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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.

Yeah, and NOW with the FOX sale to WSFL, I'll bet FOX is maybe a little regretted.

Uncle Barky with a scathing commentary on sexism from female higher-ups at KDFW and WFAA.

Amen!

Translation: He'll end up at WNYT when he gets bored with radio. He wouldn't be the first person to go that route.

Wait! Forgot one ... Mike Ogle Wallace of 60 minutes... And his son Chris Ogle Wallace on FNC. Now we can resume.

For me, GMA always feels like there's too many cooks in the kitchen. There's been so many adding and adjusting to the talent lineup, I'm no longer a regular viewer (moved to CBS This Morning) but it just feels like they tinker with the cast every several months trying to find the right chemistry. How I wish simpler times when there were just two main anchors, a news reader and weatherperson, those were the days. Life was so much better without Pop News, the daily home shopping segment and audience clapping.

Leaving to escape Sinclair! Sound about right.

I like this decision. He’s a quality journalist and it balances the male to female ratio on the show. Now if they could only find a way to deemphasize Michael.

I wondered if the DFW market would see 4a starts or if they would be steadfast at 4:30a. I have noticed that rush hour traffic does start picking up between 4:30a and 5a. But why change starting on a Wednesday?? Hard to believe it's been nearly 8 years since KDFW led the way to 4:30a.

I don't know how we missed this, an open from WCMH during the early days of the NBC ownership, they were still using Signature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h=1;id=IN7fKCZ7LMc;m=2;s=17

Thirty years ago tomorrow, a tornado slammed into Middlesboro, KY, killing one, causing tons of damage and resulting in this WYMT special:

I think it's simple; they just won't do one.

From a journalistic quality perspective, it'd be nice to see Whit take over most of Michael's role in the first hour, with Michael then owning more of the second hour. Don't know that that will happen, though. Certainly not immediately.

A WGN9 promo for Friends, when they centered their whole look around Akzidenz Grotesk and streaking arrows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cg48J_T-ug

Yikes. Red does NOT suit KMBC.