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KSHB canceled its pay-for-play lifestyle show Kansas City Live.

Sports reporter Carley McCord died in today's plane crash in Lafayette, La. She freelanced for ESPN and WDSU. https://www.wdsu.com/article/carley-mccord-a-member-of-wdsus-sports-team-dies-in-plane-crash/30351254

Don Imus died today at age 79.

I heard Nexstar is shutting down CLTV in Chicago. Hopefully some of those folks will be able to transfer seamlessly into WGN.

I'm still here. But if the company gives me my walking papers someday, I'll be fine for a while.

I don't know about WGN or KTLA, but we cut some people (mostly part-timers), and I expect KTVI did too. Open positions aren't being filled either.

KSHB'S Christa Dubill is leaving at the end of the year. https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/41-action-news-anchor-christa-dubill-to-depart-station

I don't know if the reduction is happening at all Tribune legacy stations, but it's happening at most of them.

Whether it's Saint Patrick's Day, New Year's Eve, or a championship sporting event, reporters hate these live shots. https://twitter.com/WWLTV/status/1203495337673056256

I don't fill out a time sheet, but those who do, they've been submitting them electronically since Tribune bought the station. I haven't sent in a paper time sheet in about a decade.

Yes, we have Office 365. By the way, the story is now in the Washington Post. The world needed an escape, I suppose.

Nick is a news/traffic anchor, not a meteorologist. But gather 'round everyone, and let me tell you a story of the great mass email of 2019. All of our email addresses end in fox4kc --dot--com. Most are firstname.lastname - at - fox 4 kcdotcom. The assignment desk has "news" at fox4kc-dot--com. But those are just shadow email addresses. Under Tribune, we were logging into computers, workday, outlook, etc., with (username #2) at tribunemedia-dot-com. This week Nexstar began migrating our accounts to its servers. Now we corporate accounts that are (username #3) at nexstar-dot-tv. Unbeknownst to us, news --at--nexstar dot-tv is a mass email to all the newsrooms. No one had ever told us that. When you combine a sleepy, medicated employee, some confusion that already existed over which username to use, and throw in another account name to remember, then I'm surprised this didn't happen earlier. Ironically, we never received the mass email, because Nexstar had not added the Tribune newsrooms to that group yet. Basically what some of us are doing right now is: 1. Logging into computers using account #1 at tribunemedia... 2. Logging into outlook for email using account #2 at nexstar.... 3. ...so that we can send emails using accounts that end in fox4kc dot-com.... 4.. ...and some of us still have to log into the newsroom software using old wdaftv4--dot--com addresses. I can keep it all straight, but some co-workers cannot.

I think that's accurate. Tribune had a build it/break it attitude. Nexstar strikes me so far as much more like a corporation, conservative but strategic, placing value in documentation and accounting for every penny. I also suspect Nexstar and Los Angeles will clash more often in the future.

No one should be surprised by this, but we will be getting ENPS next year.

KDVR needed some help out of the snow. https://twitter.com/EmilyAReports/status/1187397550862524416

We discussed that scenario today. Normally we don't have tornadoes in football season. But if it happened with our local team, we would double-box the game (weather big box, game in the little box).

Not only did the Yankees lose, but someone swiped a WCBS-TV van. https://nypost.com/2019/10/20/cbs-news-van-stolen-near-yankees-stadium-cops/

Our big art museum has giant birdies on the front lawn.

We had a whimsical marble cake to celebrate.

Coming to Kansas City... https://twitter.com/alexcabc57/status/1183779822335680512 Leaving her Kansas City station... https://twitter.com/JadeDeGood/status/1184078630705606657

You've been Zuckered, CNN, but we'e known that for years. Carry on.

Whatever "Behind the Scenes" is on KSWB, it doesn't show up in their aircheck list. The program log declares it a live event after the recorded national anthem, so KSWB might literally be turning on a newsroom camera and letting it ride. The segment is 25:25 long. A break runs at 4:27.