KENS/CBS Commercial Breaks, 1/18/1994

Commercial breaks taken during an episode of "The Young and the Restless" on CBS affiliate KENS serving San Antonio, Texas.

At the time a Harte-Hanks station, the station was their last remaining television station, after once serving as the flagship of a sizable station group in the 70s and 80s. Harte-Hanks sold their remaining media assets, primarily newspapers, to the E.W. Scripps Company in 1997.

Scripps kept the newspapers but flipped KENS to the A.H. Belo Corporation immediately, as Belo had long desired for a San Antonio presence and saw this as their chance. In exchange, Scripps received the Food Network and cash.

Belo was bought out by the Gannett Company in 2013, and in 2015, the broadcast assets were spun out into a new company called TEGNA, which owns the station now.

While we don't get to see a news open (unfortunately), KENS at this point was in the middle of a major image refresh, and the longtime news theme and logo it had used since the early 80s, during the station's glory days of dominance, was on its way out. Most of the in-show news graphics aside from the opens (which continued to be the same CGI ones in use since about 1990) had been updated to a style meant to resemble CBS' NFL graphics at the time, and those can be seen in newsbreaks here. Those graphics would form the basis of the station's major refresh which came later that year, and resulted in the retirement of the "Clearly the One" news theme and open.

Date recorded: Tuesday, January 18, 1994

0:00 - Channel intro
0:04 - CBS "Rescue 911" promo (partial)
0:08 - CBS This Morning promo
0:18 - CBS 1994 Olympic Winter Games network ID
0:20 - KENS Eyewitness Newsbreak (partial; Barry Brickman anchor)
0:53 - United Chiropractic (partial)
1:15 - KENS "Oprah" promo/legal ID (KENS was the market's original home for Oprah, but it later moved to KSAT about a year or so later, and stayed there until its end)
1:21 - Multi-Grain Cheerios
1:52 - Drixoral
2:07 - Hershey's Miniatures
2:23 - Ben-Gay (feat. George Brett)
2:52 - CBS Evening News promo
3:03 - Robitussin
3:34 - Star Magazine
4:04 - Orville Redenbacher's Redenbudders
4:35 - Dinty Moore
5:05 - CBS "48 Hours" promo
5:15 - CBS "Second Chances" promo
5:25 - CBS "Rescue 911" promo (with KENS logo insert)
5:30 - KENS in-program legal ID
5:41 - Glade Plug-Ins
5:58 - Clorox Clean-Up Spray
6:13 - Motrin
6:42 - Kraft Barbecue Sauce
6:57 - Massengill
7:12 - CBS "In the Best of Families" promo
7:22 - CBS 1994 Olympic Winter Games promo
7:43 - Comtrex
8:14 - Kellogg's Cracklin' Oat Bran
8:44 - Ragù Chicken Tonight
8:59 - Hershey's
9:14 - CBS "The Young and the Restless" bumper (with KENS logo insert)
9:20 - CBS "Guiding Light" promo (with KENS logo insert)
9:40 - CBS 1994 Olympic Winter Games network ID
9:44 - Pedialyte
10:14 - Totino's Select
10:29 - Builders Square Eco-Tips
10:58 - KENS 5 Eyewitness News at Noon topical/ID (Barry Brickman anchor)
11:04 - CBS "The Young and the Restless" bumper (with KENS logo insert)
11:09 - Vicks VapoRub Cream
11:40 - SnackWells
12:11 - Post Banana Nut Crunch Cereal
12:41 - Fancy Feast
12:56 - Red Lobster
13:11 - Dimetapp
13:41 - Aladdin on Video
14:11 - Dexatrim
14:41 - Ex-Lax
15:12 - Tylenol Flu
15:42 - Stove Top
16:12 - Juicy Juice
16:42 - CBS "As the World Turns" promo (with KENS logo insert)
17:03 - Lactaid
17:34 - Lipton Recipe Secrets
17:49 - Glade Plug-Ins
18:03 - Reynolds Wrap Aluminum Foil
18:33 - CBS "Rescue 911" promo
18:44 - "The Young and the Restless" copyright slate
18:51 - Columbia Pictures Television end slate
18:54 - CBS 1994 Olympic Winter Games network ID
18:58 - KENS "Eyewitness News at Noon" pre-show tease (partial; tape cuts)

©1994 CBS, Harte-Hanks Communications (current owner: TEGNA Media), and KENS-TV, no copyright infringement intended. For educational and historical purposes only. We do not profit off of this video.

Copyrights for all ads remain under their original owners.

[vintagenospintage]

Do you have the file of the episode of The Young and Restless archived somewhere? I would love to see it

[wiled]

D you have a sudafed ad from 1992 where it shows a woman getting into a car, later near the end she sees a semi truck and like swerves? It was from 1992 I was four at the time

[thetvzone]

Didn't know Oprah was on KENS. Somewhere KSAT got the rights not sure what year. Had to between 94-97.