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For ratings purposes, I'm fairly sure that Fairfield is considered the San Francisco DMA, but Vacaville is in Sacramento's. That means, for example, that KOVR doesn't get credit for anyone in Fairfield who might be watching them. There are a number of odd overlapping carriage situations in the two markets that mostly date back to older cable deals or some other reason. KCRA is still on the Comcast lineup in Contra Costa County, and I'm 99% sure that's a leftover from the KRON/KNTV/NBC spat. KTVU can also be seen OTA and on cable in the Eureka/Redding and Monterey/Salinas markets, though a lot of that also stems from its superstation era in the 80s.

Coverage of the death of Fahey Flynn in 1983, from WLS and WBBM where he worked. There's also some coverage (local and national) of Christine Craft winning her discrimination lawsuit against KMBC, which happened the same day. Joel Daly actually appeared on WLS while on vacation in Spokane:

Some uncommon and rare Boise stuff I found including some unseen/unheard KTVB Broadcast News stuff and (partial) KIVI with Gari's News Watch.

It looks much improved, I always thought that the lighting in the previous studio was much better, despite it being smaller.

WNBC has added lighting above the video walls and between the main video wall and blue side walls. Instead of a live camera view of the city, they are using a photo of the Manhattan skyline for the background with NEWS 4 NEW YORK at the bottom scrolling left to right . You can see the difference in stills from the 1st and 7th.

WGN has proclaimed that CBS 2 "is on a rocket ship to 3rd place." This is brilliant.

PBS Nova, Feb. 1992, takes a deep dive in the business of TV ratings...

Yes. Fairfield is one of the lucky cities located between SF and Sacramento Markets and it’s pretty unique on their cable lineup since they get both ABC and CBS channels except NBC Bay Area, KRON and KTVU. However they have KTVU Plus to catch some KTVU newscasts if they don’t want to watch KTXL But what’s also different in Fairfield is that they must probably have a sharing agreement and don’t blackout programming from either or of the 2 markets it shares. In San Diego, KTLA used to be on ch 14 on its cable line up and was mostly blacked out with paid programming 90% of the time. KSWB had the rights to air WB Programming during that era before KTLA was dropped around 2007

Smart move... She cuts her cost of living by 1/3rd...goes to a respectable news town, and she still gets to eat and play, close to the bay area...but not TOO close.

This is nothing new. If I remember correctly, Kristen Tallent (former anchor/reporter at WHBQ) also works with SCS as a public information officer these days in addition to her work as a spokesperson for a couple of local businesses in the city.

I'll be sure to watch! Aspies rule!