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...until the day they (are announced to) merge to "maximize the entertainment and monetary opportunities of both properties to create an FAST TV powerhouse that brings the best of TV and film to our hundred millions viewers that crave world-class free content". We shall see.

Why should they do anything but what he, his employer, his family, and his doctors agree is best for all involved?

KODE in Joplin cause they have posted this. Also KFOR’s 6:30pm newscast is now a podcast style newscast called The Breakdown. https://www.youtube.com/live/GkIyMCz78zk?is=RAbqmpLz6SNVSuBl

I doubt the EU will approve it.

Yes, which they advertised heavily immediately after the final buzzer. They could've probably went into breaking news once the first post-game ended and the main telecast was done, but remember that Inside the NBA had an interview with Jalen & Rick Brunson that most people watching probably wanted to see after the former won the MVP. You could be right about them having no choice though, as I'm sure both ESPN and Turner/WBD would've been a bit mad about losing Inside in the market of the champions. I would assume the opposite, that most people would stick with channel 7 rather than flip to another channel, especially since only channel 7 wouldve had the trophy presentation and the post-game interviews. Not to mention by that virtue they were also on the air the latest, their coverage ending around quarter to 2.

Bill went on GMA to talk about his diagnosis:

Pretty sure it was a one off since Philly was hosting its first World Cup game this year. I believe she had also been off the past two weeks. Trish Hartman has on occasion also sat alongside him, as has Sharrie.

Missing from this of course is the reaction from the anchor desk the moment the knicks won (i had been dvring the various 11pm newscasts since i wanted to have the reactions should the knicks have won (of course, they did) but didn't get the whole reaction since the DVR cut off where SNL would've started). 2 was also at the anchor desk when the buzzer sounded and they got pretty emotional there.

KIMT is one of those poor stations that has been passed around for decades. It was one of two stations that the Schotts sold (including WBTW) to Spartan. After Media General bought Spartan, KIMT was one of the stations they divested so they could buy 4 of NBC O&Os. New Vision, who bought them, merged with LIN, and then Media General owned them once again when they merged with LIN. Then KIMT was one of the castoffs during the Nexstar merger, not because of cross-ownership in the market, but with cap space. Heartland bought them, sold out to Allen Media, and here we are. At this rate, Gray could own them as a failed station if Allen keeps cutting...

Yes, they did, simulcasting from FanDuel Sports Sun. This new deal is for games to air exclusively on WPLG in Miami, I'd expect a broadcast deal to be done at least in West Palm Beach in the not-too-distant future.

If so great! Michael and Darlene are (if I'm correct) are the longest running AM anchor pairing in the market currently. Grew up watching them!

it's a shame that someone of her talent caliber and personality just disappeared from the airwaves. She and Sue Simmons should've been hitting their retirements right about now, if not still on the air like Kaity Tong.

That’s got to be a rhetorical question, no? This board exists for people to express their opinions. What they actually do may not come close to reflecting the opinions expressed here. I was giving my two cents. That’s not a crime. Your post is the sort of comment I could copy and paste as a reply to anyone’s post here in any thread on the entire board and it would work more or less. I’m essentially arguing that it’s gonna be very very hard to pull off if he’s that bad off already and it will be very difficult to keep it from being a noticeable distraction. If you turn it around and make it about him but let another reporter or even an anchor report on it it’s a much gentler ride. You also don’t have to deal with things around midstream when he gets too far gone to report. So I disagree with their strategy here. Given the general progression of a cognitive disease like this it probably won’t be a real long running series. Maybe you get a year or two out of it?

Ok now that’s a little much. Cue him live in studio saying he works for a different station or is in a different city or is a plumber or something. He should just gracefully be gone into the sunset. If they assigned another reporter to check in with him and did a series of reports in his honor that would make more sense.

I thought it was going to be Comcast that was going to be buying Roku. I didn't think it would've been FOX since they own Tubi I see them meagering Tubi & Roku in my opinion.