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Muir surely was on last week, and the week before that. Where you've been?

Huh, you'd have to think this a temporary look. Also surprised they didn't just use the existing license for Icon News to get away from the NBC chimes of The Tower. Weird and sad at the same time.

Today marks the 24th anniversary of the launch of ABC 33/40 in Birmingham. At the time, it was a merger of WCFT TV-33 in Tuscaloosa and WJSU TV-40 in Anniston, coupled with a low-powered station in Birmingham, WBMA-LP. This also merged the two markets into Birmingham, and eventually made WBMG (now WIAT) the sole CBS affiliate for the now-combined market. WNAL was supposed to be the "second" station, but that went to WJSU instead....they served as the CBS affiliate for the remaining tenure of Anniston-Gadsden's time as a separate market. Allbritton would continue to run the stations until their merger with Sinclair. "33" and "40" were sold off to Howard Stirk at the last second after Sinclair tried some antics to "own" them outright, but decided to give up the licenses unless a buyer was found. Today, the station is avaiable on WBMA-LD, WABM-DT2, WDBB-DT2, and is still simulcast on Stirk-owned WGWW-DT2 (the former WJSU or "40") Several staff members are still there today, including anchor Brenda Ladun, and of course, the venerable James Spann who had departed WBRC for their switch to Fox as part of this launch.

You know, you are right goldenshine9

Or Columbus News Now? That would be a more suitable branding. I think the DOJ would be more likely to raise a stink here. They already have the most powerful station and a second station (via SSA). They would completely dwarf their only real competition (Nexstar). One possibility I could see is that they may have to give up one of the networks over (to 3.2), similar to what happened in Hawaii.

Should this purchase be blessed by the FCC, could we POSSIBLY see...

It will be interesting to see if the CBS station in Lake Charles will be a part of this transaction. During the strike of Hurricane Laura in the Lake Charles area, they were doing very primitive coverage using webpages of traffic cams and weather radar. It also looked like they get their forecasts from WLTZ in Columbus (same lower thirds) prior to the storm knocking them and the other stations off the air. Not to dive too deep into speculation territory, WLTZ could be a repeater for WSFA in Montgomery, giving the Alabama side of the market an NBC station that airs things at the right time for them (since Columbus and Georgia are in Eastern and the Alabama side is Central time)

WGN's graphics department has been killing it, lately.

He needs to be in my freshman year Digital Media Design course in college. I'm only 3 weeks in and this goes against everything I've learned.

Good for David! It's about time. Now that means 11am and 5pm are wide open. Wonder who it'll be. Maybe Adam and Gilma? Stay tuned.

TVNewsCheck states that David Ushery will anchor the 4 & 11pm broadcasts starting in October.

We're getting new college football graphics this season, it seems And it's more like the MNF graphics than ever, it seems.

The morning weather when Snedeker is on makes a graphic artist like myself CRINGE. The 7-Day looks slapped together by a 5 year old. Nothing in-line, differing fonts, the boxes just put wherever. Not to mention, in the AM and Noon, Temperatures for all days are displayed "High/Low", but in all other dayparts, it's "Low/High". Why? I realize WNEP can get away with most anything it seems in the TEGNA empire, but my god, I wonder if anyone at corporate pays attention to their broadcasts.