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This week they celebrated Jim Hill's 50 years of doing sports reports on LA television:

Please send your best wishes over to WJXT's Bruce Hamilton. He has announced that he's fighting cancer and will be in and out of the station from time to time. He celebrates 25 years with WJXT this month. https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/local/2026/02/17/news4jax-anchor-bruce-hamilton-cancer-diagnosis/88721654007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z111701p001750c001750v111701&gca-ft=46&gca-ds=sophi

Norah O’Donnell to host ‘CBS Mornings’ next week — sparking chatter of a possible return after long hiatus: sources https://nypost.com/2026/02/17/media/norah-odonnell-to-host-cbs-mornings-next-week-sparking-chatter-of-a-possible-return/

KABC 11pm January 1989 - this uses the 3D spinning globe with city names, similar to KGO's open around the same time, though here KABC uses the custom synth version of Cool Hand Luke by Frank Becker (not Gari). Versions of it were used from 1984-1990 by KABC, though the opens pre 1988 generally used the original Tar Sequence cut. This particular open didn't last long...used from 1988 until sometime in 1989 they went with a Miami style open for the 11pm and dropped Cool Hand Luke, but less than a year later switched to the Gari News Series 2000 version in 1990. I'm guessing KNBC and KTLA were squeezing them in the ratings during the late 80s so lots of changes until they found a groove by the early 90s.

John Dickerson will make a return to the eye network Tuesday after the State of the Union on Colbert. LateNighter report

More clown shows from Channel 4. Why god.

After an amazing 38 year run at WESH 2 and 45 overall in TV news, the great Michelle Meredith is hanging up her reporting duties for retirement. In a little over a month, she'll enter retirement but not before one more WESH 2 Fat Tuesday party today in honor of Mardi Gras. She's a Louisiana native so this means everything to her to bring a slice of Louisiana pride home to her for one more time. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=26531121886480014&id=100000266890941 https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=749760097928536&id=1439722074197445

Tonight's dumbed down news, as reported by Tony and Bari: