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Kate Bilo's going out on maternity leave soon, so Matt may be filling in.

I agree. The graphics aren't great, they aren't bad. Typical CBS.

Well, while they're at it.. If Sinclair does buyout Tribune, they can add WWMT and WXMI to South Bend... Make it a multi-state hub... In South Bend... Said no one ever...

The WOAY material on that channel is incredible. There's one other great clip: their first sign-on after the fire. They got interim equipment on air primarily to transmit network programs. Like, literally, ID slide until 8:00!

Katie is Boston-quality talent who was wasted at WMTW, but JC's departure is a major loss for Channel 5. Emily Riemer can't begin to compare to JC.

The UK's Royal Family is probably more popular in this country than the current (or previous) First Family, so it's not that much of a shock. Remember how out of their way the networks went to cover the Royal Marriage and the Royal Baby?

Not helping was the garbage '43 The Block' branding (combined with an awful 'graffiti' logo), which basically screamed 'this is where your unemployed loser self watches Jerry and Maury and lousy lawyer and for-profit college ads, along with bad sitcoms'. I still remember Gaylord running these dominant regional superstations that either benefited well from the 1994 affiliate switches, or just got bungled into badly run stations when Gaylord abandoned them for the hotel business. WVTV in Milwaukee is finally recovering after being a red-headed stepchild for years over WCGV, for instance. The only issue likely would have been if "The Chew" was on a one-day delay; at least this addresses that. As long as GH and The Chew aren't broken apart it still all works and it gets that programming out of the noon-2pm CT 'pre-emption zone' that Washington loves to throw their big news conferences into; only an advertiser on SA Live is going to be sad if their gutter demonstration has to be called off a day.

As your weekend is about to come to an end, here are some rare clips I am sharing with all of you. We start in 1977 where WOAY-4 in Beckley, West Virginia had just signed back on the air after a devastating fire hit the station. Here are a few video clips of WOAY's news from that year. At 2:16 into the video, it includes an ID with newscast open. The audio is very low, but you get to see a vintage KFVS newscast from 1989 featuring a different open used during that period. News open with ID can be seen at 0:33. Here is a WSAZ news close from 1977 with NBC Nightly News intro. WSAZ used "Part of Your Life" at the time.