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Starting February 23, Fox O&Os will air a 90-second FNC-produced daily news brief at 5:58pm ET called Fox News Report, anchored by Bill Melugin. It’ll also be made available to affiliates.

Dumping J! and Wheel was definitely a harbinger. They were rightly lambasted for letting them go at the time and that decision just gets worse all the time.

Not withstanding the destructive moves in their news departments, I think much of the decline of the Scripps stations was when they sent prime syndication offerings packing to their competitors, in favor of cheaper "inbred" options that have all since been canceled. And I don't think in any case, any of the shows they sent packing came back. I would think the only exception would be any stations they bought In recent times that already had pre-existing deals. But running pre-recorded newscast jukeboxes is not a winning formula, especially at the expense of the staff it used to require to put on an actual newscast.

And for the Tigers, it's now official as MLB will of course take over. The Red Wings rights are (believe it or not) also being taken over by MLB. https://www.mlb.com/news/tigers-red-wings-enter-broadcast-partnership-with-major-league-baseball

I just read Brendan Carr's response and he is completely tone-deaf and also really unintelligent. Comcast and Disney don't own every affiliate and only own 12-13 stations when accounted for. To bring up Disney/Comcast to get support for an illegal merger is assinine.

A glaring downside to the Scrippscasts/avoid live shots thing…. Since nothing is live the reporting packages are always pretty good because they had time to get them right. When there is breaking news or a big event and they have to be live… the young reporters they hire these days seem to struggle mightily because they don’t do it often. That’s what I’ve started noticing in Detroit anyways. Some times they sound great live but other times the same person is tripping over their words and that’s been multiple people having the same issues.

Here's something new, interesting, and unique. Entravision has partnered with Hemisphere Media Group to launch... WAPA Orlando. Yes, the same brand that gives you WAPA-TV and Puerto Rican flair to bring its news and programming to a growing Puerto Rican population in Central Florida, launched yesterday on WOTF Channel 26 (replacing Grit), which will be complete with locally-targeted newscasts (NotiCentro Orlando at morning and midday at launch, with evening and late night newscasts to come over time; produced in San Juan), and focused on Orlando's Puerto Rican population. This is a huge deal, especially for me, since I'm half Puerto Rican. This also gives another option for Orlando since WTMO carries several segments during their newscasts focused on the latest news from Puerto Rico as well, and frequently feature reports from sister station WKAQ-TV at times. Puerto Rico is becoming more represented in the Orlando TV market, and I'm quite happy about this. https://www.tvtechnology.com/platform/broadcast/hemisphere-media-group-entravision-launch-wapa-orlando

The only other one of the original 5 that refers to itself as Channel 7 is the orphaned one. It’s kind of surprising cause you’d think “channel x” would be a pretty standard thing across local TV. I don’t know that it really made all that much sense to go to ABC 7 in the first place. By the time they did it everybody knew the channel lineup no matter what city you were in.