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WNYT’s been phasing in Steve Stone for their promos, specifically for TV advertisements. Don’t have any footage of it currently. Makes you wonder if Ed Hopkins is retiring or if he just passed away. He is still doing promos for the news and the opens, of course.

A KTVX brief from 1991:

Jim Cutler trying to do a *bad* attempt at an Australian accent.

Before Nexstar was a media hog going after companies, they were infamous for bringing down a once respected station in Northeastern PA. Misc KCTV promos

WTVM circa 1987

That demo came from a NewsActive3 compilation, along with KOIN, KNBC, WFXT, and WCSH from the same period. What company was it?

And KJRH too (send this to NMSA):

Love that long close instrumental of the Spirit of Tampa Bay!

WBTV from 1989.

That’s because NO ONE could compete with WIS at the time. And they still can’t, even though WLTX has been getting up there.... Florida man and Florida woman (WSVN’s Jim Berry and WESH’s Robin Chapman) have the weekend news for the nation’s capital on this November day in 1985. On the Discord chat, we’ve been having a theory that WJLA debuted the supposed 1984 theme and ugly red set around Spring 1986 sweeps.

A KETV update from July 10, 1981 - by this point Carol Schrader had assumed the lead anchor position and would continue to anchor until the “Newsplex” era in 1996. EDIT: The full newscast! Includes a long open with the KVBC 1980 Theme. Interestingly, it takes cues from KSL’s open at the time, and the graphical animations of this open would be recycled when they used “Newsbeat”.

Superb design, color palette, logo, not too crazy on Eric Gordon being their VO.

That was EQ Vance. And I’d say the WDAZ pack was definitely more the knock-off. Very in-house-y.

Here’s some KTSP one month before the call change, during the Northridge earthquake: Coincidentally, CA was struck with another quake today.

Hard to believe the 1994-96 affiliation shuffles will be officially 25 years old on September 3rd. I feel incredibly old. (I say this 3 days after graduating high school)

His name is Jim Morgan. NMSA still needs to identify him along with Bob Perry and Jeff Ellingson.

That’s a neat KDKA open that so far only had the helicopter portion here on YT (6:54): Really it’s odd considering how KDKA was the news leader and WPXI was the ratings doormat, yet there’s more 80s ‘PXI material. Kinda similar to Indy and Cincy - their news leaders (WISH/WRTV and WKRC/WCPO) don’t have as much material as their last placers (WTHR and WLWT).

Some WNYT from 1988 (!!!!) - with We Know What Matters scattered around, and a news brief anchored by a young Benita Zahn and a dark-haired Bob Kovachick. Sadly, no open.

FOUND IT! (0:48)

http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/jamburger-sports-promo-with-sports-anchor-tom-suiter/ Ever wanted to hear Doug Paul unleash his inner Scott Chapin? There are also plenty of WRAL promos on this site.

Not trying to get @Ramona even more hyped up, but I think this theme would sound even better with Charlie Van Dyke’s booming voice (WYFF). That music actually does sound like a snippet I heard on a WYFF newscast snippet from 1987 on YT (which I can’t find).

Finally, the FULL version of the WMAZ open uncovered!

This WTVD break from 1984 shows a combination of the then-new italicized “11” logo (with Welch graphics and KING theme) and the non-italicized “11 Together” logo. Little did they know Cap Cities was a year shy of getting sucked up by ABC...

KSL meanwhile is using News 88 a LOT earlier than I thought. Maybe they were the commissioners?

That explains a lot. Maybe WWMT was GO too? Also @scrabbleship during that WNYT weekend news tease in that montage who is the sports guy in the on-set shot? He was definitely Roger Wyland’s predecessor.