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Classic KLTV Promo at YouTube

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImCMxesThZw

KLTV's variation on ABC's 1985 "You'll Love It" Campaign.

I was able to identify two of the then-KLTV personalities in the promo....namely John Adams and Judy Jordan, and I think I may have spotted Joan Hallmark in the promo. Can't ID any of the others....anyone want to take a guess?

Hopefully someone can come up with some more classic Tyler-Longview promos and news openers.
 
The guy laughing to the side before the wrestling clip was the sports guy at the time, but I'm not remembering the name right now. The other guy did news, can't remember his either. The woman at the end was Sandy Duncan. The 3 scenes of groups of people was at the excuse-for-a-mall in Tyler.

If I'm not mistaken, the news guy later was at KLMG/51 doing news before their first bankruptcy. The sports guy (I think) did sports on 51 during their second news-go-round. He was married to the anchorwoman of that time, also.

I didn't realize 7 ever had local rerun rights to Dallas or The Jeffersons. Guess I was too busy working and going to college at the time.
 
I believe that's anchor Wes Sims in the promo. Last I heard he was out on the west coast in the Santa Cruz area doing public radio. Interesting guy from my chats with him in the 80s.

And I think the sports guys first name was Miles, though I can't recall his last name....believed he married Annette Gonzales, a reporter at KLTV.
 
easttxtv said:
I didn't realize 7 ever had local rerun rights to Dallas or The Jeffersons. Guess I was too busy working and going to college at the time.
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Yep, 7 had local repeat rights to both shows. The Jeffersons was run in the 11:00 slot after Barney Miller repeats by the late 1980s, but was in an afternoon slot when this promo aired. Dallas, was a syndication blunder, compared to its first run primetime airings. By the late 1980s, KLTV had demoted the series to an occasional overnight run.
 
It was Myles Taylor married to Annette Gonzalez. They both met at NTSU as RTF students and co-anchored a newscast there on KNTU.
 
KPLEXCOMPLEX said:
It was Myles Taylor married to Annette Gonzalez. They both met at NTSU as RTF students and co-anchored a newscast there on KNTU.
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I remember when they both ended up at KLMG.....I wonder whatever happened to them?
 
easttxtv said:
I've still got the promos from the Myles/Annette/weather-guy debut of Newscenter 51 somewhere at home on tape.
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If you ever find them, would you be willing to upload them to YouTube?
 
It will take a while, lots of tapes here with my terrible habit of not always labeling them :-[ .... And if I remember correctly, even if my tape were in pristine condition, KLMG at the time had that lovely tape machine that jiggled the image up and down at various times, so you might need Dramamine after watching it. :D

It was short, like 30 seconds to a minute, with the 3 of them standing in front of the news desk in the studio talking about 'watch for the return' and 'coming soon', no specific starting air date was stated.

I may have taped their debut newscast also, but I don't remember for sure. Unfortunately, I didn't have access to a VCR before 1987, so I know I don't have anything from when KLMG (and their first newscast) debuted in 1984. Another coup might have come if I'd known that Robin Leach would have the interview on Lifestyles... of the lady that got the station started originally. I know I didn't have the tape rolling for that.

I'll have to figure out how to get my tape saved as a digital file (I don't have any software currently to do something like that, nor a screen-grab card (or related peripheral)).
 
Mark, sorry to burst any bubbles, but I haven't worked for anyone in a broadcast/journalism setting, including KLTV. Would have been nice to have gotten a job at 56 when I applied before it went on the air, but alas, no experience.
 
easttxtv said:
Mark, sorry to burst any bubbles, but I haven't worked for anyone in a broadcast/journalism setting, including KLTV. Would have been nice to have gotten a job at 56 when I applied before it went on the air, but alas, no experience.
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You don't need experience to start in the Tyler/Longview market. You just have to be willing to bust your butt, for little pay. I only had radio experience when I got my first TV job at KFXK in Longview. Neither did two of my friends. When I left, three & a half years later, I was Asst. Operations Supervisor and Film Director. My Friend started as a Master Control Op. and when he left, he was On-Air Promotions Director. And, my other friend, was a Master Control Op./Maintenence Tech, and ended his run there as Asst. Chief Engineer. I used that job to spring board to KLTV, where I had no news experience, but within a year, I was directing and technical directing news, running audio, tape, camera, and floor directing for the news. Because of those jobs, it eventually landed me in Houston. It landed one of my friend's an On-Air Promotions gig at the NBC station in Cincinnati and my other friend works a computer company that designs software for Television Operations and Production in Austin. My old boss is still at KFXK, and he hires folks with no experience. His last two hires were from Burger King and Subway.

Like I said, if you're willing to put in a lot of work, for little pay and show a willingness to learn, anyone can get a job with those station's in that market. Yeah, KLTV is a little harder, because of their reputation, but they do hire Production Techs (Camera/Studio Help) w/no experience.
 
KLTV was very, very good to me back in the day. Granted, I had worked at 2 other stations when I became a director for 7 in college. They gave me the freedom to be creative and try things--and learn a lot.

By the time I finished college, I was a news producer, a job that set me up for a pretty good career.
 
newsmark said:
KLTV was very, very good to me back in the day. Granted, I had worked at 2 other stations when I became a director for 7 in college. They gave me the freedom to be creative and try things--and learn a lot.

By the time I finished college, I was a news producer, a job that set me up for a pretty good career.
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KLTV was BY FAR my favorite job. A company really committed to being number one and putting a quality product on the air. And, I worked with an outstanding group of people. If it weren't for the low pay, I would have stayed at KLTV until I retired, even though I didn't care for Tyler. I wished all stations would care about their product as much as KLTV did. I really miss those days.
 
newsmark said:
snoman said:
KLTV was BY FAR my favorite job.
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When were you there, Snoman? What did you do? I coulda been your producer or director.
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April 1996-October 1997... I wish it would have been longer.
 
I use to work at KLMG-TV in Longview, when Steve Larocco was anchor, and when Wes Sims joined.
I also worked with Rusty Garrett (weather) and Karl Fields (sports).

Effie ___ was a reporter, as was Cynthia Cisneros, who went onto Houston TV. Doug Ohlemeier was also a reporter.

Jim Priest was photographer, as was Brooke Brantley (now a chef). Clay Cross was in production.
Lynette Taylor, formerly of KSNV-TV, Las Vegas, and KNOE-TV, Monroe, LA, was news director then.

When I left for Wichita Falls, the two stations developed a story sharing agreement. Unfortunately, KLMG closed or fired all its news staff a couple of weeks after my departure.
 
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