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Chet and Nat were married to others before they were married to each other and Chet had kids with his first wife. Heck, Jacobson was the last name of Nat's first husband! On the Boston tangent, Phil Lipof went down a similar path with his wife Juli (Auclair), first at WRNN (they met while detouring that way) then at WHDH back in the 90s.

Elisa Streeter says goodbye to WTEN after 30 years. Some Highlights: A singalong with many of her former co-anchors and, for the Bay Area folks, a message from Terry McSweeney.

I would not be shocked to see Inside Edition switch stations at this point, probably to WHDH as they could slot that at 7:30 while airing Extra solely at 11:30.

WTEN and WNCN exist. WTEN already has a Capitol correspondent to feed their other New York stations (plus WFFF/WVNY), WNCN seems to be looking for one. WTEN and WNCN exist. WTEN already has a Capitol correspondent to feed their other New York stations (plus WFFF/WVNY), WNCN seems to be looking for one.

WJAR's 3:00 news was axed for Dateline for one.

It's interesting to see how long it took WJAR to adapt while the other stations bought during that period (WVTM, WVIT, KNSD) were redone at a much faster pace. Of course, WVTM under Argyle looked quite bland and WVIT was always a bit of an afterthought under Viacom/Paramount ownership.

It's interesting to see the massive contrasts between O&O's at this point, especially among the ones that had not yet been fully NBC'd. Or how WNBC stood out as being so much sparse versus the others, this the peak of the "red line" era. As much as this was a video for private consumption at the time it was made, I find the use of Jesus Jones' "Right Here, Right Now" to be ironic given a) how badly it aged in six years and b) how only a couple of years earlier CBS was using it in promos for CBS News.

WTEN's Elisa Streeter is retiring after 30 years, effective the end of 2018. Her line about the "next chapter" makes me seriously think that she'll surface doing something or another at WNYT, probably special reports or what not similar to how John McLoughlin met his end. Perhaps after ~25 years we'll see the return of "Streeter's Lane"...

So NYC appears to be less adventuresome in terms of broadcast TV news because of the multitude of other ways to get news between cable, radio, in-town print, and even media in the farther-out suburbs makes the idea of a 3:00 PM or a 7:00 PM that flies elsewhere a lot harder of a sell there. When you put it that way, I would tend to agree to a point. This doesn't even get into media on the fringe - the further out News 12's, Hearst's papers in Fairfield County, Gannett's papers in Asbury Park and Poughkeepsie, even Spectrum News Hudson Valley. The gold rush of sorts in DC seems to make a lot of sense because of the general dearth of suburban news sources; it's a bit crazy that Fairfax and Montgomery counties have over 1 million people and have zero newspapers of their own and I think that's much of why Nexstar is doing what they're doing with WDVM. I do wonder outside this why Fox is making it rain with news there - expanding the morning to 11:00 AM, putting on a 7:00 PM, the primetime newscasts on WDCA, Final Five with Jim Lokay - while not taking such risks in NYC. Might this be why? Boston seems to have been partially broken by the NBC switch there and, let's be honest, if NBC had gotten their hands on WHDH there would be a lot less inventory to deal with. There wouldn't be four stations at 4:00 and 3 at 7:00, that's for sure. There isn't the depth of radio that NYC, on the commercial side at least, has but there is the depth of suburban papers as suburbs as close in as Quincy and Lynn support daily papers. To bring this sub's favorite medium market into this, as much as I love Albany I think that it's a little over-newsed. Outside of the fact that WTEN and WNYT are seemingly are in a death match, is there really a reason for two stations at 4:00 in that market? Or for a 7:00 to even exist when it clearly seems that WTEN put one on WXXA to cut off WNYT from doing one on WNYA? How about that there are more stations doing 10:00 newscasts there than in most markets in the Top 10? If any market is the poster child for news for the sake of news, it's Albany.

I find it amazing that NYC had more news option in the early evening 30 years ago (when WNBC was still on at 6:30, WNYW at 7, and WPIX at 7:30) than they do today. Goes to show how lazy of a market NYC is.

I think WNYW finally came to its senses and realized that if they were going to expand news, better to not expand at all than to expand to a time slot where two stations are already long established. If anything, they should seriously give 6:30 or 7:00 a try. Yes, I know 6:30 might be tainted in the short term thanks to WPIX's failed attempts there, but they wouldn't have that stench following them. That NYC lacks a post-6:00 option is laughable given how they're being lapped by every other major market and assorted medium to smaller markets in the region. Fun fact: If WNYW were to launch a 7:00 newscast, they would be only the fifth market in New York state to have launched one. That's pretty sad.

To add insult to injury, WJAR airs an infomercial between their 12:00 news and Days of Our Lives. Seriously, if it wasn't for WVNY airing an hour of infomercials before The View and airing four Judge Judy episodes in a row I would probably name WJAR the laziest non-Springfield station in all of New England.

Looking at TV listings for 9/10, it appears the 3:00 news bug has hit Providence. WJAR is the one taking the dive there, an interesting thing for two reasons. 1: Providence has nobody doing news at 4:00. 2: This 3:00 newscast will be only a half hour. Filling the hole between it and Ellen is...an infomercial. Even for a Sinclair station this seems extra lazy. Why not follow the lead of WCVB, WVIT, WNBC, WMTW, and assorted others and do Ellen at 3 with news at 4?

WENY seems to have been on the same "older than it is" kick that then-sister station WMGM was on. At least WMGM in 1993 tried to act like the current year, even WENY's local ads looked like they were made a decade earlier

[quote name='Ramona']Aarons went from WGRZ to WROC in the summer of 1996 (and his contract was not renewed there when it wrapped in 1999).[/QUOTE] He was gone from WRGB shortly after that 1994 intro aired, to answer the question @Info Junkie asked. Between having big shoes to fill and a total lack of chemistry he was a dead man walking regardless.

During her anchoring days, Sue Nigra was a huge deal as she was seen as the Next Big Thing and her departure from WTEN to WRGB in 1998 led to her suing Young Broadcasting as they tried to block her from leaving. WRGB put her on a pedestal, hiring her husband* and having her host the local wraparounds for the 2002-03 syndication bomb "Life Stories" among others. Her departure in 2006 was seen as a bit of a shock though seeing how Liz Bishop won't retire may have been for the best. * Fun fact: She met him working at WNYT; she was an intern, he a camera operator. He has since gone into nonprofit management and was back in the news when the health clinic he runs had an Ebola false alarm a few years back.

WCAX's "The News" (6:00), 12/1/1990. This was during a series called "First Republic, Fourteenth State" in celebration of Vermont's bicentennial.

I don't know what's sadder: That UNO nuked its football program in order to go D1 in everything else (perhaps at the coaxing of UNL) or that WOWT's graphics 25 years ago can be seen as slightly better as their graphics today. For perspective:

The midday newscast nobody wanted that won't do anything in the ratings when there were bigger news fish to fry? They could've gotten more viewers at 7:00 with no competition than taking two established newscasts at noon.

After seeing this is from the same person who uploaded the snippet from February 2002, I could not hit the Subscribe button fast enough. That graphics change was a real downgrade and looks even worse with 15+ years of hindsight. I'm compelled to mention the forgotten fact that the entire time Today was three hours that the 9:25/9:55 weather was prerecorded. This explains the signoff at the end of this update.

The WCAX newscast is also from November 6, confirmed by the highlights of Celtics @ Heat from the night before.

Could they still swallow up Meredith before reaching 39%? Such a deal would add the few areas Gray currently lacks a presence (Pacific Northwest, southern New England) and beef up others (Tennessee, Georgia, Mobile).

I wonder two things: 1: Might the new Upper Valley bureau be shared with WMUR? 2: Would this finally drag WPTZ kicking and screaming into the HD age?

OAD: 2/16/2002, confirmed by the Albany @ Boston University basketball score. It's interesting to see how whole hog WNYT's graphics went for the 2002 Olympics. I know none of their packages since have gone into full Olympics mode for the entire Olympics. Their 2012-18 package did have special L3's solely for Olympics-relevant stories but had the regular L3's otherwise. Also, the stilted way that they had to plug Rodger Wyland's radio show on WOFX to not mention the Fox Sports branding it carried on-air was always laughable.

Didn't years ago WTVC do a newscast that was very similar to this, blatantly calling it "NewsChannel 9 For Women"?