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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.

Live from the Inner Ring of Dante's Inferno..."Local 10 News" from the Center of Hell"...

If "Larry Ellison's Trust Fund Kid" has a name–and he does–he should be referred to by his name here. No need to describe him by a sophomoric moniker. Just sayin'...

The article is paywalled.

Technically, it isn't.

Smilovitz was at WCBS-TV from 1992 (he succeeded Warner Wolf) until he was fired–not laid off–in the November '96 talent purge. He then returned to Detroit and to WDIV.

I'm not sure if this has been brought up, but there was a time not that long ago that the network news divisions staffed the news departments of the TV and radio O&Os. Example: When Chuck Scarborough joined WNBC-TV fifty years ago, he was an NBC News correspondent assigned to the local anchor desk in New York. The same for his predecessors in that role, Jim Hartz and Frank McGee, and others. And if you're old enough to remember, channel 4's newscasts ended with an NBC News production mention and disclaimer. Over at ABC, Roger Grimbsy, Bill Beutel and Howard Cosell had network responsibilities aside from their WABC-TV duties in the earliest days of Eyewitness News. CBS may have done the same thing, but not to the same extent. We do know that it was CBS News that hired Jim Jensen to the WCBS-TV anchor desk in 1964-65 when the network reassigned Robert Trout to Europe. Apparently, the O&O newsrooms became independent of the network by the late 1970s. So perhaps in a sense, CBS News and Stations is bringing this form of staffing synergy full-circle.

That was SCHURZ Communications.

Well, there are the basics–physical plant (studio/office and transmitter facilities), usual maintenance costs, lease contracts, appraised equipment, employee contracts and salaries, program inventory, advertising revenue...did I miss anything? The only thing that is supposed to have no price tag on it is the FCC-issued broadcast license itself. As far as how prices get inflated, someone with better background can answer that.

This is old news. Marc Lamont Hill and Eboni K. Williams lost their shows within the last month. I believe they were kinda-sorta holdovers from the Black News Channel, which Allen purchased out of bankruptcy and then merged into TheGrio.

While we can still maintain civility in this thread, allow me to make a suggestion: Let's all stop responding to "dzonershow" altogether. Freeze them out, and act like they don't exist. At the same time, those of us who are also on RadioDiscussions should do the same thing to "DarrenVision". Perhaps that will teach them the message.

Please do us a favor, "dzonershow", "Darrenvision" or whatever your name is: Stop commenting.

Are you "DarrenVision" from Radio Discussions? (The avatars are the same.) If so, that would explain your eagerness to see more M&As without taking reality into account. Respectfully, don't bring any of that here.

As per The Athletic, three Chicago major league teams who presently call NBC Sports Chicago home will be moving on later this year. (The article is behind a pay wall.) "Standard Media Group in partnership with the Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox will be the new television broadcast home for all three teams beginning in October, according to an internal document obtained by The Athletic. "The media group is expected to make the network, which is unnamed, available across 'multiple platforms,' including over-the-air and carriage agreements with cable and streaming providers. "NBC Sports Chicago is the current broadcast home for the Blackhawks, Bulls and White Sox. The teams’ contract with NBC Sports expires in October. "Standard Media Group, which is based in Nashville, Tenn., is a local broadcast and digital media company. According to its website, the group has television stations in Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska and Rhode Island. "The new network will not be associated with Stadium, a multi-platform network, which Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf purchased majority control of in 2023."

WPIX was branded as CW11 for the first two years of the CW, before going with the more-appropriate PIX 11 branding. WPIX, KTLA and WGN by themselves (and even St. Louis 11 for KPLR) are stronger brand names in their respective markets. But then again, look what Fox did to KCPQ once they got their hands on that station...it was goodbye Q13 (Fox), hello Fox 13.

It appears that the reduction-in-force train has hit Allen Media Group, according to Scott Jones at FTV Live. Operations at local stations and the Weather Channel are affected. Any details?

Reporter Amy Yensi is leaving WPIX, and the TV business as a whole.

Just say "my bad", admit you erred and thank me for the correction. Backtracking is not a good look. And, you're welcome.

WUPA is in Atlanta.

Bill also worked at WTVN radio and WTVN-TV (WSYX) in Columbus, and KYW-TV (WKYC) and WEWS in Cleveland before going to New York.

Can you please do the fellow posters/readers a favor and give us full names? Not all of us have total recall.

Big news from the Big Apple: after nearly 34 years as an anchor at WCBS-TV, Dana Tyler is leaving the desk at the end of March. But she will be staying on as a special correspondent, of sorts. In actuality, both she and co-anchor Dick Brennan are being moved off the 6:00 PM show in favor of the station's lead anchor team of Kristine Johnson and Maurice DuBois, who will now anchor all of WCBS-TV's evening newscasts. What role Brennan will have at CBS New York after the move is not yet known.

To piggyback on this: I assume that all of the posters here are men, just as I am. Y'all/We aren't even in the main demographic age-wise or gender-wise for The Young and the Restless or The Talk, and most of you probably don't watch either show. I don't watch either, either. So, to say that Y&R and/or The Talk should be cut in half or altogether canceled outright is short-sighted and silly. Especially as both shows still make money for the network even if viewership levels aren't what they were at each show's peak. With that said, I will be surprised if this proposed soap makes it beyond the developmental stage, let alone to CBS. And if it does, it's a prime candidate for streaming. (I was going to say BET, but who knows if it'll be owned by Paramount Global a year from now.)

Over at FTVLive, a patrons-exclusive story is teasing that the dreaded "Scrippscast" (aka "news-on-the-cheap") is coming to WEWS in Cleveland.

...and when WTBS became the NBA's main cable outlet, Turner sublicensed Hawks games to WGNX, the predecessor of WANF.