Nice that you managed to get these all. I live in Ridgecrest, my dad used to help with the local TV Booster organization. I remember how the repeater on Channels 63 and 69 almost never worked, and it was a shot in the dark on getting Pokemon, and once the Community College jammed the incoming video, but the audio still played! That was fun. I'm now also nostalgic for the old TV signoffs/ons. We had a satellite installed in 1991, I still remember catching unedited feeds. =)

OH GOD I remember George Putnam he was da man back in da day

he does the voice over for smarter than a fifth grader.

Old school tv!!!

I'm sad they got rid of their opening themes in favor of crappy ones...

Bring Emmet back!!!

Chuck Henry is One Hell of a Newscaster. He Hosted the 1989 Version of "Now You See It".

Hey, the man gave it his best shot. He's got talent.

heather holmes is really hot

Does anyone have any idea who the composer of the theme music is? It's such a great theme...

this theme will never be beat. that is all.

&& I think Emmett is really good on prime news, he has that evening feel.

@csworldwide101 Extremely sad as hell. The original music was its identity (part of it), now the Cold Open sounds like the intro of Miami Vice, the Intro sounds like Falcon Crest or Dynasty and the Bumps sounds like something out of Washington DC. Yeah, this new stuff BLOWS!

@kntvnewschannel On June 23, 2010, pigs officially flew in the San Francisco Bay Area, as KTVU replaced Michael Randall's "KTVU News Theme" with a custom 615 Music package, "Icon News".

@shaunfossett The Action News Theme.

fuck , i am screwed it is the end of the world

Lol, I thought they were joking at first at 3:52

@albear972 prolly had midgets in the camera bubbles to point them

4:52 Hazma pretinin, derakuta! "Better to be safe, than sorry!" Better to be DTV, than sorry! LOL

That's a good compilation for what you were able to get. In Chicago, some stations signed off with a warning (mainly WLS-TV, WBBM-TV, WGBO, & WXFT) that they were signing off, & the 4 mentioned required people to rescan to get them. WYCC in Chicago signed off on April 16th while the rest signed off on June 12th. I was at work during the signoff of most, as many signed off at noon June 12th. WBBM-TV had to wait for WTTW to sign off on 11 in order to sign on from 2/DT3 to DT12.

nahh cause 99% of the time, master control does the bug, cause it supers over the graphics.

I don't know if you mean the late actor Steve Dunne (with an "e" at the end). He was the announcer on Wink Martindale's first game show, "What's This Song?", so he might have begun an announcing career that might have led him here.

@lorosbuenos i hate it.

In addition, it would appear that the news open with Kevin Sanders was from 1970 or so, while the Putnam news open was 1973.

I can only presume, during Kevin Sanders' days as anchor, KTLA still used RCA TK-41's?

During George Putnam's run as anchor, the news theme was Tom Sellers' "Action News Theme," which was the first theme for WFIL-TV's (now WPVI) "Action News" starting in 1970 until 1972. WBNG's first use dated to its run as Triangle-owned WNBF, and I presume another Triangle station, WNHC (now WTNH) also used this "Action News Theme" from 1970 until "Move Closer to Your World" took over as the theme a la WPVI post-'72.

Their new theme is horrible!!!!!

Their new theme is horrible!!!!!

Their new theme is horrible!!!!!

Putnum was the best!!! RIP

Cher Calvin is really pretty and sexy!

Nice, I could have sworn this was a CBS affiliate. The Fox station here in Phoenix just sucks (it's a Fox O&O).

Why don't they brand their news as "NBC 4 News"? That name is little, if ever, used.

My name is Heather Holmes {: Literally.

those openings from the 60's and 70's remind me of Ron Burgundy lol.

The theme was used in Binghamton, NY for WBNG-TV 12 from the late 60's until 1994.

Yes, KTLA is indeed the first commercially-licensed station west of the Mississippi; it too was an experimental station, W6XYZ, from 1939 to 1947 when it received the commercial license. KCBS is probably the oldest-oldest station in L.A., having begun as W6XAO in 1931. Paramount Studios, which founded W6XYZ-KTLA, probably picked its experimental call sign in true Hollywood manner for marketing reasons. :)

yes he is back to the ktla morning news @ 4:30AM,5AM,6AM

This whole open, including the music, sets the tone for the newscast, perfectly. Exactly what an open should do. Also, Emmett Miller should be working on the national level, no question. He has talent worthy of network anchoring.

agree.

GOD. KTLA's prime news open is BEAUTIFUL, it has got to be the BEST local open in the country.

Only in LaLa Land can you see this.

Where can I get a list of the reporters from KTLA from the late '70s thru the '80s? I searched the net and can't find it even on IMDB. Thanks.

Nice post. There was a lot less fanfare here in the boonies.

i missed cher.. used to see her in F.. it was a fun show

Jeez, the opening headlines for the 1st intros were terrible. A girl shot to death in Malibu. :(

Dish Network offers it as part of its superstations package as well as KWGN - Denver, WWOR and WPIX New York, and WSBK - Boston in canada both Bell and Shaw Direct and most cable systems offer it

From the analog sign offs I've seen on KZbin so far, it appears Rupert Murdoch wanted his stations to transition very quietly. WNYW and WWOR in New York just went to static so suddenly.

what ever happened to Walter Richards?

Good job with the eight channels you were able to record. KTLA's on-air party with Stan Chambers and "The Big Switch" is far and away the best one, with KLCS' logo history to REM's "The End of the World As We Know It" (how true) a close second. Rich Rodriguez West Covina, CA