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WPXI weekend anchor Ryan Huston tested positive for Covid-19.

Longtime reporter Bob Allen retired from KDKA-TV 2 today at the end of the 6:00 newscast.

Former KDKA-TV (2) reporter, Christine D’Antonio announced today that she is returning to the air at WPXI (11) effective next week.

Silverman sowed the seeds that led to the big turnaround. The network was such a mess, it wasn't going to ve a quick fix.

Probably posted before, but lots of great promos here....

WTAE-TV 25th Anniversary- Dec. 16, 1983

On 10/2/2019 at 4:46 PM, MidwestTV said:

It seems like a weird cross of the Tonight Show and View. If Jay is the only host, what is Hollie doing there? She's in the entire show.

 

I give them props for creating something unique with the open and show title. "Lunch Break" isn't a bad name for a midday show at all. The glare on the monitor array needs to be fixed ASAP.

 

Although it's only the first show and changes will have to be made, it still seems doomed to fail.

Ed McMahon was Johnny Carson's sidekick but he didn't get billing either.

23 hours ago, DirtyHarry said:

 

Like: Channel 3 and 19

Hate: Channel 5, 8, 25, 55 and 68 (Mansfield)

Indifferent or NA: Channel 23, 43, 61 and all the rest

I think 5's logo is clean and sharp looking.  The 5 is bold unlike 'Circle 3.' The 5 also pops against the blue and doesn't have the distracting outline like some past logos had.

For 8, so many fox locals have the same boring, corporate look.

On 9/15/2019 at 12:54 PM, Jared DiCarlo said:

Try telling that to WTOV in Steubenville, who continued using it until late 1987!

Actually WTOV used it until the summer olympics in '88 when they debuted a new logo with the '86 peacock.

KDKA: 1993 series on the Pittsburgh radio scene at the time. 

I just rescanned and dabl is on a new 2.3 and starttv is still on 2.2

DABL, the new 'live well'-esque cbs diginet came on the air at 2pm on kdka 2.0.  Crossing Jordan and starttv were on at 1, martha stewart is on now. Soft launch I guess, samething happened with Decades.

Sad news indeed.

Last month KDKA quitely added a 2hr Sunday Morning newscast from 7-9. Bumping an hour of cbs e/i, joel osteen and a public affairs program.  Both TAE and PXI have had neescasts there since the 90s.

A compilation of channel 2 promos, mainly from the 80s and 90s.

WTAE-TV 4 Action News, 1985

Full 11pm newscast with Paul Long and Don Cannon. Nice cut of Hello News at the close, followed by two bumpers.

4/23/1979 WGN-TV Night Beat, back half

Close starts around 12:00 in.

On 3/8/2019 at 9:27 PM, ttvn2000 said:

 

Entering Spectulatron territory here, but - they could also make them both a half hour a la Bold and the Beautiful on CBS. Or be truly unconventional (and old fashioned) and divide the two hours into three 40-minute shows.  Since they all function in the same “world” - it could open the door for some fun crossover and hook fans in to the whole lineup.  (Because I’d assume they’d film in LA like GH and AMC towards the end of its run.). 

 

Best guess is that they end up on a Disney-owned streaming platform.

Talk shows are cheap, much cheaper than a mon-fri. If any soap returns it would be on a weekly or twice weekly basis and most likely stream oriented.   

The most likely scenarios would be either a hard or soft reboot so the PP era can be forgotten about. The one thing going for the shows is brand/ip familiarity.