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Casper is a cursed news town. See KTWO, new ownership, NewsNet, big chunks of the news department fired.

Thank you Jim for posting away to the Archive. As of today I have re-uploaded 2,618 videos from YouTube with probably 3K more to go. About 4 months after my channels were terminated, so averaging about 21 videos a day and 654 videos a month.

There's another partial KGWC newscast coming from '93 (relayed from KGWL 5 Lander). I didn't find anything from KTWO in that period, and KFNB/KFNR never aired news. It's my first newscast found from the state of Wyoming. I've looked at the Casper newspaper for that period and I notice that in the '80s they carried most stations from Denver. Let me guess, Casper folks WITH cable watched KMGH more than KGWC?

Probably one of the rarest newscasts I have ever found. It's the Great Western News at 10:00, originating from now-newsless KGWC-TV 14 Casper, WY (and taped off their satellite in Lander, WY, KGWL-TV 5). Note the 'set' - a desk in front of bookshelves full of books, like it's a psychiatrist's office or someone's library or office room. One guy adjusts cameras behind the scenes and does floor directing at the same time. And then the male anchor juggles three jobs at one - news, weather AND sports!! No wonder KGWC has no news department nowadays.

PAX's WeatherVision segment that they aired every night, taped sometime in March of 2000! KNBC Channel 4 News, 5/21/89, including most of Sunday Night Sports with Fred Roggin. KABC Eyewitness News clips from Oct/Nov 1988 And back home to Yakima with the open to KNDO News 23 Late Edition, 11/20/1995, with Heather Hays

It's still on the air, but as a KULR simulcast with no locally-originating programming.

Steve Raible doing teasers for KIRO News at TEN at a couple points on this commercial compilation, taped 5/28/96...this was during their short-lived run with UPN.

I still have a few more tapes with KUTV-taped movies or miniseries broadcasts on them...never say never! However it seems like these folks did a lot of time-shifting and the recording ended at 2 hours on the dot. It came from an eBay lot a few months back out of Burley, Idaho (Twin Falls market), but the seller's family lived in Pocatello during that period, and Salt Lake TV was carried on cable - no SyndEx, no blackouts, right in the middle of the Idaho Falls market! That all changed at the start of 1990 when SyndEx went into effect. Bye bye Salt Lake. A lot of folks in Ellensburg, where I live currently, did the same thing with Seattle networks. 4, 5 and 7 were all carried on Ellensburg cable for decades, and were watched MORE than Yakima stations at times. Once SyndEx went into effect, network programming went bye bye, and KOMO/KING/KIRO were moved to partial feeds on cable channel slots in the 20s or low 30s I think. Channel 7 became HSC, channel 4 became Family Channel, and I think 5 became Headline News or KYVE. From then on out, you were required to watch network shows on Yakima stations. The reaction was very mixed and there were some angry folks at city council meetings.

Not a newscast, but towards the end of this late-night commercial compilation from KUTV is a promo with then-fresh-hire Bob Evans (now a long-time anchor at KSTU) reading the 'memo' sent to him by Randall Carlisle on how to master the news...and a Donahue promo airs in between!

Southern California's #1 News, the Channel 4 News at 11, taped 3/23/97 (includes part of Sunday Night Sports) Partial KATU Channel 2 News at 11 with Jeff Gianola (top story: Billy Graham comes to Portland), taped 9/23/1992 Part of the KPTV Ten O'Clock News, taped 9/9/92

Jim, which station pulled down your account? Was it KCBD, or another station? This pi$$es me off just like when I lost my channels. Except you didn't have game shows or talk shows up there...just newscasts, and you weren't on YouTube because of their copyright claims, yet Vimeo also gives you the boot. What gives? Oh and BTW, as I've said before, KIMA does not have a film/tape archive anymore and hasn't for years. And it's very likely that KNDO and KAPP didn't keep their archives when the studios closed 10 years back and they moved to Tri-Cities. Other small towns likely have the same problem, so it's not like we can go to a station and request a newscast from 26 years ago that featured a family friend competing for state championship HS football. That's why I hit estate sales and will continue to until the tape lots dry out.

The late Sander Vanocur with ABC News Business World, taped December 6th, 1987 KTRK's weekly newsmagazine, Eyewitness Houston, taped early on 12/7/87

KTRK stuff from 1987 incoming Eyewitness News clip, assuming around late December ABC News Weekend Report 12/6/87, with Tom Jarriel Half of the 12/6/87 Eyewitness News (late night rebroadcast early on 12/7)

Seems like compubit's newscasts have been yanked from Vimeo. He had hundreds of them up there.... Yikes

Gah, that's seven years behind the times 'NewsTab'. Gotta keep 'tab' on your opening themes. Likewise, Yakima was one of the last places where anyone heard the 'And You' news theme. Well into 1989, I think.

Most of KAPP/KVEW Local News at 11, taped 12/4/08 with Stacie Vasko - just a few weeks before they made major cuts to the news department, cutting all weekend news, cutting 11PM to 5 minutes and shutting down KAPP's studios for good. Jason Valentine is still at KVEW. Stacie Vasko again on 10/23/08

Kevin Shaub (again) on the 3/13/1995 edition of Northwest NightCast, simulcast on KAPP and KVEW in central WA

I've got part of a Showtime maintenance period from 1991 on a tape somewhere. It went up to YouTube about a year and a half ago and got purged when my channels went down. Several test patterns, I think it was the same ones used in the clip above.

That must have been the last time the Disney Channel was ever off the air for any sort of period, knowing they went off for a few hours every night in their first few years. The bars also have an ID box just like many OTA TV stations would use in that period. That's something new that wasn't on the '88 recording.

More Yakima stuff at this very late hour. KNDO 7/9/91 opening minutes to NewsCenter 23 at 11 with Julie Hogan And Ross Perich (normally their sports guy) doing double-duty when Julie is off late on Black Friday, 11/29/91. And watch for a young Monty Webb at his first-ever TV job. What's amazing is he's back in eastern WA out at KNDU and has been there for about six years now. He must love it here!

Paul Moyer and Colleen Williams on Southern California's #1 News, the Channel 4 News, taped 2/10/99

First posting on this thread. All from 2008... KNDU Local News 11 at 11, taped 2/23/08. Note the Weather Plus segment from Spokane. KNDU continued to do those KHQ cut-ins for WX on weekends, but sometime after the start of the pandemic shutdowns, KNDU cut all their weekend newscasts and started simulcasting Q6 full-time at 6 and 11 on Sat/Sun. KIMA/KEPR Action News clip, 12/23/08, with Terry Chick and an unknown anchor (this was taped off KEPR...very likely from analog, just a couple of months before KEPR's analog signal was shut off. Most stations in eastern WA stuck with the original 2/17/09 shut-off date instead of 6/12.) And a fuzzy analog signal from KFFX's Fox First at Ten, taped sometime in early November 2008

This amazing piece of Yakima history has returned to YouTube. Personal story about this tape: When T.J. Close passed away in 2019, I was asked by Stu Seibel himself to make a copy of this video to DVD for T.J.'s family in Arizona who had never seen this broadcast. They were very pleased to get a DVD copy of this. It is sad to hear about a news legend passing away, but knowing that his memories will be handed down to another generation of the Close family makes me feel great, the public service that I do for those in Yakima and elsewhere. And did I mention Stu? KIMA News at 11, November 13th, 2001, with Stu, Alan Sillence, and Sten Walstrom. Part of USA's First Business from January 15th, 1993. Barton Eckert passed away last year.

That '77 KING/KOMO compilation is awesome. Especially seeing a young Connie Thompson reporting on prostitution, and a younger Bruce King at the KOMO sports desk. Amazing find!

Partial KAPP 11PM news from 3/16/02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMrM99vVA3Q Brief KIMA News clip, 5/29/1997 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWw48dFmA00 The 5:30 News from KRTV Great Falls, taped May 13th, 1997. Anchor is Shannon Everts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8YcRZafXkg For some reason, thumbnails aren't popping up.