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I will be happy to debate you or anyone else at any time....anywhere. All I ask is that you come armed with verifiable FACTS and not a bunch of talking points or emotional garbage. I would expect you to also have a very deep knowledge of the subject including all relevent players and legal scenarios currently being discussed by the pointy bearded university types. Anytime...anywhere. I look forward to your invitation. ~Chuu These goes that stupid KBEX airplane....AGAIN!

We don't have a domestic news channel anymore. They are all talk radio and inside baseball. CNN is shameless in how much of a ratings grab it's become. It is sad because of how great CNN used to be. CNN International still has some bright spots coming from Atlanta and London, and they still have a pretty great stable of correspondents. But you'll almost never see any of that on the domestic channel. CNN was always the dream for me professionally. Not so much anymore.

Found a WCVB newscast from early 2004 from when they were using the camera mandate with the Newsmusic Central package.

In this situation, it's not exactly clear if CNN is solely at fault for this. The Intercept article notes that their source wasn't the most reliable in the first place. In essence, CNN should have used a better source than Lanny Davis, if he has such a history of lying in public statements ...and now what credibility it had has been jeopardized, because they trusted Davis when they should have verified instead of just trusting.

So far, no one (KXAS, WFAA, KTVT) has announced any plans to expand their morning shows to 4am; they all seem content for now, starting at 4:30am. I know why, but IMO, a 6-hour morning show is just overkill, really.

Any station that relays on social media for it's content is on a path to failure. Show me ONE success story of a newscast based on SM. Now take a look at a station that doesn't use SM as a crutch or a starting point for its coverage...a station that gets very solid ratings and has higher billing than any other local station including all the network affils locally. It's KUSI.

I’m game... I’ll let you name the place and time...

Hopefully KS/MO stations do some Newscast additions.

WGN is already in team coverage for storms that aren't even here yet. Severe storms and flooding rains are expected tonight. Tom and Demetrius are already sharing airtime here in the 6pm hour.

Love the flame or whatever you call that goes into the 5. Love this open. — Matt

A couple of St. Louis newscasts; here's a KDNL 5:00 p.m. newscast from August 20, 1998: Next, is a KSDK 6:00 p.m. newscast from July 30, 1994:

The Sunday morning media shows aren’t even that good anymore. Reliable Sources on CNN has become nonstop apologizing for the media’s mistakes and endless Fox-bashing. MediaBuzz on FNC has become CNN-bashing and defending Trump’s media-bashing. I watched Reliable thinking I would get real insight into how the media works. I was wrong.

Chicago's WGN in the '60s and '70s; the advent of color and other new technologies; a feature from 1998: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfftJJKFRS0

A KMOX weather warning cut-in from 1982:

New M&A. Max is selling its last TV outlet. In Puerto Rico. Through CMGC Puerto Rico, their selling WOST (and the two LPs) to HC2 Holdings, for $2.85M. HC2 has been gobbling up a good chunk of the LPs and low rated full-powers as of late.

I've never worked for Tegna either, and I've never worked on the management level yet, but IME it's a two-way street as to what influences the editorial direction. The corporate level of any station group will bring in consultants to try to guide local management into what they think is the best way to make a profitable newscast, and local management will then figure out how to do that on the more granular level. Tegna didn't hire Joel Cheatwood to just sit around. (Or on second thought, maybe they did.) Corporate doesn't give station management carte blanche to do whatever they want, but corporate also doesn't "force" stations to do much either (at most companies, anyway.) WVEC backpedaled really fast on their 11pm experiment, and I'm sure that was a local decision. I don't think you can pin these experiments on just corporate or local management. I know I posted on here a while ago an interview with Kyle Clark and Tegna's CEO, who was KUSA's news director in the 90s. I remember him saying that they're proud of trying all kinds of different ideas in multiple markets because every station and every market is different. I don't think it's as easy as saying "every station needs to produce its own version of Next" because not every station is KUSA with strong management, not every anchor is Kyle Clark, and not every newsroom may want to commit to setting up such a specialized team for one newscast. Also, a GM with a sales background sounds bad until you work for a GM with a news background who won't let the news director do his/her job.

CNN, like all of cable news, is an entertainment product at it's core. Why do you think CNN went with wall-to-wall coverage of that missing plane? Cable news is there to make money; the most money possible. All-day coverage of the president's tweets is what they believe will make them the most money, so that's what they cover.

Even RT America is more of a news channel than CNN is!

KTVN Reno is getting new graphics (the CBS O&O or the WNEM one) to coincide with the station adding 4:00 and 4:30 p.m. news starting next Monday.

There’s not much sports to talk about in Austin outside of the Longhorns and Round Rock Express.

Amen to that Eat News. I think CNN realizes that people don't watch TV for news anymore, they get it all from the internet. That's why they've basically become MSNBC 2. So don't blame Jeff Zucker for CNN's downward spiral, blame progress.

She's on Highly Questionable all this week (4:30 p.m. ET on ESPNews this week)

Speaking of that, the NMSA says WBRZ’s 1983 Theme was in use at WFSB, so I thought it’d be fitting to post this on TVNT.

From eyeontv, a couple of 1980 WFSB Land of the 3 promo videos Generic News (mostly repeats but with new clips at beginning)