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WGAL TV Opening, Talent Rejoin, and promos from 2001-02.

WLS-TV's tribute to Fahey Flynn right after his death in 1983: A full epiosde of Today in Chicago from August 1978: An epiosde of CBS Reports, and various network newscast fragments (including PBS's Captioned ABC News) from November 1980: Not news, but still interesting, WCIU-TV's Polka Party from April Fools Day 1978:

Consolidation is happening in TV the same way it happened in radio for the same reason it happened in radio and newspapers. Declining revenue and declining margins due to a dwindling customer base. Fewer people are watching local TV because of ever growing options and an increasingly fractured public. Fewer clients are buying ads. And when they are, they're paying less money because they can do math. This is the reason every station group is decreasing staffing levels. Why every station group is investing in technology that helps eliminate jobs. Why everybody's favorite anchor is now working PR for a hospital or government entity. The groups everyone loves. The groups everyone hates. The groups that put out a consistently good product. The groups that put out a halfassed product. They're all doing the same thing and they're all looking to merge because scale is one of the only ways to maintain margins. Grow up everyone. You're in a dying industry. Clicking your heels and chanting to yourself there's no place like 1996 isn't going to get you anywhere. I've lost enough friends in the business over the years and know enough people who are still in this godforsaken business to tell you to keep your resume in good enough shape to get you a job in the real world. If you zoom out far enough to see the future, you can see that we're all screwed. The indignant, immature state of denial that this entire forum seems to exist in makes my eyes nearly roll out of their sockets.

Bits and pieces of Chicago and national TV news from 1978; the clip is cued to a WBBM weekend news open: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=JZk2rx3hQ3M;m=26;s=1

Don't know if this was noticed, but Candace McCowan is no longer the per diem reporter. Her face is now on the website newsteam and I guess a full-fledged member now. http://abc7ny.com/about/newsteam/candace-mccowan/