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Side note, does Kaitlin come on earlier than 9am, these days?

First time I think it's happened, Ike Ejiochi sat in at the anchor desk this past Sunday, filling in for Pedro. https://abc7ny.com/videoClip/16319545/

So www.nonstoplocal.com appears to be a news version of what excite.com (yes it's still on-line) is, because KHQ, KNDU,KNDO & KTMF all have there own local websites in addition to SWX still maintaining it's own website. And good on Cowles for doing something a bit different.

Folks, don't want to make any unnecessary hype, but WAGA has been on their Secondary set since yesterday. This last happened in 2022 it only ended up being a small update (replacing the screens on the set with seamless LED's) but the current set is now almost 11 years old.

The return of WJMN-TV 3 to ABC also reunites the station with that affiliation for the first time since Spring 1992, in which WJMN-TV 3 (and its former parent station WFRV-TV 5 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) were ABC stations who became CBS O&O stations from 1992 to 2007. CBS moved from WLUC-TV 6 in Marquette, Michigan and WBAY-TV 2 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, respectively, as Midwest Radio & TV, Inc., the owner of WCCO-TV 4 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and former parent of WFRV-TV 5/WJMN-TV 3, was purchased by CBS Corporation in 1992. For most of its life until the the launch of their separate studio presence in the early 2010s after Nexstar's purchase, WJMN-TV 3's newscast was basically a semi-satellite of WFRV-TV 5's newscast with an Upper Peninsula-specific schedule with separate syndicated programs, plus Upper Peninsula-specific news, sports and weather update inserts. What the Yoopers got was different from what the Cheeseheads down in N.E. Wisconsin got, aside from local news segments until 2012. WJMN-TV 3's 20-year affiliation with CBS was up, when CBS affiliation moved to WZMQ-TV 19.2. The combined operation under Morgan Murphy Media was successful in bringing more Yooper viewers to the ABC affiliate by combining the assets and personnel of local stations WJMN-TV 3 (who had better independent-style newscasts with a larger studio, but a weak, almost non-existant affiliate) with WBUP 10 (who had a weaker newscast and a strong network affiliate).

Jeez... 18 years?! I remember when he was my morning man at TVJ! Ironically, it was his last spot before landing at WCBS.

All this is fair, except this is an FX Group set. I still insist that it looks bland and fugly.

As valuable as a "Weather Nutritionists". It's not a protected term. Now before you get at me, Dietician is protected, but Weather Dietician isn't.

If these new billboards are any indication, it looks like Michelle Fisher is Ellen Leyva's replacement. I haven't seen any official word from ABC 7 though.

Geez Lonnie has been there for 18 years? Time has flown. Very glad to see him back and healthy!

Lonnie Quinn returned to WCBS and CBS this evening. He announced March 14th that he was taking several weeks off to recover from a concussion that was later determined to be a traumatic brain injury. He returned to the newsroom to applause, hugs, balloons and cake today:

With Carmen Rose now having left KLRT, Joel Young is her replacement as the next Chief for KLRT only. https://www.fox16.com/arkansas-storm-team/fox-16-news-hires-joel-young-as-new-chief-meteorologist/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKGFlhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqJkJ2RrVOJt-0fYmAyS-j14lgMQ4FRcYYPy9KpuZu3t-1cQ8IRFgXgI0nIm_aem_IOLG0z4jr645UEs0MXiGvQ

Extra Update: Billy Bush will not return as host; he leaves after five seasons. https://deadline.com/2025/05/billy-bush-leaving-extra-host-1236385791/

Ive seen sets from smaller markets than Spokane. Its all about design. And this trend of adding local landmarks needs to end. Its tacky and the "local" should be in the form of content not set. Just do a good set. I dont fall into the "its a small market" mindset. Charlottesville is market 177. So thats not an excuse for bad design and bad lighting and bad graphics. Charlottesville Market 177

Sylvia Perez announced today that Brian Jackson will be joining her as co-anchor at Noon. I believe he will still appear on GDC, albeit in a reduced role. Also, the 3-anchor format has been reintroduced on Good Day (from 6-9A). The 9A hr. remains unchanged and it appears they will be going with a solo anchor from 4:30-6A. Don’t know who the solo anchor will be however. Roseanne Tellez has been MIA (which is a bit concerning). Hopefully she hasn’t been cut.

Nine?!? There are basic cable networks with less original programming than that. Heck, how do they even decide which show gets a particular case?

Byron has renewed all nine of his celebrity court shows (I remind you that none of the shows are litigating real cases, but CA court transcripts with actors), which is probably going over well in the AMG station Slack or Teams .

What I will give them is the "local" accent is instantly recognizable to anyone who has spent time in Spokane as the Monroe Street Bridge. For market 70-something in 2025 it's not bad, and in fact pretty good. It will resonate with a local audience. Some of these other "we took design cues from local architecture" sets use a slightly different color faux brick and expect people to get it.

Back to the conference room (which I remember from the last time, 2011-ish). Hopefully they'll be able to keep Aerial and not have to be stuck with an entire Sinclairization; at least they got a good life out of their LIN-era set.

Lauren Kostiuk has joined WDIV in Detroit as a reporter from WTHR in Indianapolis.

For the first time in what seems like forever, WLUK will be getting a new studio this summer. For now, they're in a temporary place inside the building. https://fox11online.com/news/local/fox-11-news-temporary-newsroom-set-studio-remodeling-refresh-summer-2025-launch-unveil

WFRV apparently parts ways with Michele McCormack, after her DUI arrest...

Wow, sad to see her go. She doesn't say she's going to leave news altogether although it wouldn't surprise me if she did ultimately do that. I remember following her social media in 2020 and she was just such a dynamic presence during the lockdowns. I recall she was part of the wave of new hires in that sort of post-COVID late-21/early-22 era (including Johnny, Leah, Brian, Frances, Karen, maybe others?) and now she's following Leah and Karen right out. Selfishly hoping she can stick around in news but wishing her the best wherever she's headed.

This set is from FX Group.

This. It's also not wildly technically complex. It's a bunch of big TVs, and that's perhaps one area where everything is not truly "more expensive"... Both consumer and commercial displays have come way down in price. A 75' Samsung 4K UHD HDR smart TV is slightly cheaper than it's commercial counterpart. The fabrication of the set probably cost much more than those displays did total. They also have like, a whopping total of 20 lighting fixtures, which is why it's lit so flat, and why it look underwhelming. Again, this is a trend, because good lights are still expensive (The new WABC set is lit with a lot of Skypanel S30s and S60s (linking the new version because the old version is on clearance sale), with the money WABC spent on just lighting their set, they could have probably bought the KHQ set 10 times over.) and KHQ doesn't have the money to do that. They seem to have dumped their conventional lighting fixtures (non-LED and non-Fluorescent) visible in that last broadcast from the old set, because those are also expensive to operate. Yeah, it doesn't look as good as it could if they had a massive big-market budget. But this isn't a big market, it's Spokane, and it's still a nice modern look.