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bhratbrat

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  1. In regards to the Savannah move, that was I think because they were literally moving everything out and setting it up. MY guess was the space wasn't fully ready till just a few hours before the newscast on Monday.

  2. Because its tradition. WSVN as funny as it is changes some stuff quickly, but they are very slow to change anything. That name predates to when they were an NBC affiliate. Some history for a truly remarkable station.

  3. A couple of other notes:

     

    Miami Fox affiliate WSVN is expanding its weekday morning newscast Today in Florida to five hours. Starting on August 22, the newscast will run from 5 to 10 a.m., displacing Live with Regis & Kelly from the schedule. The fifth hour will be anchored by current Today in Florida anchors Christine Cruz and Diana Diaz, with field reports by Richard Jordan and meteorologist Julie Durda providing the weather forecast. This will increase the station's local news output to 60½ hours per week, equal to that of San Francisco's MyNetworkTV affiliate KRON-TV, tying it for the most local news of any U.S. television station (Canadian station CHCH-TV in Hamilton, Ontario broadcasts 69 hours of local news per week, which will expand to 71½ hours next month with the expansion of its morning newscast to 4:30 a.m., the first such newscast in that timeslot in the entire country of Canada).

     

    Meanwhile, Roanoke, Virginia's WSLS has dropped its low-rated midday talk show Our Blue Ridge. The program will be revamped as a local version of owner Media General's syndicated Daytime program called Daytime Blue Ridge, another talk show focusing on community and lifestyle news similar in format to Our Blue Ridge, though described will "be completely new and different" by WSLS general manager Leesa Wilcher, that will debut in six weeks (infomercials will air in the meantime in the defunct program's former noon slot).

     

    WPLG has picked up Regis and Kelly which will end their 9 AM newscast. They are now though going to be back in the 5 PM News race.

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