Info Junkie

So Id guess they debuted the Newsmat set and graphics around the summer, as by May they still were using the old set:

The tail end of a WNEM newscast from 1996. I assume the L3’s shown went with the KTUL-like graphics they used at the time.

Finally!!!! Also Ernie Anastos still lives on.

This has to go here...

Here’s some Active 8 in 1986, fills a hole in our WQAD wish list...

And then he got replaced by Lester Holt... God knows where he ended up, at the Peacock. Here’s a look at a WRC newscast in 1990:

He must’ve been replaced by Harry Porterfield eventually, as Mort went to WDIV to replace Wes Sarginson in 1978-early 1979.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR2v2aksPSk KCBD in 1994 WTVQ in 1990 KIRO in 1985

From 1987, a WAVE 3 News update

The ads are horribly misdated- that KVUE Ernest promo is from their post-Gannett acquisition years, which is definitely not 1982. My guess is 1986 or 1987. And that KTVV clip from 1985 is very weird. My guess is that they had a previous package with that logo before this one:

Was totally expecting no open, of course, but Gary Rebstock??? Also a promo at 10:13 is voiced by Brian James. Also this might’ve been their open... Note the L3’s are same in this newscast

Must’ve been from the same company. Similar graphics were also used at KTVX circa late 90s: And I believe maybe KPHO’s “Fresh News” package: If that’s the case for the latter, this company probably was a Meredith client, except I don’t think WNEM used similar graphics (they were instead using ones similar to KTUL and I believe they kept them until 1996):

I dig this WCCO open from 1996! Very mind-blowing.

Bumping this thread to display this: Morris pulled a WTEN* at WDEF in 2011 and rigged their Media General opens. *pulling a WTEN - keeping the same news imaging but changing the L3’s, Music, announcer, etc.

A KTUL early 90’s clip of Judd Hambrick interviewing Tulsa news legend Jack Morris

A WDEF report from April 1997, good example of their last year using the “12” logo from the 1960s

Wells himself also did some voices for WKYC until late 1989, as they were using Lewis by the San Francisco earthquake

WNYT’s Dan Bazile has left to anchor Spectrum News in the area, possibly after being passed up by Asa Stackel for the morning job. Veteran reporter Dan Levy is filling in currently.

Geez, how many opens was WAGA using throughout the 90s?

Louis de la Foret a.k.a. Lou Forrest reports WVUE Newscene 8 in 1974:

WOI reveals its 1991 open at 25:27... that’s not News Leader I don’t think....

I wonder what Jack Williams’ reaction is to this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejWcyFBlog WLEX used Fleetwood Mac’s “Gypsy” as it news close theme for a time in the 80s.

I just noticed the NMSA put in the WBRZ 1983 Theme under WFSB. Did they actually use this theme or was it a Klein & campaign?

[quote name='Raymie']It ain't pretty, but I will take it. KTVX News at 10 using First News in 1992...as seen in Vancouver! @Info Junkie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=n1fr4Liueus;t=179 Worth noting: looks like the change to this logo occurred in 1991.[/QUOTE] So my theory was correct! I figured it had to be a Non-Stop track, as they were based in Utah, and I believe that logo change happened when Randall Carlisle joined the anchor desk in 1991 (around December) and lasted till late ‘93/Early ‘94 when they debuted “Total News”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s0kDpVMjvk Edit: Looks like the logo was used as early as August: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byIimaeybVs