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Guy Atchley! In OKC! Also some KTUL from 1979:

The music sounds like a tool kit add on since it still has the 6 tone signature logo in the theme.

c'mon it's a simple violation it isn't even suspend able, nor is it terminable. could just been a good review of contract rules by the bosses. Sunbeam did something stupid already starting of on a bad foot post Ed Ansin era!!! Good thing will come when good doors closes better doors will open.

A complete WTVF newscast from 1980... shortened to 20 minutes due to CBS' coverage of the Democratic Convention.

Sasha Foo has left KUSI and television news: https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2020/10/18/marketink-anchor-and-reporter-sasha-foo-leaves-kusi-tv-after-17-years/

Curious thing from WKYT in the late 90s...

WLEX 1982 Action News Today in Kentucky KPTV 1991 News Close WHDH 1996 7 News WFTS/WTSP 1996 News segments regarding the 1996 Olympic torch relay. KLAX 31 Action News 1998 FOX Files 1998, anyone remember this? KPRC News and KTRK segments 1988.

Definitely an overreaction by the station. Good for her to take the high road in the announcement. I think the station should rethink their decision to terminate.

We might as well fire every local anchor and reporter in NYC and LA who've appeared in movies and TV shows as well.

People are being sympathetic...glad to see.

Good find! The person who posted the clip is slightly off on the years the music was used. Believe it or not, elements of it actually were still in use until 2000. The last surviving pieces of it were cuts used for reports during the annual Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo as well as the spot that ran each night before the rebroadcast of the 10 PM newscast during the late night hours (with the 1994-era graphics). The first phase-out came in 1996 when they re-branded their morning show to "The Spirit of Texas This Morning" and used a separate package for it - one that the NMSA has lumped in with The Spirit, though I'm not sure if that's actually the case. With regard to the music... listen to the intro of Giff Nielsen's Bulls Eye... Is it just me, or does it sound like a Stephen Arnold piece? It is not part of the American Spirit package at all - I have the 3 discs of it. Wonder if anyone has any insight into that. It also made me realize just how a dedicated weekend sports show (outside of High School sports) has never really worked on the station. I can think of a bunch from 1990-2005 or so that were there and gone in short order - The Sports Page, Warren Moon's Quarterback Corner, The Jack Pardee Show, this one, a show with Giff Nielsen and Dan Pastorini in the early 2000s... The current Sports Extra has had some staying power as it started in the 2010s, though. Fun, somewhat irrelevant fact - Kathie Turner (the weather forecaster in the clip) actually helped me get my meteorology merit badge when I was in the boy scouts. This was also a great excuse to go to poke around the station during the late 90s and see that great MBD set when it was still fairly new!

In loving memory of WTVJ/ WCIX reporter and anchor Jim Dyer. Whom passed away last month. This took me by surprise. You will be missed Jim. R.I.P.

A 1988 precursor to WWL's "Spirit of Louisiana" promos that started in the 1990s. The entire clip features ads and Eyewitness News promos.

I've uploaded a few Houston items recently. Just starting to re-introduce content from my old channel as well. KPRC News update with Bob Nicholas and the late Doug Johnson from May 1985. KTRK News Update from December 1985 with Melanie Lawson KPRC Channel Two News Update from October 1989 with Tim Lake, currently of WTEN KHOU midday newscast from November 1993

WSTM 1983 Newsbreak WBNG 1986 Newscast WISH News 8 1988 WILX Mid 90s News opens and promos

WISH 1991 Daybreak

KWTV 1979 partial newscast, with an interesting use of the "Tuesday1" theme for the open. The rest of the theme was used in bumpers.

WBOC using All We Are We Are For You: WGBH's old 10pm newscast from December 11, 1990, during this period it used TVbD graphics:

Most of Today from 1973, including WSM's local cut-ins with Pat Sajak:

WLS, Chicago, 11:30am, 1993: It's 1968 and Public Broadcast Laboratory takes a close-up look at the network news:

Some WSOC promos, 1986:

WDZL 1997 clips along with a promo for the news at ten.

WJBK-TV 2 CBS/ final months- era KARE 11- (4/2001)

In things you don't expect to see often: a news story and tease (with The News Image bed) from WNWO "24 Newswatch" in 1989. The Harry-set logo from the WDHO era was still in use.

WDAY Channel 6 (ABC Fargo, ND): 1999 morning edition (First News); loved how the opening used the sunrise motif to indicate "morning edition"

KCOP 1994 is as rare as they come:

I don't know that the WBBM VO switch had much to do with content, at that point. Chapin began working for WFLD around that time, and WBBM likely wanted someone that can bring a similar growl to the position. At a later point, WMAQ would bring in Charlie Van Dyke, when they were moving to a more tabloid format. A lot of copycats in Chicago in the mid-90's.

Holy crap. Caroli makes Chapin sound like Erik Thompson. That was a sign they dug DEEPER into tabloid, not a regression.

Huh. In between Scott Chapin and Nick Michaels, WBBM had Vic Caroli do the opens:

ABC WNT, Thurs. June 14, 1979, w/Max Robinson in Washington, and Peter Jennings, Barbara Walters and Frank Reynolds in Vienna (Frank is in a studio in Vienna that I don't think we've ever seen before)...

KMOX (KMOV) 1985 News KTVI 1987 Newscast.

Mary Jo West! Newsnight!! That KOOL clip is excellent stuff.

WBRC 6 News 1988. WLUK Newscenter 11 Promos 1986. KING 5 News 1989. KOVR 1973 Action News intro. KOOL (KSAZ) 10 News 1981. KTRK Commercials 1985.

2/29/92 KNBC Weekend clip - didn't realize they kept the jazzy sax close into 1992. Guess it changed when the set got updated later in the year.

WLS, Chicago; 6pm, 1984:

Well, this is interesting... News People!

A worker was killed and two others were trapped on the tower while performing maintenance work on WJTC's broadcast tower in Robertsdale, Alabama. This was a tower crew hired to do the work and not station employees. https://weartv.com/news/local/one-dead-two-rescued-in-tv-broadcast-tower-accident-in-baldwin-county https://www.wkrg.com/baldwin-county/sources-three-possibly-stuck-on-tv-tower-in-baldwin-county/ https://www.fox10tv.com/news/accident-on-tv-tower-kills-worker-injures-another/article_7742b336-1307-11eb-96bf-7fc08f3fa94f.html https://mynbc15.com/news/local/television-broadcast-tower-accident-in-robertsdale WJTC is the sister station of WPMI, and co-owned along with WEAR and WFGX in Pensacola. The market is supposed to have a "rescan day" tomorrow as WJTC and WFNA will turn into ATSC 3.0 stations and the existing programming will be sub-channeled onto the others. A very tragic situation indeed, and my personal condolences to the family of the deceased.