Well, at least only for the 5pm half hour. Once NBC Nightly News came on, KPNX was #1 until 6:30pm.
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This is how KPHO promoted the launch of its full-length 10 p.m. newscast; the audio quality is terrible, but the clip is interesting:
That channel seems to be reuploading all of its content. Both of the promos are in
A podcast about the launch of KTVK's Northern Arizona bureau in Flagstaff, featuring the first bureau chief, Lisa Schnebly Heidinger, and her photographer Mike Schmidt:
From 1980, a promo for KPNX's Action News, featuring a tense cut of the station's news theme from that era, It's All Right Here by Peters Communications:
Just saw someone finally found and uploaded a recording of commercial breaks from Bohemia Visual Music (BVM TV) from its time on KPHE-LP 44 in Phoenix in 2005. I remember all of these promos and IDs from the Channel that are in this video.
From 1994, a promo for Arizona Prime, KSAZ's first 9 p.m. newscast introduced after that year's affiliation shakeup:
Some promos for KNXV from the station's first year with a news presence, right after it switched from Fox to ABC:
A Phoenix New Times article from 1997 about how that quirky era at KNXV ended:
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A Phoenix New Times article from 1997 about how that quirky era at KNXV ended:
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...
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Very interesting! By 2004, when I moved here, ABC 15 was advertising "LESS chit chat, More News..." for the morning newscast.Some promos for KNXV from the station's first year with a news presence, right after it switched from Fox to ABC:
A Phoenix New Times article from 1997 about how that quirky era at KNXV ended:
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...
Watching those ads back-to-back gave me a headache! I didn't recognize anyone. Was that Royal Norman? The voice over Guy sounds like the person who does 12 News.Some promos for KNXV from the station's first year with a news presence, right after it switched from Fox to ABC:
A Phoenix New Times article from 1997 about how that quirky era at KNXV ended:
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...
At this time, Channel 15 had taken over most of the ABC network news programs, although they were still officially a Fox affiliate. Channel 3 still aired most ABC prime time programming, including sports, until the following January when 15 took over as the ABC affiliate fulltime (they lost Fox to Channel 10 about a month earlier, and were a semi-independent at the end of 1994).
The guy who did the voiceover was indeed Charlie Van Dyke, who later moved to Channel 12.
IIRC, Royal Norman left Channel 3 for Atlanta for a year or so after they lost ABC, then spent a few months as Channel 12's weekend morning news anchor before returning to 3.
Yes, Charlie Van Dyke was the VO guy at KNXV for their first two years with ABC. He was rendezvousing as the Arizona Republic's radio columnist at the same time.
He was VO at KPNX before and after his brief stint at KNXV.
I'm old enough to remember him as a DJ at WLS Chicago circa 1970.
WPVI in Philadelphia also profiled Van Dyke when they visited the Valley for the Super Bowl:
The meteorologist was Ed Phillips.
It's very apparent that KNXV's first look-and-feel was developed for a young-skewing Fox affiliate--and then the affiliation switch happened.
Back when I was a young ASU Cronkite School student, Mary Cox, the first news director at KNXV, came to visit my news reporting class. This was early 1994 months before the debut of their newscast. She very openly shared what was planned. It was to be a boutique 9pm newscast with an "MTV style" look and feel for their young skewing Fox audience, unlike anything the traditional network affiliates (3/10/12 at the time) were doing. They were using WSVN in Miami as a model - the attitude, shaky camera work, flashy graphics. I clearly remember she said they might not even have a meteorologist and were considering just putting up a graphic for the weather forecast. They really wanted to do something groundbreaking for Phoenix.
By the time the first newscast aired months later, it was already known that KNXV was about to be an ABC affiliate. As drastically different as they were from the other guys, those early newscasts were still considerably watered down from the original plans as they had to quickly change gears ahead of ABC. For example, they ended up hiring meteorologist Ed Phillips with a fairly traditional weather segment. Of course, eventually they became pretty much like every other station in town.
That may have been riskier that it seemed. I'm reminded of an anecdote from Reuven Frank when he was the head of NBC News in the late 1960s. At the time, the news divisions of NBC O&O's were a part of NBC News, and he learned about the importance of local weather, even in sunny climes, the hard way:
