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So. It shouldn't stop stations from putting something else on in lieu of news. That's bullshit. I don't care if they want to avoid paying licensing fees on syndie shows. There are other options. Hell, it don't have to be a syndie show, put a local show that's not related to news. Endless hours of news is a complete waste. No viewers are going to watch your station if you're just going to put news on all day. That's not how you program your TV station as a whole. And if the viewers ain't watching, how a station going to make money? And if they're not making enough money, how they're going to sustain all those newscasts then? Just a complete waste. Next week, WGN will have the same amount of hours of news each weekday as WHDH (12 & 1/2 hrs). That's a damn shame!!! That's #TooMuchNews

I don't care how cheap it is. It's still a complete waste, nevertheless.

I'm saying these crazy news expansions has gotten way out of hand. Stations can't air other sort of programming, so they're taking the easy way out of adding yet another newscasts. Where is the balance? Where is it? There's absolutely none when you replace a show for another half-hour (or hour) of news. There's no room to breathe. I'm suffocating with these endless hours of news. It is not good for non-news viewers (and I'm not talking about cable or subchannels or over-the-top). You just can't ride on airing endless hours of news and nothing else. I do admit however, before this sudden announcement, the only station I thought would expand to 4am before WFLD was Channel 7.

That's not my point. WFLD basically don't have viewers for their 4:30am, so why add another half an hour of dead air? Now three stations with a 4am? There's no need. #TooMuchNews

And just when news is not enough, Channel 32 is adding a (Ugh!) 4am, beginning April 10th. What a waste.

I guess you mean kadn.com.

It looks like WISH-TV in Indiana has shot down its BIRD. Who's next?

......And here's GM appointment #20. WBOY's sales director Jim Dodrill, has been promoted as the station's VP & GM.

Follow-up. DCRTV stated that Fox will be carrying MeTV on WTTG's subchannel 5.3. The MeTV website has already have the updated listing.

Follow-up. The MeTV affiliate change from WSB 2.2 to WGTA 32.1 happens Monday morning (3/27) at 9am. That means OTA viewers in the immediate metro Atlanta area won't be getting MeTV. But WGTA's signal will be carried on U-Verse, DirecTV & Dish Network in the Atlanta area. WSB hasn't publicly announce a replacement to MeTV, but looking at the guide past 9am tomorrow, it looks like its programming from the Escape diginet. Also, KSAT 12's new 9am newscast starts tomorrow. And the major shift in programming that follows.....

Here's GM appointment #19. WAVY/WVBT's sales director Carol Ward, has been promoted to VP & GM of the Hampton Roads duopoly.

FTVLive posted that WJLA's morning anchor Jummy Olabanji, will be the new weekend evening anchor at WNBC. Her last day at WJLA will be on April 21st, and will start at Channel 4 on the 26th.

Pitiful.

Viewers are outraged over Greg's ouster. And some have feared that the current AM anchor might replace Greg, because its ND is the wife of that anchor.

Adding to the Tegna departures, KHOU's longtime anchor Greg Hurst is leaving the station this Friday, after 18 years.

Alighty. GM appointment #18. WBTW's general sales manager Jeffrey West, has been promoted to VP & GM of the station. West replaces Randy Ingram, who was recently promoted to VP/GM of WISH-TV in central Indiana.

I haven't heard any of the departed landing at other stations.

The Washingtonian did a piece last week, on the exodus of veteran personalities at WJLA. And if it really matters to the viewer.

Kudos to Channel 9 for their overall morning win. Congrats! Well deserved. Keep doing what you're doing and don't stop. And hope that more "wins" in the AM will come your way.

And here comes GM appointments #16 & #17. Former WCIA/WCIX VP/GM Coby Cooper is the new VP/GM of Knoxville's WATE. Replacing Cooper will be WCIA's sales director, Gary Hackler.

I first checked wthi.com, it still have the LIN digital design. But when I clicked wthitv.com that's where the Heartland Frankly site.

......and Cronkite too.

GM appointment #15. Former KSLA General Sales Manager Fran McRae-Posey is the new VP/GM of KLFY. Unrelated to Nexstar, former Nexstar & MG station WCWJ has ditched the Nexstar CMS site and went to the Graham CMS site. The new YourJax page is a subpage of WJXT's News4Jax page. Content from The CW has its own page.

The DOJ/FTC has cleared the Diversified deal of any antitrust issues. Still need to get the greenlight from the FCC.

New GM appointments. This is 13th & 14th appointment, but who's counting. Midland's KMID's VP & GM J. Kyle King has been appointed the VP & GM of Little Rock station KARK. Replacing King in Midland will be Waco's KXXV VP/GM Michael Lee.