe not in the close, but that ID at the very beginning sounds like what WLS uses in the morning...

This is more like '86 or '87, given the footage of the Challenger disaster that shows up.

On the drone front, WAVY has become the first station in Hampton Roads to add one to its arsenal.

Now that you mention it, I think it's pretty definite they're one in the same, or at least share a musical logo. Listen right after Bill Walker is named in the open...the signature is spot on with the beginning of that tease cut.

What I can only assume is just a snippet of a KNBC promo for NewsCenter 4, 1978: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=dlWk7LKefCM;m=2;s=16 Oddly enough it turned up on a PAL tape, along with 2+ minutes of other KNBC bits. Features the WOC 1980 theme, which I begin to suspect might be production music of some sort. (In case the timed embed didn't work for you, the promo is at 2:16 in the video.)

More sad news, this time from Albany. The Times-Union there reports that longtime WRGB anchor Ed O'Brien has died of cancer. He was 59. On behalf of all of us here at TVNT, my sincere condolences and prayers to Mr. O'Brien's family and colleagues.

Even more WTAJ... It turns out they kept using the original Action News Theme alongside the custom orchestral version. From November 4, 1990, the open to the Action News Nightbeat:

From Christmas Day 1976, the 11 PM report of WTAJ's TV10 Action News, featuring a looong (4 minutes!) special close. The channel also has other bits and pieces from WTAJ in the late 70's and early 80's.

Wow, what an incredible find! The open isn't even all that bad for the market size...

That's a good point, but on the other hand, Hearst also owns several reasonably strong NBC affiliates (WBAL and WYFF come to mind). So it's not quite assured.

NBC's jockeying for an O&O in Boston? This could get interesting. From what I've gathered Mr. Ansin is not likely to sell anytime soon... I'm not quite sure what to think of the article's speculation about NECN getting NBC programming. It sounds so stupid - but then again, they do raise a point about the spectrum auction. I still don't see it happening unless NBC was really desperate though. As was pointed out, they could even try flipping WNEU to an English O&O. Stranger things have happened...

Awesome redesign. Definitely a huge improvement over the hot mess they had before...

It also seems to leave WRC as the station most likely to have commissioned NewsCenter II...which ties together with how many different things they did with the first theme.

You know, listening to it now, it really does make sense that it's Tuesday. Surprised no one made the connection with the instrumentation earlier.