Georgie56

I wonder why they're not doing a cold open at the beginning of the 10pm lately.

WLS set up their Day of Giving phone banks from the Windy City Live studio.

Also, the text on the ticker is red. Haven't seen that before.

I just heard Jason Benetti do VO on a short promo for Tuesday's White Sox-Twins game instead of Jim Cutler.

Jerry Taft doing the Sunday 5pm today.

Pretty much. At one point, WLS did carry the Thanksgiving Day parade (not sure when they started carrying it, but sister-station KABC aired on a tape delay), while WGN carried the Lights Festival on Michigan Avenue. That was before they switched coverages in 2007. WLS was the original station to carry the Lights Fest, before WGN took it in the mid 90s.

The official YouTube account for the McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade has full-length versions of some old WLS parades.

I don't even think she'd ever filled-in "solo" when she was at 'SVN. Anywho, she was paired with Karen at 10pm.

 

Also unrelated to this, is this the first time 7 is not having its annual Air & Water Show special after the news? They're showing 190 North instead.

FWIW, they did livestream both days of the show on their website and app.

This is nothing new. Baca has filled in on the weekend evening, but only when she wasn't anchoring the morning show (which she did today).

 

The question is will she be on tomorrow morning?

The answer to that question is NO. Tanja Babich anchoring the Sunday morning news today.

Huh. Stacey Baca anchoring the Saturday 5pm today.

Was she with Tahman or solo?

She was with Tahman.

Paul's back...and he shaved his beard.

#MeanwhileInPhoenix... how much 7 Boston/Miami have they been watching? Ugh.

 

Oh FFS.

Looks like MyTV is in its final breaths.

I think Jake Tapper would be a good hire. I always thought that he should have gotten the "this week" job at ABC.

 

However I do wonder if Taper's tenure at CNN has damaged him somewhat because of his tendency to troll/call out the Trump administration.

Tapper has also called out the Obama admin in the same way in the past. There's a reason why he's respected on both sides of the aisle.

Rafer Weigel could be coming back to Chicago as a news anchor at Fox 32. He's been auditioning off camera.

http://www.robertfeder.com/2017/08/09/robservations-csn-chicago-cuts-chris-boden/

WMAQ switched to their Olympics bug this morning.

I kinda miss Hosea Sanders in the morning. Nothing against Terrell Brown, but Hosea's bass voice just screamed "morning TV".

They lost them at some point?

Yep, to WTXF.

One thing I've noticed is that whenever the Cubs are in Milwaukee, WGN uses the full opener at the start of the broadcast. All other road games and all home games use the abbreviated opener that they started using a season or two ago.

 

I'm not sure if that's the decision of the director or the technical director or whoever, but I like it. It's kinda funny that they actually have a full opener made for the 2017 season, but it's only used by the production crew in Milwaukee.

Maybe it's because Milwaukee is basically a Chicago suburb.

In at KJRH as part of its' new AM team.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/scenelatest/longtime-kotv-anchor-scott-thompson-returns-to-tv-on-kjrh/article_e642b8da-43e3-5f4d-9e03-f1bf6ff6d473.html

KOTV reunion!

WLS is trying something new for the Crosstown Classic. They're streaming the games they air on Facebook Live.

*Cough*

 

[MEDIA=twitter]889144116197588995[/MEDIA]

 

WGN America isn't going to exist in a year, is it?

O'Reilly? Hannity? And Sinclair denys that their must-runs are conservative?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

You left out the real kicker...

 

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1326096727530308

Larry did the 5-7am news before Tracy took over the 8-10am.

Terrell Brown is anchoring the Saturday morning news with Stacey Baca today.