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Nevermind the leaps of faith some have about a theoretical sale of WBNX (personally, if it gets sold, my money would be on Nexstar for a standalone market-entry not unlike KASW)... Fox owns and operates SportsTime Ohio, not Tribune. Master control is still run out of WKYC's facility (dating back to when the Dolan family - vis-a-vis the Cleveland Indians Baseball Company - owned the network, and WKYC operated it). And in any event, WKYC's contract to simulcast 10-15 STO games per year runs for several more years.

I shouldn't have brought it up but at the same time I was trying to make a joke while being as vague as possible. I appologize for spreading that rumor. I had no right to spread it and discuss an anchors personal life. I heard about it from a comments on TVNewser.

I saw a ad stating that WABC is now adding a 5pm newscast on Sunday's (can't air Saturday's due to college football) starting this Sunday; only WPIX airs news at 5 on the weekends.

Fox is number 3 in the night news race and #1 and #2 between 7-10am ...#2 and #3 between 4-7am ... You apparently don't read the ratings. Also 30 years on the assignment desk with no promotion? Making 30K for 30 years...maybe an investment in a new career?

They did the headline cue properly today, before the open, and changed the graphic, again.

I understand what you're going at. And in hindsight, I see it now. The orange was a bit too much. I thought a little more blue or white with give the set some balance. I loved the ribbon video wall, the the expanding video wall and the rotating floor. I hope they do a better job with this now-named new set or still-named update. I know it can't please everyone still, I will say I hope this one is a better fit for all of us to look at.

Or take the KPTV/KPDX route and do 8 AND 9pm newscasts. If that was to happen, then the 9pm news on WUAB would be history.

It's another possibility. WJW absorbing WBNX would bring another CW affiliation into Tribune's fold and would give the largest independently owned & operated CW station to the largest operator. Doing so would prevent competition to their 10pm show. They could even take the KPLR approach if they had to for an 8pm SHOW! Nexstar is another possibility since they purchased KASW in Phoenix. Cleveland is not far behind in market size and doing so would give Nexstar their first ever Ohio station. I believe the Indians going away from WUAB was mainly a result of the Dolan Family (who owns the Indians AND Cablevision) wanting an exclusive cable deal with Fox Sports Ohio at the time. Dennis Kucinich (then a congressman) even lobbied for legislation requiring teams that had facilities funded with tax dollars to broadcast their games on "free tv". It went nowhere and the Indians packed up for cable, snapping 21 years of ratings success for WUAB. WUAB once had the highest MLB ratings of any station that carried games, and was a large factor in the station being carried out-of-market in such places as Erie, Columbus, Youngstown, and even Portsmouth! The call letters WGCL have ties to Cleveland , as it was the longtime call letters for 98.5 until the mid 80s. It's been WNCX ever since.

I hated the set overall and kinda saw this coming. It was too orange and never felt like something Today would do. It felt like they were trying to capture GMA style/essence. It didn't feel true to them and I guess they are realizing it now. I hope people understand what I'm trying to say.

A majority of the things they are "fixing" are things that they put in last year. Essentially, a year into this new set and they felt that there are/were a few things that they did not like and are now replacing. The turnstyle floor could have been avoided had they just installed wheels on the desk so they could rotate it.