News opens from the Internet Archive, Part 4

More news opens from the Internet Archive.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• news
• open
• 1980s
• 1990s

[raymieX]

Listing: WTTG, WTNH, WLBZ, WVII, KRON, KPIX, WWL, WPLG, KVBC, WAVY, WAAY, WAFF, WSFA (Alabama's News Source), WAKA, WALA, WKRG, WPMI (Larry Van Nuys VO), KNBC, KSDK, KMOX, WBAL, WHIO, WKRN, WSMV, WTVF, WHBQ, WPTY, WATE (More People Watch; first sample ever), WRAL, WRC, KIMO. The new news themes continue. It's probably the biggest cache of news materials that's not the NewsActive3 collection.

[ntropolis]

@raymieX From the looks of it, I'll get to at least a part 6 (part 5 is exporting right now and will be up tomorrow morning), maybe 7. Definitely not as big as NewsActive3's collection, haha!

[jwgreek8606]

Why did channel 48 call their news ten at 10? And the WAKA clip was from my 11th birthday. I was livling in Orlando, FL at the time.

[jwgreek8606]

Why did Rey call it ten at ten?

[eastest566]

That "10" Logo in WALA's open seems to be used by a lot of stations; WCAU and WTSP used it too. WPMI's logo looks alot like KTVT's, KSTW's, KREM's, and KCBS's logos from around that time.

[raymieX]

Oh, and the WHIO 1980s news theme we have here is the predecessor to their updated 1990 theme. Similar musical signature.

[raymieX]

Couple notes: This cut of the Alabama's News Source package makes it sound like WSFA commissioned it to be a successor to NewsCenter II, their former package.

Also, the WBAL open is one of the earliest opens outside Kansas City that was voiced by Drew Dimmel. Much of Dimmel's work is uncredited by the NMSA, including *all* of his VO work for hometown station and former employer KMBC.

[Mario500NOW]

It's nice to see more old video from stations in Mobile, Alabama. I hope to see older video from those stations in the future such as video produced by WALA-TV when it was an NBC station prior to December 31st, 1995, when it became a FOX station. WKRG-TV was still owned by local folks in 1997 (the year the uploaded video was made) until 1998. I wish WALA-TV and WPMI-TV would swap network affiliations again and WKRG-TV would have local ownership again (local ownership may do good for all three).

[johnnyafairbanksak]

And KIMO (which has become terrible over the last two decades) is now KYUR. The only place for REAL local news anywhere in Alaska now is KTUU.

[bmasters1981]

I liked how that KSDK opening had the parts of the station ID (the 5, NBC's Proud N, and "KSDK St. Louis") slowly separating from each other before having the 5 turning on its side and then turning into a simulated St. Louis arch; that arch then had a stepped zoom-in, one part of which had the "5 Eyewitness News" title sweeping in and then having the "Five on 5" subtitle added.

Also digging that old KMOX "Newsroom" opening with the CBS Eye w/"CBS" in the "eyeball" (station ID and title).

[dgendvil]

By the way CBS sold off KMOX to Viacom in 1986. (KMOX is now with Belo Broadcasting.)