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

Every one is a news anchor now I see I’m in college I’m having second thoughts about entering this really unattractive business. Maybe I could start my own platform that’s the future anyways. I’ve also thought about meteorology FOX5 literally has a weather presenter with no meteorological training doing there weather and is 29 years old, I think you know who I’m talking about and I’m mixed about her. I prefer to get a degree, not get a job because of looks. And this is market #1 we’re talking about god I hate New York, I could go on a full on rant about the nations 2 largest cities both of them… I’ll just keep it too myself.

Spring training games are underway and we've got one new score bug change and a few minor tweaks thus far. No surprise after they debuted a new graphics package for the Rockets in the fall, but Space City Home Network has shuffled off the last of AT&T SportsNet's mortal coil and debuted a slick-looking bottom right bug. Minor tweaks I can see thus far. With ABS ball-strike challenges now in place, MLB's broadcasts may be testing out adding two lights to the left side of the bug for that. So far, I've only seen this on the Nats broadcast. Haven't seen it on any other MLB broadcasts yet. Even more minor tweak is that SNY has switched their main typeface from what I think was Frank (that NBC used to love so much) to the more generic (and free) Barlow. From what I've seen so far, NESN, SportsNet Pittsburgh, MASN, YES (thank god), and Sportsnet are all the same. Yet to have seen CHSN, the NBCS channels, Braves on Gray, SNLA, or any of the new national partners. Will be interesting to see if the NBC Sports RSNs (PHI, SF, ATH) stay the same and NBC debuts a new package for the network and Peacock or just adopts what the regionals have. Except for the gradient work, SNLA has had the same graphics package since it debuted 12 years ago, and I can't imagine CHSN would radically change their bug after one year on the air.

Yeahhh I don’t know about this. The 9am hour is fine but the 7 and 8 spot should go to Dan. I get being a little lighter and laid back in the morning but when something big happens you need a serious face.

What a wonderful story this is for Elena LaQuatra. She's the current noon anchor at WTAE but is 100% deaf. She needs hearing aids, after suffering from bacterial meningitis as a toddler, and using Cochlear implants, to hear her colleagues in the newsroom, as well as her family and husband. That has never stopped her from really further achieving much higher goals. I mean, she's an anchor af WTAE after all, but now this story will get even better for her. Starting March 2nd, LaQuatra is taking over for legendary anchor Michelle Wright (retiring Feb. 27th) on their morning news alongside another two longtime WTAE veterans Janelle Hall and Meteteorologist Ashley Dougherty. Just because your deaf or autistic (like me) or blind or suffer from any kind of disability, DO NOT let that ever stop you from achieving what you can achieve. Elena LaQuatra's story is point proven, and IMHO, this is truly wonderful. https://www.audacy.com/kdkaradio/news/local/wtae-names-morning-anchor-replacing-retiring-michelle-wright?fbclid=IwY2xjawQDAO5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR7mMdA-NtvIi_7ZPlfpuHOSNHhuNwdvtf3-Mwxs2VBcTGubQ0Ss4nnFSjHijg_aem_b2cfdu-D1zchoxx23XX4AA EDIT: Unrelated to that... Kevin Lemanowicz is the ONLY Chief Meteorologist WFXT has ever had in their current news operation (dating back to 1996). For the first time ever, WFXT will be having a NEW Chief as Kevin has decided to leave next week on February 27th. https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/boston-25-news-announces-departure-chief-meteorologist-kevin-lemanowicz/M3OGAIJY5BDJ7DMG35YDKNYKZQ/?fbclid=PAT01DUAQDBdxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAadzxeQ0MTu6Y_s368AfNDh84S4qUW3lvcWziadC7J3tkf7praPNVd84ZNpI0g_aem_c4fjjErtu7PKyZj00dXIWQ