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It looks as though TheGrio is dead. Long live TheGrio. FTV Live reported it today, and the website backs it up: Program listings are gone. Never thought I would say this, but Byron Allen is officially the biggest broadcast grifter of the century.

Hallie has been solid with NBC's Special Report coverage lately (She was in 1A for Jimmy Carter's passing as well)- For this, she did reporting on information she had available, but also openly stated that they were joining WDSU's coverage in progress for a few minutes at a time. Honestly, for the big three to do this with their affiliates is a smart move over the cable networks. The local reporters and anchors know their communities far more intimately than than a national reporter does.

It's always interesting to see how networks function on national holidays/presumably low staffing days. GMA, Today, and CBS Mornings are typically pre-recorded on Christmas and New Year's. As such, none of the primary anchors were live in the building this morning. Hallie Jackson anchored coverage as a special report for the New Orleans terror attack. It was pretty cool to see them take WDSU's coverage. IDK if this was holiday staffing related. Looks like CBS did something similar. *Adding better pic

Imagine 9/11 being your first day at your new newsroom as a journalist!!!! What a story to tell. RIP Mr. Brown

And to think this schmuck wanted to buy TEGNA or ABC

It would probably look better if they were able to completely cover up WDSU's L3 or if WDSU was able to provide a version of the feed without it.

Nice to see that ABC finally cut in. Woke up (About 8am Central), saw the news, CBS and NBC were both well into Special Report mode. ABC came back from commercial with the GMA staff, "Portions Recorded" showing in the top left corner of the screen and Stephanopoulos openly stating that the show was pre-recorded. The ball dropped on ABC at midnight- didn't know that was the visual representation on how they were going to operate in 2025.

I'm not surprised. He's wanted to go back to Indy for quite some time.

If Aaron stayed at ABC, I believe he would have inherited the World News Tonight anchor chair when Jennings passed. From his former World News Now co-anchor Lisa McRee, via IG:

Robb Ellis has again switched stations... He is now at WTHR -- Happned Mid-October

Losing Aaron is a major loss to TV news. His first day at CNN was 9/11. The rest was history. Aaron was also part of a great team at KIRO in the late '80s - all reunited in the skies now (Harry Wappler and Wayne Cody). Very unique charisma and PROFESSIONAL on the air. He will be missed!!

Bob Lindmeier has closed off a 45-year career as being Madison's weatherman at WKOW... and all of those 45 years at WKOW, a real rarity in today's business. https://www.wkow.com/news/retiring-bob-lindmeier-says-goodbye-to-wkow-viewers-after-45-years-of-service/article_9b6e5844-c48a-11ef-bc17-1f70693dfa0f.html

Two HUGE developments in central WA: Alan Sillence and Monty Webb are both retiring from television. Their last days are next week if I recall. Alan is one of the last Fisher/Retlaw holdouts at KIMA, working as the sports director for the past 31 years. Mike McCabe will be the only one left, having worked at KIMA/KEPR since the late '90s. And Monty Webb has been all over the place doing weather (Louisville, Seattle, etc.) and came back home to central WA for the past several years at KNDU. Monty leaves television after nearly 35 years on the air doing what he loved. https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article297548678.html https://kimatv.com/news/local/yakima-celebrates-alan-sillence-day-honoring-31-years-of-sports-broadcasting-excellence

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.

Hanukkah is a festival, not a religous holiday. They may have been off for other reasons such as family vacations, etc. Wasn't Lee Goldberg on? WNBC had an all Jewish news team at 6 and 11. I'm not a usual Eyewitness News watcher but I found the newscast from 6:30 on to be useless from a news standpoint. It was just viewers letters interspersed with some letters. For those Eyewitness News fanboys, I'm sure that was fine. For me looking for an update on news, I was disappointed.

The 2024 CBS 2 New York credit roll

Slight L3 change. The left picture box is gone and headlines are now single line only.

It's LA and it's KTTV: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDAh7BCSafc/?hl=en

WSB-TV Channel 2 retired consumer reporter Jim Strickland has passed away. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/retired-award-winning-channel-2-consumer-investigator-jim-strickland-dies/TNRV2GYNOVDUBH57VGKE7CRGBI/