ChesapeakeTV 310 Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 It seems KERO was using Third Coast in 1999, if my ears are telling the truth... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=A90iDB0xrVg;m=3;s=52 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWUpdate 1290 Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 WFLD, Chicago; 9 p.m., 1998: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 It seems KERO was using Third Coast in 1999, if my ears are telling the truth... I dunno on that one. KGET picked it up the next year. That might be an oddity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesapeakeTV 310 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 The piano melody when Parks says "holiday cheer" is spot on...it's the first part that has me second guessing myself. It definitely would be an oddity...but stranger things have happened, even amongst Stephen Arnold packages (e.g. WBRZ and WGMB, more recently). 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOneManHerd 553 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 I dunno on that one. KGET picked it up the next year. That might be an oddity. News themes hopping within the same market isn't unprecedented. WLOS had Counterpoint for a while; but when they replaced it, WSPA picked it up not too long after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 News themes hopping within the same market isn't unprecedented. WLOS had Counterpoint for a while; but when they replaced it, WSPA picked it up not too long after. Right, but this is within the span of a year. Here's another KERO bump from the period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=ic29_I2R1Sk;t=69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnoxvilleTVFan 286 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Interesting KERO stuff from 1999. I did find something on YouTube related to KERO. This is a video montage containing a clip of the California Raisins and some classic KERO news moments and bloopers featuring legendary Bakersfield newsman Burleigh Smith. It even features a glimpse of a KERO news open from around the mid 1980s which features an unknown theme. This was before KERO adopted the "Turn To News" package by Frank Gari. You can check out that news open clip at 11:35. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWUpdate 1290 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 ABC World News Tonight, 1980 (a captioned rebroadcast from WYES); w/ Frank Reynolds anchoring from Los Angeles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=EFHMFQBS-3w;m=3;s=3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WXmanTim 88 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 WMAQ, Chicago; 4:30 p.m. news promo, 1980: Did Taft & Coleman switch stations around the same time? Coleman, I believe, would have been doing weather (from Chicago) for Good Morning America at this point. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5275 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Did Taft & Coleman switch stations around the same time? Coleman, I believe, would have been doing weather (from Chicago) for Good Morning America at this point. Coleman left WLS around 1979/80 on bad terms, having been phased off of each newscast over the previous years. He was succeeded by Steve Deshler, who then left for a year to go to CBS. Some schlub moved to #1, and then I think pretty much left when Steve came back. Taft came aboard as #2 in '84 when the 1-hour 4:30 news was expanded and broken into the separate 4 and 5. As for Coleman, while he did start at WMAQ in 1984, he had been off doing the Weather Channel (and I think another stop or two, I think), so it wasn't really a trade or direct switch. At that point, Coleman had been out of town for almost half a decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 KAPP in 1990: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5275 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Two-thirds of WLS 6pm newscast, January 1999. With how rare late-90's stuff is from the station, it's a shame the open is incomplete: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesapeakeTV 310 Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 We can backdate WLVI 1992 to 1990 now...featuring the Gannett Death Star with a very strange jingle instead of the usual music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=fpeL8rIfUpw;m=22;s=27 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWUpdate 1290 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 When did Mort Crim join / leave WBBM? It must have been a short stay. This clip is from 1978: (Some prescient advice at the 4:00 mark!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vhs clips tx 0 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Here's my personal archive of clips from DFW area stations, 1986-2010 (most are pre-2000). Lots of 80s KXTX, some pre-Fox KDFW, and commercials for some radio stations, car dealerships, and defunct businesses. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwmH6bC8hccdWWdrR29OMEYxdHM?usp=sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WFTV Channel 9 80 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Two-thirds of WLS 6pm newscast, January 1999. With how rare late-90's stuff is from the station, it's a shame the open is incomplete: This must have been one of the last WPVI type opens that WLS did. I have a news open of their 10PM newscast from February 1999 when they went to the "rotating ring" opens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5275 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 This must have been one of the last WPVI type opens that WLS did. I have a news open of their 10PM newscast from February 1999 when they went to the "rotating ring" opens. Heck, I had always thought the "rings" debuted in '98. Looking back, it's kind of hilarious how often they changed graphics in the 90's, knowing later on they'd let a package go mostly untouched for more than 8 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnoxvilleTVFan 286 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 You may or may not remember this, but there were some classic KULR videos on YouTube several years ago. One of them was a promo for KULR's "Straight 8 Newservice" from the early to mid 1980s. Now, I found something rare. From the 1980s, here is a promo KULR aired as part of its rebranding campaign. The station, along with KBAK Bakersfield and several others were owned by Harriscope Broadcasting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 Wowza! That was actually approved and went to air. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnoxvilleTVFan 286 Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 From 1986, KTVQ opened its newscasts using "Beyond" by Herb Alpert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesapeakeTV 310 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 [quote name='8Viewer']WMAQ 1974 close at the end of this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ggLZWIcPgc One of the posters commented the theme was also used by WNAC and WDIO.[/QUOTE] Digging this out of the archives...I found the evidence for WDIO using this piece. Terrible quality, but pretty cool nonetheless! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=5haQDU7kdGY;m=3;s=26 And [URL='https://youtu.be/8yxfvM-v8Js?t=24s']this is the evidence[/URL] for WNAC. Going to ping @TServo2049 for this too, since he said the track is a Capitol piece he might have... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWUpdate 1290 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 WBBM takes a look at its historic old studios, the site of -- among other things -- the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debate. (The clip itself is from 2008, but I've posted it here because most of the footage shown in the report is pre-2000): 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnoxvilleTVFan 286 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 We take you back to 1987 where WCHS-TV in Charleston brought you a "News 8 Newsline" promoting the stories for its 11pm news. WCHS used the classic KTNV-WBRZ theme. As I heard the five notes in the theme, it got me to thinking that these five notes could have been the theme's signature, "People You Can Count On", which was WCHS' slogan at the time.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Av7Xcl7Kjc Also, WTTG closed out its morning newscast with Maury Povich using Soundtrack's The Image Leader back in 1985. But that's not all, here is another version of the WTCN Hello campaign as sung by Frank Gari himself in 1982. In addition, here is a WAKR-TV news open from 1986. The theme you hear in the open comes from the WAKC 1988 News Theme, but began using it sometime in the mid 1980s when channel 23 was known as WAKR-TV. KGGM-TV 13 (now KRQE) in Albuquerque used this theme also in the early 1980s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 WWOR, 23 years ago today: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWUpdate 1290 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 From Australia, bits and pieces of Network Ten's news over the years (from an anniversary special): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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