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Wonder if this was already in the works months ago and that’s why they hired Payton Domschke, to eventually take his place. 6abc seems to hire people for spots ahead of the vacancy.

They also dumped the "ABC" from their logo. Probably an isolated occurrence, unlike the slow purge that Gray has been doing to many of their stations. I like it better than the WDCW package for sure. I just hope Nexstar has some new looks in the wings since the current packages are starting to get stale.

Whether the news was at 8:00 or 10:00, it was still in primetime. It's 9's first newscast of any kind, in any daypart, since 2013.

A 30 minute replay of the morning program would be malpractice lol. There’s no way.

CNN as well despite any assurance that they are a genuine news channel. If the channels' day is filled with punditry and opinion of ANY kind, that ship has sailed. Sadly, the concept of a "news channel" is long gone. The only thing that even comes close are the "live" variants like NBC News Now and Fox's LiveNow.

Why did they ditch Paris?

They are not dead last or next-to-dead-last across the board like they were five years ago, but they're still not doing great. I'm not sure what the monthly averages are, but they're probably a ~#3 overall. Their bright spots are probably their 6 and 7pm newscasts. The format is fresh, Juliette Goodrich is a good and popular anchor, and those shows are in between the Evening News at 6:30, which also helps. I can see why other O&Os like WCBS are more or less copying that format. Otherwise, they're still basically last place in the morning, and the 8/9pm news block on PIX Plus gets hashmarks most nights.

And it looks like Family Guy and Bob's Burgers will be leaving Syndication this fall due to Disney ownership, focus on streaming, and cable syndication on FX and FXX.

Savannah, Hoda and Al are back in 1A this morning. I don't see anything different.

Will Lonnie Quinn handle the CBS Deals portion of the Evening News or will Gayle handle that?

For those wondering, this is when coverage will end across the NBCUniversal networks (this is according to various TV listings websites)... NBC's final day: Sunday from 7:00am-2:30pm for the final full day of coverage, 2:30-6:00pm for the closing ceremonies (LIVE), 7:00-10:00pm for the ceremony (repeat), 10:00pm for an hour-long special previewing L.A. 2028. Telemundo's final day: Sunday from 7:00am-1:00pm for the final full day of coverage, and 2:30-6:00pm for the closing ceremonies (LIVE). They've also done a nightly two-hour best-of look from Midnight to 2:00am and it'll be there as well. Universo's coverage is already wrapped up as they'll have no coverage at all this weekend so that network is done for these games. USA stops their 24-hour coverage: Sunday at 5:30pm, before NBC on NASCAR coverage from Richmond Motor Speedway. USA's normal entertainment programming doesn't resume until at least 9:30pm on Sunday. CNBC and E!'s final day: Saturday from 4:00am-6:00pm. There will be no Sunday coverage for either of the networks. Golf Channel's final day: Saturday from 3:00am-1:00pm + repeat from 9:00pm-3:00am as the Golf portion of the games wraps up. There will be no new Sunday coverage outside of repeat from Saturday.