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Holy heck. That jingle. It's the most KTVK-tastic thing ever. Truly the David Miller Special.

When it came on, WSST was the only full-power station in the Channel America network, which was almost exclusively an LPTV play.

That's actually a few days later, which is even weirder... They were still running the signoff on a completely different set of sticks.

So EQ Vance's site is no more but the client list is available from the Internet Archive in this hard to read image. Yes, WLWT is on there. The list of TV station clients is

That's really more like three stations (KEJR-LD exists to bring KMOH into metro Phoenix since it's quite a ways out).

Ah yes, the Clarendon package! Very...different look for local TV. The theme they were using in the mid-2000s has to be another piece of David Miller work, even if the NMSA has no listing.

Oh yeah, Combined loved it some Alive. (WPTA kept that slogan through several transactions!) Seems to have mostly been used here in '77 and '78.

KTVK (1986–89) WTSP (1989–91) KPNX (1991–) From the article on her arrival at KPNX: Ford said she has been looking for another job for about nine months. "It wasn't working out here (at WTSP)," she said, adding that ownership problems "have made it a really unhappy shop." She was apparently headed to Dallas if not for KPNX reaching out! t also is worth noting that the view from Tampa was that, when Cole and Barresi left, it ended her dreams of replacing Sheryl Browne at WTSP. (She was replaced there by Sue Zelenko.)

It's Beyond by Herb Alpert (KTVL ran it at another pitch).

All of the V + U markets have the V as a sub of the U, too. From there, the most concerning station has to be WLBZ, one of just two low-Vs and the only one without a co-owned U.

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

Gosh darn, @bixpchiphead you nailed it in 2017. The soundtrack is a treat: KCST "39 Alive", KNTV "A New Vision", KTWO "2, The Free Spirit", KUTV "2 Together", KLAS "This is 8", and radio for WVON Chicago and jingles for Central Bank...

Sinclair has closed on its purchase of two Class A stations in the DC market. One station will be used as an ATSC 3.0 data mux. WIAV-CD is apparently going to be broadcasting UniMás under a CSA with Entravision. (Why is WIAV authorized for 48 kW ERP?)

Very nice snag @promoguy98! I actually nailed a trio of interesting finds lately that are somewhat in the NMSA, but I wanted to put them here too: Shreveport The Shreveport Journal in 1984 did an article on news music and it included IDs for three different pieces of news music! https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59728001/ KSLA's theme is a custom by Jake Pittman of Dallas. (He died at 50 in 2004.) KTBS is also a custom done by Skeetz Music Co. of Indianapolis. The NMSA has yet to add this one because it actually represents a date change for KTBS '82. The mention of not having a final beat is a glove fit for this. KTAL used a theme by Al LeGrand (LeGrand and Associates, a local ad agency) and Dan Newman. We've never heard it, either! KOVR/Dan Milner Years ago, I ran on ASCAP into an entry for a KOVR News Theme by Dan Milner (Wintermoon Music) but had nothing to go on. Until @Spectrum27 turned up its use as a background bed on American Gladiators: Milner composed the theme to the show, too, and one of his demos has a few cuts from the KOVR '95 package in it. That's one way to ID a theme! KCST - Working to Be Your 1st Choice KCST 1985 (now correctly dated 1984) was not a package I expected to have an image associated. Well, I was very wrong! Wanted to bring this to the attention of the music hounds. Tuesday? Silvertree (which was formed at the start of '84)?

Radiant Life Ministries is acquiring a slice of San Francisco TV spectrum. They are buying KTNC Concord CA from NRJ for $7.75 million. KTNC broadcasts two subchannels (Sonlife and Canal de la Fe) on a transmitter shared with RNN's KCNS (which was bought from NRJ last year) and HC2's KEMO.

1:02 is definitely the voice of Charlotte native Joe Van Riper (who was the voice of ACC football/basketball presentations from Jefferson-Pilot and Raycom, and later voicing WCSC which JP owned). I didn't realize until hearing that clip that he'd done WSOC work (which I now recognize in NMSA #3, #5).

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.

Not having shoulder programming has doomed RSNs to faster deaths. It was a premium channel and that hurt more, but look at Sportsvue in Wisconsin (1984–85). It didn't even make it a year.

Even RBR knows what this is: A Big D Upgrade In Play For WFAA "TEGNA has reached a deal with a major Hispanic-targeted media company that will give it improved signal coverage in the Dallas-Fort Worth market. The deal illustrates just how valuable UHF signals have become in a digital TV world."

The answer here should be more obvious. They'd rather have a slice of UHF spectrum than a slice of VHF spectrum. I bet KMPX turns out like KTBU, i.e. they add an 8.8 WFAA simulcast subchannel. Estrella might then buy the VHF transmitter facility, at which time there'd likely be a call sign and virtual channel swap. If Estrella exercises this option, it's essentially Estrella being paid $14 million ($19 million purchase price for KMPX minus $5 million purchase price in the option agreement for WFAA) to move to VHF.

Tegna is making another buy, this time from Estrella Media. They'll be purchasing that network's owned station in Dallas, KMPX 29, for $19 million. There are two important elements to this deal: Estrella will remain, on 29.1 apparently; there's a 5-year network affiliation agreement that will be part of this sale. There are triggering clauses in the agreement that then would allow Estrella, under a separate option agreement, to buy WFAA-TV (read: the VHF transmitter facility) for $5 million.

They bothered to get the "Sponsored By" text translated...but nothing else. (The lottery game titles I can understand.) Even the L3s have rather...stilted translations, as is the "Coverage You Can Count On" slogan.

KCOP 1994 is as rare as they come:

Gray has filed to acquire three LPTVs from Jeffrey Winemiller for $350,000. They are WPHJ-LD and WQIX-LD Vidalia GA, as well as WCGZ-LD La Grange GA. The La Grange station has minimal facilities near Columbus. The two Vidalia stations are located east of Baxley, Georgia, in a rural area that has little coverage from major commercial stations. Appling County is drawn into the Savannah DMA. Programming is unknown.

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