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Local TV show greenevariety conducted an interview with WTEN chief meteorologist Steve Caporizzo back in the 2000’s (it can’t be later than 2006 cause Terry McSweeney appears briefly here.)

 

Their set may have looked fine, but man, I totally forgot how hideous WTEN’s weather studio looked. I’m guessing Young had a few bucks to be saved for the KRON acquisition when they built WTEN’s set in late 2000.

 

Also... hello Central Florida!

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Three KSAZ promos from the summer of 1995, including two for Arizona Prime News and another for fire coverage (not a wildfire — apparently what you see burning was a tire yard in an industrial area of Phoenix). The Prime News promos use the cuts from those B/W promos done the year before:

 

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Here is WCFT in Tuscaloosa during their final days as a separate CBS affiliate. Take note at 1:16, because they used a TVbD graphics package.

 

They sure did... and so did their sister station in Syracuse, WSTM:

 

Both were owned by Federal Broadcasting at the time - Federal later divested WCFT when ABC/Allbritton came to set up the ABC 33/40 tri-mul-cast.

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36 years ago today, WSAV and WJCL swapped network affiliations, only to reverse said swap 3 years later after NBC turned everything around. In the days leading to the switch, WJCL blacked out ABC promos in favor of this graphic promoting the upcoming switch:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=mdtQ7A125Zs;m=2;s=1

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