There's a short Sun Spots public service announcement in a video posted upthread, but I'm not aware of anything longer online:
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There's a short Sun Spots public service announcement in a video posted upthread, but I'm not aware of anything longer online:
A conversation with Linda Williams, who retired earlier this year after 42 years at KTSP/KSAZ:
A 1991 KTSP newscast (in its entirety!) anchored by Williams and Dale Schornack:
A 1991 KTSP newscast (in its entirety!) anchored by Williams and Dale Schornack:
She anchored the weekend news into the (early) KSAZ era, but I'm also curious about the dates:
A 1979 KPNX special about helicopter pilot Jerry Foster, who had joined the station from KOOL:
Foster in action for KTVK in the mid-1990s:
If you missed it in the compilation upthread, here's a KTVK promo for Foster:
An Arizona Republic obituary of Foster from lasty year:
Excerpt:
While Foster became a local celebrity and friend of police and fire officials, Foster also led a life he kept hidden. It was one in which he palled around with a biker gang and used drugs recreationally. A purchase of methamphetamine captured on tape by police would bring an ignoble end to his broadcast career.
Foster flew and reported for three television stations in Phoenix in a career that spanned three decades. He helped each station climb in the ratings.
Foster was not a trained broadcaster. But his lack of polish didn’t deter his everyman appeal to viewers.
He was a trained pilot ― though the self-described “cowboy” in the cockpit bucked the rules in order to get the pictures and story.
Foster in action for KTVK in the mid-1990s:
If you missed it in the compilation upthread, here's a KTVK promo for Foster:
An Arizona Republic obituary of Foster from lasty year:
Jerry Foster, pioneering Arizona TV news pilot, dies at 82
Jerry Foster, who became Phoenix’s first airborne TV news personality and whose dramatic rescues garnered high ratings, has died. He was 82.
eu.azcentral.com
Excerpt:
While Foster became a local celebrity and friend of police and fire officials, Foster also led a life he kept hidden. It was one in which he palled around with a biker gang and used drugs recreationally. A purchase of methamphetamine captured on tape by police would bring an ignoble end to his broadcast career.
Foster flew and reported for three television stations in Phoenix in a career that spanned three decades. He helped each station climb in the ratings.
Foster was not a trained broadcaster. But his lack of polish didn’t deter his everyman appeal to viewers.
He was a trained pilot ― though the self-described “cowboy” in the cockpit bucked the rules in order to get the pictures and story.
Tomorrow marks 34 years since Phoenix saw its all-time heat record. Here's a part of KTVK's coverage:
KTVK's coverage of the 1995 Sunset Limited derailment:
From 1997, an interesting Phoenix New Times article about how KNXV launched its news department with an unusual, innovative format but ultimately ditched it for a more mainstream approach:
www.phoenixnewtimes.com
Chit Happens
The parking lot at KNXV-TV Channel 15 contains a vestige of the station's earlier, quirkier incarnation. The rusting "Al's World" convertible, which once carried reporter Al Feinberg around the state for a series of offbeat stories, now rests under a tarp. One tire is flat. Like many trademark...
KEJR-LP/KMOH-TV Happy Holidays Station ID from around 2006 or 2007.
Clips of KMOH are exceedingly rare online. Here's an ID from 1993:
According to Wikipedia, "During the late 1980s and early 1990s, KMOH was an English-language independent station, and also produced its own local newscast." Does anyone here remember those newscasts? Since KMOH was a sister station of Flagstaff NBC affiliate KNAZ at the time, I assume the two stations pooled at least some of their resources, but were KMOH's newscasts produced separately in Kingman?
Yeah, I recently bought an RCA to USB converter to digitalize my old VHS Tapes. But when I was a Teenager I recorded a lot things on TV in mid to late 2000s and didn't label the Tapes. Lol. So recently I started going through tapes to see what's on them and label them, and I found this tape of Nickelodeon's Doug Episodes from when it aired on KEJR-LP/KMOH as an E/I Program during their time as an MTV TR3S affiliate. So since I know this Station ID is not on YouTube, figured I'd post it. I'm pretty sure that I have other Tapes of Doug with the normal KEJR 43 Station ID from the time and possibly the KEJR 40 Station ID (from after they converted to Digital and moved to Channel 40) somewhere in all my unlabeled VHS Tapes.
I don't think many people in Mohave County even watched KMOH. It became a WB affiliate when that network appeared in 1995 (same with KKTM-13 in Flagstaff, which was also pretty much invisible except for the following ID):
A profile of Charlie Van Dyke, the longtime voice of KPNX's opens and promos:
AZCentral's list of the Valley's most memorable news anchors (published in 2017):
Phoenix's 10 most memorable TV news anchors
Who are the 10 most memorable anchors in Phoenix TV history? We count them down.
azcentral.com
That article mentioned Deborah Pyburn, she's in this clip of Channel 10 news from May 1983:
And here's an entire 1988 newscast co-anchored by Deborah Pyburn-Brewer, as she was known by then:
A rare clip of the 9 p.m. news on KMSB in Tucson from when the newscast was produced in Phoenix by KTVK:
Between 1994 (when it became a CBS affiliate) and 2001, KPHO aired a five-to-eight-minute newscast at 10 p.m. followed by M*A*S*H and, later, Seinfeld. Here's a 1994 edition:
It took years for KPHO to grow into an appropriate major market CBS affiliate. Hard to believe they kept the mini 10pm newscast followed by reruns leading into Letterman for as long as they did. As I've said in another post, the big '94/'95 affiliate shake up aftermath was a very interesting time in Phoenix.