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“WOULD YOU PUT YOUR MOTHER IN A PLACE LIKE THIS?!” WNBC must’ve hired a new news director in 1992/93, and if they did I bet they were affiliated with a certain Channel 7 station in Florida.

This KMGH era shown here is a very interesting one - they were using what Logopedia has labeled as the 1974-76 logo around early 1981-1982, but then by 1982 they debuted the logo shown in that video clip. They finally settled with this logo by, at the earliest, April 21, 1983:

Sticking to the Carolinas...

This wouldn’t be the first Belo station that used an image for only about a year. KXTV used its supposed 1986 theme from 1984 to 1985, when they switched to Spirit. EDIT: Check out a KMGH promo for Robin Robinson (yes, her) from 1983 at 10:42:

Two words - THE News.

WNYT does this too - Bob Kovachick and Paul Caiano do weather at the 4:00-6:00pm slots. I bet this is either to force Bob K into retirement or they give the opportunity of having one weather anchor in the studio while the other reports live from a remote location (an example was Bob at Albany’s Alive at Five a few weeks ago).

I’ve seen that open before - it was on this video from 1984: You can see it on the control room TVs. Is the uploader sure this aired in ‘83? Corinthian/Dunn & Bradstreet stations had unified looks & sets at the time and didn’t really change their opens at all, so this possibly could’ve aired after the Belo takeover.

Why did the NMSA get rid of KJRH using In-Sink?

EDIT: No Don Alhart anchoring???? Instead we get Loretta Carroll pre-KMTV.

Next batch from KJRH! If you’re wondering how I make these compilations I use screen recorder on my iPhone. Then I put the clips together on iMovie and edit them down, pretty easy. Though it is annoying when some videos’ volumes don’t work, or when notifications keep popping up while you’re recording... Also I’m planning on targeting other areas too, like Baltimore, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and even Phoenix, which I’m sure will grab @Ramona’s attention...

In loving memory of WTAE 4’s Joe DeNardo.

I’ve always been a fan of @T.L. Hughes’s news open compilations on YouTube and I thought I’d start doing them myself. To start I’ve filled in gaps for the Tulsa market with KTUL.

You know what I just realized?! WNEM’s 2014 opens are really a knockoff of WFSB’s! Add to that the awful Scripps L3’s.

Speaking of that, I just watched a 1984 Steelers game from December and saw a promo similar to KOCO’s “How will you know...” for Channel 11 News. And yes, they had that name in ‘84, but the logo hasn’t changed yet. Uploading that clip to my channel...

Recently found this WSOC open at 44:11 in this NewsActive3 compilation. It has the same graphics as KNTV’s open from the era (this is the Bob Perry open on the NMSA).

A WYFF report on January 1, 1987 - some unknown theme plays at 0:50 that could possibly be a theme not in the NMSA. This was also one of Carol Goldsmith’s last newscasts before going to the noon show later that month.

Holy heck Mark Koebrich is younger than I thought here. He doesn’t even sound like he did years later! Six months later they were using the “9 Country” package that was carried over to WTCN when Gannett acquired them. I’d assume they debuted this package shortly after this was broadcast.

Former WRGB weatherman Tim Welch has some archive footage on his YouTube channel. Historical note is that he did weather between the legendary Howard Tupper and WYFF’s John Cessarich. The 4:22 mark shows some good shots of WRGB’s news set in the late 1970s. Edit: MicroJow has some Albany, NY commercial breaks from the 80s on YouTube. This WNYT one is notable - the station ID at 3:17 minutes in shows proof that they debuted the Cranston-Csuri GFX in ‘85: Also was WNYT Ed Hopkins’ first VO client?

I’m starting to think Pulitzer kept roughly most of Gannett’s L3’s and remnants after the WLKY acquisition.

I’m assuming this open debuted when Cox took over, and wow, Thom Allen voicing a non-Post Newsweek station in Florida? I wonder what WFTV used in the mid 80s before that open. We’re missing a good chunk from 1983-1986. (The NMSA says they used “And You” until 1987??) And Patrick Emory at KOVR is a new one. That’s possibly the third station he worked at that wasn’t anything St. Louis related - he also had stops at WTHR and KYW in 1979-1980.

Charlie Van Dyke tells us how WAFF became the Tennessee Valley News Channel.

Very sad.... been looking for this for years. For a second at the beginning you can see the end of a Braniff Airline commercial, which was later used as a production company name for the TV show South Park 10 years later.

@Ramona Going back on what you said about WPXI possibly debuting Newsmat in ‘85 is now plausible. This Steelers video from 1984 still shows WPXI with their old logo: [URL]http://www.mcmillenandwife.com/1984_Steelers_35_vs_Oilers_7.html[/URL] Sticking with ‘PXI, this 2 hour Steelers Video On Facebook includes some promos for Channel 11 mixed in, as well as then-weekend sportscaster Randy Waters hosting “Steelers 5th Quarter”. Interestingly, his second stop after WPXI was another channel 11, this time being WXIA in Atlanta. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=id=1297900003626494;type=video

It appears Gannett’s CGI Death Star began in 1983...