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Starting Monday (March 5), KADN in Lafayette will have a midday newscast on its NBC subchannel (15.2). It will go head to head with KLFY's noon newscast, formerly known as "Meet Your Neighbor" (even though there is an interview segment by that title in the noon news itself)...

WDTN Hearst "camera" intros

Good Morning America should be ashamed of themselves. They get a huge get with the first exclusive interview of the Florida shooters legal guardians and they let Michael Strahan conduct it. I’m never going to take him seriously, they should really stop trying to push him off as a serious journalist.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/fl-fea-bryan-norcross-hired-as-hurricane-specialist-wplg-channel-10-story.html Bryan Norcross is coming back to South Florida to where it started for him in Miami at Channel 10. He will be working alongside Max Mayfield for hurricane coverage and WPLG's weather team.

KVBC 1983 Newscast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsLlFtdovLk

Dick Fletcher was an idol of mine growing up. I recently learned that he earned his weather chops working alongside Charlie Umpenhour at KOA-TV (later of WTOL) in Denver. "Fletcher's Fearless Forecast" was the title of Fletch's weather segment at KOA. KMTV had many great talents pass through in the late 70's: Mary Hart, Chuck Roberts, Dale Hansen, Dick Fletcher EDIT: Sounds like another custom theme from Omaha!

Sad news on this President's Day. Roy Hobbs, anchored in markets from Boston to Birmingham and spent 7 years at WAGA (FOX) in Atlanta has passed away. Hobbs most recently anchored for WRDE in the Delmarva Peninsula. Before that, Hobbs anchored at WBMA (ABC) from 2006-10, Hobbs anchored at WAGA from 1996-03 as the anchor for the 5PM news. He came to Atalanta from Boston where he was an anchor at NECN and WSBK from 1991-96. Hobbs got his start in TG at WTVF in Nashville. Roy Hobbs was 64. Prayers and condolences goes out to the family of Roy Hobbs.

I continue to watch because I love the franchise and have been avid since Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gibson replaced Kevin Newman and Lisa McRee. The show still has very strong personalities that are some of the best to do it, my complaints have always centered around Michael Strahan and Lara Spencer. More specifically with the show’s constant attempts to portray them as the anchors we should take seriously. In my opinion, it’s an insult to Robin, George and Amy’s creditbility. The show is wretched now after the 7 a.m. hour and I have every right to voice my complaints about that as someone who has watched for over 20 years.

No, Byron Harmon, News Director of FOX 5.

Yes because they are in the biggest city... a pet rock in NYC would be too... that’s the most absolutely meaningless boast in the business.

Canal 13's morning newscast opener from 2005: Since it began, the program never changed its start time: it still begins at 7am.

It should also be noted that the station just hired a new news director named Greg Phillips (formerly from WVUE), who started work at WMC-TV a couple of weeks ago. http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/37305157/wmc5-names-news-director

I just saw her do a news report tonight. Whether that means she'll be a general assignment reporter or an anchor/reporter remains to be seen.

I saw the promos they touted of the exclusive interview and tuned in to watch only to be floored that they had the make-believe journalist Michael Strahan conduct the interview. What a wasted opportunity.

Honestly, I think it's best not to ask why people continue to watch things they no longer like. Habits are hard to break, especially when it comes to TV programming. I'm sure you've had a TV show (news, drama, sitcom, etc) that you watched that you really liked that progressively got worse, but you kept watching in hopes that things would improve. I say let people watch and vent. It's cathartic.

Why in God's name are you watching, then? Like really, some of you all love complaining about GMA, and yet still consciously press the buttons on your remote to tune it in. It's hard to take seriously the guy who has such a wretched program's logo as his avatar.

KMTV promos for two very well-known station alumni.

Lou Maglio will anchor 10pm news starting tonight; according to Scott he has bragging rights, because he told you a few days ago http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/3/1/toldja-so-part-2

Death of Harry Caray 20 years ago. 1998

At least they had an...interesting 19 logo!

Some Duluth news from 1995 - the KDLH open is voiced by that mystery guy. Also a WTVO newscast from 9/11 reveals them with Power News (and the news anchors’ last names are swapped on the L3’s):

WBFS Promos, listen towards the hello south Florida community calendar to hear the jingle used on its then sister stations WGBS Philadelphia, and WGBO Chicago.

WXYZ/Channel 7 in 1995 KCRA in 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz3vy-NsyKI KCRA 1994 promo