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Yesterday was the last day on Good Day LA for Melvin Robert: https://www.foxla.com/video/1600892

Yeah, I went to college in the Lehigh Valley in the early 2000s and that newscast existed back then.

Carley Gomez, formerly of KXTV in Sacramento, joined the station and did her first weather report last night. Also, based on the thumbnails on their website it looks like Marc Cota-Robles is Ellen's replacement at 3PM.

The dispute between MSG and Optimum is over: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/optimum-and-msg-networks-agree-on-carriage-deal-302382817.html

The final 5 minutes of the last newscast from the Upper West Side. With appearances from Lee and Sade: https://abc7ny.com/videoClip/15945540/

Some farewell to the Upper West Side pics from Brittany Bell: https://www.instagram.com/brittanybellwx/p/DGWGUg1BFd7/?hl=en Also, Bill Ritter shares thoughts of stuff he found while cleaning out: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGVzkT-RexG/?hl=en

They did yank MLB Network a couple of years ago, but they're now available separately.

The article says they eventually want to do all news, all day and night for Fox O&O duopoly markets. DC is basically there, with only 4.5 hours of non-local content on WTTG between 4am and midnight, plus a live 8pm hour newscast on WDCA.

The ABC O&Os post full replays of their newscasts on their sites (minus sports segments), as do the Gray stations. And stations on the Zeam and NewsOn apps also have full newscast archives.

WUSA and WJLA are staying local after 7am. WRC is not. Update: after carrying the latest news conference WRC is staying local.

WUAB and the Rock Entertainment Sports Network will air 5 Cleveland Cavaliers games between February and April: https://www.cleveland19.com/2025/01/21/cleveland-cavaliers-air-select-games-rock-entertainment-sports-network-wuab-cw43/

They broke ground on the new building yesterday: https://www.fox4news.com/news/fox-4-breaks-ground-new-tv-station-irving

This past Monday WTTG debuted a new show called The Take @ 2: https://www.facebook.com/marinamarraco/videos/new-show-alert/3989730777974900/ So now all 2 hours of Judge Judy reruns are on WDCA from 4-6PM. And that means between 4am-7:30pm WTTG has a grand total of 2 syndicated shows (Sherri and Jennifer Hudson from 12pm-2pm).

Obviously, viewership for all stations really went up last Tuesday: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/la-fire-local-news-ratings-audiences-double-triple-coverage-1236273532/

Venu is dead: https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2025/01/venu-sports-will-be-discontinued/

I saw WNBC's Sarah Wallace report for them.

The Eaton fire is spreading towards Mount Wilson. That's where basically all of LA's tv signals are: https://ktla.com/news/california/wildfires/live-view-of-the-eaton-fire-from-mt-wilson/ https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-wildfires/eaton-fire-mount-wilson/3599568/

Didn't see one. There was no time and temperature either.

KABC did take a break from 2-4am PST and is airing commercials now during their regularly scheduled newscast.

I've seen reporters from KGO and KFSN reporting for KABC's coverage.

WRC reporter Derrick Ward died from cardiac arrest complications at age 62: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/derrick-ward-beloved-news4-reporter-and-dc-native-dead-at-62/3808156/

Hulu + Live TV is merging with Fubo and Disney will own 70% of this entity: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/disney-hulu-live-tv-fubo-merger-ending-venu-lawsuit-1236266843/ In exchange, Fubo is dropping the lawsuit against Venu.

This sounds very weird after all the years that the Dolans owned Optimum. Then again, they did drop MSG (then-owned by Gulf+Western) for nearly a year in the late 80's after MSG gained Yankee cable rights.

Sinclair cut a deal with Fox where TBD will air on the subchannels of several Fox O&O's starting later next month: https://sbgi.net/sinclair-expands-broadcast-network-footprint-of-tbd-tv-through-partnership-with-fox-in-top-10-dmas/

KOLD morning anchor Ana Orsini unexpectedly died at the age of 28: https://www.kold.com/2024/12/16/13-news-remembers-ana-orsini/