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Phillip Dampier:
WPIX-TV Independent Network News Open - 1980
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Most independent television stations had backwater news departments, if any. In fact, most unaffiliated stations usually counter-programmed something other than news to draw viewers who weren't interested. You'd get M*A*S*H instead of the local evening news. But some stations, especially in large cities, made an effort to program a later evening newscast one hour earlier than the network stations (that usually meant 10pm in the east and 9pm everywhere else in the country).
WPIX's news department created a network of independent stations and created their own ten o'clock national newscast under the banner of "Independent Network News." INN relied on WPIX crews for NY City footage (video material/stories), and local INN stations supplied some when news broke in their cities, and CNN provided much of the rest.
Newscasts in the 1970s and early 1980s were not as flashy as the ones we see today.
Phillip Dampier:
WPIX Monday Movie Special Close - 1980 Jun 27
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The Special Monday Night Movie closing, plus another one of those slides, and a promo for Cahill, with John Wayne. The computer graphics were all over this opening, but stuff from that era always looked odd.
loneleeb3:
This is great!
I remember when WTBS went 24hrs then became the Superstation!
Prior to that is was Channel 17 WTCG.
We got cable in 82 and got WGN from Chicago.
I still remember the Empire carpet adds "588-2-300 Empire" LOL
Funny, we have 11 Alive here in Atlanta it's the NBC Affiliate. Our ABC affiliate is Channel 2 and it's the one that calls their news Action News. In the 70's channel 11 was the ABC affiliate and Channel 2 was the NBC affiliate then for some reason they switched.
I remember in the fall waiting for the stations to have their Saturday Morning Cartoon Previews.
They would usually do it during primetime so by Saturday Morning I was up at 6am waiting with my bowl of Kabooms!
Phillip Dampier:
The 80s have arrived, and WPIX's look begins to change...
Eleven Alive (WPIX New York)
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Phillip Dampier:
WPIX-TV 12-30 Star Movie Close and Next Graphic - 1983
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The 12:30 Movie (after the noon news), plus WPIX gets a new jingle, and a more animated way of telling you what's next!
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