Speaking of Good Morning Arizona, here's a 2008 edition of the show on the road in the town of Crown King:
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And from 1996, here's another Good Evening Arizona with the director's audio track (I posted the first one way back on Page 1 of this thread):
A 1986 promo for Celebrate Arizona, an on-the-road series of newscasts from KTSP (now KSAZ):
Arizona, USA. was KTVK's take on the concept. (In 1986, several KTSP executives had moved to KTVK.) To see some clips, go to 5:45 in this YouTube compilation if you're not taken there automatically:
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To mark KTVK's 50th anniversary, which takes place next month, here's the oldest (that I know of), partial Channel 3 newscast available online--from 1978:
70th anniversary. KTVK started up on 2/28/1955.
IIRC, Thompson was Channel 3's first news director/anchor. He moved to Channel 12 sometime in the 1960s, and returned to 3 in the late '70s before retiring.
No Dave Nichols? A 'Nichol's worth of news'.
My bad! Time flies, doesn't it?
Later that year, KTVK switched its news brand from Total News to Eyewitness News. To see the new open and set (but not much else), go to the 2:56 mark if not taken there automatically:
Too bad there isn't a clip of Dave Nichols doing his signature end of his newscast. A Nichols Worth Of News. A short, offbeat, humorous news story.
KSAZ wasn't the only station to use "The Spirit of Arizona." More than half a decade earlier, its former sister station in Tucson, KOLD, also used the slogan. You can watch the first few minutes of a 1988 KOLD newscast here (followed by some footage of KGUN from a year later):
You can see various Phoenix and Tucson news opens and other era material in this 1993 compilation of news coverage devoted to a promotional visit of a high-speed train to Arizona:
From KCNC in Denver, the first part of a 1995 special about the affiliation switches of the era--with a look at the Phoenix market starting at the 4:25 mark:
A complete edition of KPNX's First at Four from 1996:
A freshly uploaded compilation of vintage news opens from the Yuma market:
As part of its 70th anniversary celebrations, KTVK has taken a look back at some of Good Morning Arizona's well-known personalities of the past and spoken to former news director Phil Alvidrez:
The second feature in the series--about KTVK's first female photojournalist:
The latest installment:
A rather boring installment of KTVK's anniversary series today (about an on-air wedding giveaway), so here's KTVK's 35th anniversary ID instead. It's hard to believe that 1990 was the halfway point in the station's history:
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