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It isn’t the act of traveling that Peter was referencing; it was being away from his family, especially his young daughters. Once kids move into high school, Friday nights become about hanging out with their friends, not their parents. Peter sees the window of time with his kids closing and has decided to make a career move to keep him DC-based. He said as much on the air. If someone doesn’t like NBC News, that’s fine. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But let’s not imply an on-air person has an ulterior motive that fits a personal perspective about how NBC reports on the government. It isn’t fair to the person who went on national television to publicly say he is prioritizing his kids.

From the LA Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-04-07/judge-slammed-brakes-on-nexstar-tegna-tv-merger https://thedesk.net/2026/04/nexstar-tegna-injunction-court-hearing/ https://thedesk.net/2026/04/california-doj-warned-nexstar-of-probe-in-tegna-merger/

If anything, their news coverage is improved since leaving NBC News. Their international news coverage is just fine with reporters from AP, Reuters, Sky News, CNBC World, and other international stations. They are now getting scoops on their own. The split has just reaffirmed that NBC News provided zero value to the network, if anything it was holding the network back.

Thank you, it's been corrected.

We're waiting on you, 10TV...

Hoping this means the “WWL Louisiana” branding is going away too.

They'd be more likely to cut that last quadrant of channels that they don't own, and if QVC and HSN do indeed go the way of ShopHQ this summer their hand will be forced anyways.

They cannot outrun their legacy; welcome back Ion Shop.

That fact she’ll be doing work for WABC is a sign that ABC is trying to make this hire as affordable as possible kinda like the Perry Russom gig with WABC. So they’ll give her some local time. ABC hiring on the cheap here.

In addition to being Chief Meteorolgist for Eyewitness News, as of yesterday, Lee Goldberg is also a senior Met for ABC which comes as no surprise considering he's made appearances frequently on World News Tonight whenever weather's a major story. Interesting timing alongside Leslie Lopez, meteorologist for West Coast ABC flagship KABC in Los Angeles joining the network in NYC on Friday.

Thank you two for pointing this out. Stations often increase the workload on existing crews rather than hiring more workers, when increasing news output. Many news anchors and producers already work a 2:30 to 11:35 PM shift. Staying till midnight is definitely a lot. Stations often run out of local news by the half hour mark so an 11:30 newscast would just be filled with wire service stories and national packages anyway.

The Onion outdid themselves today. I wouldn't put anything past AIPAC Bari though. https://theonion.com/bari-weiss-attempts-to-boost-ratings-by-kidnapping-tony-dokoupils-mom/

Whew! This post is everything! I work for a TV Station - and we are all producing more news and with the same pay. Asking us to stay beyond midnight would be even more stressful.

Divestitures won’t happen until Nexstar knows the final outcome of this deal. Why would they sell Nexstar owned stations now if the deal is later blocked on antitrust grounds? That’s like selling your house before you know you are going to get a new house. And they can’t sell Tegna owned stations because they technically don’t own them at the moment. So everything will be status quo until the state of limbo is resolved.

Can you imagine if (The company unit formerly known as Tegna operated by Nexstar) totally dumps the WNEP Music?

Except its more fun and not so much news heavy or political-based. Anyways, unrelated to that... Michelle Meredith's sign off from WESH 2.

WTVT's Florida Tonight seems to be gaining ground as it continues to expand. In addition to WOFL and WOGX (with repeats on WRBW), it now airs after the weeknight 11pm news on Jacksonville's WFOX FOX 30. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1575911340610722&id=100045756127252

This week marks the end of an era at WESH 2... Michelle Meredith's final week after nearly 40 years there (38 to be exact). Her last day is on Friday and while she announced it last month, its this week where she announces her last week. I don't think there's anybody there left who is still working there before she did as she has become a synonymous name in the newsroom and on Orlando television. Goodbye reports have begun and here is one of them: https://www.wesh.com/article/michelle-meredith-retires-nearly-40-years-wesh-2-orlando/70887611

Peter Alexander is leaving NBC News to join MS NOW as a midday anchor.

As someone who considers MS NOW the only credible source for television news in America but at the same time was very upset by the first wave of changes resulting in the cancellation of The Reidout, Alex Wagner Tonight, and The Katie Phang Show, I support most of the changes here. The less Morning Joe the better. This show should never have been 4 hours. I never watch the program and being on the west coast it's easy to ignore, but 4 hours of any show is overkill. Moving Stephanie Ruhle back to mornings make sense as she was never a good fit for The 11th Hour. Ratings for the show have collapsed with her as host and she just didn't fit as a lead-out of the left wing opinions in primetime. Ali Velshi is a much better fit for the program. Alicia Menendez deserves her own show and she was being wasted on The Weeknight. She is great at subbing for Nicolle Wallace and I think this is a great way to get people who watch Deadline White House but currently ignore MS NOW daytime to tune in earlier. Jacob Soboroff is fantastic and it's about time he had his own show on the network. Being a weekend show still allows for him to do reporting during the week which is also bonus More Chris Hayes the better. I feel like the network has unfairly diminished his role at the network and under promoted his show. They have put so much focus on launching and promoting other shows while not giving him and All In the attention it deserves. I don't understand why Katy Tur remains as anchor on this network. She doesn't fit in at all. If anything she should have moved to reporting with Chris Jansing remaining as anchor. Katy Tur is horrible as anchor but was actually good when she was a reporter on the campaign trail. In my view it makes more sense to keep Chris Jansing as anchor as she is good at covering breaking news, something that is needed for a 24 hour news channel. She manages cover news without upsetting the left wing audience, Richard Lui is another anchor who is great at covering breaking news and is being under underutilized by the network I still don't think Rebecca Kutler is the right fit to lead this network. The network should be thriving but instead comes off as unprepared and muted to what is actually happening and seems too concerned about criticism from the right. At times the network appears desperate to focus on small failures of Trump and trying to look for positives when I think most of the audience wants a more serious and somber take of what's happening. Katie Phang & Joy Reid's youtube shows are drastically better than anything this network is putting out.

Probably is off the air to facilitate the move from Detroit to Atlanta, which of course, takes time especially when you need to drive your whole life from one location to another.

I think it's pretty telling how many respectable journalists who were almost exclusively working for NBC News have made the move to MS NOW. Vaughn Hillyard, Ken Dilanian, and Jacob Soboroff were all primarily with NBC News. If Peter Alexander didn't want to anchor the Saturday Today show i'm sure they could have found him a weekday anchor slot on NBC News Now, it's very telling he is joining the others and leaving the trump donating Comcast owned NBC News to join the only television news outlet in America that is not afraid of upsetting the trump admin. For years NBC News looked down on MSNBC as a left wing opinion channel but clearly a lot of respected credible journalists think the only openly anti trump TV news outlet is a better place to do journalism than the garbage disgrace known as NBC News that has become trump's home for softball interviews (I'm pretty sure Kristen Welker talks to trump more than the demons at FOX & Friends) It's easy to say the issue was the Friday night travel to New York, but I think covering a disgraceful White House for a company that is terrified of upsetting the white house has a lot more to do with this.

Scripps is now purchasing WTVQ in Lexington for $15.8 million.