Info Junkie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkUlyK142B0

A WFTV newsbreak at 0:35 -- did they actually use the "And You" look into 1986?

No open, but WYFF in 1984 on the solar eclipse.

Also a KOCO raw clip of weatherman Chris Lee shows what their first Gannett era logo looked like at the beginning (this isn't the "Death Star" ident, which I'm still trying to search for).

CM Sloan does it again -- this time with a KWTV newscast from 1988. It's always a treat whenever an Oklahoma television station footage is uploaded to YouTube.

A collection of opens from all the "Big Three" stations in Omaha, circa early '90s. Includes an unknown KMTV theme.

That KOAT open I think is pretty cool as well. Reminds me a bit of KTLA's logo ID from the same period.

Open at 11:50

KTVY and KRLD's 1984 opens are similar - I think the latter is the rip-off. Still impressive, though.

Here's proof that Doc Morgan was WWL-TV's voiceover during the mid 1980s. (Listen closely, it's hard to tell cause it's one of his earlier works)

WJBK news brief, 1985 -- using an unknown theme.

Since we just saw a rare WAGA open, I wonder who composed the Theme Music. Could it be locally-produced or a Network Music track, cause I know then-owner Storer used lots of Network Music tracks for their stations.

At the very beginning is a WTVC close during their Belo era... with Tuesday3!

Also here is David Carroll before going to rival channel 3.

I've always wanted to know, who is that voiceover that has done VOs for stations such as WHO-TV, KWWL, and WQAD?

One thing I do know, he must be Iowa-based. He also has done other non-Iowa stations like KTVB and KLAS.

Did WYFF keep the JCBD graphics when they switched to Primetime News?

Also KMGH from 1985 (transitional period: they started using "Turn To News" but they still have the "News 7" branding and Roger Thompson):

You can see some small promos at 2:01 and 15:01, as well as a news break at the end.

A KPNX documentary from 1979 about their news helicopter, piloted by the great Jerry Foster. This confirms that they changed their call letters in 1979 (FCCInfo.com states the call letter change occurred April 14, 1980 as well as Wikipedia at one point)

Yes it is. A good amount of the article went to describing the new "9 News Now" 5pm newscast (NMSA sample 1) which was geared to women and aired after Oprah. However, the "this year" mentions for KPNX are another nail in the idea of News Station in 1992. So too is the newspaper mention I found that said KPNX changed slogans sometime in April.

 

This is what they were using in 1992 at KPNX (there's also the open in the NMSA, which is my white whale and I've wanted to see it for years):

 

I read that KPNX debuted "News Station" on April 30.

KMOV sports promo with current lead anchor Steve Savard... with Larry Van Nuys! This is so far the only video of Channel 4 using Larry's VO on YouTube, except an open using him can be heard on the NMSA.

This was taken from KOTV in Tulsa during its "KOTV 6 News" era. A couple highlights include a promo for Clayton Vaughn and Karen Carlsen (at 23:55), a weather bulletin at 11:35, and a Ragu commercial at 41:12 voiced by Doug Paul.

YouTuber munecojim has a lot of Guiding Light episodes from KOTV on his channel, besides this one.

I have a YouTube channel similar to identchannel, where I post Ident histories of TV Stations. Some stations I've used are the same as identchannel, but I do have some different ones, including:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbZHMJ6mK9A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC1BqJQs7zo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8gTQI-gp5A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnegISpgEz0

Please subscribe! New videos are posted every day! Channel name is The ID Junkie.

Yeah... their sister station WFIE in Evansville used a cheap knockoff of those graphics around the same time.

KOCO 5 Alive noon open at 12:32 -- still using Gannett's old graphics

WTOL 1992

WATE in 1990 (I think that's David Kaye doing the VO)

WNAC: Newsroom7 (WHDH)

 

I wish we could find the Newsroom 7 open that's on the NMSA with the Charlie Van Dyke VO.

Also, some gems on this NewsActive3 compilation including a KTVK promo using Count On Us by Telesound (!!!), some promos for KOCO and WPRI, a 1983 WXIA promo for Harmon Wages (before his infamous trial), and much more.

WFTV during its John Christopher Burns era w/ Paul Turner and Counterpoint

http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/6/30/legendary-ny-anchor-coming-off-late-news

Before clicking on the link, guess who.

Another Fourth of July goodie - KSDK in 1983! This was during the ownership transition from Pulitzer to Multimedia.

At 5:17 we get a weather update from Dave Murray (now at KTVI) and a talent promo (Dick Ford and Karen Foss) at 6:28. Yes, Chuck Conners was the VO even then.