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  1. 12 hours ago, VHS2004 said:

    CapsGM, I don't remember seeing you here in a while!

     

    Like everyone else, I've got more free time. Fortunately I'm still employed. Lots of great clips coming on here lately!

     

    22 hours ago, hmaxhanson said:

    WUTR from 1978(!):

     

    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. 47 minutes ago, KnoxvilleTVFan said:

    If you go to https://www.youtube.com/user/davelexky, you can check out some rare WDBJ and WTVQ videos. And while you are there, you can check out some news stories and newscasts posted by former WTVQ and WDBJ anchor Dave Winters dated 1979 through 1981. And let me tell you, you are in for some good stuff.

     

    TuesdayB! You sir, are the archaeologist of news opens hidden on YouTube.

     

     

     

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  3. The KTVK video is pretty good. The days when local TV actually aired major college football games...

     

    That sponsor bumper is pretty familiar-sounding, too...

     

     

    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.

  4. I feel like I've heard it before... Seems to be a descendant of KTVU 1977!

     

    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.

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  5. 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]

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    Is a station in Hampton Roads in there somewhere? Perhaps this will help back up my mother's memories of hearing it on WAVY.

     

    No Hampton Roads station was listed... here's the image of the ad from 1973:

     

    mi10n9.jpg

     

    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".

  7. 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.

     

     

    More ads out of Broadcasting magazine... The first one ran in 1979 and the second one, which is from the same time frame, appeared in 1981.

     

     

     

    These incredible finds, including We're Putting It On, correlate to

    , the demo reel (the "Package of Packages") from this company (Hayes Broadcast Promotion and Syndication aka Hayes Productions). Combined with that video, San Antonio-based Hayes can be said with confidence to have produced the following news themes:

     

    KMOL 1979

    KTVY 1980 (also: KMOL, KTPX**)

    WAGA 1977 (also: KSAT, KTVK, WCMH, WJAR, WSOC)

    (also: WTLV)*

     

    From top to bottom, the items featured in the second image are WTLV ActionNews from 1980 (presumably from when they joined ABC), KMOL from 1979, and a "Campaign 80" bumper that probably is from CBS.

     

    It's worth noting that in the demo reel a WAGA open is overlaid with KMOL's news set for the demo—this explains why, since Hayes was based out of San Antonio and had KMOL as one of its clients.

     

    *Listed as X Belongs; WAGA debuted X Belongs from Peters later in 1979. WTLV used the same theme as WAGA and so it is mislabeled. Notice the San Antonio usage of KTVY 1980 and WAGA 1977; Outlet owned KSAT at the time.

     

    **Known only by the demo reel, which features an animation with the slogan "There's a New 9 Coming"; I asked what it was on an earlier version of the video and I got this answer. KTPX later became KWES.

     

  8. I actually liked this open with the sound effect. IMO, KB died when the dropped MCTYW. I despise RHRN. They're ratings have stayed in the basement. I wished they would bring back the old theme one day.

     

    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.

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    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.

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