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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?

I don't think there is a thread for WFMZ yet, but I want to discuss them, so here it is. A few weeks ago Rob Vaughan posted on Facebook that people at the station told him more people in the Lehigh Valley watch 69 News at 5 pm than "any other channel on TV" - I commented asking for the actual rating/share, and he said he would ask those in the know if they wanted that info public. Apparently they didn't since he never responded. They appear to have a new reporter/anchor - someone I never saw before anchored the 6 pm news tonight. It's not uncommon - their talent comes and goes pretty frequently - but they don't usually make it to the anchor chair right away. She had sort of a "big market" vibe about her - at least more so than being on WFMZ. She's obviously not local since she butchered common place names like Schylkill and Nesquehoning. Also - more interestingly - 69 News at 5 tomorrow night is broadcasting from their new street side studio at 7th & Hamilton Streets in downtown Allentown. Allentown is on the verge of reinventing itself, and a $200 million minor league hockey arena is nearing completion with the first event being held this Friday. Downtown Allentown has been on a downhill climb since Hess's closed and without this arena it would have continued getting worse. There's been all kinds of other buildings constructed and they are hoping to attract lots of offices. Several large companies have already moved their headquarters to the new "City Center" buildings as they're being called. What I'm not sure of is if WFMZ hopes to moves it studio permanently to the new arena (the studio is actually contained within the building), or just use it for reports on hockey games and occasional newscasts. It seems odd to me to build an entire street side studio - complete with full pane windows - just to anchor the occasional newscast. But, I'm not sure what other purpose it may have, because their current studios are a good 10 miles and 20-25 minute drive from the downtown site.

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.

They definitely didn’t. After populating the advance schedule with specific infomercials—by name, not just paid programming — for multiple weeks, it reverted back. Good for them.

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/

WDJT has their replacement for Sam Kuffel; JD Rudd, who recently left Spectrum News WIsconsin, popped up on this evening's newscasts and the temperature was appropriate enough to note.

It's not Hearst, they're good until 01/2028. It's also not any of the other big names like Gray/Nexstar/Scripps/Sinclair/Hubbard/Graham/Cox/Tegna/Allen, etc. They all either had recent renewals or aren't expiring until the end of 2025 You can usually find the expiration dates in their public files on the FCC site, either as part of their biennial ownership reports or a seperate filing under contracts and agreements. It's probably someone who expired at the end of 2024 and is running out of short term extensions.

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/

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.

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

Plus their stock prices keep plummeting... Definitely something amiss

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....

My schedule means the 4:30 is the portion I watch, and Pellman does fine with that weather segment. Seems a good way to handle it.

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.

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 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

WPLG News Clip 2024. Definately some essence of WSVN's tabloid feel. I wonder if the studio cameras are either low level HD, or the set is just badly lit. The anchors can come off sharp and grainy sometimes.

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.

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

Newscaststudio coverage: New set: https://www.newscaststudio.com/2020/09/09/abc-world-news-tonight-studio/ New music: https://www.newscaststudio.com/2020/09/09/world-news-tonight-new-theme-music/

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.

I’ve been dreaming of the day they brought back the Jennings-era theme... and am so glad it has finally happened! Love that the voiceover intros the newscast the same way it used to introduce Peter.. “from ABC News world headquarters in New York...” another throwback to the Jennings era!

Nice. So the desk will be moved back and forth for election coverage?

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

Actually, there is. Here you go:

KRIV has it now. there's no clip of it yet.

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.

So here's another KSAZ halftime promo pack, featuring the mysterious Aerial as well as the current KSAZ primary theme (during the Monday news teaser): This one does have the matching *open* as a sample:

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

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.