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I'm guessing Jessica Boyington gets the job. She filled that role before at WCAU and I'm fairly certain they hired her with David's eventual retirement in mind. They'll try her and Matt Pellman out just to do their due diligence though.

Kirstin Cole or Kala Rama gets the vote to work AM with John Muller.

Great days of Jane and Bryant? Let me go to bed.

I guess intelligent morning tv would be like the Bryant Gumbell/Jane Pauley years on Today as the best example. Extended interviews, news magazine type feature pieces and conversations with people like military generals, foreign policy experts, and introspective authors. Dumbed down would be modern GMA. Stories on some former Power Ranger actor caught up in a murder mystery or secret recordings of dentists’ snarky side comments while the patients were under anesthesia (ACTUAL stories that they have done). CBS Mornings on the other hand would be focusing on millennial home buyer-ship rates, climate change’s threats to Florida’s oyster population, and pandemic exoduses from cities to the rural areas (actual stories they’ve done). They borrow some bits from the competition but the positives outweigh that for me.

Longtime WJW Fox 8 sports director John Telich has announced his retirement. https://www.facebook.com/Fox8NewsCleveland/videos/1563560033984776

Meanwhile here in Richmond - and Hampton Roads - too... WRIC anchor Juan Conde is leaving the station after 22 years. He signs off September 14. Juan Conde leaving broadcast news after 22-year career at WRIC ABC 8News | 8News Eric Philips - formerly of WWBT and CBN - joined WRIC late last month. Veteran journalist Eric Philips joins the WRIC ABC 8News anchor team | 8News Leland Pinder joined WTVR last month as their 5pm & 5:30pm anchor. He recently worked for WIS in Columbia. Let's welcome Leland Pinder to Richmond (wtvr.com) WWBT sports director Marc Davis is heading down I-64 East to WTKR/WGNT in Hampton Roads. Robert Corbin VARTV on Twitter: ".@WTKR3 News 3 Announces New Sports Director WTKR News 3, The E.W. Scripps Company’s @CBS affiliate in Hampton Roads, welcomes @marcdavissports as its new sports director. Marc comes to WTKR from the @NBC affiliate (@NBC12) in Richmond... #hrva #rva #VARTV https://t.co/nVqal5lr6P" / Twitter

Dale Hansen signed off one final time on WFAA tonight. But the opening of tonight's 10pm got me. They reenacted the 'Taxi' promo he did when he left KDFW 4 for Channel 8 over 38 years ago. And they brought in longtime VO guy John B. Wells to drive the Taxi. Videos Courtesy of WFAA's YT page.

Used to watch her on the WGN Midday News back when WGN America was still a superstation. May she R.I.P.

WOAI replaces main anchor Randy Beamer with Jonathan Martinez, weekend anchor at KPRC. I could say more, but I’ll keep my mouth shut. #Sinclair https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/meet-jonathan-martinez-news-4-san-antonios-new-co-anchor