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Some WTMJ snippets pop up in this commercial break with an unidentified theme.

A WNYT interview from 1993: Going on the 1993 opens Jim posted back in December, the top story in Albany on April 30, 1993 was a stand-off in Fort Ann, NY, by a guy named Patrick Penders. I say this because, the criminal himself was related to my dad. Penders later died in 2010.

Another thing (if it hasn’t been posted), Chicago weather veteran Jerry Taft has retired.

TO GET BACK ON TOPIC, it looks like Asa Stackel will be possibly the new co-anchor on WNYT’s morning newscast, replacing Phil Bayly. Also it appears Jason Gough has also left, as I was on their “First Warning Weather” app today and saw that he was removed.

As for the May 1986 commercials, that’s a young Doug Paul voicing the Volkswagen commercial at 0:42 (I believe it’s him.) Also WBAL later became one of the first stations to use “Great News” a few months later in 1986, definitely by October: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dBiZy04SkU Also, going back to KSTP, here’s them from 2003:

A look at KSTP’s weekend news in 1990. Includes Stan Turner and a young Scott Chapin (as in his first years VO’ing WSVN young).

Want more? How about some Wichita in 1997 - a (poorly-filmed) KWCH open pops up at 4:59:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N42qFhUlCZY Has anyone ever found WNAC’s 1981 “News 7” open at the very end of this video? Now you have.

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.