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Speaking of News Blues, today is the Surly Editor Mike James' final newsletter before passing the reins to Rick Iller.

Pretty surprising news about Scott, though Craig Day is a good choice, he and Terry Hood already anchor the 9pm news together. He says he's staying in town, which makes me wonder if he'll call it a career or pop up at Cox, Scripps or Sinclair.

That one doesn't pass the smell test. I can't see how ABC will uproot one of their top affiliates - and one of their top company groups - for such. The repercussions could be enormous there. The only way I can see WCVB become an O&O is either by Hearst buying ABC as a whole from Disney, or by a trade with (at least) WTVD and KFSN. As for just gutting WCVB, do they want to make Hearst really mad in their largest market?

With no midnight airing tonight and a holiday weekend, ABC 7 reran the first episode of Windy City Live today, on the show's 6th anniversary. Ryan's sooooo much better now, and the set really needs a paint job. It's so washed out and faded, compared to day one.

this is one of those situations where I'm not sure how to feel. Nexstar and Tegna are both terrible companies trying to do things as cheaply as possible. The only "good" thing that would come out of this is that Nexstar would stop producing those terrible Tegna talk shows and would drop that stupid "social media" centered newscasts from spreading beyond WTSP and KXTV

[quote name='newsbot']Derrick Santos at New England One says the ABC O&O story is bogus. He's a far more trustworthy source of Boston media info. Can't believe that Newsblues went with this unsubstantiated nonsense.[/QUOTE] I don't even read Newsblues and trust NE1 more because I actually read that website on a continuing basis. So @NewEnglandOne has more trust on this than any other and besides, WCVB/WMUR would be REALLY stupid to give up their ABC affiliations.

Another question... can WMUR survive without ABC?

a larry Wert loyalist from nbc, you will see more chicago talent replacing PIX11 Staff before the Sinclair deal is Final

Feder published it last week, but I think we forgot to talk about it due to our collective WGN obsession last week.

Since nobody can read the fine print under the bug, that's a 25-54 demo win. I'd be curious to know the margin of victory. Someone jog my memory--when Mendte/Chenault beat 6 that one other time in the 2000s at 11, was it in HHs or demo? Or both?

Finally! Someone beat WPVI!!!

NBC10 is calling victory at 11PM in the May book:

Its official: Byron Miranda is leaving WMAQ and joining WPIX as weekday morning meteorologist: http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/wpix-names-new-meteorologist/190522

Well poopie. Goddam it. That post is edited. Excuse me for a minute.

It's ok.... The right leaning media is now balancing out the left leaning media....or vice versa. Fair is fair right?

The Bonten TV stations in Montana - part of the group Sinclair wants to acquire - are the only outlets not competently covering the rather big story of a congressional candidate assaulting a newspaper reporter. [MEDIA=twitter]867598130346422272[/MEDIA] Not only is there audio, but a Fox News crew saw the assault and corroborated with the victim's testimony. This trio of stations are the only outlets pushing this narrative. Why is this? Because said assaulter is a Republican. I, along with others, assumed this was a fait accompli and that Sinclair already took over. As it is, Sinclair does not own them yet. My initial post (and that tweet) was wrong. Bonten is suffering from institutional failures of their own, arguably even worse than anything I've seen in awhile.

Yeah, that article was posted yesterday. NBC denied it today and said that they're still working through negotiations. It is by no means official. I still don't know how they're going to get out of this though. The smart money is on keeping your talent that have huge ratings right now. I can't help but think that Andy Lack hasn't really evolved his programming strategy for MSNBC beyond 1996 if he thinks Brian Williams is the future of the channel.

The title of that article is very misleading though... Not sure why that site still has it up... Nowhere has it been confirmed that the show is cancelled and the latest per Brian Stelter's newsletter tonight is that O'Donnell's agent has yet to hear of MSNBC's intentions but MSNBC executives are saying that they want to keep the show on the air.

[MEDIA=twitter]864586661962932226[/MEDIA] MSNBC PR just tweeted this... Hmmm.

WMAQ? Picking an "official weekend anchor"? I think you're asking a little too much. A simple coin flip will determine who anchors day-to-day, I'm sure.

WSOC, WLVI....

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