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Maybe for now this is what the producers feel is right for the show. Also each broadcast is operated by different producers and etc, so what may work for the 11pm broadcast probably doesn't work for the 4, 5 and 6 broadcasts, which I also believe are different, etc..

Johnny Archer had been doing the 11AM weekday news recently, but he did the weekend evening news after Frances Wang left. I don't know if Keith & Erin will continue with the 11 AM.

It looks like Cox Cable could go bye bye as Bloomberg News is breaking a story this morning about a potential deal to merge with Charter a.k.a. Spectrum. Wow. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/charter-advanced-talks-combine-with-cox-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-05-16/

Noticed Cox customers in SoCal, North of San Diego County, don't get the Dodgers RSN SportsNet LA, so Dodgers fans unable to switch last few yrs. to DIRECTV or Spectrum, will soon able to get SNLA.

Also of note, the Nexstar package has been around waaay longer than GrayONE

Mark Johnson's talent agent (also an attorney) could be filing suit against Scripps and WEWS over his termination... https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/05/attorney-for-mark-johnson-calls-wews-meteorologists-firing-unjust-and-disappointing.html

Last week's Madison meltdown had a positive effect in Allen ending their hubbing experiment. Outside the 11am and 4pm shows, the Wisconsin stations now originate their own newscasts, but the audience reaction to it in a negative manner certainly didn't help with the advertisers.

Really surprised they are keeping the Cox name, but with Spectrum being front-facing for the last decade, it makes sense to abandon Charter (which always sounded similar to a drug rehab center that existed until 2000). Besides price though, Spectrum is rock solid for me and I rarely lose service, so I must be in a good part of their service area (originally Marcus). It's just sad to see Cox in so many aspects wind down, though.

No more advanced talks. It's official: Charter has agreed to buy Cox for $34.5 billion. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/charter-agrees-to-combine-with-cox-in-34-5-billion-cable-deal-maqpb06a

Oof. Those poor Cox customers. I've heard nothing but awful things about Spectrum. Maybe Xfinity can put Mediacom out of its misery too. They're so bad they won't even hook up my street, leaving AT&T fiber as my only option.

If there's a positive on TEGNA, its that it allows stations to create their own original programs for their streaming channels, KTHV Little Rock being one of them. Chief Meteorologist Tom Brannon now has his own show on THV11+, The Tom Show. In this one excerpt from episode 2, the morning show crew of Tom, B.J. Sams, and Robyn Richardson got together for the first time in nearly two decades to reminisce about their time together on what was a 5:30-8:00 a.m. weekday morning show that, at one point, was #1 for a decade in the morning.

Yes the Nexstar graphics used by WSPA do look similar in font to GrayOne. In Charlotte, WBTV has GrayOne but the Nexstar graphics on WJZY look a bit different than WSPA. I receive very strong signals from WBTV and WJZY in Spartanburg, even though WSPA and WHNS are my true locals. But from Charlotte, I think WSOC is the best overall news station, although you need more of a strategic antenna to pull in their main signal or the translator here. From Greenville, WYFF is my preferred news station.

I'll do better than the last poster...

Yesterday it was announced 11 stations have joined the Fever network, including a lot that aren't owned by TEGNA: https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/wnba/indiana-fever/tegna-expands-broadcast-distribution-indiana-fever-games-11-additional-markets-stations-companies-how-to-watch-guide-free-caitlin-clark-aliyah-boston/531-4b0454bb-85c9-49ec-8903-aea5b087535b

Today's the last day for SportsCenter L.A. and next week is the last for the legendary Around The Horn. My ESPN childhood is slowly going away.

I'd put this in the category of "Things You Didn't See Coming". I'm not exact shocked that this happened, especially because of all of these media conglomerates merging or acquiring each other quite frequently. Out here in the West, a Cox-Spectrum merger give them practically total control of service in all of Southern California (from Bakersfield on south to the Mexican border), the Las Vegas region, and most of Arizona (particularly the Phoenix and Tucson DMAs). I'm in a Spectrum service area (Los Angeles), but there are also of pockets of the DMA that have Cox as their main MVPD, such as the beach cities in southwestern L.A. County, the Harbor area in the city of Los Angeles (San Pedro, Wilmington), and the southern half of Orange County.

Leon Harris went on former colleague's Daryn Kagan's podcast about his alcoholism and how that led to his departure from WRC-TV:

While the Spectrum brand will remain, the Charter name won’t (per a CNBC report): Cox Enterprises will also own 23% of the shares in the new Cox Communications, which will maintain Charter’s existing Stamford headquarters and old Cox’s existing offices in Atlanta post-closing.

I just have to wonder if GrayOne has existed alongside a Nexstar station (like WSPA) that looks very similar. WSPA's is modified heavily, but it uses practially the same fonts as GrayOne and others (like WYTV, WHTM, WYOU/WBRE, WIVB, etc...)

WHNS in Greenville-Spartanburg is overdue to update to the Gray graphics package. They are still using old Meredith graphics. And will they follow the Gray trend and remove FOX Carolina from their branding? They haven't used Channel 21 in years.

According to WNJU's Allan Villafaña, the new set will debut on T47 soon. https://www.instagram.com/p/DIXDvGxuXbR/?img_index=3&igsh=Mmp0OXA4MThlYnJj Villafaña uploaded a preview of the new set as he was recording a news promo https://www.instagram.com/p/DIZ9fyhuWMV/