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UPDATE I checked this morning's program of GMA First Look (via ABC News Live) and both Andrew and Rhiannon are still there. So, after two years and three months, they became the longest-running duo in the history of the program. It seems like they both aren't going away anytime soon... and don't need to since CBS has been all over the place with their overnight programs since the end of Up To The Minute.

It’s a sign of the times really. GMA stopped regular doing outdoor segments a long time ago and even the crowds outside of Today’s studio 1A are a quarter of what they used to be most days. At one point NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox had their respective morning programs broadcasting from a street side studio. That’s pretty much dwindled down to just one that actually leverages windows as part of the presentation today.

At bare minimum, it looks like it belongs to a small-market Texas station, not Southern CA

It looks like the same thing happened in Wisconsin this week, with Madison providing select newscasts for La Crosse, Eau Claire and Wausau under the name "Wisconsin News Now."

And most of it really is security concerns because there's a certain contingent of people who would love to go on TV and suck up a week of airtime for calling something 'fake news' or attacking someone on-camera. Post 1-6, along with the morning after morning headache of security costs, it just makes more sense to just bring everything inside. Of course, CBS never justified needing 1515 at all except for the Redstone ego to get use out of a space no longer used by their dying brands (Moonves would have never agreed to a move like that), while over time GMA just got sick of the headaches that are Times Square knockoff characters and other things that make a live broadcast with an audience outside just hard to manage. And Fox is pretty well-self explanatory. Comcast has an outright lease on 30 Rock so it's private property to do what they need to for crowd control.

Isn't West Lafayette also a place where they can scoop up lots of fresh-out-of-college kids to work at WLFI? Heartland seems to have been run on the cheap even before Allen absorbed it...

Unfortunate for Jim if that's the case in terms of how he left. He's one of the best reporters they had & looks like they're grooming Josh Eininger into a similar role that he had. At least for some NYers, no more worrying about confusing Jim Dolan with the MSG, Knicks, & Rangers owner that many love to hate in James Dolan.

WFFT is the ultimate example of a news operation only existing because of network mandates; if Nexstar doesn't acquire WANE and have to sell WFFT, WLNS would've long ago been centralcasting their news. It's not competitive with WANE or WPTA, the station is still run otherwise as if it's 1990 and Fox having sports is a pipe dream, and Allen has invested nothing into the news operation outside the time they did add newscasts; I'd argue they divested resources from the station as outside their news and Fox, it's pretty much Justice Central all day on a transmitter outside the Kelly and Mark slot because WPTA's Quincy dork age had them somehow cut the show and Nexstar wasn't going to cut the WANE advertorial show. I'm shocked they didn't just go the 35 minute route with one newscast and continue to do 5pm/6pm shows. WLFI seems to be the odd one out only because they don't have any other affiliations outside The CW distracting them, and this just feels like a deck-shuffle move until the eventual Allen bankruptcy petition which asks Fox to waive their news-carriage requirements.

People watch this channel? So many stations and channels are suffering financially and this indie channel is still operating? Interesting.

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.

The move is happening unless Disney suddenly decides to talk a large loss on dumping a state-of-the-art studio facility they've been planning for over a decade, no matter the feelings of an EP or booker who just needs to adjust to a new commute and a shiny new studio and stop yapping misinformation about how mean Ginger was to her terrible co-worker to the Post.

The other Allen stations in Indiana are in Terre Haute and Evansville. Of those, WTHI is the more-established one and it may make sense for them to do news for Evansville while Lafayette does news for Fort Wayne. Of course, the whole shebang could come out of Lafayette as well.

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. :).

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

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.

Go watch any of the big 3 evening news programs from 20-25 years ago and then ask yourself… why don’t they do that anymore? I remember when Peter Jennings was anchoring World News Tonight it was news from all over the world. They had stories from civil wars in various countries and other things that had nothing to do with the U.S… in a world where we are more connected than ever and information is endlessly available that should have increased not disappeared. Not to mention that David Muir has the most bizarre speaking style in the history of anchoring. It sounds like William Shatner is reading the news and speaking in bizarre flowery meandering sentences. “That crash, those victims screaming in terror, the first responders rushing into danger pulling the victims to safety.” Speaking straightforwardly is so very much better.

Where’s Jim Dolan? Off-air since before Election Day, and his bio is gone from the WABC7 webpage.