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So basically all WFAA did was groomed Wheeler to do afternoon newscasts instead of succeeding John McCaa on the evening newscasts. Alrighty then, that was their choice

Where was the weekend anchor crew? Did they decide to take Thanksgiving off too?

That will draw WJW and WOIO more viewers in their morning newscasts, that's for sure

Also Chip Moody would be rolling over in his grave seeing what TEGNA has done to the Spirit of Texas (WFAA)

So are they consolidating two newscasts into one or what exactly are they doing?

If Gray (post-Raycom) ultimately decides to sell WXIX, don't be surprised if WVUE (another NFL market Fox does not have) was to be included in the deal.

In other words, as long as the ratings are sky high, it doesn't matter how much controversy comes up, that person will still be on the job AND will still appear on TV, apps, etc.

The thing about this is if you and I made a controversial post on Social Media and our boss at work sees that, we would get fired. So the fact that the "General Manager" of KUSI hasn't fired his/her own "reporters" that have either made a controversial post on Social Media and/or have gotten themselves in trouble with the law speaks volumes that this so-called General Manager of KUSI does NOT care about establishing rules that say that your Social Media posts (personal page, professional page) cannot be controversial and if you get arrested and you're working for us (the station) then you will be terminated. But then again this is California we're talking about here and they will do whatever it takes to retain their employers

So in other words we have seen reporters losing their jobs over posts made on Social Media yet this Mark Mathis guy only gets a "slap on the wrist" and is STILL employed at KUSI? I see a double standard to this issue here

So it was before NBC inherited IndyCar from Versus after the Comcast acquisition correct?

They did the same thing from 2001-06 when it was known as the Busch series, it's just plain laziness that's all there is to it

The question would be does KMGH want to bring Mike Landess back? Because I'm sure Landess would like to return to KMGH

And that Peter Van Zelt guy (or however you spell his last name) will troll on your site saying how bad it is for stations to add newscasts and how stations "would" go belly up if the newscast expansions don't stop or whatever the heck he says on your site

I think sooner rather than later KOCO will have to launch a 4p newscast (they don't necessarily need a midday newscast as they already have a 9a newscast so all they would need to do is shift the 9a to 11a if they were to get back into the midday newscast and shift Access Live to 9a) But I think as long as they have the Dr. Oz/Steve/Ellen block, KOCO will never get into the 4p news game (much like KOKH will never add any early evening/late afternoon newscasts as long as Judy is still doing Judge Judy and The Big Bang Theory does well in the 6/6:30p slots)

Late reply but, even ABC is starting to have some of their own elements in their sports telecasts (i.e ABC's name is on the Copyright stamp instead of ESPN). Who knows maybe Disney has finally realized that placing the ESPN branding on ABC was a mistake

I doubt if ABC does it, this Television season because if they did then there's no way WFAA moves their 12pm newscast to 11am

If NBC were smart and brought back "The Lights" they would make it a challenger to CBS Sports HQ and that would be an instant for viewers like me who would rather see highlights on their phones than on TV and wait until they show highlights of their favorite sports or their favorite teams

And now KJRH feels what KOKI felt before Cox took over and things like this are NOT going to make your viewers happy AND it'll cause viewers to find new stations to get their news

So let me get this straight, USA Today posted a story about a Bartlesville man burning his house down, it was fake news and KJRH went with the story anyway, really? KJRH, you have landed on the BANKRUPT for posting a Fake News story

That was the same storms that also postponed the Akron-Nebraska Football game as well, have they announced when they're going to play that game?

I think ABC is phasing out having the color-coded logos in favor of just the standard black logo, last time I checked earlier today while I was watching the Washington-Auburn game, I think ABC is only used the red-colored version of the logo for certain promos (but that's just my educated guess)

So, in other words, CBS doesn't like CBS TM airing on a junior partner of a duopoly partner (unless it's the Saturday edition of CBS TM) right?

Well CBS complained about KUTV not airing CBS TM in pattern so it would not surprise me if CBS have done the same about KOTV and WFMY

Yeah but, I'm afraid to say that CBS will do the same to KOTV that they did to KUTV (and then watch as viewers abandon KOTV for KOKI) Even though KOTV has dominated TV News in Tulsa for 17 years but, all it'll take for that dominance to end is by CBS forcing KOTV to air CBS This Morning in pattern

That makes sense, now if they can merge WatchESPN with ESPN+, then I would gladly sign up for the streaming service