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Obviously she should’ve went to the professional and contacted a certain LA anchor for some advice when she was dating the Mayor of Los Angeles back in the day.....

The peak was definitely during the Applegate/Action News era. While it tested the limits of what was considered journalism. It definitely brought WOIO to a new level of success, along with WKYC rising out of the doldrums for the first time. Romona's return was probably the last major investment, and this was after WKYC couldn't afford her anymore. The same had happened two years before with Tim White. As the Applegate era was drawing to a close, so was the growth of Raycom and eventual merger with Gray. The "Cleveland 19" era was a mistake, it softened the newscasts too much and Raycom began to treat WOIO like another middle-market station. They had made the same mistake in their first go-around as "Hometeam 19/43" as the stations were indistinguishable from their cohorts across the country. Yes, the "19 News" was the oomph that WOIO needed, but it's too little too late given all of the slashing and burning that took place. They literally stacked the deck during the "Cleveland 19" relaunch with way too many poached anchors in the same place, and virtually all of them were gone within a short while. Meanwhile, WUAB was left to wither and die under Raycom, being overtaken by WBNX soon after, and WUAB only got the CW as a result of all of the Ernest Angley foreclosure drama.....and CBS's desire to put it on a major-grouped station.

Since my thoughts here were moved to the other thread, it looks like the WATN font issue was simply forgetting to load the correct font into the CG. It seems to happen a lot these days. And yet there are stations like WFMJ who have yet to fix the issue (or even care).

Have there been any rumblings of Lori Stokes either leaving GDNY or moving to the 6 PM news cast. To my knowledge, there has been no one put in the 6PM slot, Teresa Priolo and Chris Welch seem to fill in the most. But, I do find it weird that Lori has filled in two or three times.

Oops...and I was going to even put it in the Tegna board.

The conversation regarding the KUSA protest incident has shifted to its own thread.

Good find! The person who posted the clip is slightly off on the years the music was used. Believe it or not, elements of it actually were still in use until 2000. The last surviving pieces of it were cuts used for reports during the annual Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo as well as the spot that ran each night before the rebroadcast of the 10 PM newscast during the late night hours (with the 1994-era graphics). The first phase-out came in 1996 when they re-branded their morning show to "The Spirit of Texas This Morning" and used a separate package for it - one that the NMSA has lumped in with The Spirit, though I'm not sure if that's actually the case. With regard to the music... listen to the intro of Giff Nielsen's Bulls Eye... Is it just me, or does it sound like a Stephen Arnold piece? It is not part of the American Spirit package at all - I have the 3 discs of it. Wonder if anyone has any insight into that. It also made me realize just how a dedicated weekend sports show (outside of High School sports) has never really worked on the station. I can think of a bunch from 1990-2005 or so that were there and gone in short order - The Sports Page, Warren Moon's Quarterback Corner, The Jack Pardee Show, this one, a show with Giff Nielsen and Dan Pastorini in the early 2000s... The current Sports Extra has had some staying power as it started in the 2010s, though. Fun, somewhat irrelevant fact - Kathie Turner (the weather forecaster in the clip) actually helped me get my meteorology merit badge when I was in the boy scouts. This was also a great excuse to go to poke around the station during the late 90s and see that great MBD set when it was still fairly new!

Shockingly, Griffin's KWTV/KSBI isn't among that group. I think they must be waiting for Tulsa to join the ATSC 3.0 bandwagon before they too join the bandwagon.

ATSC 3.0 is Live in Oklahoma City The five stations broadcasting NextGen TV in Oklahoma City include Hearst’s KOCO-TV (ABC), Nexstar Media Group’s KFOR-TV (NBC) and KAUT-TV (IND); and Sinclair’s KOKH-TV (Fox) and KOCB-TV (CW).

I've uploaded a few Houston items recently. Just starting to re-introduce content from my old channel as well. KPRC News update with Bob Nicholas and the late Doug Johnson from May 1985. KTRK News Update from December 1985 with Melanie Lawson KPRC Channel Two News Update from October 1989 with Tim Lake, currently of WTEN KHOU midday newscast from November 1993

Add Verizon FIOS to the list of cable providers all over the country that are dropping the RSNs, they dropped AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh a few days ago https://triblive.com/sports/tv-talk-verizons-fios-tv-drops-att-sportsnet-pittsburgh/

Coastal Television (KYUR/KTBY) is making news for all the wrong reasons (this story ran in the NY Post today too): https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2020/10/12/anchorage-mayor-admits-to-inappropriate-relationship-with-news-anchor/

Looks like WOI maybe next (or NXT) in line for the new graphics https://twitter.com/brandonlaw_wx/status/1315731883926401024?s=20

As announced at the end of the 6pm news, meteorologist Melissa Magee will make her last report at WPVI later at 11 tonight. It was revealed that she will return to her hometown of Los Angeles to be closer with her family.