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ABC7 & WGN have appointment TV-level viewer loyalty, and 7 & NBC5 also following first tier syndicated programming. Fox32 has neither, so good friggin' luck, is all I have to say. If they wanted to make inroads at 4, they'd wisely poach the first-run slate of Family Feud from sister My50 to lead into the 5 o'clock newscast.

Alternate take: 4:30-7 is actually a very good time, considering (in normal times) everyone has to get up and ready for work/school. It's one of the most important timeslots for a news operation. At least Muller's back on the morning shift again.

Not the only news anchor baby of July 14th: WNYT's Karen Tararache gave birth to her second on Tuesday as well.

I agree. This definitely makes the station seem low budget. I also do not like how they’ve been using the secondary CBSN studio for noon and 6 weekdays with Dana Tyler, and for all weekend newscasts. It is unclear whether Dana is permanently at noon, or if Chris and Mary will return at some point. Andrea Grymes has been back from maternity leave for at least a month, if not more, but seems to only be reporting. It is unclear whether she will return to the anchor desk weekend mornings. Also, Cindy Hsu posted on her Facebook page recently that she will be having knee replacement surgery soon, so it will be interesting to see if Andrea returns to replace Cindy while she’s presumably out on medical leave. I also wonder if they’ll bring in a co-anchor.

Read more closely. The person asked Craig two questions: if he was taking over the 6:00 p.m. news, and if Kala would be joining him. Craig’s reply, “afraid not,” could mean Kala’s not joining him, but it also might mean that he’s not going to be anchoring at 6:00 p.m. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I haven’t seen anything specifically stating that Craig will be anchoring at 6:00 p.m. We know John Muller is leaving the 6:00 p.m. for the 4:30-7:00 a.m. newscast, and we know Craig is moving to evenings. But we don’t know for sure that Craig will be anchoring. For all we know, he’s going to be reporting.

George Reading was another Paul Udell type. He bounced around and ended up in Monterey CA as a semi-retirement job.

I would like see Rana Novini take the spot as David's co-anchor. She does a good job anchoring and reporting. Not a fan of Gilma. But didn't ratings improve drastically with the team of Dan, Betty, Byron and Marissa? Why mess with it?

uwtitanfan is back with two gems:

Gilma returned last night at 11. She was in studio while Adam was home.

WTVJ 1976 Bicentennial Newscast

Some WTEN and WNYT commercials from 1991: The WNYT stuff is from the tail end of their “News 13” era - includes slides for their anchors, a news brief, and a promo for “Buy New York First” sponsored by Evergreen Bank (now TD Bank).

Off topic, but I wish Pizza Hut pizza still looked (and tasted) like it did in those commercials...

That makes KVUE the third station (that we know of) to use music from A Clockwork Orange as theme music for their newscasts (WVUE in New Orleans and WXIA in Atlanta are the others). Oddly enough, both KVUE, WVUE, and WXIA were ABC stations back in the mid-70s; the latter two have since switched to other networks, while KVUE remains with ABC......

WROC in its last months as an NBC affiliate, they had already began removing the peacock from its IDs:

KOTA and KDUH switched affiliations to ABC in the middle of 1984. That noon open is the only one from KDUH that doesn't show a network logo. This is the only one of the opens we have for KDUH post-switch: The NMSA has a long-running and really understandable mix-up between two news music packages... It needs its own thread.

Of what affiliation was KDUH at the time of this noon edition in '84?

WTVG 13 Nightly News 1980

1992 Los angeles riots (some you have never seen before) The last clip appears to be glitchy.

WLKY in 1984!!! Featuring their Gannett/Combined set (this was a year after they were bought by Pulitzer): Funny... Bob Vernon is the VO and this was after he left the station.

We got a 1996 KSPR news open A 1991 KY3 news open A 1993 KSPR news open A 1996 WVUE news open

This must be the latest intro with this look on YT. Anybody know when the TVbD look with the yellow and black 9 started? I'm pretty sure it was later that year.

Witness the birth of the Sinclair news empire, it's the first WBFF newscast:

Former WVEC and WTKR anchor Jane Gardner has passed away after numerous battles with cancer.