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I agree with this. I guess it looks "cool" but it gets stale pretty quickly. In fact, I think it gets in the way of showing the weather. Where we used to have weather maps and graphics taken full screen, they now exist on only a portion of the screen. I don't care if it "looks bigger" because the talent is tiny in comparison, if it takes up less of my TV screen at home it's smaller and harder to see. Instead of seeing the maps, we see fake walls that add nothing. And having the weather talent in a different room than the news anchors just makes everything feel less friendly. I guess it's interesting for viewers to look at, but it's distracting and takes away from presenting information.

Longtime religious broadcaster and evangelist Jimmy Swaggart has passed away at the age of 90. Talented preacher, singer, musician. Cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley. Overcame scandal in the 80's and founded SBN, SonLife Broadcasting Network. Still preaching, singing, and playing that famous piano up until just a few weeks ago. Survived by wife Frances and son Donnie.

Meteorologist Bayne Froney, previously of WLEX-TV in Lexington, KY, joined Fox Weather a few weeks ago. Her first on-air appearance was as a field reporter on June 24th; however, based on her socials, it looks like she was in the studio both days last weekend alongside Michael Estime and Jane Minar.

They got promoted to mornings around the same time

Nice to see Mike Marza and Brittney Bell back together for tonight's 5pm and 11pm newscasts. https://abc7ny.com/videoClip/16958292/ https://abc7ny.com/videoClip/16962138/

I'm only posting this because... the spirit of Jim Vance still lives on. My Mood by MFSB still lives strong.

Happy Fourth Latest finds KVBC 6/7/93 5PM - very poor signal, B&W NJN New Jersey Nightly News clips (plus a little bit of WPVI Action News) in November 1986, Radon-related first 5 minutes of a WHBF Sunday 5PM newscast on 11/13/1994 I have a full KLAS newscast from 1991 coming up in the next batch later in the month. Possibly other Vegas finds from a yard sale that paid off

Matt's new venture is part of several that already exist as part of the National Weather Network. That includes the originator NorCast Weather, Tennessee Valley Weather, EastTNWeather from former WBIR and WeatherNation meteorologist Mike Witcher, and Weather NorCal from former KRCR Chief Meteorologist Mike Krueger. https://nationalweathernetwork.com/ EDIT: One of the affiliates now includes a TWC en Español-worthy replacement: Canal Meteo TV.

I'm thinking this is why we're starting to see more local weather "extras" being produced, as well as Matt Laubhan's new venture... I'm pretty sure we're going to see plenty more in the coming months...

WTMJ taking it on the chin and letting so many go. Now Tom Durian is done at the end of July to move on to KVVU, Henderson...and Las Vegas, as evening anchor, since Steve Chamraz is entrenched. KTNV must be livid.

For those who missed it... WTEN's Steve Caporizzo's sign off from Monday:

This is similar to what former CBS affiliate WTVT did for years where they pushed Y&R on one day tape delay to 1pm as they had the one-hour lifestyle program Pulse Plus which then became a Noon Newscast and half hour local talk show Eye on Tampa Bay in 1989. The only difference is WTVT never showed the half hour soap operas Search for Tomorrow, Capitol, or The Bold and The Beautiful. TB&TB was pushed to lower powered independent WTMV from 1991 until WTSP took it when they got CBS in the New World Deal in December 1994.

It should say co-chief because WITI has two. The other is Rob Haswell, who's been there since 2005.

Smart of them to think ahead. Now CBS needs to heavily plug that video in their own coverage of this.

Trump's "presidential library"? Transcripts aren't good enough. The complete, uncut interview should also be made available for viewing,. I mean, do you think average voters are going to interested in reading a transcript when there's a video to watch? In fact, the complete, uncut interview with Harris should be made available now.

Fox Weather is bringing in WITI’s chief to supplement their holiday vacay schedules again.

TBN also did themselves no favors by cashing out many of their stations in the spectrum auction, and subsequently selling the licenses to other parties, much like WDLI in Canton living on as a re-packed station on Ion's (Inyo's) WVPX. These TBN stations (and other full-power god-casters) exploited the must-carry obligation to get them on cable while the others opted for retransmission consent. Donations went down over time and the spectrum was a way to make some quick cash.

I think Mississippi TV will stay separate markets, but Greenville/Greenwood under one owner and WTOK in Meridian and WHLT in Hattiesburg ceding to their Jackson counterparts is beginning to weaken the markets a little. Moreso in Meridian since WTOK is the undisputed leader in the market while WHLT has always played second fiddle to WDAM who has kept their operation local to the market. If either Columbus/Tupelo or Greenwood/Greenville had Gray stations, they would probably have pulled the same moves Meridian did. At least WTVA is the only Allen Media station in Mississippi and WXXV and WCBI remain separate operations, likely due to distance.

I read that his wife will remain on WTVA. They actually worked in different stations at one time - I know that because of the clip that I saw when he proposed to her on live TV.

That can be attestable (TBN lost most of their Spectrum carriage over the years for their other channels outside regular TBN and enlace) but there's also the reality that cable providers are not up to paying $2 more for a channel with a shaky business model (big star with their own show tricking down an audience on generic other content already found on other channels) and whose product is already otherwise free or available in rerun form elsewhere or on podcasts. TBN is hard into digital first as then they don't need to bother with the middlemen negotiating carriage or the costs of the analog era translator network they sold off to speculators and subfarm operators. That he had no control of his network library at all certainly didn't help matters, but also that broadcast surcharge fees are getting near $50/month, it's beginning to be a losing battle for bundles, with providers beginning to fight back (re: the old Cinci Bell fighting Nexstar because they don't want NewsNation just to carry Dayton's NBC/CW stations) or having to capitulate (Spectrum getting back the dumped Disney networks in exchange for Hulu access at their own terms). Phil refused to do the most basic research that TBN simply doesn't negotiate carriage well outside must-carry and their JVs like Hillsong have had a high failure rate, that .1 channel leases for stations rarely watched, even must-carry on pay TV systems are a money pit (CHSN learned that too even as subchannels), and now he's learning that lesson in bankruptcy.

Merit Street is complaining that TBN didn't help it get on cable enough.

Yes

Good for them for not bending the knee.