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How many newsmagazines have the other networks tired over the years? NBC had many before Dateline worked. ABC had many before 20/20 worked, after the first episode almost got the series cancelled. Fox I think has tired, but never really lasted more than one year. Heck, CBS even tired to make another version of 60 Minutes and couldn’t. Outside of PBS Frontline, which is more long form investigative journalism, 60 Minutes has been the one newsmagazine that has worked, never changed the format, and has had a major impact on journalism since the start of TV. Now they have had more EPs in the past 58 weeks than in the 58 years it has been on the air.

This photo was taken at the start of Season 58 in the fall of 2025. 60 Minutes has never seen this type of downfall this fast.

NBC licensed “NBC News Radio” to iHeart back in 2016 and they are the ones that take care of everything. https://www.nbcnewsradio247.com

Sharyn Alfonsi is out at 60 Minutes https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/cbs-news-declined-renew-contract-60-minutes-correspondent-who-clashed-with-bari-2026-05-27/

Meanwhile, NBC became to the first broadcaster (foreign or domestic) to broadcasting from the Imperial Ancestral Hall. And CBS had to use a hotel in a different country. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYXUI6GNPJD/?igsh=MW1meWRvcHJ0dWh0cQ==

As they are now part of Gray and no longer Allen, WTHI made their first big announcement. The famous bow-tie is back. Kevin Orpurt is returning as Chief Meteorologist after being cut last year.

How is international reporting going to be handled? Does Nexstar even have a plan anymore?

For those who don’t know the history of RTV6, I’ll give you a little background. The station went on the air as WFBM-TV on May 30th, 1949, as Indiana’s first TV station. The first program was “Crucible of Speed,” a documentary about this little race called The Indianapolis 500. After the program ended, a live broadcast of The 500 followed. They started as CBS, went to NBC in ‘56, and ABC in ‘79. After the station was sold to McGraw-Hill, the call letters changed to the famous WRTV, or “We are TV,” in 1972. The station had many other first: record programming on video tape, news gathering on mini-cams, microwave relay trucks, satellite truck, digital news cameras, video on demand, website, mobile website, cable news channel, producing a newscast for a different station (WRTV6 News on WTTV4) and until the mid-80s, the number one station in the Indianapolis TV market. I could go on, but we don’t have the time or place really. Yes, RTV6 is not what it once was, but they were always proud of the history they started in Indiana. And all of that was gone in a matter of minutes.

Circle City Broadcasting now owns RTV6 in Indy. And early word is, just about everyone at RTV6 minus a few people, won’t be around for the late news this evening.

John Dickerson will make a return to the eye network Tuesday after the State of the Union on Colbert. LateNighter report

Anderson Cooper is leaving 60 Minutes: USA Today

Former NewsChannel5 meteorologist Bree Smith has filed a lawsuit against the station and Scripps for harassment. Nashville Banner article. Smith also announced today she will be working at WSMV 4 starting tomorrow.

No, he is in Miami anchoring tonight. Since Miami isn’t really used that much, they probably don’t have a small set at the ready like LA.

Along with a new anchor and format (that will last just as long as new Coke), CBS also updated their values from a 38 page hand book to a simple five. Meanwhile, PBS has had the same values/guidelines since Robert MacNeil was doing the show for half an hour.

WTHR has been one of NBC’s stronger stations since the 90s and NBC would love to own WTHR. Unfortunately with the way this current administration is with NBC/Comcast, that may not happen.

This one really was a major fumble. CBS had the chance to redo everything and improve. But instead, they fell flat. Yes, the early days were mainly prerecorded, but it helped them. Once more live programming started, they improved. But, they didn’t really do anything else. I was one of the people calling for CBSN to rename to CBS News Network and let stations broadcast it OTA. Have programming more in line with foreign broadcasters; newscast and programming from LA, Chicago, Dallas, London, and Sydney. Allow stations to air the network overnight during weekends. Now? They are just trying to remind people they exist.

ITV, the UK’s oldest commercial broadcaster, is in talks with Comcast/Sky to sell its TV network and streamer ITVX for £1.6 Billion ($2.15 Billion). The talks does not include ITV Studios. Nothing has been said about ITV News, which is produced by ITN.

The mic flags recently have been FOX59/CBS4 with the state of Indiana between both. They already use the same reporters at both stations and sometimes the same anchors and meteorologists as need be. Even after getting CBS, FOX59 still has better name recognition than WTTV.

John Dickerson announced his “Report’s Notebook” essays won a Walter Cronkite Award. His essays would be prefect for PBS (if it wasn’t for the cuts there also).

I said to one of my friends that Gray was suppose to buy WISH to fix it. Now it’s just like, what?

On the same day it turned 140, The Dallas Morning News confirmed it is now a Hearst newspaper. Hearst became owner of the paper on September 24th, one day after shareholders approved the merger at $16.50/share, up from the previous offer of $14/share. I know we all said, “At least it wasn’t Alden.” Alden did put in a bid after Hearst of $16.50/share; the board said. Once again in September, another bid of $20/share; the board and shareholders said no. Both the board and shareholders all know and see what Alden has done to other papers. They would rather lose a little bit of money than see the newspaper go under.

NEW YORK (AP) — Nexstar Media Group joined Sinclair Broadcast Group in bringing “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” back to its local TV stations on Friday, restoring the late-night talk show to the full slate of ABC affiliates across the U.S.

Like how so many others have said (on here and the other social apps), how much longer will Disney let Deathstar Nexstar and Sell Your Soul to Sinclair do this? Bigger question is how many GMs don’t agree with their corporate overlords on this move? Nexstar owns NewsNation, a network with ratings that match that of a small market, and they have been filling the cable waves with Kimmel non-stop, but no one has asked Uncle Perry (or anyone else in Dallas from my knowledge) to come on and explain why this move was made and what will happen if ABC pulls from their stations. We all know Uncle Perry ain’t gonna answer anything.

Nexstar is still gonna keep Jimmy off their stations. CBC Link

The IndyStar has used the WayBack Machine to see who is and isn’t at the station anymore. To have one or two people leave is nothing. But when 14 people either quit or are fired, it will raise red flags.