ColtFromGulfcoast

Yeah no need for 2 meteorologists in the morning... Don't get me wrong, love my WOOD-TV, but they go overkill.. all 5 can be seen on any given day M-F

What's an example of that? Just curious.

Why do we need TWO weather anchors on the same show?

 

Sister stations WCAU & WRC also follows this same practice.

Fellow NBC affiliate WOOD does this. And I think KXAS does this too.

Its just too tough for her to do that job anymore with that ALS disease now.

Exactly. She's currently in a wheelchair and had to step down from the 10pm because it got too tough for her to go home between the 6 and the 10pm broadcasts. That's a sad thing to watch someone you love go through.

http://www.wafb.com/story/38362607/donna-britt-to-retire-from-wafb

38 years at the station and she's battling ALS. She currently anchors the 6pm newscast and is retiring on June 13th (A week from today). I wish her luck with her battle and hope that she can enjoy her time with her family. Elizabeth Vowell took over for her whenever Britt stepped down from the 10pm newscast so I'm thinking she'll add that to her duties as well.

KTAL's Dan and Jacque Jovic are husband and wife and so are Melissa Kakareka and James Parish of KSLA. KSLA had another married couple, Clay Ostarly and Victoria Shirley but they moved up to Roanoke, where they now work for rivaling stations, Clay on WFXR and Victoria on WDBJ.

Melissa Moon (WREG) and Melanie Moon (last seen on KPLR) are twin sisters.

I didn't know, either. How is she related to them? In-law? Cousin?

Cousin.

Lacey Lett (of KAUT's Rise and Shine) is a relative of the Ogle family as well.

The Rascons, although they're in more than one city. Jacob is on KPRC/Houston (and formerly of NBC News) and his dad, Art, is on KTRK. Jacob's brother and Art's son, Matt, works at WHDH in Boston, and then, Dan Rascon (Art's brother), works at KUTV in Salt Lake City.

We missed this one but Gray is assuming the control of WFFP in Lynchburg via a shared services agreement (beginning June 15th) and buying WLHG (it's low-power sister station) outright, this being an outgrowth of WDBJ's CSA with WFFP.

Programming produced by Liberty University will be able to air over all three stations through an agreement reached with the university, the parent company of Morning Star Broadcasting which owns WFFP and WLHG and Gray, the operator of all three stations. All of this info came from TVNewsCheck and RBR.

Anyway, here is the Form 314. Includes a Shared Services Agreement for WFFP and an APA.

But where they're gonna go if they all come back next year? Somewhat on FTS or other second/third rate stations? (WWOR, KCOP, KDFI...)

I say CBS' junior stations.

Nah, WNOL will pick him up. They already have Wilkos and Springer.

But Tribune says they're phasing those shows out.

WDSU is moving The Real to 11:00 a.m., dropping Maury off its schedule for the first time since 1991 (Having Maury on an NBC affiliate is the rarest of the rare.)

Maury will finally move to WUPL.....if he even comes back. Maybe next, WJZ will drop it.

Easy: Their precious gun rights are being threatened.

I personally don't like the guy but that's not what this thread is about. However, Allman did take that a bit far, in my opinion.

Could we please retire the SAM Extreme package already? It's so dated. I mean of all the packages you could choose, Extreme? Seriously?

It got old very quickly on KMSS and they've only used it since 2015. Guardian would sound way better at KMSS imo. In WOWK's case, they would have sounded better just using CBS Local.

Let's go back on topic, please? Thank you!

 

WAVY anchor/reporter Brandi Cummings is leaving the station. Her last day is Tuesday.

 

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Meanwhile, WNCN meteorologist Kristin Ketchell ends her fill-in time at WAVY. Ashley Baylor was on maternity leave and she'll return this week.

 

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I don't mean to sound stupid but I didn't know that people could fill in at other stations while working at one.

I always wondered what the arrangement with KTTU (KMSB's Duopoly partner) became? Does Tegna still have ties to them or is that all Raycom at this point?

The music doesn't bug me as much as the bad CNN knockoff graphics.

 

They could have done better.

Didn't they own KTVH for a hot minute between Sunbelt/Intermountain West and Cordillera?

They did for around a year. I don't know why they decided to sell it. That's a major headscratcher.

For all that Gray has in that region, they don't have a single station in Montana.

They did until they sold off the KTVH/KMTF duo.

As of this past Monday (Feb. 5), KARK in Little Rock, AR, has started an hour-long 4p newscast. This newscast replaced an hour of "Judge Judy."

 

And BTW, it turns out KARK was running TWO hours of "Judge Judy" from 3 to 5p. Now one hour of the show every day is fine with me, but not two!! I wonder what gave them the idea to run two hours of the show on weekdays!! Weird!!

KTAL used to do that here (3-5 p.m.) until they began splitting it with KSHV. Now they only run it from 4-5. I guess KTAL will move it to 3 p.m. next year so that they can get into the 4pm game.

I have literally no idea what's going to happen with the affiliations. Gotta admit, television in Wyoming is kind of a mess as is, and some of that's simply because of the DMA lines.

Is Gray really going to try and jam CBS, ABC and Fox onto KCWY subs in Casper?

As for Cheyenne (and Scottsbluff), that, as you said, is a mess because they'll probably try to put Fox on KGWN/KSTF and ABC as well on the former.

They really need a 2nd stick in each market for this, you would think.

Interesting that KGWC is being spun off. I imagine there is going to be some network shuffling of some sort. And who will want KGWC, arguably one of the CBS network's worst affiliates?

Someone who will make it into a subchannel machine.

Legacy is claiming KFNB as the fifth-largest rated station in Casper, and its MeTV LP station KYWF-LD as the fourth largest.

So, Me-TV beats Fox? Am I reading that right?

Paperwork is up. Purchase price is $255K. The sale does not include KCPO-LP.

I think they'll come back later for that one. I can feel it. They're probably going to use it for the CW signal when they do and put that surplus syndicated programming inventory KCPO has on an LD2 signal with a subchannel network (MeTV, AntennaTV, H&I) filling the rest of the time.

Since the chances of Gray getting a station in Atlanta is near zero, WRDW may be their de facto flagship...

Gray could merge with Meredith but that'd be a VERY TOUGH shot.

I always considered WSWG to be the flagship since it's located in the market where Gray's original flagship, WALB is at.