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Sinclair's "pink-slip express" heads to West Virginia. WCHS/WVAH (Charleston) anchor Stefano DiPetrantonio was let go. His bio is gone from the website.

http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/1/20/sinclair-sacks-another-one

 

Meanwhile, three new stations joined the NewsOn app: WHAM in Rochester, KVII in Amarillo and KRNV in Reno.

Sinclair's pink-slip express heads to West Virginia. WCHS/WVAH (Charleston) anchor Stefano DiPetrantonio was let go. His bio is gone from the website.

http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/1/20/sinclair-sacks-another-one

 

Meanwhile at WPIX in New York, meteorologist Linda Church is retiring.

http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/longtime-meteorologist-retiring-from-wpix/184571

Catie Beck of WXIA and formerly of WTVR will be NBC News' new correspondent.

http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/atlanta-investigative-reporter-jumps-to-network/183898

What? WRLH haven't switched to the current graphics and 615's Sinclair theme yet! I'm still waiting.

WGRZ weather anchor Kevin O'Connell - who originally planned to exit the station this month - is delaying his retirement until June 2018.

http://buffalonews.com/2017/01/05/ch-2s-oconnell-delays-retirement-june-2018/

[quote name='TriangleTriadMediaNews']Noticed in my FIOS program guide the other day that WTVR now has a 6:30pm newscast with no mention of CBS-EN at all. While it did air at 6:30 followed by the 7pm news, I wonder if they're planning to bump CBS-EN to 7 after the new year and have a two hour block of local news from 5-7?[/QUOTE] Same thing with the Comcast and Screener (formerly Zap2It) program guides. It's been like that for a while. I was like "WTVR doesn't have a local weeknight 6:30 newscast. Something's not right here..." [B]EDIT: [/B]@WSVNFan already answered your question. Never mind.

Longtime WLTV (Miami's Univision affiliate) anchor Guillermo Benites passed away Saturday morning after battling an undisclosed illness. Benites retired in September 2015 after 39 years with the station.

 

http://www.mediamoves.com/2016/12/guillermo-benites-dies-illness.html

Another departure at Indianapolis' WISH: Eboni Deon (formerly of The Weather Channel and Al Jazeera America) is leaving the station and returning to Orlando's WFTV.

http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/meteorologist-eboni-deon-leaving-wish-for-orlando/182401

 

Meanwhile, Charlie LeDuff is leaving Detroit's WJBK.

http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/charlie-leduff-leaves-wjbk/182396

Watertown, NY is getting a NBC affiliate (WVNC-LD) on December 1st with a news department by 2018.

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news03/nbc-to-launch-affiliate-in-watertown-20161103

 

Wow, that's great news for them. Watertown's the last market in New York state to have full NBC network service.

Sad to hear about Gwen Ifill's passing. Rest in peace.

 

Meanwhile in Raleigh, WRAL censored last Saturday's SNL (already mentioned in chat).

http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/tv/warm-tv-blog/article114508293.html

Just off the top of my head, KUTV still only runs the 8am hour. That is probably the biggest exception by market size. KGMB runs it in full, but from 8-10am according to schedules. There may be a few others as well?

 

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

So, WVEC is streaming the TEGNA-produced TD Jakes Show like it's one of their news broadcasts -- is any other TEGNA station doing the same?

 

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/

New WRIC logo and maybe new graphics?

 

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

I think the station Moeller went to was KSDK (the NBC station at the Gateway to the West).

 

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/

WTKR producing a new lifestyle show called Coast Live to be co-hosted by April Woodard (returning to 'TKR after working for BET, MSNBC and FOX among other stops) and former WAVY meteorologist Cheryl Nelson.

http://wtkr.com/2016/07/27/introducing-coast-live/

 

The show is scheduled to launch in September in the 10:00 a.m. spot currently held by the 700 Club (which will be going to sister station WGNT; the first time they've carried the 700 Club since 2003).

 

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.