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8 hours ago, KnoxvilleTVFan said:

What you are about to see is a video containing reports done by Joe Collum who reported on the county commission in Tampa. Throughout the video, you can see some WTVT opens starting with an 11pm news open at the beginning, a Pulse 13 First News open at 8:06 and a 6pm news open at 12:34.
 

And we take you back to the mid 1980s where WYMT in Hazard, KY used this news theme until the mid 1990s.
 

 

Those WTVT opens have resemblances to KETV’s 1983 graphics package:

Definitely the same company.

Also at the end of the first open you can see that WFTS is being broadcast on the first monitor behind Terry Casey (their “28” logo intact).

KTVX snippet from 1980:

Rest In Peace to an actual legend in the weather business.

14 minutes ago, TexasTVNews said:

In the memory and in tribute to WSVN/WHDH Owner, Ed Ansin. RIP and Godspeed.

 

 

Not gonna speculate in this thread, but I think that’s gonna hurt both 7’s. Ansin was a god when it came to tabloid television.

Wanna hear Bill Ratner get REALLY excited?

“Safe. Informative. Connected.”

1 hour ago, 8Viewer said:

Nice. I've read that WPEC was considered a 'joke'. WPTV was a Scripps clone.

It was owned by Scripps. Same “5” and open style as WEWS. Their own sister on the same channel (WMC) used an old-style “5”.

uwtitanfan is back with two gems:

This screams Peters at the top of its lungs:

WCPO news tease, 1984 (unknown theme):

It is June 1989 and WTSP has not switched to The Hour just yet...

WILX in 1981:

Some WTEN and WNYT commercials from 1991:

The WNYT stuff is from the tail end of their “News 13” era - includes slides for their anchors, a news brief, and a promo for “Buy New York First” sponsored by Evergreen Bank (now TD Bank).

55 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Another standard-issue Scripps set, that existed at WMC and WEWS (until 1981)

I originally thought it was a hand-me-down, but WMC used it back in 1980...while the WEWS version was still in use.

 

Here's WMC using the 70's WEWS-like set all the way in 1985.

 

If my estimations are correct, this set lasted until 1987 and the newer Scripps standard issue set?

 

WEWS had the 1981 set in the middle between the two sets (the blue one with the jagged desk).  Their 1985-ish set lasted a decade, with several paint jobs and a skyline added in 1990 (around the time they changed to NewsChannel 5)

It briefly lasted under the Edd-Kalehoff, slanted "circle 5" revamp, and a new set was built that summer that only lasted until fall of 1998.

 

And we see in the 1980 clip, the "false ceiling" effect.  I know i've shown this before on the site, but here is a "behind-the-scenes" from WEWS showing it in action.

https://youtu.be/BmwAiiDnDjg?t=103

 

WMC did the renovation in 1986. It was the last to get the standardized Scripps set:

From the Remembering Atlanta News From the 80s Facebook page, a WSB report opening with Catch 5 as the theme:

https://www.facebook.com/111168876222642/posts/513792899293569/?vh=e

41 minutes ago, SoFloTVClassics said:

KDUH TV 4 1984

 

WTOL along with WKBD News scene at the end of the clip.

 

They used the WPXI theme! Makes sense. They’re both Channel 11.

30 minutes ago, KnoxvilleTVFan said:

I recently got to see a WLKY newscast clip from April 1984 and if I am not mistaken, the WLKY news theme they used may have been done by the same composer who did the "9 Country/11 Country" package for WTCN/KBTV. 
 

You can go to 2:14 to hear the opening theme they used.

Makes sense, because both stations had the same owners a year earlier. Maybe this was commissioned for WLKY under Gannett??

Oh wait a minute.....

Its possible WLKY and WBTV both we’re commissioners, or both were different firms altogether.

Hey voiceover dude. WAKE UP!!!!!!!!! Unless the news makes you that bored?

WHEC in 1989 touting the switch to NBC:

WLKY in 1984!!! Featuring their Gannett/Combined set (this was a year after they were bought by Pulitzer):

Funny... Bob Vernon is the VO and this was after he left the station.

On 6/5/2020 at 11:41 PM, tyrannical bastard said:

Scroll back to the first page of this thread, and you'll see a picture of this set...it does look very close to the one launched in Atlanta at WXIA.  These moves (and the "Alive" branding) were done under Combined, before their merger with Gannett.

 

Going back to Virgil Dominic and WXIA, it was actually Combined that sent him packing from there (so says the article below).  He had taken WXIA to #1 under his leadership after he was lured away from WKYC.

http://www.clevelandseniors.com/people/virgil-dominic.htm

 

And after he was hired at WJW, his launch of NewsCenter8 set the stage for their dominance in the years to come.   Looking at this set, it does have some undertones to the NBC look that the network and O&O's were using on their newscasts.

 

Meanwhile at WKYC, they were begging and pleading for local control as WJKW was now eating their lunch.

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/153863990/
(read the OCR and you can read most of the article text)

I know this is a thread for sets, but....

Geez! Four weather people in the span of two years?! No wonder WKYC wasn’t going anywhere!

KXLY in 1994, tail end of Making the Northwest Difference:

At the beginning of this Donahue episode is a WTVG promo for the 1980 election featuring a long cut of the “13 Strong” theme that was heard on the 1981 clip uploaded to the same channel:

https://youtu.be/OgCsxak5UKg

One of the funkiest news themes I’ve ever heard:

Link doesn’t work, unless I need to enable flash which I can’t do via iPhone.

47 minutes ago, jerseyfla said:

Here is a link to that promo from the Internet Wayback Machine. You have to hit continue go to the 70s, then 1977 and then click on Bob Hite sails to Tampa, the promo then plays.

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20050326181659/http://media.tbo.com/wfla/flash/timeline/popup.htm