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I've often wondered about that also. I figured that once World News Now disappeared from the O&Os, the ticks on the clock would ring louder...but the newswatch continues. It is a relic of a bygone era, a time when the Big Three embraced the emerging 24-hour news cycle after the Gulf War and during the '92 U.S. election cycle. But NBC ended Nightside in 1998. CBS's Up to the Minute lasted a little longer, making it into the 2010s before morphing into its current incarnation. My guess is that while WNN can't be making that much money for ABC News' bottom line, that show must be really cheap to produce.

From Oakland: KTVU's Dennis Richmond has passed at age 81.

That's a very subjective statement. Just because you may not come home to watch the evening news, don't assume "nobody" else does either. That invalidates the rest of your comment.

You keep saying this same thing. Let me ask you: TO WHOM? You're looking for a white knight that may not exist. And forcing a sale doesn't necessarily help matters, because you may go from one bad operator to another. Be careful of what you wish for. A better case scenario would be for viewers in the affected areas to file a formal complaint at the FCC, saying that AMG isn't operating in the public interest. If enough force is behind that, then something might happen.

I live by this simple rule: If you don't have anything nice to say about something or someone, then don't say anything.** **Personal exceptions are allowed. For me it's my former spouse, congestion tolling in New York City, and the incoming president.

Chances are you're not in the show's target demo. If you aren't, and you don't watch the show, then there is no reason for you to complain.

It looks as though TheGrio is dead. Long live TheGrio. FTV Live reported it today, and the website backs it up: Program listings are gone. Never thought I would say this, but Byron Allen is officially the biggest broadcast grifter of the century.

If Aaron stayed at ABC, I believe he would have inherited the World News Tonight anchor chair when Jennings passed. From his former World News Now co-anchor Lisa McRee, via IG:

Aaron Brown, formerly of KING-TV and KIRO-TV in Seattle, ABC (one of the original anchors on World News Now), and CNN (Newsnight with Aaron Brown), passed on Dec. 29 at age 76.

Stop over-exaggerating.

They've called themselves that on the air. And it's not all basketball all day long. There is a morning show at least.

I was going to add that channel 7 might do as they've done for years and have their prominent Jewish staffers (aka the "Eyewitness Jews"–Bill Ritter, Lauren Glassberg, Lee Goldberg among them) front the Xmas day shows. But with Hanukkah starting on Wednesday as well, probably not.

BPME? What are you talking about? With all due respect, sometimes it can be a bit difficult to follow along with your posts. They come off as too heavy with "inside baseball" shorthand and in attempts to use clever and even snarky wordplay. I would respectfully recommend using just plain ol' English. We'll still get the gist of what you're saying.

If you read the linked article, it says no other details are known. Don't assume unless you know the facts.

It doesn't. Scarborough was here for a full quarter-century before Ritter started replacing Beutel on Eyewitness News weeknights. I don't think Ritter has any intentions of working into his 90s if he wants to catch up to Chuck's record.

Charles Scarborough was the last anchorperson on NYC TV to have been on the air in this market, at that position, prior to 1980. As far as on-air personnel in any station going back to the decade of the '70s, it looks like it'll be down to just Marvin Scott (WNEW-TV, WPIX) and Irv "Mr. G" Gikovsky (WCBS-TV, WPIX). Come Dec. 13, Kaity Tong (WABC-TV, WPIX) will be the city's longest-tenured news anchor (43 years and counting). Rosanna Scotto (WNYW) is next on the longevity list.

The conditions that existed 40-plus years ago exist no more. WWOR-TV technically is a UHF station now, and has been since 6/12/2009. And the Secaucus studio is long gone. The FCC doesn't regulate content or anything else for that matter anymore, thus why they didn't apply pressure on Fox when WWOR first replaced its traditional newscast with Chasing New Jersey/Chasing News and why they did nothing when that show went away altogether in spite of protest by New Jersey electeds. Though it doesn't matter much in this era, it's about time to return WWOR's license back to New York City proper. And let Fox rebrand it to "Fox 5 Plus". I'd like to see it happen

You meant Sade and Diana Williams. Tappy Phillips never anchored at channel 7.

Remembee that the Big Three went all-in on overnight news in the wake of the Gulf War and the endless hourly updates we got. NBC long ago got rid of Nightside, but that was for a different reason, of course. Several years ago, CBS ended Up to the Minute and replaced it with CBS Overnight News, which is just a repurposed edit of previous night's Evening News. Makes better financial sense, I guess. But really, the need for live news in that hour isn't worth the expense. Combined with all the other factors, I'm still surprised ABC hasn't canceled WNN yet.

At least you can see World News Now. I'm in an ABC O&O market. I'm even more shocked that WNN is still on when it hasn't been cleared by the O&Os in several years.

The Athletic is clarifying that initial report, saying that Bally is dropping only the Tigers and Rays while keeping the Braves. Bally's deals with Cleveland, Milwaukee, Texas and Minnesota expired at season's end. As has been mentioned already, the Rangers are going it alone with Tegna as their partner in Dallas-Fort Worth. The Guardians, Brewers and Twins can negotiate new deals with Bally if they so choose, but they won't be as lucrative. Bally's other MLB contracts are what they call "joint-ventures" so they are assumed safe–for now. (The linked article may be paywalled for some.)

Scott is most likely referring to the real estate and physical plant, and not the station and its operations itself. If Scripps owns the property, as they likely do in Detroit and Phoenix, then WXYZ and KNXV become tenants. CBS has done the same thing at Television City in Los Angeles, and possibly at the Broadcast Center in New York. It's not something I agree with, but it's apparently a new trend.

Did he not know about WBNS-TV's Mike Davis??

Whether the news was at 8:00 or 10:00, it was still in primetime. It's 9's first newscast of any kind, in any daypart, since 2013.

For fill-ins and permanent, you have to get younger. No one over 65 and certainly none over 70 should be included, in my opinion. That takes Koppel, Stahl, Pauley and King off the list. Same for James Brown and Anthony Mason, both of whom were mentioned in an earlier post.