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I'm sorry to hear about this. He did lead a remarkable era of the station's history so my best wishes to him. Hopefully, he can recover and get back to normal ASAP.

This is from Radio Insight and reposted from the TNC Discord server... These are the new registered domains for the yet-to-be-announced brands for its independent stations. We know WUPA will be Atlanta 69, WKBD as Detroit 50, and WPSG as Philly 57. But this is what the domain websites will be for the others, which could give us an indication as to what CBS is thinking with future brandings for their stations... KMAX - Sacramento31.com KSTW - Seattle11.com WTOG - Tampa44.com KCAL - LosAngeles9.com WBFS - Florida33.com (this one makes no sense to me) WLNY - NewYork55.com WSBK - Boston38.com (getting away from TV38?!?!) KTXA - Texas21TV.com https://radioinsight.com/headlines/netgnomes/257769/domain-insight-8-24-connecticut-sports-changes-and-a-bonus-tv-report/

Live's going away, according to TitanTV on KSNW's website. KSN News at Noon becomes an hour-long broadcast once again. EDIT: I believe KAKE's is straight-up local talk while KWCH's is all news/weather. Don't quote me on this since I don't live in the market so I may be wrong.

It wasn't the original. WCJB was with NBC for two years from their 1971 sign-on until 1973. Then, they went with ABC for the reason @tyrannical bastardmentioned... the contract to air Florida Gators football at the time.

That's true. Outside of WPVI airing local news at 4AM, all three stations' schedules will be the same quite literary all day. Local news from 4:30-7am, GMA from 7-9am, Kelly and Mark at 9, more local news at 10, The View at 11, more local news at Noon, GMA3 at 1, Tamron Hall at 2, GH at 3, local news from 4-6:30, ABC WNT at 6:30, J!/WOF from 7-8, ABC Primetime at 8, final local news at 11, JKL at 11:35, and Nightline at 12:37am. Overnights will be the only difference because, again, WPVI does 4am while WABC and WTVD still start at 4:30am so its one half-hour less of a Jeopardy! repeat for WPVI to start their morning news at the time they start it.

Its The Great News Package with the Hello News Melody. WDTN Dayton used this before and so has WOKR (WHAM) Rochester and a few others, according to NMSA.

This is better than the webcams they had before. I just wish they did this sooner. Question... is this during all breaks or only during live programming with longform airing just the countdown clock?

I'm not surprised at all. She wanted to do more weather forecasting, not live in the field reports. The station pushed her on the latter very hard and thus is why she is getting out. I've never seen her in the studio during severe weather coverage, only in the field. She's a meteorologist but the way she worked and was treated, it didn't feel like it at all.

Huh... interesting change in Pittsburgh but not really a surprise for the San Francisco one.

I thought it was just 6-7 and 9-10am and now putting in the 8am hour, but I guess I was wrong.

How in the world is FOX Weather continuing to gain distribution, yet continues to have a shortened plagued staff?

FTVLive here so take it with a grain of salt. However, just read this. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2023/6/6/fox-weather-staffer-sounds-off

I think this may be the first time that FOX Weather broadcasts an entire program live on location. In this case... Fort Myers, Florida for the start of the Hurricane Season.

So, for those wondering, at last check, here are the times WSNN's newscasts are on (sorry for creating a list but excuse me on this one to make a point), at least on weekdays... 06:00-09:00AM 10:00-11:00AM 11:30AM-12:00PM 01:00-03:00PM 03:30-04:00PM 05:00-07:00PM 08:00-09:00PM (08:30-09:00PM on Fridays because of Music and The Spoken Word at 08:00PM) 10:00-11:30PM 03:00-05:30AM (The overnight repeat block I believe) So you got the first block competing entirely against WTTA/WFLA (plus the 6:00AM hour against WWSB), then the next hour at 10:00AM is all alone, 11:30AM is up against WFLA's hour-long midday news at 11:00AM, the afternoon block from 1:00-4:00PM (sans 3:00PM) is all to themselves, 5:00-6:30PM against WFLA (and WWSB), 6:30PM is alone to themselves, 8:00PM is against WTTA, 10:00PM is alone to themselves, and 11:00PM against WFLA (and WWSB). The overnight block doesn't matter because its repeats but still... So there's a lot of consolidation and possible cutting that WFLA may have to think about once this channel is entirely under their/Nexstar's control.

And, in the case of ratings, has failed and backfired IMO on WPLG tremendously.

Let's clarify something up... its no longer used on O&Os but is STILL used by affiliates. KWTX Waco and the Griffin duo of KWTV OKC and KOTV Tulsa are such examples.

I wonder when Janice Dean and The Weather Machine (as Shepard Smith liked to say) will finally show up on the channel.

I'm not impressed but it is an improvement over the 100% virtual set they had before. EDIT: I was wondering who the two folks were on set... I just realized that's Chris Earl (formerly with KCRG) and Nadeen Yanes (formerly with WKMG). Woah.

Another win for Hearst here. They love Me-TV so much. Some of its affiliates have been carrying it from the beginning. EDIT: The only Hearst stations now that don't carry Me-TV after KOAT Albuquerque (its on low-power KTEL-CD), KSBW Salinas (its on low-power KYMB-LD), WISN (Weigel has a grip on its diginets across its Milwaukee stations, including WBME-CD where Me-TV is at), and WTAE Pittsburgh (its on WPXI instead).

Their weeknight news at 5:30 and their Sunday-Friday 10pm news is now gone, the latter replaced by you know what... TND.

D) Hire twice more meteorologists than they do now to help support a 24/7 full-time expansion of the network plus provide meteorologists in Orlando. E) Same as D but move the Florida-based part of the operation from Orlando to Tampa where you have a much stronger O&O and a much bigger weather team already there.

Yeah... she gone. Her LinkedIn profile pretty much confirms that. https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-garner-05604894/

If I recall correctly, the ONLY FOX O&Os I saw participate in that segment where KSAZ, WOFL, WTVT, KMSP, WTXF, KTBC, KDFW, KRIV, KCPQ, and WITI.

Maybe because they already do weather at the top of every hour or half-hour without branding it as such. Another question off-topic from that... when will FOX Weather finally start allowing its O&Os or affiliates who carry FOX Weather on a subchannel to finally start providing local weather updates on there?

It also helps when Cox Media Group is still connected to Cox Enterprises who owns Cox's cable unit, so no need for a carriage dispute there.