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A "studio of zombies." An eerie thing for Kelly Ripa to say. I think everyone in NYC/NJ/CT, and eventually the rest of the country and world, ended up like that in one way or another. Seeing the show feed be thrown altogether for ABC News and no 'goodbye' from the hosts is also eerie.

I don't think any station aired that Regis & Kelly episode unless they were an indie or a UPN/WB without a news department...were there any of those affiliates? And by then, especially PT/MT stations would have taken something - CNN, a sister Big 3 network station, etc. with rolling WTC coverage. Actually, FOX was simulcasting Fox News throughout the country especially for those without news departments. UPN took CBS, The WB I believe was taking WPIX and/or CNN as from what I've seen on channel surfing clips from 9/11, especially in the hours after both towers went down. I wonder what it was like in the studio after Regis signed off saying "We'll all watch it together, OK?" (i.e., WABC coverage). My guess is eventually the directors/producers told the cameras to stop filming, and I'm not sure how long the audience stayed in the studio...would they have left around the end of regular filming (around 10AM) or were they told to get out of dodge ASAP and find a way out? If only we had audience member accounts. And a technical blurb: Regis & Kelly fed on Galaxy 4R, ch. 24 every morning, in the days of unscrambled analog feeds. They didn't go back on for a week, so my guess is nothing was fed at the regular LIVE time on 9/12-14. Besides, it was all rolling coverage on the Big 3 networks for 2-3 days afterward. ps: Does anyone know when the Fox network itself went to nationwide coverage? Whether by WNYW or by Fox News? I'm searching the newspapers.com microfilm and find that WFXB-43 Myrtle Beach carried Live with Regis & Kelly...they may have been one of the few that aired this, if the Fox network didn't go to nationwide coverage BEFORE the 2nd plane hit...

That would be KECI in Missoula. A strange daytime schedule, but it is what it is. Hoda and Jenna air at noon. Person, Place or Thing replaced one run of Pictionary two weeks ago.

WGA ending their strike means nothing if the actors don't come up with any deals soon. And this strange era of 'filler TV' continues...thank God for college football!!

I'm surprised there isn't a late-night CBS Evening News repeat at 12:37 and 1:07 left to the affiliates to air 11PM news rebroadcasts or syndicated. How much revenue are they going to get from these Byron Allen repeats? NBC never replaced Lilly Singh when she was canned. Most stations air 11PM news rebroadcasts at 1:37AM now.

Honestly, I think Peter Jennings did the best out of the three networks. He was calm in a tragic situation and didn't care if his suit wasn't on...he still put on a show of professionalism. Still miss him. Anyways, new stuff we've found: WSBT 2/18/90 11PM and the CBS Sunday Night News from that night KREM 2 First News Live, 7/12/1991 (first 9 min.) CNN Headline News with David Goodnow, 2/28/1989 (via KUTP Phoenix)

NEVER FORGET! Hard to believe, 22 years now. I have 4 hours of CBS News (Dan Rather) and 8 hours of CNN (Aaron Brown) from that day, of course everything has been posted on YouTube and then some. The CBS footage comes from KIMA and they put up occasional crawls, I don't think there are any local cut-ins on that recording. I will have to look more closely. It's buried in storage, I can't even remember which tub.

And more to add from same account (whom I work with). KOIN News 6 at 11, 9/15/2005, with Jeff Gianola and Kelley Day. Nicole Sanchez on KIMA News Weekend Edition, 5/8/2004 KAPP News 35 at 11 (5/23/1988), partial with Linda Schactler Another KAPP news clip from 1984! Steve Mumm, before he moved to KXLY, plus an unknown, nervous weather anchor and Steve Beehler on sports. Great find, sorry for the rough video quality.

Has to be on one of the two subchannels, either 4.2 or 4.3, Comet/Charge. The subchannel programming would be reduced to non-CW timeslots, i.e., outside of primetime, Saturday E/I and weekend sports. No way in our dreams that KOMO would drop their decades-long partnership with ABC just so low-rate World's Funniest Weather could have primetime clearance. "CW4" is NEVER happening.

Bryan Norcross is amazing in these clips. He was the link to the outside world for those who couldn't, or refused to, evacuate. Often he was the only link because other Miami FMs, AMs, and TV stations were knocked off the air. But WTVJ stayed on the air. He's to hurricane coverage what James Spann is to tornado coverage. Professional, experienced, and qualified. Soon I will be posting a 48 Hours broadcast from Hurricane Andrew with Dan Rather, but I need to find the tape in storage. Also need to find the 3-4 tapes I have with Price is Right on them now that Bob Barker is no longer with us.

KIMA Action News at 11 on 12/18/2014. With anchor Terry Chick, who would be let go within a few months or so. Bare-bones as can be...I was so glad when this 'set' was sent packing. Terry pre-recorded a 11PM segment from Tri-CIties for the Yakima market. Scott Stovall still does the same thing today.

A few new finds KAPP 7/5/00 11pm (partial) - includes a story about a few youth skaters in Tri-Cities CNN Headline News 5/2/88 off KAYU KAPP 35 News at 5:30 (partial), November 1989 with Dana Cowley and Dave Ettl KNDO NewsCenter 23, 12/29/89 (partial) Mary Leonard, Jim Lewis

The future of Big 3 affiliates in all markets #1-#50. If it ain't network programming, it's news. More news. And more news. Cutlers Court sounds like a CW+ pickup. It's either that or KCYU/KFFX in central WA. Yes, NTT is repeats from the 2021 and 2022 seasons, in 1/2 hour strips. *Could Beat Shazam be next, I wonder? Especialy IF Jamie and Corinne were to return? His latest health update has more good news in it.

He has hundreds of newscasts and some talk programs from Des Moines, and mostly national newscasts or CNN programs. Here's another example, WHO NewsCenter at Noon, from 8/17/1992 You'll also find a lot of national news clips and special reports from the Rodney King riots on that channel.

Anne Trujillo has been there forever, through the CBS-ABC switch and then some. Congrats Anne! She must be one of the last pre-affiliation switch personalities on any Denver station. I wonder if she ever got letters from C-Band viewers?

A look back at the old WGN SyndEx feed in 1993 - psychics, timeshares and Rogaine, oh my! These ads aired during the 3AM Late Movie, 'The Neon Ceiling' with Lee Grant. That psychic company bought MULTIPLE ad slots in the overnight hours it seems. Plus, a couple of 900 chat lines to boot. I found one in the part 2 compilation that had a *011* number! That's the international access prefix for North America. and here's an interesting find: Showtime's on a free preview, but Showtime isn't originating the feed. It's Terry Rich live at EPCOT for TCI Cablevision. TCI originated the feed that weekend and pushed hard to subscribe. January 3rd, 1992

New finds made personally: KIRO 11PM 2/6/94, notice the abandoned News out of the Box set behind both Nerissa and David Sharyl Attkisson and Troy Roberts on Up to the Minute later that night KIMA NewsWatch at 11, 9/30/05, with Charisse Yu and Mike Conklin, and of course, Stu Seibel on WX KING 5 News at 11 3/10/86, with Don Porter

I was plenty shocked when I first heard him talk. I expected a young anchor out of college or a Latino anchor given the demographics of our area (we just passed 50% Hispanic/Latino in the last census). I bet he has plenty of stories to share from his days of covering Eurovision and his time growing up in England. *Has there ever been another British lead anchor in a US local news department before? I know we had Jenni Hogan who did traffic in Seattle, mostly KIRO, for a few years, and she's from Australia or New Zealand...and I know KTVV Austin had Anne Fulwood in the 1980s, also from Australia.*

Congrats Liz! Good luck in your future endeavors. Meanwhile, at KIMA Yakima, Jake Taylor is leaving after 6 years at the station. He was our main anchor after Scott Stovall moved down to KEPR. Jake is moving back home, he said (I think he's from Utah). The replacement? A British-accented man. John Kennedy O'Connor, previously of KIEM Eureka and has done tons of work in Europe, especially for the Eurovision Song Contest. Lots of contributions to BBC/Channel 5/Sky News. Congrats John!

PRESQUE ISLE!! From 1984!! but wait there's more from WAGM! One of the rarest markets in the United States to find on tape.

If Basil Bassett Bingo is part of the commercial break, you know that it's WRAL's old C-Band feed and definitely not the Raleigh feed. RARE stuff - and yes, the thumbnail has Basil's eyes popping out There's also some WJLA breaks included. WJLA was the ABC Primetime 24 C-Band affiliate in the mid-1990s. WKRN Nashville eventually replaced them.

A Yakima sign-on that was not found by yours truly! KAPP signs on the air in September 1987 and there's a bunch of Saturday morning commercials that follow. THANKS to the Oddity Archive for this! Be on the lookout from the AVTB account for some rare *1981* Yakima TV clips to come. In fact, it's the earliest example I've ever found of an SLP/EP-speed tape.

A good update indeed! This is what I've pulled off the past two weeks or so KPAX 7/29/1993 10:00 News - Jill Valley is on this newscast, she would move to KECI but then returned to KPAX/MTN and is STILL anchoring news in western Montana to this day - saw her on TV on my last trip to MT a few weeks ago. NBC Nightly News (3/30/1993) off KECI Missoula KECI News at Six open, 3/30/1993, with Sandra Furlong KAPP/KVEW Northwest Now with Kevin Shaub 9/22/1995 Lots more to come

This affects markets small and large across the United States. WPIX dropped in NYC, KTLA in Los Angeles, all networks missing in Topeka except WIBW-13. Only ABC and CBS remain in Little Rock. ABC and CW dropped in the entire state of Utah. CBS gone from the entire state of South Dakota and North Dakota (minus Fargo). And of course, WGN gone.

Speaking of UK game shows, Noel Edmunds' version of Deal was 100x better than Howie's. No fancy models opening cases (or in this case, boxes), Noel had a sense of humor, the contestants came from all walks of life, and it wasn't gimmicky. Most of all, it had NINE £250,000 winners, the highest prize on the show. US Deal only had two $1,000,000 winners after they added numerous million-dollar cases to the game. UK Deal never did that. I suspect Person, Place or Thing will go to my local FOX station in central/SE WA, just like with Pictionary and 25 Words or Less. I heard somewhere that Vanna will stay on with Ryan Seacrest in 2024-25 on Wheel of Fortune. Seacrest has never been married so that takes away a female 'Seacrest' from taking over Vanna's role.