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Holy Lost Luggage! They should have an entire baggage claim area named after them.

WKYC in Cleveland is adding Dorsena Drakeford to its news team. She comes from KGAN and KFXA in Cedar Rapids. http://wkycdirectorscut.blogspot.com/2017/03/wkyc-adds-dorsena-drakeford-to-channel.html

Scott Jones is attributing the monkeying-around with some of Tegna's news departments to a consulting firm called Red Seat Ventures. Here in Maine WCSH/WLBZ blew up their 5PM newscast last week in favor of a social media-obsessive show called News Center Now, despite WCSH (at least) being the dominant news station in town for going on three decades. The stations' sports department is in tatters, with longtime sports guy (and, after the late Bruce Glasier's retirement a few years ago, its Sports Director) Lee Goldberg pulled off the 6PM newscast in favor of the new venture. They've done away with just about every vestige of sports coverage altogether, unless you count a decades-old humor piece voiced by Glasier featuring the late Bob Elliot (ex-NBC reporter-turned local features reporter) that ran during last night's 6PM newscast where actual sports reporting used to take place. Local station publicity would have viewers believe that these changes were all their idea, but you have to wonder if they're only doing this to fend off corporate's latest consultant-driven voodoo. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/3/17/here-they-come

Hello, everyone. Long time reader of TVNewstalk.net, and now a first-time poster! My two cents: CBS, by far, has the best morning show with "CBS This Morning," and suffice it to say, out of all the shows that CBS has tried since "Captain Kangaroo" went off the air, I think CBS finally struck gold with this attempt! It'll be great to see Charlie Rose come back once he returns from heart surgery. He, Norah O'Donnell, and Gayle King make an outstanding team! The main differences, in my opinion, between "CBS This Morning" and its competitors (aside from screaming spectators outside on the other shows) is that they utilize CBS anchors and correspondents and guest experts frequently, and they leave the booking battles to their competitors. Not many awkward moments to speak of, either!! So, this is my first post. I'm sure there a lot of people on this board who will agree with my two cents on "CBS This Morning"! :-)

http://tunedinnyc.com/2017/03/01/insider-krishnan-apprehensive-about-future-at-wpix/

WTSP in Tampa has hired a new team for its morning newscast: Rob Finnerty, Courtney Curtis, and Jackie Fernandez https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/3/16/the-tampa-revamp Rob and Jackie both arrive with some baggage at their new home. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/3/17/wellim-sure-they-came-cheap

I agree that CBS This Morning is not just the best out of the three, but it's better than anything on cable too. The key difference is that it's a news show, not a circus with an abbreviated newscast at the beginning of the first hour. Before, I used to never even bother with the network morning shows. The Evening News is a great complement to it at night too. It's found the right speed of synthesizing "all that matters" in what's happening in the country and abroad.

On another note... Remember how I said KRBK was a great unknown? It's becoming more known by the day. A full KRBK newscast from 1991! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TH9LuJOQno

You mean like have Twitter and FB and Instagram? Yes.

Hoda Kotb anchoring NBC Nightly News on Christmas Day, 2004. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=rSvcN8A-Q60;t=0 I think that she did it great.

Likewise, when WJKW's late edition of NewsCenter 8 ended on the day President Reagan was shot, the station threw a slide up mentioning a half-hour delay of Maude and Ironside before joining CBS News for a recap of the attempted assassination.

Unfortunately many ethnic groups find the "W" and "K"s in the FCC call signs to be offensive. One "K" is only 2 more ""K's" away from KKK. The letter "W" is considered "code' for White or White people. This is why you see these long local web names filled with platitudes. "ilovemylocalsandiego10news.com" just makes one feel so much better inside as we start our busy day.

well tuned in has been inaccurate but here is the thing if it is true, they should NOT RENEW Suki's Contract

Thought I put these series of videos on here because I love Colombian TV news and have been since 2012. As you know, Caracol and RCN are the main broadcast networks in that country and broadcast extensive national newscasts throughout the day and into the weekend. First off, an open montage of Noticias RCN throughout the years: Next is the current opens that they use. Just like how WGN had a different cut of news music for its package, RCN used a different color theme for each broadcast except the weekend editions. These opens are from 2014 and they still use them today: Finally, the news source I prefer watching, Noticias Caracol. This is a open/close montage of Caracol through the years: BONUS - A close of Noticias Caracol from 2012. This was the year I started watching Colombian TV news: BONUS - A close of Noticias Caracol with Caracol's programming style/current look afterwards from 2016: For the record, both air weekend news from 12:30-2:00 and 7:00-8:00pm. On weekdays however, Caracol airs more. Caracol goes from 5:45-8:30am (compared to 6:00-8:30am on RCN), 12:30-3:15pm (yep, that long while RCN is only 12:30-2:00pm), 7:00-8:00pm and 11:30pm-12:00am (same as RCN).

With all the rare news videos popping up on this forum, we can add another one to the list. We take you back to 1977 where we feature a rare clip of a WMAZ newscast. There is no open in the video, but it does feature a news story on the UGA Redcoat Band. At the end of the video is a WMAZ news bumper with an unknown music piece. Also, here is a portion of KOVR's news from October 7, 1991 featuring news open. Here are a set of CBS/WCIA commercials from December 7, 1986 with a portion of WCIA's news. The news open can be seen at 30:09. The voice-over doing the WCIA intro sounds like the work of Dan Region who was also the announcer of "As The World Turns" at the time. Or...it may have been someone from WCIA. Velma Scaife, longtime WVEC reporter, passed away recently. What we don't know was that before Velma became a WVEC reporter, she worked at WCYB-TV in Bristol during 1986. Here are a couple of news updates that Velma did for the late news on WCYB during this period. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TEScWV5lyA And keeping with the Tri-Cities theme, here is a WJHL news promo as aired in 1985 for "Eyewitness News". However, the video is rough and shot from a video camera pointed to the TV. The music heard in the promo is an unknown theme piece which may have been WJHL's news theme at the time.

Nice open "stolen" off of WSVN...

I believe the Renaissance 2 theme is on NMSA as "WROC 1987 News Theme", though I've long had a suspicion it was originally for KDKA. NMSA doesn't even list them as having used it, but I've seen a promo on YouTube with one of the cuts (possibly one of Thor's deleted videos?) I also assume the KD+You theme is the one that went with the tunnel animation, that has long been assumed (quite possibly incorrectly) to be part of Tuesday's News Image by most of the news theme community? (It's understandable why, it has the same 4-note logo, but in the past couple years, as more Tuesday stuff has been identified, I have become less and less sure that KDKA theme was even the work of Tuesday.) Yeah, opens are hard to find - some KDKA stuff (such as one of the "Here's 2" promos) only surfaced through some low-bitrate videos of classic clips posted on their site for some anniversary in the mid-00s, which are probably long gone.

Yeah..given this isn't his and Karen's first child, he may not take a lot of time off. Honestly, they need him back as soon as possible. Dick is going to need some time off and so will Alex. They could go the two-female anchor or sole anchor route (from time to time), but that's not a good long-term strategy.

apparently a former KVIA weatherman is now a stripper http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/3/1/wellits-a-living