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Unless you are a company unapologetically friendly to Trump... (**cough cough** S!nclair **cough cough** Fox **cough cough**)

Sinclair has been straight down the middle in its coverage here in Maine. Lots of anti-Trump stories both before and after the election. If the Trump campaign thought they were going to get a pass by agreeing to sit down with a local Sinclair reporter during Trump's visit to Portland, they thought wrong. Once again a statement by the Trump campaign (Kushner in this case) overstates the case, creating an impression that is not borne out by reality. By all accounts, the Clinton campaign was offered the same deal but turned them down flat. It had no appreciable effect on coverage, as Clinton limited her press availability across the board.

And Denise Dufala will be at WKYC in 3...2...

I kinda like this. Has a retro vibe...WAY better than all the derivative crap passing as new logos now. (Or just horrible like WFXT). It looks like there was some actual thought put into this, which is refreshing.

Danielle Serino (formerly of WOIO/WUAB) has announced on her Facebook page that she's joining WKYC as a consumer investigative reporter after the new year.

Now Eat, remember that this is the lady whom hired Debbie Mantenopolous to be one of the original co-hosts of the show. If she wasn't mortified for picking her, she shouldn't be now... Edit:^^ And Elizabeth Hassleback... That being said, we won't truly know if baba wawa is mortified unless the Chen-Bot Moonves tells Page Six. Otherwise we're left to speculate.

Merry Christmas RKO... My hospital stay was court ordered.

Juliet Huddy's abrupt departure explained. She had reached a settlement with the network after alleging sexual harassment against Bill O'Reilly. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment-fox-news-juliet-huddy.html?src=twr&_r=0&referer=https://t.co/XblVNjXxBS

Meredith Vieria has outgrew kiddie morning television, I can't blame her. The witless banter and stupid off color jokes gets tiring over time. Meredith tolerates Matt but Katie knows how to keep her distance from Matt to do what she has to do. When she was at the Today show, Katie always knew how to be her own person. Whereas with other co-anchors they have to play a second fiddle to Matt . Meredith should go and do a trial at CBS This Morning, it is a better show and better platform if you want substance.

Catie Beck of WXIA and formerly of WTVR will be NBC News' new correspondent. http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/atlanta-investigative-reporter-jumps-to-network/183898

Wowza! That was actually approved and went to air.

So many WOIO/CBS19 castaways jump over to WKYC. It be nice to see Denise go over to Channel 3, or go back to WJW/FOX8.

Candace McCowan from WFLA in Tampa has joined WABC as a reporter.

My days of not taking Sinclair's political coverage seriously are certainly coming to a middle. To be fair, as bad as we rip on Nexstar, they're never this blatant about it.

That's pretty darn good for an accidental antenna.

I must of asked the right questions through out life because as I turned 18 I found myself admitted into Johns Hopkins. The hospital that is.

You sure ask a lot of questions for somebody from Maryland. The SS can jam frequencies ...but so can just about anybody else with off the shelf equipment. What do they wish to jam? There are at least 6 different regularly used commercial cellular bands or blocks of frequencies used in North America. More worldwide. Unless you know the target frequency of your subject/ device, you will have to jam the entire band or block of frequencies. So if I'm concerned with an IED using a GSM, TDMA, CDMA trigger...then you need to jam the entire suspected frequency range . You need to block that trigger from hearing a signal inside the target area. If the secret service deployed a jammer that covered every Verizion, Sprint, AT&T user inside a 3 square mile radius... the FCC would shit bricks the size of Maryland. They would still shit bricks if you knocked out every user within a 500ft radius. You need a lot of wattage to kill signals like that, and only the Military does that kind of stuff during wars. In the world of jamming that's "scorched earth" stuff. But... There are off the shelf Cell Jammers available that target much smaller areas under 100 feet, depending on conditions. So if you suspect that someone has hidden a device triggered by a signal in one of the traditional cellular bands...then it's no big deal to jam and knock out that band inside a 50 foot radius. Everyone inside that protected 50ft radius is presumably already screened and under your control...and the Secret Service has a pretty secure/ encrypted 400mhz spread spectrum radio system that is used inside the bubble(within 25ft) of protection. Target+Range= Power It's likely the jammers deployed are low power and very transiant in use inside the USA. Outside the USA is a different story.... Entire Cell systems and bands sometimes go dark during Presidential visits in 2nd and 3rd world countries. Regular members of the POTUS press pool report mysterious cell "blackouts" in places like Brazil, Vietnam, and most of the African countries. The blackouts are annoying but usually short in duration.. It's pretty much understood that it's the Secret Service radio techs testing the limits of the jammers outside the view of the FCC...and on unsuspecting 3rd world countries. (win win). So yes...jamming happens...but in the USA it's limited and highly directed in nature if deployed....to limit interference to our domestic cellular networks. Any other larger deployment in the USA would just piss-off tons of cell users including public safety etc.. You can get away with landing Air Force One on the 405 freeway in the middle of rush hour...but if you Jam the Facebookers, Tweeters and Fapchatters from posting the pics, then you will have bloody hell to pay.