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Morning weather forecaster at WFMJ in Youngstown left the station. She is off to Nexstar's WTEN/WXXA. Cake was served on WFMJ Today.

Now this a gem from Cleveland's Own Newscenter8.

I am going to search and ask people I know in the Huntington-Charleston market for old tapes of WOWK, WSAZ and Sinclair8.

Sad news out of the Cleveland TV news market. Former WJW reporter Kathleen Cochrane has passed away from a brief illness she was only 38 years old. Thoughts and prayers to her family, friends and her colleague's at WJW. http://fox8.com/2017/12/31/kathleen-cochrane-depiero-beloved-reporter-for-fox-8-passes-away-unexpectedly/

WKBW did half special about Irv. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154927471982443

Sad news out Atlanta, Amanda Davis has passed away from a stroke. http://www.cbs46.com/story/37148800/cbs46-anchor-amanda-davis-passes-away http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/atlanta-anchor-amanda-davis-suffers-stroke-at-hartsfield-jackson-airport/198335 http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/longtime-atlanta-news-anchor-hospitalized

Truly sad news out of Buffalo Irv Weinstein has passed away at the age of 87 from ALS. https://www.wkbw.com/news/remembering-irv-weinstein-a-buffalo-broadcasting-legend

Changes to WKBW in the Weather Dept. http://buffalonews.com/2017/12/21/changes-coming-in-the-weather-department-at-channel-7/

Same Erik Taylor from WOWK I just seem him on air Friday while in Charleston. That was a fast move up 79 to 68 to 70 into Baltimore.

Finally a video of WCHS TV out of Charleston WV using "Brave New World". Starts about 1:08 into video. This was in summer of 1997. Same year Sinclair took over WCHS.

News from the old number 9. Jim Ramsey has announced his retirement. http://wgntv.com/2017/12/12/wgn-weatherman-jim-ramsey-announces-his-retirement/

His last day is Dec 30th. http://wgntv.com/2017/12/12/wgn-weatherman-jim-ramsey-announces-his-retirement/

Sally Wiggin to retire in Nov 2018. http://www.wtae.com/article/sally-wiggin-announces-retirement-from-wtae-channel-4-in-november-2018/14032560

All those opens from Ytown, Wheeling-Steubenville and Cleveland stations take me back. Especially the Ytown I've never seen the close of WYTV from that era. One market I would love to see from is the early 90s to early 2000s era would be the Charleston-Huntington WV market.

Looks like the former WV Media Holding stations have went to back to call letter websites. When Nexstar took over those stations under brokerage agreement websites changed to example: tristateupdate.com for WOWK. Now it's back to wowktv.com same goes for WTRF, WVNS and WBOY. Could this be a sign of change?

Yes that KDKA open and talent rejoin takes me back.

Yes was on KDKA and before that he anchored the evening news on WOWK in Huntington-Charleston WV market.