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Whether you appreciate it or not, group revenue isn't measured on a station by station basis.

Not everywhere they don’t. No way.

And there is the late Jim Tilmon with weather, and the late Chet Coppock on sports (also, it's great to see the full version of a Chicago newscast [this 1982 WMAQ late edition] that was originally on that same channel as just clips).

Yeah, I found that even with the most minuscule tilt to the right, NewsNation is still pretty much in the center. And it wouldn't surprise me if Nexstar has been paying attention to the ratings; given that they've been gearing up for the new morning show. I actually don't blame Joe Donlon for being unhappy with the final cut of the Trump interview; and I think that now that Donlon's got his own show, he's basically got creative control over any pre-recorded interviews (much like Banfield does for hers).

Usually he would. In this case, for time it was likely fed in from the site and to turn it around, producers probably took it and spliced it up for him to front.

WJZY is just being held by Nexstar at this point, but it looks like local management are idiots because they just completely undone the 5-years of success that was made in building up "Good Day Charlotte" by Fox in less than 12 months. You want to keep and nurture social media sensations like meteorologist Nick Kosir because the younger audiences are more social media oriented, less likely to watch news for general purposes, and more racially diverse. Honestly, a weaker station like WJZY needs more black news anchors that connect to the rapidly growing black audience in the Charlotte DMA like a native like Brigida Mack and a younger black female news anchor like Morgan Norwood. Jamal Goss isn't the strongest news anchor, but they don't even try to develop him as a news anchor. It is also tale telling that most of the black reporters and the lone black meteorologist (Brittany Hamilton) from the Fox O&O ownership have quit under Nexstar. Nexstar has a huge problem with diversity of black and brown faces on the news desk in comparison to direct competitors like WBTV, WSOC, and WCNC, and it seems to be a common problem across their footprint. Ann Wyatt is cool, but she would have been better suited for the noon & 4PM newscasts. Nexstar management is extremely out of touch with Charlotte and it is showing in their decisions. They don't know how to do anything other than throw some money into to start two news programs (noon & 4PM) and make the sports show, "Fox46 Sports Xtra" into an half-hour weekday nights or hour-long on Sunday night "CSL/Charlotte Sports Live". "CSL" is nice, but it's not needed every single night at 11PM. Nexstar should be investing in a 11PM newscast and expanding "Good Day Charlotte" from 5AM to 10AM first. Their lack of effort in building up the local news operation in the Charlotte market by hiring more racial diversity of news anchor talent, expanding newscast times, and not over-relying on other "regionally complimentary" (their stupid words) stations from Raleigh/Durham, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson (Asheville), or Winston-Salem/Greensboro/High Point for stories and content is shorten their tenure of ownership. Raleigh and Columbia are the only cities they should be checking for because those are the state capitals within their bi-state market area. Local stations make money by providing as much local content as possible for their ROI and stable ratings, but Nexstar just doesn't get that... Well with all the bad decision-making occurring by Nexstar and then their dumpster fire called News Nation, Nexstar will be too broke to hold on many of their larger market properties at the rate they are going. These decisions will result in having to sell this duo (WJZY/WMYT), WPIX, WGN-TV, KTLA, etc. to cover revenue losses across the board. That's just my opinion, but I see it happening and very soon...

South Florida clips from 1997

Another freshy uploaded WMAQ clip, this time the 10 p.m. news from 1982. The station was still using the NewsCenter 5 branding in the open -- but, as you can see here, it was already being phased out, with even the lower-thirds referring to Channel 5 News:

And WDJT is the only one out of those 4 mentioned that hasn't changed their newscast title since they became a CBS station in '95. They have always been "CBS 58 News".

I know the metrics intimately, they return a strong margin.

Really, does it need to be phrased so negatively here? They're in my market and they could be a lot worse, like WGCL worse or WWJ-TV non-existent, and they have management which is willing to spend. And when WTMJ is in the market continuing to drag it down, I'd rather watch a great fourth-place news operation trying hard than a third-place one we know can do 250% better (and has). They got to 25 years; there were times we were praying they got to 10 or even five, so it's a major accomplishment to me.

Here's a AccuWeather forecast that will be accurate for sure. Reporter Candace McCowan is due in August. https://twitter.com/ABC7NY/status/1380110744730107907?s=20

Unless Shirleen was leaving to anchor one of the main broadcasts on ABC there would be no point to her leaving. It would be worth it to leave for GMA, WNT or MAYBE for a spot on the VIew.

In terms of career progression, one would not go from anchoring a broadcast at WABC to anchoring World News Now. It pays less and the hours are worse. If anything, you sometimes see the opposite - Liz Cho and Rob Nelson, for example, both anchored WNN before coming to WABC. For most, anchoring a broadcast at WABC would be the apex of a career.

Wow! Big news out of the Triangle. WTVD has announced two departures. Evening anchor Tisha Powell and Chief Meteorologist Chris Hohmann are both leaving the station within the next couple of months. Hohmann will leave on May 28 after nearly 30 years at the station. While Powell will depart on June 30 after 17 years.