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I just want a circle 7 pin!

God, ABC is missing out on a lot of my money by not having a WLS store. The ABC7 flashdrive and Eyewitness News drawstring bag that I got for free doesn't make them much money.

A morning institution for 3 decades, meteorologist David Murphy is retiring. https://6abc.com/david-murphy-retiring-is-when-action-news-retirement/10971435/

We learned today that KPLR will be the host in St. Louis. KMOV, KTVI, KSDK and KDNL are also on board. Planned distribution of KPLR's subs: 11.1 -> KTVI 11.2 Court TV -> KDNL 11.3 Comet -> KSDK 11.4 Grit -> KMOV WSTR will be the host in Cincinnati. All of the major network stations will be included. Planned distribution of WSTR's subs: 64.1 -> WLWT Antenna and Comet -> WKRC TBD -> WXIX Dabl -> WCPO WMYV will host in the Piedmont Triad, where WXII is confirmed on board.

KRTK... sigh.

KYW 11pm newscast with Larry Kane, July 18, 1994

Found this on ABC’s online store: https://shopabctv.com/pages/abc-local-stations

A former meteorologist from WALB and WFXL died this morning. He was at WFXL from 2007 to November 2017. https://wfxl.com/news/local/former-walb-fox-31-meteorologist-chris-nisinger-dies-at-49

I wonder when WPVI TV 6abc will roll out the new abc logo to match its 54 year old egg shaped 6 logo. That logo has been in place since 1967 although it rolled out very slowly until becoming the full time logo when action news premiered in 1970. I would think a complete overhaul of the logo would be a big mistake for channel 6 viewers resist change , and they went through this with the short lived action news theme. in 1996.

Let’s travel back to New Year’s Day, 1975. KNBC aired a special looking back at the year before, hosted by Jess Marlow. Here’s some of it:

CBS had golf coverage on this afternoon...that's why.

Tuned in briefly this morning and noticed Savannah, Hoda, and Al were all absent. Instead we had the "old Saturday" team of Sheinelle Jones and Dylan Dreyer, along with an unidentified male anchor. What's going on here? Is this related to the studio rennovations?

WTVJ Ralph renick Report 1953 KELP? Tv 13 El Paso 1977 news clip (first of all who in their mind would name a station in a city where's bone dry )

Not sure if we're tracking affiliate rollout of the new ABC logo here or not, but WDAY/Fargo has been using it on air for the last few days now. Everything on air and on social media is the same with the new ABC logo proportion-wise as it was before.

This goes back a ways; I think Dobyns retired from TV in the late 1980s. ----- MEBANE, N.C. (AP) - Lloyd Dobyns Jr., an award-winning NBC News correspondent who reported from places around the world and who anchored an innovative U.S. television newscast in the early 1980s, has died, his family said. He was 85. Ken Dobyns said in a statement that his father died Sunday in Mebane, North Carolina, northwest of Raleigh. He said his father suffered complications from a series of strokes. Dobyns worked for NBC News in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and was known in the U.S. for working with Linda Ellerbee on the late-night news series “NBC News Overnight” in 1982 and 1983, according to a statement released by Ken Dobyns and online with a Raleigh funeral home.

Something similar happened to another newsie back in December... https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2020/12/10/news-director-has-all-of-his-belongings-stolen