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WAGA Fox 5 Eyewitness News (no longer Prime Time, just at 10:00) / 3.3.1998 Sounds like they added extra percussion to the orchestral theme.

Do they have a monkey... Named Boris?

12WKRC in 1986 w/ Kit Andrews & Ira Joe Fisher

Didn't realize KCRA licensed its 'where the news comes first' trademark to another station (KSDK). They both use the registered trademark symbol, and in the trademark database KCRA and Hearst are the only entries dating back to the early 80s.

If Saturday morning TV was released from the grip of E/I requirements, most would probably dump the kids stuff anyways and air either news or infomercials. MAYBE a station or 2 (like PBS or the KidsClick stuff on MNTV) would have it.... Then again...if the whole commercial limits thing was relaxed, you'd have shows like these.... And if Hanna-Barbera was never sold to Turner by Taft, chances are it could have ended up under Sinclair....

Interesting, I know it does not say it in the article... I wonder if her departure has anything todo with her getting a spot on the third hour of Good Morning America

Paula Farris moving off the weekend editions of GMA. Not sure who they'll tap to replace her but should be interesting. https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/paula-faris-will-depart-gma-weekend-and-the-view/370590

I say Nexstar(or Sinclair) falls apart simply because it got so big that nobody could buy it...and I hope the goverment allows it to fail. No bail outs. Let it crash and burn so real entrepreneurs can try something new that can serve local markets better. The sooner it happens the better. Speculation can be very costly as Sinclair my soon attest to, TV stations groups should never be considered too big to fail. I see this whole Sinclair mess as being the "warning shot" that the FCC has fired across the bow of all the large station groups. I support comprehensive television reform.

From Denver, here's KMGH in its final days as a CBS affiliate, 1995:

I mentioned this in the other thread but, I say Nexstar gets broken up simply because Nexstar is WAY too big for one company to fully acquire it

After seeing this is from the same person who uploaded the snippet from February 2002, I could not hit the Subscribe button fast enough. That graphics change was a real downgrade and looks even worse with 15+ years of hindsight. I'm compelled to mention the forgotten fact that the entire time Today was three hours that the 9:25/9:55 weather was prerecorded. This explains the signoff at the end of this update.

both WJBK & WXYZ would bring in many columnist from the paper on the airwaves, and yeah that strike seem like it went on forever.

How does one go from filling in on a flagship network news program to the lowest rated revolving door in DMA 10?

1995 WXYZ promo from during the Detroit Newspaper Strike, the earliest known use of "Eyewitness News" on WXYZ (beating the NMSA by six years):

The Saturday morning cartoons were one of the first targets of the PC police. We used to have some cool shows and cartoons between the Sid Marty Kroft stuff and the endless parade of crappy Hanna Barbera stuff on NBC. All us kids wanted to be in a cartoon "space rock" group...and I wanted a monkey for a mascot. Pass the Freakies please. it don't get more off-topic than that!

Say no more, my friend: