Info Junkie

Speaking of WNYT, here are some WTOG commercials taken from around the time that the station was in the process of being sold to Viacom, and Hubbard was acquiring WNYT and WHEC in return. All I can say is, Scott Chapin and PSA’s galore!

The squares, yes. Those two stations used them too. As for the flying screens, I believe they were made by EGAD. WNYT debuted them in 1994 when they added a 5 pm newscast and they were the first graphics package with their current “News Channel 13” logo.

Those WHBF opens were uploaded by Ken Gullette, That was two days before I started kindergarten!! Also those graphics were the second time CBS 6 snatched images from WBBM - the short-lived “News In Focus” Package was taken from their “Works For You” era, which itself was already gone by the time WRGB adopted it. The 2000 graphics used during the Enforcer days were also taken from WBBM’s sister station WBZ. Albany TV seems to take graphics and imaging from larger-market stations (WTEN using the 1990 KCBS open and then using the WJBK/WMTW/WDRB open for 11 years, along with the aforementioned WRGB images) and WNYT using KMOV’s “Flying TV screens” Package as well as the “Squares” Package (which may have started at WDSU??)

Back on an Albany tangent, here’s a look at CBS 6 News from the mid 2000s. Don’t know when this was but it had to be early 2006 as Greg Floyd is now at the anchor desk. He replaced Joe Pags around December 2005. Also when did CBS 6 drop Charlie Van Dyke?

http://www.clipsyndicate.com/search/simple/tags:"pl_wnyt_60" This site has LOTS of WNYT goodies, including their “We Know What Matters” era, the problem is... the owner of all the videos has denied permission to play on said website.

(To Mr. NMSA) knock knock... Btw did he ever do any other station besides Runza and the four stations listed?

I’ve heard that music in a KNBC 1992 promo before.

A KMTV bumper for Divorce Court at the end — who is the VO??? He’s done other stations out in the Midwest, mainly WCMH, WTHR, and even rival KETV. Been trying to find out who he is for years.

There are plenty of WQAD opens heard on the NMSA that aren’t seen on YouTube. From what I can guess, WQAD used the ABC News Synthesized Theme until maybe around 1982, then maybe this theme, then the 1984 theme, then the WFTV 1986 theme, and finally the WCCO theme. Idk, that theme is too synth-y to be Peters...

KAKE and Chronicle’s other two Stations WOWT and KRON were all known to use 2D graphics that were way ahead of their time for the station images. KRON in the mid 90s eventually went with a TVbD package that still looks good today. Still wish we had more of KAKE from the 90s, will be bumping The Wish List thread for stuff from Wichita...

Maybe KOVR commissioned that theme and KTNV borrowed it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhbIlMrNH9g Some Wichita news clips from 1994! No opens, but the rarity of these eras for KAKE and KSNW is worth watching. The very end of this clip is interesting too - KSNW still has its TvbD era logo but apparently has begun using “Newswire” around that time.

The problem with Wichita is that the eras are scattered - KAKE has plenty from the 80s while KWCH has plenty from the 90s. As for KSNW, it’s the same as KAKE, yet the annoying part is that their 1986 newscast has no music on the open. KUTV of course has nothing at all, typical Salt Lake City. Peters, I think, wasn’t responsible for their mid 80s theme, but KUTV’s 1979 theme sounds a bit more like their work.

KCCI - Be a Part Of It All!

They used this as KTVY?!!? Also when did WCPX use “6 Believes In You”? Was that when the call letter change came about?

WOW. Many of our answers are solved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJgt73BmCtI A WGN tribute to the man whose voice led WGN (and Tribune itself) for over 10 years.

Some more KMTV promos - the first promo has an unknown theme, the second using “TuesdayA”. Look for CNN anchor Chuck Roberts and former KMBC anchor Bev Chapman in the second promo. Also, did KMTV use “TuesdayA” or “Firepower” for their news opens in 1980? Or did they run concurrently?

I REMEMBER those! They were on back when I had an obsession with John Gray (idk why, I was just a little kid), who around that time replaced Ed Dague at the anchor desk. I don’t really remember Ed that well, but I remember John Gray. When WNYT replaced those opens I recall being very upset that they were ditched. But I began to get used to L.A. Groove - so much so I had a killer earworm of it!

Some bigO plabax from 1980 - including a KMTV Skycam promo with “Theme from ‘Firepower’” and a shot of John McDonald anchoring. Also included is a promo for Dr. Dave Iser, who I believe was Dick Fletcher’s replacement when the latter went to WTSP. Dr. Dave lasted over a year before going to WLS. And here’s a WPLG weekend open from 1986

I’d maybe see Demetria go to Channel 2 alongside Bob Mueller, so the latter could get another longtime anchor...

http://crooney.blogspot.com/2004/08/new-and-improved-wnyt.html?m=1

Yes it has. As we close out 2017, a look back at some people in the broadcasting business we lost: Amanda Davis: Michelle Marsh: Irv Weinstein: Doug Paul: Rich Fisher: Howard Caldwell: Jim Vance: Drew Dimmel: Van Amburg: Wayne Walker: And I’m sure there’s many more, these are just some of them.

According to an online blog, WNYT debuted their glossier look along with L.A. Groove on August 12, 2004. I remember the graphic change well (though I was only 3 years old!!!) and they kept the graphics until April 2012 when they went HD. However, WNYT went through some minor tweaks (including different L3’s, slogan change to “Coverage You Can Trust”, and newer cuts of “L.A. Groove” by 2006).

Wow, gotta love the presence of a young Paul Caiano here. I also remember Bob Kovachick when his hair was gray and not white.