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Longtime WRC anchor Jim Vance announced his cancer diagnosis on tonight's 6pm newscast. He didn't elaborate on the type of cancer he had, but said that he vowed to continue anchoring the 6pm news "when he can", while doing treatment. Let's hope he can recover from this.

Don't be so critical... Here at KBEX, we often make multi-million dollar decisions based on what we read on TVNT.

A KSAZ tour from the mid-90s! Holy Spirit of Arizona! This is a must-watch for anyone who wants to see how a mid-90s major market TV station operates (it shows pretty much the entire station!). Plus it's been converted to 60fps! Judging by the 10 News branding and a graphic for "Tragedy in the Everglades" (the ValuJet crash), this is from 1996. At 17:56 are some "Fox 10 News" graphics with the O in Fox replaced by the sunset 10, and following it is a show of the graphics computer with a trove of unused KSAZ logo concepts. The wheels were clearly in motion for the rebrand.

Outside of the "7 First Alert Weatehr," I like it!

We shouldn't give ourselves that much credit. Both operations are in Gray's wheelhouse - small-market stations that are ratings-dominant.

New set talk moved here: https://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?threads/new-wgn-set.16032/ Again, general threads are for small stories that don't deserve their own threads!!! A set and new logo definitely deserve a thread!

It seems Strive keeps getting updated. I am constantly hearing new tunes. Do stations or Hearst commission the updates?

KDLT News from May 1991:

They're wrong. There's KFMB which is a locally/family owned CBS affiliate.

We saw that coming a mile away, didn't we? Gray will take over operations on June 1. http://www.wcax.com/story/35342251/wcax-sold-to-gray-television

Almost completely new... they added times and such along with a city scape and angled "Live" transition within the open... it shows the original logo angling at the viewer when the VO says "7 Action News"... at some point in the future I will post them but right now I'm not in a position to hook everything up and get a good video...

Cool as heck! Was just gonna post this myself! Really happy for her, one of my all-time favorites. And one of the best female voices in news, I know she'll sound great on the radio - just like Robin Robinson did. Channel 2 would be smart to bring them both back on. I got all excited with that Robert Feder column a while back speculating that was maybe in the works for Robin.

If he dies unexpectedly, that would be a big severe blow to D.C. television and to the industry as a whole. Jim is really beloved in this market.

It's not on you to get the info right. They decided to do a write up touting the change, the least they could have done is taken less than 30 seconds to google other non-group/family owned CBS affiliates and the info would have popped up.

how could I forget about KFMB. Thank you

The only way it was an upgrade is that you can understand what they are saying. Imus has been inaudible since 1997 or so. Or Doug Adair and Mona Scott at WCMH.

First covered by me on my blog though I didn't specifically say it was temporary because I didn't know about that part at the time. [MEDIA=twitter]859847713952870401[/MEDIA]

I think they could easily be replaced. It's essentially the same show as Imus was minus the racist remarks and radio games.

I thought most marriages had that vibe.

I would expect that Antenna TV and thisTV would be part of a Tribune sale to Sinclair....especially given the many stations that carry either network and Sinclair having other joint ventures with MGM to begin with...

Should they rename Morning Joe to "The Scarboroughs" jk

Withers still owns its radio stations. So Withers is still alive.

Lots of paperwork this morning. First, some closings. Three names have now gone away in the broadcast TV world. Calkins have completed its sale its three stations on Sunday (4/30) (even though it was announced in a press release Monday (5/1), the 4/30 date was stated in the FCC closing papers). WTXL & WWSB went to Raycom, while WAAY went to Heartland Media. Withers completed its sale of WDTV/WVFX to Gray on Monday. Gray has operated the duo since last June. Withers owned WDTV since 1973. And Diversified has completed its sale of its two stations to Gray. The WCJB one was closed Monday, while the WABI one was closed on Tuesday (5/2), ending 64 years of family ownership of the TV outlet (and 68 years in broacasting altogether; it founded WABI-AM in 1949). Here's a little tidbit, this was the same firm that gave Perry Sook his first television station in 1996. And look how his company have ballooned since........ Diversified, Withers & Calkins. RIP to Horace Hildreth & Russell Withers. Now even though they're no longer in the TV world, they're involved in other businesses. Withers is not out of the broadcasting biz entirely, as it continues to own several radio stations in the Jackson Purchase region (southern IL, Paducah-Cape Girardeau). Calkins owns newspapers in Pennsylvania & New Jersey, and has recently launched some digital services, including OTT. And Diversified has a thriving convention/trade show business in the U.S., Canada & overseas. Second, the transaction of Laughlin, NV station KMCC by Cranston TV to Entravision was greenlighted yesterday (5/3). Finally, last month someone asked if the stations owned by Alaska Telecom, GCI (through subsidiary Denali Media Holdings) are included in the transaction to Liberty Media. Here's the paperwork for KTVA (that and the other Alaska stations are included in this sale). When the deal closes, the parent company General Communication Inc. will become GCI Liberty, Inc. but the Denali subsidiary and the licensee names will stay a status quo. This will be the first time in six years Liberty is involved in a television station. They previously owned the former CBS O&O WFRV from 2007 to 2011.