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With Nexstar buying Tribune Media, let’s have a look back at the station that started the company from the ground up:

Very unimpressive, my parents say.

*ding*

Floor... 3.

In memoriam of the late Ed Hopkins:

This is a speculation: Is this downgrade gonna make WKYC even worse than the time they were NBC’s “farm” system?

And here is the weekend KVUE news from 1989 - with Robert Hadlock!

As late as November 1986, WESH had still not yet used the new NBC peacock:

A KLAS report from 1992 featuring an open voiced by Jeff Ellingson.

1 hour ago, jerseyfla said:

10 minutes of a WTAE newscast from January 20, 1980, the night the Pittsburgh Steelers won their forth Super Bowl. Most of the open included too. At the end you see part of KDKA’s news open from that same night, which KDKA posted on their own website 10 years ago. Which was the last time the Steelers won a Super Bowl.

 

 

Love the custom version of the Classical Gas open, with the football footage and all.

Betcha NO ONE was watching WIIC then.

3 hours ago, Jared DiCarlo said:

Man, I miss these graphics so much. Thanks for finding this!

Considering the changes that just happened at 13 now, I definitely want to feel nostalgic. It hasn’t helped that this is the week I’ve moved into college.

Sticking with more KUTV, here’s a rather creepy promo on them going stereo in 1986:

20 hours ago, scrabbleship said:

 

Pour one out for the end of the Ed Hopkins era at WNYT. As of today, they switched from Keynote to the NBC version of 360's 360 and took to Instagram for the occasion:

 

Skimming through NewsOn, which WNYT has issues with as opens are clipped, Steve Stone is now on the talent opens.

My thoughts on Steve Stone is he’s a bit TOO excited. The way he says some of talent names such as “Jerry Gretzinger” is a bit too fast. Can’t wait to hear how he says “meteorologist Reed Kisselback.”

6 hours ago, 8Viewer said:

The Tampa Bay market has had some really impressive custom news music over the decades. They weren't afraid to spend the dough instead of utilizing syndicated packages. 

It is kind of surprising that "Hello News" or some of the other iconic themes like CHL (that we know of-looking at you WLCY) weren't used in the Tampa market.

I recall at one point speculations on here that WFLA used Hello News. Possibly they were mishearing this package. The fact that we just found out this was a Gari job makes lots of sense.

@Samantha This KUTV commercial break has a slide (5:56) with a clearly audible glimpse of a news theme.

And in this break uploaded by the same guy is a slide for WTHR’s John Stehr (23:07) which is animated EXACTLY the same as the KSNW/KSNT open.

42 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

WBTV implemented the new Gray graphics last night. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow. Their implementation is actually very good. Maybe it’s the gradients, but these look a lot slicker than the other Gray graphics.

Nexstar needs THIS for its stations!

2 hours ago, Samantha said:

This might be one of my biggest finds this year: The Spirit of Tampa Bay is Gari!

 

It's rare to find unknown Gari works, but this appears to be one of them. It also appears there is a v2 of this image campaign that debuted in 1983.

 

From Walt Belcher's April 11, 1983 Tampa Tribune TV column:

 

 

The horn sections in this close do scream Gari:

A KOCO presentation on the OKC bombing aftermath in 1995.

The “Special Presentation” slide is voiced by then-Gannett VO Lisa Malay, since KOCO was owned by Gannett back then.

Do we know when it’ll be up and running?

A pretty snazzy WNDU open, 1993:

Some demos of WNYT’s and KNWA’s 2004 graphics package by VDO(?).

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.

19 minutes ago, tw-804 said:

 

 

A full WYOU 11pm newscast from May 29th, 1998. This was the last newscast from Scranton before they moved to WBRE's studios in Wilkes-Barre.

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