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Jeopardy! Should of been moved to 3:30PM and a great lead-in to 4PM news. Inside Edition would be better at 1pm instead of Jeopardy! IMO- Wheel/Jeopardy! Have always been together (depending on the market) On CST WALA & WDJT have the show tag-team at 6pm and do well and KRQE airs the show at 6 & 6:30pm on MST. On the EST side could any station take the risk and do something other stations on other times zones will do. For example can any station run hour-long 4 & 5PM news and Jeopardy! at 6pm/Network News at 6:30pm, Local News at 7, Wheel at 7:30 EST Time or. Hour-long 4 & 5pm News, Jeopardy! at 6pm, Local News at 6:30PM, Network News at 7, Wheel at 7:30? Again, can anybody see any market that on EST doing something different and changing it up like the other time zones?

Except they're turning their stations into complete crap! Look at WUSA for example and soon with KSDK and their "STL at Night" concept. WWL is going down the tubes and WXIA will soon be last in Atlanta. Like my god. The company was better under Gannett, period!

WTVR is debuting their new "Storm Rider 6" truck today, are any other Tribune stations using one of these?

I would have to wager Fox News has a fibre link to the O&O master hub in Las Vegas or fed their control room feed to WNYW who then piped that to Vegas. As for WWOR - the license still dictates a studio presence in Secaucus - that being said at this point it's probably just a sales and creative services location. The studio and control room may be mothballed at this point. If they've gone automated at WNYW for their control room there's probably a small chance anyone there has stepped foot at WWOR. I think I read they did some uplinks from there (the controllers may be in NYC somewhere) - for all we know it might just be a glorified sat. farm at this point.

An extended promo for ABC News, 1990:

They’re not the worst. They’re not forcing partisan content disguised as commentary down their stations’ throats.

Do we think maybe they were experimenting? FOX's conservative audience certainly hasn't taken a liking to Shep as of late, and maybe he's tired of the nonstop political on cable. Perhaps they were taking the technical difficulties as an opportunity to test Shepard on FOX5. Probably not but just a thought

From Mayra, The 3pm show will be a half hour. J! is moving to 1pm. Millonaire at 1:30. IE stays at 3:30pm. [MEDIA=twitter]1034193024790814721[/MEDIA]

Did not see that noon open with the screeching bald eagle! I'm surprised it doesn't say "10 News", though. The "Channel 10 News" lockup at the front is a bit off model — the word "Channel" isn't compressed like in the rest of the package and it dominates the thing.

A couple months maybe? Not too long.

And for over a decade, Ilona only anchored at 4 and Art only anchored at 5 (30-minute appearance). So I guess 30 minutes for Chauncy and Mayra wouldn't be the craziest idea. Hell for several years, Tom Koch anchored from 5-7 am and again at 4 pm M-F. Channel 13 has had some odd anchor lineups for sure. What's silly to me is the 6/6:30 anchor split and the three-team 10 pm newscast. All I want to see is Tom Koch and Gina Gaston as the 6 and 10 pm anchors. Not pairing them together again makes me wonder if one of them has indicated their plans to leave soon.

A promo campaign from Teledoce (Uruguay) in 1998, where the station highlighted its programming, mostly its own-produced shows, but some brief excerpts of foreign shows (Brazilian soaps, Animaniacs, The X-Files, ER, Timon & Pumbaa, Mirtha Legrand, etc.) and movies could be seen too. The station had its own chopper for news-gathering duties, something very strange for a TV station in a relatively small country!

WLEX 18 in 1996

Yeah, somebody must've changed the animation (maybe because with the switch, they knew the Spirit of Arizona slogan wasn't gonna last much longer?). Not to mention the announcer, who isn't John B. Wells or Chris Corley-- whoever he is, he clearly didn't have much enthusiasm.

1. Quite obviously the WNYW show at FNC was staffed by FNC technical personnel. 2. This is 2018. In New York every station, network, production house, independent studio, etc. is linked by fiber that can send/ receive any signal to/ from practically anywhere. (Google “The Switch New York”) Arranging to send a signal from any fiber equipped studio to practically any other U.S. location can be done in minutes. (International can also be done, but takes somewhat longer to arrange.) This is a very common everyday practice in New York, where pool feeds for media events are common, and distributed by fiber to/from every station and network every single day. By necessity, WNYW’s hub, wherever it is, would have to have fiber capability. Of course satellite to a hub is also possible, but from New York, fiber is actually easier. 3. It is a relatively simple procedure of putting a show on the air from a remote location, again, especially in New York. Let me put it this way: Let’s pretend WNYW negotiates to air a pre-season, non-network Giants game from [wherever]. WNYW does not send 65 technicians and three truckloads of equipment to [wherever] to produce the program. A third party company produces it and feeds the program in its entirety (minus commercials) to the WNYW hub for air. Fox producing the WNYW newscast and delivering it to WNYW’s hub and air is no different. As far as why a station has an alleged remote facility in New Jersey that is not airworthy or is not usable, you would have to ask them. But I would bet it’s a license requirement, because WWOR is licensed to New Jersey. And, while their license probably requires them to have the capability, there is probably nothing that says it has to be used.

When did they update the ABC O&O websites? Am I late to the party? :O http://www.abc7ny.com http://www.abc13.com

That video looked pretty good. It looks like TEGNA is a cool company to work for.

Your argument is invalid, because of this particular sentence: If that's the case, then why and how did they put the show on the air from FNC? Satellite-fed? Did FNC provide an alternate feed for WNYW? Also, it is likely some from WWOR went to WNYW when WWOR's news department folded. At least some of the on-air people did. Look, all I'm saying is, Fox clearly still has studios in New Jersey. Who cares what kind of shape it's in, there's a reason they hold onto facilities out there. Otherwise, what's the point?

That cancellation has a consequential effect on KWKT. The NMSA notes that KWKT was carrying a simulcast of the KNVA newscast under the title Fox 44 Capital News, so the Waco-Temple-Killeen market is now without a weekday 7:00 a.m. newscast because of KXAN's decision to cancel KXAN News Today on The CW Austin. Very clearly, KWKT should have launched an in-house morning newscast when its news department launched in July of last year. The timeslot appears to now be filled by syndicated E/I programs (during the 7:00 a.m. half-hour) and infomercials (from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m.).

A triple play of Oklahoma City newscasts from Walker Brown's YT channel: First, a May 20, 1998, broadcast of KOKH's 9:00 p.m. newscast (then titled The Nine O'Clock News), nearly ten months after the newscast had expanded to an hour (on August 4, 1997): Second, the first ten minutes of the May 16, 1999, edition of KWTV's News 9 at 10:00: ...and finally, the first 17 minutes of KFOR's Oklahoma's NewsChannel 4 at 10:00 from October 3, 2002: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=0YBybDemzbU;t=607

Here's almost 15 mins of KMEX BTS on scene action with Norma Roque. If I recall, she once worked with KFTV in the 1990s.

A full broadcast of ABC News Weekend Report from Saturday, March 16, 1974 (anchored by WXYZ's John Kelly!) from ABC News studios in New York.

WPHL has gone KCPQ. And like the latter, the graphics are brilliantly done. Hey Tribune, even though you’re on your last legs, you should consider hoisting these graphics onto certain stations in Milwaukee and Greensboro, you know?

WBBM, Chicago; news promo and newsbreak, 1987 (the clip also contains an open at the 19:30 mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=71tLVxQ4RW0;m=11;s=54

News clip of KLUZ Noticias 41 from 1994.

The last book has them #40 in a 50-station metered market, only above KLOVE/Air1, Spanish sports talk and tied with a Persian station. At this point, their ratings and schedule make WBAI look competent and altogether in comparison.

Full newscast of KLUZ Noticias 41 from 1996 featuring Roberto Repreza.

Do you know why they supported Traficant? Umm. the mob runs Youngstown that why.

WDIV weeknight newscast, April 11, 2000:

Considering how utterly abysmal KABC 790’s ratings have been over the past decade (a mediocre AM-only signal in a really big market where talk stations struggle in), it almost sounds like Cumulus is slow-auditioning Edwards and Lucey to re-team with Jillian.

I am up all night and I come across a localized version of NBC's Our Pride is Showing for KARK-TV in Little Rock. The video contains the classic Gannett ID at the end.