H-Town TV Fan

Welp, it's February 2022 (the first Sweeps month of the year), and none of the 8 ABC O&O's have adopted the new graphics. Makes me wonder if the stations are satisfied with the graphics they have right now.

WLWT The Late News first 3 minutes (February 5, 1981, 41 years ago tomorrow) WABC ABC 7 Eyewitness News at 11:00 (February 7, 2000) WTTG Fox 5 News at 10 (January 30, 2001) There's also a January 25, 1981 WKRC 11pm newscast, but it can't be embedded due to copyright. So here is the link: https://youtu.be/vgWOGCzO524

At the 5:27:48 mark of this packed Internet Archive video are clips of a 2004 KXLY newscast (if anyone knows the exact date of this, let me know and I will edit accordingly), with Signature as their music package and Sean Caldwell voicing the open (apparently Bill Ratner was dropped for a few years before returning the following year): Blank VHS #17- Vision TV, ABC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

An audio-only clip of the KWTX "TX Saturday Night Movie", late news, and sign-off, from the Spring of 1978.

WGEM News at Six (September 14, 2011) KPLR CW 11 News at 9 (June 11, 2008)

WFIE NewsWatch 14 Midday (May 7, 1997) KXII Channel 12 News at 10 (Summer 1987) KCEN NewsWatch 6 Nightcast (February 1986) KLST TV-8 News at 10 (December 1986) WNEV News 7 New England at 5 (August 31, 1989) KABC Eyewitness News at 11 (January 8, 1996) WGAL NewsCenter 8 Noon Report (January 27, 1988) WPXI Channel 11 News Nightbeat (January 29, 1990)

Remember that I commented that I wished I could see how KPRC signed-off back in 1983? Well, here it is!

May I request that this thread be renamed "The Nexstar Graphics Thread"?

Ron Franklin, former KHOU and KPRC sports director and ESPN play-by-play commentator, has passed away at the age of 79: https://thespun.com/more/sports-media/report-longtime-espn-commentator-ron-franklin-has-died-at-79

And KRIV, too. It will instead air at 8 a.m. local time on sister station KTXH.

A KTBC Channel 7 News close (from the rebroadcast of the 10pm newscast) and sign-off from somewhere in Summer 1984. Originally courtesy of MP King, was uploaded by me on January 29, 2021.

WFSB Eyewitness News Nightbeat at 11 (October 21, 1993)

WAND News 17 at 6 (New Year's Day 1986)

Houston, Texas got ATSC 3.0 on December 2. The hosts are KIAH and KTXH. 20.1 My 20 Vision --> KRIV 20.2 Movies! --> KXLN 20.3 theGrio --> KFTH 20.4 Buzzr --> KTRK 39.1 CW --> KPRC 39.2 Antenna TV --> KHOU 39.3 Comet --> KUHT 39.4 TBD --> KHOU 39.5 Court TV --> KTMD I've heard that this is the largest launch of NextGenTV, with 10 total stations taking part.

WXXA Fox 23 News at 10 (2010)

WZTV Fox News at Nine (October 15, 1997) And now, a full newscast of WCPO's Al Schottelkotte News at 11. (December 22, 1981) KCBS Channel 2 News Weekend (December 15, 1984)

WXYZ Channel 7 Action News Tonight (November 10, 1998) WDIV 24-Hour NewsBeat Update (1992)

Here's a rare gem, and one that I've been looking for for years: A case (namely #1132) from the short-lived court show "Jones & Jury" from 1995.

WCPO Channel 9: The Al Schottelkotte News open at the 2:39 mark. (December 29, 1981) WBZ News 4 at 11 (July 16, 1995)

And as far as I'm concerned, there are only four "Big Three" affiliates airing "Maury": KDNL (St. Louis, ABC), WNCF (Montgomery, ABC), WGBC-DT2 (Meridian, NBC), and the biggest surprise to me, WJZ (Baltimore, CBS).

In Houston, KPRC 2 continued to air "Maury" all the way until 2004, when what was then KHWB WB 39 picked it up. I think "Jerry Springer" also moved to 39 from 2 at that same time.

KUMV TV-8 Night Report (September 21, 1991) Sounds like a very early Bill Ratner sighting in the introduction of the newscast. Courtesy of NW ND Farmer & Rancher / Video Archive, which has also uploaded some commercials (national and local) and station I.D.'s (including some from KUMV STILL using the NBC "Proud N" logo in 1991!).

KTRK Eyewitness News Tonight (August 9, 1996)

WRGB NewsCenter 6 New at 11pm (October 19, 1997)

WCIA Newscope (November 30, 1987) WCIA Channel 3 News at 6:00 from that same day. KDKA Eyewitness News Update (December 19, 1989) WFMY News 2 at 11:00 (November 17, 1982)