Samantha 2878 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Same user uploaded KMBC's original Hearst-Argyle open (from 1998) with the claim that it began in 1995, which wouldn't be far-fetched because that's when those graphics began on WCVB, which raises the question... did KMBC ever actually use Newswire? I want to say it might have been listed on ASCAP but I've seen no video proof of Newswire on KMBC. I saw that too. I really do wonder. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVY 10 Fan 232 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 From eyeontv; here's a series of KIRO Spirit of the Northwest promos from 1984 produced by Klein& (NMSA currently has this credited to AM Music and in use from 1986-88. It could be possible AM Music did a later version) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Definitely by 85: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=0EbuaK0vJ8I;t=84 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesapeakeTV 310 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Yeah, they absolutely switched in 1985, probably fairly early on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=FZJPfVoJxMY;t=31 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Dillweed 73 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 A few minutes of the 10pm news from the then-independent WTTV in 1990. The news department was shut down later that year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesapeakeTV 310 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 That's a pretty cool way to transitioning from the movie to the open...and the open appears to be a knockoff of , interestingly enough. I guess this also disproves the NMSA's listing of them using PNP...though I sincerely doubted the truth of that anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WFTV Channel 9 80 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 What news theme is that? It sounds different than their 1987 theme and it doesn't sound like Spirit (of Texas). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Dillweed 73 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 IIRC, "Spirit (of Texas)" was brought on after WTTV shut down their in-house news production. Channel 4 only used the image campaign of Spirit for a couple of years, with the lyrics being "The Heart of Indiana on 4...TTV4". By then, WTTV was airing WRTV's 10pm production. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesapeakeTV 310 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 What news theme is that? It sounds different than their 1987 theme and it doesn't sound like Spirit (of Texas). Sounds like a previously unknown theme to me. IIRC, "Spirit (of Texas)" was brought on after WTTV shut down their in-house news production. Channel 4 only used the image campaign of Spirit for a couple of years, with the lyrics being "The Heart of Indiana on 4...TTV4". By then, WTTV was airing WRTV's 10pm production. They were definitely using Spirit in some way just before the news operation folded. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 That's a pretty cool way to transitioning from the movie to the open...and the open appears to be a knockoff of , interestingly enough. I guess this also disproves the NMSA's listing of them using PNP...though I sincerely doubted the truth of that anyway. That's the actual WKBD graphics. I saw them in use elsewhere really recently too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOneManHerd 553 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 A short-lived KMBC open from 1994 that was sort of an update to their 1992 open, sort of not: Hello there, E.Q. Vance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Hello there, E.Q. Vance. Most definitely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVY 10 Fan 232 Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Put a couple more uploads up First; a 1995 WAVY ID from when the station first took to the Internet [url= ][/url] Also, an NBC Nightly News promo for October 18, 1995 (focusing on their Fleecing of America segments exposing government waste) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.L. Hughes 746 Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Oh yeahhhhh... One of my white whales is the KFOR early 90s theme, so this makes me happy as heck. What's interesting is that "News Team 4" was out before the theme and graphics. The only other clip available surfaced in a KFOR montage uploaded around Bob Barry's death. It featured an almost-clean 30-second cut of what seems to be a news theme and potential image package. FTR, there are a lot of white whales when it comes to news clips from Oklahoma television... not just Oklahoma City, but Tulsa, Ada and Lawton too. Sticking to OKC, besides the lack of news clips from KFOR during the early 1990s, other opens absent from YouTube from stations in the market include: * KFOR: 1994-96 (two clips from the second generation version of the graphics used during the run of the "KFOR Custom Package" is available on NewsActive3's channel, I don't remember on which compilation); * KOCO: Pre-1986 (there are some clips from that era on YouTube, but none from any actual newscasts), 1993-94, during the final year of the "5 Alive" era (when the station replaced the 1986 version of the logo with a block version, upon the adoption of a short-lived graphics package that preceded the first iteration of the "Circle 5"), 1994-96 (an updated version of the graphics package from the "Primetime News" era, after KOCO began branding as "Oklahoma's Channel 5/Oklahoma's 5 News", is available on one of NewsActive3's compilations) and 1997-98 (a short-lived package used during the transition from "Oklahoma's 5 News" to "Eyewitness News 5"); * KWTV: 1990-97, during the latter half of the "Newsline 9" era (a clip featuring what I assume is the 1986-89 graphics is on NewsActive3's channel) and 1997-2001, the first generation of the "News 9" branding era; * KOKH: 1997-1999, a relatively short-lived gold package used during the "Stravinsky" era; 1999-2000, the year prior to the renaming of the 9:00 p.m. newscast from "The Nine O'Clock News" to the "Primetime News at Nine" (there is a complete 1997 edition of the 9:00 p.m. show, using the initial 1996 package, available on KOKH's YouTube from the date of Murrah Building bomber Timothy McVeigh's sentencing), as well as anything from the "Newstouch 25" era pre-Fox-affiliation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 593 Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 * KWTV: 1990-97, during the latter half of the "Newsline 9" era (a clip featuring what I assume is the 1986-89 graphics is on NewsActive3's channel) The now-defunct tvnewsthemes.net had a clip of a KWTV open/close from that era (1993)... that's where the "KWTV 1993 News Theme" in the NMSA comes from. It was a really neat open and theme... very 90s. Hope it resurfaces sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 Back to Yakima and the Tri-Cities of Washington we go... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 593 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 CBS "Get Ready" promo for WTVR, 1990 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseyfla 193 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Mark Antinori who was a booth announcer for WFLA in the 80s and early 90s for WFLA posted a video almost 3 years ago (How did I miss this?!) of his early 80s TV work which includes an open from the 1981-82 The Look...Alive "Gapped 8" era at the 0:48 mark. We can pretty much debunk that they used Hello News during that time but I have no clue what the theme they used was so I'm going to report to SouthernMedia the theme as "WFLA 1981 Theme". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=U69LpKcolME;t=57 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Back to Yakima and the Tri-Cities of Washington we go... Brought to you by Dick Drilling and Ben Tucker of RETLAW Broadcasting the worst company ever to own television stations. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10Viewer 319 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 We can pretty much debunk that they used Hello News during that time but I have no clue what the theme they used was so I'm going to report to SouthernMedia the theme as "WFLA 1981 Theme". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=U69LpKcolME;t=57 "Mr. NMSA" told me that someone reported hearing "Hello News" around the 1981 Super Bowl on NBC. In a similar way, I know that WTSP didn't use "NewsCenter II Theme" as I thought they did. But they did use the "We're the Team" promotional campaign. This is probably the biggest find ever for the Tampa/St. Pete market. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseyfla 193 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 "Mr. NMSA" told me that someone reported hearing "Hello News" around the 1981 Super Bowl on NBC. In a similar way, I know that WTSP didn't use "NewsCenter II Theme" as I thought they did. But they did use the "We're the Team" promotional campaign. This is probably the biggest find ever for the Tampa/St. Pete market. It truly is! I'm sure the WTSP use of NewsCenter II outside of image campaigns is as invalid and unknown as WFLA using Part of Your Life in the same manner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10Viewer 319 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 It truly is! I'm sure the WTSP use of NewsCenter II outside of image campaigns is as invalid and unknown as WFLA using Part of Your Life in the same manner. Well, we know for a fact they did use Part of Your Life, likely starting in 1977, so I find it unlikely they didn't use it as their news theme. But no opens have surfaced. Yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 New Year's Day 1984 and WLEX was still using On Top of it All. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesapeakeTV 310 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Wow. Never thought I'd see Be There, John Young's voiceover, and On Top of it All together... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Wow. Never thought I'd see Be There, John Young's voiceover, and On Top of it All together... I think they were about to change their opens, but until the Centerpiece/TVbD knockoffs, WLEX looked rather dated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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