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Scripps & (TEGNA) have wanted to get rid of high price profile anchors in their respected markets. For TV5 being such a legacy station it current state and most state of Scripps stations suck donkey balls. I understand they have to streamline and that all good and great. However WEWS looks like crap, and Leon Bibb said he working part-time at WKYC.

It seems that KCTV, WGCL, KMOV, WSMV can't keep a news director at any of these stations. Maybe the reason is Meredith is a piece of crap! I think it time for Meredith to merge with Hearst, because what the deal working for Merry-Death?

WXIA 1991 11pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=L7HJP26WaEM;t=286

As for KDNL; Maybe they got a bump up in the ratings from 1997 to 1998. Maybe they went from a 1.5 to a 2.3. It called growth. Who knows? However, give them credit their product wasn't bad. Even the look was polish. Too bad they couldn't have build off of that.

SO FOX 54 Huntsville and Channel 15 will be a duloply. Surprise Nexstar didn't make a move for WAAY31.

FTVlive.com reported that Shon moving up to 5pm and Tracye back to mornings.

Question for you. During Channel 4 era as CBS affiliate. I read that Channels 4 & 5 were neck & neck in the ratings while Channel 8 was the top dog. Did Channel 4 do well in the ratings as CBS affiliate? Do you know what the ratings were before the big CBS/FOX switch? Channel 11 they were an Indy outlet, and did they well as an Indy?

When WISH was CBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=6I8EL87oCdE;t=97

WSYX got the shaft, because it was broken from Taft when the takeover went down. It couldn't be apart of Great American Broadcasting (UGH, which urkes me) due to lost its grandfathered protection of the FCC. Robert Bass was a shareholder when at Taft and he created AnchorMedia and bought then WTVN-TV now WSYX. AnchorMedia also bought WLOS & KOVR as well. It would of been nice if WSYX would at least had been under Great American at that time. Many people who worked at WSYX told me the reason their woes always run deep was due to ownership. They had their issues with Taft. I remember reading about what Taft thought they did, but people on the inside said there was good and bad with Taft. When AnchorMedia & River City came along it was just business and numbers. Both companies were private equality group. They had no broadcasting history. It was all about numbers, and Sinclair had already owned WTTE, but used WSYX has service because it had an operation. Sinclair thing was to get rid of all the established anchors, because they made too much $$$. Cheaper is better, and that what they did. However, WSYX made alot of money for the company group, and before getting their hands on KOMO, WJLA. Sinclair, was just some regular broadcasting company that wasn't much to crow about. Everything was cheaply done. Now, in present day Sinclair sits as one of the top broadcasting companies. I do wonder what would have ever come of WSYX. There was a time where Nationwide Insurance had a communication division and owned several tv stations i.e. WBAY, WRIC, and WSYX was poised on that list. Also Journal Broadcasting was also interested as well too. Then when stations were switching in the 90s. There was even rumbles that WSYX could switch to FOX, but that kicked down very quickly!

I thought it should of been called 24/7 Newschannel. That would of been my idea.

The set was refresh in 1996, but a new one was installed in 1997.

WXYZ Channel 7 Action News Newcast opens

here some from KTVI 1995 1994 St. Louis & Kansas City

Idk why ABC wants to be NBC with a 3rd hour of anything. Yes, NBC makes a ton of money. Ben Sherwood is a news guy and he getting rid of The Chew. Does it really matter if Good Afternoon, Good Morning, Good Night, Good Day? It be nice if it was Good Riddance America. I'm a lover of news as well, but with 24 hour cable outlets. Do we really need another news/lifestyle program on tv? They could be doing so much more than another hour of a morning news program that only covers news from 7-7:30am and after that it cooking, clothes, celebrity and more. GMA is not my GMA that I once was proud of. Even though Today Show does the same, but at least it consistent.

Here that classic Metromedia jingle this time WXIX in Newport/Cincinnati- Minneapolis Los Angeles

WBNS has a new ND for the 10TV staff. Kelly Frank left for WTSP. Steve Koles comes from Sinclair's WWMT in Kalamzaoo. WBNS sure does get alot of former Sinclair employees. http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/7/13/breaking-new-nd-named-in-columbus Also Keith Connors who at WTNH as news director will go over to WFSB to be the new ND. As far the current ND at WFSB Dana Neves will become the station GM. from newsblues.com

Here WXIA in 1994 11pm newscast

Will give KDNL credit they had a nice polished newscast back then. They could have done well with themselves if they would of kept on.

When did Carey come in to town? 2000 or 2001? I remember the news article that WJBK 10pm was nipping on WXYZ 11pm. The article went on how Neil Goldstein then ND at FOX 2 brought the morale up. I remember around 04/05 XYZ & ABC was riding high. It seem once Grace Gilchrist retired and Marla Drutz was passed over for her job, and she went over to DIV. The change in numbers started and Scripps went bipolar on those in-house shows. Maybe towards her end the numbers came down. Once Oprah left the airwaves that 5pm news crashed. That was a stable #1 then.

WXYZ was #1 under her. Bill Carey didn't do anything earth shattering IMO.

Children, children now now now. KOCO has been in third place, but during a decade ago when Oprah was on at 5,6, it did really well. There been sometime where it was very competitive. As for KSTP it has been a revolving door. However it hasn't always been third. WCCO & KSTP use to fight it out. At one time in the 70s KSTP had a 50 share, and yes that was decades ago. However, the cracks at KSTP started in the 80s. Channel 11 was sold from MetroMedia to Gannett and Gannett poured alot of money and NBC was riding high. By the end of 80s into 90s. KSTP news moved into third place in all dayparts. KSTP has always had a great news product, but the faces changed daily due to Frank Magid consultants who were college friends with Stanley Hubbard [even friends you are still giving me bad advice IMO]. If you can go and read the stories about Stanely Hubbard. They're legendary! He had issues with Ron Magers, saying Ron was doing drugs and Stanely sent Ron to a rehab place. Stanely Hubbard had some of the female talent desk locked and chained. Even memebers of the station said Stanely is his own worst enemy. Then there was the Cyndy Brucato debacle. She was the face of the station in the early days, and research wasn't too kind. The consultants said she was too manly on the news, and she was outsted and then appeared on the new NEWS 11 W*USA but doing some light reporting. While Stanely Hubbard was being a terror over in Golden Valley, Gannett had a win-win team at now KARE 11. Paul Magers, picked up where his little brother was the king of the Twin Cities News for 20 years . Also Paul Magers worked at KSTP as a dispatcher when Ron was there. Stanely Hubbard rested on his laurels and the quote he said was "Nobody ever watch Channel 11, so we never took them serious, and thought who would watch their news." You can never rest on your competition and why didn't his best friend Frank Magid didn't tell him that or, maybe he did? The station has always invested in the tools, and throughout the 90s same old story faces come and go. They were able to get Colleen Needles from WCCO, but she left on her own. She has a production company that produce many reality shows that on cable now. Julie Nelson was able to move to from the morning to succeed Colleen to find herself getting a good deal from KARE 11 where she had to sit out for a year on her non compete. Harris Faulkner moved up to evening news and the ratings didn't move and she went over to WCCO now at FOX NEWS. Now with the pie so fragmented there been a few times where KSTP in early evening at #2 or #3. KMSP has step their game up, and despite Gannett/TEGNA woes KARE is not the break out star it once was, but it still solid. It hard to find ratings online but here some old ratings from both markets. http://www.b-roll.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-8449.html https://www.minnpost.com/braublog/2011/03/wcco-news-soars-february-tv-sweeps-while-kare-falls

How so? She worked at number of stations. She also worked at WXYZ started in the 80s and have several jobs at Channel 7. In the 2000s she was news director. She like everyone in VP role. She'll be there for sometime and get burned out, and leave to spend more time with her family. Plus make alot of money in the process. She'll be ok, but no worse than all the others that came before her or after her.

Fred and Linda are good and maybe they should be on the anchor desk at Noon and 4pm. However, WSB-TV has never been that station that laid back, but everything is hard news. Justin and Jovita they do well. Maybe John Bachman was more youthful looking and seem more exciting than Justin. If your looking for happy and friendly and laid back that always been WXIA. WAGA just follows what WSB does. After 30 years of operation WGCL is still trying to find it niche.

both WJBK & WXYZ would bring in many columnist from the paper on the airwaves, and yeah that strike seem like it went on forever.

12WKRC in 1986 w/ Kit Andrews & Ira Joe Fisher