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Is that Arial I see? Hope this is a test and not made it on the air.

WCBS actually had The People's Court at 4pm before Judy's return to Channel 2 in 2006 (after 7 years on WNBC). Before that newscast ended completely in 2003, it was truncated to a half-hour at 4:30pm. Filling that first half hour in Jan. 2002 was the Weakest Link. And that got replaced the following fall by Millionaire.

The deal is now closed. Consummated on Friday (12/1).

That image campaign (on the 3:00 mark on the reel) came from the launch of WPDS-TV 59 (now WXIN) in 1984.

Another departure. This time in Houston. Longtime KPRC host & meteorologist Khambrel Marshall is retiring after 24 years at the station. And nearly five decades in the business. His last day will be on December 13.

The new logo on the bug has been used since August. But you only see this version for online videos after it airs.

WHBQ.

Two R&Os. One NPRM. NPRM: KECI (20 > 21) R&O: KIFI (8 > 18) KWNV (7 > 16)

To be fair, the OP posted this prior to the knowledge that it would be produced out of WCBS.

Channel 5 is going to simulcast four live Friday games from NBC Sports Chicago. WMAQ will air two Bulls games in November (3rd & 17th), and two Blackhawks games in December (22nd & 29th).

Sinclair has renew its affil deal with CBS in all 23 markets.

Maurice has filled in on Evening many times. This is nothing new.

I think you didn't see it on the last page.

Big follow up. Twenty-nine months since filing the petition, the FCC just greenlighted KTNV's move from VHF 13 to 26. And they've also subsequently denied King Kong's opposition & counter-proposal. This was why the process was held up all this time. Now King Kong (owner of KGNG-LD) have no other choice but to vacate off of 26. ____________________________ Four More R&Os from the new NCE allotments, plus an existing one switching. Ch. 2 - Colusa, CA (10/16) Ch. 3 - Tulare, CA (10/16) Ch. 4 - Alamagordo, NM (10/20) KDIN (11 > 34) (11/1) Ch. 4 - Jacksonville, OR (12/5)

Bill Ritter is anchoring the 11pm this Saturday with Chantee Lans.

One R&O. One NPRM. R&O: WKNX (7 > 21) NPRM: Weigel's Ch. 31 WI allotment (Wittenberg > Shawano)

Scripps no longer operates the station, after the Marquee acquisition.

It seems Marquee has found a new news partner in Idaho. Marquee Broadcasting-owned Boise Fox station KNIN has ended its news partnership with Scripps-owned KIVI. From the BoiseDev publication, it stated that its made a new agreement for Sinclair's CBS station KBOI to produce its weekday 7am & its daily 9pm broadcasts. After the acquisition from former owner Gray, Marquee was initially planning on starting its own news operation on KNIN before deciding to partner up with KBOI.

I think I mentioned this before in this forum, but since GMA3 tape its show at 10am/ET, the network DOES have an early Noon/ET feed of the program. Stations like WBRZ, KGRV, KETV and KMBC air it at 11am/CT before their Noon-casts. WFAA could've kept their hourly Noon show instead of moving it to 11am. There was another occasion where he mentioned Cullen, during a pricing game. And that was a few years after that Cullen appearance.

Even though TVNewsCheck stated it on Monday, I kind of waited until the station posted the article. The station announced this Tuesday (9/26) that they actually lit up the Yuma station (KAZS 27) last week, and launched that new Flagstaff station (KAZF 32) yesterday.

New petition. This station took the spectrum auction money to move to VHF-low. It now wants to go back to the "U". Religious broadcaster in South Carolina, WGGS-TV was on RF 16 when it sold its spectrum during that auction a few years back for $44.3M. The station elected to move to VHF-low RF 2. They've sinced filed to vacate VHF 2 for UHF 29. ____________________________ EDIT 9/28: Another petition from a Religious broadcaster. And its a familiar one. Remember theDove Media? They were the owners that filed a complaint over Sinclair's KTVL move to RF 16 in Medford (which was later settled)? Just recently, they filed a petition for a new full power allotment in nearby Jacksonville, Oregon on VHF 4. That petition was advanced today to NPRM. ____________________________ And let me slip this one in. A couple of weeks back (9/14), the FCC had dismissed WSWG's petition to change the city of license from Valdosta, GA to Moultrie, GA. FCC basically saying that Valdosta would lose their "first and only local TV service", even though the station said Valdosta wouldn't lose its signal. Here's the letter.

My question to you is why? When we have the classic video thread.

Update regarding Channel 9 Freeport. WSLN was lit up last Friday (9/22). Station announced that The CW, Antenna TV & Circle will move from WIFR's LP signal to the new full power signal. But in the interim they will keep those networks on both signals for a grace period. The station also announced that they're keeping two WIFR CBS simulcasts on WREX (23.10) & WFBN-LD (23.11) a status quo. Which I don't really understand since you now have a full power station of your own. Yeah I'm aware of the ten-year agreement. But since you now have full power stick again in the Stateline, why not end that WREX carriage deal, and move that simulcast to WSLN's subchannel? Let WREX have that chunk of spectrum to themselves.

Most launches would happen on either midday or an early evening during the week or a weekend evening. But I've never see a change happen on a weekend morning.

KWQC has yet to switch fully to the new graphics. But earlier this week, their new investigative segment open is definitely GrayONE with a "slightly tweaked" TV-6 logo. The "6" insignia is the same but the italicized "TV" font follows the overlapping letters trend.