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Had a feeling this would happen. After being denied the top job, AGAIN, she knew she didn't like what management did there and just couldn't take it anymore. The result... resignation. If you ask me, if WFOR 4 really did the right thing, then they would've had Cynthia and Rick at 5 and 11pm. Cynthia was there since 2007, longer than both Lauren Pastrana (2012) and Rudabeh Shahbazi (August 2015) and even Rick Folbaum (2014). But I now I know why they have such exodus at the station, when it comes to talent. CBS 4 News... Where The News is Rated Last.

Two of Waypoint Media's stations in Mississippi are adding local news on October 5th. One of them is doing so for the first time ever while the other one hasn't done a local newscast in 10 years: [MEDIA=twitter]644535304007852032[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=twitter]647861582865674240[/MEDIA]

KDBC 4 in 2005 before their big collapse...

I remember watching Linda, thanks to Superstation WGN carrying the Illinois Lottery Drawings. Its a small part that made WGN News at 9:00 special for those watching outside of Chicago. Well I hope so too. She was the only person there who had a lot of personality and she was fun to watch because she would always smile. She will be missed.

KHQ 6 (NBC) Spokane - Coeur d'Alene from Tuesday April 6th, 1999, during the era of their branding mess. I don't know if I was watching KHQ Local News or Q6 News. Either way, they couldn't choose one:

When you have LIVE coverage from 6:30-8:00 p.m. on the main channel after the regular 6:00 p.m. news, then there's no point in putting a 7:00 p.m. newscast on Cozi TV when there's LIVE coverage of the pope's visit in New York on WNBC 4.

Or just put some... HOT Bench at 2:00 p.m.

You know that this controversy is big when its on your Facebook trending highlights... "WGN-TV: Chicago TV station uses Nazi symbol for segment about Jewish holiday Yom Kippur."

Yes it was. She just arrived last month! And already... she gets the evening gig. That's why I thought she would be the least candidate to replace Irika and have Cynthia Demos actually to replace her, but then again, she was in my list of one of three candidates to replace her. From that three, Rudabeh gets promoted to evening anchor, Lauren moves to the morning where she used to fill-in and Cynthia gets nothing in return, by staying as weekend anchor.

I already posted this on the "Random WBBM Thread," but today, WFOR 4 officially announces that Rudabeh Shahbazi (A hottie, IMO) will anchor CBS 4 News at 5:00, 5:30 and 11:00 while Lauren Pastrana is promoted to anchor "CBS 4 News This Morning" from 5:00-7:00 a.m. with Walter Makaula: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/09/23/cbs4-names-rudabeh-shahbazi-late-news-anchor-and-lauren-pastrana-morning-news-anchor/

In the end, I was semi-right, but apparently Cynthia Demos was not promoted. WFOR 4 promoted Rudabeh Shahbazi to anchor the 5:00, 5:30 and 11:00 p.m. news while Lauren Pastrana takes over the 5:00-7:00 a.m. morning show: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/09/23/cbs4-names-rudabeh-shahbazi-late-news-anchor-and-lauren-pastrana-morning-news-anchor/

WCVB has it, as well as WVTM and WYFF. Probably more are coming soon.

This is 1,000,000 times better than their previous look. The station should be grateful for Nexstar's ownership because they are finally bringing change to the last-place station.

Let's put those rumors to rest... [MEDIA=twitter]644556299842154496[/MEDIA] So either it will run Good Day Oklahoma in the interim or will just wait until Living Oklahoma debuts on October 5th. Either way, its NOT a newscast. Make note of that. And welcome back Meg, to OKC Television.

If true, then good for WTXF! Seems like every time KYW 3 lets go of somebody popular, WTXF 29 picks up whoever KYW 3 dropped. It already happened with Bob Kelly. And now with Kathy Orr... for sure... KYW 3's ratings have fallen even further down the basement.

Kate Sullivan could come to WFOR 4, but it wouldn't care on my end because again, I don't watch WFOR 4 and neither does the rest of South Florida. I thought of 3 replacements for Irika Sargant. We'll forget her name, very quickly: 1) Cynthia Demos. She was the weeknight anchor until demoted for Irika. I think she's the highest possible replacement for Irika, since she's been at WFOR 4 since around 2007, I think. 2) Rudabeh Shahbazi. She's a hottie, IMO, but I don't think they will give her the evening shift after just working in the morning shift for 1-2 months. There's just no way. I think she is the least of candidates to take over. 3) Lauren Pastrana. She did evening reporting, before being asked to fill-in to anchor the morning news after Rhiannon Ally (now at KSHB) left and remained filling-in until Rudabeh showed up from KABC. Another name just threw in my brain... Michele Gillen. She did anchor at WTVJ for a number of years, but with her very good work at investigations for WFOR 4, I don't think she would give up that just for another shot at anchoring again. It's a very confusing, trouble mess at WFOR 4. The exodus of talent at the station, continues.

Surprised about that because I thought they would announce it first to Schurz's flagship station, WSBT 22.

Never really liked Irika Sargent that much, so if she goes away, I wouldn't care and neither would South Florida because nobody here watches WFOR 4. WFOR 4 = WBBM 2. That's how I see it.

I misread what myronfalwell said. My apologies.

Nope. It was on at 12:30pm weekday afternoons after LIVE on Lakeside.

WOIO 19 has a Sunday morning newscast from 7:00-9:00 a.m.

Well... its more than football he's thinking of.

On another note, there are several newscast changes coming this fall other than the few mentioned on this thread and a couple others (coming from TVNewsCheck and WSVNFan's Changing Newscasts Blog): * WUAB will reduce its 10:00 p.m. newscast to a half-hour after 27 years as a one-hour broadcast (it will also be cut to weeknights only), while also launching an hour-long 9:00 p.m. newscast starting September 21; Sports Extra will move to 9:45 p.m. MyNetworkTV programming will be shifted to 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. as a result. * WLUK will expand its weekday morning and late-evening news blocks on September 21, extending Good Day Wisconsin by a half-hour to 4:30 a.m. and adding a half-hour 10:00 p.m. newscast (the first time WLUK has aired news in that timeslot in more than a decade, if anyone knows when the original 10:00 p.m. newscast was cancelled, please reply). * WDRB will expanded its midday newscast to an hour on September 21, now running from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; it is also cancelling the 7:00 p.m. newscast it produces for CW-affiliated sister station WBKI, after the September 18 broadcast. * WECT will launch an hour-long 4:00 p.m. newscast on September 14. * WXXV will launch a weekday morning newscast on September 21, under the title News 25 Today, consisting of an hour-long 6:00 a.m. newscast on WXXV-DT2 and a 7:00 a.m. newscast of the same length on its main channel. * Newsfix is expanding on both KDAF and KIAH. KDAF has expanded the weeknight edition of the program's 5:00 p.m. broadcast to one hour as of Monday (September 7); the weekend 5:00 p.m. newscast had already ran for one hour even prior to the conversion to the Newsfix format, with the 5:30 p.m. slot being occupied on weeknights by syndicated programming. KIAH will also add a 10:00 p.m. edition of Newsfix on September 14. * WNCN has re-expanded its weekday morning newscast into the 4:30 a.m. half-hour as of Monday, after having dropped that portion of the program in January 2014. * KXII has dropped its hour-long 7:00 a.m. morning newscast for its Fox-affiliated subchannel KXII-DT3. However, unlike with WFOX and WEVV-DT2 (which air both a simulcast of their parent station's morning newscasts and an exclusive newscast after 7:00 a.m.), the station has replaced it with a simulcast of the 5:00-7:00 a.m. newscast seen on KXII's main channel. * KQDS will alter the scheduling of its morning newscast on September 21, dropping the 6:30 a.m. half-hour and simultaneously adding an hour to the tail-end of the program at 8:00 a.m. * KAAL will debut a half-hour newscast at 6:30 p.m. each weeknight starting September 14. * KVAL (and satellites KCBY and KPIC) will debut an hour-long morning newscast at 9:00 a.m., starting September 14. * WDAY will begin simulcasting its 6:00 p.m. newscast on sister stations KBMY in Bismarck and KMCY in Minot, as well as on its WDAY/WDAZ Xtra subchannel on Monday through Saturday evenings starting September 14. You are good at this. I thank you for reading my blog. A few corrections... 1) WECT 6's new 4:00 p.m. newscast is a half-hour, not a full hour. Inside Edition will air instead at 4:30 p.m. 2) WDAY'Z Xtra already simulcasted WDAY 6's 6:00 p.m. newscast, but it will just be extended to the Central and Western North Dakota on KBMY/KMCY.

Just to let you know... KTVU 2 is not airing "FOX NFL Kickoff" next Sunday, moving it to KICU 36, in favor of KTVU Mornings on 2 and KTVU FOX 2 Sports Weekend while KPTV 12 is putting "FOX NFL Kickoff" on sister station KPDX 49, in favor of the 8:00 a.m. hour of Good Day Oregon. I'm not sure if anybody else is doing something like this.