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Rachel Maddow anchored the 1pm edition of MS NOW Reports. They made a good decision with bulking up their live news coverage on the weekends last year. It’s shining on a day like today.

Nexstar & KTLA made a terrible decision not to give Mark Kriski a dignified send off from the station

Interesting. Early morning MSNOW coverage of trump's attack on Iran was with the Weekend (AM) crew. At 7, it was live Morning Joe with Joe, Mika, Willie and many of their premier commentators like Peter Baker (NYT) and Richard Haas, David Rhode and others. Good move by MSNOW mgt.

WTVF Eyewitness News at 10:00 (February 24, 1979; rebroadcast; starts at 1:25) WNGE (now WKRN) NewsWatch 2 at 10:00 (February 12, 1982; rebroadcast; starts at 1:05 mark)

There was a time I wouldn't mind hearing CBS News and CNN are merging because both names had prestige. Now they're both dumpster fires with CBS News being the worst of the two. Anderson Cooper left 60 minutes just to possibly have to face the same corporate overlords. Cue The CBS Evening Situation with Wolf Blitzer .

Fox News has also met the moment... They had Sandra Smith and John Roberts on when I was at the gym, and running ads that Martha MacCallum and Brett Baier would do special editions of their shows later today. Another screen showed Wolf Blitzer on CNN's coverage. NBC did a fantastic job this morning with Peter Alexander and Laura Jarrett replacing Weekend Today with a Special Report before passing the baton to Kristen Welker. When I flipped to CBS and ABC, they ran the traditional weekend versions of Mornings and GMA. I did notice that CBS did work in reports of the developing news, albeit with the usual show graphics and a small "Breaking News" banner above the logo (ABC May had done likewise, but I missed it).

KEVN 7 News Coverage 1991-1996 WFRV News 1977

Agreed. She seemed like the obvious successor to Mark Baden as chief should he ever retire (except he gets younger every year somehow). She started in July 2019, so if it was a lowball contract thing… the timing doesn’t quite line up, it seems early to have even gotten an offer from management. That said, from what I know, despite their ratings/performance, the newsroom leadership is not what it used to be. Hard to imagine she would just walk away though without saying goodbye. And really struggling to think this was a cost-cutting layoff move. Definitely a weird one!

That’s the mostly likely scenario I think… break it up into pieces and sell it.

I wonder when the creditors will sell the company piecemeal? Scripps should also make a choice whether to keep going with their network stations or their ION stations.

If anything this administration will require Skydance keeps CNN. trump would love nothing more than for the MAGA monsters running CBS News to also run CNN. While CNN is 3rd place in the cable news ratings, it has international reach and broadcasts 24 hours a day, way more pleasing to trump than Skydance current offerings of a horribly rated morning show & 30 minute evening newscast. It simply makes no sense for a far right dictator who is obsessed with controlling media coverage to be against a far right company buying a cable news channel. On top of that, it probably makes financial sense for Skydance to keep CNN. CBS News loses millions of dollars every year. The amount of layoffs and cost saving they could do by merging CBS News & CNN would be massive. I honestly wouldn't even be surprised if CBS News is shut down entirely with CNN taking over "news" programming. I could also see them turning CNN into an openly far right outlet to compete against FOX News.

I kinda miss this logo.

Longtime TV host Tom Bergeron noted the similarities between the evening news personalities lol.

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.

The Jennifer Hudson Show renewed for next season

KNBC L.A.: 1984 News 4 LA promo w/remastered video, and stereo theme music (still a shame that didn't last as long in the City of Angels as News 4 New York did on WNBC in the Big Apple)

This is amazing KOMO during their longtime locally-owned Fisher days. This is KOMO 4 News at 11am in full from Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 (got the day from a brief Wall Street market check during the news). KOMO legend, anchor and Problem Solver Connie Thompson anchors the newscast. She would join the station in 1974 and spend the next 46 years there until her retirement during COVID in 2020. She is truly one of KOMO and Seattle's greats. You'll also see Rachelle Murcia very early on, who's now the main evening anchor at KBAK/KBFX Bakersfield (since 2015), as well as Meteorologist Todd Johnson, who spent 13 years there at KOMO before leaving in 2008. Finally, Cindi Rinehart, the unofficial Queen of Soaps, gives a daytime soap preview at the end to also help promote KOMO's longtime afternoon program Northwest Afternoon, which ran for nearly 24 years from 1984 until fierce competition from syndicated programs at the time (Dr. Phil on KING, Rachael Ray on KIRO, Maury on KCPQ) forced its cancelation in 2008 (Cindi was the only one there for all 24 years of NWA; KOMO would replace with a new syndie at the time, The Doctors). First News at 4:00 would always air after NWA. KOMO was really really solid during these days. Its too bad Fisher took the bait and sold it to Sinclair out of all companies and now we know how that turned out. Also to note... - KOMO 1000 News, that was a thing. An interesting name but I always loved it before they would add Radio to the name a year or so later in 2006. Obviously, they no longer own it because its now Lotus who has KNWN AM 1000 and 97.7 KNWN-FM as Northwest Newsradio. - The newscast is still an hour-long to this day, and still on at 11am, though I think they once stopped it before bringing it back later down the road. - KOMO didn't own KUNS at the time. Someone else had Channel 51 before selling it a year later to Fisher which would turn the station into Univision Seattle. Its today's current owners at Sinclair who stopped that and turned it into arc Seattle in 2024 with CW programming mixed in. Enough analysis, context, and history lessons here. Here's the newscast in full, local commercials, KOMO promos, and all. Enjoy!

That sax rendition of 'Good News' during the NBA scores at 1 hour in of the WEWS clip is pretty epic

Here's a who's who of Ohio University student journalists who went on bigger and better things....from WOUB TV's Newswatch. One did not have to be a Journalism or Telecommunications major to participate, but the staff was largely all student volunteers running a newsroom for TV and radio. John Klemack - went on to WOWK Huntington, KSTU Salt Lake, and now at KNBC in Los Angeles. Frank Marzullo - worked weekends at WTAP Parkersburg at the time as well, then went to WFMJ in Youngstown and later WXIX in Cincinnati. Larry Seward - later worked at KHOU in Houston and is at WFOR in Miami. Kathleen Cochrane - Worked at WTAP, News14 Carolina (now Spectrum News), and WJW in Cleveland where she was infamously attacked by a cat during a live shot. She later married Dean DiPiero, the former mayor of Parma, Ohio and later a member of the Ohio State House of Representatives. Sadly, she passed away in 2018 after complications from a bout with influenza. Yours truly was one of the camera operators, in fact, this was my very first time operating one of those huge Ikegami studio cameras. It didn't go so well...Take a look at the end of sports and see my botched "cookie cutter" shot. I can still remember the director yelling "CAMERA 3....WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?! Thankfully the credits were wrong at the end

WYTV 1989:

So, I've been collecting VHS and Betas for over a decade. I always try to snag small-market eBay lots whenever they still exist...and a recent Beta lot was no exception. For OVER A DECADE I have been looking to break the dry spell and digitize some television from this market. A life-long dream has come true, and now TAKE A LOOK AT THIS 1986 NEWS PROMO FOR KXGN GLENDIVE!!!!!! (At 5:58) And to sweeten the deal, here's half of the KUMV Williston Night Report from 9/26/1986. Most of the newscast originates from KFYR Bismarck, and KUMV cuts in during the second half of the newscast, but the recording cuts off before the end... They had a translator in Glendive for decades I have another BIG KXGN surprise coming, stay tuned

I wonder if this means that WOOD-TV will lose their creative services.. I kinda hope they do, ONLY because their graphics package kinda sucks, especially with the implementation of the Roboto fonts... It looks very dated for a Top 50 market.