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Another cancer-related announcement, as WVEC weekend meteorologist Crystal Harper announced that she was diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkins lymphoma.

Thankfully, in her case the prognosis is good as far as beating this cancer.

From NewsActive3's channel; here's roughly 2 hours of NBC's 1978 midterm election night coverage (to my knowledge at least; this is the earliest midterm election night footage of a substantial amount I've run across)

Part 1 (just over an hour an a half):

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Part 2 (around 33 minutes):

Lot of new faces popping up on-air at the Hampton Roads "big 3" stations (14 in all; half of those at WTKR).

Among the others; Phillip Townsend has returned to WVEC (where he worked until leaving for WFAA in 2014) as a weekend anchor

http://pilotonline.com/entertainment/tv/larry-bonko/new-faces-are-popping-up-on-hampton-roads-tv-news/article_7aec7302-4574-5406-a0ad-1b570c31971d.html

Former WXYZ anchor Rich Fisher has passed away at age 67

http://www.wxyz.com/news/longtime-wxyz-anchor-and-detroit-newsman-rich-fisher-dies-at-67

Most, if not all Storer Broadcasting CBS affiliates did not think highly of the low rated CBS Late Movies, but they did like the option of showing syndicated fare like "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" or "Fernwood2Night" (and of course, sell the ad time therein). This left CBS to shop the late movie to other stations in such markets so the eye's ad sales team could sell "nationwide" coverage to national advertisers.

Likewise, when WJKW's late edition of NewsCenter 8 ended on the day President Reagan was shot, the station threw a slide up mentioning a half-hour delay of Maude and Ironside before joining CBS News for a recap of the attempted assassination.

Been a very difficult past few days for FOX News with Alan Colmes and Brenda Buttner passing away within a few days of each other.

Former WVEC anchor Velma Scaife has passed away

http://pilotonline.com/news/local/velma-scaife-former-wvec-anchor-dies/article_a7af8322-f0b5-52cc-9a0b-72b1c5698cef.html

Another NewsActive3 upload; this is the December 4, 1970 ABC Evening News (Howard K. Smith's on vacation; leaving Frank Reynolds anchoring solo on this - the last newscast before he was pushed aside in favor of Harry Reasoner on the ABC anchor desk; not to return until the 1978 premiere of the World News Tonight format)

Maureen Bunyan signed off from WJLA this evening

 

http://wjla.com/news/local/abc7-says-goodbye-to-legendary-maureen-bunyan-a-broadcast-pioneer

And I think a hearty "Happy Trails" is in order for Maureen Bunyan.

Meanwhile WTKR assistant news director Justin Joseph is leaving to return to Denver, joining an unnamed executive producer that has already gotten the boot.

http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/2/5/norfolk-deuce-is-out-after-less-than-a-year

"It's time for News 4"...wait a minute, THAT'S NOT IMAGE IX!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=MRxBRb5p0aM;t=83

Didn't expect to see KCNC using Newswire and breaking up momentarily their use of the Image # series of themes.

True over the graphics, and I bet Arnold and the boys were popping some bubbly after the FCC approval was announced. Just a matter of months and all of the MG/LIN stations will switch over to a SAM/360 pack if they don't do so voluntarily. I don't predict many fights over that mandate besides a station like WAVY-TV10 and WOOD-TV.

 

WAVY should have paid 615 to fully and totally buy-out the complete and total rights to the entire package before this deal went through. That would have been their only way to continue with the music long-term and to where Arnold could have updated it and kept the logo verbatim, without having to side-step around it with slight logo variations to keep 615/Warner-Chappell happy.

 

I predict a few fights at WAVY, both over the music and the website just for starters. It'll be super surprising if their GM and a few other long-timers don't leave or get forced out by the end of the year.

I'm just hoping the long-timers at WAVY (Bruce Rader, Don Slater, Don Roberts, Andy Fox) don't get forced out the way via buyout (much like Joe Flanagan and Velma Scaife at WVEC last year).

From stevations' channel; here's WVEC's coverage of when the 2000 OpSail sailed into Norfolk

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Part 2:

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December 15, 1983 edition of WESH's NewsCenter 2 from the 80scommercialvault channel (first newscast uploaded to that channel in quite some time)

Looks like WJXT morning anchor Ashley Mitchem's found a side gig as a Jacksonville Jaguars cheerleader (not that the Jaguars have given their fans much to cheer about in recent years)

http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2016/12/11/roar

Former NBC CEO Grant Tinker died on Monday at age 91

http://tvline.com/2016/11/30/grant-tinker-nbc-chairman-ceo-dead-at-91/

Scary scene during Friday's 7:30 newscast on Louisville NBC affiliate WAVE when anchor Dawne Gee collapsed on-air and was rushed to the hospital (apparently a cause hasn't been made public; but thankfully it does appear she's well on the road to recovery)

http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/louisville-anchor-dawne-gee-collapses-on-air/182360

The JFK1963NewsVideos channel's done it again. Over the last few hours a number of videos have gone up on that channel covering the resignation of Richard Nixon; the subsequent swearing in of Gerald Ford and the aftermath (example is CBS' August 8, 1974 resignation coverage).

Crazy story in Denver with the sudden resignation of KDVR reporter Heidi Hemmat (tracing back to threats on her life by a business owner under investigation for consumer fraud); who went on to suggest KDVR management didn't take the threats seriously (in an update to this story, the management denies Hemmat's claims that they ignored those charges)

http://www.mediaite.com/online/reporter-quits-after-receiving-death-threats-my-physical-and-mental-health-were-unraveling/

WVEC's Eric Kane heading north to Boston to work at soon-to-be-former NBC affiliate WHDH

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Same source, another WSB Action News 2, this time from January 23, 1976 and a different Move Closer To Your World intro (simply zooming into the "O" in Action News)

From radioman1968's channel; here's an WSB Action News 2 newscast from February 2, 1978

Lateral moves at WAVY; with weekend morning anchor Lex Gray moving to weekdays alongside the entrenched morning team of Don Roberts and Katie Collett

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Replacing Gray on weekends is newcomer Marielena Balouris (at the station since August)

WVEC from 1988... including an 11pm open I've never seen before! I think this open was used from 1988-1990

 

Just saw it and was about to post that video as well (the cut of Turn to News used here sounds like the "standard" version instead of what WVEC used before and after this period).

Put a couple more uploads up

First; a 1995 WAVY ID from when the station first took to the Internet

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Also, an NBC Nightly News promo for October 18, 1995 (focusing on their Fleecing of America segments exposing government waste)

From eyeontv; here's a series of KIRO Spirit of the Northwest promos from 1984 produced by Klein& (NMSA currently has this credited to AM Music and in use from 1986-88. It could be possible AM Music did a later version)