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Gray has hired Monica Pearson to host two shows on WGCL and Peachtree TV. She is well known for her years on WSB (mostly as Monica Kaufman) until she retired in 2012. https://www.ajc.com/life/radiotvtalk-blog/monica-pearson-joining-cbs46-peachtree-tv-to-host-two-programs/DYDXV5UYGFCNBDKF4G4VVT655Q/?outputType=amp

And they said WGCL and WPCH wasn't Grey's Flagship stations... This is looking like they are going to make a force in the ATL!

I miss Larry King Live. If CNN had a LKL type a show with newsmakers, celebs, and take phone calls like LK done over the years, they would've gotten out of the ratings slump. It's just my opinion

And WBTV got their successor for their next Chief Meteorologist when Eric Thomas retire. Congrats to Al Conklin on becoming the next chief!

Gray is certainly the new start that these stations (and all of the other Meredith stations) so desperately need. And after the decades of failure in Atlanta, Gray is truly making this their hometown flagship and a focal point for their presence in Atlanta. And by bringing Monica on board, it could be a way to finally take on WSB in the ratings and take advantage of the cost-cutting going on with Apollo and their gutting of Cox.

They tried Piers Morgan and it flopped. Joy Behar was on HLN with a similar show and it wasn’t a success either. What host would succeed?

And Trump was the only thing going for NBC in the Zucker era (The Apprentice) as he was running them into the ground, and right before the Jay Leno disaster, he even quipped that NBC may never be #1 in primetime again. Both of them deserve a special place in hell for what they have done. Zucker fueled his ego to the point, well, we know the rest of the story.....

As I expected, the CNN that Trump helped build is quietly falling apart....

Bob Schiffer filling in for Scott Pelley, apparently this is Bob's last time ever at the CBSEN desk. Wish he'd stayed on as anchor from '05 until his retirement.

So in other words, CNN will be pretty much be the same with Zucker's strategies still in place.