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KING 5 newsbreak with Aaron Brown, 1984:

 

A whole *unused* WBNB news open made in the mid-1980s:

 

And WSVI in 1989, again:

 

And since there are photos here, why not some more!

 

A little background: Some of the worst flooding in Arizona history took place in February 1980. A dam was inches away from bursting and collapsing upstream, but as it was, the Salt River was at flood stage. At the time most river crossings were either bridges prone to erosion or they weren't bridges, since the Salt River was all dammed up.

 

Only two road bridges were open to connect Mesa and Tempe with Phoenix. There were 10-mile-long backups to get across these two bridges. With relief more than necessary, the state, Amtrak and other entities cobbled together an emergency train service, called the "Hattie B." for governor Bruce Babbitt's wife. It was a smashing success in its short run (February 25-March 7), carrying nearly 25,000 passengers in twelve days (it quickly earned the name "Sardine Express", ferrying 5,350 passengers on its most successful day while running 17 hours a day), but as an emergency service with dollar one-way fares it lost $30,000 a week. Keep in mind the Valley had (and does not have) NO commuter rail service*, and it was operating out of disused stations.

 

So enjoy these photos. Unfortunately I can't link them in:

 

KTVK news cameras film passengers waiting at the Phoenix station: http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/histphotos/id/27639/rec/168 — notice the KIII-type circle 3!

 

KPNX reporter conducts interview at Phoenix station: http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/histphotos/id/27546/rec/132

 

*We got light rail, which at least is something, but we don't have any other heavier commuter rail system.

 

They were still using those graphics in 1989? Good heavens. They probably only dumped them when they wore out the masters!

 

Not sure if this has come up before in this thread, but I don't recall seeing it. KTRK promo for Eyewitness News...from 1968: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKSqaPDW3eI

 

1989? Looks more like 19 SEVENTY 9.

Sit through an anti-smoking commercial and you'll find a freeloading KPNX open from the fall of 1994: https://archive.org/details/tobacco_lcw27a00

 

The headline on the newscast: 29 football players will miss a Friday night football game. (Said football players wound up winning a state championship that year.)

For more than a year now I've been looking for video of KPNX's 1992 open after they dumped TVbD (the audio is in the NMSA). I've come the closest to that yet today, with this 15-minute reel of Vietnam memorial coverage from KPNX in 1992. Notice the graphics and "12"-without-map logo. Those certainly were not the case when 12 became "Arizona's News Station".

 

 

WITI late '70s news close at the end of this (unknown theme):

 

 

The theme in question is from the promo campaign they used at the time - "We've Got Good News" (said promo was once on YouTube, but the user that uploaded it was kicked out). The music for that was, in turn, based on the "You Can Count On Us" campaign (
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I was about to say that the WITI theme sounded like "You Can Count on Us", thanks for beating me to it and confirming it.

 

I'd love to find out who did that campaign. Whoever it was, they were still syndicating it in 1989 - Ron Futrell has posted a KTNV version from the TVbD era.

Two more uploads today.

 

First, a partial ABC World News Now (Nov. 16, 1995). Any idea who the anchor opposite Kevin Newman is?

 

Then, an NBC News Special Report from 1991 during President George H.W. Bush's speech on nuclear weapons reduction

Two more uploads today.

 

First, a partial ABC World News Now (Nov. 16, 1995). Any idea who the anchor opposite Kevin Newman is?

That would be Bill Greenwood. He was a DC-based correspondent for most of his career at ABC.

 

http://www.televisionnewscenter.org/bios/bio-greenwood.html

 

That would be Bill Greenwood. He was a DC-based correspondent for most of his career at ABC.

 

http://www.televisionnewscenter.org/bios/bio-greenwood.html

 

Thanks for the info.

 

From stevations' channel; part of a (Saturday? Definitely a weekend newscast) WAVY morning newscast from 1996 (a brief snippet of weekend AM meteorologist Brittany Suddith; along with Andy Fox wishing Dennis Castro {a behind-the-scenes guy working as photographer and running the teleprompter} a happy birthday)

Things are horribly catalogued in this user's collection, but there's a WBBM promo AND a KPHO bumper in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zp371ESoGY (what music is that for KPHO?)

 

And speaking of KPHO... The end of this has the proof to something very interesting (but expected) about KPHO, namely that they used Part of Your Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRdntWlZCg

 

There's more Phoenix ID material: a bump with Ray Thompson for KTVK's Total News AND a (clipped) ID from 1979 promoting the KTAR to KPNX call sign change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RicV94UEQFE

That WMAQ music is a stock track from the Capitol library. "WOC News Theme" and the WOR Editorial music were also from the Capitol library; they were all written by Bill Loose and Emil Cadkin and may have even all been recorded around the same time (c. early-mid 60s).

 

I have several Capitol "Production Music Series" vinyl LPs, and I actually think this WMAQ track may be on one of them. (Random trivia: Though I got them on eBay, they originally came from KGW-TV, and have something like "Property of KGW-TV" stamped on the cover.)

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