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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...

Bob Perry... the voice of Cox Broadcasting in the ‘80s. Here’s another report from WSOC in ‘85, during their “News Image” era (I believe???)

WSOC in 1981 - no opens but the theme is questionable.

If anyone’s not been posting about it here, Kathy Brock is now our next victim to retirement at WLS. She’s been at the station for 28 years, and will be missed.

WNYT has another line-up change - morning meteorologist Paul Caiano is moving to 11pm to officially replace Jason Gough, who left in January. This marks Paul’s return to evenings as he was previously the weekend meteorologist until 2000 when Norm Sebastian passed. In addition WNYT also aired archive footage today on the Mechanicville, NY tornado, which struck 20 years ago today. Here is some footage of their reports from YouTube:

20 years ago today, the unthinkable happened in Mechanicville, NY when a tornado struck the area. Here is some WNYT footage. *Should also be noted that this was one of Chris Jansing’s last newscasts before her move to NBC.

He was there to upstart news at KSTU in 1992, and then left around 1994/95 to anchor briefly at WGRZ in Buffalo.

Yes, it was 1985 when KMGH debuted Newsmat, I believe around June-July, as in May they still had the old set. Wish I could find that supposedly brief era somewhere... Here’s some more Salt Lake City rarities!

Some WPXI clips from their “Newsmat” era: The first clip shows Hank Baughman with Roxanne Stein before he was replaced with Mike Hambrick. From what I can gather, they must’ve debuted the “Newsmat” set in 1984 (maybe??).

I remember speculation on this thread a while back about what KXAS was using between MCTYW and Wall-to-Wall News. Well now with this video we can put it up to determination.

Oops, didn’t get your notification on this one Also those graphics were possibly done by Calico. They also did work for KREM and WPXI around the same period: In other news, a tribute to the late, great Nick Michaels:

Here’s a REAL rarity for ya...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbiJ-dJDYM8 Does anyone believe if WSPA’s News Theme from the early 90s is a Peters track? They were a Peters client at the time...

Love the WTNH clips - that Newsmat set defined the 80s for them. As for the WKRC clip, Nick Clooney loses his right mic earphone at the beginning!

Apparently KLAS’ “News Image” period was split up into two parts, with this being the second half. This also must’ve been the tail end of that “8” before they changed their logo.

THE PARAMOUNT EXPERIENCE!!!!

Ask and ye shall receive at 26:45. They also (apparently) had another open possibly during 1993/94, basically with Broadcast News but with the 1994 “6”: