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This is off-topic, but wow. Such a beautiful home, all destroyed. Ugh. I feel for the folks who lived there.

Well, this just happened… The tornado touched down near Lake Mary around 9:40 a.m. EDT (with a debris signature visible on radar), and approached the vicinity of WOFL/WRBW’s studios, where debris was reported falling from the sky onto the studio grounds.

she said she filling in for him, not replacing him.

I warned y'all a month ago. I knew we were being duped. Don't be surprised if more stations do this because Allen was planning to do this all along.

This is the thread to discuss Delaware Valley's Leading News Program. ...but in reality I just started it because I needed somewhere to put this: Yes, that is Cecily Tynan preparing to throw a long bomb at Jeff Skversky, who is at the big board for High School Huddle. He caught it - cue high fiving. Why on earth would I have recorded the rebroadcast?

Just like when Beutel began his transition away from the anchor desk.. at the end of the 6pm news, he and Diana Williams would toss to Ritter in the newsroom for a look at what’s coming up at 11pm.

And captured live on television...

Looks like MLB is producing the Seattle Mariner's telecasts on Root Sports. Standard MLB Local graphics package, but ROOT Sports substituted for the MLB logo.

Today in LA- Lynette and Adrian 11am- Annabelle Sedano 3pm- Annabelle Sedano 4p/5p/6p- Colleen Williams and Michael Brownlee 7pm- Colleen Williams 11pm- Carolyn Johnson Weekend Today in LA- Michelle Valles Weekend Evenings- Kathy Vara and Jonathan Gonzales I believe they have also made some weather changes as well. I don't see Melissa Magee on at 11pm, it is now David Biggar. Carolyn will fill in on earlier shows as needed. I assume as Carolyn's health improves, she will pick up an additional show. Before her medical leave, she co-anchored at 4p and 6p.

And speaking of KELOLand, they're following sister WGN's footsteps... in opening their own merch shop. https://keloland.threadless.com/

“Replacing” or “in for” cause there’s a big difference. Who knows maybe we’ll see someone we least expect. Again, I thought they said Mike officially takes over on Tuesday, we may see him tomorrow morning, who knows if an official decision is even made but if it is I guess we’ll find out.

KELOLand is reairing Captain 11 once again. The longtime local children's show from 1955-1996 is getting a Sunday marathon on KELO Xtra. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.keloland.com/news/local-news/captain-11-day-in-sioux-falls/amp/

Is there a story behind that?

WGAL has been an NBC affiliate since it's inception. Them not being NBC would be insane. Matt

What are the current anchor lineup at the station for all of their newscasts? Its a bit confusing.

He's leaving to fill big shoes! https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/ktla-sam-rubin-melvin-robert-morning-news-job-extra-1236328285/

Here's something that I missed from last month... KOIN and KRCW are carrying 20 Oregon State Beavers baseball home games this season. One is airing now as we speak on KOIN but the majority of the games will be on KRCW. https://www.koin.com/sports/all-20-oregon-state-home-baseball-games-airing-on-koin-6-portlands-cw/

ABC WNT now broadcasts from Hudson Square, with "new" studio and "updated" L3 graphics.

Say it with me... I won't this time. It's Gray, KMOV, and the St. Louis Cardinals. For the first time since KSDK had longtime OTA rights to them before giving it up in 2010 (KPLR before that), KMOV will be carrying a select few telecasts of the birds this upcoming season, whether it's Channel 4 or Matrix Midwest. KFVS, KYTV, KSPR or KYCW; WMC, KAIT, WIFR or WSLN; WEEK, WGEM, WFIE, KTIV, KCRG, KYOU, KWQC, and KTTC or KXLT (either on their main channels or on a digitnet) will carry these games as well. https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/st-louis-cardinals-partner-with-gray-media-kmov-matrix-midwest/?utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=St.+Louis+Cardinals+Partner+With+Gray+Media%2c+KMOV+%26amp%3b+Matrix+Midwest&utm_campaign=Less+Hype%2c+More+Hybridity+For+Cloud+Vendors+In+2025

It probably will. It's mostly just all the Morning Blend people, and they'd still be in the building at that time anyways. Same goes for staffing. They had a 3PM news before because the PM production crew is already in the building by that point (and god forbid they have any time during their workday where they're not producing live television). It's a sunk cost on the production side, in the studio at least. The added costs to produce What's Brewing Wisconsin will probably be another producer and the additional host, and maybe paying for part of a photographer's day. The real question is whether or not "Morning Blend but in the afternoon" is a viable product. Morning Blend prints money, but I'm not sure if you can have lightning strike twice four hours later.

Allen making weather changes at WEVV-Evansville as The Weather Channel moves in: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AwJdv2HZP/ From Griffin Glasscock, Chief Met: "Good morning, friends! I have an update to share about my new schedule. Starting Monday, I will be forecasting weather for our early evening news: 4, 5 & 6PM. 44News is partnering with the Weather Channel. They will be doing weather for our morning news moving forward. I truly love the mornings, which makes this change extremely hard. I may not miss the 2:30AM alarm clock, but I will miss waking up with each of you every morning and working next to my best friends (Tommy & Megan). I look forward to spending my mornings with my sweet boy and husband. I hope you’ll continue welcoming me into your homes as you settle down for the night. Thank you for the constant support and kindness! Love y’all❤"

They should rename "The Nest" to TCN ...

According to a post on Reddit, the layoffs affect every station in the Scripps group. Some worse than others. No details on exact layoffs just yet. This sounds like Scripps is desperately trying to make its upcoming quarterly report look good or at least not entirely terrible. The fact the company delayed its earnings report alone is a sign of trouble.

The pink slip express pulled into Grand Rapids' WXMI -- Around 10 were let go and the sports department is supposedly gone, per FTVLive I'm still shocked that they got Terri DeBoer. I'm very curious how much they offered her. She's only on-air 3 days. It couldn't have been cheap. Especially since they had to rid of the 3 females before her to get her there. I know they nabbed her just for ratings....

I'm more surprised that they dumped the Sunday noon show. I mainly thought that show was there so they could have live countdown-to-kickoff coverage of Eagles game days. They used to have Sports Director Gary Papa live at the Linc and other tailgating coverage, but that was back in the day. For those not up to see the weekday morning shows since the schedule change, Action News Mornings has started at 4am for special coverage a few times, and Matt Pellman anchors the weather segment for the 4:30am half hour. Karen Rogers (or Payton Domschke when she fills in) does not come on until 5am.

They finally determined what the channel was.

It's good money if you can get it, I guess even if HD radio is barely a thing

Wonder if they were using the old SR video intro/outro as well. Usually, if this happens, it's probably because of tech issues & having this as backup.

The Reds just pulled a similar "about-face", as they're returning back to what's now FanDuel Sports Network Ohio at least for 2025. Included in this arrangement, FanDuel will offer DTC streaming for Reds telecasts, reflecting similar arrangements that they have with other MLB teams on their team roster. https://www.wcpo.com/sports/baseball/reds/cincinnati-reds-partners-with-fanduel-sports-network-for-2025-broadcast-rights

I’m not sure why some expected a total refresh. Basically Bally’s ended their naming deal and FanDuel stepped in. When (if) Diamond/Sinclair emerges from bankruptcy, FanDuel may invest but won’t be the controlling owner based on what has been disclosed.

Rebrand goes into effect Monday.

Looks like the countdown is on to the rebrand as "FanDuel Sports Network [region]." SBJ (paywall) mentions a court filing that mentioned FanDuel as the new naming rights partner: https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/10/07/diamond-sports-group-fanduel?publicationSource=sbd&issue=cfeec20f2fe5410da0e31a3dc0440253 More notably, Fubo has already switched logos for the Bally RSNs, but they still call them "Bally Sports" when clicked on. Also looks like, with the Pelicans moving to Gray, there's no logo for FDSN New Orleans, quite possible it's shutting down. Additionally, they're already squatting on several Twitter handles. Not sure a timeframe, but quite interesting.

The interesting part about the article (besides the major errors in initially reporting that Diamond was dropping all but one of its MLB team deals, rather than offering to do so as a leverage point, and suggesting all of its MLB broadcast deals, instead of just four of them, expired after the recently concluded season) is this quote: Ummm, MLB basically telegraphed it might dump Diamond and acquire their team contracts (even potentially moving them to an in-house streaming platform similar to MLB.tv) because it didn’t have faith they would come out of their bankruptcy reorganization as a viable business. So, it seems odd they’d be shocked Diamond was willing to walk away from all of its team contracts (sans the Braves), or that it chose to discuss new contractual terms with the teams themselves instead of the Commissioner’s Office. That said, given MLB’s position on its viability as a broadcast partner, Diamond offering to walk away from its team contracts if it can’t get more favorable terms seems akin to when David Zaslav said that TNT Sports “doesn’t have to have the NBA”, only to end up suing the league two years later after WBD’s offer to match the financial terms of Amazon’s NBA contract framework was rejected. It might sound like a means to ensure leverage in contract talks, but could readily backfire with the league leaving its offer, rather than taking it.

The Athletic is clarifying that initial report, saying that Bally is dropping only the Tigers and Rays while keeping the Braves. Bally's deals with Cleveland, Milwaukee, Texas and Minnesota expired at season's end. As has been mentioned already, the Rangers are going it alone with Tegna as their partner in Dallas-Fort Worth. The Guardians, Brewers and Twins can negotiate new deals with Bally if they so choose, but they won't be as lucrative. Bally's other MLB contracts are what they call "joint-ventures" so they are assumed safe–for now. (The linked article may be paywalled for some.)

I can't wait to see where the Marlins now land. I wonder if Scripps Sports will bring OTA Marlins telecasts back for WPXM, though Scripps hasn't put local sports rights on any of their ION O&Os.

I heard a story that when President Nixon was about to resign all 3 of the network news anchors were on vacation HK smith of abc news was at his upstate ny house and made the drive down to DC in 5 hours Walter Cronkite was sailing off of Nantucket and they had the coast guard get him and John Chancellor had a plane come get him (please correct me if im wrong) Do the networks have a plan to get their anchor from vacation etc if they absolutely need them for the biggest news events

By 2009, Rob Johnson was anchoring evenings solo, and ratings were rising. That fall, Bill was brought in to shoot some promos and feature some of his cold case investigations. At some point, Walter returned to do his commentaries. In November '09, Rob was off, and the station heavily promoted a one night only reunion of the legends on the 10pm news. It was well-received, and they were installed as 6pm co-anchors by September of 2010. Once their contracts ran out in (I think) February '13, they were "retired." Given a full farewell, but it wasn't really their choice.

(Skip to 2:32) My knowledge of the Chicago market is still growing so I was surprised to see the legendary Bill Curtis/Walter Jacobson pairing still intact as late as 2013. I wish stations weren't so averse to do male pairings these days.

In this age of being connected all the time, I'm sure there's a plan in place to get a hold of the big 3 anchors. I believe in the last decade, NBCs Lester Holt was out of the country on vacation and flew back to NY to cover the story. Unfortunately, I can't recall which "big" story is was. Most network anchors will usually end their vacation and come back to ensure they are the face of the network's coverage.

I too am glad that ABC brought back the world headquarters phrase in the open.

Very surprised to hear the last Jennings-era theme make its return (even though it's a bit different), but also very happy by it's return. Great new open and gfx update too.

Aww, I LOVE they brought back the old theme.

Does David Muir even anchor WNT anymore? I watch KABC’s 6pm show and switch over to NBC Nightly News at 6:30. I always chuckle because the anchors “toss” it to David Muir who seems to rarely be there and WNT at 6:30 is really a rebroadcast, so I’m always surprised they don’t seem to know whose in the anchor chair or not. NNN ends sooner than WNT and I flip it back to KABC to watch Jeopardy. I caught the closing of WNT and Llamas said he’d be back again tomorrow. And I agree with above, WNT’s story preview at the top is waaaaay too long.

ICYMI, WAGA has also started using Beyond recently, but only on Good Day Atlanta. I only have audio recording capability (no video capture card...), but here's a few clips from today, showcasing various cuts that may or may not have appeared yet elsewhere. 7 AM open - this cut is used on all other opens as well A "hard" theme used for the headlines at the bottom of the hour A long bump with the morning theme

Did I miss your KNAZ Dina Ruiz offering?

After looking through these newly uploaded vintage KSAZ opens, it's evident they're REALLY holding on to the mid-90s (that font). Here's today's Good Day Orlando opens. It's definitely evident this is a new Arnold pack. The rollout, if this is strictly O&O, is unknown.

They take info and screenshots from TVNT regularly and post it as their own/"exclusive".

Surprised not something with ABC in it, like @ABCWNTonight or @WNTabc. Both are available at the moment.

The idea behind having a deputy anchor in New York while the main anchor is overseas is done because satellites are not always reliable. So, traditionally, the main anchor pretapes his/her introductions and stories, it gets fed back to New York and New York airs it with live updates on the other news of the day anchored by the deputy. This also allows those other news headlines to be as up to date as possible. If the show is completely live from outside New York, a deputy anchor is always on set in case of some technical error and can pick up the show and finish it from New York.

I just heard it straight from Mike and Sheinelle: Starting tomorrow, FOX 29 will expand its morning news broadcast to 4AM and name it The FOX29 Morning News. It will air from 4-7 before Good Day, and will probably feature the same anchors and reporters as before. This isn't a test or special airing for the snowstorm coverage. This is permanent. So let me be first to say this: 4:25 was a stupid idea.