TheRolyPoly

Just checked the schedule via TitanTV. Two hours: 8-10pm. KCOP will still simulcast KTTV's 11am, 5pm, and 11pm news.

WUPA no longer airs weeknight news at 8 p.m. No more primetime news in Atlanta (8-10 p.m.) for the first time since 2017. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/valenciajones3_its-the-end-of-a-news-era-at-atlanta-69-activity-7296356718542749696-hgXu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAABqGw-0BrOQ_9csrv95OAtvM37gqLkE_dSc

I just checked... WPIX now does Saturday mornings from 8:00-9:30 a.m. and Sunday mornings from 8:00-9:00 a.m., which starkly contrasts with 8:00-10:00 a.m. when it debuted.

I posted on the Gray Media thread on WWAX, the Hartford home for carrying four Boston Red Sox spring training games this year. I just found out that it is in partnership with NESN (no surprise there) and that there are others too who will be carrying their games with the most surprising to me: Boston's WHDH. WHDH Boston (The sister to MY favorite, WSVN Miami) WYCI Burlington (WCAX's sister) WPXT Portland (WMTW's sister; only carrying two out of the four) Those in Bangor, Presque Isle, Springfield, and my third home market, Providence/New Bedford, are out of luck. No OTA coverage there but instead will have to watch via NESN or their OTT platform, NESN 360. https://nesn.com/2025/02/nesn-announces-2025-red-sox-spring-training-broadcast-schedule/

A major shift for Telemundo in Columbia, S.C. The network has moved from WKTC 63.2 to... Gray's WTES-LD 16.1. This must've happened within the last couple of weeks, and WTES also carries WIS' Palmetto Sports and Entertainment Network on 16.2 in HD (WIS also carries it in SD on 10.4). Nominally licensed to Florence, S.C., it was a translator of WMBF for its first two years on the air starting in 2022 until it moved to the Columbia market and became a WIS translator for the last year before becoming the newest Telemundo affiliate.

After over two decades at WTVD, most of that anchoring mornings and with now-retired John Clark, Barbara Gibbs won't have to wake up as early as she has been. She's transitioning to their noon and 4:00 p.m. newscasts with Amber Rupinta. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGLNXqsKVIV/?igsh=MXZrZXQ2dW0xM215cA==

Margie Ison, a beloved WBIR-TV Channel 10 Knoxville member from 1979 until her 1995 retirement, has passed away. She was 84. https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/longtime-wbir-meteorologist-margie-ison-dies-at-84/51-237334f6-3cd9-4a28-aaed-23bfff88427e

You have to admit: this is cool. WMAQ did a special open earlier tonight to celebrate SNL's 50th Anniversary after the network aired a live telecast to mark the occasion.

Say it with me... another day, another Gray sports rights deal. This time, a spring training deal to carry MY Boston Red Sox. In Hartford, they'll be carried on The WAX, the WFSB brother station that's also the flagship for UConn sports. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1177192713764135&id=100044202531212

Part of a WVTM newscast and Sports Extra intro from 2003. This was the time when NBC owned the station and when WBRC was NOT giving you... the First Alert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o20NVOJ8AqE&list=WL&index=2&ab_channel=USA%26CANADATVfrom90s-00s

Wren Clair is out at KSTP-TV and I can tell it was not her choice in doing so. https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/meteorologist-wren-clair-no-longer-employed-by-kstp?fbclid=IwY2xjawIdXKdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSr_8XEzY0KNwecGKsApa72hfimOkfU8G6e3nZwQkeBPTt70N7QPeq-LzA_aem_BrXb6wbESY6v9xZlp9MOHg

Weekend morning news is now gone from WTIC. Instead, a new program takes shape at 8am called Featured. https://www.instagram.com/p/DGF0vxBNAOf/?igsh=OGF4em0xY3JpOGo2

Australia They didn't do much but it was still recognized. 40 years of Rick Ardon and Susannah Carr on Channel 7 Perth. The longest reigning news duo in the world. https://www.mediaweek.com.au/7news-perths-rick-ardon-and-susannah-carrs-on-their-legacy/

Oh didn't know that. Sorry I jumped the gun on that one. However, I do have this one. One longtimer at WOWT will replace another (already announced retirement) longtimer at WOWT. A very well deserving pick too... Brian Mastre. https://www.instagram.com/p/DGD7bCBzv3J/?igsh=NTRocHplZWl2cXFm

WVIT doesn't have a weekday morning co-anchor yet to replace Heidi Voight, but they have now announced a new weekend morning anchor: Taylor Kinzler, transitioning away from their lifetime show, CT Live. https://www.facebook.com/TaylorKinzler/posts/pfbid0hSacLsYsf3WCdYidZ8fneZU2owkS9cU9fZQxhiQdoQTjAd5vLn57c1TzAFPG8prgl

Canada Ian Hanomansing will have a new gig to add to his CBC News portfolio. Coming live from CBUT/CBUFT Vancouver (his longtime CBC News home dating back to his Canada NOW days), Hanomansing Tonight will begin next Tuesday, February 18th on CBC News Network from 7-9 p.m. (4-6 p.m. PT). He will still do the great Cross Country Checkup program for CBC Radio One plus the Sunday edition of The National on CBC Television. https://broadcastdialogue.com/ian-hanomansing-to-host-new-daily-cbc-news-primetime-program/

Top 10 markets for Super Bowl 59: WTXF, WDAF (obviously those two), WBFF, WRLH, WVBT, WXIX, WITI, WPGH, WVUE (host city), and WFLX. (via @FOXSportsPR on X)

DFW is on a roll in terms of having live free OTA sports because now Nexstar will carry 15 Rangers games this upcoming season. It will be on KDAF plus other stations throughout the state and the South. https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/nexstar-to-offer-15-texas-rangers-games/

If I'm reading this correctly, they sound like they'll be live as this is L.A. after all.

Forgive me for the link to the source. However, it looks like for the first time, KCAL will have some primetime competition. 8 and 9pm news from KTTV are coming to KCOP. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2025/2/12/new-newscasts-to-be-launched-in-la

KFAA is already home to the Mavericks. Now, they're home to the Wings as well. https://tvnewscheck.com/business/article/tegnas-kfaa-lands-dallas-wings-broadcast-rights/?utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Tegna’s+KFAA+Lands+Dallas+Wings+Broadcast+Rights&utm_campaign=It’s+Open+Season+On+The+Media+For+Trump’s+FCC+Chair

Ron Steele is hanging it up after 50 years at KWWL. Thursday, February 27th will be his last day. https://www.kwwl.com/news/waterloo/ron-steele-to-leave-kwwl-after-more-than-50-years/article_63958d1c-e8c9-11ef-9095-f7b9d04edefa.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawIZFj9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUXpqKDQYLNPoWOfZ_GYkCIj8aFu2_0y2PrJP4az4eL6Oxe0Dv9_XqHAsA_aem_ZyJU_TWnh-0aMdvu3ga-TQ

Might as well be Shannon Miller anchoring WVIT's weekday morning news permanently as Heidi Voight announces that's she not going back to the morning show... or to WVIT. She's out. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1162575215224164&id=100044150903680

WTVT now has a weeknight half-hour 7:00pm newscast called Florida Tonight. https://www.fox13news.com/shows/florida-tonight

With this, schedule changes... KCBS now airs the CBS Evening News at 4:00 with Plus at 4:30 while keeping the second EN airing at 6:30. KPIX now airs the CBS Evening News at 4:00 and drops their 4:30pm news to air Plus. KOVR airs Plus LIVE at 4:00pm PT, but that also means that KOVR now starts their local news at 4:30 instead. WFOR drops their 7:00pm news to air Plus.