Samantha

Just trimmed everything back to the last post of mostly WPVI-relevant dialogue.

Was this the plan? Oh, sure. We've known that for a while. But Tegna's CW agreement, which I obtained years ago when everything went down, does indeed expire August 31, 2026.

Chip Davis (the contemporary material I see uses his name, not Mannheim Steamroller) also did the successor theme for WOWT, which debuted in the fall '81 season.

What a bumper year for Fort Smith footage and newspaper availability. That KPOM 1986 newscast is actually fairly interesting because that is the first week of the new name and music. Griffin bought KPOM and basically remade the news department in KWTV's image. Shortly after this, they hired Mike Nail (the longtime voice of Arkansas Razorback sports) to do the sports from Fayetteville, and Bradley left. The 1992 clip is from April, two months before the news department was shuttered. That look only lasted nine months.

The "seamed monitors" actually look like a static element, not actual monitors.

KION Monterey/Salinas aired its last newscast this morning. The news department was abruptly shuttered. They're going to provide news from KPIX instead. https://www.ksbw.com/article/kion-news-department-immediately-shut-down-after-56-years/68021534

Weather specifically is coming from San Francisco until meteorologists are hired and trained on the new system.

I think it's really obvious that Sinclair knew the Nexstar train was almost at the station and was using the media reports to put the offer in front of Tegna. They'd been in talks for months. This was 11th-hour, 11th-minute. By the time we heard of it, the Tegna board had approved of it.

Pretty big job for them. Pretty much only NewsNation DC and this are their only projects beyond New York City. (They did two floors of WPIX as well.)

It's a murder of how to manage a logo. You could drive a truck between the O and X. Tighten that up and it's a forgettable bad logo.

Just going to flag that this shouldn't be a list. Airport newsstands and what WDIV is doing are very different ventures.

I said this in BP and I think it goes here too. There are two markets above all where you could produce a newscast of international and national news that has a meaningful difference in a local market. Honolulu is one, and KHON has kept World Report on its lineup now for 29+ years. Miami is the other. The mix of international stories of relevance is very different in a Miami than even in Orlando or Jacksonville, with a stronger Latin American and Caribbean pull. Think how a Spanish-language newscast's mix of national and international differs from the Big Three and you might get a sense of what they can do. (WPLG has a bureau in Havana, and that's one piece of the big-picture puzzle.) It's giving 1994, but unlike some attempts post-New World that responded to "how can we look like we care about non-local news" (WDAF, for instance, did this for all of 12 months shortly after New World), Miami is not Kansas City. If they produce this correctly, this could actually be a useful news product. That's a big if.

WFOR has been a better station than you're giving it credit.