Glimmer

NBCU will continue to handle ad sales for Versant

I’d fully expect Tegna to grab them for KARE and WFAA if that’s the case; Boston could literally be anyone (though I think it’ll end up being WHDH or WFXT)

With the 9pm evening start, I wonder if they’re hedging on being contractually able to run Jeopardy! and Wheel at 8pm…

I think it’s gonna be almost all simulcasts

It will be interesting to see what ABC ends up doing; WSFL? A subchannel on one of the existing stations? Perhaps do they avoid the broadcast game entirely and launch an entirely streaming Miami station? We shall see… …and we have an answer! WSVN will become the new home for ABC

Brewers will have 10 games air on WITI (as well as several other stations in WI) this year

After only six months in the job, CBS News chief Adrienne Roark (one of the masterminds behind the CBSEN revamp) is leaving to reportedly run all national news operations at Tegna

It absolutely was; the air quotes was me being facetious/poking fun of how the media isn’t really calling it what it is

WDJT parts ways with meteorologist Sam Kuffel after series of posts criticizing Elon Musk’s “gesture” at the inauguration

TheGrio still seems to be running on cable, at least on my Spectrum service in Milwaukee

MSNBC to keep its name post-spinoff

The Rachel Maddow Show going back to 5 nights a week during the first 100 days of the Trump administration, with Alex Wagner on special assignment nationwide observing the impacts of the new administration for a series of reports and specials; Alex Wagner Tonight will return in May

I wonder if the long-rumored Amy Robach show replaces this

Despite reports of frayed relations amid the recent Trump settlement, George Stephanopoulos staying put at ABC News and GMA

She and Victor Blackwell were a really good pairing in the afternoons but that was ultimately short-lived once they switched to CNN News Central

A second half hour of the CBS Evening News, CBS Evening News Plus anchored by John Dickerson, will stream online and air on the CBS O&Os in LA, San Francisco, Sacramento and Miami, concurrent with the CBSEN relaunch on 1/27

It sounds like it was for the most part his decision, though he’ll still pop up on WSB as a contributor

Norah handling the inauguration before bowing out is classy on CBS’s part

After 24 years on the morning shift, Kim Murphy is moving to evenings at WITI, taking over for the recently exited Stephanie Grady

The president of NBC Sports says that sports programming on the spun-off cable networks will continue

At a town hall at MSNBC headquarters, Mark Lazarus brought up local stations as a potential acquisition target for the new company

All five Christmas Day NBA games will air on ABC this year as well as ESPN

A WISN update (and something very interesting): starting tonight, Suits reruns join the lineup at 1:07am (replacing the ET rerun and Daily Blast Live)

In Milwaukee...between WVTV and its My24 subchannel (which I still call WCGV out of habit), they seem to be carrying most of the new major syndicated offerings this fall: GMFB Overtime (weekdays at 10am starting Monday), Flip Side (weekdays at 2pm starting 9/9), True Crime Daily (weekdays at 1pm on DT2 and weeknights at 12:30am on WVTV proper starting 9/9), The Conners (weeknights at 6pm on DT2 starting 9/9) and Bob Hearts Abishola (weeknights at 9pm on DT2 starting 9/9). In addition, WVTV begins carrying KMSP's The Jason Show (which Fox is syndicating in select markets) at 12pm weekdays starting Monday,

A third hour of CBS Mornings premiering on select stations and CBS News 24/7 this fall