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Do we possibly think Toni doesn’t want it? I mean yeah helping out when needed, but maybe doesn’t want to work weekends? I wouldn’t blame her. She def deserves it tho!

Meh. I was really enjoying the Chantee/Toni rotation on Saturdays and Sundays.

Hunt Valley loses again! I think their failed Tribune deal blacklisted them.

Scripps has denied Sinclair’s proposal to buy them.

Or like the 1st Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.... Otherwise, this station has been a dumpster fire, even under Meredith. Has Gray really cleaned up this place that much?

This kinda feels like winning the FIFA Peace Prize.

Marion Brooks posted that it'll debut on Saturday with a soft launch.

The occasional “cop roots out bad cop” storyline is recycled on occasion. Always, the main characters are on the right side, catching the bad ones. That’s what, one episode this season with a bad cops story on SVU, making for a ratio of something like 21:1? Shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy skewer everyone. The left gets mocked as does the right. The bias only seems to show up when someone is on the receiving end of a particular joke. CBS’s scripted shows are primarily the most formulaic procedurals imaginable. Not left, not right. More like paint-by-numbers solve-the-crime shows. The prosecutors on the Law and Order franchise being some vast left-wing bias is kind of comical. The writing is also paint by numbers, even moreso with that particular template. When one of the main prosecutors is akin to Philadelphia’s Larry Krasner, then there’s something to it. ABC is more focused on the preposterous emergencies of the week on 911 and it’s very country music spinoff. Grays Amatomy is basically a soap opera keeping tabs on who’s boinking who this week punctuated also by preposterous scenarios. I mean maybe Abbott Elementsry being a principally Black cast is somehow liberal, but the stories are just making fun of workplaces with the occasional Philadelphia Easter egg thrown in. And as mentioned elsewhere above, the plethora of country music specials an awards dwarfs just about all other genres of music combined.

I love how many times y'all have gotten your hopes up for Toni over the years, to get burned EVERY time. It's my favorite every 3-to-5-year tradition.

Left-wing entertainment? Good lord. Half the shows are law-and-order (both “literally” Law & Order, and otherwise) where the police (or FBI, et al) are the upstanding, always-right force for good. CBS basically put Blue Bloods’ faith-and-family hour into a new city. Tim Allen is far from a left-winger over on ABC. Shows like Abbott Elementary are just goofy enough diversions about the foibles of workplace life. Reality wise, who sings better than who, or who is under what costume are now left wing? Kevin O’Leary, arguably the most prominent part of Shark Tank with Cuban gone, is left wing? Heck, Price is Right, the most mainstream, vanilla game show imaginable is still part of the prime time lineup beyond its daytime run.

Yeah they should've put either Toni or Chantee there in my opinion. I just think they want a fresh face. Toni Yates has been with WABC since 2006 and she's been filling in on the weekends for I want to say at least 10 years now so she has the tenure. Which leads me to think that they just want someone else for the role.

I wish that they gave it to Toni Yates because she has always been a steady fill-in presence for years and is loved by many viewers but Perry Russom is more youthful and has a higher profile with him also being a national correspondent, so it makes sense. Russom has a stiff and serious personality at times, and being a network correspondent requires some toughness but he has been able to lighten up a bit when he filled in a few times on Eyewitness News This Morning, so he is still not a bad choice.

So, as it turns out, "Whiskey Fridays" is not going to be a real segment, according to CBS... it was not for broadcast, "not a real title...not a real sponsor, and this is not a real story." The graphics being tested were just a placeholder "for a potential non-televised, in-person private event."

Exactly. I think it's pretty clear Skydance knew this would hurt the ratings and destroy the credibility of CBS News, but turning it into evil far right propaganda puts the company in good graces with an evil authoritarian government, and that's all that matters to them. The private media in the rest of the western world is covering the United States Government much differently than the private media in the United States (outside of MS NOW). I guarantee if the Canadian Government had law enforcement coming in to Canadian cities terrorizing and torturing people and shooting people in the face the coverage would not be remotely close to what we are seeing on the American evening network newscasts. A Canadian network would not allow the prime minster of Canada to break into the season finale of Survivor to talk about his "accomplishments" of the past year. CBS News ratings are crashing, their credibility and brand is destroyed, they are losing millions every year, and Skydance doesn't care, they are using it as a tool to get special treatment from the evil corrupt government so they can buy Warner Brothers Discovery, the fact that Skydance leadership shares the deplorable views of MAGA is just an added bonus for them.

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WPRI 12 News 1999 WRC News 4 1989 WRC News 4 1988 KCNC, KMGH, & KUSA Coverage of the Denver Broncos runners up parade after the '87 Superbowl.

I mean, The Onion ran this satirical "ad" in its print edition in December. https://www.facebook.com/TheOnion/posts/pfbid024saN4i8FSPSCTbrztDZTHqNQJuwN7pjUebkL8hmzAN6vpAfzHeszfJEsMu5f72V5l

Posting after myself to share a picture an acquaintance of mine found of this desk in use at one of the 2000 political conventions.

Just enjoy tv, it's fiction.

Sinclair is back..... How long before Scripps tells them to pound sand again?

Mike & Molly is completely out of syndication as of today; CMT and TV Land are done with them too.