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I updated WTVD back in January.

Is KSNW 1985 (though I think it was earlier cause KETV used it in 1983) also JAM? Has some similar sounds to WRAL.

WTVG 1981 - Must have changed themes that week - the upload from 5 days before has a different open and theme: https://youtu.be/Su8q1n1MAyI

WALA in 1984 with the NBC Nightly News theme and a pre-WABC Bill Evans:

No. Just those two. This was also because ABC was going to the ratings top and NBC (then on KGTV) was falling to the bottom.

Possibly the oldest footage of an Ed Hopkins-voiced open yet.

Dave Kaylor pre-his days in the ‘Bus.

KNXT in 1977

A “guy” that would be an Arizona mainstay for decades to come was first a “guy” in Milwaukee: https://youtu.be/3KCcHZi4IIo

What appears to be a TVBD package at KTVL: https://youtu.be/MJPuucg34jE

Early 2000s TVBD at its finest here at WYOU:

WBBM in 1991 before they went tabloid:

WNEM did have a knockoff for a hot moment, lasted about 2 months: https://youtu.be/Auqc0g4QcM0

WNAC news, 1980: Why am I posting this? Because today marks 40 years since the April Fools prank where they reported that the Great Blue Hill ski resort was erupting.

A WNYT news tease from 1985:

Got more Albany goodies, here is a commercial break from February 1994 from WNYT, making me assume the now-current logo design debuted much earlier than I thought:

WXXA pre-the-logo-they-used-for-way-too-long:

From the 518, news coverage of “Hurricane Bonnie,” featuring Neal Estano just before he ended his second tenure at WRGB, and WTEN before the beginning of their decade long run using the WJBK graphics:

KWWL from 1983, featuring one of the earliest Jeff Ellingson VOs and a theme I’ve heard but I don’t know where.

Some WRGB from after 9/11.

Here ya go: a demo reel of 90s TVBD featuring some WAGT, WNWO and even some of their work at WBAL:

From that WRGB channel, not news-related, but posting because it was a huge staple of my childhood: Also notable: This was when John Gray filled in for the late Ed Dague after he retired. THIS was the WNYT I remember. Couldn’t have subbed to that channel any quicker.

KSHB in 1996, I’m gonna guess this was an early Hothaus Design?

KTUL from 1986, Charles Ely had taken over Bob Hower’s main anchor spot at that point:

Sticking to KJRH, a look back at the station’s 65th. Highlights include the logo at the time of the call letter change, glimpses of former news sets and opens, and Jerry Webber’s predecessor before switching to news, Sam Jones: https://www.kjrh.com/about-us/join-us-tonight-at-6-30-pm-for-a-walk-down-memory-lane