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Those Phoenix clips are a nice stocking stuffer. Especially when there are stories with titles like "Grid Plan or Papago?".

 

Also on YT today, a KPWB news promo (!):

 

 

 

And a KCRA noon open from January 1 of that year — when northern California (and Nevada) were in the grip of major flooding:

 

 

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A treasure trove of 1998 WITI, all revolving around the retirement of John Drilling.

 

Some observations: The "Newscenter" set is brand new here (weeks old), and the newsroom and weather office have yet to be renovated to match. There are also still human camera operators in the studio. Also a few clips of Molly Fay, now over at WTMJ doing the Morning Blend, and Scott Steele who is now suing WTMJ/Scripps

 

A few of these packages were crammed right at the end of the show, so there's a few seconds of the classic Magnum close music sprinkled throughout. 

 

 

 

 

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We've already seen KXTV's coverage of Loma Prieta as it started to unfold—now we have a full, 45-minute (!) 11pm show from that night, and it's a treat with its own special open.

 

 

Not the only long KXTV aircheck we got in the last week: five and a half minutes of coverage of the Sun Valley Mall plane crash in Concord from 1985. At the time, the station was still using the Tuesday "Spirit of California" theme:

 

 

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