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  1. Good update! It's a shame that you couldn't add the 1982 Noon Open. That video which also had a few NewsWatch 8 promos and a Spirit of Tampa Bay image video was taken down a month or two ago due to the channel having multiple copyright violations which made me mad it was gone but didn't surprise me since he had pretty much the entire Super Bowl XIX game on his channel and we all know how the NFL has to protect "The Shield". MicroJow and Pannoni's channels have a lot of 1983-1985 commercials taped from WXFL but unfortunately their tapes were always cut off right before the newscast open. I think there is also an open from the first ever Live at Five from September 5, 1988 floating around YouTube from Mark Antinori who used to work at WFLA.
  2. I know someone has shared some video from this site before but McMillen and Wife’s Pittsburgh Steelers Fansite has TONS of vintage Pittsburgh Steeler games on their site recorded off of Pittsburgh TV stations mostly from WIIC/WPXI as they were the Steelers flagship station for preseason games and regular season NBC games. You can skim through games and find a lot of vintage ads, which is how I have my avatar pic. www.mcmillenandwife.com
  3. [QUOTE="Info Junkie, post: 211002, member: 3593"]@Ramona Going back on what you said about WPXI possibly debuting Newsmat in ‘85 is now plausible. This Steelers video from 1984 still shows WPXI with their old logo: [URL]http://www.mcmillenandwife.com/1984_Steelers_35_vs_Oilers_7.html[/URL] Sticking with ‘PXI, this 2 hour Steelers Video On Facebook includes some promos for Channel 11 mixed in, as well as then-weekend sportscaster Randy Waters hosting “Steelers 5th Quarter”. Interestingly, his second stop after WPXI was another channel 11, this time being WXIA in Atlanta. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=id=1297900003626494;type=video[/QUOTE] The McMillen and Wife Steelers fansite has TONS of videos! (Pray the NFL doesn’t shut them down). If anyone wants to see vintage WIIC and WPXI clips there are many of them as WIIC/WPXI was the Steelers flagship TV station for many years as they locally televised all of their preseason games until 1998 with a short stint on WTAE from 1985-89. In fact I just watched a 1981 preseason game and at halftime they had an ad for their new 5:30 News with a young Roxanne Stein and then a news update with Midge Hill at the 29:00 mark. [URL]http://www.mcmillenandwife.com/1981_Steelers_31_vs_Giants_6_pre.html[/URL]
  4. Actually Thom Allen also did voiceover work for WTSP in St. Pete during the “Stay In Touch With 10” era from 1983-1988. If you think about it his voiceover work really wasn’t just Post-Newsweek stations but also those in the Florida News Network news share agreement with WPLG, WJXT, WTSP, and WFTV (I don’t know if other Florida markets were in the agreement). I haven’t lived in Florida since 2010 but last I heard Thom was doing voiceover work for the Autonation affiliated Auto Dealers in Florida.
  5. Probably Nick’s best work right here.
  6. I believe WFLA started calling themselves that because in September 1990 they debuted the “Coastal” graphics and along with that they stopped signing off at night and they started an overnight half hour newscast (I think it was shown at 3 or 4am) but it didn’t last long (maybe 6 months). The overnight newscast was to compete with WTVT who would do short overnight news updates with Stan Jayson between programs. The “Coastal” graphics were pretty neat looking but they ditched them during the 1992 Summer Olympics and the graphics that replaced it were a step back IMO.
  7. Kenneth the Page! HAHAHA!!! That's who I thought when I first saw Scott Light on WBNS! This guy looks like he has a permanent chipper face. Like you've heard of Resting Bitch Face, he has Upright Chipper Face!
  8. 8viewer Where did you find that WFLA logo?
  9. Here is a video link to the incident that killed his sister.
  10. Actually, you are incorrect. His sister was burned to death on July 4, 1983 at a Winn-Dixie in the Clair-Mel neighborhood of Tampa. A mentally unstable man named Billy Ferry walked in to the store, went to the cash registers, doused people with gasoline and set them on fire. I got to know him when he commented on a section of the 2005 WFLA-TV 50th Anniversary special I posted several years ago disputing what former reporter covered the story and his sister's death for the station. His family moved back to Georgia sometime in the late 80s or early 90s. His videos at first had some good vintage material from Tampa and Atlanta but for the last year or two they've been weird video mash-ups with bizarre theories attached to them.
  11. Half of a WIIC (now WPXI) newscast from 1977 with the late Wayne Van Dine anchoring. Van Dine would become a consumer reporter at KDKA from 1979-2003. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=EFAxlJJYepI;t=12
  12. More WFLA/WXFL news update clips from the early-mid 80s The Spirit of Tampa Bay era and still no clear news open outside of the short 1982 Noon Open and a short clip of a Spring 1985 open from a few years ago. About WTSP and the Stay In Touch with 10 campaign, there is an open on YT from January 1983, the week of Super Bowl XVII which was erroneously marked as 1985 that had SITW10, so it's possible they were in a transition with themes just like WXFL was in early Fall 1985 when they were transitioning to Power News and their Editorials still had TSoTB graphics and theme.
  13. Either he got rid of it fast for some reason or he is going to upload it to his cmsload2002 channel which has a bunch of new South Florida news videos. Mostly from 1989 and 1990.
  14. Maybe WWOR can pull a KTLA and bring back one of their heritage logos. All they need to do is acquire the rights to the Mets from WPIX and then we go full circle with the New York Baseball Teams on OTA TV for the first time since 1998.
  15. Maybe he gave them total consciousness on their death bed for later in life. So they have that going for them, which is nice!
  16. Isiah has always been uncensored!
  17. Me too! Now that I've visited Pittsburgh for the first time 2 years ago, we got a Primanti Bros restaurant in Dayton and my wife and I are avid watchers of the new NBC show "This Is Us" which is mostly set in Pittsburgh. I've gotten more focused on Pittsburgh news footage. I noticed a lot of the old 80s-90s KDKA Fort Pitt Tunnel opens with The News Image got taken down. As far as the others I think I saw a bunch of WTAE from that era. There is a 1980 WIIC full newscast from the night before the Steelers won Super Bowl XIV (NBC should have used it on Episode 5 of This Is Us) and a few newscasts from after they changed the call letters.
  18. It truly is! I'm sure the WTSP use of NewsCenter II outside of image campaigns is as invalid and unknown as WFLA using Part of Your Life in the same manner.
  19. Mark Antinori who was a booth announcer for WFLA in the 80s and early 90s for WFLA posted a video almost 3 years ago (How did I miss this?!) of his early 80s TV work which includes an open from the 1981-82 The Look...Alive "Gapped 8" era at the 0:48 mark. We can pretty much debunk that they used Hello News during that time but I have no clue what the theme they used was so I'm going to report to SouthernMedia the theme as "WFLA 1981 Theme". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=U69LpKcolME;t=57
  20. Most likely Jeff Booth from sister station up I-75 WKEF in Dayton will sub in so that WKRC staffers can attend his funeral.
  21. I don't know if anyone has brought this up here but WPIX has a heritage tribute Facebook page called WPIX Archives. It showcases vintage WPIX news footage, ads, promos, and also vintage ads for long time or defunct NYC businesses. I wish other stations would embrace their history the way WPIX has on this page. https://www.facebook.com/wpixarchives/
  22. You have to realize that WGNO has ABC competition in Hancock and Pearl River County, Mississippi with Biloxi market giant WLOX who covers those counties in their newscasts even though they are part of the NOLA DMA. Even though WLOX acquired CBS and WXXV acquired NBC on subchannels for Biloxi back in 2012, WWL and WDSU are still factors in South Mississippi as the cable providers still carry them and people still watch those stations over the subchanneled affiliates. I don't know how "News in a fake bar" still exists. They need to put that product out of its misery and maybe start fresh ala WIAT.
  23. Where else could he end up in the Tampa Bay area? WFLA has Cate, WTSP has Roundtree and Billi, and WTVT has Wilson and just acquired Chris Cato. I'm not familiar with BN9 now since my parents have Fios so what else could he do unless it's a lateral move to mornings or weekends or maybe just special reporting? I can only see him going to WFLA to be in a Wes Sarginson type of role and anchor only at 5.
  24. I'm interested to see what WLOX in Biloxi has in store. They produced two award winning documentaries. One a couple of months after the storm (which I bought the DVD on Amazon when I lived in Biloxi in 2010) and one a year after it. As we all know WLOX is a Market #160 station that looks and acts better than some of their larger New Orleans and Mobile counterparts.
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