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40 years... that’s amazing. My congratulations to her! That type of longevity in local news is becoming increasingly rare, especially in a major market such as Dallas. Best wishes to Clarice!

WCMH commercial break, 1998. Taken from Extra: The Entertainment Magazine, Access Hollywood, and Seinfeld.

We get it. You don’t care for Today and NBC News. You’ve made it quite clear in the past. NBC is not going to cede the final two hours of the Today show back to the affiliates. It's the most profitable show on the big 4. NBC could run music videos, color bars, or stock footage of paint drying in those two hours and companies would still buy ads. As absurd and redundant as the 4-hour format is, it’s here to stay.

WBNS would be a logical choice for Elwell to return to. He spent 17 years there, as the chief meteorologist for their statewide operation— the Ohio News Network, and 3 years as WBNS’ weekend meteorologist. If indeed he is returning to 10, he or Mike Davis would be the best choice to replace Chris. People want a familiar name/face.

I mistyped — I simply meant “my best guess would be he’s heading back to WBNS” I checked the different websites in the Columbus market... there aren’t any job openings at WSYX or WCMH. In fact, WCMH just hired a new meteorologist, and the only news-related openings I was able to find through Nexstar were for a weekend anchor/reporter (is Katie Ferrell leaving already?), photographer and producer. WSYX doesn’t have any meteorologist jobs open. Only news-related jobs open are for producers, general assignment reporters, and for a MC operator. Chris Bradley is dying, sadly, and people have been leaving left and right, as the Wolfes have made cuts in the news and sales departments. In fact their ND Kelly Frank, who had been in charge since 2014, just left some time ago and went to WTSP in Florida.

Eric Elwell out at WHIO, heading back to WBNS. Presumably to replace Chris Bradley?

Revish has a few years left in him.

Frankly, I’d like to see him be threadbanned or at least put on Moderated Posts.

You’ve suggested shutting down or outsourcing KYW and WTXF’s news operations several times. It was never “on the table” to begin with — no one at CBS, Fox, or at the local level has brought it up. You’re the only person who (stupidly, I must add) suggested shutting down a news operation.

At this point the parade is the only Chicago program that still airs on WGN America.

The Dayton duopoly is phasing in the WBFF look. I’ve caught some elements of it during WRGT’s weather forecast.

Please, get it out of your head. CBS will not outsource a news operation at one of it’s largest O&O stations in the 4th largest television market. CBS is not going to make a deal with ABC or NBC for WPVI or WCAU (two market leaders/network O&Os) to produce a newscast for a CBS affiliate, especially one owned by the network. No. No one is denying that KYW’s news department is a dumpster fire and changes ought to be made. But your definition of a change is “outsource” or “shutter the news department.” The only CBS O&O which doesn’t have a news department is KYW’s sister station in Detroit, which is one of CBS’ moneymakers in that it costs pennies to run and that CBS can run it as a passthrough without spending money on a serious news department. CBS is not going to shut down or outsource a long-standing news department — and to an extent, a Philly institution, simply because the product is crap.

WCMH signoff, 1985?

WBNS 6pm news — 2005.

I wouldn’t mind seeing Fox get a Midwestern cluster. WFLD/WPWR in Chicago — WXIN in Indianapolis — WJW in Cleveland and WXIX in Cincinnati (which covers Indiana/Ohio/KY)

WCMH promo, 1994. From the “News 4: The News Channel” era, with Doug Adair and Colleen Marshall as lead anchors.

WDTN local cut-in // from the early afternoon of 9/11.

I think NYC and Columbus were the only O&Os to use the NewsChannel 4 branding at this time. The Outlet stations weren’t fully NBC-ed until I’d say 2001... when WJAR dropped their Outlet era 10 for the WCAU logo. WCMH was NBC’ed much earlier... dropping News 4 in 1997 for NewsChannel 4. That set was gone by 1998 and the NewsChannel 4 Mobile Newsroom was gone by 2002.

Shown to station managers in 1997, to preview GE’s SixSigma program which was being rolled out to NBC and the O&Os at the time. Includes: - WNBC/New York - KNBC/Los Angeles - WMAQ/Chicago - KNSD/San Diego - WVIT/Hartford - WCMH/Columbus - WVTM/Birmingham - WTVJ/Miami - WJAR/Providence - WCAU/Philadelphia - WNCN/Raleigh

WHIO weather promo, 2003. Cox had just changed the logo scheme to match WSB.

KOPX (Pax/Oklahoma) commercial break from 2001.

WCMH commercial break, 1996. Promos for News 4 at 11 and a station ID are included. I used to really like the version of the NBC chimes used in the station ID, and I think, at one point or another in the late 1990s all NBC stations used them in some form

I figured, I simply meant local news havens.

It’s a political season = ad dollars. Many many years ago — WCMH here in Columbus launched NewsChannel 4 Later Today at 10:00am in September 2002. By January it was gone. It was intended to rake in political ad dollars and to piggyback off the Today Show’s dominance at the time. NBC launched 10am shows on the other O&Os at the time too. WCMH also took iVillage Live/In the Loop with iVillage at 10am back in 2007 even though it was no longer owned by NBC, mainly to give the station control of the political ad dollars which were raking in, in anticipation for 2008. Newscasts in untraditional timeslots are nothing new. Stations often launch them to take advantage of the ad revenue or to piggyback off of a popular TV show’s audience. With that being said — I wouldn’t be too shocked if the O&Os became local versions of FNC by significantly beefing up their news product after 20th Television is sold to Disney as part of the deal. The stations group has largely dropped much of 20th’s syndicated output (Divorce Court, Cops, Simpsons reruns, etc.) so there won’t be much real change in what they air.

Fun fact: In Dayton, the UPN affiliate was on Time Warner Cable's leased access channel. It was run by WHIO and called the Miami Valley Channel. It ran all types of programming from UPN, Pax and ran repeats of WHIO's newscasts... and even had a live 10:00 pm show produced by WHIO. Lots of syndicated shows ran on it too (i.e. A Different World, Access Hollywood, Jenny Jones, Cops, Celebrity Justice, etc.)