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As a note, this thread is now stickied, replacing the HD News Thread! Out and About has become a TVNT fixture since @TexasTVNews established it in August 2011, and it's exciting to go into 2019 with it assuming its proper place as a sticky thread for all the latest bits of news from around the country.

And according to that map I would say San Jose is a generous statement. Not even remotely close to Santa Cruz and not even in Santa Cruz county. The Santa Cruz Mountains block the signal to Santa Cruz. Sheesh! But I have good news to all those news starved residents of Morgan Hill and Gilroy.... You're getting an All News Tee-Vee Channel !!!! Happy News Year S.Santa Clara County.

From TF1 in France, the 8 p.m. news on today's date 40 years ago:

WTVJ/Miami Sign Off (July 1988)

An excerpt of the Satellite News Channel from New Year's Day 1983. SNC was a short-lived CNN competitor from ABC and Group W; it was eventually bought by Ted Turner and "merged" with CNN (it effectively closed down): Happy New Year!

Twenty years ago today... The late, great Irv Weinstein retires (12/31/1998) Thirty-One years ago today... Baltimore loses a television icon.

Wow, that signoff looks like they slapped a new graphic slide over much older material — the station owner is listed on an 80s chyron graphic (very likely added when Great American bought the station in 1987) and the logos are on visibly dirty slides. The voiceover by Ron Moore was probably recorded at the same time, but the script was probably similar (guessing though not done by Overland Park-based Moore, who voiced WDAF between 1987 and 1992) when Taft owned WDAF and the slides have to come from something older.

Cough,Cough... Calling KAAP "San Francisco" is what I would call really generous. Like super, super generous...with a really big antenna on a super perfect day. But maybe San Jose will have better results...and it's better than nothing at all.