And now for something that I've never done before and can't think of a reason to do again: Bay Area highlights stitched together from two different VHS tapes to compare channels, namely our original NBC affiliate KRON with our NBC O&O since 2002, KNTV; using recordings of the same show (SNL). Now obviously, 1999 and 2004 were aesthetically different everywhere, but the question I pose to my fellow longtime Bay Area citizens: who really captures the local spirit more. I know my choice... though mind you I'm biased towards anything from before May 2004 for reasons that should be obvious to anyone paying attention. But even before that in 2002-03, KNTV really just didn't feel the same, and I found so unmemorable that I kept forgetting their call letters when trying to talk about NBC. Even now my brain connects KRON = NBC even after they've gone from independent to MyNetworkTV to now The CW (while KBCW, formally KBHK, is now KPYX and again independent but also somehow a brand extension of KPIX... I need a flow chart to explain this stuff). But I can say this much and that's that there's much fewer KNTV-branded promos. Ultimately, you decide.
KRON
1. Last minute of Newscenter 4
2. Best Buy
3. Leeza promo
4. NewsCenter 4 Daybreak promo
5. Friends season premiere promo
6. SNL 25th Anniversary Special promo
7. Newscenter 4 24 Hour News Update
8. Toyota Camry bumper
9. Must See TV Tuesday promo (Just Shoot Me/3rd Rock/Will & Grace/The Mike O’Malley Show)
10. Judge Joe Brown promo
11. Bay Area Backroads promo
KNTV
12. NBC11 News promo
13. Rolex/Davidson Licht
14. Extra promo
15. NBC11 Sports Sunday promo
16. The Ellen Degeneres Show promo
17. Shreve & Co.
The originals on the Internet Archive, as usual: archive.org/details/SPtapecommercials
archive.org/details/200420091994commjumble
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6 июл 2024
