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That’s a Gil Jimenez set. ( then G & G Designs) Gil did their

 sets for years. 

Truth about Magers. As for Tuck, agreed on the commentaries.  He also did them in San Diego while at KGTV. He went after local government/officials etc.  too.  Some group had t-shirts made that read- Tuck Sucks and that’s my perspective!  
RIP Mike Tuck. 

2 hours ago, Nick said:

I'm an armchair, backseat-driving commenter as well.  The loud, splashy, and tabloid-like "Action News"  was the creation of GM Steven Gigliotti and ND John Lippman, who came aboard in late 1991.  Among other changes, they dumped Jim Lampley for the more in-your-face Michael Tuck. KCBS won the February 1992 11 p.m. sweep primarily because of the Olympics, but it was all downhill after that, and the management team was canned.

 

Bill Applegate actually restored a little order in 1994-95.  While he retained the "Action News" branding he toned the newscasts down quite a bit.   He hired Linda Alvarez for mornings;   his throwing the CBS checkbook at Ann Martin led Bree Walker out the door, and then went for nostalgia.  He outbid Disney and KCAL to get Jerry Dunphy,  "Big News" stalwart Bob Navarro,  Larry Carroll,  and Dr. George Fischbeck!.   Not that any of this helped the ratings -- it didn't.  In fact things were so dismal that the early-morning news was axed until long after Applegate was shown the door.

—————-Good memory!

Tuck was already there when Lippman dumped Lamps. They reteamed Walker and Tuck.  (As they were at KGTV in San Diego) and they brought back Chris Conangla from morning and noon exile to anchor with Tritia Toyota at 5.  
 

Dunphy’s deal was up with KCAL and they’d made no move to resign him (Young had recently bought KCAL from Disney) so Dunphy called Larry Perret and Applegate and negotiated his own deal.  He left KCAL and was initially reteamed with Ann Martin at 5 but within a few months was moved to the 4 and anchored at first with Toyota and the with Linda Alvarez. They dropped Dunphy just a little more than a year later. He returned to KCAL about 18-19 months later. 
 

KCBS did move briefly into 2nd place at 11 with Martin and Tuck during the OJ period but quickly fell back into last place by the next book. 
 

They were number 1 at 11 for a year or so in early/mid 2000’s with Magers and Diaz, when CBS prime was super hot.

2 hours ago, sfomspphl said:

KNBC Channel 4 News Nightside January 1986

 

Cued it up at the outro to the Tonight Show with the jazzy music and motion shots of the set. Looks so expansive yet warm and not overwhelming...a lot of that is thoughtful shot placement and framing built into the lines of the set , rather than just the studio size. Every shot of the set has an element that continues up or to the side uninterrupted, giving the illusion of height and depth.

 

 

 

A great period at KNBC. They were just about to take the lead back from KABC. The set was designed by Gil Jimenez. A set design pioneer.  And a great guy. I worked with him on a set in 2003.  

KGET’s gfx in the late 90’s through 2009 or so we’re done in house by Eye Street Productions. Their commercial production division. Eye Street also did the same package for KGPE, KCOY and I believe KION. 

Devlin Design Group set. 

Newsforce 29: KBAK-TV Bakersfield 1980-1982

TeleNews 29: KBAK-TV Bakersfield 1978-1980

1 hour ago, capsgm2002 said:

He ended up at KGET in Bakersfield in the mid-90's.

 

Yup. Came back to the market. Was in Bako at KERO  as News and Sports Director in late 70’s into 1980.  Returned to Bako and KGET. Later became media guy for the Kern County Superintendent of Schools. 

Networks are going away. The GM here has already made the comment, “do we really need to be a CBS/network affilliate ?  They are banking on creating a local brand. CBS owns a station in Atlanta. Gray is well aware that CBS most likely will pull an NBC BOSTON type move in ATLANTA.  Gray is smart to create a non CBS yet local brand. 

I believe it’s FX Group. 

Looks like TVBD. Television by Design. 

2 hours ago, Greggo said:

KPRC tweaked its initial 1994/1995 set (the one that corresponded with the rebrand to News 2 Houston) multiple times before moving to the KPRC News Center, a working newsroom set based upon WSVN’s, in 1998. Even when they dumped the newsroom set and moved back to a more traditional one, it remained the newsroom with many of the fixtures still in place until the building was replaced and then demolished on the same lot about 5 years ago. 

 

BDI did the studio set and the desk for the KPRC newscenter. 

1 hour ago, Duc4TVNewsTalk said:

Well, I honestly liked the WSB set of the mid-1990s, because it's my favorite Georgia TV news set of the time.

Set by Gil Jimenez 

11 minutes ago, C Block said:

I didn't realize until not too long ago that KCNC and WXYZ had almost exactly the same set in the late 90s from pencilogic. Looks like WXYZ got it first.

 

 

Both sets by Pencillogic 

3 hours ago, iron_lion said:

MSNBC 1996. Amazing, futuristic and internet oriented. Nothing compares to it on tv today.

WABC "Channel 7 Eyewitness News" late 80s-late 90s. Plain and simple but I like the frame consuming blue background, reminds me of interview sets from the 70s.

Gil Jimenez Broadcast Design did the WABC set 

On 2/6/2022 at 8:56 AM, tyrannical bastard said:

Well, after looking up some airchecks from WOIO and WUAB in the 90's....I guess my vision of what they had was sort of jumbled together.  It seemed the banks of monitors that both WOIO and WUAB used on their respective sets resembled what I saw when the WDTN and WKYC sets were shown here. None of the "highway bars" like the other sets had.  WOIO had their "newsroom" set all the way to "Action News" and WUAB had a separate set until the same era. 

This was the pre-Reserve Square set that WUAB had at their studios in Parma.

 

I guess the image I had in my head was what WTTE used for their first newscasts.  This was in 1996 so I don't know if WSYX was involved yet (about the time Sinclair bought River City and spun off WTTE to Glencairn).

These are Express Group sets 

3 hours ago, MidwestTV said:

Here are some screenshots from a KSHB newscast in 1998. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQvSV8H01s I can't be certain, but it looks as if this set was the framework for their new set that debuted sometime in the early 00s, possibly 2003 when they adopted the Action News branding. The frames are very similar.

BDI set. 

10 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Was Express Group also involved with set design for WOIO/WUAB for their news launch at Reserve Square?  The WUAB set for their 10pm news had similar elements to the WDTN set shown.

Would have see a pic to say. Their current set is from BDI. The previous 3 were Park Place

sets. 

13 minutes ago, iron_lion said:

WNBC "News Channel 4" (1995) had 2 sets:

Set A: Live at 5:

detailing with legal books, plants and a window blinds type blue glass, and a few statuettes.

Set B: News Channel 4 at 6pm

Most stations I see today have only 1 se

14 minutes ago, iron_lion said:

WNBC "News Channel 4" (1995) had 2 sets:

Set A: Live at 5:

detailing with legal books, plants and a window blinds type blue glass, and a few statuettes.

Set B: News Channel 4 at 6pm

Most stations I see today have only 1 set

These sets are by Gil Jimenez. They had a few tweaks and updates over the years.  

19 hours ago, 5OnYourSideMan said:

The WKYC Set from 1993 and its 1999 refurbished version. The weather desk from the 1997 version and the 1999 refurbished version is currently used at the University of Akron in Kobe Hall for their Z-TV. Before that WVPX used it for PAX 23 News. The 1997 version had blue borders on the windows of the Cleveland Backdrop and the NBC logo on the front of the desk. The 1998 version darkened the walls to a red color.

Another EXPRESS GROUP set. 

The Express Group. Update by FX. 

2 hours ago, dabnis74 said:

WDTN set from 1994-2005 updated in 2002. The weather center area was used till 2012.

The Express Group. Update by FX. 

5 hours ago, 5OnYourSideMan said:

The best is Dateline NBC. Their set was like a command center. 

Set by PDG. Now known as Jack Morton. Great set for its time. 

The top 2 look like BDI designs. The last 4 ( 3 of WEWS and last of WJW ) are Pencil Logic sets. They did great work in the 90’s- KPIX, KWGN, WGN, KMGH, WJZ and many more. They were the first to use acrylic tops for anchor desks too. 

I worked with Chad at Cinemagic on 3 graphics packages (1998-2004) for KBAK-TV in Bakersfield.  They did great work. 

Cinemagic.  Did great work.  I used them for 3 custom packages from 98-2005

Actually that is the WNEV/KCBS/WVTM theme. Used briefly after the failed newswheel format in 1986-87. After that was the rebrand to Action News and the VTS custom KCBS theme. 

On 5/15/2020 at 12:44 PM, Gavin said:

 

WRTV ABC 6 News.

No reason they can’t be 6 NEWS. Many markets now have multiple stations branding- (channel number) NEWS 

It’s been back. It was just replaced for election night coverage.