Info Junkie

More like any Chris-Craft station with news in general (excluding KMOL and KCOP.) Meh... KMSP using Charlie Van Dyke sounds like a downgrade from his predecessor: I hope that an open pops up soon... will need to give the Twin Cities a thrashing on the Wish List Thread, though the other white whale is any WTCN during their ownership transfer to Gannett in 1983.

I’d bet that this was the first time ever that this KVBC logo ever saw a YouTube upload - of course, any Las Vegas footage (definitely KLAS) is beyond rare in the early ‘80s.

I wish I could find that open that has Michael D. Hanks on the NMSA - that must’ve been what they were using at the time.

From Milwaukee, it’s the TV-6 News at Ten (1985)

You know what I just realized? That KTVX clip at the end of this NewsActive3 compilation IS their 1994 package with Total News.

And Cox Enterprises... I’m sure he did material for KTVU at one point or another, too.

!!!!! Cool, now the NMSA has two VOs to identify... Now if we could only guess who this guy is...

Mark Curtis pre-KPNX... Also the NMSA hasn’t identified Don Harrison as the VO on that KSTP open - this isn’t the first time this has happened. Here’s a WOI update from after they became “News 5” and actually started to use more decent-looking graphics for the time frame... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nAIHdFLAII Edit: That unknown WPXI-WILX-KCPQ voiceover guy returns in this quick CBS Evening News slide right before WCCO’s news...

WDBJ in 1991 (50th anniversary of Roanoker Restaurant)

Wow, Rob Hedrick is back! Hopefully he has more to post - my white whales for OKC TV have been fulfilled, except for KWTV in the mid ‘90s, KOCO using its short-lived “5” logo circa ‘93, as well as KOCO from the early ‘80s.

Some Duluth news from 1995 - the KDLH open is voiced by that mystery guy. Also a WTVO newscast from 9/11 reveals them with Power News (and the news anchors’ last names are swapped on the L3’s):

KMTV promos for two very well-known station alumni.

WNCT using the CBS News graphics - this must’ve come immediately after the image they had in that 1993 newscast...

Also, by 1987, WEWS hadn’t debuted “Good News” just yet...

Some KCCI material in 1984: And this 1987 sports report is a must-see - the lotto bump at the end has a “Be a Part Of It All” signature!

Wow, that WKYC open is pure new! They are lacking a good chunk in the Cleveland news archive... This must’ve debuted when Amanda Arnold took over with Doug Adair that month. She lasted maybe over a year before getting replaced by Mona Scott, who later married Doug. This also is (I believe?) the first clip on YouTube showing their set in full, which resembled WLS and WXYZ (which were both owned by NBC’s rival ABC at the time.) Channel 3 was surely a turnover place from that point till the 1990s. Sports was possibly the least affected, as Jim Donovan gained the stability once had by Jim Graner, in 1986, a decade after Graner’s death. One of the most notable replacements before Donovan was Tom Ryther in his 2-year gap from the Twin Cities.

Charlie Van Dyke slogs his way through a CBS 6 News tease: WMAR in its second Tvbd era (2002-2009), using “Convergence”: And this KETV weather promo that was posted 4 years ago is a must-see. Voiced by who we now call as “Jim Morgan”, which we need to add to the NMSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hEiFu6H7dU As for KETV, what’s the music track heard? To me it sounds like a Network Music or Tuesday track...

KTVB looks very primitive for ‘95 - and for their owner, too, which by that point was the Providence Journal Company. Journal acquired KTVB’s original owner King Broadcasting in 1992 (note they still have King Broadcasting in the copyright notice at the end.) Going back on the VO guy, as I said earlier he and WTEN’s Doug Myers sound awfully similar. I’ve also searched up “Iowa voiceover” and nothing’s come up either... KTVB later went with Jcbd graphics later in the ‘90s which I believe were a hand-me-down from WYFF.

Some quick snippets of WLKY’s Combined-Gannett era appear in this tribute to KUSA anchor Mark Koebrich. And is it just me or did WTEN’s Doug Myers sound suspiciously similar to a certain male voiceover guy we haven’t identified yet...

Here’s some WFMY for you all

Still on a Utah kick. Here’s some interesting snippets I picked up: I might also add that the middle clip is a 6-parter of all news reporting and no opens. However, it’s the only possible footage of KTVX during that time frame online. If I could take an educated guess on what their image was like at the time, they were using Ed Hopkins (definitely) and some Non-Stop package (maybe First News?)

A portion of the open they used during those graphics appears on this demo reel: I know according to site members that their L3’s were ginormous - they were taking up the entire bottom of the screen!

Cool. Sticking with the WOWT clip, the uploader has more - including a WJLA 1984 newscast (must’ve been after Wes joined them, and they were about to debut the ugly red set, unless this was after). They still have the ‘83 Theme during breaks:

Hey Raymie I’m starting to put the KTVX puzzle pieces together. If you listen closely during each of the news cut-ins in this 1994 commercial break it appears they were using Total News earlier than we thought (the drum solo in it seems to match up): As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they commissioned Total News and not WCBS. I still need to fill in the hole from 1986 to 1994. If i can guess why they’re surprisingly lacking, it could be because they probably were the #3 station in Utah and not many people watched them, kinda like the lack of KYW footage in the early ‘80s (their worst era being #3).

WDVM would change its calls a few weeks later to coincide with the Fourth of July. They changed their opens too in late ‘86 to that CGI flyover of Washington DC that lasted till late 1991/early 1992 when they moved to a new studio. Wish we had WJLA from that era - that station is surprisingly lacking! And here is WESH’s 1980 “tall tower” promo on the switch to their new transmitting tower, which was the top story on the 1980 newscast radioman1968 posted. Audio of the “TuesdayA” open can be heard too: