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CBS may now be chomping at the bit to make once powerful Independent WTOG 44 the 3rd CBS affiliate in the Tampa-St. Petersburg market. Nexstar will then make WTSP a news heavy independent with mostly staff from WFLA. Sad times we are about to come into.

Something I wildly stumbled upon. A preview video of then-new Florida Regional Sports Network, Sunshine Network. Launched in March 1988 before any of the non-NFL Florida pro teams started playing on the network.

Larry Herbst known on air as Randy Scott (no relation to the current Randy Scott at ESPN) passed away January 26, 2026 in Chesterfield, Virginia at age 84. Scott was the Sports Director at WXEX in Richmond 1974-1977, WFLA in Tampa from 1977-1981 and then he was the Sports Director at WTOG in St. Petersburg when the station launched their 10:00 newscasts from 1982-1986. During his time at WTOG he hosted the Buccaneers coaches show with John McKay and then Leeman Bennett.

Another death from Florida. Longtime Jacksonville sports anchor Matt Cooney has passed away. Cooney was main sports anchor at WTLV in the 70s and 80s before moving over to WJXT for a few years to assist Sam Kouvaris. Cooney then worked for the PGA. He was 85 years old. There isn’t a whole lot of footage online from WTLV prior to 1984 aside from one 1972 newscast and a few news open clips from when the station gained ABC in 1980.

Multiple Market Main Anchor Wes Sarginson passed away yesterday February 4th at the age of 82. Sarginson anchored in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington DC (twice), Tampa, and Atlanta again before retiring in 2007. This comes from someone’s private FB page.

This is what comes up on my phone when I filter my search.

For those like me who randomly look for new news videos or just certain new archived videos in general by title, YouTube just did an update and got rid of the sort by “Upload Date” feature. So now this will make looking for new news videos harder unless you are subscribed to a certain channel. A totally unnecessary update!

She is moving to WTSP in St. Petersburg where she will be their Morning Meteorologist replacing Amanda Pappas. Facebook

This is similar to what former CBS affiliate WTVT did for years where they pushed Y&R on one day tape delay to 1pm as they had the one-hour lifestyle program Pulse Plus which then became a Noon Newscast and half hour local talk show Eye on Tampa Bay in 1989. The only difference is WTVT never showed the half hour soap operas Search for Tomorrow, Capitol, or The Bold and The Beautiful. TB&TB was pushed to lower powered independent WTMV from 1991 until WTSP took it when they got CBS in the New World Deal in December 1994.

If anything, WOFL/WOGX's Sports segments could be taped and done by WTVT or at least their podcast "No Off Days" could be shown weekly. WTVT also co-produces Florida Tonight with WOFL.

It wasn’t a Pannoni channel but I cannot remember it for the life of me. All of a sudden I had a bunch of gray boxes on my YT favorites on my TV. I’ll find it and edit this.

And unfortunately the ban hammer got dropped on this channel. I need to start saving these videos! He had a bunch of older Super Bowl Pregames on his channel!

How many compilation videos of local news opens especially the major market stations from NYC, LA, and Chicago have any mention of every channel they took clips from? Nearly none. And I bet 90% didn’t ask permission either. I think Drew Techner is just sore about it and doesn’t get the nostalgia purpose behind it. He doesn’t make money from it and nor do I. Also my Publix Holiday Commercial Mega Montage made it to a couple of newspapers recognizing its nostalgia to Floridians. Publix’s marketing team never had a problem with it.

So I sporadically make videos on my YT channel (Jerseyfla). I have a lot of playlists on my YouTube channel that are public and private. I specifically made one for different TV station sign offs from areas that I have lived in my life and military career. Recently, I decided to make a nice piece of “nostalgic ASMR” if you will, something TV junkies can go to bed to, and create a montage of those TV station signoffs from the different regions I have lived with a title slide saying “It’s Bedtime In ________. Let’s Signoff”. I didn’t credit the YT channels I captured the material from by name, just saying “Credit to the YouTube Channels who posted these sign-offs. This video is intended for nostalgia and fair use. No copyright infringement is intended.” Last night Drew Techner who posts a bunch of TV and Radio airchecks from Philadelphia and NYC commented on my Long Island and Philadelphia Signoff videos with time stamps that I stole signoffs from his channel. I commented back stating that him accusing me of stealing his videos is the same as me stating that he stole them from the station he posted them from and that there are many montage videos with News Opens, Station IDs, and Signoffs on YouTube and I am not making any money off of any of my videos. An hour ago, I received a copyright strike on my channel for using some of his signoffs in two of my videos. What is everyone’s view on this? I see nothing wrong with it. It’s all copyrighted material owned by the station groups, not him. Heck, I even told channels who post chronological news open montages “Here, you are missing mine”. I mean if it’s a one for one entire video reposted and taking credit, yes that is over the line but when you use pieces of it that’s another thing. Should I fight it?

I found that he does! Although not all of it that was Youtube. Thanks!