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Unusual newscast titles

firepoint525 said:
I wish that channels 2 and 4 here in Nashville would stop using their channel numbers as prepositions, as in "working 4 you" (channel 4's slogan for many years now), and channel 2 has segments with names like "2 your health." You would think that Prince works for these TV stations!
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Stations have done that for decades. WTMJ-TV Milwaukee had "News 4 Milwaukee" and WTTV had "News 4 Indiana" in the '70s. IIRC, WNBC did the same type of thing in NYC for awhile. Some stations on Channel 5 have a "5-cast" instead of a forecast during their weather segment.

The worst was KPNX-TV/12 Phoenix a few years back. They were "The 1-2 watch for news." But they're infamous for idiotic slogans, such as "(Lin Sue) Cooney & (Mark) Curtis - Two different people, one great news team." And we thought that they were the same person all this time. ;D
 
KeithE4 said:
The worst was KPNX-TV/12 Phoenix a few years back. They were "The 1-2 watch for news."
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CFCF/12 in Montreal had a similar slogan in the late 90s/early 2000s - Montreal's 1-2 Watch.

The Big News was used by a number of stations, I believe including WXYZ/7 in Detroit.
 
KeithE4 said:
firepoint525 said:
I wish that channels 2 and 4 here in Nashville would stop using their channel numbers as prepositions, as in "working 4 you" (channel 4's slogan for many years now), and channel 2 has segments with names like "2 your health." You would think that Prince works for these TV stations!
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Stations have done that for decades. WTMJ-TV Milwaukee had "News 4 Milwaukee" and WTTV had "News 4 Indiana" in the '70s. IIRC, WNBC did the same type of thing in NYC for awhile. Some stations on Channel 5 have a "5-cast" instead of a forecast during their weather segment.
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Until just recently WSKY-TV channel 4 in the Norfolk/Virginia Beach market, their slogan was "4 Hampton Roads" and "channel 4 Hampton Roads" even though WSKY is actually located across the border in Manteo, North Carolina which is in the Outer Banks, NC not really Hampton Roads,VA. Got all that? :D
 
bk77 said:
...WSKY is actually located across the border in Manteo, North Carolina which is in the Outer Banks, NC not really Hampton Roads,VA.
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How did WSKY-TV analog 4 and WTKR-TV analog 3 co-exist prior to WSKY
shutting off its analog XMTR (apparently) in 2006? Aren't 3 and 4 adjacent
in terms of analog frequencies?

Must have been a real thrill for anyone who used "back of the set" or VCR
options of channel 3 or 4, since they're both not normally occupied in the
same TV market.
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
bk77 said:
...WSKY is actually located across the border in Manteo, North Carolina which is in the Outer Banks, NC not really Hampton Roads,VA.
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How did WSKY-TV analog 4 and WTKR-TV analog 3 co-exist prior to WSKY
shutting off its analog XMTR (apparently) in 2006? Aren't 3 and 4 adjacent
in terms of analog frequencies?
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I think both stations were far enough apart to broadcast on adjacent channels -- I think FCC regulations say that stations on adjacent channels must be at least 60 miles apart (wider in some areas).
 
bk77 said:
WSKY is actually located across the border in Manteo, North Carolina which is in the Outer Banks, NC not really Hampton Roads,VA.
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Across the border and then some, like about 60 miles from the VA line.

File with 560 am in Elizabeth City, NC, which back in 2003 when I vacationed on the Banks, TOH ID'd as "Elizabeth City/the Outer Banks/Hampton Roads".

ixnay
 
Manteo's about 90 miles from Norfolk, but Dare County, NC
(where Manteo is located) is part of the Norfolk/Portsmouth/
Newport News/Hampton DMA, so WSKY would be part of that
market anyway.
 
The WSKY-TV website reveals that the original analog stick
was near Powells Point, NC (a lot closer to COL Manteo, and
farther from metro Norfolk), while the current DTV site is near
South Mills, NC, just south of the VA state line.
 
I found a site to calculate great circle mileage between lat/lon
coordinates, and using those for WCXL(FM) Kill Devil Hills, NC
(the stick which WSKY-TV analog shared) and WTKR-TV Norfolk,
it's 59.87 st mi (52.02 nm, 96.35 km) between the two.

Assumes that WTKR analog was from the same site as DT.
 
KeithE4 said:
Mike said:
WTTV/4 did not call their newscast "The Really Big News." ;D
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It was called "News 4 Indiana" in the 1970s

"The Big News" was used by WHIO-TV Dayton in 1966 to commemorate their conversion to local newscasts in color with an additional local newscast at 7pm after the network news.
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WFSB in Hartford has been Eyewitness News for the longest time. Their morning news which was at one time on 6AM-7AM used to be called Eyewitness News Daybreak Express. Now their morning news 5AM-7AM is called Eyewitness News This Morning.

WTNH in New Haven was "Action News 8" until 1995 when they became NewsChannel 8 and they use that as the stations branding as well. Their morning news is called Good Morning Connecticut which airs 5AM-7AM. A 3rd hour airs 7AM-8AM on sister station MY TV 9.

WVIT in Hartford was Connecticut News 30 until they became an NBC O&O in 96ish when they became NBC 30 News and now NBC Connecticut News. The stations branding is now NBC Connecticut HD.

FOX 61's news was always FOX 61 News. Now they've rebranded the station as FOX Connecticut The Logo FOXCT and the news is now FOX Connecticut News. The logo during their news now rotates from FOX 61 to FOX CT. "And now the Fox Connecticut News at 10 from Connecticut's NewsRoom". (They've been using that opener since they moved their studios in with their co-owned Newspaper the Hartford Courant in December.

WCTX in New Haven always had news produced by sister station NewsChannel 8. Originally though their newscast was called WB 59 News at 10. Soon it switched to NewsChannel 8 at 10 on WB 59. Which then changed its branding to "The X" when they switched to UPN. Then they became UPN 9 (9 being their cable position) and now it "NewsChannel 8 at 10 on My TV 9".
 
ixnay said:
oldiesfan6479 said:
I found a site to calculate great circle mileage between lat/lon coordinates
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Would you mind sharing the link with us, please?
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http://www.boulter.com/gps/distance/

I'm sure there are others, this is the first I found in a quick 'n' dirty
search and it's a bit cumbersome--for example, min/sec have to be
converted into decimal minutes (33 26 03 north has to be entered
as N 33 26.05).
 
Mike said:
And for a time in Bangor, after being known as "Eyewitness News", it had the name "NewsPlus 7".
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IIRC that went the other way around at WVII :D...when my local cableco dumped WVII and WLBZ for their Detroit counterparts in the late 80s, WVII was using the NewsPlus 7 title then.
 
Want a fictional newscast title? Readers of Tank McNamara are no doubt aware that Tank is the sports anchor for On-The-Spot News. Or at least he was when I was an avid Tank reader in the early '80s.

My fantasy newscast title is Power News. :) Any real-life newscasts have that title?

ixnay
 
ixnay said:
Want a fictional newscast title? Readers of Tank McNamara are no doubt aware that Tank is the sports anchor for On-The-Spot News. Or at least he was when I was an avid Tank reader in the early '80s.

My fantasy newscast title is Power News. :) Any real-life newscasts have that title?

ixnay
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In the early 80s, Tank was on BigEyeCenter news (an amalgamation of Houston's three newscasts at the time; Big 2 News, 13 Eyewitness News, and NewsCenter 11. Jeff Millar lived/lives in Houston).
 
We've mentioned WHIO's Big News and Total News before its Newscenter 7 incarnation. Can't recall crosstown WLWD (later WDTN) before it became 2 News. I know their news had 3 viewers back then...
 
Here in Montgomery Al. my favorite of all the news logos was WAKA.. at one time they were ACTION 8 News
Now they use CBS 8 News "Everwhere"

WSFA at one time used... "The 6 O'clock Report" for the 6
and yes.. "The 10 O'clock Report" for the 10

Our Public broadcast station had a news show called "For The Record"

as for station slogans... WAKA at one time way back in it's past used... "The Station With The Happy Difference" ... no word on what that "difference" was....
 
Surprised nobody had mention those newscast titles that had included the name of the sponsor. NBC's Camel News Caravan everyone knows about but I have seen a few local news ads from the 50's & 60's that more/less did the same too. I saw an old ad on the Newspaperarchive.com site of Charleston, West Virginia's WCHS-TV 8 who for a brief time in the 50's had called their newscast "The Diamond News"..The Diamond being one of Charleston's then big department stores.

In the early 70's WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, Maryland called their news "The Martins Food Valley News"...that didn't last very long though.
 
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