Info Junkie

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:

Wells I haven’t heard in a loooonnnggg time, Chapin yes. His voice has degraded (not bad as Van Dyke) and to find out how he sounds now, go watch something WHDH-related on YouTube.

A WRGB update from April 1984

That news anchor during the tease looks exactly like Ron Burgundy, but with a smaller amount of hair!

A KSNW newsbreak from 1986 using possibly the potential Peters/Chip Davis package that the Hatch Family stations used in the mid-1980s - wouldn’t be too surprised if this package was also used by KUTV, or even if they were the commissioners (KUTV debuted the Welch graphics in ‘84, KSNW was using “All The News” and a cheap WFSB knockoff around that time):

WNYT has named Asa Stackel as its new morning anchor, to replace Phil Bayly. Was kinda expecting that from the start, as Dan Bazile is one of those weekenders who is kinda like Rob Jennings (meaning the weekends are his shtick.) Also, sadly, I think Ed Hopkins’ voice is starting to go... he does sound a bit raspy here. Will definitely be an end to an era here as he’s been their VO since 1985 (and possibly even earlier - see this 1983 ID): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1izFFbhHLg

[MEDIA=vimeo]244566783[/MEDIA] WDHN’s 1995 open may be your typical low-budget last place UHF station, but when you compare it to what their sister station KARK in Little Rock was using at the time... You’d think WDHN could do better than that.

It appears WICU used Balls & Walls circa late 1990s... And here’s a KTSM open at the end of this commercial set:

A WAKR news report from 1985 — Albany viewers will get to see a quick glimpse of a young Jim Kambrich pre-Albany at the very beginning of this video (sadly, he doesn’t speak). However, you can see him in this newsbreak from after the call letter change. Plus KMTV was still using Brave New World in 1997:

You’ll know for a fact it’s WABG cause of how low budget it looks - judging by their 1999 open...