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They tried to, but I thought that sale fell through.

I think it's because not only was KLAS' previous theme done by 360, that theme was commissioned by KLAS. The two probably have a good relationship.

More information on KFSN 2014 thanks to the NMSA: It's being called "ABC30 News" by DreamArtists Music, who has also composed music for the network itself. Makes sense considering KFSN is an O&O.

It's all of them, apparently. This is a big problem in Boston considering that Spectrum is the main cable provider for Worcester and central Mass, and none of the 3 stations carrying NBC Boston (WBTS, WNEU or WMFP) cover the area decently enough.

Add Hearst vs AT&T to that list.

Danielle Gersh is leaving WHDH and going back to Cali. Good riddance IMO; I strongly believed she was hired for eye candy and nothing else. Which is totally something WHDH would do. EDIT: Just as an underqualified met leaves, another one comes. Gersh's replacement will be Wren Clair, coming from WJFW in Rhinelander, WI. Keep it up Mr. Ansin, see how well it works for you.

Here's the stations yet to switch (stations that have switched since this post are crossed out): WCVB KCRA WTAE WBAL WISN WYFF WGAL KETV KCCI

WMUR has picked up the new website.

About time. Scranton / Wilkes-Barre is the largest market with only two news departments ever since WYOU shut theirs down in 2009. That title would become held by Syracuse if this happens. Interesting M&A on Wednesday: it appears Price Hill Television is selling low-powered NBC affil WRDE in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware (and serving Salisbury, Maryland) to SagamoreHill. EDIT: It's not an M&A. Apparently Price Hill and SagamoreHill are the same company; near the bottom it reads: "THE OWNERSHIP OF PRICE HILL TELEVISION, LLC AND SAGAMOREHILL OF SALISBURY LICENSEES, LLC IS IDENTICAL." Sorry for the false alarm.

And to everyone's surprise: they did NOT change their branding to Local 2 News as far as I can see. The logo is the same, too, apart from some minor changes to make it look better with the graphics.

I feel as if in saying that you're suggesting that ABC in Providence should move off of WLNE and onto a subchannel of WJAR.

KQTV is being sold to Bob Prather's USA Television along with the aforementioned WTHI and WFFT, as well as KIMT. So if KQTV is getting a refresh it won't be made by Nexstar.

It had better be a refresh; WTWO has now become Nexstar's ugly duckling since KMID and WMBD have both been refreshed.

Fixed. As long as WEWS doesn't change much else, News 5 is fine with me. To be honest, I kinda like the ring "News 5, On Your Side" has.

I'm not all too surprised. Jason was being seen less and less on WEWS to the point where he only does noon and weekends, and WOIO has been looking to replace Jeff Tanchak especially since the change from 19 Action News to Cleveland 19 News. I think he's a good meteorologist; he'll do very well at 19.

After two decades, Kelley Tuthill is leaving WCVB.

NBC is NOT moving stations in PDX. KGW is one of NBC's strongest affils owned by one of NBC's strongest station groups, and they just reupped with the network not too long ago.

Hopefully such a plan would not include WPVI. Besides EWN still sounds good on most of the stations that it's used on.

Finally! That sounds great. Now I need to find out who did this new theme for KFSN. For some reason I thought they could be the same composer, but I guess not.

I like the first one especially since WKBN and WYTV used to have myvalleyweather.com and myvalleysports.com before their websites were redesigned.

For a minute I thought they stole WKYC's logo for the chopper.

That logo is hideous. Other than that, KMID just went from being the station with the worst look in the market to the station with the best look in the market. The next station that needs to get a refresh soon is KCAU. That station is way behind its Citadel sisters (WOI and WHBF) in getting a new look.

Because Nexstar. That's why. But FINALLY this is happening. I knew it was only going to be a matter of time after they changed their website to YourBasin.com from PermianBasin360.com, but still, too long. It sounds like they will be changing to "Local Big 2 News" (the articles on the website had been addressed this way for quite some time now, but never on-air). I hope they ditch Indie-Band News and replace it with something else, maybe Evolution? Surprisingly, according to the NMSA, no station in that market has ever used a package with the Spirit signature (although since it is a very small market one of the three stations could have at some point and we wouldn't know)

Oops. Not sure where Chris came from. I fixed it. LOL.

As a former Connecticut resident, I am really happy about this. Hopefully this will push WVIT to go back to NBC 30. Former WIVB sports director Steve Vesey is the new morning anchor at WFMJ. Vesey is a Y-town native.