WTVD Channel 11 Durham, North Carolina News Intro 11/20/1991

From the heart of Carolina, here's an intro for the 5:30 News with the classic Eyewitness News theme. Miriam Thomas and Mike Caplan anchor.

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[appstaterebel]

do you have any vids of WTVD and WRAL before the network switch? If not, do you know of anyone who does? thank you for your time!

[Attmay]

Unfortunately, the answer is no to both questions. But I have friends of my family who have off-air recordings from the era.

[gsnman]

Thank you for bringing a smile to my face. I grew up with WTVD, so this is quite a treat.

[Attmay]

You're quite welcome, and look for more to come soon.

[palmercomm]

Too bad the Eyewitness Theme doesn't sound like that now.

[StukInBuf]

Dear Attmay... This is an example of a newscast that left the MCTYW theme for the revered CHL theme. I wish Buffalo's WKBW had followed suit like Raleigh and Houston, but they stood dumbly by that, à la WPVI in Philly.

If there's a way here on YouTube to use the WKBW news intro video, and dub the classic CHL in place of the MCTYW theme, I'm all eyes and ears for it. Thanks greatly.

From a native New Yorker weaned on the CHL theme.

[rebafan19]

KVII-TV borrowed the graphics from 1988-1993

[recto89]

@bathroommonkey76 Yes WLS-TV

[GWhiz99]

I couldn’t help but notice opening animation has towns CLAYton & CARRboro, then Miriam Thomas’ image. It's unrelated to watch?v=GYQtgKyWirQ; watch?v=YsJyfJ0b-WA or Thomas speaking to a specific 1985 high school graduating class. Unrelated to discussions of single puppy litters with two dog daddies: porn connoisseurs know CARRboro as home to “Adam & Eve”. A later annual shows “CHECKerboard attire” & hathCOCK working with MIRIAM hyMAN on an ABC puzzle, reflecting WTVD 1985-present ABC affiliation

[GWhiz99]

Unrelated to frequent I-40 LANE changes; touching home base; or UNC Tar Heels basketball player Ulrich “Rick” Fox, this Nov. 20, 1991 broadcast came 17 days before WTVD opened its early evening Dec. 7th newscast reporting the crash of the station’s Chopper 11 in rural Wake County, NC. The crash killed three station employees including MICHIGAN pilot Jim LANE (371-42-3527) and engineer RICK SHErrILL. Sports reporter Tony deBO, then 32, was the crash’s lone survivor (walked .5 mi on broken ankle)

[GWhiz99]

Miriam Thomas references the ROYAL OAK, MI postal shooting that took place on the 23rd birthday of TV journalist ROALND Sebastian Martin: NOV. 14, 1991. Early 1990s North Carolina TV news included Rex ROLAND at WNCT (watch?v=4uqGWTZn6p0)—a station that also had stalking victim HARRIS FAULKner just before she jetted off to do TV in Kansas City. Unrelated to mom doppelGäNGers: Eastern NC stations provided WTVD with notable talents: KIM Deaner & Keith WHITNEY (WNCT); diabetic George MALLet (WITN)

[GWhiz99]

Miriam Thomas references the ROYAL OAK postal shooting in OAKland County, MI that left five dead, including the shooter. Disgruntled postal worker Thomas P. McIlvane (374-66-9141) carried out the NOV. 14, 1991 rampage against his former co-workers on the 23rd birthday of CNN contributor and “Washington Watch” host ROLAND Sebastian Martin. Elsewhere in early 1990s North Carolina TV news, Rex ROLAND can be seen in a “First In News” promo for Greenville’s WNCT-TV (CBS ch. 9): watch?v=4uqGWTZn6p0

[kilosnew]

ha. this newscast was filmed on the day I was born.

[bathroommonkey76]

@Dook6 Didn't Caplan leave WTVD for a job in Chicago? I remember seeing him on a station there in the 90s.