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Here's some promos from The Disney Channel at the end of their pay-TV days. I *love* that Magical World of Disney montage they used in the waning days before the Zoog package. Stunning graphics and great jingle. Some years later, they went to junky "sitcoms" and shoving Raven-Symone up our butts. Ugh, what they have done to this magical network. OT: In my mailbox this afternoon should be a dozen Betamax tapes from Great Falls, Montana that I just purchased on Saturday via eBay (quick USPS shipping!) They are all L-250s, the 500s and 750s got away from me (and the 500s had vintage MTV on at least one tape). The 250s are smaller tapes at the 1 hour or 1 1/2 hour speed depending on Beta-II or Beta-III, so I might still find some good stuff. Tapes are vintage early '80s Sears and TDK Super Avilyn stock which literally sings to me. I am hoping it's local recordings from Montana, but with the nature of Californians migrating to ID/MT, it could be from that state too...

CBS Sunday Night News, 3/3/1996 (with Russ Mitchell, off KIMA Yakima) KOAA 5/30 Eyewitness News at 6 (partial) 11/23/2001 KXRM Fox 21 News at Nine 11/12/2001, same day as the AA crash in Queens

Great to see some rare stuff from KGWC and KGWN here. That newscast I recently found from KGWC is probably one of the rarest news finds I've ever made in the years I've been collecting off-air VHS recordings. And if I can find it, I have another partial newscast from 1993 to post soon. Talk about small town TV quality. In addition, I am spying an eBay VHS lot from Missoula that has, according to the seller, recordings from both Montana and Phoenix AZ on the tapes. But I am not sure if I will grab it because of the excess surplus of tapes I still have. I added about 11 new tapes from an estate sale 2 weeks ago in Sunnyside, 30 mi SE of Yakima. I was able to find a 1986 KIMA NewsBeat clip that I will post soon.

A couple of KAPP/KVEW Northwest Now opens, taped 5/14 and 5/1/96, off KAPP-35. Dana Cowley is the Yakima anchor with Kevin Shaub and Tyffani Peters doing Northwest Now from KVEW. Also some KABC Eyewitness News clips from August 1984, at the end of the LA Summer Olympics.

Did they air on any UPN, WB, or IND stations that likely didn't have a news department? Or Fox stations? I'm not sure when the Fox network started relaying Fox News Channel to all their stations on 9/11...was it when the 2nd tower got hit?

Off the satellite feed, I see. As WABC was into live coverage, I doubt this got aired on any of their affiliate stations that day. Amazing to see this.

It's the KAPP Local News Hour, taped December 2nd, 1998. Dana Cowley and Issa Arnita are the anchors: And a NEW find! About half of KNXV News 15 at 10, from February 28th, 1997, same day as the North Hollywood Shootout. If I recall, this is my first newscast find from Phoenix.

The worst opening montage that KIMA/KEPR ever had...the first version of Action News. This is with the Battery music package that was used up until 2018 when Sinclair finally started transitioning them. The same montage had been used a year prior with a variant of the CBS Enforcer music package and a different announcer. It's not as choppy as I've seen in other videos, but the graphics scream "yuck"! Compared with KOMO and KATU at the same time, with the same owners, they treated these folks like the red-headed stepchild.

Sunday Today broadcast from November 6th, 1988 with Garrick Utley and Maria Shriver (KCRA taping) - two days before the presidential election Also, part of a KPIX Eyewitness News broadcast from 5/7/88 (B&W video and fuzzy audio) and the first 6 minutes of KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Eleven at 11, from 5/6/2007, with Amy Clancy and Essex Porter

Young Sheldon gets a weeknight run on KAYU Spokane (6:30 weeknights) beginning Monday. But I'm scratching my head as to why KCYU and KFFX did not clear this. Let alone KIMA. Do program directors even exist anymore in little markets > #100?

I grew up in western Washington. KING 5 used the 11:00 AM slot for Ellen DeGeneres in the first several years. She didn't move to afternoons until Oprah Winfrey's show ended, as I recall. When KING launched 'Take 5' at 4PM, Ellen moved to 3PM and Dr. Phil moved from its long-time 3PM time to 2PM. Meanwhile down here in the Yakima market, she started out on WB 100+ (on cable), then went to KNDO a couple of seasons later...and she has always been at 4:00 leading into news. I don't bother watching it anymore since her executive producer fiasco and the pandemic, much like 98% of my TV viewing. It's been ages since I watched more than 45 minutes of TV at a time (well, other than digitizing old VHS tapes!)

Hot Bench, you say? It's a strange world without Jerry Bishop opening up Judge Judy. And all those families that heard his voice on The Disney Channel, back when mom & dad actually had to pay extra for it!

Two more videos for this rainy Saturday (i.e., relief to douse out nearby wildfires!) KNSD News San Diego Weekend Edition, 6/30/1991 - over-the-air signal so it's fuzzy I also have the first 90 seconds of KREM News at Ten on KAYU Fox 28, taped 1/8/1992. Now-Mayor Nadine Woodward and Charles Rowe are the anchors...they were together for several years on channel 2

KIMA News at 6, 2/19/2003 (Craig Galbraith, Roxeanne Vainuku, Stu Seibel, Alan Sillence) At the end of this compilation of commercials from 2005 is another KIMA News open, when they adopted the 'NewsWatch' branding for a couple of years before switching to Action News. Most of the Fisher-type graphics stayed around, but the announcer changed. Long time KIMA announcer Joseph Litzinger (deceased in 2014) was on the first video and had done IDs and advertisements for KIMA Radio and TV since the 1960s.

I've got the whole CBSpirit campaign video on tape. CBS had a few minutes to fill at the end of a broadcast of The Dark Crystal, in August of '87, and instead of 5 minutes of promos, that image song went into the break in between the movie and the news. That was the year Jake and the Fatman and Tour of Duty went on...and the year that Tom Selleck departed Magnum P.I. The remake is nothing like the old series.

15 minutes of a July 2004 WCCO newscast: And the complete 5/20/1993 KNDO News 23 Late Edition, the night the final beer was poured at Cheers. Top story: that said finale, with Yakima-area watch parties.

Maybe I should change my complaints about this show not being cleared in Yakima. Maybe the PDs looked at a sample and thought "this is NOT what we should air, especially at prime access..." My family loved Jay Leno's Tonight Show. And personally his Jaywalking and Headlines segments from years past are still funny. But if he's trying to host YBYL and instead hijacks it with "The Somewhat-Looks-Like-Tonight Show with Jay Leno and No Guests", this show is out before the ball drops in Times Square. WRNN has been a waste of spectrum since the mid 1990s. They were much better when it was WTZA on 62 as an independent for the Hudson Valley and Poughskeepsie. But the NYC stations won out on viewers, and WTZA faded away...WRNN tried, but failed within a few years. Waste of spectrum that SHOULD have been sold in the spectrum auction. As should have most of the full-power stations running nothing but shopping/infomercials. WMDE in Dover comes to mind.

Segment of KXTV's News 10 at Noon from 8/25/98, lifestyle segment on making an apple pie.

Kelly Clarkson airing at 3 AM in a market as large as Pittsburgh is just wrong. Especially since she's in a transition period to take over Ellen's timeslots on many affiliates in 2022. Did anyone tune into the YBYL premiere? Did it seem like a hit? How was the chemistry between Jay Leno and Kevin Eubanks, knowing they haven't been together on TV in 10 years or more?

KCYU replaced Protection Court with another run of The People's Court. Schedule needs to be updated.

Ellen's last season begins today as well. Sorry, but good riddance. The fiasco with her producers tarnished what was left of her show. My mom was a big fan of Ellen DeGeneres and watched every afternoon. But last season she watched 1 or 2 episodes if that. I do feel sorry for Andy, being put in the middle of this, but hopefully he'll find a new job at another show. Either that or he'll have a nice pension fund from WB. Meanwhile, Zap2It has no Yakima affiliate for Young Sheldon. I am interested to see if Protection Court still has a double-run on KCYU as listed on Zap2It. Extreme Reach format sheets ended last week so it is not in syndication anymore. Something had to have replaced it. Will tune it at 1:00 and find out...

If Boston's in that 2%, I think the stations are worried that it may turn into a bust. Everyone jumped on the chance for Celebrity Name Game with another ex-late night host. But maybe they realize YBYL hasn't been profitable since Groucho's last show 60 years ago. Both Buddy Hackett and Bill Cosby failed within months. I wish good luck for Jay Leno nevertheless...three's a charm?

S.W.A.T., Seal Team and Bull will all be cleared here for weekend reruns. Seal Team gets an early evening Saturday timeslot on KNDO-23 beginning 9/25. Bull, on the other hand, gets a bull.... 2:30AM timeslot early Sunday morning... S.W.A.T. will run on KAPP on Saturday nights. SOS is not cleared here. As is Storage Wars, Relative Justice, The Balancing Act, or Top 10. And of course, YBYL. No station cleared it here. With 98% of the nation clearing it, baffling decision by all of the stations here. Big late-night star + his bandleader sidekick and still every station turned it down.

Complete KEZI 9 News at 11, from March 25th, 2009.

KIMA Yakima signs off early on August 29th, 1991 with a weather bulletin read by long-time meteorologist Stu Seibel and a sign-off, which includes a strange man (master control operator?) whispering 'good night' twice in the black screen... Bad quality as it was tracked wrong on the original VCR, but here's a 1992 signoff from KREM Spokane (which also includes a news update with Charles Rowe).More goodies coming as I go through tapes...