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They reached an agreement today. I'm sure that "football" wasn't the factor in reaching a deal. [MEDIA=twitter]772191325529731072[/MEDIA]

KTSP, Phoenix; noon news, 1992:

Couple of changes to report: WOFL: - Sonni Abata leaving - LuAnne Sorrell moving to evenings at 5, 10 & 11 - Bob Frier moves to Good Day Orlando and joins Amy Kaufeldt from 7-10am - Charles Billi joins the station as 5,10 & 11 pm co-anchor with LuAnne Sorrell. - Danielle Knox joins the station as 4-7am co-anchor of Good Day Orlando with Ryan Elijah. http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/orlando-station-announces-new-anchor-lineup/178489 WBAL: Andre Hepkins joins the station as 5:30 and 10 pm co-anchor and will report from the breaking news desk for the 6 & 11 pm newscasts. http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/wbal-adds-andre-hepkins/178506

Did not realize that stations still preempted CTM as I thought the network made a mandate upon the shows inception that it be carried in its entirety. KHOU, the Houston CBS affiliate, would stay on air past 7am handing it over to The Early Show for a few stories, then continue a mix of 11 News and The Early Show from about 7:15-7:45 when it was solely 11 News until 8am when they tossed it to the last hour of The Early Show. Always thought it was formatted weirdly.

Eek, only saw the second post. Hoping for some more material from the uploader soon — one of the few people with a lot of Phoenix stuff. But I've never seen this WCPO open from the fall of 1985. I guess Newschannel *preceded* the Jay Gilbert theme from 1986!?

My guess is she was added to lighten the load of work the morning anchors have to do since the Noon broadcast expanded to the extra hour.

When they came back on, Rick Williams mentioned the cause was due to a computer malfunction. I wouldn't be surprised if their ratings were still higher than the other locals during the outage.

On Monday there will be a benefit concert called "Louisiana Rising" for flood relief hosted by Harry Connick, Jr (perfect timing for a show launch). I found out about this because WBAL was airing a promos saying it will be on MeTV at 8PM (it's also airing on WBFF's This TV 45.3) Based on their website the show will air on most (if not all) Raycom stations and a large group of others. The shows sponsored by Raycom and Cox. There are many competing stations airing the broadcast (Like WBAL and WBFF) but some stations of sponsors aren't bothering to carry the broadcast and its airing on other stations. For example it's not airing on WSB (none in Atlanta) or WFTV in Orlando. However WFTV's competitors WESH (not sure what subchannel) and WKMG (on Cozi) are airing the broadcast. I would think of your group is sponsoring a big event you would want them to carry it even on a subchannel for maximum exposure. Think of how it would look PR wise if a station in Pittsburgh (in Cox's case) was carrying a benefit for a station in Louisiana. Shows a bit of commitment to helping others.