Info Junkie

So it appears the WFLA 1981 look lasted one year and four days. Yes I’m sharing this here cause I don’t know who composed the theme.

Did somebody want All The News... and almost two minutes of it? Aside from an announcer spiel towards the end you gotta love the instrumental:

The 1982 set was NBC trying to copy Gannett... funny because they would buy WKYC 13 years later..

WTVF from 1985 featuring a future NYC and Philly anchor on the weekends:

KARK in 1999:

https://youtu.be/gCdKpY4o_qE

20 minutes ago, capsgm2002 said:

While he still isn't identified on any of his opens on the NMSA (WPXI and WSOC to name a few), TVNT favorite Bob Perry did have a news article written about him in 1981. He voiced several "Movie of the Week" promos for NBC and CBS. This should definitively confirm his identity after he was first identified a couple of years back on this forum.

 

 

I think he was a Cox VO client. WSB has him on their 1980 open, WHIO used him for promos back in the 1980s, of course there’s WPXI and WSOC, IDs for KCPQ and KTXL, and he also VO’ed WTOG.

On 5/22/2020 at 10:56 AM, bmasters1 said:

 

WTVD 11 News Nightwatch late edition, for Wed. May 13, 1992 (has Miriam Thomas and the late Larry Stogner on news, Mike Caplan w/Accu-Weather, and Drew Smith on sports; opening here is something that The ID Junkie could possibly use for a WTVD opens revision)

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:

Just now, SoFloTVClassics said:

I didn't know that, were other storer affiliates also involved in this "domino effect"?

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.

3 hours ago, KnoxvilleTVFan said:

From 1-21-1983, here is a broadcast of ABC's World News Tonight. At 29:13, you get to see a WNGE ID with a news open featuring the late Ed Hopkins voicing the open.
 

 

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

30 minutes ago, KnoxvilleTVFan said:

From 12-25-1978, here is an entire broadcast of the CBS Evening News. Be sure you watch at 28:47, because you get to see a WTVF news open using an unknown theme.
 

 

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:

1 hour ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

No. This isn't a knockoff. It's a standard. This is like saying WNEM's graphics are a CBS O&O knockoff because it's the same package. Fox stations around the county use this logo we call it the 'Fox Box'. If you're going to blame KXPI for using it, then blame the dozens of other Fox affiliates who've used it as well. I will point out that the biggest inconsistency here is '5' font.

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.