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List add to the list of retirements why don't we? KWCH's Roger Cornish is going to call it quits. http://www.kansas.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/carrie-rengers/article209483434.html 41 years, six months, and 13 days he said. His dad, wife, and son all worked there at some point. Wow.

No, I think they're second or third now. A new logo look won't obviously help.

I have not seen this WKAQ open on YouTube in years (though I seem to remember a slightly different open animation?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=Qv6IE0Qz5eo;t=83

Exactly. His whole program was a right-wing opinion based talk show so obviously Sinclair had no problem with that. But it's hard to defend someone when they threaten a high school student. But to be fair, I live in St. Louis and I didn't even know he made those comments. His program on KDNL is so low on the radar that if you asked 10 people in St. Louis about his show, 8 wouldn't know it even existed. I wouldn't be surprised if whatever is on KPLR at those times beat KDNL in the ratings.This was another sad excuse for Sinclair to satisfy their news requirements for their affiliation agreement with ABC. Now Sinclair has to hope that they are able to get KTVI or else they'll have to scramble to come up with another half-ass version of Plan B.

Maybe the evening...They would have to hire from outside. But Good Day is typically #1\#2 typically so they will NEVER change that dynamic

At this rate, TEGNA, Sinclair, Scripps, and Gray will be the only station groups in America.

You forgot this video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AwOrM1XFN8 (This contains clips of news opens starting at :31, may have been from the late 1970s)

Al Schottelkotte was, according to some sources, the highest rated local anchor in America. This is the only video I've been able to locate on YT: And here is the audio opening for his newscast (1950s?):

And speaking of WBBM and Lester Holt, here's a brand-new upload from NewsActive3 -- a weekend newscast from 1986:

As far as news at 6:30 p.m., that has been tried before more than once and failed (a situation that WPIX has experienced twice), presumably because the national network evening newscasts have dwarfed them in the ratings. That being said, NYC is the largest market where no non-Big-Three station runs a local newscast up against the network evening shows; I'm surprised WNYW hadn't at least experimented with a 6:30 p.m. newscast before 'PIX did. Quite a few Fox affiliates and a few non-Fox stations have six-hour-long morning newscasts. WGN is a key example.

Trent aric and jacey bout to go to war.... In divorce court http://www.gossipextra.com/2018/04/17/jacey-birch-files-divorce-trent-aric-channel-10-wplg-yeti-86154

I've gone ahead and started a Speculatron thread about potential buyers for Scripps's stations.

I mentioned pages ago on this thread that Marcus filled in for Dan on Thanksgiving morning because the latter was doing the parade.

I don’t follow Kansas City news that much.

:confused:o_Oo_O WTF WERE THEY THINKING !!!!!

Hearst, Cox, Tegna, and Graham could buy Scripps with little to no conflicts. Isn't nexstar near the cap?

Jeez she does not look like she is retirement age and having been in the business for four decades.

Maybe the last one out the door should just turn out the lights already?

I don't even know who Scripps could be sold to at this point without a couple significant conflicts--*maybe* Nexstar?

From 1987, a WAVE 3 News update

Former WTTG weekend sports guy Brody Logan signs on with KUSA as their new sports director. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1645088628913483

Nope... not anymore. Now, WBNA repeats the previous day's edition of Hey Kentucky from WLEX at 12:30 p.m., the same day edition at 10:00 p.m. and a repeat of their 6:00 p.m. news at 6:30 p.m. I just looked up the listings.

I thought that the WAVE newscasts were discontinued. Looking at WBNA's schedule all I see is the delayed replay of WLEX's 6:00. Also, if memory serves me right, WSFJ was a lot more secular at that time than WLJC is now.

Cool to see they had the separate studio and newsroom set going, and changed up the studio set elements for each broadcast. And wow - Lester and Adele...

Along with KTVI's "Bommarito SkyFOX Helicopter". Why they didn't pull that graphic during their Ferguson coverage remains painful.

KNLC got MeTV in February. I would not be shocked to read a ratings report and see that Carol Burnett & Friends reruns on that station cleaned Allman's clock (and ABC must seethe seeing their 9pm lead-in just plunge at 10:00:00 exactly every night). And with Weigel having good relations by maintaining WBND in South Bend, ABC affiliating with KNLC (and a move of Me to DT3 with a state-of-the-art multiplexer) is a possibility too; despite Weigel's many issues, they have built out from scratch no-wave news departments before, and they'd do it again in St. Louis in a heartbeat.