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It was owned by Scripps. Same “5” and open style as WEWS. Their own sister on the same channel (WMC) used an old-style “5”.

Late-70's video from West Palm Beach:

I know that Bob Johnson is up there in heaven reunited with MaryEllen Locher and anchoring the news together from the good lord above. Thoughts and prayers to The Johnson Family. RIP Bob and MaryEllen, and Godspeed.

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

uwtitanfan is back with two gems:

WESH 1989 The eagle has landed 20th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. KPLC 7 News 1986 clips WVNY weather forecast 1988

Technically, what's to stop Nexstar from operating WPIX? Mission will hold the license and programming, and that's the extent of FCC jurisdiction. If there's some random UHF station that Nexstar wants to buy for "ATSC testing" or for some other purpose, then they can get that for half-credit. Where does Nexstar stand on their cap at this point? This is a one-off transaction, so even with how the Sinclair-Tribune deal fizzled, as long as it's Mission calling the shots and buying at fair market value, there shouldn't be a problem. Sinclair failed miserably with "getting" WGN by finding one of their buddies to sell to, at a significant discount. At stake is WPIX's carriage on YTTV (which was a group deal with Scripps for the other Tribune castoffs). This would make it the lone CW affiliate carried by a Mission or Nexstar owned station. Nexstar wasted no time in pulling WMYT from the Charlotte market (since FOX had it carried before). Hopefully a larger deal emerges that includes all of their CW stations and WGN eventually. This is a major hole in many markets. The timing on this was likely deliberate to see the end result of the FCC's decisions on Sinclair.

1998 Miami A.M. News montage, including a rarity from WSVN, at long last, the WSVN short lived 1997 theme is finally here!

Pardon me, for a moment, everyone. But really, could we stop picking fights? If I was snippy (putting it nicely) to someone every time they did something silly, wrong, annoying, etc., I and many others would've been kicked out of here years ago. Having some restraint really works wonders. Besides, for someone who supposedly could live without this site, you sure seem to feel the need to lurk around and call out everyone's missteps. Look, I don't want you to leave. Many of your contributions here are valuable, and even if you think I'm being fake or disengenous, more voices generally makes for a better forum. Also, I'll even agree that sometimes exceptional bullshit needs to be called out. That said, if I were to call out your intelligence and mental capacity and tell you to log off forever/jump off a cliff/straight up die, I'd look like an incredible ass. Maybe you do, but I sure don't get any thrill out of looking like an ass. Good night, sir. End rant.

On Tuesday, WTVC announced that their longtime news anchor Bob Johnson has passed away on Monday after his battle with Parkinson's Disease. https://newschannel9.com/news/local/bob-johnson-longtime-wtvc-anchor-colleague-and-friend-passes-away