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Jessica Faith just started this past Friday on WRC-TV after working for WPXI:

1 hour ago, Geoffrey said:

 

It's just the nature of the way everything began changing in 2015. Politics became so absurd and dominated discussions of everyday people. It would have been impossible for comedians to avoid it. Plus, comedy and satire are often the best ways to expose hypocrisy, and there has been a dramatic increase of that in American life. Ignoring politics when doing a daily monologue would seem pretty out-of-touch with reality.

If I'm not mistaken, didn't Fallon's ratings fall after he interviewed Trump, hair rub and all?

In Tucson, it'll be on a newly-created subchannel of KOLD:

https://www.kold.com/2023/04/28/new-network-bring-suns-mercury-games-southern-arizona-viewers/

KTVK and KPHE are the new flagships for the Suns and Mercury, with affiliates in Tuscon and Yuma to come:

https://www.azfamily.com/2023/04/28/arizonas-family-announces-transformative-broadcast-partnership-with-phoenix-suns-phoenix-mercury/

Fox's Women's World Cup schedule is out. There will be 29 games on Fox, and that means a lot of games in the overnight/morning hours since it's in Australia and New Zealand:

https://foxsports-wordpress-www-prsupports-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/WWCMatchOnlySchedule.pdf

Two out of the three USWNT group stage matches managed to get a 9PM EDT start.

Apparently the wave of layoffs this week won't involve on-air talent.

Ion will air a weekly Friday night WNBA game starting this upcoming season:

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/wnba-scripps-ion-friday-night-basketball-1235589597/

Yeah, we hear all about the sports-related carriage fees but this is probably the highest carriage fee for a channel that doesn't carry any sports.

On 4/4/2023 at 12:14 AM, Spring Rubber said:

I just noticed that the overnight infomercials and religious programming are gone Monday-Friday, in favor of more reruns of their primetime shows. Not sure how long that's been the case, but I guess that's one step in the direction of the 24/5 schedule they plan on launching by the end of April (maybe on the 24th when The Hill launches).

The 24th it is:

https://deadline.com/2023/04/newsnation-expanding-24-hour-weekday-schedule-newsnation-now-block-1235329514/

The 1-5PM block will be known as NewsNation Now.

After one year in DC, WTTG's Claire Anderson is going back to Seattle:

Also, WTTG added Shomari Stone :

Reporter Brian Thompson is retiring May 5th:

https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/longtime-wnbc-reporter-brian-thompson-to-retire-in-may/247960/#

Sinclair signed a deal with Youtube TV to add the Tennis Channel, T2 (a free Tennis Channel spinoff channel), Charge! and TBD starting June 1st (during week 1 of the French Open). The deal also extends carriage of their CBS and MyNetwork TV stations:

https://sbgi.net/sinclair-broadcast-group-announces-distribution-agreement-with-youtube-tv-to-add-carriage-of-tennis-channel-t2-charge-and-tbd/

On 2/21/2023 at 2:12 PM, TexasTVNews said:

 

I told you Judge Greg Mathis will have a new court show soon. Now if Byron Allen would do the same for Judge Marilyn.

Guess what:

New hire coming:

Also, NESN already has one and MSG announced their plans a few weeks ago.

46 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Looks like Nexstar's CW stations are now live on YouTube TV.  This should include the MyNetwork stations and WGN.

 

Time to "move" to Chicago!   Or Marquette, MI to see what WJMN is up to....

 

EDIT:. Only the CW stations are available so far.... 

Yeah, in DC WDCW is available but not WDVM (yet).

Look, you'll never get positive opinions for those kinds of changes on social media.

If they can survive forecasts without the Jim O'Brien cloud, they can survive this.

Here's Pat Lawson Muse's goodbye from WRC-TV:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/the-news4-team-salutes-pat-lawson-muse-as-she-retires/3312704/

Also, one more wrinkle about mornings there:

Tony Perkins has an afternoon radio gig, so I don't blame him for wanting an extra hour of sleep.

Isn't Amber Lee due back soon from maternity leave?

On 3/3/2023 at 2:06 PM, JoseRM303 said:

Changes coming to WRC (NBC O&O) in Washington, DC:

 

 

https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/tony-perkins-to-join-wrc-in-washington-d-c-pat-lawson-muse-to-retire/247286/

 

- Tony Perkins to join as morning co-anchor 

- Pat Lawson-Muse to retire 

- Eun Yang moves to co-anchoring the 4 & 6 pm newscasts 

Today was Eun's last day doing mornings:

And this is Pat's last week.

New round of layoffs coming to ESPN. Bob Iger did say last month that layoffs were coming to Disney;

The article says that Stephen A. Smith, Scott Van Pelt, and Joe Buck/Troy Aikman are on the short list of those who are safe.

Yeah, there's been price hikes recently for the competing services. Plus, the Sunday Ticket deal isn't cheap (even if that's gonna be a separate fee). And god only knows how much ESPN's carriage fee has gone up in the past 3 years.

Annabelle Sedano has been hired as a new 3PM and 5PM anchor:

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/community/nbc4-names-annabelle-sedano-as-news-anchor/3115314/