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ToriElectra

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  1. Here's the two music packs I want to find the composers of and/or clean cuts: KCOP's Real News pack from 1993, and WLWT's 1997-era theme, during their Nobody Brings You Closer era. (NMSA claims it's part of Gari's Advantage which they'd been using prior, but it doesn't sound anything like it so I highly doubt that.). Anybody know anything about these two?
  2. I know that "flying screens" package was also used at WMUR and WLWT, in addition to the two mention there. Anybody know who created those? As for the "squares", are those the ones used by KTVI and KSTW at different points, or is that something else?
  3. The Cowboy Channel? Where did that come from?
  4. And I just found something pretty damn unexpected-- awesome-quality footage of WBZ in 97, during their NewsWorks/News 4 New England era, although the opens are chopped up and it appears to have been taken off of WBZ's website (somehow); regardless, it's a nice find (we need more of NewsWorks-era BZ).
  5. Man, it seemed like for 1993, everybody except KABC and KCAL were trying unconventional news intros. I love those KCBS opens-- the hyped up music and the ALL of Southern California mantra really works, but they ditched those intros disappointingly fast. As for KCOP, Real News was kickass, the closest to a direct American copy of Toronto's CityPulse, but thanks to nobody knowing it existed, it got neutered by May of 94. 13 really should've marketed it better, maybe done 24-Hour News Source style updates like CityPulse had (where they'd show the busy newsroom and you could hear the police scanner). And that's the clearest intro for that look yet-- I've been wondering who composed the theme for Real News, it's so badass and I'd love to have clean cuts.
  6. I'm wondering if this was after their apparently disastrous 96 format change. That may explain why it's so simple. Also, Diane Willis from WNEV!
  7. I just saw him on the air yesterday. If there was a suspension, it must have ended.
  8. Per , it wasn't until the next month- January of 92- that NewsBeat replaced the 6PM EWN. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't NewsBeat start at 5:30? One of Phillyvideofan's old videos (before the whole channel got taken down) seemed to imply that.) There wasn't a noon newscast at the time (no idea if they'd ever had one), but one did debut during the KYW News 3 era after the switch to CBS (no clue what was running in the slot before).
  9. I'd honestly like to see either Hearst or Cox in charge- the former because their stations still have strong local identities and personalities despite standardization and network branding, the latter because of their family ownership and lack of standardization- outside of the disaster are that is WFXT, they run their stations competently and with minimal oversight, so WFMZ wouldn't be all that different under Cox.
  10. That clip is unusual- a music package I haven't ever heard before (I don't think it's Power News), and the set is a leftover from the trainwreck that was Inquirer News Tonight.
  11. NewsActive3 has served up more vintage WABC, including stuff with Tom Snyder!:
  12. Wait, hold on. Tom Ellis of Boston? How and when did he work at WABC? That's bizarre.
  13. Why are you even posting there to begin with? Why not just use YouTube? (As far as I know there isn't a limit on how much you can upload....)
  14. Didn't know that Marler and Marshall ever worked at KATU.... and yeah, that is one bad slogan.
  15. And another of the badass Spirit of Arizona intros is uncovered! They can't hide forever.
  16. Add WGHP to that tally. And WTVQ. Also, why didn't WPLG use that set? Limited space?
  17. I've noticed that sets used by WOR/WWOR, WTVJ and WTSP all kinda looked similar, so add those to the list. All these sets had to have come from somewhere.....
  18. I think Fox TV Stations is being lazy.
  19. I've found two of the "transition" intros- one from WYFF: And another from KMBC:
  20. As for the "camera" opens, I think WCVB was the first one with them way back in 95- mainly because an image of their satellite dishes would be used for every other station's intros (the image of the dishes that would "shrink" to reveal the images of anchors). WBAL and WTAE I believe started using the graphics/music around the same time.
  21. Alright, everybody- gather up your riot gear, we move on Hunt Valley this weekend.
  22. Here's something interesting- anyone remember the USA Updates that were shown on the USA Network in the late 80s and the 90s? Everyone thought that they moved from being produced at KYW to the All-News Channel in 1991 after KYW's infamous revamp (causing the departure of Steve Bell, likely one of the reasons USA approached KYW/Group W to produced the updates). And yet, I found an update from 1993, still produced at KYW with Beverly Williams anchoring from one of the Art-Deco styled sets, just with a grey chrome-key BG. It makes you wonder why they moved at all, then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=zBrxnPFZi1U;m=0;s=10
  23. ABC lockout? What happened? I've never heard of such an incident. ( during the 1991 Crown Heights riots where the microwave mast snapped off a live truck.)
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