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Pittsburgh's KDKA TV general manager Chris Pike is retiring ... Wonder what the changes will be when the new general manager takes over down the road. http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2018/04/20/KDKA-TV-GM-Chris-Pike-retires/stories/201804200108

Gary, wasn't he at KGO for some time?

Hoo boy. Yikes. Why make it even smaller, anyway?

This might be totally out there...but is there a chance that the WFAA 1992 Theme was done by Chris Crane? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=IYsTaLA8cSU;t=11 Something about the instrumentation in this close says "Crane" to me. As a counter-argument...it's otherwise unlike his other work. Who knows.

As has been reported elsewhere, Tegna is on a huge hiring spree, mostly in mid-to-large size markets (Atlanta, D.C., Austin, Dallas). They were offering buyouts last year to a lot of their older/more expensive employees, so I'm sure most of these jobs posted don't pay great.

Is it in the overscan area, or is it really up against the top of the screen? I'm at a restaurant with 2 different TVs. It's up against the edge on one, and half cut off on the other. They should've stuck with the 3rd version of it (the 1st recoloring).

the YTV news intro I can say I never did seem to watch YTV News in my youth

new update from Ed Hanna:

Video of WSAZ 1999 celebrating 50 years.

A drip in the WAFF bucket: And from the other Albany, some bumpers from WALB - in a timewarp if there ever was one:

Was totally expecting no open, of course, but Gary Rebstock??? Also a promo at 10:13 is voiced by Brian James. Also this might’ve been their open... Note the L3’s are same in this newscast

15 minutes of KMSP's Minnesota 9 News in 1996 - no open, and the theme in the bumpers doesn't ring any bells for me, but Californians here may recognize one of the anchors. Seems like a very interesting look...

The latest entry into the NMSA is that of WLJC, a religious independent in the Lexington DMA, randomly picking up This is the Place. Somehow earlier this week, WTVQ began producing a 9:00 newscast for WLJC and that WLJC took the Antenna TV affiliation for Lexington off of WTVQ's overwhelmed hands. This is the first news sharing arrangement I can think of which a secular station has produced news for a religious station though WLJC's other subs include GetTV and This TV. I wonder if Morris is gearing up to buy them or to set up a situation where Morris cashes out and a new owner of WTVQ then buys WLJC and probably moves MyNet programming there. The owners of WLJC also owns two FM stations which are among the few KLove and Air1 stations that EMF hasn't gotten their paws on yet.