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Longtime WTOP business reporter Jeff Claybaugh succumbed to cancer Thursday night at the age of 63: https://wtop.com/inside-wtop/2025/09/business-reporter-jeff-clabaugh-dies-at-63-after-delivering-dc-money-news-on-wtop-for-30-years/ Plenty of tributes here: https://wtop.com/inside-wtop/2025/09/wtop-reflections-staffers-and-listeners-look-back-on-the-work-of-jeff-clabaugh/

WUSA meteorologist Makayla Lucero is leaving the station and tv news: https://www.facebook.com/MeteorologistMakaylaLucero/posts/pfbid0s9MWjYJiJ1bRqYGAvDvZ62B1S1mrLZGUWCzAhBYhn37kcPBtPcvdLWXKmik2guZ1l

Shots were fired outside of KXTV and into their lobby: https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/abc10-station-struck-gunfire/103-b9973626-ecfd-4406-9c65-debc1c8f244b

For the past year and a half or so she's only worked 6-8 am Monday-Wednesday, so they've kinda already went in that direction.

Fox and it's cable neworks could go dark on YoutubeTV at 5pm on Wednesday. Just in time for the start of college football season (including Texas vs. Ohio State): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/fox-fox-news-may-be-pulled-from-youtube-tv-in-carriage-dispute-1236353110/

Here's Perry Sook on CNBC explaining the merger:

I'm willing to bet it's permanent. Fox has gone on record saying they want their duopoly Fox stations to be all-news during weekdays.

As mentioned in another thread, MSNBC will be known as MS NOW. Also, CNBC is keeping it's name, but they're obviously getting a new logo. And the sports division will be known as USA Sports: https://deadline.com/2025/08/msnbc-name-change-ms-now-1236490616/

So the channel's full name is Microsoft NOW.

An unfortunate error at WTOC concerning Michael Penix Jr:

Meteorologist Katie LaSalle, previously of KMGH, has switched Denver stations to KUSA where she's going to work weekday mornings: https://www.instagram.com/katie_lasalle/p/DNO3DemRpm5/?hl=en

The big deal is that there's no more UFC ppvs, as everything is now on Paramount+. Like how sister company WWE did away with the traditional ppv model years ago. Also, it sounds right given how Trump-friendly UFC is.

If this gets approved, they're absolutely gonna force DC News Now on WUSA. And I think they're going to try to find some way to keep WDVM since it's not technically a DC station (and judging by the recent format change of it's morning show, people are probably not flocking to it).

On the eve of WANF leaving CBS, meteorologist/traffic reporter Courteney Jacobazzi left the station on Friday for a position closer to home: https://www.facebook.com/Cjacobazzi/posts/pfbid02BHgM5H7P3aVB21UDCvfmmJpVxyXCTUUBNShuw2PegayJGT7wjMTBnKqpihFZegMCl?__cft__[0]=AZWeuGdAWgorzWhRHLpxLJvzaUbLeMyW8kkOQzszTgPMj3HXcNUPMbycdbAuJBr4QW9cTJcVWT0STxk0VG7LQQvchvI0mkzclcHyoXAd9UdgnlMUKGtxZOpUotj9ekMwgAmdITM1fDDM9DWsZGw9ij_l34Vkaf7gX9mhL04cXKE9YFGxPljJFMj5Crrj9t6PVG0&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

Also announced for ESPN the streaming service: WWE PLEs (re: pay per views before the WWE Network and later Peacock included them at no extra cost). https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/45912135/espn-joins-forces-wwe-stream-wrestlemania-beginning-2026

It's finally announced: https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2025/08/espn-to-acquire-nfl-network-and-other-media-assets-from-the-nfl-in-exchange-for-a-10-equity-stake-in-espn/ ESPN gets to own the NFL Network and RedZone, while the NFL gets a 10% equity stake in ESPN.

Launch date is August 21st. Price is $20/month: https://deadline.com/2025/08/fox-one-streaming-pricing-launch-date-1236478762/

There's some turnover at KDKA-TV ahead of the merger. Anchors Kym Gable and Linsday Ward were let go: https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-2-anchors-laid-off-at-kdka-tv/ Also at that station, meteorologist Kristin Emery is retiring on August 28th (and she insists it's on her own terms): https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-kdka-tv-forecaster-announces-retirement

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced they're winding down operations: https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding

And they got married: https://abc7.com/post/meteorologist-brianna-ruffalo-actor-josh-lucas-marry-vatican/17233433/

Parella Lewis is leaving WYFF to become chief meteorologist at KING: https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/greenville/2025/07/16/wyff-4-meteorologist-parella-lewis-leaving-moving-back-home-to-seattle/85236534007/

Meteorologist Amanda Pappas, previously of WTSP, has joined WPLG: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMG45GqOiJQ/

The thing with these non-major network broadcast stations on Youtube TV and such is that they either has a deal with the owners of these stations or not. So this means they do not have a deal Berkshire Hathaway.

Well Paramount caved: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/paramount-agrees-pay-16-million-settle-trumps-lawsuit-60-minutes-kamal-rcna216419 A $16 million settlement.

Yep, Tegna issued a press release today saying that all of it's stations will have 7-9am online-only newscasts by the fall: https://www.tegna.com/tegna-announces-major-local-news-expansion-adding-more-than-100-hours-of-new-daily-programming-across-50-markets/