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There's a 20 year age difference between Kelly and Kasie. Sad to think but true.

Hey... TVSpy just ran this story and gave credit to "changing newscast". http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/wolf-launches-own-newscast/183562 We know that guy Roly^^^^^^

Another issue is that DCP's shows (including the awards shows) have been in a static state since the man himself died, still using Impact and Helvetica-like graphics (the Golden Globes won't change their look no matter what), and now hitching minutes of airtime to inane sponsors like Planet Fitness and whatever that sparkling wine was that replaced Korbel. It took them a decade to replace the old NYRE theme with something that already sounded dated the moment it was played. They keep Jenny McCarthy on despite the apathy/controversy she brings, Fergie is still hosting from Hollywood each year and in 2017 those segments are still taped before the holidays even though it would be much better live (Fifth Harmony broke up during the holidays. It was awkward to see them like they weren't about to go at it on Twitter the moment Camila Cabello's contract ended and yet...'watch their last performance together' said cheerily). It isn't 1987 any longer. Get with the times. To top it all off, the New Orleans countdown didn't get screwed up, but someone had the bright idea to put a nice new LG flatscreen with the show logo on in the background during a heavy rainstorm. Great job literally watching that $2,000 investment wash into a rain gutter as the pixels died one by one behind Demi Lovato. The other thing is the Times Square organization put on a better livestream this year than ABC did over-the-air. Rachel Platten was doing a great job with plenty of preparation on the stream and you can hear it in the background on ABC while Ryan was blabbing about nothing to DNCE and more Jenny McCarthy garbage. I flipped to the Org stream because I wanted to see her much more, and it was better than any network was able to put on. NYRE is basically hitting the same peak Guy Lombardo did, and they need to improve or else they'll be like MTV; out of the game and in a Ridiculousness marathon no sane person will watch. But there's also the wonderful trainwreck that is Chicago Rising from WMAQ. Well-produced for the most part, but with obvious 'here for the check' Chicago "Dick Wolf"-verse stars hosting, the blandest talent/bands ever, and hilariously tone-deaf segments like a person making a difference in poor neighborhoods being introduced during a very ritzy party, awkward Corona Extra drop-ins, the CEO of Corona's parent company leading the Chicago countdown, and all the complete live shot d**ches you could ever dream of in the backgrounds of parties. It was terrible, but still much better than NYRE for me this year.

It's been more than a year. Wonder why it's taking sooo long

From the looks of things, things will be status quo, at least from a back-office perspective, until March 1st. Sort of ironic in that is also Ash Wednesday and the 40 days of Lent that follows. The final day is Mardi Gras, which is a MAJOR event in places like Mobile, coastal Mississippi and Louisiana. I don't know if WLFY goes all out for coverage that day, but WKRG does and has for years. Almost like a huge jazz funeral for Media General and the ensuing changes that could follow thereafter....

Where did this map come from? It looks like it's missing a few stations (KRON, WISH, WOWK, KRQE), in addition to a whole state (Hawaii and KHON). As far as the endtag, I've noticed that some stations have it customized to their markets and other stations just have a generic "national" version. I guess Nexstar decided to leave it up to each station on how they wanted to handle it.

Here's a full WABC newscast from 1986. I have a few of these in the pipeline, so...

From Nashville, a WSMV 1983 newscast with open at 1:40

Oh wait, there's more. Here is a WKBN newscast from July 1977 featuring the late Tom Holden. News open can be seen at :39 into the video. A rare look at WKBN's news on that day.