H-Town TV Fan

4 hours ago, H-Town TV Fan said:

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.

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).

7 hours ago, Big Rollo Smokes said:

That was a different show entirely (The Maury Povich Show), before Maury got trashy.

 

WNBC-TV had the early seasons of The Jerry Springer Show as well, thanks to its long-standing relationship with Multimedia (channel 4 also carried Donahue and Sally Jessy Raphael, Multimedia's two flagship talkers). In New York, both programs moved to WPIX around 1998, long after Springer went all-conflict and just as Maury was heading in that direction.

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)

NewsCenter 7 at 10:00 on UPN 17 (2004)

WRGT Fox 45 News at 10:00 (2002)

5 hours ago, elfuego35 said:

I think the reason they that CBSTVD/Sony is so strict about Wheel, when compared to Jeopardy is the fact that Wheel of Fortune started as a daytime show on NBC, and the original contracts were written to protect the versions from clashing with each other.

 

Although the Network version of Wheel of Fortune hasn't been on air for over 30 years, they most likely kept the language in the Wheel contract to limit the timeslots which it can be aired (either out of laziness, or the fact that because of essentially being limited to prime access is why the show skyrocketed in popularity), and is likely why the Saturday rerun slot was created for the show, to give affiliates the ability to air shows preempted earlier in the week.  

 

The current version of Jeopardy started out as a syndicated program, and since there wasn't a related network version on air, the distributors let affiliates show Jeopardy in any slot.

 

That, combined with the aforementioned returning champions, and the fact an repeat block was created for daytime, is why affiliates are able to air Jeopardy at any other time if preempted, and why 99% of the time Jeopardy is given higher priority over Wheel, even when Wheel has slightly better ratings. 

I think this explains to me why KTRK in Houston (the only ABC O&O not airing the show) may not be getting the syndicated "Wheel" anytime soon.

WLFI Lafayette Live TV18 News Live at 6:00 (November 11, 1993, exactly 28 years ago today)

WLFI TV18 Sign-off from the Late 1980's (according to the original uploader)

Two 1990's WLFI newscasts to post...

WLFI Lafayette Live TV18 News Live at 6:00 (September 30, 1995)

WLFI Lafayette Live TV18 News at Noon (January 18, 1991)

KTBC Fox 7 News at 10:00 (December 30, 1996)

KWCH Channel 12 Eyewitness News at 10 Weekend (February 6, 2000)

I know this is a little bit out in left field, but I wouldn't have minded Fox's RSN's going to CBS Sports (CBS Sports Southwest, CBS Sports Kansas City, CBS Sports Ohio). It would have been nice to see CBS get regional IMO.

On 10/26/2021 at 7:06 PM, WWUpdate said:

A rare promo for KTTV in Los Angeles from the Metromedia News era:

 

 

Includes the KTTV sign-off at that time as well.

WKBT Action 8 News Tonight from October 28, 1988:

News open and snippet for KMSP "Minnesota Nine Tonight", January 10, 1993.

Here's a KGO 11pm newscast from February 3, 1997, uploaded by the same channel that uploaded the KPIX newscast above.

Newscast starts at the 13:07 mark.

Paul Magers' last newscast at KARE 11, December 12, 2003

2 hours ago, TexasTVNews said:

 

IIRC, KDFW (Now Fox) did the same thing when they were a CBS station. The Price is Right and The Bold & The Beautiful moved to independent station (Now CBS) KTVT in the fall of '94 after KDFW preempt them in favor for Phil Donahue and short-lived syndicated court show, Juvenile Justice. KTVT also cleared select CBS prime time shows at KDFW preempted in order to run locally produced specials.

Speaking of "Juvenile Justice", AFAIK, there is absolutely no footage of the show surfacing anywhere on the internet!

WTVD "11 Together" Sign-off from February 24, 1979.

6 hours ago, 24994J said:

 

I and another forum member have seen a WLS open and lower third demo, and a WABC 11pm teaser promo demo, using this style of animation, with the windowed, collage-like imagery, those shades of blue & yellow, and the arrows. The versions we saw used the old ABC icon, as the new one had only recently been revealed, but that's the only key difference.

Do you have the links to them?

15 minutes ago, Vlad said:

Yeah honestly, I think its a bit basic, but it has grown on me. I hope the Circle 7s still get to keep their identities. We’ll have to see what happens, maybe in November, when the sweeps occurs, we will see an update in the graphics rollout for the stations? All of the O&O stations have been with their current graphics for over 5 years now. I hope WABC really changes their graphics, its always been subpar in my opinion from when they had rolled it out in 2016.

 

 

Same here for KTRK, my local ABC O&O station that has used the current graphics package for over 6 years and, by today's standards, hasn't aged well IMO.

Oldest recording of a Tri-Cities, Tennessee station uncovered from WKPT (ABC)!

3 hours ago, WheelWarrior said:

NY people, any particular reason why WWOR My 9 is pre-empting MNTV primetime Dateline for an encore of last night's Masked Singer at 8 and the premiere of The Big Leap at 9 (which is also airing at 8 on FOX)? They weren't pre-empted last night.

Same is happening in Houston, TX, on KTXH My20Vision at Midnight and 1am, proven by a promo I saw today.