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Here are some earlier roles of his in sportscasting you might not have known about-- --As sports man on WMAQ NewsCenter 5 in Chicago, from a 1980 late edition (captured from YouTube upload by FuzzyMemoriesTV)... --As studio man on the last season of The Prudential College Football Report for CBS Sports, the 1989 college football season (this one before he got Mike Francesa as a co-host); captured from YouTube upload by user Colorado Football...

Frank Gari Productions 1989, The Diversified News Reel

Fox Weather is toast. The most dangerous tornado outbreak of the fall/winter season is underway, and Fox Weather dropped coverage at 8pm or 9pm ET (not sure which), because welp, it's a weekend during the holiday season, and ya know, 9pm is pretty late, so we'll be back live at 6am to assess the aftermath. Even TWC, which originally planned on also dropping coverage at 8pm ET, added an additional live shift from 8pm to ??? (still live as of now at 9:37pm ET) when they saw how serious the tornado outbreak was going to be. I don't think the higher-ups really care about Fox Weather anymore. It seems like they're just treating it as another shovelware FAST network that plays whatever they feel like showing in between constant ad breaks. I think 2025 will be the year that Fox Weather drastically cuts back even its weekday programming schedule, with additional staff cuts.

Saw that tribute (it's on YouTube as well), and the part where it showed him in the studio on The Prudential College Football Report in 1989 had a better-quality version (in video) of that screencap I posted earlier (CBS must have had it in the archives, Greg's [IINM] first role there).

CBS Sports tribute to Greg Gumbel narrated by colleague JB that aired during halftime of the first game of the HBCU college basketball doubleheader today & likely to be shown again tomorrow on The NFL Today.

TM Productions 1980's TV Demo

Oh wow. I'm saddened and stunned to learn of his passing. I agree with David when he said that you won't find a much finer gentleman in all of television than him. You gotta feel for Bryant too, man. He just lost a legendary brother. A truly sad day in the world of sports and in broadcasting in general.

Tom Skilling's first of his many reapperances on WGN-TV post-retirement. Enjoy!

Because management always makes the right decision and wasteful spending never happens. Contrarian and corporate apologist per usual.

Objectively, the people making the decisions have far more information than speculation. I don’t need to know every single piece of data to understand why station X decides it’s fitting to run their normal schedule, albeit with a reduced staff, while station Y tosses on filler material. Nobody is just burning the bosses’ money for kicks and giggles.

Thank you.

You don’t have to refer to me as ”the one person”, you can mention me by name. And I wouldn’t call it an obsession. That’s ironic coming from a board full of people with weird obsessions. Kudos to her for subbing twice at noon within a short period. I will try not to mention it ever again since some of you get butt hurt at the site of it.

Liz Cho anchored at noon today, for the one person here who seems to be obsessed with her subbing schedule and feels she should work more.

Are we really getting bent out of shape over this? Come on guys. He died from being 83.

You know, you can edit posts and not double post & hide old ones.

We just lost a part-time (controlling stake) owner of MSG (the arena), Radio City Music Hall, the Knicks and Rangers but also, the founder of... HBO (some say, the greatest network to have ever existed) Cablevision AMC The News 12 Networks A TRUE visionary and pioneer in the world of broadcasting, Charles Dolan was 98. https://apnews.com/article/charles-dolan-dies-obituary-hbo-cablevision-bc5b48318f336f633b7df006afcd60c4

Greg Gumbel, longtime sportscaster at ESPN, CBS, & NBC, has passed away at the age of 78.

Richard Parsons, former Time Warner CEO, dies at 76 https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/richard-parsons-dead-time-warner-cbs-1236260229/

A good point to note from the story on their website... rightfully so this move. Over the next few days, you may notice national news programs or syndicated programming in place of local news while ABC13 grieves our loss.

One of Columbus' all-time greats has passed away. Bob Nunnally was 68. https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/nbc4-announces-passing-of-former-meteorologist-bob-nunnally/