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capsgm2002

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  1. Like everyone else, I've got more free time. Fortunately I'm still employed. Lots of great clips coming on here lately! News anchor on here is a very young Matt Schwartz (formerly of WWOR, now at KVOA in Tucson). This is years after the bizarre film noir open.
  2. TuesdayB! You sir, are the archaeologist of news opens hidden on YouTube.
  3. RIP Gary Drapcho - 36 years at Erie's WSEE and WICU - Here's a couple of promos from the "Hello Erie" era
  4. Now here's a real find: four promos from WTVC's "Part of Your Life" era! Youtube channel also has other WTVC clips from the 90's
  5. I know the track is called "Power Surge," I think it's a Network Music piece... it's best known as the Buffalo Bills music during the 90's on ESPN NFL Primetime. Also, pretty cool to hear Tim Healey on the ASU-UCLA 1992 broadcast... that TV gig helped him land the Voice of the Sun Devils, which he still does today.
  6. I thought so myself... glad I'm not the only one who thought that! From 1979, here was a news special from WVIT on the Tornado in Windsor Locks, CT which might actually be the same theme as the WILX video (EDIT: It's a match of the theme in Part 3 of the video, how about that?). I'm doubting that WVIT used "The News Image" during that time, in light of new evidence from a trade publication that Tuesday didn't begin offering it until 1981. I'll have to find that page in link it at some point.
  7. From Lansing, Michigan's WILX, here is a reel of news opens from 1981 with an unknown theme. Voiceover sounds like the same person that did it for WPXI in the early-80's. From 1980 (not 1979), a promo with Magic Johnson welcoming Tim Staudt to the sports team. He's still at WILX. Electro Phantasma theme. [MEDIA=vimeo]77741362[/MEDIA]
  8. From October 1980, a WNAC (Boston) newscast with "TuesdayA"
  9. From 1983, a low budget newscast from WCHS in Charleston, WV, with a bonus of ESPN's Speedweek in the clip.
  10. WDEF news open with "TuesdayC" (1982) WDEF news open with "WVII 1992 News Theme" (1988)
  11. No Hampton Roads station was listed... here's the image of the ad from 1973: The stations not listed in the NMSA are: WTVJ (Miami) WLWI (Indianapolis - now WTHR and a repeat client of Mayoham) WJHG (Panama City) KGW (Portland, OR) KSL (Salt Lake City) KTVI (St. Louis) WDSU (New Orleans) KDBC (El Paso) Okay... well short of a dozen, but eight stations is quite the coup for lost information. I can't input in for reason as the form is missing for me in the NMSA. MCTYW ended up with over 90 markets carrying the theme according to the book "News is People".
  12. The archives of Broadcasting Magazine are a gold mine. Just discovered a dozen stations that have used "Move Closer to Your World". Time to get to work on putting together the info for the NMSA.
  13. News coverage of a WFMY-TV helicopter crash from 1984: http://vimeo.com/52814622 (Fast Forward to 17:00 for an elusive WGHP Eyewitness News open with VTS' NewScore and a Thom Allen voiceover)
  14. Here's a pretty interesting clip promoting KHOU's news team from 1968, featuring some familiar faces (including the late Harry Kalas).
  15. I think we have a winner... I'm not sure whether it's the Casio theme music, the "A-ha"-esque sketches or the sportscaster giving a thumbs up, but this is definitely one of the strangest news opens I've ever seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ4cf3aDZrQ
  16. 1977 WTVH-TV Tribute Great montage of the "Part of Your Life" theme, which is very underrated. Used on Meredith Corp. stations in the late 1970's.
  17. Two closes from the 1980 WFMY "Action Center" era with the vastly-underrated "It's All Right Here" theme, also used on WTNH, WLKY and KBTV (now-KUSA).
  18. I agree with that statement, but it seems rather out of place with the whooshes. If the theme goes back in some form or another, Buffalo will take notice. I've read that they are using the theme in promos, but not sure how true that is since I haven't seen video footage. Hopefully, if WKBW decides to bring MCTYW back, it will be the original without the "whooshes" or the Cliff Schwarz WNEP version, which I think is a better fit.
  19. A 1982 WHAS-TV "Action 11" open with MCTYW, fires, and cops... a classic "Action News" open! Throughout the video, there are four different cuts of Hello News, which would later become the main news music package for WHAS in 1983. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5i7aq0tq4U Another gem from Ray (videoholic2008, et al.) with a 1984 morning news cut-in from WPLG, featuring my favorite voiceover (who has been identified as Thom Allen, but I can't confirm so he's still Post-Newsweek Man to me), the TuesdayC theme and a sign language news interpreter. As usual, lots of gems in the user page.
  20. The last generation of WKBW's Eyewitness News was pretty awful: Move Closer To Your World and "whoosh" sound effects do not mix. Also the television monitors and awkward poses and it's no surprise that WKBW ended up even further in the cellar in 2002. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pyiF4i5Oc4
  21. It appears dcbatwing has resurrected himself as "eyeontv"... http://www.youtube.com/user/eyeontv
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