SFTV 526 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Looks like KIII finally killed off the McKinnon Set. KUSI should’ve asked for a donation so they will have spare parts Incase something falls off lol Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15530-oldest-sets-still-in-use/page/4/#findComment-195007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColDayNews 438 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 WCMH still uses a few elements of the old O&O set in their Daytime Columbus studio. Not sure if this counts or not! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15530-oldest-sets-still-in-use/page/4/#findComment-195008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliwxdude 254 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 You are right that in , they swapped out the desk again for that big wooden one, and they updated the middle section with a fake newsroom backdrop that looked a lot like what NBC Nightly News had at the time. The rest of the set dated back to 1992. That configuration stuck around pretty much unchanged until 2004. And then, Gannett took KUSA's 1997 desk and set and in Sacramento, where it lived on pretty much as-is for another five years. FX Group and built a new weather center for KXTV's HD launch in 2009, but the bones of the KUSA set were still there. 2015 brought the new social-media-forward newscasts into the renovated "information center," but who knows... that set might still be standing in the studio. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15530-oldest-sets-still-in-use/page/4/#findComment-195147 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCA TK47 277 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 And then, Gannett took KUSA's 1997 desk and set and in Sacramento, where it lived on pretty much as-is for another five years. FX Group and built a new weather center for KXTV's HD launch in 2009, but the bones of the KUSA set were still there. 2015 brought the new social-media-forward newscasts into the renovated "information center," but who knows... that set might still be standing in the studio. That particular set is still in use to this day at KXTV. Local informercial show Sac & Co. remodeled it last summer and broadcasts from it. The set’s been worked over many times by the station and has had a bazillion coats of paint & all kinds light fixtures attached to it by now. It truly is the set with nine lives that manages to avoid the dumpster. KUSA: Only a couple of the 3 or 4 KXTV remodels: Sac & Co.: Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15530-oldest-sets-still-in-use/page/4/#findComment-195149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrabbleship 429 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 If it isn't broke... Not fully true. The backdrops date back to 1995. Everything else was redone at least once, parts were redone circa 2004 and everything else got redone when they went HD. One big gimmie is the desk: The original desk on that set had lower sides (this when they had a lot of reporters doing their pieces in studio). Those sides later got moved up to be level and a whole new desk came in when they went HD. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15530-oldest-sets-still-in-use/page/4/#findComment-195150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew 149 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Ktvb I believe they got the set a couple years after KING5 hd set in the 90s Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15530-oldest-sets-still-in-use/page/4/#findComment-195152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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