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Steve and Dari.. there is no sports anchor.

Ehhhhh... meh. I've seen better, but this also isn't the worst thing I've seen.

Who does weeknight sports now that Russ is gone?

WMAQ, Chicago; news promos, 1979:

This is probably one of the first instances that we're hearing...but it makes complete sense given it's Raycom's largest market. But it is a very sad "end" to a station Raycom has systematically driven into the ground over the last 15 or so years. WUAB was the station I REALLY watched growing up. It was before we had cable. They had all of the cartoons I watched, and I stuck around to watch their off-network reruns of shows. I even remember watching "Barnaby" and "Superhost" in their final days of television back in the late 1980s early 1990s. It would be a few years later that I would get into news and all of the other nostalgia of Cleveland TV, but their shows were my "must-see-tv" when independent TV was still a viable thing. Flash forward to Raycom taking over, flooding WUAB with third-rate court and talk shows like all of the other MyNetworkTV stations. They had a chance to keep their dominance, but gradually pared down their more expensive programming, only to have WBNX pick it up. In the process, they became one of the top WB affiliates in the country, and won the chance to get the CW affiliation. The stigma of Ernest Angley and mild swear words being bleeped out disappeared because WBNX was more willing to run a better station than WUAB was. And to make matters worse, WUAB will live on as a subchannel on WOIO's anemic, abysmal VHF frequency. A signal so terrible that they had to sign on an LD in Akron just to cover most of the market decently.

That 4 is way too tall.

As someone who watches a lot of YouTube, it's fine, although it's a bit easy to flip when something uninteresting is on. Plus, it's an escape from the worst garbage YT pushes, so the curation is appreciated. It did do one good thing, it finally killed off any hope Retro TV had of getting any stations with actual signals back; the last three of five RTV stations with actual network affiliations were Sinclair; it replaced it in Toledo, Roanoke and Reno. KEYT in Santa Barbara and WKTC in Columbia, SC are it now. The sooner their sad idea of 'retro' is gone (AKA public domain offal, bartered Canadian crime drivel and "Crosswords"), the better (and they're also holding the rights for older Doctor Who episodes, which is annoying people who wanted it on the new US BBC/ITV Britbox service that was launched today).

KSNW's Dave Freeman is retiring. http://ksn.com/2017/03/06/chief-meteorologist-dave-freeman-announces-retirement-from-ksn/

New Nexstar appointment. Former KTTV ND Bill Mondora will be the Bureau Chief of Nexstar's DC Bureau.

Another Tegna Depature. WTSP's Investigative Reporter Mike Deeson has left the station.

Was there something about Erin Ivory that didn't work out in terms of her being the 4-6 AM anchor? I thought she got bumped back to traffic only because they needed to find a place for Lourdes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=y2h5LJwBKOU 1st half is Good Morning America taken from WPLG as the title states, plus news open of WLTV from 1989. Speaking of WLTV, here's a news open from 1997 ...and close Also some 1997 WSCV stuff to throw in as well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=bISr_GCIfYA;t=40

Here's a 15th anniversary of WLTV 23 which aired in 1986.

Your jealousy is showing. Tuck it in.