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Probably Fred since it's already been established he was hired as an evening anchor.

This answers part of your question.

https://www.facebook.com/DanKennedy13NewsNow/posts/750782609836120

Dan Kennedy is replacing David Alan (retiring) on WVEC's 5/5:30/6/11pm newscasts at the end of the month. Eugene Daniel will replace Kennedy in the morning.

They were really struggling with the audio on the split screen. They had both the audio from the game and the weather coverage going at the same time for a while.

What difference does that make? I'm talking about TV markets, not metros. Anyway, this is getting off-topic.

On 3/24/2023 at 8:05 PM, tyrannical bastard said:

And the hammer has dropped at WPMI in Mobile.  

https://www.lagniappemobile.com/news/deep-cuts-at-local-tv-station/article_52a2f324-ca89-11ed-accd-17afb130f97d.html (paywalled story)

 

To sum it up, the 5-7 AM newscast, noon show and lifestyle program Gulf Coast Today will be cancelled.  The National Desk will replace the 5-7 newscast with "local cut-ins" beginning on April 17th.  The current 5, 6 and 10 newscasts, along with the 5 & 10 weekend newscasts will remain.  Around 20 people were laid off.

 

And yet, WEAR in Pensacola is seemingly unscathed, with no changes on the horizon.

 

Sad, sad day in Mobile and for any Sinclair station that has gone through this, or is about to go through this. 

 

And as a sidenote, the Lagniappe (where the story came from) is now the only newspaper in Mobile (that still prints one).  They have a reverse paywall where the print paper is FREE while the website costs $$$ to access.)  The former "newspaper" AL.com ceased printing this past February, but they've been irrelevant since they Tegna-fied themselves a decade ago like most of the other Advance papers.  The news void in Alabama continues to grow.....

WEAR is much higher-rated and they tend to focus more on the Florida side of the market.

I thought they were pretty good, but the logo/time/temperature bug was blocking the temperature forecast for next Saturday, they did remove it at the very end of the segment though.

I think WPVI just debuted the new weather graphics

Cross-posting from the Philly forum, Meteorologist Grant Gilmore and his wife Liz Crawford (both from WTSP St. Petersburg/Tampa) have accepted positions at KYW.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqOT78SOWnb/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqOT78SOWnb/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
 

Meteorologist Grant Gilmore and his wife Liz Crawford (both from WTSP St. Petersburg/Tampa) have accepted positions at KYW.

On 3/23/2023 at 5:26 PM, bjoh249 said:

And it appears you were right. Correct me if I’m wrong, butI don’t think KFSM has any bureau in Ft. Smith anymore, as they have appeared to have completely moved out of the old Carnegie library building. Although Wikipedia says there’s still a newsroom there, Wikipedia isn’t always reliable. They say there’s also bureaus in Ft. Smith for KNWA/KFTA as well but they clearly left the old studios on Kelly Hwy a long time ago as it’s now some other business. There’s no address for KNWA/KFTA listed for the River Valley area other than a possible newsroom for KFTA in Van Buren. Quite frankly I don’t know why they keep the call letters KFSM or why the station is still licensed to Fort Smith? I don’t understand why KHOG is still a satellite station of KHBS, or why the name of the TV market says Ft. Smith first when Fayetteville outgrew Ft. Smith to become the state’s second largest city awhile back. The population of the NWA metro (population 560,709 as of 2021) has also long outgrown Ft. Smith’s metro (which is still below 300k). Fayetteville is on the verge of becoming the second city in the state to have a 100k population. The NWA metro now comes in second to Little Rock in practically everything but media. NWA has the only other minor league baseball team in the state, the only other children’s hospital campus, a national airport, etc.. It has the U of A Main campus, the Razorbacks, its the home to three Fortune 500 companies. I’m not bashing Ft. Smith. It’s a nice city, but it’s not NWA by a long shot. When I first moved to NWA in 1995, Ft. Smith was larger in both city and metro, and I understood why Ft. Smith had the upper hand in the media market, but times have greatly changed in nearly 30 years. Ft. Smith either needs to become its own market, or Ft. Smith should be made second. 

1) Why would they change their calls just because the studios aren't physically in Fort Smith? They are licensed to Fort Smith because the FCC assigned them that city of license, and they cover that city. That is all that matters.

2) San Jose is has a bigger population than San Francisco, yet SF is listed first. Virginia Beach has a bigger population than Norfolk, yet Norfolk is listed first. Scranton has a bigger population than Wilkes-Barre, yet Wilkes-Barre is listed first. It's not a big deal.

That logo... yikes.

5 hours ago, bmasters1 said:

And one other thing-- not once in all of Jim Gardner's time there (or Rob Jennings, or any other anchor [morning, noon, night or weekend]) did we ever hear Jefferson Kaye or Charlie Van Dyke bill the newscast as anything but Action News (no time of day qualifiers or anything else); it may have been visually billed on a title slide as Action News at 4 pm at one time, but other than that, the auditory billing was unchanged for the longest time (outside of billing the anchors at any one particular time per the time of day).

Not to my knowledge. WABC was the same way for a long time.

Aesia Toliver is Katie Colett's new morning co-anchor at WAVY

I saw somewhere that the station has named the newsroom after him.

Edit: Per Matt O'Donnell's instagram post, it's the studio.

Wouldn’t be the least bit shocked if he did.

Final 6pm is this Wednesday fyi.

On 12/9/2022 at 5:13 PM, TVNewsLover said:

63 yo and 10 years of service with the NBCU family. 

He turns 64 a week from today if that makes any difference.

On 12/7/2022 at 10:48 PM, newscopter7 said:

I stand corrected. Still her departure seemed out of left field. 

I agree.

2 hours ago, newscopter7 said:

Has anything more come to light about Monica’s abrupt departure? 
 

It was strange that there was no on-air send off considering her tenure with the station. 

She had one.

https://6abc.com/monica-malpass-retires-leaves-action-news-what-happened-to-where-is/5312963/

Jim's final newscast will be December 21st, two weeks from tomorrow.

Edit: story from WPVI's site:

https://6abc.com/action-news-at-6-brian-taff-6abc-jim-gardner-retires/12533116/

10 hours ago, readingreporter said:

 

Who is the guy anchoring the 12PM news on Sundays? I had not seen him before.

Was it John Paul? He joined over the summer.

Final hour of Morning Express is airing now.

3 hours ago, Breaking News said:

I was told KREM & KHQ are neck to neck and KXLY in 3rd place. Idk that.

I believe this is correct. Last I saw, KXLY is a fairly distant 3rd.

13 hours ago, Newlover1952 said:

Kozak will fill the weekend evening spot. I thought they might give that to Tammy. 

Is she still appearing on WBBM as well as KYW? I have no idea how that works for her.

Edit: I don't think she is filling in for WBBM anymore, but I don't know.

Meteorologist Andrew Kozak is making his on-air debut in about 20 minutes.