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ashokpandit joined the community - Today
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Jack Royer is leaving my favorite, WSVN 7, to become the new main evening anchor at WOFL Orlando. We have found our John Brown replacement who has since left evenings to rejoin Good Day Orlando a few months back. https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ-78p9mDgl/?igsh=MTVhNHVteGp2MDQ0bg==
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Comes on the same day WHEC's Glenn Johnson hung it up for good today after a 41-year run in broadcast meteorology, all of it in Rochester. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1334596544748491
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Longtime meteorologist Mike Wankum announced earlier tonight that he's retiring at WCVB at the end of the month. https://youtu.be/Z5Sd5Zwa-28?is=4nk3X_Oln9sMSOXi
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Longtime WRC-TV Northern Virginia bureau chief Julie Carey has retired. Here is her sendoff: https://www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/local/julie-carey-farewell-news4/4121640/
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At this point it’s fair to wonder if losing an over the air signal is that big a deal anymore. There are tons of other ways to get the stations that the FCC has no control over.
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She still has a role with the Kraken.
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FTVlive is reporting that Leticia Juárez is out at ABC7 and not because of cost cutting. Anyone have deets on what happened?
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breaks the tradition of Baltimore football announcers with deep roots in the area (Chuck Thompson with the Colts Bruce Cunningham with the Stallions Scott Garceau and Gerry Sandusky with the Ravens)
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This week there's been the announcements of 2 new local NFL play by play announcers. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced that Tony Castricone, who most recently called football and men's basketball for the University of Washington, is the successor to Gene Deckerhoff: https://www.buccaneers.com/news/tony-castricone-starts-new-era-bucs-radio-play-by-play-announcer And the Baltimore Ravens announced that Kyle Youmans, who most recently worked media for the Dallas Cowboys, is the successor to Gerry Sandusky: https://www.wbaltv.com/article/voice-of-the-ravens-kyle-youmans-baltimore/71686542
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In Columbus, Meredith Garofalo is leaving WBNS-TV after 13 months as weekday morning meteorologist (and several months before that as a freelancer). And it'll be a swift departure: She signs off July 2nd (Thursday).
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Interesting seeing primetime anchors filling in during the day: Anderson Cooper anchored The Lead yesterday, and Abby Philip did The Arena today. (Not sure if there were other instances as I didn't get to catch everything.)
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Yeah they’re doing a somewhat significant construction project to the outer facade of their building though I haven’t walked by there in a few weeks.
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I consider that a shocker too, considering that Hubbard WPB has been renewing contracts with some of their radio shows down here, including my all-time favorite radio show... The KVJ Show on 97.9 WRMF. And for the first time, they renewed for the next FIVE years, meaning they'll be on until 2031 (32 years on air, 17 years on WRMF when the next contract ends). https://radioinsight.com/headlines/358386/kvj-show-extends-with-wrmf/
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Looks like Studio M is being used again and there was no redo. Probably the building construction outside 1211 Avenue of the Americas made tv noise too loud. The Studio E set makes no sense and looks tacky. That beam is an inconvenience. FNC used to design amazing sets. At least it’s not as bad as the Fox News Deck.
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94 episodes isn't enough?
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This feels like it's more targeted towards a normal viewer that just cares about regular shows like General Hospital, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, High Potential, 9-1-1 or sports and their local news, which is exactly who you want to advocate for you in bulk because they lose their shows, the FCC chair will get that anger for sure. It's a perfect line that doesn't feel angry in the ad, just saying 'we're just as perplexed about this as you are and you should write in and speak your mind about this'. There is an entire audience that just watches the local news summarize the events and never gets into ABC's national news or The View.
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As far as radio ousters go in Minnesota, this one was a bit unexpected... KSTP-FM/Hubbard has shown Staci & Hutch the door. Staci Matthews had been with the station since 2003 when "Moon & Staci" launched. Hutch joined in 2019 after Larry "Moon" Thompson retired. No real word from Hubbard other than contracts were not renewed, and on the search for the next great afternoon show. https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/staci-hutch-ks95s-afternoon-radio-show-will-end
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Tina Nguyen has decided to leave WFLD/Fox 32 in search for her next 'role, city and adventure'. Nguyen is just the latest high profile departure at WFLD following the retirement of Sylvia Perez (less than two weeks ago), the loss of Paris Schutz and Lou Canellis to WMAQ and the firings of Roseanne Tellez and Scott Schneider.
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I’m gonna tell the fcc to knock it off I’m doing it on behalf of WTVD. This is very serious no tv license has been cancelled before it rarely happens.
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Ohhh, that's right, I forgot! I NOTICED THAT! I am SHOCKED! When they did the last set, the set they are taking down now was immaculate! This set, it's just ALL OVER THE PLACE! And the weather set? They are running off of a laptop and half of their equipment the normally use to track storms. Wth?
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Im probably going to get some fallout from this post, but im going to go ahead anyway.. According to what I've read, there is basically a zero chance that these stations are going to be off the air if nothing is done. These stations collectively, are the most watched in the nation and highest rated stations in arguably this part of the world. They've set the standard and culturally defined how we watched local news today. So I respectfully do not understand their unnecessary inflammatory drama to confuse the public. Honestly this is the issue, all of this public alarmist method of communication these days is what is strengthening the division and clash. Respectfully, they are entitled to voice their concerns for sure, but is it really that serious enough? Can someone help me understand what their intent is behind all of this?
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I'm still amazed that given the relaxation of ownership rules that there are still only 8 stations in the group. It's like a throwback to earlier times when the 7-7-7 rules existed (AM/FM/TV).
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The Disney/ABC O&O Stations Thread
tyrannical bastard replied to Encore 323's topic in Corporate Chat
It's sad that we've come to this where the ABC O&Os have been vilified by our current FCC. Maybe in a saner time, the same should happen to Sinclair and Nexstar, who have done far more egregious things in front of our eyes, often on a daily basis. -
If this madness was not going on, this thread would definitely not be here but regardless of what has happened, I feel that enough happens at the ABC O&Os nowadays for this thread to logically be here, so I am thinking about the present and the future here as you clearly see.
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General threads are not permitted, anymore, HOWEVER, the FCC stuff is enough to probably warrant its own thread.
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