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For anyone here who works for ABC7NY, can you please suggest a better revamp to the newscasts page? It's now IMPOSSIBLE to go further back to view older newscasts. Don't get me wrong, it looks a lot nicer than the previous one, but it's removed a huge amount of functionality by limiting the amount of videos you can scroll through. An option to select a date would be fantastic. I don't know just how many newscast videos are kept on the server, but it'd be nice to have the option to go back at least to the start of the current month.

This is why if you ever get a job at WABC you don’t leave. You deal with the shitty hours for a few years, and then you move to better ones. Derick Waller and Janice Yu both made demands which ended up not boding well for their careers. Waller wanted off mornings and Yu demanded the weekend morning anchor spot. Lesson to all - don’t bite off the hand that feeds you. You do your time, and if you do your job well, you will get a better shift. It might not be anchor, but it will be something other than early mornings.

He also spent some time (freelance?) at WTTG in DC.

Yeah, overnight they reran GMA segments on each state from the past year.

GMA did a special 3 hour Saturday edition for July 4th with Robin, George and Michael on from 7-9am and Whit Johnson, Will Reeve and Rhiannon Ally from 9-10am. The first hour had some great segments from the anchors and correspondent’s on their own American history.

Weekend Today has a nice set up for America 250! Craig and Savannah in to host. Loving the network mic flags, wish they were more common place on national news. Apparently Willie is still seen on MS now post split?

Disney logo on GMA Graphics for ABC's 24 hour nonstop telecast for America 250. I assumed this was going to be something like ABC 2000 with Peter Jennings. David Muir hosting for 24 hours straight. This looks like it's alternating between multiple hosts with a lot of pre-produced segments.

Congrats but Nexstar is not quite the safest place to land if you're worried about layoffs

Updated opening graphics and new music for KOLN/KGIN and satelite KNPL dropped this week. Enforcer ended its 19 year run and was replaced with CBS Local by Stephen Arnold. They have continued to evade GrayOne. Enforcer will be missed, but the new music at least sounds similar and sets a good tempo.

I didn't know about this but since February, Steve Savard has returned to St. Louis television to be a part of the KSDK news team. https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/outreach/press-releases/ksdk-5-on-your-side-welcomes-steve-savard-to-highlight-local-veterans/63-8f33f663-2f94-4713-a4a7-30c1b681131c

I think the clip of Matt proposing to Emily is still around on YouTube somewhere

We all know that back in late May, CBS News Radio had their last day on the air. However, they still had staff working that was connected to the radio division, even if they've been off for a month for now. Today, the last remaining staff member connected to CBS News Radio has departed the company. Now its dead. Like really really dead. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1670018821791402&id=100063499003416

The updated open actually looks based on the ones already used by WANF and WBRC. But either way, I'm just gonna drop this post from the "2025 Scripps Station Graphics" thread here, because it sums up the GrayONE rollout perfectly...

Funny enough, WTVR also dropped Antenna TV on Tuesday. No Spot branding here yet, but CBS6XTRA was moved to 6.2.

That makes sense since West Michigan is in-market for the Pistons

This seems to be the M.O. for Nexstar's weaker stations going forward. WIAT CBS 42 in Birmingham has done this with both their morning and noon newscasts.

WNCN just cancelled it weekend newscasts in favor of podcasts.

For us Simpsons fans, this merger carries a terrible curse .... We can call it Froku!

my goodness. And I've lived and worked in Central Time for over 20 years now....

So they're busy modifying already implemented graphics while a whole slew of stations still have old packages -- nice

We got another new Spot... WXMI Channel 17.2, replacing Antenna TV with The Spot - Grand Rapids 17. This is me thinking that this is a result of Scripps getting rights the Pistons for WMYD and therefore, spreading it to West Michigan on a new indie sub.

After 2.5 years, mainly as WEAU's lead evening anchor, Heidi Paxson will be leaving the station to do mornings at WGHP in the Triad. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1462412039023734&id=100057648567218

This means that WUPW will soon no longer air news from WTOL and instead air news from WTVG, possibly moving their current newscasts on WTVG 13.2 (8-9am and 10-11pm) over to WUPW. 9pm. Remember, this is Central Time, so 9pm on FOX, 10pm on NBC/ABC.

At least WAFF will have 1 theme

Derrick Waller, formerly of WCBS (and before that, WABC) has resurfaced on PIX 11.