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WFMY airs CBS This Morning from 8-10am after The Good Morning Show, a program that's been around since the late 1950s. I know it's a Piedmont Triad tradition and all, but will it be next to move CTM to 7am (meaning cutting an hour of TGMS)?

Two more Sinclair stations joined the NewsOn bandwagon today. From NewsOn's Facebook page... https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=865426013560860

WFAA streams it on their website and on NewsOn (search WFAA).

Two opens from WBRC's (Birmingham) "Total News" era (1981)... ...and WAFF (Huntsville) opens from 1981.

Remember Charlo Green, the reporter who quit her job on the air a few years ago at Anchorage's KTVA with the words "F**k it, I quit" and owns a cannabis club? Well... she could face up to 50+ years in prison. FTVLive: http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2016/10/3/fuck-it-reporter-faces-50-years-in-prison The Inquisitor: http://www.inquisitr.com/3558688/54-years-for-pot-former-tv-reporter-could-face-jail-time-for-running-pot-club/

They're currently doing the news in the newsroom. WRIC's new set will be coming next month according to meteorologist Katie Dupree's Facebook post from September 9th. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=976778989114324

WCCO 4 News at 6pm open from 2004

WTCN (now KARE; Minneapolis- St. Paul): NewsCenter 11 Weekend Report (Jan. 16, 1983; ID & open starts at 1:23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TwFvukO-uQ WWBT (Richmond, VA): 12 News at 6 from August 7, 1993. The top story was the aftermath of the tornado that hit Colonial Heights and the Old Towne area of Petersburg (my hometown).

WCTE (Cookeville, TN) Upper Cumberland Tonight open. The open is now on the NMSA but listed it as the "WCTE 1991 News Theme". It's actually PBS' "Just Watch Us Now" theme ( ) from the early 1990s. Speaking of that, here is WFWA's (Fort Wayne, IN; also a PBS station) sign-off. The instrumental version of the "Just Watch Us Now" theme starts at the 0:57 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=kZ6azNe_A2U;t=57

Whoops! Fixed it.

VARTV.com's Twitter reports that WRIC meteorologist Tim Pandajis is leaving the station after four years to join Norfolk's WVEC. He will be the new meteorologist for [I]13 News Now Daybreak[/I]. He replaces Craig Moeller who left the station for KSDK recently. [B]EDIT (8/29): [/B]Dang it! I mean [I]KSDK[/I], not [I]KMOV. [/I]Changed it (thanks for the correction, @WAVY 10 )!

WFTS NewsCheck with Andrea McDaniel (1983). I didn't know she did the news in Tampa Bay. She later anchored and reported for Richmond's WWBT until the late 2000's.

Both WMSN's and WRLH's websites have a new look. FINALLY. http://fox47.com/ http://foxrichmond.com/ Now will they please dump Daily News and get Glass or Curves. Daily News is still a good news music package and all but it's ten years old. Plus those graphics on the two stations have got to go! It's like Sinclair forgot about them or something. EDIT: WTVZ's (Hampton Roads) website has the new look as well. http://mytvz.com/

10am? It's great that WTKR has a new local talk show, but I think they should put Coast Live at 9am and move Let's Make A Deal to 10am (most CBS affiliates air the game show at that timeslot). LMAD has been at 9am since Ellen moved to 3pm a few years ago.

Sinclair adds eight new stations to NewsOn: KUTV in Salt Lake City, WOAI and KABB in San Antonio, KEYE in Austin, WLOS in Asheville, WPEC in West Palm Beach, WZTV in Nashville and WSYX's sister station WTTE in Columbus.

Anchor Rikki Cheese out at Las Vegas' KTNV. She was arrested last week on suspicion of DUI. http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/las-vegas-anchor-out-after-dui-arrest/171303

Buffalo's WKBW adds two new reporters: Thuy Lan Nguyen from KERO will join the station on June 13 and Elizabeth Lewin - who was a freelancer at WKBW several years ago - will join the station on June 6. Rachel Elzufon recently left the station to work at the Red Cross part-time. http://talkintv.buffalonews.com/2016/05/10/ch-7-adds-two-new-reporters-replace-exiting/ Meanwhile in Las Vegas, KTNV anchor Rikki Cheese was arrested Thursday and charged with a DUI - one misdemeanor count. This isn't the first time; she was arrested back in 2009. http://www.ktnv.com/news/ktnv-anchor-rikki-cheese-arrested-on-thursday http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2016/5/21/vegas-anchor-busted-for-duiagain

Flagship station WBFF Fox 45 in Baltimore celebrates 45 years on air. Article includes video. http://foxbaltimore.com/news/cover-story/wbff-celebrates-45-years-on-air

I wonder if Diana Pierce took the buyout... Meanwhile at KMSP-Fox 9, Jason Matheson's show is getting a national tryout. http://www.startribune.com/c-j-fox-9-s-jason-show-is-getting-a-national-tryout-and-it-s-not-even-a-year-old/375457771/ http://www.startribune.com/c-j-kare11-s-diana-pierce-calls-it-a-career-after-32-years/375627891/ (scroll down for more on Matheson)

We missed this one. Last December, KRGV reporter/anchor Melissa Correa left the station after four years to join KHOU 11 in Houston. Before KRGV, she was on WWBT here in Richmond and before that, KOSA in Midland-Odessa. You may remember Correa from the show Making News: Texas Style on TV Guide Channel (now Pop) back in 2007. http://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2015/12/melissa-correa-joins-khou-11.html http://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2016/02/Making-News-Texas-Style-KHOU-11-Melissa-Correa.html?m=1

VARTV.com's Twitter is reporting that Nadeen Yanes (pronounced Yah-nez) is joining WKMG Local 6 in Orlando. Her last day at WTKR/WGNT was yesterday. Before WTKR, she was on WRIC here in Richmond.

Oh yeah. Forgot about Howard Stirk.

Just learned about it on The Changing Newscasts Blog the other day. The 10pm newscast moved to WHP 21.3 ("The CW Central PA"). This is WLYH's fourth affiliation change (it became a CBS affiliate in 1961 after four years with ABC, then UPN in 1995, then The CW in 2006, and now Grit).

Clips from WRIC and WWBT. WRIC "8 News at Noon" open from 1994 (Advantage; I think the user SkittlesMan meant 1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpaLuJqen-o WRIC "Good Morning Richmond" open from 1995 (Advantage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFaYxPPLYiI WWBT "12 News at 11" open from 1994 (Signature) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_VLbPZL5IM WTVR NewsChannel 6 This Morning open from 1993 (WSLS 1992 theme) WTVR NewsChannel 6 Nightbeat open from 1993 (WSLS 1992 theme) WTVR NewsChannel 6 at 6 open from 1993 (WSLS 1992 theme) WRIC TV 8 News at Noon early 1990s

WBRC Fox 6's Karen Church was fired from the station for reporting an erroneous story last Wednesday (Dec. 16)... http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2015/12/22/birmingham-anchor-fired-after-wrong-report http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/12/birmingham_tv_newscaster_dismi.html#incart_river_home_pop ...and now she's using social media to try to get her job back. http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2015/12/23/fired-anchor-using-social-media-to-try-and-get-her-job-back