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    Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

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    I showed that commercial to my mom and she says she recognizes that male voiceover. I wonder... I doubt it, but maybe one of the Albany stations used him? I know WRGB had Charlie Van Dyke, WNYT always used Ed Hopkins, and WTEN had Dude Walker, and then that other unidentified WTVO voiceover guy... I wonder how you can identify voiceovers...

     

    Anyway I know I posted this before, but has anyone found out that WTVC used “Tuesday3”?

    Yes it is tuesday 3.

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    Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

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    Now i know you heard it on the southernmedia nmsa but i found some of the same music with parts never heard before.

     

    Electro Phatasma

    [MEDIA=internetarchive]height=50;id=WCIXMiamiElectroPhatasma;width=300[/MEDIA]

     

    WEVU hello news sampler

    [MEDIA=internetarchive]height=50;id=HelloPromos;width=300[/MEDIA]

     

    Hello news tracks (you need to go to archive.org to listen to the rest)

    [MEDIA=internetarchive]height=50;id=249HelloNewsTrack49;width=300[/MEDIA]

     

    Tuesday 3 WPTV

    [MEDIA=internetarchive]height=50;id=ActionNewsTheme;width=300[/MEDIA]

     

    Wall to Wall news

    [MEDIA=internetarchive]height=50;id=KXASTVSampler;width=300[/MEDIA]

     

    I hope you enjoy.

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    Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

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    This look didn't last long, however. In January 1988, the newscast was cut back from 60 to 30 minutes, and the branding used by the other Seven Network stations was adopted, complete with a new set, new graphics, The Mission by John Williams (a.k.a. the NBC Nightly News theme), and the Seven Nightly News branding:

     

     

    The open matches that with kcop in los Angeles.

    Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

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    It had existed since the fall of 1981, in fact — and kept the name for 15 years!

     

    With its launch on September 7, 1996, Fox Sports Arizona and ASPN (or Cox Sports — Dimension had been sold at this point) began sharing a channel on the Cox cable system. Cox Sports held the rights to the Suns, but Fox Sports had Pac-10 football (including its opening night telecast of an ASU football game and quite a few games in the Sun Devils' Rose Bowl season, though it was not until 1998 that the university moved its own games from KTVK) and the newly relocated Coyotes.

     

    If you want to be more confused, ASPN apparently picked up Prime Sports programming. (Prime Sports' LA feed was even available for a time in Tucson!) It wasn't until June that Prime wanted to set up its own Arizona channel:

     

    "Prime move? Prime Sports, the subsidiary of Fox-Liberty Sports, is negotiating with Cox about leaving ASPN for a separate channel of its own. It would house the Diamondbacks (in two years), along with with Coyotes and its Pac-10 football and basketball packages. If a separate channel is landed, Cox may pay as much as a 50-cent-per-subscriber increase to Prime, which, in turn, undoubtedly will be passed on to subscribers in the monthly basic cable cost. Johnson says negotiations are ongoing, but said a decision hasn't been reached and ASPN remains a viable outlet."

     

    In between that (which turned out to be what happened) and September 1, the Prime Sports brand was dropped for Fox Sports. While it was announced that the rest of the RSNs would not change until October, the new Arizona network was exclusively referred to Fox Sports Arizona in the paper, though apparently it did use Prime Sports Arizona for two months.

     

    The Suns remained with Cox for some time after. For the 1998-99 NBA season, Cox Sports was replaced with the more general-themed Cox 9 (later Cox 7, then YurView Arizona — the rebrand also allowed Cox to give KAZT channel 7 on cable). Fox Sports picked up the Suns at some point after in the early 2000s. YurView continues to dabble in sports besides high school, particularly with GCU, though it has also telecast Arizona Rattlers and other smaller sports events in the past.

    Wow.

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    Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

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    WOKR in 1987...

     

     

    WHO in 1989...

     

     

    A March 1994 KPNX tease with Sean McLaughlin (!) and Ron Hoon (!):

     

     

    Not news material, but certainly rare. ASPN (not a typo!) was something of Arizona's first RSN, as it had the rights to the Suns and high school football telecasts (it's the predecessor to what's now YurView Arizona in that regard):

     

    ASPN huh? Betcha ESPN got pretty pissed and demanded to change or sue.

    Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

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    Last thing from Phoenix for a while - I think I've gotten everything I can for the near term...

     

    (I'm also on a business trip for a week, so I'll be posting pre-uploaded content through early next week...)

     

    KPHO April 1994 - Fresh News!

    [MEDIA=vimeo]237486605[/MEDIA]

     

    Jim

    How bout clips from florida? (enjoy your business trip)

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