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WKRN has officially switched, so far so good!

I like those new graphics from what I've seen so far at wkrn.

Well, she was being quietly pushed out in the evenings with Lisa Sylvester. And demoted to noon so I guess it was a sign but if it was hers that understandable too...

615's Propulsion survived, just like WHO-DT with The Tower in 2019.

I'd like to see these deployed by more Nexstar stations. WEHT/WTVW would look good with the KOIN graphics.

On paper, it's Comcast dropping the "extra" Hearst stations from mostly external markets. But I do agree that some of these moves will be controversial, especially if viewers are losing an "in-state" voice, especially in New Hampshire. And some of these moves directly benefit Comcast, when stations like WBAL and WGAL are dropped, well, the stations that remain are owned by Comcast, who has to negotiate with Xfinity. Gee, I wonder when that dispute will ever happen?

Comcast to drop out-of-market Hearst stations on 38 different regions effective 12/2/20. Some of these make sense as much as the replacement is inferior, such as the ancestral carriage of WTAE in the Wheeling and Clarksburg/Fairmont DMA's or WCVB's carriage deep into Maine and Southeast Connecticut (which was simsubbed and syndex'd into oblivion). Some of these are disasters waiting to happen, such as a fair chunk of the New Hampshire part of the Burlington market losing access to WMUR or Bristol County, MA losing access to WCVB.

CNN had TWO husband/wife anchor teams: - Dave Walker and Lois Hart (who returned to northern California to anchor at KCRA) - Chris Curle and Don Farmer (who stayed in Atlanta to anchor at WSB ABC 2) Of course, Dave Walker and Lois Hart was the first team to kick things off on June 1, 1980. Throughout the first hour, the second team Curle and Farmer explained how CNN worked.

Dave Walker and Lois Hart were another husband-and-wife team at CNN back in the 1980s. In fact, they anchored the channel's premiere broadcast on June 1, 1980. Here's a short profile of the duo:

Curle's husband Don Farmer co-anchored with Monica Kaufman at night. Curle and Farmer went to WSB ABC 2 after their stint at CNN across town. These two lovebirds were part of the network's first news team since CNN's inception in 1980.

And speaking of Chris Curle, here she is co-anchoring Take Two on CNN with her husband Don Farmer back in 1982. The topic is local TV news consultants and Al Primo, the father of Eyewitness News, is the guest:

Bye-bye

They updated it back in September. They also brought back the Peter Jennings theme.

I just don't see any CNN employees liking his style. I'd be embarrassed to work under a guy like him.

“I think a lot of people will be devastated if he does leave the network, and are concerned that you won’t be able to find someone with his leadership style to fill that role.” Exactly what style of "leadership" does he provide? Outside of NYC what employees will be sad to see him go? If CNN returns to news after the mess he's created, that will be a welcomed change.

It's official.

I like it how WABC put their special touch in their breaking news re: trebek, led by its main anchor no less. Knowing that 7 carried J! basically since its start, it's genius.

I'm totally confused! What does reporting the news have to do with if the program following the news is an original or repeat? That makes no sense.

Well, they could always play it up to try and obscure the fact that it's blatant vertical integration, like "...to enhance our opportunities with our content partners, we may experience a temporary disruption to our owned and operated channels..."

I didn't think it was possible for a cable provider to lose their own channels.

Lester is the most stable force at NBC right now. Lester is respected not just for his work ethic but because he is not fool of himself and he is very professional. A majority of viewers in this country don't like a lot of news talent but Lester is still respected by a lot of people which is saying a lot. To me I think Lester would benefit on a versatile platform. I think evening news is very limiting and in my opinion what is killing evening news is commericals and watered down content. PBS Evening News is way superior news product and with no commericals they can inform the audience more in 30 minutes then commerical evening news. Cause news right now is not dependent on talent anymore. Mainstream news is in the gutter, and just a repeat of same old stories which insults your intelligence. Unless you are a partisan commentator, people don't care about news anchors anymore. Nobody cares about larger then life news anchors or hosts anymore. Lester is not the problem. To me he is only doing what he is told. An insider told me that after Brian Williams scandal, Andrew Lack is putting a tight leash on the evening news. NBC News is a bad news organzation and ran by immature management people. They seriously do need to overhaul the evening news content, same old news and people you see on MSNBC with their bias and they are on "netural" evening news is bad optics. I see Hallie Jackson with her Trump bashing on MSNBC and she shows up on evening news trying to act like a netural reporter. It is an insult and really a joke. The content is poor and the same old consumer stories of coffee being bad for you. How many times can you insult your viewers.

This works better in concept than in practice. An identical thing happened in 2012 when WGBH took over much of the operations of then-NHPTV - WGBH was taken off of Comcast systems in New Hampshire and Maine, NHPTV was taken off of systems in Massachusetts - but it's never that cut and dry. Even today, WGBH and what now is NHPBS are both carried on Directv, Dish, FiOS, RCN, and non-Comcast systems such as Spectrum, Metrocast, and TDS. Also, even with WMUR superserving New Hampshire it isn't like WCVB ignores it totally. More people in New Hampshire watch WCVB than you would think and even with the PBS example there wasn't some backlash, especially from WGBH supporters in New Hampshire,

Dropping WCVB in Bristol County, MA and dropping WMUR in Grafton and Sullivan Counties in NH would cause serious uproars in these areas. If programming costs are an issue, wouldn't it make sense for Comcast to drop WMUR in Massachusetts and WCVB in New Hampshire? There are some parts of MA like Framingham and Marblehead that get both, but towns adjacent to these two cities and closer to the NH border (Wayland and Salem) do not.

Big news out of Steel City.....

I really hope Comcast at least partially reverses some of these drops, or else they're probably going to lose some subscribers in Bristol County and NH's Upper Valley. In Bristol County's case, even though it is part of the Providence metro area for Census purposes, the majority of the county (save for the I-195 corridor in the south) is Boston through and through. And none of the Burlington stations cover NH very much, if at all. It is also worth noting that in significant parts of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, they're dropping WGAL and WBAL so that viewers will be forced to watch NBC on O&Os WCAU and WRC. You can't tell me that wasn't a factor.

Hearst and Comcast are doing some pruning of adjacent market stations effective in December. Some of the prunings are going to be met with some resistance, the biggest one probably being the removal of WMUR from the Comcast system serving Claremont/Hanover/Lebanon, NH. Waynesville, GA is right behind as of this they would have zero ABC service of any sort. Other fun droppings: A lot of out of market coverage for WBAL where WGAL, WRC, WRDE, and WCAU have a presence, anything out-of-Boston-DMA for WCVB (which is going to go over well in Bristol County), ancestral WTAE territory where WTRF/WBOY's .2's have a presence, WXII in the Roanoke DMA (IIRC significantly viewed), and WVTM in one of the Atlanta DMA counties in Alabama. This has shades of the Comcast/Nexstar purges a few years back.

I refuse to believe that there'd be a dispute with the channels that the company actually owns. A deal should be reached before the channels are dropped. What's next, a dispute with AT&T owned channels and Directv/Uverse?

Well, since it is 2020, could Comcast/Xfinity have a retransmission consent issue with (gasp) itself?!?!?!??!?!? https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/comcast-could-lose-local-nbc-channels-more-in-carriage-disputes-with-itself-and-others/?fbclid=IwAR074B03v6DGumw6RHc98mHNYmUQQgfbjJ7Hqxe5_BWpCKAdpie-jBeeD0Y Looking at the list, Weigel and others are up in October and Hearst, Cox, Capitol/WRAL, Hubbard and NBC/Comcast are up in December.