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Three things will always resonate with a Sunday morning: church & worship, NFL football...and Charles Osgood. His friendly personality, signature bow tie, and interesting segments made a Sunday morning on CBS worthwhile...especially with a cup of coffee. He will forever be missed, say hi to the other Charles (Kuralt) up there, still probably 'on the road' (if there are highways and backroads up in Heaven), and of course, Walter. RIP!

Since all the episodes are available on-demand lately it's probably more that than anything rather than CBS mob-tacting them; at the end of the day it's yet another 'if you haven't seen it, it's new to you' syndicated package that fills an easy hour and captures the audience which doesn't want to deal with Freevee. And it certainly isn't original content in 2024. What is CBS going to do, take away their Dr. Phil reruns? No, not the Dr. Phil reruns from 2018 we air at 4am anyways that OWN and Pluto also air and will clog Merit Street soon, please don't take those.

Yikes large white box L3s. At least the time-temperature bug looks less cramped. Having just discovered the Morgan Murphy group, I will say some of their stations's graphics and sets look better than some stations at larger companies like Sinclair.

Where do you see that NewsNation is turning a good profit?

WILX TV-10 Action News at 11:00 (December 10, 1990)

A call sign change (which won't happen to begin with) won't change the fact they're stuck with a standalone AM they can't sell, with demos older than dirt.

Sade also sounded ill a couple nights ago. Also, we seem to have acquired Phil Taitt from News 12 for morning reports. Considering they've been short a morning person since Derrick Waller understandably walked away, I'm guessing he's the replacement.

Interesting. Well, WCNC doesn’t have room for it anyway unless Tegna ditched Daily Blast Live.

That was a coding error in Ross OD. I made stingers (like you saw play out) and I made “open stingers” that sting out after the open seamlessly…the coding was swapped and that’s what occurred. Thank you. This has been a dream project. I was literally given the keys to drive the whole thing without any interference from other management…just “how can we help.” and hat tip to Matt Quinn, Tristan and team for letting me version it out. They all deserve a big hat tip as well. They give us the tools to build masterpieces.

WMC 1984: Rather long open, cheesy theme, cheesy graphics. Don't get me started on that tuba! KNSD, then KCST 1986: What, you had to have sketches of the anchors and not real photos?

It's pretty sad when internet newscasts have better opens than a licensed TV station.

And I kinda like them.

I submit WGNX's (now WGCL) 1994 open on the basis of the use of pastel colors and the spooky music...

I made that as a joke

(Has this one been added already?) Early 1980 WNBC Open with the Consort gang of Jack Cafferty and Marv Albert...along with Dr. Frank Field The Octagon 4 from when WNBC had some trouble figuring what to do with their "4". They went from the plain 4 to the octagon seen here to the zig-zag, WTAE-ish 4 for their early N4NY period before settling for the modified version. Add the music which sounds like it came from an early Moog synthesizer, and you have a sketch show's dream.

WBAL 1981 News Open (from when it was a CBS affiliate) My complaint is that they picked what has to be the WORST cut of "Hello News" that I've heard.

KIEM-TV in Eureka, CA is the most watched news... more like the ONLY news in the area. KIEM News Channel 3 6pm Open KIEM News Channel 3 6pm Talent

Ratings don't matter when you're profitable. Look at the entire suite of cable networks owned by Paramount Global; they all still exist because they command profits with no budgets and no effort given into programming. Which is just as well. Nielsen clamped down on the scraping of data that Mediaite used to do to get cable TV ratings, thus you don't hear much about ratings in general nowadays.

Sade shared she's having knee surgery and will be out for an extended period of time