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Katie Raml said farewell to the Valley today at the end of tonight's 6PM KNXV (ABC Phoenix) newscast after nearly a quarter-century there, seeing it rise from the bottom all the way to pretty the top if not close to it now. Considering how some of the corporate owners, particularly KNXV's owner, Scripps, have been handling things, we're lucky in this market that there hasn't been the craziness that has dumbed down news operations as we've seen elsewhere. And nice to see when the network acknowldeges it too seeing World News Tonight anchor David Muir recording a "Thank You" video for Katie, it's one thing if it's for a local anchor in NYC, where you might as well be a part of the network knowing how their news dept. operates, but another if it's for a non-O&O affiliate. https://youtu.be/DQpKmEIP6u8?si=m_yWzUOvx2wLBqTt https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DfzqbwpFU/

Noticed Cox customers in SoCal, North of San Diego County, don't get the Dodgers RSN SportsNet LA, so Dodgers fans unable to switch last few yrs. to DIRECTV or Spectrum, will soon able to get SNLA.

For the Papal Conclave, CBS has sent Maurice Dubois across the Atlantic to Rome alongside Norah. Seeing the coverage right now amongst the networks, seems like NBC is soaking it in more in regards to not blabbering so much taking more opportunites to listen to the sights & sounds leading into the announcement than the other networks. ABC is utilizing Liz Nagy from their O&O in Chicago (WLS) for reporting from the Vatican. When the announcement was made, ABC & NBC had graphics up translating what was being said & also ABC for their coverage is utilizing for the text in the lower 3rds the font used by the O&Os as well as ABC News Live. ABC & FOX are first networks to sign off from coverage right at 2PM Eastern, interestingly KNXV (Phoenix) cut away & joined an ad in progress leading to the 11AM newscast. CBS & NBC are continuing, the latter makes some sense considering affiliates might be scheduled for NBC News Now. EWTN also signed off at the top of the hour.

Yeah, and it looks like based off of this, he'll be involved with network coverage of the funeral of Pope Francis late tonight/early tomorrow morning along with fellow anchor from sister West Coast flagship KABC (Los Angeles) David Ono, which makes some sense & even more worth ABC sending them out to help the main network out with coverage. https://deadline.com/2025/04/how-to-watch-pope-francis-funeral-online-1236375052/

It'll be interesting to see if any of the main evening news anchors are actually en route to Rome & considering the time of day the news broke here early in the morning, wouldn't be surprised if this is the case, that they're reporting from the Vatican in time for tonight's newscasts at 6:30 ET.

An unfortunate circumstance happened earlier today where KTLA's Twitter/X account accidentally put out the N-word due to a "technical error" which they apologized for. They were blocking ppl for a time after it was posted just for mentioning that it was a "technical error"

Don't be surprised if out of retaliation for this, CBS doesn't renew the contracts for the 2 game shows in the O&O markets that air it in Boston, Dallas, & Minneapolis/St. Paul.

I know WPLG also has correspondents in Washington as well as Havana, Cuba.

WBFS (CW/Miami) will be airing 15 Miami Marlins games, mainly Fridays, with a few Sundays sprinkled in.

Airing it in primetime wouldn't be unprecedented, they do that here in Phoenix (KTVK). It feels kinda awkward when it airs at the same time ABC airs a special episode for the network at the same time.

Seattle Mariners, despite still being on an RSN (Root Sports NW), they're using MLB graphics.

In addition to the D'backs, TEGNA has also secured rights to simulcast 10 games in local markets for the Colorado Rockies (KUSA/NBC Denver) & San Diego Padres (KFMB/CBS & CW on 8.2) https://www.9news.com/article/sports/mlb/colorado-rockies/watch-colorado-rockies-games-9news-ktvd/73-ddbcf589-9f61-443e-9ebc-4edb92f1fd3f https://www.cbs8.com/article/sports/mlb/padres/cbs-8-and-cw-san-diego-broadcast-padres-games-2025/509-ffaa3f54-ce7c-4b81-9bb4-ca3362865ec6

Here in Phoenix, KPHO airs following After Midnight a rebroadcast of Arizona's Family Extra Point which is a nightly sports show that airs on sister indy station KTVK & Arizona's Family Sports at 10:30.

Hehehehe, it ain't even breaking news!!!! Notice too the ticker has the station logo, wonder if affiliates can program the ticker to a point where the logo's insterted in instead of the ABC News bug or if this ticker is a varient that the local ABC affiliate is using.

This season will be the last for Bob Carpenter as the TV voice of the Washington Nationals & also the end, in all likelihood, of a great sports broadcasting career. He was the first host of ESPN's College Gameday & did other stuff for them & also was a voice for the St. Louis Cardinals. https://www.masnsports.com/blog/carpenter-reveals-this-will-be-final-season-as-nats-lead-announcer