Newswire V1

Newswire V1 is a news music package released in 1992 by 615 Music, itself a subsidiary of Warner Music Group's Warner/Chappell Records. It was first used by WMAQ (NBC 5 Chicago) the year the package was released, and then the package was also picked up by CLP87 News and CLP95 News of California City, CA in October of 1992. CLP99 News (KSCB) also picked up the package a month later. CLP64 News (WBCO-TV) and its sister station CLP56 News of Buffalo, Ohio, as well as CLP72 News and CLP84 News of Columbus, Ohio, and CLP29 News of Miami, FL, picked up the news package in January 1993. Other stations including WLVI56 (WB Affiliate), picked up the package in 1994 and used it until 2006. At the same time however, not all CLP O&O stations used this package at all.

Aside from CLP87 and CLP95, CLP99 was the only other station to use Newswire V1 after 2001, but discontinued it in 2011 with a new graphics package. CLP87 and CLP95 used theirs until 2016, a lifespan of 24 years. Meanwhile, CLP64 and CLP56 stopped using theirs after 2001, while CLP72 and CLP84 news stopped using the package after 1997.

Outside of CLP Stations LLC, WAVY-TV of Norfolk, VA, and WEEK-TV of Peoria, IL were the only non-CLP stations to use Newswire V1 after 2001. Both WAVY and WEEK retired theirs in 2013 and 2016 respectively, though the former uses a new version of Newswire from 615 music dubbed Newswire V2, which uses the same melodies as the previous package, but is completely reorchestrated and has completely new songs in it. CLP29 News is the only other station using Newswire V2 after retiring the previous package the same year.

Current Use
While Newswire V1 is mostly retired nowadays, recordings of CLP O&O stations (and other TV stations who have also used this package regardless of ownership or affiliation) were posted on the internet over the years by archivists, ranging from the early days up to the present day. Don Selk, the father to Kaylyn Selk and archivist, has constantly recorded CLP87 and CLP95 newscasts for years on the VCRs connected to the living room and master bedroom TV and has hundreds of thousands of VHS tapes, including coverages of major events such as the 1989 California Earthquake, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the 1993 WTC bombing, the Columbine High School Massacre, the 1999 Izmit Earthquake, the September 11 attacks, the DC sniper shootings, the 2003 SARS epidemic, and the separation of Langile Corporation on May 30, 2003.

The last VHS tape recording was the 11pm newscast of CLP87 on June 11, 2009, marking an end to over 30 years of archiving through VHS means. The first tape was recorded in 1977. The last tape marked approximately 325,000 tapes recorded. In 2012, transition of the VHS tapes to digital began and most of them are already backed up to several external hard drives with large amounts of storage that have been backed up to other hard drives over the years since.

Release History
Newswire V1 was released initially for WMAQ in 1992, but was eventually picked up by many stations throughout the country. Many (though not all) CLP stations also picked up the package, with stations 87, 95 and 99 were among the first to get it, with more O&O stations following suit. The last O&O station to do so was CLP39 News of Tampa, FL in 1996, and it was used until 2015.

In 2001, Newswire V1 received new news talent themes and as such, all stations replaced the original 1992 talents with the new ones released from that year. All other themes remained the same.