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a.k.a., the return of Today's Take.

Megyn has 69,000,000 reasons never to work again. She got more than the last laugh.

PHL is wrapped at 10:57. The tease at 10:59 is live.

Monica had done the 10PM news on PHL17. Jim came on around 11:05 or so and mentioned something about taking care of a bloody nose. He continued with the rest of the news after that.

A rarity: the intro of El Lado Oscuro, a 2-hour block of sci-fi series that Telefe aired on Saturdays at 10pm between 1997 and 1999, introduced by veteran broadcaster Pancho Ibañez. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=NUplYZgPz_g;t=223 The X-Files, Millennium and Poltergeist: The Legacy were part of the block's lineup.

Has anyone stumbled upon this? It’s a KARK blooper tape from 1984 (I actually think it’s earlier than that), on Ron Gardner leaving the anchor desk and disappearing. In reality Ron went to former KARK sister station KOCO, and was replaced with DJ Bob Vernon, who himself also came from a post-Gannett station, WLKY.

An almost complete (missing intro) edition of KTVU's The 10'OClock News from June 28, 1985:

They can't get Tameron back

NBC News tells 1010 AM WINS that next week the 9am hour of TODAY will be hosted by "other TODAY co-anchors".

I’m aware, but Lisa was too green for the job at the time.

Lester is the most stable force at NBC right now. Lester is respected not just for his work ethic but because he is not fool of himself and he is very professional. A majority of viewers in this country don't like a lot of news talent but Lester is still respected by a lot of people which is saying a lot. To me I think Lester would benefit on a versatile platform. I think evening news is very limiting and in my opinion what is killing evening news is commericals and watered down content. PBS Evening News is way superior news product and with no commericals they can inform the audience more in 30 minutes then commerical evening news. Cause news right now is not dependent on talent anymore. Mainstream news is in the gutter, and just a repeat of same old stories which insults your intelligence. Unless you are a partisan commentator, people don't care about news anchors anymore. Nobody cares about larger then life news anchors or hosts anymore. Lester is not the problem. To me he is only doing what he is told. An insider told me that after Brian Williams scandal, Andrew Lack is putting a tight leash on the evening news. NBC News is a bad news organzation and ran by immature management people. They seriously do need to overhaul the evening news content, same old news and people you see on MSNBC with their bias and they are on "netural" evening news is bad optics. I see Hallie Jackson with her Trump bashing on MSNBC and she shows up on evening news trying to act like a netural reporter. It is an insult and really a joke. The content is poor and the same old consumer stories of coffee being bad for you. How many times can you insult your viewers.

Great find without the call letters in the Youtube title. First time pretty much all of the closing music has been found in the clear. That lasted I think from around 1980 until just a few months after this clip. They updated the music a touch when they introduced a new set later in the year - but that music update only lasted about a year and a half before Kevin O'Brien the legendary GM came on board and commissioned the classic 1987 theme and 3D SF Bay open. Someone get this to NMSA in case it's taken down.

In the memory and in tribute to the late, great Dr. Joe Glover. RIP Joe, say hello to Rich Fisher from all of us, and Godspeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=H29OmDquZNk;t=77