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As far as Big 13, I’m surprised they held out on a 4:00 as long as they did.

WCBS August 1984 5pm - great wide shot of the dual sets at the end when they throw to the 6pm. I think this one gets an award for a set that maximizes a small space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5F8sJu-lqA

Maybe that wouldn't be an issue if their syndie shows weren't overwhelmingly such tripe.

Fox 5 news at noon? http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/fox-stations-expanding-news-across-nine-markets/202848

Eight hours of local news in the morning. Now that is the true definition of overkill.

She's basically Cheryl Scott's twin sister, which she also talks to viewers like they are 2 year olds.

Speaking of CKND, here's the station's 50th anniversary special from 2005 -- it includes a mention of CKND's pre-1975 existence as KCND across the border in Pembina, ND*: Part 2: Part 3: * KCND is mentioned in Timothy Green's The Universal Eye, a 1972 book about television around the world: "The village of Pembina in North Dakota seems a strange place to have a powerful television station. Only a couple of hundred people live there and the nearest American town of any size is many miles away. But the advertisers who queue up to buy time on KCND-TV Pembina have their eye not on Americans, but on the half a million Canadians living just north of the border in the city of Winnipeg. The investment pays off; the people of Winnipeg spend a fifth of their viewing time watching the Pembina station."

An open from CKND FirstNews in 1991: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=2TywDHrHnBU;t=159

KHOU announced today the execution of a lease agreement with 5718 Westheimer Road Investors, L.P. totaling 43,000 square feet of space at 5718 Westheimer in Houston. http://www.khou.com/article/news/local/khou-announces-location-of-new-station/285-533170471 http://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2018/03/khou-signs-deal-on-new-building.html

I remember those and....eventually, they just kept cutting the newscasts shorter and shorter until it was just a sports show. I liked the newscast even more than KDAF's News @ Nine.

April 23rd is the official start date for Joe Donlan, per the ads WGN is running during the Cubs game today.

I'm reasonably certain it was The Express Group.