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70 years ago today, WBTV 3 went on the air becoming the first television station in the Carolinas. Right now their special celebrating those years is on.

Can't wait to see how Gray is gonna do WBTV honestly.

Confirmed via CNBC https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1124407787294007297?s=20

Apparently NESN got the ESPN style ticker.

Apparently WJZY got a new look on their website. Guessing FOX is doing a update for their stations.

It appears that TVN's (the National Television of Chile) news division "24 Horas" got some new graphics.

Teletrece (Canal 13's newscast in Chile) debut a new set, graphics, and theme music Sunday night.

Univision has said that their team headed by Jorge Ramos has been arbitrarily detained by the Venezuelan government at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. They were interviewing Maduro, but he didn't like the question. Their equipment was also confiscated as well. The State Department has received word about this incident as well.

26 years ago today, TVI (one of the independent TV networks in Portugal) was launched.

It mentioned on NBC Sports' press release that Sky Sports simulcasted NBC's "Football Night in America" during the season as well. http://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/2019/01/28/extensive-6-hour-premier-league-transfer-deadline-day-special-on-nbcsn-this-thurs-jan-31-at-2-p-m-et-featuring-sky-sports-news-simulcast/

Verizon and Disney has reached an agreement per ABC7 NY.

TEGNA has reached an carriage agreement with DISH. All TEGNA stations are now back in the DISH lineups.

And with Comcast owning Sky, they also own the Team Sky cycling team. https://awfulannouncing.com/nbc/sky-employees-confident-comcast-will-keep-cycling-team-igniting-conflict-of-interest-concerns.html

[quote name='Georgie56']Here’s ESPN’s new NBA scoreboard @24994J was taking about. Antenna is the new font. [ATTACH=full]6574[/ATTACH][/QUOTE] Yikes that's too big.

Happy 70th to both stations!

"Whitevllie" "Whiteville"

After 37 years working for WBTV, longtime anchor Paul Cameron is retiring in December of this year. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment/tv/article217923770.html

Lol ESPN doesn't have the updated version of France's crest. It was during halftime of the UEFA Nations League between Germany vs France.

Rad Berky from WCNC is "semi" retiring from the station. His last full day at WCNC is tomorrow, but will be back in November for election coverage. [MEDIA=twitter]1035244862608748549[/MEDIA]

Well it looks like that ESPN Insider is merging with ESPN+ according to a Reddit user who is subscribed to ESPN Insider in the MLS subreddit. [MEDIA=reddit]path=%2Fr%2FMLS%2Fcomments%2F9932ut%2F[/MEDIA] And here's an article from Variety about it as well. https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/espn-insider-switched-to-espn-plus-streaming-1202911642/

Well today is the debut of many of ESPN's match of the week coverage of Serie A, and there's a new scorebug from Serie A themselves as well.

The FA Cup got a new home at ESPN+ starting this season. Per the agreement, all 79 matches, beginning in the first round in November, is gonna be on the platform. The FA Community Shield is included in the deal as well. https://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2018/08/espn-becomes-exclusive-presenter-of-emirates-fa-cup-in-u-s-through-new-rights-agreement/

Some sad news to report, former WCVB news and sports reporter Clark Booth has died from the age of 79 years old.

Meteorologist John Wendel left WCNC today. [MEDIA=twitter]1020310206696370176[/MEDIA]

Apparently there was a carriage dispute between Spectrum and Raycom Media. WBTV posted a tweet 3 hours ago that a deal has been reached. [MEDIA=twitter]1019318934963712000[/MEDIA]