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Starting Monday, WMYD will simulcast Scripps News' Early Rush from 6:30 AM to 7 AM, leading into their WXYZ-produced morning newscast.

A couple late Detroit changes: Black-Ish has left WADL and has been replaced with What The Bleep Is That? and a relocated Pawn Stars. As for where Access Hollywood ends up, we have an answer, and it's WXYZ, which is using it to replace the prime access airing of Pictionary (which goes back to being an overnight exclusive).

Actually, Comics Unleashed remains intact following the repeat of the 11 PM newscast, but that will be it for syndicated programming on WWJ.

Detroit changes effective September 11 (some changes may come earlier or later) WJBK: Entertainment Tonight replaces Access Hollywood in the same timeslots and Person, Place or Thing replaces You Bet Your Life in the same timeslots. WDIV: Drew Barrymore replaces Rachael Ray. WMYD: Early Rush (from Scripps News) at 6:30 AM, bumping Just for Laughs Gags back a half-hour, which in turn, bumps a run of Justice with Judge Mablean to replace paid programming at 3:30 AM, People's Court and Mathis Court from 10-noon replacing Judge Jerry and bumping We the People to replace Pawn Stars in the 2 AM hour, Judge Mathis replaces Relative Justice in the 7 PM hour. WADL: Paid programming at midnight, 8:30 AM, 9:30 AM and 2 PM is replaced with additional runs of Storage Wars, Justice for All, Supreme Justice and Law & Crime Daily respectively, and two additional runs of Bob's Burgers in the 4 PM hour bump the two Stoarge Wars runs in that hour back an hour to replace The Liquidator. WKBD: A simulcast of CBS News Detroit's 7 AM hour replaces Forensic Justice (gone from the schedule entirely) and Scene of the Crime (replaces paid programming at 4 AM), Dr. Phil and Hot Bench replace The People's Court and Judge Mathis from 10-noon, the 1 PM run of The People's Court is also replaced with two Divorce Court runs as America's Court slides in at 12:30 PM to replace the existing Divorce Court run there, Cutlers Court replaces the 3 PM run of Judge Mathis, the two runs of The Neighborhood move forward an hour to make room for Equal Justice and bump Last Man Standing's two runs to 1 AM (replacing Modern Family), two runs of Family Feud and 48 Hours move into the slots vacated by the loss of The CW, Dateline replaces their Now newscast, The Simpsons is reduced to one run and bumped forward to 3 AM to replace Drew Barrymore (Seinfeld takes the 3:30 AM slot) to make room for The King of Queens in the 2 AM hour, Top Secret Files replaces The Balancing Act at 4:30 AM, and a second run of Seinfeld replaces Forensic Justice at 5:30 AM. WWJ: Drew Barrymore is replaced by an extension of their 9 AM news, Dr. Phil is replaced by two additional runs of Family Feud, and Entertainment Tonight is replaced by a repeat of their 11 PM news.

Not sure if this has been confirmed yet, but over on another forum I found out that Entertainment Tonight apparently will take over the 2 PM timeslot on WJBK, moving over from WWJ to replace Access Hollywood.

According to this article, WJBK anchor Huel Perkins is planning to retire next year, and Monica Gayle may retire with him. https://deadlinedetroit.com/articles/28964/detroit_fox_2_anchor_huel_perkins_plans_to_retire_next_year_--_monica_gayle_may_follow

Longtime WJBK anchor Sherry Margolis is retiring next week. She has been with the station since 1984.

Fox Corporation is apparently in a dispute with virtually every small-sized cable provider in the country. https://www.facebook.com/wyandottemunicipalservices/posts/3069526503061527?__xts__[0]=68.ARDKh5gyD4JgkSJFMbDOIAZvi9pWOEXfwN5kf5wBZUIYSAy6LFzw1Ly3PIQtyzlR8n8BQtuHkQ3KSmwJzDjAA7rsSNdH5mgbLmEe0u3QJ2wajh6bcFin4fXJ9UMaPiJeaouXAGlerXS-Ec8NZ1-L0JCzOC_2FieELj7Wwh3AIYe8WjKe2gz3bMhd1ewbxZiix1vIhjgNFkiSmHOoG6EloFzdv2yqxmkClciFHVo4_xz2Xg2G9ftrPRja3yAlEFiHD391PeUjaD-2OpmA1hWj0jz14Jol6Etb1tIUZqfuiU52tf4Ymj7NF5wgZVsQMxrkrdDtvO3-QuFFsse4AA7Bsg&__tn__=-R

Right now, half of the nation's satellite subscribers are without CBS. CBS O&Os? Out. Nexstar-owned CBS affiliates? Out. Meredith-owned CBS affiliates? Out. KSWT Yuma-El Centro, KVIQ-LP Eureka, and WXVT-LD Greenville-Greenwood. All owned by Northwest Broadcasting, whose stations have been off of AT&T services since freaking February. Watch ratings for Big Brother drop, and watch as other broadcasters may end up in new retransmission disputes, potentially cutting off CBS access to even more satellite subscribers.

The irony of that, I believe WGCL has also been affected by the Dish-Metedith dispute. This may mean satellite customers in the Atlanta market may be without CBS in any form. Reminds me of what Dish customers in the Traverse City market in Michigan had to deal with at one point in 2015. They were left with only CMUPT (PBS) on Dish as the respective owners of 9&10/WFQX and 7&9/29&8 were both in the midst of disputes with Dish.

Just saw a crawl about this on WKBD.

Not just WXYZ wants to be done with "The Now". WEWS has just dropped "The Now" name. In their case, they're now "News 5 at 4 PM".

He is, but he is now currently a morning and noon anchor.

There's a new face on WXYZ's weather team. Mike Taylor, who will be on during weekends, presented the weather yesterday at 6 PM and 11 PM. He's an in-house hire who came from WMAR. Previous to that, he had a previous stint at WXYZ, as well as positions at WCIA and WBKB. This could be a definite sign as well that Chris Edwards will actually retire. WXYZ's weather team currently consists of Dave Rexroth, Kevin Jeanes, Hally Vogel, Beth McLeod (for who knows how long) and now Mike Taylor is back.

After enduring false start date announcements, WJBK properly expanded to 4 AM today. Thanks to outsourced master controls, the bug reserved for syndicated programs appeared on this newscast, with the proper news bug not fading in until 4:05 AM. They're using the same people who are already doing the 4:30 AM.

WJBK weekday morning newscast, April 2000: WDIV weekend newscast, May 2002, right before the change to a logo that they would use until 2014:

WDIV weeknight newscast, April 11, 2000:

Reporters and a photojournalist for WXYZ were beaten during an assignment, one of their vehicles was vandalized in the same attack. WWJ AM reporters were also beaten. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/02/journalists-attacked-assignment-detroit/888635002/

1995 WXYZ promo from during the Detroit Newspaper Strike, the earliest known use of "Eyewitness News" on WXYZ (beating the NMSA by six years):

A KTVU report from presumably December 1988 by anchor Elaine Corral on Pixar's third annual Christmas party, after which she roasts Pixar laser scanner technician Don Conway. Pressing play will take you right to this report, which is part of a compilation of videos made for Pixar's 1988 Christmas party, which appears on the recently-uploaded DVD titled Made in Point Richmond. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=OIcu8w3rXTQ;t=337

Four different news reports on a now-stopped practice of converting a trash landfill in Riverview, Michigan into a ski hill, from the early 90's. Included are reports from CNN, WXYZ, 20/20 and a French program, Ce Soir.

It appears WNEM has gone back to using knockoffs of other graphics packages. This time, the CBS O&O 2016 graphics.

Well hopefully Scripps doesn't end up being sold to Sinclair...I'm glad I currently don't live in a Sinclair market, but if WXYZ and WMYD start running those must-runs...minus one viewer for them.

Additionally, WJBK will be expanding it's morning newscast in September to start at 4 AM, officially becoming the first station in Detroit (and possibly all of Michigan) to run a newscast at 4 AM. Speaking of WJBK...as of today, they are still using the Fox O&O Theme. Meanwhile, they continue to use Scott Chapin, including on promos for syndicated shows that debuted within the past few years.

Major shifts are about to be underway at Scripps' original Circle 7: so far, it is known that Denise Isaac and Joanne Purtan will be let go. http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/2/6/more-out-in-motown I presume this has to do with the corporate restructuring mentioned at the top of this page.