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As a note, this thread is now stickied, replacing the HD News Thread! Out and About has become a TVNT fixture since @TexasTVNews established it in August 2011, and it's exciting to go into 2019 with it assuming its proper place as a sticky thread for all the latest bits of news from around the country.

17 years ago today, NBC moved affiliations in the San Francisco Bay Area. The result was all three (later four) networks owning a Bay Area TV station, KRON not only losing NBC but also ratings, and Young Broadcasting ending up in bankruptcy by the end of the decade due to its KRON purchase.

Just in time for the end of the year... KUSI is now on Roku! Now everyone can enjoy the old classic set, those favorite Grandpa and Grandma anchors...and a few pretty "nieces". And who can forget that smell of Old Spice during every anchor toss. You will also get to see Mark Mathis the twitter beat down king. Plus.... The ghost of John Coleman...and his extended 50 year climate change forecast. Happy News Year from the McKinnons.

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When you discover that CNN Newsroom at 4am on a Sunday looks rather good compared to their weekday programming that’s a terrible sign...

Twenty years ago today... The late, great Irv Weinstein retires (12/31/1998) Thirty-One years ago today... Baltimore loses a television icon.

Follow up. It's The CW that will be moving to the new stick. KWTX posted that The CW will be moving to KNCT 46.1 from KWTX 10.2. In its place will be the Telemundo affiliation they acquired from the Raycom deal (moving from KXXV 25.2), It has also acquired the MeTV affiliation from KCEN. They'll carry H&I on 6.3 as a replacement The lineup will be like this come Wednesday (1/2): KWTX 10.1 CBS 10.2 Telemundo 10.3 MeTV KNCT 46.1 The CW 46.2 MeTV 46.3 Start TV

Bobbie Wygant, the KXAS fixture that has out-tenured all other on-camera reporters/anchors/hosts in DFW, has come out with a new book called "Talking to the Stars". She has interviewed countless actors and celebrities (many if not most are surely in the book), as well as working in other roles while at Channel 5. Several years ago, a website was launched to digitally archive many of her recent and past interviews. The ones I've seen aren't always edited, so there's less of a TV-polished look to some of the videos. Amazing that Bobbie Wygant is 92, and is still at it. The forward to the book was written by longtime CBS newsman (and veteran of WBAP/KXAS) Bob Schieffer. http://www.bobbiewygant.com/ https://www.dallasnews.com/life/life/2018/12/28/92-nbc5-celebrity-reporter-bobbie-wygant-still-reaches-stars https://www.star-telegram.com/entertainment/tv/article222611905.html https://www.nbcdfw.com/entertainment/the-scene/Bobbie-Wygants-Memoir-Covers-70-Years-in-Television-501823832.html

A WBBM documentary on the Flood Of 1992... it appears they had gone tabloid by this point, I think... What was WBBM like under Tabloid TV? Any idea @24994J? I know they got rid of Jacobson and had this obnoxious open:

Sad news from Puerto Rico. WAPA anchor Keylla Hernandez has lost her battle with cancer. https://www.elvocero.com/escenario/fallece-keylla-hern-ndez/article_42904422-0d1a-11e9-aff5-57a22bd2a6db.html