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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

Two legacy stations will celebrate 70 years of service...

 

WSB-TV celebrates 70 years by airing a special on Sunday at 7pm.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/channel-2-wsb-tv-marks-70-years-of-coverage/839025343

 

WXYZ will celebrate their 70 years coming in October.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/channel-7-celebrates-70-years-in-detroit

Happy 70th to both stations!

What are we looking for?

"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.

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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.

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Apparently there was a carriage dispute between Spectrum and Raycom Media. WBTV posted a tweet 3 hours ago that a deal has been reached.

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I found this ABC News SRs about the Columbine Shooting. Peter Jennings anchored those SRs.

WSOC-TV is finally launching a newscast on Telemundo Charlotte. It'll make it's debut on July 2nd at 6pm. https://www.wsoctv.com/noticias-charlotte

Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but WSOC in Charlotte got a new news director about three weeks ago. Mike Oliveira joins the station from WFXT in Boston where he was the news director during the Cox takeover. Before that he was at WPXI in Pittsburgh.

 

Inside sources tell me that Oliveira has been a welcome change and is bringing fresh ideas over the stagnated previous management who apparently wasn't too open to new ideas and change.

 

The rumor mill is that WSOC might be getting a new set in the next year to replace the BDI set that premiered in 2012.

 

WSOC also dropped Bill Ratner as their VO guy and replaced him with John Cramer (the guy who is the main voiceover guy on the EntertainmentStudios court shows). It's an interesting choice but having heard his voice on WSOC, it actually works well.

I always wonder who's the VO for WSOC.

It's about time that WJZY got expanded of their newscast.

WCNC just got the new website look today

Looks like as of today, WJZY is using the new music.

I didn't realize until now, but former FOX 46 chief meteorologist Brian Basham is now the weekend meteorologist for WCCB Charlotte. [MEDIA=twitter]873600624952258560[/MEDIA]

Former WCNC reporter Glenn Counts is joining WSOC-TV at the end of April as their senior reporter. http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/veteran-charlotte-television-reporter-joins-wsoc-tv/504938591

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It's about time that Charlotte got a Spanish network affiliate of its own. That market was long overdue for one.

You ain't kidding, now I don't have to watch Telemundo in crappy SD on DirecTV.

I just noticed those tonight down here on WVEC as well. Haven't seen them before either, but the brightness/white makes me think it could be a part of the new package too.

Same here on NBC Charlotte.

Did any stations preempt this morning's Monaco Grand Prix on NBC or yesterday's UEFA Champions League Final on FOX?

Not WCNC and WJZY in Charlotte.