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This might be the best history video about local broadcsat news yet...from Twin Cities Public Television

 

A forensic look at the rise of WTCN/KARE after Gannett acquired it with interviews from KARE and the competition, lots of great video clips 

 

https://www.tpt.org/minnesota-experience/video/broadcast-wars-ep-3-out-of-nowhere-pzx0vn/

 

There are 2 other episodes from earlier years

 

https://www.tpt.org/minnesota-experience/video/broadcast-wars-ep-1-just-the-facts-xk330t/

 

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1 hour ago, sfomspphl said:

This might be the best history video about local broadcsat news yet...from Twin Cities Public Television

 

A forensic look at the rise of WTCN/KARE after Gannett acquired it with interviews from KARE and the competition, lots of great video clips 

 

https://www.tpt.org/minnesota-experience/video/broadcast-wars-ep-3-out-of-nowhere-pzx0vn/

 

There are 2 other episodes from earlier years

 

https://www.tpt.org/minnesota-experience/video/broadcast-wars-ep-1-just-the-facts-xk330t/

 

 

Metromedia owning an independent like WTCN. When I think of that time, I think of stations like KRIV, WTTG, WNEW (now WNYW), KTTV that became the original O&O stations with the then-new FOX network. 

As far as use of that news theme from 1984 (9 Country/11 Country), I'm more partial to the use on sister station 9NEWS KUSA in Denver from the Mike Landess/Ed Sardella years with the voice of Mr. ABC himself Ernie Anderson opening for 9NEWS
 

 

About the Magers brothers: had Ron came back to the Twin Cities when his brother Paul came, these two brothers anchoring together would've made a splash in icy Minnesota. 

Sounded like Gannett back then had a boatload of money to spend on its stations, its equipment, its people and news production. Seems like they were a wealthy media group. Today, with all this standardization going on, that's just not the case. 

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I have a love affair with the Miami News Market but I finally took some time to investigate the history of its overlapping neighbor West Palm Beach.

 

I was surprised to learn that WPBF only launched in 1989, and I liked their '90s newscasts which were modeled after World News Tonight. I really liked the walking around newsroom shots.

 

It's Especially cool that the station still uses a newsroom set to this day which looks very similar to this. 

 

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On 1/9/2025 at 9:43 AM, SoFloTVClassics said:

 

WIXT Eyewitness News 1982

 

That one of WIXT of Syracuse is very interesting in two facets-- one, Bud Hedinger did both main news and the weather report (at least, it seems here), and two, there was no off-screen announcer billing the broadcast as Eyewitness News, or even having a daypart or time name (Hedinger simply did a cold open at the top here).

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