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That sounds like Locals Only.

Agreed. The Mike Davis discussion is moved to this thread.

And here's the website of Greta's new show. Which looks like a modification to Raycom station's website, with a font change.

On the TVPassport guide, it says "The Noon Show". Not sure if its news or a local program. I didn't see any releases on the website or on their Facebook wall about it.

Longtime Fox 32 reporter Larry Yellen announced that he is retiring at the end of the month after 25 years at the station. Although he's leaving the station full-time, he might show up periodically as expert contributor.

Another big Tegna departure. Longtime KPNX sports director Bruce Cooper announced that he is retiring from the big 12 next August, after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

So just like the Gray stations, the Nexstar outlets will be playing the national anthem beginning on Labor Day.

There's going to be a new addition to the Channel 7 morning team. Feder stated that she'll be starting on September 30. She comes from KXAS in Fort Worth, TX.

Gray has renewed its Fox affiliation in all 21 markets.

I think I understand why the 7pm show is on WPXT. ABC is probably going to air another pre-game show at 7pm in between the end of the 3:30pm college football game and Saturday Night Football, in which this year, all the games will air at 7:30pm (instead of 8pm). The good thing about that 7:30 start time, is that local stations in the eastern half of the country can finally (for the most part) get their late show in on time, instead of waiting to close to midnight on some weeks.

WPTV has reached a milestone today. 65 years on the air. And you can't celebrate the occasion without cake.

Same vid as the one used on the Gray stations. Channel 2 just added some local scenic shots. Vid courtesy of Gray's YT page.

That's WPVI.

That's not true. Last September, ABC started producing America This Morning at 3:30am/ET. Only WPVI is only eastern station to air ATM at 3:30am. Of course, its up to the station's discretion if they want to expand to 4am, but I'm sure there are other reasons why the other O&Os haven't done so yet. But should they do expand in the future, expect stations having a different anchor pair for the midday show.

My biggest pet peeve is the network logo overpowering the station's entire logo. Should've kept the size the way it was. I hated it when KFSN enlarged the ABC logo into their logo a few years ago.

No. He meant the new LP they lit up last year. KCWH-LD, The CW affiliate in Lincoln (repeated on KNHL (formerly KHAS) 5.3). Gray has that Cornhusker state locked from Omaha to Scottsbluff.

WCIU in Chicago is one of the big stations in top-3 markets that will air Greta's program.

It appears that CBS & AT&T has reach a new deal, ending the three-week blackout on DirecTV, DirecTV Now and U-Verse.

New M&A. Entravision is buying a Harlingen, TX station, KMBH from MBTV Texas Valley, LLC, for $2.9M. Entravision already owns a Univision affiliate KNVO, and a plethora of LPs airing Fox & The CW. KMBH was a former PBS station, before it was sold to the current owners. But they kept the PBS feed, aibeit on the station's subchannel (38.2). I'm not sure how long that's going to last under Entravision's ownership.

I think the gripe isn't with the graphics itself. It's the stations ain't willing to use a different font on the L3s other than Helvectica (or tweak with the coloring). If they woud've used the font that KFDA & KWQC uses, it wouldn't look all that much...... "plain".

Give kudos to Mike Nurse for staying there that long, five years after the Lighthouse took over. I strongly don't believe any changes in management is going to change the status quo. Viewership habits are hard to change.

New M&A. Ben Tucker is cashing out in Tucson. Tegna is exercising its option to acquire the MyNet outlet KTTU outright from Tucker Media for $296K. Tegna already owns the Fox station KMSB. This will be the first time in nearly six years where both KTTU & KMSB be commonly-owned, even though both have stayed together through a sharing arrangement. When Gannett bought out the duopoly's former owner Belo in 2013, Gannett couldn't own the stations outright because of its ownership with their paper, the Arizona Daily Star. The old newspaper-broadcast crossownership (NBCO) rule prohibits entities from owning a newspaper and TV station in the same market. And because of the eight-voice test rule, Sander couldn't buy both KMSB & KTTU because the market would end up with just seven unique owners. So Tucker ended up getting KTTU. After Gannett's split of its TV & publishing arms in 2015, Sander sold KMSB to what is now known as Tegna. The NBCO & Eight-Voice Test was thrown out after Pai relaxed the media ownership rules in late 2017.

Looks like another cost-cutting move. Gray's WABI in Bangor will be simulcasting its weekend news on sister station WAGM in Presque Isle, starting this weekend.

The FCC greenlighted the deal today.

Almost eight years (9/24/11). They're moving to a fresh new (yet-to-be constructed) building in a few years. Might as well keep what they got until then.