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Also I should add I saw Wendy Bells name once or twice for some awards.

Well Hearst seemed to sweep the Headliner Awards. WCVB won best website, WTAE won two awards for their Chronicle show, and WBAL won best breaking news coverage for the Baltimore Riots and Best Newscast at 11pm.

I think WBAL is going to be next as their looking for another anchor and that they pulled Kate Amara from 10PM. I think she'd be paired with whoever is the new one. What time is Inside Edition fed to stations? I've heard headlines for stories that were broken around 5PM the same day.

Chuck and Savannah hosted the 9AM on Tuesday and Wednesday from NY. They came from a desk that I didn't recognize and the main desk was already in place.

Worth a read from the Hollywood Reporter about Lester Holt: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/lester-holt-his-rise-top-880720

The graphic makes me think that it's being held up together by two wrenches.

So Matt Lauer inadvertently gave out Savannah's email address. He thought that type of thing was public knowledge because he got emails from viewers and jokingly gave out here. I was a bit surprised that her (and other higher profile journalists) work related email didn't vary from the standard template of [email protected].

I think Chris Jansing was just set up to anchor because of what was going on in Belgium last week. On Tuesday the dayside anchors were Steve Kornacki @ 9 AM, Jose Diaz-Balart @ 10 AM, Tamron Hall @ 11 AM, Andrea Mitchell @ 12 PM, Craig Melvin @ 1 PM, Thomas Roberts @ 2 PM, Kate Snow @ 3PM and finally Erica Hill at 4 PM. Before last week when coverage was preempted due to broadcasts from Brussels the line up was similar - I believe they had Steve Kornacki do an afternoon shift along with Ari Melber at 3 or 4 PM.

Was he shaved?

I will add that I'm surprised they did not have a 10pm newscast long before this. Most Hearst stations have had them for ages either on their sister station or subchannel.

I think they were a bit overly ambitious with launching new 4 & 7PM newscasts this year. Let the audience find their way (and where MeTV Boston is) and give it a while.

Also does 1 million watts really matter? I seem to recall reading that anything over 250,000 watts is over kill. Also KNOE had an EEC S Band Dual Pol radar last year. http://www.knoe.com/weather/headlines/ULM-Radar-370930981.html?device=tablet&c=y Edit: nevermind

My question is who is the manufacturer of the radar? Baron or EEC? Will it tie into their WSI graphics (if it's EEC) or will it require its own system that just shows the one radar site?

I could easily see both KTVW and KTAZ claim ratings victories as there's a large Spanish speaking community in Phoenix. When there are only two main stations that produce Spanish language news the audience is going to be bigger unlike the English stations which are fragmented. Look at how WSCV has dominated their time slots the past few cycles.

So I knew WWSI's studio was small but not this small: [MEDIA=instagram]BAkxMV2S2Ky[/MEDIA] Look at how close the chroma key gets to the news desk: [MEDIA=instagram]BC8p1vyS2Nz[/MEDIA]

CBS Primetime is still in the safe zone. According to DCRTV former WMAR anchor turned WBAL Radio host Mary Beth Marsden has been let go from the station which has been suffering lowering ratings. She spent the past five years at the station after taking a buy out from WMAR. I think I way to increase WBAL-AM's ratings would be to merge the news departments or make them much closer than they already are. Maybe bring them back to sharing a news director.

Do even the NY stations have that many people on their weather staff. I imagine they have one or two producers in the background but now it seems that in the afternoon / evening newscasts one of the weekend meteorologists is there.

I love this new take on vertical video. Much different than the Mila Kunis one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMAYUuNRQNg

I've noticed that lately his time off has actually been for interviews. Say he's off three days one week and the next week he has an interview. His most recent absence (about two weeks ago) was due to the flu. Supposedly he's making $25 million and Savannah's at $12 million with the others about half as much. I think Parade magazine put Robin Roberts salary at $6-8 million.

Either way CNBC and CNBC 2 is redundant as the channels total a different audience.

I like that they still focus on politics for the majority of their programming.

As long as he's on the air. I hope it's just not because Florida is coming up.

I don't care about it but my biggest complaint about the package is that the line that divides two lines of text on the lower third is still visible when the story title is double height.

Maybe their agreement with MyTV/ H&I doesn't provide an out - MeTV's standard agreement allows certain time frames to be preempted.

I imagine it's a new radar system. As far as I know the WSI augmented reality graphics rely on Ross CamBot pedestals and I think they still have those big Vinten Radamec ones. Do any of the stations have a dual pol radar either from NWS or perhaps their own?