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It's Disney's policy to count years of service to an acquired company as Disney service -- Bob Iger for instance celebrated 45 years at "Disney" last year even though the first ~20 years were at ABC/Cap Cities ABC.

Jude LaCava is leaving KSAZ. He'd been there since 1993. This was his decision. Last day on air is April 1. Wow.

Many of these stations are low-powered upstarts built for the sole purpose of bringing affiliations to markets where they previously did not exist. Hopefully bringing some scale to these stations could be a major plus for them to better compete in their markets. What you see is a lot of peeved viewers who lose an adjacent affiliate they've had for years replaced by a local one, that is grossly inferior.

Matt's been doing the weekday mornings and Tiffany Savona has been doing the weekend mornings. Tiffany did do the weather this morning (Thursday), and it looks like Matt will be doing the evening forecast today.

Thank you Samantha. I've picked up on the following: *The synthesized and Timpani drums *The 3-5 vocal chorus Both are in fact signatures of Otis Connor as used on Wipeout and WODS-FM in Boston ("Drake Series '88" and '89 packages)

This morning, GMA celebrated Robin's 30th anniversary with ESPN/ABC (they grouped it as Disney, which is untrue), and while I love me some Robin Roberts, the special guests were the highlights.

He could fit right in. Even Newsmax is a better place for him now than Fox. ...and that's them being generous.

IIRC the weekend shows were moved back to the 66th St studios because of the costs to rent out Times Square.

Now that the searchlights of 21st Century Fox are no longer part of the brand identify of the New Fox network, they’ve rolled out a rebrand earlier this Fall. I’m curious whether this abstract logo will find its way into local station identities and when the searchlights will start to disappear from local stations with the dated, so-called “kite” logo. more on the rebrand here: https://www.creativebloq.com/news/fox-entertainment-rebrand