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Properly the 2 anchor format on weekends are better

I agree, a one-hour show does not need 3 main anchors. Also, that desk they are using wasn’t built for that configuration, they tend to look too cramped together in there.

Tomorrow, WATE-TV in Knoxville will be celebrating its 65th anniversary as East Tennessee's first television station. I did check their schedule, but I don't see anything about any special programming to air. But, I'll definitely be watching to see if they mention anything about their 65th anniversary. By the way, Happy 65th anniversary to WATE, East Tennessee's first television station!!!

Two legacy stations will celebrate 70 years of service... WSB-TV celebrates 70 years by airing a special on Sunday at 7pm. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/channel-2-wsb-tv-marks-70-years-of-coverage/839025343 WXYZ will celebrate their 70 years coming in October. https://www.wxyz.com/news/channel-7-celebrates-70-years-in-detroit

WTEN's Elisa Streeter is retiring after 30 years, effective the end of 2018. Her line about the "next chapter" makes me seriously think that she'll surface doing something or another at WNYT, probably special reports or what not similar to how John McLoughlin met his end. Perhaps after ~25 years we'll see the return of "Streeter's Lane"...

the younger generation, liberal or conservative, doesn't have any need for cable news with social media

Took them 10 months make this official?? They're just as bad as WMAQ at making decisions.

Griffin Communications has finally brought subchannels back to KSBI, apparently through a deal with Katz/Scripps. Today (October 1), the station added digital subchannels affiliated with Bounce TV (on 52.2), Laff (on 52.3), Grit (on 52.4) and Escape (on 52.5). As of this posting, Escape continues to be carried on KAUT-DT3 in the interim (similar to how KOCO-DT2 and KSBI-DT2 both carried This TV programming in 2012 during the former's transition to a MeTV affiliation); Bounce, Grit and Laff had respectively been carried the seventh, eighth and ninth subchannels of low-power station KTOU-LD, although I cannot verify whether KLHO is still carrying them because I cannot receive its signal.

[quote name='Georgie56']Here’s ESPN’s new NBA scoreboard @24994J was taking about. Antenna is the new font. [ATTACH=full]6574[/ATTACH][/QUOTE] Yikes that's too big.

Well if you guys read my blog, the 6:30 p.m. newscast originated in 2010 when WUPW still was all alone until the merger with WTOL in 2012. The newscast was kept but since August 17th, the newscast was moved a half-hour later to 7:00 p.m., where it airs now. So it was never canceled, just moved.

Mary Kay Kleist has been promoted to weeknights, replacing Steve Baskerville.

Good update! It's a shame that you couldn't add the 1982 Noon Open. That video which also had a few NewsWatch 8 promos and a Spirit of Tampa Bay image video was taken down a month or two ago due to the channel having multiple copyright violations which made me mad it was gone but didn't surprise me since he had pretty much the entire Super Bowl XIX game on his channel and we all know how the NFL has to protect "The Shield". MicroJow and Pannoni's channels have a lot of 1983-1985 commercials taped from WXFL but unfortunately their tapes were always cut off right before the newscast open. I think there is also an open from the first ever Live at Five from September 5, 1988 floating around YouTube from Mark Antinori who used to work at WFLA.

IIRC, didn't WUPW have a 6:30pm newscast in the LIN-era? If so, why did Raycom cancel it?

As much as WWJ 62 is the weakest Big 4 O&O, WKBD has got their back in order for the two to have a tag-team compilation.

Here you go...

Meanwhile, down the dial..... 58 years ago today, Dallas' PBS station, KERA, signed on. It wasn't until 1974 that they would be able to broadcast in color. But a first came along the following year, as KERA was the first US station to air an episode of the Brit-com Monty Python's Flying Circus. All the members of MP made an appearance during a 1975 pledge drive. KERA has been airing Brit-coms and dramas ever since.

I only remember Rowlett from KTVT. One of the best. It's a shame how WFAA did him.

That's how it always happens - ESPN relaunches with a new uniform graphics package, then everything slowly drifts away.

Most of the younger generation has grown up around the internet. YouTube, MP3 players, the iPhone, Netflix... all game changers that have shaken up the entertainment industry and journalism to their cores. Think about how radically different the world is today as opposed to 1998. There are options today that would have been unfathomable, even as Matt Drudge was shaking up the journalism world with his news aggregation site that also broke news. Fox News will survive, but in order to do so, will need to adapt. Yes, there will be an eventual audience drop, but every outlet will be experiencing that soon. It's not rocket science. Comcast, Disney, Viacom, CBS... and even Nexstar, TEGNA and (gasp!) Sinclair... will all have no choice but to change with the times. Some will be successful, some won't. It's the nature of the beast. What Fox News has done by dominating the ratings in an unprecedented scale can truly be considered as the final hurrah for traditional linear broadcasting, regardless of the content or political viewpoint. It is a rather extraordinary achievement that we will never see again.

So weird that in all of their 14 years, they've never had midday news on KYTX. They've dubbed it The Noon Show.

But will there be a sizable audience for it is my question... I don’t care if they deliver the content with smoke signals... in 20 years will anybody be around to care? It’s not like folks magically reach 65 and turn on FOX... given that most of their current audience will be dead by 2038 and the younger generation skews way left of FOX I really think the whole concept is on borrowed time...