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Another Media General GM is getting out while the getting is good. This time, it's Mark Bunting leaving WKRG & WFNA for the GM slot at WSFA in Montgomery... http://www.lagniappemobile.com/bunting-leaving-wkrg/

By nature it's not really a local story,. And it's only a story about a dead star at that point...no hint of foul play, no traumatic death...no extended sickness (deathwatch) and certainly no pre-produced obit package ready to run. Very few details available even 24 hours after the fact. It's not a 'cut-in' item by any means. Not really much to "own" in this story as of yet. It's still only a 40sec vosot or a re-tracked reporter package with some pretty music clips and sobbing fans. Plus....+++++ It's a holiday weekend again...didn't we just go through this with another star like Muhammad Ali or someone else? There is a picked over catered ham answering the phones in NYC Newsrooms nowadays... Here is a little lesson... Don't die on holiday weekends when all the newsrooms are dark. It's best to die during the week before 2pm pacific time so you can make it on the entertainment shows.

Hearst Cox Sunbeam Graham Dispatch Heartland Quincy Tribune (less so than Nexstar, Sinclair or TEGNA) Meredith Gray? Those are companies that I think of that really do keep their people and doesn't make much cuts or bloodshed.

If the cap is raised, who do they go after next?

Sad day indeed. Tom Holden and Don Guthrie would be rolling over in their grave over this merger.

RIP, WKBN (1953-2017).

WBBM takes a look at its historic old studios, the site of -- among other things -- the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debate. (The clip itself is from 2008, but I've posted it here because most of the footage shown in the report is pre-2000):

A branding change: "The Investigators" has become "7 on Your Side Investigates" http://abc7ny.com/7onyoursideinvestigates/