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Dick Albert, a former WCVB meteorologist, has died at 73 due to complications of pneumonia. Dick work for WCVB for 31 years - starting in 1978 and retiring in 2009. My condolences go out to his wife, two sons, friends and family.

Thats what I'm thinking they'll do.

He's trying to get his "mast up"....(rimshot) That's a live truck joke kids...

That is a Herculean task when WBKO has literally had a stranglehold on the market...good luck trying to surpass them!

The Now is not a bad concept per say, but it's a show that has to be perfectly set up to run smoothly, otherwise it turns into a small-market budget show. Case in point, if the show involves having the anchor and reporters move around from location to location, they should make sure their set/studio doesn't look like crap. I don't even think KGTV notices that the floor in their studio looks horrendous. When you can see the floor/floor tiles start to bubble up then it's time for it to be redone.

If he was, that would be the first time a Sinclair newscast would be watchable. On a serious note, that was a really good article and really shows how they're just money hungry people who will say whatever crap they believe will help make them more money. That said, I'm sure we're going to see another letter from Scott Livingston complaining about how persecuted he feels.

WVEC chief met Jeff Lawson is having part of his tongue removed and may miss a significant amount of time... https://pilotonline.com/news/local/wvec-chief-meteorologist-jeff-lawson-to-take-time-off-after/article_2943e7e3-e297-5ed5-a92b-f0a98c0e3a68.html

Dick actually came in for the late news (NBC had the NFL preseason opener last night, so the news started around 10:40-ish). I'm assuming they gave Dick off at 6pm as a courtesy so that he wouldn't have a prolonged period between newscasts if the NFL game ran super long.

Another shocker is Scripps giving away cash in Tulsa, San Diego,PHX and God knows what other markets... During July. That indicates the May book was awful...the pits....dreadful.....in all those markets(DMA)

No... those are promo graphics that have been out for a few months (February I think)... WXYZ just started doing this too a couple days ago... it doesn't match anything....

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The closet think made me laugh. The whole Keurig thing made me laugh - don't they know how expensive those pods are. They should of got one of those coffee makers that make eight things - something like a vending machine. Taking away coffee from the newsroom would cause a riot.