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Ann from Parks and Rec is going to run MSNBC?? Oh....different person.

How dare that commercial station commercialize a commercial during this commercial-related holiday season?! OUTRAGE.

KTVU Noon 7/1993 - from the early-mid 90s period they used Brave New World for the Noon and early evening weekend newscast

This is awesome! Rashida Jones will become the most prominent Black woman in the cable news industry.

Will be interesting to see what changes Rashida makes to MSNBC. Phil was at NBC/MSNBC for so long.

Phil Griffin leaving as head of MSNBC, to be replaced by Rashida Jones:

Not breaking (announced earlier last week), but Tiffany Cross and Jonathan Capehart will be taking over for the weekend morning slot last permanently filled by Joy Reid (10AM-12PM). Tiffany will anchor Saturdays and Jonathan will anchor Sundays. These will be two separate branded shows and not just the same show led by two different people. [Link 1] and [Link 2]

Another development here, but for Tallahassee: Gray launched WNXG (Me TV) as a new 3.0 station that will serve as the "hub" for WFXU/WCTV, which includes CBS, depending on the call sign. The full launch for 3.0 is expected sometime next year.

Speculation not over. Where exactly are they going to fit her into that already jam-packed evening lineup? Most stations seem to be making cuts, this one just keeps adding.

Elizabeth Flores Named Vice President of News for NBC10 and Telemundo62 Flores is coming from WABC-TV, where she has served as Assistant News Director since 2018. Before that, she spent 17 years at WTVJ/WSCV (NBC6/Telemundo 51) in South Florida in various management positions. Her first day in Philly will be on January 11, 2021.

Another example of WSVN "influence," this time from a station Canada -- a bit subtler than the ones above, but still obvious:

WWJ, Detroit, 1977:

I noticed that KXII finally updated the weather graphics to Gray's new style to match the newscasts graphics after using the previous graphics since 2015.

Amy returns Friday morning. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIW9OynnXsk/?igshid=yv28lqs94rui

Gray has similar lower thirds at some of their stations, but it seems to be a common trend to have the adjustable boxes for the top lower third. NBC's Today, the ABC O&O's, and others have been doing it for a while, as well.

That is likely because WDIO's graphics were also made by Linear Drift per my source.

He was already in studio for a special live edition of UpClose that Sunday. This was because the network called the winner of the election that previous morning.

I thought David was a decent journalist too. Hope he lands on his feet somewhere soon.

Here's a KMXC sign off from October 2008. Not sure if they still sign off though.

Here is the sign off of KTTW from a couple days ago, also the last day as a FOX affiliate.

Cinemagic likely made the WRNN open too...but yes, definitely more than an open designer there.

Idk if this has already been posted...but in the mid-2000s, WRNN ripped off WMAR's early 2000s look right down to the slogan.

Also in memory of Phyllis, here's the Week 2 1981 edition of The NFL Today on CBS: And also football-related, here are two vintage editions of an NFL highlight show from 1954 on the old DuMont network called Time For Football, w/Jim Leaming:

Once again, the station has lost its way! The inclusion of network and syndication personalities is not what the Channel 4 "Sing-A-Long" is all about. It's local!!!!!! A number of years ago, they strayed and keyed-in an animated character that "just so happened" to be the star of a Universal Christmas movie! When I questioned management about commercializing this New York tradition, I was told that it had nothing to do with promoting a Universal movie. When hearing that, I offered to sell the exec a bridge connecting lower Manhattan to another borough.