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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's it. And that virtual set they had was yikes with a capitol Y. Definitely a third-rate news station. They've improved with a new set and a new logo (and a much better announcer), but still have that 5 minute 'newscast' at 11pm (with 2.5-3 minutes of commercials) and nothing on weekends except weather forecast bumpers. They had just stopped using Eric Gordon for v/os (who sounds way better), and I guess they were looking around for any person they could find. Hmm...let's use David Lee!

This must have been in October or November 1994. I posted the first 8:00 of the 9/17/94 evening news that still used the Fox era opening, bad fit for an NBC but definitely targeting the younger crowd (i.e. Fox local newscasts). Lot of reality-show and MTV-type camera work too in the reports. But if you want a really bad news opening...I wish I had it on video. DAVID LEE voiced the KAPP/KVEW news open a few years back. Yes, that David Lee. The rock station announcer and Westwood One Sports imaging guy. Either it was David or a knockoff of David that sounded just like him. And the open graphics looked like crap too. This would have been around 2016. Also, don't even get me started on KIMA and KEPR's first graphics package + open(s) when they went to Action News in 2007. Terrible. Terrrrrrrrrible.

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.

Karen Massie on a KXTV Nightside broadcast from 5/5/91 (go to the end of the video) KFBB NewsCenter 5 Weekend open, 11/1/1998. Great Falls MT ABC station

KSTW Ten O'Clock News clip, 5/22/87. Charles Johnson and Wendy Mann In addition, a teaser is found in this block of ads from a Prime Movie broadcast of 'The Hanging Tree' in 1985. And back home for Gary Darigol in this KNDO 11:00 newscast from August 30th, 2004

The best news team in Seattle history! We miss you, Dan and Kathi. And Shane Edinger opens a KNDO newscast on October 9th, 2004.

Even gaming videos get pulled down here and there for copyright and ridiculous reasons...

Spam and scams, and YouTube is tight-lipped saying 'No appeal for you! Remain terminated!" Do you see why VHS collectors are moving to Internet Archive (or elsewhere)? I searched, just for fun, 'fortnite 2021'. There's someone streaming and playing the newest Fortnite update and within 8 hours of upload it has 2,000,000 views. Yet the guys in the background who want nothing to do with video games, only to preserve television history for those generations who either grew up with those newscasts or for those whose parents grew up with those newscasts (but they didn't), get yanked off the interwebs. Ugh. Rant over.

More re-uploads from Yakima! Also, an open to News 4 Weekend (KXLY) on 12/6/92 with Marianne Mishima, at the end of this video.

We lost KOMO's Bill Brubaker over the weekend. He was one of their lead anchors in the '70s and early '80s. While my parents were not in western Washington at that time, it's still sad to lose another prominent presence on Seattle television. RIP. https://komonews.com/news/local/former-komo-news-anchor-bill-brubaker-dies

Rare stuff from AFRTS, taped in Germany. I don't think this would count for the international thread just because it's part of the U.S. government for military members and soldiers overseas. A news break in this compilation of Feb. 1994 promos and PSAs from the Lillehammer Olympics. NAVEUR Magazine, produced by the Naval Forces Europe squadron, 5/28/1994. And American Forces Perspective from 4/2/94, which talks about Operation Provide Promise and the air-drops in Bosnia.

Look out! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Mike Ramirez and Karen Dalton in my oldest Yakima newscast ever! Back for everyone to enjoy! And speaking of, another tiny clip from KXLY...

Another Spokane feast...

KCWT!!! At long last!! Take a look at this defunct independent station in Wenatchee, WA:

A dump of Spokane clips from 1996.

The claim cannot be retracted unless he does it himself, I'm afraid. So we'll be stuck with one strike until August or so. He filed a DMCA violation and YouTube granted it. There's his channel right here. The full episodes of shows like Gimme a Break and the cartoons will bite him in the @$$ one of these days... https://www.youtube.com/c/MoneMedia/videos