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Jummy was more of a "Breaking News/Live Desk" anchor instead of sitting at the desk with main anchors Lenny & Autria taking turns reading headlines in a "three-anchor format". However yes Eat, Jummy would fill-in anchor when one of the main anchors is away. Speaking of two meteorologists, WJLA uses two for GMW. It isn't like they use two simultaneously like some stations have (like WKBW & at one point WEWS). Eileen Whelan anchors the 4:30-7am show on 7, while Veronica Johnson does the 7-10am portion on NewsChannel 8. Johnson also weather anchors a separate 6-7am show on NC8 entitled "GMW Express". I don't think you need to have two weather anchors on the same show at the same time (especially if both are in the studio, and there's no severe weather event). That bothered me when I saw two weather anchors on WEWS's morning show, and I was like why? Just a waste.

The deal has not been finalized yet. It has been approved, but not wrapped up. They have 90 days to consummate the deal, but they'll probably close it out far sooner than that. Once it's closed, then you can say "Welcome to Gray, TV5".

[quote=TexasTVNews, post: 171595, member: 32]Tegna and MGM to launch a live syndicated daytime show in the fall. http://deadline.com/2017/01/bold-daytime-show-syndication-tegna-media-mgm-1201887578/ Follow up. The program that was suppose to been named BOLD, will now be named Daily Blast Live. The program will launch on the Tegna stations instead of a full national syndication launch (in which they weren't able to get clearance in other markets). And it will only produce seven live feeds instead of 13 (which was originally planned).

The WABI/WCJB deal was greenlighted today. The WDTV/WVFX one is still waiting for the greenlight. Sixty-four years of family ownership of television stations is about to come to an end soon.

Getting out of the Sincrap hellhole is always an improvement!

Looks like former WSVN & WDSU anchor/reporter Adrianna Hopkins is going to be Jummy Olabanji's replacement on WJLA's morning newscast, Good Morning Washington. She will start on May 29th. Jummy is leaving the station to become the new weekend evening anchor at WNBC at the end of this month.

The Diversified & Withers deals are still pending. The Diversified one didn't include a LMA when they filed the paperwork last month.

So it's happening again tonight. The "super"-late news will be aired at 12:45am. Guess this will be a common occurance as long they have the rights to the auto show special.

New GM #22. Former GM of the Weigel South Bend LPs Jeffrey Guy, has been appointed as new VP & GM of WJTV/WHLT in Mississippi.

The Lilly stations are back on DirecTV.

Now it appears that more have bolted WRIC.

That's a shame. He was one of the greats at 32. Won't forget his Saturday night "Chicago's Most Wanted" segments he did for many years.

Also in Richmond. A receptionist and a janitor. Really? Also, is anyone surprised by this news? Hollywood Today Live will end production at the end of the month (4/28). Since he's not in the syndicated biz, Sook was never for it to begin with.

WOFL is tweaking with its 11pm broadcast. Beginning April 17th, WOFL will air NewsEdge 11@11, that will feature news & weather for 11 minutes commercial-free. Then at 11:15, the station will air a 15-regional sports highlight show Fox 35 SportsZone.

That's a strange M&A, giving its only big-3 affil station is Delmarva's WMDT. But I'm not surprised that Max was ready to unload WNKY. It was only a matter of time. Would've vision groups like Lockwood or Heartland getting WNKY (although Prather has yet to get a station in a Gray market). EDIT 4/7: The paperwork states the purchase price for WNKY is $5.6M. Another Media M&A. MGM is acquiring Lionsgate & Viacom's controlling stake in premium channel Epix for $1.03B.

Alrighty. New GM appointment #21. Former WAKA VP/GM Jesse Grear has been appointed as new VP & GM of WKRG/WFNA.

Big news out of Baltimore tonight. The Baltimore Sun states that longtime WJZ anchor Denise Koch, will step away from anchoring the 11pm broadcast on the final week of this month (that's the start of the May books). She will still anchor the 4:30pm & 6pm shows. The station didn't announce a replacement. Also, there's been a heavy slew of layoffs at the Univision stations.

I actually like how they modified that "Nexstar set" with those solid colors (instead of multiple bright colors that went all over the place). The modifications is a vast improvement than what they had last year, in which they started its in-house news operation (4/1/16). [MEDIA=twitter]848982717920403461[/MEDIA]

New Media M&A. John Malone's Liberty Media is acquiring Alaska's telecom company, GCI for $1.1B. Also the Lilly TV stations are blacked out from DirecTV. This occured over the weekend. And Verizon is planning on merging the assets of two "franken"-internet companies Yahoo & AOL into a new subsidiary, entitled Oath.

Yeah, but how long though is the question.........

The long-awaited KFQX deal to Mission is finally OVER! Parker. And it appears the they'd tweaked with the existing set. All the Nexstar-styled gfx were replaced with different gfx package. Their newscast is under the News 15 branding. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1897605650480019 [MEDIA=twitter]848935201069817858[/MEDIA] https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1897424867164764

Eric Horng filled in this morning. So what's up with these fill-ins this week? Whenever Pathieu is not at the desk & is on the field, its been Baca solo. Unless we're getting closer to finding out who's Bradley's replacement going to be?

Former host of WYES's news-in-review program "Informed Sources" Larry Lorenz, passed away today at the age of 79.

THANK YOU!!! Your content won't be any different from the previous broadcasts. Quantity over Quality will lose every time. The station is already clocking in at 64 hours on Channel 2 alone. That would be 66 1/2 hours once they add the 11pm. And add 10 hours a week that air on TV 36, that totals altogether 76 & 1/2 hours!!! That is insane! Something has to give with these crazy news expansions. Just like I said about sister station WFLD's expansion of the 5pm and their upcoming 4am, its just a complete waste. #TooMuchNews Follow up. Monday, April 17th will be the date. The 10pm repeat on 36 will air at 11:30pm.

Ugh! It appears that the news expansion express just keeps on rolling. From Lieberman's blog tonight (if this sticks), KTVU will be adding an (smh) 11pm, by around the May books. Shame.