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I'm pretty sure they're actually upstairs in the main news studio. I guess Studio 29 is getting a makeover.

I'm exhausted by incompetence?

Of course, the reason why Disney couldn’t buy them in the first place is because acquiring the RSNs as part of the 20CF purchase would have given Disney too much market share in sports broadcasting… what with ESPN being the largest cable sports network, and its namesake subsidiary owning eight sister channels in the U.S. alone, a pay-per-view unit, two streaming platforms (ESPN3, then within the now-defunct WatchESPN app, and the then-fledgling ESPN+), two radio networks (plus a Sirius/XM channel), and holding control of ABC’s sports division. So, the only options for 21st Century Fox were to pull the Fox Sports RSNs off the market and retain ownership of them or sell them to a third party (as they ultimately did). Quite frankly, as much as Murdoch selling 20th Century Fox, and the FX and National Geographic networks didn’t make much sense (especially when that library would have been useful to them from a streaming standpoint as Disney was able to do with those properties), selling the Fox Sports regional networks didn’t make much sense either, given that the Murdochs’ deep pockets allowed 21CF to clearly be better able to support the RSNs than Diamond Sports was. At least Fox Corporation wouldn’t be saddled with enough debt managing them to drag it into bankruptcy compared to what Sinclair is now dealing with, nor would they make the same mistakes with carriage agreements that Diamond/Sinclair made that contributed to its financial troubles.

I swear this is going to be the next Adelphia to go down in flames and be broken up into pieces. Even if it's just a standard bankruptcy notwithstanding any criminal charges against the executives that have run this company into the ground and defiled our nation's broadcasting principles for the last several decades.

I've got one of those Proud as a Peacock ID bumpers for KNDO buried on tape in one of my tubs. It was the full promotional campaign jingle with KNDO references. There was a spectacular 1982 find made from Great Falls on one of those Beta tapes. I will get to it soon...

WSB Television and Atlanta Television will never be the same without Jovita Moore. Prayers and condolences go out to her family and her extended family at Channel 2 Action News. And Jovita... Atlanta TV will never forget you. You will NEVER be forgotten. And say hello to Amanda Davis from all of us here. RIP Jovita and Godspeed.

A big loss for Metro Atlanta. Jovita took the torch from the legendary Monica Pearson and carried it well. I am a saddened at her passing, yet she is in a better place. My condolences to her family and the Channel 2 family. SN: Justin Farmer was a trooper in announcing her death. You could tell at times it was getting to him.

Per WATN anchor John Paul, it looks as if they are in the process of getting a new set or at least some remodel of their current studio.

Barbara-Lee Edwards has officially left KFMB to continue recovering from the hemorrhage in her brain: https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/san-diego-anchor-leaves-to-focus-on-her-health/236086/ Here is the interview she did it with Marcella Lee: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/news-8s-barbara-lee-edwards-talks-about-life-after-suffering-brain-bleed-in-2020/509-3cfed42f-7a4f-48a9-9f54-869de214d5f2

Channel 2’s Jovita Moore passes away after battle with brain cancer https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/channel-2s-jovita-moore-passes-away-after-battle-with-brain-cancer/BYZ3I5MHBJC57PTH56PG3IA75E/