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It really depends on the market though; those two markets have had sustaining newscasts since the WB/UPN days that have continued on and on, and WAXN, WRDQ, KMCI and WMLW have been aversions where they have an independent schedule built on strength that hasn't needed an affiliation. Others since then...it's hard to start a news operation or convert a station which has been stuck in VLC automated irrelevancy since MyNet bailed out of scheduling competitively to carrying some news. The only real case I've seen that happen is WMYD, and that took a transition away from a scratch rated INN product and Granite puttling little money into the station, to Scripps buying it and having WXYZ put newscasts on, to pull off. But you're not going to be able to finance news operations on irrelevant stations much longer. WCCB's op is pretty much on death watch now because the moment that CW contract ends, WMYT is getting it. In Milwaukee, WISN presumably could've placed a 9 pm show on WVTV anytime since 2006, but instead is happy to let it air on True Crime Network and call it a loss leader that provides a good alternative to WITI. The same with KOAT and the Acme duop in ABQ before Nexstar paired them with KRQE and just put the 9 on what's now their DT2 Fox. And I notice that WCNC wasn't even mentioned in Myron's comment; they've always been irrelevant back to the Ted Turner days. Eventually they'll throw in the towel and call it a day because there's only so much news you can watch or put on in a market before it just is complete white noise. Eventually you might just see some of these stations move the only thing with a pulse, the J!-WoF hour, to 10pm and just put on news from 2pm to primetime.

LA is hardly an anomaly with three English-language newscasts at 10P. Charlotte (much smaller than LA) has had three 10P newscasts for years (WJZY/WAXN/WCCB). Heck, down the road in the Greenville/Spartanburg market (smaller than Charlotte) they have also had three news broadcasts competing at 10 (WHNS/WYCW/WMYA). Nothing "beyond disastrous" occurred in those markets. Also, why is 10 o'clock so special that you can't have multiple stations competing with news? In recent years, some FOX stations have been adding 11 p.m. newscasts that compete with NBC, ABC, and CBS affiliates. And what about 6 a.m.? Many markets have four stations airing news. The Charlotte market has five. No disasters to report during those hours. I totally agree with your point about too much news. Stations have gone to the well a lot with news expansion. Part of that is driven by budget restraints while some of it comes to a lack of creativity. But to say that three stations fronting news at 10 p.m. would be beyond disastrous is a bit over the top.

I’m not sure. It will depend on how “exciting” her opportunity is once she reveals it. I wasn’t really a Baracy fan - she fell into the position after a series of tragic and unfortunate events. The overall reaction on Facebook seems mixed, with folks wanting Ross Caruso promoted. Really though, Martz is a solid addition. It reunites him with Yolanda Harris and brings a bit more…gravitas to a 10TV that sorely sorely needs it. Now if they can persuade Jeff Hogan to come back and ditch Andrew Kinsey… #WishfulThinking

Good. It doesn’t help the affiliates to be forced to program an extra hour of primetime in an environment where syndication is an endangered species.

Jym Ganahl was probably a bargain. And his "retirement" from NBC4 was probably a win-win to cut his payroll there, and just wanting to get back into the swing of things at ABC6, he took whatever they would give him. Initially it was a midday weather slot, but it's probably grown in recent years to include fill-in work. Marshall also worked at NBC4 and even did mornings at WKYC in the 90s. Even after his flap with the NLGJA (National Association of LGBTQ Journalists) after his comments made at their conference, he's still going strong at ABC6.

Without Columbus, Sinclair wouldn't be what it is. Back in the old days they put nothing into WTTE and it was still like a cash machine for them. But when they merged with River City is when things really took off. What I can't understand is when big corporations purchase a crown jewel property, and then destroy it by cheapening everything after they take over. It seems to me that what you do when you buy a property like WBNS is that you let them keep running things like they always have and keep the high level of investment they have always had going. I wonder if Marshall needed some meteorology help over there, and Jym came over to help him. And don't forget 10TV has been like Tom Ryan, Carol Luper, Luann Stoia and a few others ending up at Channel 6. (No offense.) Channel 6 isn't getting the has beens anymore.

The tables have turned in Columbus for sure. Once upon a time, talent would move "up" to 10TV, like when Chris Bradley made the jump years ago. Nowadays, (even before Tegna) you have ex-WSYX talent resurfacing at 10TV. The turning point seemed to be when Kurt Ludlow left 10TV, and eventually found his way to ABC6 and FOX 28. Even Jym Ganahal "retiring" from WCMH only to resurface at WSYX because he was "bored". WSYX has finally built themselves as the leader of Columbus TV, bolstered by their treatment by Sinclair as their "cash cow", and having control of 3 stations in the market. WCMH suffered greatly under Media General (and Nexstar is trying to make something of them) while 10TV has slowly declined and was eventually torpedoed by Tegna.

It can also be bad when it's the other way around. Like in these small markets where they have some ancient old man and some wet behind the ears 20 year old (who looks like she should be getting him coffee) at the anchor desk. Up to 20 years difference is not bad though when the man is older. The same can't be said when the woman is older. It's just kind of creepy for some reason. It gives off either a Mrs. Robinson vibe, or like your mother is leading you by the nose. Anything more than 10 years difference when the woman is older, just doesn't seem right to me. I'm not saying get rid of older women, just find somebody more age appropriate to pair them with.

It might be out of sheer ego and resentment towards Fox that WCCB still trudges along under Bakahel but they aren’t exactly in the best shape. WJZY flopped so badly under Fox ownership that Nexstar completely blew up the station’s identity in a bid to be competitive. WAXN is owned by a private equity firm so the obvious outcome is them doing it all on the cheap with no investment, extending already strained resources at WSOC. When you add in WBTV doing More Local News under Gray (and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them try a 10pm news again somehow), something is bound to give. If WCCB and/or WJZY were to throw up the white flag and concede a battle for ratings that amounts to diminishing returns, no one should be surprised in the least. This is not 1993 or 2003 or 2013. The landscape today is not the same as in the past and people have every incentive to abandon OTA TV if the content they want no longer exists. Having nothing but cheaply-run local news with practically no distinction between them is a recipe for trouble, especially with a finite audience that risks shrinking—even ever so subtly—regardless of the market size. Why would I want to watch the “attack of the clones” that is the same late-evening local news on a plethora of stations, with the same music from SAM or Gari, the same format with emphasis on Bad Things with minimal Actual Local News of Relevance, the same minimal sportscast and the same 10-day Super Doppler Googleplex Extended Outlook? Am I saying the audience for OTA is dying? No. At least not for a few decades. But it’s absolutely eroding; even if it is a small erosion, it is still a needlessly self-inflicted wound for the industry.

They used to have four with KCOP in the mix, and KCOP struggled for years before Fox ultimately subsumed everything into KTTV. Los Angeles is almost an anomaly with three 10pm English-language newscasts battling it out against each other. If such a thing were to be tried out in Memphis or Jacksonville or Omaha, the results would be beyond disastrous. There is such a thing as too much local news in Anytown, USA. When you gripe at operators “cheapening out” on news and graphics and music, muse about off- and on-air talent resigning and getting out of the industry, or insist MMJs are a pejorative for Something Bad, maybe it's because the economics of More Local News doesn't exactly add up the way you want it to.

I saw somewhere that the station has named the newsroom after him. Edit: Per Matt O'Donnell's instagram post, it's the studio.

It’s the youth group that performed at the tree lighting. They won a contest for youth choirs. I think it’s great they are getting this exposure. Congratulations to them for their hard work.

1. I'm glad they did not do that. They have some real good 10 pm shows. 2. I would not be surprised if they are trying to convince another network or both to join them. 3. It gives local stations more time to consider what to put on - it could be a boost to syndicated dramas or comedy. Let's be real, just how much more local news or Family Feud do we all need. Many DMA's already have one or more options already for news at 10, and, have cable options as well.

They had a retirement dinner for him Wednesday night. The station posted a short clip. https://6abc.com/jim-gardner-retirement-6abc-action-news-hilton-philadelphia-city-avenue/12577054/ Here's a picture of some current and former members of the weather team that attended the dinner. https://twitter.com/CecilyTynan/status/1603594827718868995/photo/1 Jim has also been giving some short memories of his time at 6abc. https://6abc.com/jim-gardner-action-news-celebrate-obrien/12575031/

They'll also be running an hour long special this Thursday at 8PM to say good bye to him.

Wouldn’t be the least bit shocked if he did. Final 6pm is this Wednesday fyi.

If this is the kind of 'acting' we can expect of programming on the Nexstar-era CW it's safe to say that trophy shelf builders won't be needed at Perry's golf mansion. Most station groups have basic knowledge of what providers exist in a certain area so you don't get embarrassing situations like this ad airing on WFRV, where one Comcast system exists in the entire state of Wisconsin, or KTVI/KPLR, in Spectrum's home city. Comcast customers get Peacock free with local stations $5 extra, so this is becoming a problem easily solved by the consumer, and Comcast is still getting paid; they could also just presumably pipe in a distant NBC/TMD owned station the same way Time Warner did to Nexstar during a Hearst dispute and if Congress somehow whines, takes the fine as 'putting the customer first'. Same with Paramount+. And the CW is in its holiday dead period so nobody's going to care if they miss Riverdale.

Welcome to the last few years of the CBS O&O look.

Like was done for Bob Barker on TPIR in 1998, on that 5000th show (actually #5133)?

Good luck if you’re in Billings, Montana or Alpena, Michigan or Wheeling, West Virginia, or any small market that can’t support one 10pm news, let alone two or more. Or in any market that is not in a political swing state (Wyoming, Mississippi, etc.) and won’t get that easy money. The pending death of syndication and the presumed death of scripted primetime will inevitably result in the death of local news programming for television stations, many of which will simply become relay stations for large-market stations and/or O&Os. And those stations may be reduced to being nothing more than a turnkey diginet or rerun farm. If the audience no longer exists for syndication or scripted primetime programming, how in the wide wide world of sports is it going to remain for local news???

Just think, in LA, there would be four 10pm newscasts if NBC does indeed go through with this in the future. KTLA, KCAL, KTTV, and KNBC.

Most would be airing 10pm news

I think they made a mistake keeping the 10pm hour. A lot of network programming is crap and whatever is sort of the weakest can move to cable and Peacock.

Probably smart because their primetime lineup is pretty strong. I could see them dropping it in 2024 though.

The irony of the old NBC logo that was used in Deadline's cover image for the story.