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We're not gonna rehash this in another station's thread. Romero is now at KNBC. KTLA is in the past.

Being in Washington gives the EN even more credibility than if they were in NYC, I’d argue. For one, it’s in the world’s most powerful city.

Yeah.. I just did some more digging. It’s the weather center/office. This was completed in July.

Credit to @CaptainNewsfor flagging it on the Discord: WBBM is airing a promo celebrating Brad Edwards' 10th anniversary at the station that features the "CBS News Chicago" branding with "WBBM" in a black box, similar to what the Group W converts and WCCO have.

Sounds like she left on her own terms.

WTSP is now broadcasting from the tiny studio of WMOR in Tampa.

Very rare stuff from KDKA and WTOV 1979

For 50 years, Bob Turk has been a Baltimore Institution when it comes to weather. And I know Jerry and Al are smiling in heaven saluting him for the 5 decades at 'JZ.

It's an outdated rule Sinclair & Nexstar should take The FCC to court and not pay the fine either I wouldn't if I owned either Sinclair or Nexstar. And if I was on The FCC I'd have voted for no fine Jessica abused her power as she knows this clearly is an outdated rule that needs to go like the DINO. And I blame this rule why there is no Sat morning cartoons on FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, The CW anymore I know even if the outdated rule does go bye, bye, bye broadcast isn't going to air Sat morning cartoons. Which Sat morning cartoons would be better than the nature/E/I crap that no one watches.

Not to derail, but I always though the true World News Tonight format of London/New York/Washington/Chicago was perfect, though it didn't really account well for the West Coast just because of satellites at the time, and then when everyone shifted to New York, East Coast Bias became too overwhelming. Then CNN bailed out of Atlanta (itself a developing city) once TW bought it, and lost its way to become another ECB outpost. DC is just way overcovered as it is. Like the "TOM" problem of Canadian news where everything along the 401/A20 is over-covered to death and establishing a Vancouver evening news presence just hasn't worked, I'd love to see a true Western Edition, from Los Angeles. Maybe we'll get that this decade; they already have begun to air the Eastern feed live, so that seems like the next natural step.

I would argue that an evening news program is best suited in DC versus NYC.

Bob Turk used to visit elementary schools

WJZ chief met Bob Turk is hanging it up after 50 years.

I remember back in 90s Carole Simpson would Anchor World News On the Weekends from Washington. I think Each Network should have a least one Newscast originating from DC; there’s too much News in that City to not have a Flagship Newscast.

Per Twitter this morning, former WATN/WLMT reporter & sports director Marcus "Doc" Holliday has been hired by WMC-TV to take over as the station's sports director - succeeding Jarvis Greer, who is retiring at the end of the year.

It’s bizarre that he felt the need near the end of his post to say it was his choice to leave. Pure ego. Um, you’re going from Detroit to Chicago. It’s a clear promotion. No need to explain yourself other than you being afraid someone might think you were demoted … to a bigger market.

Evrod Cassimy is leaving WDIV after 9 years and is heading to WMAQ in Chicago later this year. https://www.clickondetroit.com/station/2022/09/22/morning-anchor-evrod-cassimy-leaving-wdiv-after-9-years/

With Vic gone, they can bump Dan Gray to main anchor at KTVI. I don't know if they's going to happen, but that's my prediction.

Look, I’m no Nexstar fan, but I wouldn’t blame the entire company over one idiot. Unless he exhibited the same behavior at KTVI (which we have no evidence of), they have no control over an individual employee acting like an abusive moron at another workplace. Even in that instance, most of the blame would go to local/regional management for their negligence, not corporate. I’m confident that KTVI will handle this appropriately (i.e., dump him).

The latest Nexstar dumpster fire. With that audio leaked and the language he used, it would be hard to imagine him back at the anchor desk. He (allegedly) swore 40 times in 4 minutes, saying some really awful things to her.

You're referring to the 1991-2006 version composed by Patterson, Walz and Fox. That was a DAMN GOOD version. I hope they bring back that version with a twist.

Former tv news director and executive Al Primo, credited with conceiving the Eyewitness News format for Group W in Cleveland and Philadelphia, and then perfecting it at ABC in New York, has passed at age 87. Here's the story from WABC-TV, where Primo served as ND and where his creation attained perhaps its greatest and longest-lasting success. (Note [9:52 PM ET]: the story contains an incorrect reference to Stu Nahan and Bill Bonds launching Eyewitness News in NYC in '69, which they did–but in LA. I've already reported this to WABC-TV and hopefully, they'll dig deeper into their own history and make the necessary corrections rather than cut-and-paste from another source.) (EDIT [12:35 AM ET, 9/30]: Said corrections have been made.)

WNEM TV5 Weekend anchor and reporter Faith Gantner passed away after an 11-month battle with blood cancer. Prayers and condolences to out to Faith's family and her extended family at TV5 News. Godspeed, Faith... and say hi to Sam Merrill from all of us here. https://www.wnem.com/2022/09/29/former-tv5-reporter-weekend-anchor-dies-after-battling-cancer/

Some sad news on this Wednesday evening. Just saw this on the CBS Evening News Bill Plante Former CBS News White House correspondent has passed away at the age of 84. Bill Plante Dies: Longtime CBS News White House Correspondent Was 84 – Deadline

Las Vegas investigative journalist Jeff German was killed in a stabbing outside his home last Saturday. He was 69 years old. Las Vegas investigative journalist Jeff German killed | Las Vegas Review-Journal (reviewjournal.com)

Confirmed by her sister to be suicide. https://www.tampabay.com/sports/bulls/2022/08/29/former-usf-freedom-high-womens-basketball-player-neena-pacholke-dies-at-27/

I imagine most of you saw that NFL hall-of-famer Len Dawson (Chiefs, KMBC-TV, HBO, etc.) died today at age 87. KMBC-TV is in the middle of an hour-long special about Dawson. You might check their website at a later time to see if they upload the whole thing.

Here's a link to a WKYC story. He served as the prior sports director to Jim Donovan, after his time at WJKW. https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/wkyc-sports-anchor-cleveland-browns-broadcaster-jim-mueller-dies/95-c10bc1a0-4d5d-47d5-a636-26ccf0e11289