WTSP news opens

Happy 55th to this TV station - even if the upload was a week late.

WTSP has always had a history - it was a last place finisher in the 70s, eventually growing its news department and talent in the 80s, going tabloid in the 90s, softening things up in the 2000s, and now it’s just a TEGNA experiment going from the 2010s onward.

The following are opens from WTSP in Tampa-St. Petersburg from 1978 onward.

Here is what you can find in this compilation:
0:00 - WTSP Station ID (1983-1987)
0:04 - “Action 10 News Center” intro (1978-1979)
0:30 - “Action News” generic and “Tonight” intros (1983-1987)
1:33 - “Action News” generic and “Tonight” intros (1987-1989)
2:20 - “NewsCenter 10” intros (1989-1992)
3:29 - “10 News” “Good Morning Tampa Bay,” 6pm, 11pm and “Weekend Edition” intros (1992-1993)
5:46 - “10 News” noon and “Weekend Edition” intros (1993-1994)
6:21 - “10 News” topical and “Weekend Edition” intros (1994-1996)
7:26 - “10 News” 5pm and 6pm intros (1996-1997) (the last one I held out on too long - you can see the YouTube “buffering” tool which I forgot to edit out)
8:05 - “10 News” noon, 5pm, 6pm and 11pm intros (1997-1999)
9:34 - “10 News” 6pm, topical and 11pm intros (1999-2001)
11:12 - “10 News” 6pm, 11pm and “Attack on America” intros (2001-2002)
11:55 - “Tampa Bay’s 10 News” “This Morning Around the Bay,” noon, “Life Around the Bay,” 6pm, 6.30pm, 11pm and rejoin intros (2002-2007)
13:13 - “Tampa Bay’s 10 News” morning, 4pm and 6pm intros (2007-2008)
13:54 - “10 Connects News” “The Morning Show,” noon, 5pm, 5.30pm, 6pm and 11pm intros (2008-2010)
16:44 - “10 News” “The Morning Show,” 9am, noon, 5pm, 5.30pm, 6pm, 6.30pm, 11pm, Republican National Convention and breaking news intros (2010-2012)
21:45 - “10 News” morning (generic, 5am, 6am and 6.30am), noon, 5pm, 6pm and 11pm intros (2012-2017)
24:35 - “10 News” “Brightside,” “This Evening,” weekend evening and “Nightside” intros (2017-2018)
27:19 - “10 News” “Brightside,” morning, “This Evening” and “Nightside” intros (2018-2020)
29:00 - “10 Tampa Bay” noon, “This Evening” and “Nightside” intros (2020-present)
30:03 - WTSP Station ID (1989-1992)

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