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Started by Desert Man, May 15, 2013, 02:59:35 PM

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KEVIN_224

Philadelphia was on Sunday, September 10, 1995. The Boston switch with those two networks was at the beginning of 1995. Providence/New Bedford would see their ABC and CBS switch some time later (but had nothing to do with Westinghouse). There was also a bigger network reshuffling in Baltimore. All of the then-Big 3 changed channels.


Desert Man

#26
KMEX-TV 34 of Los Angeles is among the first Spanish-language TV stations in the mainland US after Puerto Rico, and a co-founder of Univision, formerly the Spanish Independent Network in the 1970s and 80s. KMEX is the highest rated local TV station in the L.A. metro area TV market and according to Nielsen ratings experts, in the entire country. Los Angeles does have the largest Hispanic/Latino population in the US and being on channel 3 in most cable systems, KMEX has very high ratings since the cable channel is where TVs or DVRs are set on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCeGMo6wlso
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dcbjms

#29
Around here, this WGBH-TV sign-on is very classic.  One of my favorites.  (OK, so it's not strictly a bumper per sé, but it's one that I could not pass up, considering most 'GBH 2 and 'GBH 44 bumpers are easily forgettable.  Unfortunately.)

SidS1045

Quote from: PHLBOS on January 04, 2016, 04:35:26 PM
The Boston area TV market encountered a similar switch with Channel 4 (WBZ) & 7 (WHDH) around the same timeframe.  The reasoning behind the switch was due to NBC being a GE affiliate whereas the Group W NBC stations (3/KYW in Philly, 4/WBZ  in Boston at the time) were Westinghouse affiliates.

The reasoning behind the switch had nothing directly to do with NBC.  Westinghouse and CBS had just merged and CBS had no desire to own NBC affiliates.  As soon as the opportunity arose, KYW-TV and WBZ-TV dropped their NBC affiliations for CBS.  At the same time, former Group W station WJZ-TV in Baltimore dropped their ABC affiliation for CBS.

Quote from: PHLBOS on January 04, 2016, 04:35:26 PM32 years earlier, Boston's Channel 5 and 7 swapped affiliates (ABC & CBS) as well.  5 switched its call letters from WHDH to the current WCVB letters and the 5 logo hasn't changed at all since then (1972).

The end result of one of the longest cases in US regulatory history.  The original grant of the Channel 5 license to the Herald-Traveler Corporation was tainted from the start, mostly by an ex-parte communication between one of the applicant's officers and an FCC commissioner (the former took the latter to lunch) while the case was pending.  It took from 1957 (the date of the original grant of the license to the H-TC) to 1972 (when the FCC and the courts awarded the license to a new company, Boston Broadcasters, Inc, and the US Supreme Court refused the H-TC's petition to stop the license transfer) to resolve the case.  BBI's pitch to the FCC indicated that they would not necessarily stick to the network's programming schedule and would fairly often run locally produced programming in prime time.  CBS wanted no part of that and signed with 7 (at that time, WNAC-TV) and ABC moved over to 5, effective on the date and time of the transfer of 5's license.

I was in college in Boston at the time, and was involved in helping produce a few programming proposals for WCVB (which stands for Channel 5 Boston) with one of my TV production instructors.  It was an exciting time to be studying broadcasting and to watch this regulatory case reach its climax.
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow

Desert Man

#31
KMEX-TV's competitor KVEA 52 in Los Angeles, a Telemundo station. Their first promo in the mid 1980s has the music popular at the time. In the 1990s, CBS bought Telemundo which was later sold to NBC in the mid 2000s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg2yuVMVt10

KVEA bumper circa 2000 highlights it's call sign, channel number and city where it's based (and serving L.A.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGclTPBPWgU

And most recent bumper with their network's new logo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ4Z66rpPrU
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Desert Man

From Antenne 2 (now France 2) in the 1980s used as the day's openings and closings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfMJ1jP5Jpk

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Desert Man

#33
The Italian network RAIUNO is notably well-renowned since Italy itself is grandeur in making art, music and media. Even the high artistic style used on short TV bumpers accompany commercial breaks or "Pubblicitas."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkzeHN5QMFc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ecE-PMPslg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8sdgt44YTw
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Desert Man

East German television (1980s) during the cold war, the country's diplomatic relations with neutral countries like Finland and reports about the USA or its involvement in the cold war world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTakKON8E2I

On the day the Berlin Wall fell (Nov. 9-10, 1989).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doj4ERQNcgc
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Desert Man

From Costa Rica in Central America, the bumper promotes the TV station's owner runs a radio station and daily press.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGa_Rsr5Ye0
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Desert Man

Extended bumper collection of TVN Chile in South America, from its (late) start in 1969 to today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkLvAoi5uPQ
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Desert Man

#37
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c172

Hometown NBC affiliate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOA2unZdSF8

Also, on Cable, I loved Nickelodeon, and YouTube has a wealth of stuff from Nick during the 80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAIX96v1mI

GCrites

Wow, I've never been much of a Doo-Wop, Barbershop or acapella guy, but those Nick bumpers sound fantastic. I especially like the ones with the dinosaurs. I certainly remember the visuals of most of them but forgot how they sounded over 30 years. The '80s and '90s were very good with color, which is something I didn't really notice or appreciate until things started getting really dull-looking around the early-2000s with all the white, gray, dark red and black.

D-Dey65

Quote from: SidS1045 on December 30, 2015, 11:08:35 AM
One of my favorites was the intro to the 4:30 Movie on WABC-TV/New York.

You know, I could swear I used to see the remnants of 1964 era WNBC TV 4 bumpers as recently as the early-1980's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsjMQNj63Sk

Desert Man

Chilean television bumper circa 1980 - pure propaganda to celebrate the country's economy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmriFxzxY-w
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Desert Man

And a directory of TV stations belonging to a network in Chile (the country has a really thin shape), while playing their version of Banana Boat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTUVKpVfC1k
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Desert Man

In 1976, regular service television debuted in South Africa, the last major nation to have TV. The country was then under Apartheid, so you noticed the prevalence of white South Africans in the TV network's broadcast center. Most of the coverage is in Afrikaans, the language of Afrikaaners, the majority of the white minority. Afrikaans is descended from Dutch, as well some German and French (Huguenot ancestry) languages evolved apart from Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2aymzmRclM
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Desert Man

TVN from Chile (2000-01?) montages - this one is a combo: there's one of beach, the other is forest and there's one of desert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QILbYlELU1Q
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bing101

#45



KRBK Sacramento now known as KMAX CW31 a CBS Owned station





Interestingly CBS got KMAX 31 first to get a UPN station in the Sacramento Valley in 1998 before they got KOVR 13 the primary CBS station in Sacramento in 2005


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdDKyMPTeyE


Well Heres a KXTV clip where current KABC TV anchor Ellen Leyva was at Channel 10 in 1992 also David Ono at KOVR 13 Sacramento around the 1990's but these people may be forgotten in Sacramento but earned legendary status in Los Angeles.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmz2CjbJAZo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTRtwFoDgsM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku8EWpzvt7s


Heres another set of clips Pete Wilson and Gary Radnich on KTXL 40 in 1983 and in 1998 as KRON 4 talent.

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inkyatari

Check out http://fuzzymemories.tv They have all this stuff from Chicago and Detroit area TV stations, plus local commercials, snippets of local shows, and more.
I'm never wrong, just wildly inaccurate.

jrouse

Quote from: SidS1045 on January 12, 2016, 09:58:55 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on January 04, 2016, 04:35:26 PM
The Boston area TV market encountered a similar switch with Channel 4 (WBZ) & 7 (WHDH) around the same timeframe.  The reasoning behind the switch was due to NBC being a GE affiliate whereas the Group W NBC stations (3/KYW in Philly, 4/WBZ  in Boston at the time) were Westinghouse affiliates.

The reasoning behind the switch had nothing directly to do with NBC.  Westinghouse and CBS had just merged and CBS had no desire to own NBC affiliates.  As soon as the opportunity arose, KYW-TV and WBZ-TV dropped their NBC affiliations for CBS.  At the same time, former Group W station WJZ-TV in Baltimore dropped their ABC affiliation for CBS.


Not quite.  In 1994, Westinghouse and CBS agreed to a deal where the Group W stations would all become CBS affiliates.  As a result, CBS moved from WCAU to KYW.  Since WCAU was a CBS O&O station, selling it to NBC would have created a big tax burden. So instead they wound up trading it to NBC in exchange for stations in Denver and Salt Lake City, and threw in a Miami station to compensate NBC for the loss of the affiliation with KYW, which had been one of their strongest affiliates.  Westinghouse bought CBS outright about a year after they made their affiliation deal.  Because of the complexity of the trade with NBC, it took awhile for the affiliation switch to happen in Philly.  By the time it happened, Westinghouse was already in the process of buying CBS. 



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Desert Man

KMPH TV channel 26 from Fresno-Tulare county (Visalia), they're a FOX affiliate...and is received as far away as Merced and Bakersfield in the San Joaquin valley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diBYxACJ6rU
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