Favorite Opens/Closes Of All Time

[WAVY 10 Fan 232]

What are some of your favorite news opens, talent introductions and/or closes?

 

OPENS:

WAVY (1980's as the Daily News)

WAVY (2004-Nov. 2006)

WAVY (New open, still w/Newswire)

WVEC (with 1991 music)

WVEC (current talent)

WTKR (1992; only good thing about Eyewitness News experiment)

 

CLOSES:

WAVY (1995-present)

WVEC (Special 50th Anniversary; 2003)

WVEC (2004-present)

[darkridedan 4]

WPVI (except those 5 days in 1996,) KYW (all throughout the 1980s,) WCAU (early 1980s using Channel 2 news,) WTAF/WTXF up to 2003 and WNBC (1980s,) WNEW 1977.

 

TV-ARK, where'd you go?

[Ntropolis 593]

WAVY's Wall to Wall News open (early 90s)

WUSA Promise News Package "Death Star" open (why is it nicknamed the "Death Star" open?)

WWBT open... used from like... 2003 until 2006

WPVI's MCTYW opens

KYW early 90s opens

WFTS' short-lived 28News open with Elevation from 2002

WTVT's opens with Impact from 1995-1997

WSMV 1993

 

There's gotta be more opens I love...

 

As for closes, definitely WAVY's, but only when they play out the music. They've kinda crapped it up now, they've got a little promo thing at the end with "Join WAVY News 10 at 5, 5:30, and 6, blah, blah, blah... from the station on your side!"

[digitaldave82 0]

Norfolk/Virginia Beach

WAVY 1989-1995 Talent Opens (Wall to Wall)

WTKR 1989-1992 Talent Opens (WWL News)

WAVY 1995-1998 Talent Opens (Newswire)

WVEC 1993-1996 Talent Opens (USA News)

WAVY 1998-2004 Open (Newswire)

WVBT 2000-2003(?) 10pm Open & Talent (The One and Only)

WTKR (WGNT) 1995-1997 10pm Open (Millennium 3)

 

Greenville/New Bern

WNCT 1998-2004 Opens (Counterpoint)

 

Richmond

WRIC 2003-2004 Opens (Advantage)

 

Washington, DC

WTTG 2000-2006 10pm Open (The X-2 Package)

[jdcnow 14]

WFAA's Evolution late-night opens and talent bumps. Some of the best I've ever seen, second only to anything RenderOn ever cranked out.

 

It's a shame WFAA stopped using their talent bumps. The Saturday night News 8 Update talent bump was the best one of all. Brad Hawkins and Rebecca Rodriguez' slides would come on. Then more Hothaus live-action moving photography; Steve McCauley putting on his sportcoat. (The way Hothaus executed that shot in slow motion I thought was very professional and very well executed.) More hyperspeed Dallas traffic shots against the dark of night skyline, then Joe Trahan.

 

Very well executed.

[moshewx 19]

WNBC-TV Live at Five 1989-1990

Remember when they had the 1 set for Live at Five and the second for News 4 New York at 6 and 11? At the end of Live at Five when Sue Simmons and Tony Guida signed off, the camera showed both sets. We saw Chuck Scarborough and Pat Harper sitting in their desk (the lights were off), and we saw Sue and Tony taking their micropohones and earpieces off and getting up and walking away from the set. This was done so they would not appear when News 4 at 6 began. (The 6pm set was right infront of the Live at Five desk).

[currie555 0]

The 1997 KSDK News Channel 5 Open using the Frank Gari "NBC New Millennium" package. I wish somebody had the clips of those news and talent opens and closes. NewsChannel 5 is the best news open I have seen circa 90s besides WAVY News 10.

[MikePulse 315]

KABC Pre-HD ([yt=425,350]

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Gotta love that Air 7!

[eyewitness_news 5]

WSVN's current open (since 2001) - the "rotating-as-if-it-were-in-3D" circle outside the 7 captured my attention.

[TexasTVNews 1367]

Dallas/Ft. Worth

KDFW (1987-1989) Your's Truly - JAM Productions

KDFW (1997-2006) Outlaw News - Stephen Arnold Music (That's should have been FOX O&O Music)

KDFW (2006-Present) FOX O&O Music - OSI Music (The highest Rated Theme Music)

KXAS (1984-1990) Wall to Wall News - Stephen Arnold Music

KXAS (1994-2005) Primetime News - Non-Stop Music (They should bring it Back on NBC 5)

WFAA (1984-1991) Spirit - TM Porductions (I like the late 80's version)

WFAA (1996-2004) The Spirit - Stephen Arnold Music (I love the closing when they revamed in 96)

KTVT (1995-2000) Millennium 3 - Sheely Palmer (Turns Me On)

KDAF (1998-2004) NewsEdge - Stephen Arnold Music

 

Houston

KPRC (1988-1992) KPRC Custom Package - Toby Arnold Music

KPRC (1990-1993) NBC: The Place To Be - Unknown

KPRC (1995-2006) Hometown News - Frank Gari (I like when it was News2Houston)

KHOU (1989-1991) KHOU 1989 News Theme

KHOU (1991-1994) KHOU Custom Package - John Hegner Music

KHOU (1994-2000) American Spirit - John Hegner Music

KHOU (1998-2003) The Spirit - Stephen Arnold Music (All-Time favorite KHOU Closing)

KTRK (1984-1995) News Series 2000 - Frank Gari

KTRK (1995-Present) Eyewitness News - Frank Gari

KRIV (2006-Present) FOX O&O Music - OSI Music

[FirstNews8 13]

WQAD- 1989-1992

WQAD- 1997 to NOW First News- Gari

WLS- NS2000+- GARI ! NOW !

[PelicanGuy 117]

WDSU

* Palmer News Package open for 6 pm and 10 pm, 1994-2000

 

WVUE

* NewsCaster open for 5, 6, and 10 pm from 1987-90 (package used until '92, but they cut the open short in 90.) The fly-in from the swamps/open waters south of New Orleans into the city was classic.

 

WWL

* Eyewitness Morning News open using a variation of WWL-TV from 1983(?)-85. The drawing of the outline of the city skyline and the piano/horns music is my all-time favorite. I am still seeking this open to this day. A masterpiece.

* Eyewitness News open for 5, 6 and 10 pm using WWL News from 1984-1990. It's the classic black background with the talent individually shown scrolling from top to bottom with a clock in the background (Angela Hill and Garland Robinette were anchors).

[MikePulse 315]

CITY

CityPulse "golden" era open and close (my all time favorite)

CityNews HD second era open (good signature twist; too bad they aren't using it as a close)

[squiggyfm 0]

WSMV/Nashville's 1993-1994

http://nashvilletv.org/opens/wsmv19930104_6pmopen.rm

 

I'll like anything (with in reason) with legal in it.

[NigelWick 0]

Tough to describe, and I don't know if they still use it-- but WJZ in Baltimore had a great open. the last stinger note of the theme was timed to hit video of a strobe flash on the tower.