WXmanTim

Found another good snow report in Houston: KTRK's " " from 1989 featuring Frank Billingsly.

Are they branding the newscasts on Channel 9 "CBS 2 News on KCAL 9"? Or was it just a test promo that was in the middle of this?

Check out the groovy opening theme. Also note that longtime WPSD-Paducah Chief Meteorologist Cal Sisto is mentioned. Terri Smith is now morning co-anchor, Dick Rice is still the Chief Meteorologist (though, I think he is about to retire soon) and both Cathy Nash and Will Kohlmeyer are gone. This is the same studio set as the September open, but they weren't quite ready to debut the video wall two months earlier. Incidently, the video wall is still being used at WTVA though mostly for sports and the weekend newscasts. Some other clips from WTVA are more religious in nature and are from their morning show show Mornin' starring Kay Bain and her late husband Buddy ranging from the early 1990s to Christmas 2006 (Mornin' was retitled The Morning Show in late 2005/early 2006, Buddy passed away in 1997) and is co-hosted by Kay Bain, Terry Smith and Kelli Cook. Mornin'/The Morning Show has been a WTVA staple since fall, 1978 and is still more a music/variety show than a straight newscast.

Thanks...dunno that much about Canadian television. Still an interesting capsule of time.

Here's a portion of a Canada Tonight broadcast from January 1994 with coverage of the Northridge/Los Angeles earthquake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkcQQHP6sxk. CBC used CNN footage (which, in turn, was using footage from KTTV and KTLA). I remember waking up about 730am, as the local radio station aired an ABC News update regarding the quake. Didn't have school that day due to a snow storm, so was able to watch coverage on all 3 of the networks, plus CNN. I recall that KABC's transmitter was knocked off the air for several hours and ABC News received special permission to relay KTLA's signal until KABC could get back on-air. If anyone has footage of the quake coverage, please post.