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Jim Dolan retired. He had a small gathering of friends and colleagues for his retirement on an IG post a few months ago. It wasn't posted on his profile but I believe another mutual follower posted it. I'll try to look for it and share it here. :).

They've also been in Times Square as they rose to 2nd and then 1st place. The echo chamber of people on this forum who hate ABC News but can't stop talking about them is getting to be hilarious.

I can't find a thread for general discussion about Cox Media Group, so let's start one with some actual news! WSB-TV anchor Justin Farmer is leaving the station after 16 years for an undisclosed finance job. Here's what's odd about this. WSB management announced the news to employees today (November 25) at the morning editorial meeting, and Farmer's last day is tomorrow (November 26th). A 24-hour turnaround from announcement to goodbye? This reeks of either a budget cut or a failed contract negotiation.

I thought that WFFT being in Fort Wayne news wouldn't be cut and isn't Fort Wayne bigger than Lafayette I don't get that move.

Sure they were there on the way and the way . It’s perhaps evidence the location is not relevant to a major degree.

I wouldn't be surprised if WLFI is one of them. Lafayette is an "in-between" market between South Bend and Indy.

Definitely an improvement over what they previously had. The KUSI logo however still looks cheap, like a fake social media page logo.

Don’t see why it would cause second guessing. The show has been in Times Square as ratings have slipped.

Some of that may be true. On the other hand they may have alienated a bunch of people and attracted a bunch of different people or fewer people by changing the format as radically as they have. The times “straight news” has been tried incidentally the marketing for it wasn’t very good and the execution was poor. Think CNN. You have to do the FOX style pro wrestling thing… by calling out FOX on a daily basis in a less than statesman like way. But you have to use facts as your weapon. Not only that but FOX has slick marketing and is extremely polished and flashy… that’s execution and not content. You see that in which local station is number one in a given market. Often times it’s flashier and more polished and just feels official. It’s kinda like a sports team.. the good teams LOOK good and do things well. But mostly my biggest gripe is why Muir talks the way he does. If someone walked up to you and started talking like that you’d try to either run or have them have some sort of evaluation as their mental well being would be a primary concern. Second gripe… why in the world is “those powerful storms, millions under the gun” news? Keep the weather off the national news as a daily thing. The local stations already cover it so unless a school bus with 50 kids gets washed away in a flood or something just gripping and tragic it’s a waste of a reporter and 2 minutes and that’s not time they exactly have to waste in a 30 minute show. To keep this relevant to the thread… local news hasn’t changed so much that I want to scream. That includes WABC. It’s more or less what it’s always been with different people, graphics and segments.

Everything is for sale at the right price. It’s not “just” going to be a standalone. Whether it is a buyer or seller or both over time is all crystal-ball stuff, but there’s no way there won’t be deals entertained if they’re serious viable offers.

As sad as I am to see reporters lose their job, are national bureaus for station groups necessary? Don't network affiliations already fill that void? The only beneficiary I can see is an independent station. It's duplicative for WSB to need Cox Washington packages when ABC News can already cover that. Despite the vast array of media services available to a local station they all cover the same thing. How many sources do we need providing a package on AAA Thanksgiving travel predictions? Wow! Sucks. He had a legacy tie to the station as his dad was big time local anchor Don Farmer. Justin always did this weird singing thing in his anchoring cadence. Has anyone ever noticed this?

KGBT 4 Valley Report Sunday (January 28, 1990) WISH-TV 8 On The Scene News at 5:00(?) (September 20, 1979)

Details to be worked out. One reason they said it will take a year to implement.

Did it ever really launch though? One day I found it on Spectrum and I've never seen any live programming on the network outside a map loop in Spanish. I've seen terrible half-assed 'launched to satisfy regulators and Latino groups' networks like HGTV Hogar before, but at least they had translated content...I barely saw anything live from this network at all.

Remember when Meredith did this and Gray UN-did it?

I don't have any insight or information, but having a new job and an ongoing relationship with the station makes me think this was a planned exit by him. A quiet and short notice without the pomp and circumstance is the ideal departure for many people. News anchors come and go, and maybe he didn't want to make himself the news or at least minimize the time when he is the center of attention. The tribute and retrospective PKGs are awkward and have no viewer benefit. Newsroom cakes and speeches are just painfully awkward.

TEGNA owns a powerful and heritage station in my market. It will be painful to watch as this move will probably lead to production mistakes, going to black, unscripted camera swings and other discreps. The business is becoming all about the bottom line and less about what's on their screens.

"Handful"? More like "way too many".... And, yet, FX still devotes way too much of their primetime schedule to endless repeats of popular genre movies from the last few decades, while multiple flavors of HBO keep chewing up cable companies' bandwidth.

Or... getting out before the holidays.

It's so wild to me to see USA described as a "smaller" network when it was one of the pillars of cable for decades and it wasn't even a decade ago that they still had big hits like Mr. Robot, to say nothing of the Netflix-fueled resurgence of Suits.

After reading another TVNC op-ed about how 'news directors must lead the AI revolution'...it really feels like most of these soothsayers and execs just don't care. I've already seen a concrete company buy a bunch of smaller outfits and blatantly use AI voices and imagery for TV ads to sell their product in multiple markets and it looks jank and terrible; I'm sure they've plunged to 'only if desperate' status. Let's see what happens when AI has to dare tackle unique market quirks like KUSA's and KARE...it'll probably explode when it has to market around the WNEP talkback line.