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Yes... his first reports were filed about Galileo and his telescope...

So around Thanksgiving they'll reveal the new set? Thank Christ! It's been too long. Also on sweeps month too? Perfect timing. Wait. Wasn't their 40th anniversary last year?

I really hate the NBC O&O graphics mandate. Hideous.

He used a computer made of wood.

Damn, he's been doing this for 449 years?!

BIG anchor shakeup at 11Alive in Atlanta. Shiba Russell goes from evenings back to mornings. Current morning anchor Cheryl Preheim takes her spot on the 5 and 6 and Vinnie Politan anchors the 11 solo. Seems a little ... odd. Shiba hasn't even been on the evening shows a year yet. They announced it on air this morning. http://www.11alive.com/home/news-anchors-are-switching-around-on-11alive-here-are-the-details-/460152963

I guess he did a story on America's independence from Great Britain

http://www.wfmz.com/news/lehigh-valley/69-news-is-getting-a-new-set/595136271

KJRH hired two veteran journalists instead of a couple of kids who would work for peanuts? Madness. But seriously, good for them.

I'm sorry, but I really don't really want to see Ben Swann naked.

It was truly fun and fascinating to watch this broadcast. I have to confess that there were moments when I thought, "why is the quality of this newscast so much better than what we get NOW with better technology?"

Here's the link to Leon Bibb and Lee Jordan's last newscast on WEWS at 6pm last night (Friday, July 28th, 2017)

WMAR posted this on Instagram. Apparently their new show is titled "Midday Maryland" and is using a virtual set. I hope it's not one of the crappy ones some of the Journal stations got. Edit: The images disappeared as I posted this. Basically the images showed a corner hard green cyc being installed. Another showed two workers installing it. One with three ugly chairs on set. Finally a old tripod with a PTZ camera on it with a TelePrompTer underneath. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154778163772227 https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154778163772227 https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154778163767227 https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154778163717227

He was on at 6, too. Not sure if he did the 10, but you may want to check the 1am rebroadcast, if so.

Like hell it'll happen. Meanwhile, over at 1611 West Peachtree... http://www.tvnewscheck.com/marketshare/2017/07/24/wsb-first-tv-station-to-get-million-twitter-followers/ (WAGA is not that far behind with 509,000 followers, followed by 11Alive (341,000) and CBS46 (a paltry 72,000); by comparison, KABC has 943,000 Twitter followers)

A KPNX documentary from 1979 about their news helicopter, piloted by the great Jerry Foster. This confirms that they changed their call letters in 1979 (FCCInfo.com states the call letter change occurred April 14, 1980 as well as Wikipedia at one point)

When did News 4 get a new (network-inspired) logo for TINY, or are they debuting this with the 4am expansion?

Although, I'm still against these crazy news expansions, I had a feeling that the 4am expansions was going to happen sooner or later. And since Early Today will be airing at 3:30am, that effectively opens up the floodgates for the NBC affiliates who want to make the purge to 4am in the future. WSTM in Syracuse has been airing the news at 4am for years, they could air Early Today next week. Wouldn't be surprise if CBS move its Morning News show to 3:30. My issue would be ABC. They produce World News Now from 1:30-3am (network starts airing it at 2am) and produce America This Morning live at 4am. If the network move ATM to 3:30am but keep the WNN time as is, that would leave just a 30 minute gap between the shows instead of an hour. It wouldn't be much time to breathe in between the shows, unless they start producing it earlier from 1-2:30am, but that would mean they would have to pre-tape Nightline every night (before 12:30am, if that's not already happening). Or, they could cut the blocks from three to two, and produce it 1:30-2:30. That way you keep the hour-gap. But then viewers in stations that air the program multiple times (3 times or more), might not feel right seeing the same program they just saw an hour earlier.

Another great shot tweeted by John Hayden - Matt and his flip-flops...

Meh, seen it.

Fixed, at least according to many after Pizzagate 2: The Pizzaning...

Here's some courtesy of @ctmajka's YT. This was from December 3rd of '92. As you see from the full shot on the , this was the 80s set, but used that same backdrop you mentioned above. And that desk is the same. But it includes the new '92 music. So I'm thinking the new music pre-dated the new 90s set. I also thought about that first image. Could that also be a chroma key backdrop? Because I also remember during those years they would use pictures and videos on a backdrop behind the anchors. This is similar to what they do now with that giant video wall.

Those guys had fun doing it. It wasn't hokey...it was "flash"... Most of all...it was a good honest newscast.

What a hoot! In the open we see Spencer "Adjusting" his mic...shuffles papers...and looks to the anchor to acknowledge that he is ready... 3,2,1 Launch!!! One little thing.. Ya see Spencer had been sitting down for the last 5 minutes or more...primping...getting pretty...so there was no rush. His scripts were already in the prompter... And that mic??? Well an "honest to God NABET union audio dude" had that mic affixed to Spencer minutes ago...the mic check was done, and there is no need to "adjust" that mic. In fact Spencer isn't really even supposed to touch that mic unless unless it burst into flames and eats him. Those are the union rules. Those late 60's early 1970's EWN opens were great..totally scripted opens. For a while the anchors used to make it look like they were just so hurried that they could barely make it to the set in time for the open, but that became risky as the talent was already hardwired to the set with dual lav mics and some primitive IFB's So they could only "run" so far.

Jay Barbree is retiring from NBC news - just short of 60 years covering space for the network. He started with the network in July 1568. He has covered every manned US space mission from Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center. To be honest I thought he retired a long time ago based on the lack of space flight done in the US. In the past few years he's popped up a few times a year usually doing live hits from WESH. I honesty thought he was someone who was on retainer. Maybe this just means he's finally done with TV. However when SpaceX or Virgin Galactic take off in a few years time and he's still around I can't picture him not contributing to their coverage. As an aside note I wonder if the permanent broadcast booths all the networks had and some Orlando affiliates at the Launch Complex 39 Press Site are still standing, leased or owned by the networks or operational.