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Time to add another name to the expanding list of TV news retirements this year: KWTV's Dean Blevins. 1400 KREF's Toby Rowland is coming back full-time (he was part-time as an analyst for their Sunday night Oklahoma Sports Blitz) to become sports director. https://www.facebook.com/NEWS9/posts/pfbid023i1pziMhHtkiynjYD2HuwYz6QA83afT5rW9MGF1DceP8tTgqeeLMyPbwiEaU78bBl EDIT: I have to add another one. KYTV's Lisa Rose's last day after 41 years is July 25th. https://www.ky3.com/2025/02/25/ky3s-lisa-rose-announces-retirement-date/

Also missed from this article...

KCRG Cedar Rapids has converted the 4:30pm weekday news into... you guessed it... a half-hour weekday all-weather broadcast. First Alert Weather NOW (not to be confused with First Alert Plus, their 24/7 live weather stream) now airs between their 4:00 and 5:00pm newscasts. The all-weather shows trend at Gray continues and they seem to take this trend to a whole new level with 24/7 streams, half-hour dedicated weather programs, etc.

Confirmed. Joy Reid and Alex Wagner are OUT as network hosts. The Weekend trio got the 7 p.m. gig and it looks like Jen Psaki is getting the 9 p.m. outside of Rachel Maddow's one night a week (and outside of the first 100 days). https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/msnbc-evening-shake-up-joy-reid-alex-wagner-1236316524/

Spain A brand new look for the country's second-biggest (maybe third after TeleMadrid and TV3 Catalunya) public regional broadcaster... Canal Sur from RTVA: Radio y Televisión de Andalucía.

Yeah, thank god for that. These reruns shouldn't be on broadcast TV anymore. His show has become more trash TV and political talking than intended. I think stations that carry his program could use a better hour for more local programming or other new syndicated programming that may come out later.

Huh... that's oddly weird and fascinating to me.

For the record, there's no KCAL Plus. There were rumors about that, but they ended up adding Me-TV Toons instead.

John Huck has left KVVU Las Vegas after an amazing 23-year run. Also, it was immediate to start his own media consulting company so don't expect any goodbyes from him. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/entertainment-columns/kats/veteran-anchor-leaves-fox-5-in-las-vegas-3307837/amp/

That weather report is fantastic! /s

A true legend in this business is soon leaving us for retirement: WHIO-TV's Cheryl McHenry after nearly 44 years. Not only that, the station wasted NO TIME in finding her replacement: Gabrielle Enright, who's been there for nearly 28 years. https://www.whio.com/news/local/legendary-news-anchor-cheryl-mchenry-announces-retirement-after-nearly-44-years-whio-tv/FJH2UY4BGVHW3O4Q6UQNJHFY2M/

Actually, no. Reruns will stay on OWN plus on Pluto TV. Not only that, the network has expanded to Canada. https://thedesk.net/2025/02/dr-phil-ending-cbs-syndication-merit-street/

It's already confusing at 5pm when it's FOX 11 News at 5:00 on both KTTV and KCOP. FOX 11 Primetime News on the Plus would've been a better name.

Or just call it after Fred Roggin's Sunday show for years at KNBC... Sunday Night Sports. I mean, if they show more than just football on Sundays year round, then might as well call it the obvious. EDIT: Don't forget also during the Olympic years where there'll be coverage there too on Sundays.

It looks like the format is almost over before it really began and took off... They may shelve "Plus" too in the process if MAJOR changes go down.

Two big names are going into the R.I. Radio and Television Hall of Fame this year: WLNE's main anchor John DeLuca (26 years there) and WJAR's morning man Mario Hilario (nearly 30 years now). https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGT1yE1sOck/?igsh=dWxvdzVnM2ZxYzcy

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