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My grandmother will be pi$$ed, as a regular KIMA news watcher and Young & The Restless fan for decades. She has a little rabbit ear just for that purpose and thankfully Ahtanum Ridge is line-of-sight from her farmhouse. And this isn't the only time...remember Fisher vs. Dish? 6 month blackout in 2009, cost everyone months of local programming in the Northwest. That rabbit ear was bought for that purpose!

Reuploaded this little snippet from KWGN, taped in 1980 (no audio on left side)

Dave Young opens KWGN's Channel 2 News on May 8th, 1988 And re-uploaded for your pleasure, the 3/14/81 close to KMGH News 7 at 10, and open to their Cinema 7 presentation of Easy Rider.

A shop? The show is held by spit and chewing gum. They sent the whole team packing (including Travis) at the start of the pandemic. Then moved the show to Stamford, CT (cough - Maury - cough), replaced the team with one host (might as well call it "The Doctor"), and now he's gone. Cancel this 0.2 share failure already Phil McGraw.

At least KNAZ was able to for as long as they did. Even if they could 'barely' support news, the community supported them. Small town TV is great, when done right. Then KNAZ lost money and sent everyone packing, simulcasting Phoenix instead. Anyways, another 'small town TV' newscast, KAPP 35's Nightcast from 12/21/90 with a young(er) Dana Cowley, Mark Lee and Bob Romero.

Casper is a cursed news town. See KTWO, new ownership, NewsNet, big chunks of the news department fired.

KNDO is the better news station in Tri-Cities/Yakima than the other stations, on the other hand! But their WX has been from Spokane since Tim Adams left. I notice that sometimes KAPP and KNDO talk more about Yakima than the YAKIMA-based station actually does! (KIMA) And my family notices the same thing.

Thank you Jim for posting away to the Archive. As of today I have re-uploaded 2,618 videos from YouTube with probably 3K more to go. About 4 months after my channels were terminated, so averaging about 21 videos a day and 654 videos a month.

There's another partial KGWC newscast coming from '93 (relayed from KGWL 5 Lander). I didn't find anything from KTWO in that period, and KFNB/KFNR never aired news. It's my first newscast found from the state of Wyoming. I've looked at the Casper newspaper for that period and I notice that in the '80s they carried most stations from Denver. Let me guess, Casper folks WITH cable watched KMGH more than KGWC?

Probably one of the rarest newscasts I have ever found. It's the Great Western News at 10:00, originating from now-newsless KGWC-TV 14 Casper, WY (and taped off their satellite in Lander, WY, KGWL-TV 5). Note the 'set' - a desk in front of bookshelves full of books, like it's a psychiatrist's office or someone's library or office room. One guy adjusts cameras behind the scenes and does floor directing at the same time. And then the male anchor juggles three jobs at one - news, weather AND sports!! No wonder KGWC has no news department nowadays.

PAX's WeatherVision segment that they aired every night, taped sometime in March of 2000! KNBC Channel 4 News, 5/21/89, including most of Sunday Night Sports with Fred Roggin. KABC Eyewitness News clips from Oct/Nov 1988 And back home to Yakima with the open to KNDO News 23 Late Edition, 11/20/1995, with Heather Hays

It's still on the air, but as a KULR simulcast with no locally-originating programming.

Steve Raible doing teasers for KIRO News at TEN at a couple points on this commercial compilation, taped 5/28/96...this was during their short-lived run with UPN.

I still have a few more tapes with KUTV-taped movies or miniseries broadcasts on them...never say never! However it seems like these folks did a lot of time-shifting and the recording ended at 2 hours on the dot. It came from an eBay lot a few months back out of Burley, Idaho (Twin Falls market), but the seller's family lived in Pocatello during that period, and Salt Lake TV was carried on cable - no SyndEx, no blackouts, right in the middle of the Idaho Falls market! That all changed at the start of 1990 when SyndEx went into effect. Bye bye Salt Lake. A lot of folks in Ellensburg, where I live currently, did the same thing with Seattle networks. 4, 5 and 7 were all carried on Ellensburg cable for decades, and were watched MORE than Yakima stations at times. Once SyndEx went into effect, network programming went bye bye, and KOMO/KING/KIRO were moved to partial feeds on cable channel slots in the 20s or low 30s I think. Channel 7 became HSC, channel 4 became Family Channel, and I think 5 became Headline News or KYVE. From then on out, you were required to watch network shows on Yakima stations. The reaction was very mixed and there were some angry folks at city council meetings.

Not a newscast, but towards the end of this late-night commercial compilation from KUTV is a promo with then-fresh-hire Bob Evans (now a long-time anchor at KSTU) reading the 'memo' sent to him by Randall Carlisle on how to master the news...and a Donahue promo airs in between!

Southern California's #1 News, the Channel 4 News at 11, taped 3/23/97 (includes part of Sunday Night Sports) Partial KATU Channel 2 News at 11 with Jeff Gianola (top story: Billy Graham comes to Portland), taped 9/23/1992 Part of the KPTV Ten O'Clock News, taped 9/9/92

Jim, which station pulled down your account? Was it KCBD, or another station? This pi$$es me off just like when I lost my channels. Except you didn't have game shows or talk shows up there...just newscasts, and you weren't on YouTube because of their copyright claims, yet Vimeo also gives you the boot. What gives? Oh and BTW, as I've said before, KIMA does not have a film/tape archive anymore and hasn't for years. And it's very likely that KNDO and KAPP didn't keep their archives when the studios closed 10 years back and they moved to Tri-Cities. Other small towns likely have the same problem, so it's not like we can go to a station and request a newscast from 26 years ago that featured a family friend competing for state championship HS football. That's why I hit estate sales and will continue to until the tape lots dry out.

And KTVZ came really late in the game - 1977 in fact. Bend was just considered part of the Portland market and cable brought TV to Bend. Yes, our newscasts in Yakima have ranged from decent to laughable over the years. But one thing that stood out from Seattle and big cities was the approach of the word 'community.' They used to serve the whole community, not just report from whichever town had a fatal shooting overnight. Community events were announced on the air and during newscasts (and in some cases, still are). And not just big events like the fair or 4th of July fireworks. In fact, some of those major events, like the Sunfair Parade (part of the Central Washington State Fair), were broadcast live on KIMA each year. Seattle stations did the same thing, but they served a massive audience of (potentially) a couple million. We serve a potential audience of roughly 225,000. Close-knit, in other terms. But those days are (mostly) over. They keep trying from Tri-Cities but like everywhere, the audience has dwindled down and gone to social media/streaming for news. I keep wondering when KIMA will just hang up shop and send everyone down to Pasco. It can't be THAT far away at this point, sadly.

The late Sander Vanocur with ABC News Business World, taped December 6th, 1987 KTRK's weekly newsmagazine, Eyewitness Houston, taped early on 12/7/87

KTRK stuff from 1987 incoming Eyewitness News clip, assuming around late December ABC News Weekend Report 12/6/87, with Tom Jarriel Half of the 12/6/87 Eyewitness News (late night rebroadcast early on 12/7)

Seems like compubit's newscasts have been yanked from Vimeo. He had hundreds of them up there.... Yikes

Gah, that's seven years behind the times 'NewsTab'. Gotta keep 'tab' on your opening themes. Likewise, Yakima was one of the last places where anyone heard the 'And You' news theme. Well into 1989, I think.

Same one from KNDO, yep. They could have used the same music and opening montage without resorting to a cassette or cart recording that sounded like it had been taped over 100 times!! I'll get that KIMA one up eventually, I promise. And KEPR used the same package, of course. 'KIMA KEPR Action News'

KXLY in Spokane used Bill Ratner for their voiceover for the better half of the last 20 years, until he was replaced by Brian Lee. Morgan Murphy probably provided Gordon's services to KVEW because it was cheaper to go with him than Ratner. Ratner has done v/os for a lot of major-market stations, like KCRA and KMGH. I'll have to find that Action News open and re-post it soon. The opening was terrible. KNDO's late '90s open was also bad. The music and voiceover recordings were awful...like it came from a cassette tape or cart used ten times before...muffled and the audio was even unstable. And this wasn't a VCR problem. It happened nightly at 'News 23 NBC'.

Most of KAPP/KVEW Local News at 11, taped 12/4/08 with Stacie Vasko - just a few weeks before they made major cuts to the news department, cutting all weekend news, cutting 11PM to 5 minutes and shutting down KAPP's studios for good. Jason Valentine is still at KVEW. Stacie Vasko again on 10/23/08