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It's way too low...

New roles at ABC News for Tom Llamas, Cecelia Vega & Jonathan Karl: http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/jon-karl-cecilia-vega-and-tom-llamas-earn-new-roles-at-abc-news/319026 - Tom Llamas to anchor both weekend editions of WNT; chief national correspondent - Cecelia Vega moving to DC where she will cover the white house full time and be the senior white house correspondent - Jonathan Karl named chief white house correspondent and chief Washington correspondent.

So what your saying is... if those stations continue to burn to the ground, WALA 10 will be the overall news leader?

Speaking of Indiana, not sure how I missed this, but apparently Tim Doty and Marianne Lyles are out at WTTV CBS 4's Morning News in Indianapolis. They have brought in Frank Micken, he comes from WFMY in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is doing his first morning newscast with them as I speak. I think Nicole Pence (yes, she's related to the VP) is on maternity leave but her Facebook posts makes it sound like she is still with the station. She says they are "Changing things up" for the morning news.

KOOL news open from 1971: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=r2IO8QsmdU0;t=24 There's also a news open at 2:57, but not sure what station, could be KNXT?

You're probably thinking of TM Productions' "The Best Things in Life", which was used by WWL, WYTV and others. The promo for WYTV was posted on Facebook some months back: https://m.facebook.com/groups/952495251429652?view=permalink&id=1187427394603102 However, the Cleveland jingle was not done for a station, it was commisioned by the Greater Cleveland Growth Association in 1974 as part of a campaign to improve Cleveland's public image. I doubt that it was done by TM, the singers sound different, and there is an entry in the January-June 1974 Copyright Office music catalog for "Cleveland, The Best Things in Life Are Here" written by Wilbur Dorfman, a Cleveland-based composer. Maybe that was a submission for a jingle for the campaign that wasn't used in the end, maybe someone else did the final song, maybe I'm wrong and it was also TM. Also, while it has very similar lyrics to the WYTV promo, the melody is different. I am thinking TM's campaign was a rip-off of the Cleveland jingle with a new melody, and a more distinctive musical "logo" for the tag line.

Renee mentioned on Twitter that she expects to be back at the end of this month. Thing is she said the same thing back in Oct/Nov. Interesting bit that they hired Kalyna to do only traffic and not the live center, so if Renee comes back, they'll have 5 people on the morning news. Too much, considering they're not winning the time slots. As for Marie, hard to say what the deal is with her situation. I do remember reading that the tree hit her basically square in the head (something like you would see in the cartoons, if you can imagine it), which led to her vertebrae being squashed. With those types of injuries, she's going to have permanent damage... sad to say. Will she be able to one day come back and work in the same capacity? who knows, but like you said, both sides are screwed. And clearly they moved on from her since they hired a replacement that basically looks like a younger Marie Coronel... Mimi Elkhalla.

Get a load of the multi-colored "4" logo in this clip of commercials from 1979. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=7EKuPEyHv4U;m=9;s=44

Likewise, WBAL and WUSA remain Hearst's and Tegna's flagship stations despite having stations in larger Nielsen markets.

I was not expecting some big lavish blowout on Friday with all former Anchors and Hosts returning The 65th Anniversary was much like the 55th: very low key with a couple looks backs. The anniversaries ending in '0' are far more important milestones. I am sure when the 70th comes around all the former Anchors and Hosts will return By the way I am looking forward to Natalie filling in for Savannah the Week of January 23-27!

Rob Lowe evidently didn't expect a retrans consent dispute to cause him to lose Fox (and CBS and ABC)... The NPG dispute means lost playoffs, and in this case, one of the sickest burns I've ever seen on Twitter. [MEDIA=twitter]820357083765698560[/MEDIA] EDIT: The tweet was removed but this was its text:

Pretty much. By default, WALA is the only major station in the market NOT run by Sinclair or soon to be owned by Nexstar. As soon as Nexstar gets foolish and starts cutting talent, changing graphics, and changes WKRG.com into something stupid like GulfCoastProud.com, it could be bad news for them.

Can't think of one right now, but knowing them, they probably have.