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I'd wanted to see these for a while and they're all in this two-part report: all those old KESQ opens! Some of those 80s logo lockups with the three-stripe logo seem like Canadian TV branding... (Also I'd switch WWL News and Primetime News based on the WWL News open style and the 1998 date for Primetime News in a close) It also looks to me like KESQ 1990 might have debuted closer to 1987. KMIR's 50th anniversary special isn't the greatest, but it does have this snippet of an early-mid 80s news open:

Al drove a blue two door 1973 Chevy Impala which he transported the painting in

The bigger news is who is replacing her. Former NBC O&Os news director Vicki Burns. She was once the ND at NBC New York, later at KNBC. She had been consulting to Tribune. Seems like a serious hire to me and an intent of improving the product.