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Totally agree. Boneheaded move by Sunbeam. I can understand not following a contract's stipulations and maybe other miscellaneous/unwanted liability concerns, but there's nuance to every situation. And Alaina was just recently promoted several months back (if I recall correctly) so she was clearly doing something right for the station. Reactions on social media seem to reinforce this. If she stays in news, I can definitely see her being taken up by another station before year's end.

We might as well fire every local anchor and reporter in NYC and LA who've appeared in movies and TV shows as well.

The standards for journalistic integrity should apply up and down the line - from freelance, per diem reporters up to those at the anchor desk.

Follow up. Over the summer, Tegna filed a petition (PRM) to move Twin Cities' KARE 11 from VHF 11 to UHF 31. Northpine first posted this back in late July. Update: KARE's petition is now a NPRM.

Perhaps that is why he is not gong to anchor and someone else on this board believes he is actually freelancing as a per diem reporter.

It was an absolutely stupid firing by Sunbeam. They should be condemned to the fullest for such a nonsense move

Definitely an overreaction by the station. Good for her to take the high road in the announcement. I think the station should rethink their decision to terminate.

This feels like an overreaction; I don’t even think this is a suspendable offense in my eyes. She made a mistake not having the station sign off on her apparence but the scene is innocuous enough and the content certainly wouldn’t violate any morals clause. Hopefully this backlash will find Pinto new work.

People are being sympathetic...glad to see.

Congrats to Karen Borta for 25 Years at CBS 11 (KTVT).

I'll bet that Atlanta could be in the future once 3.0 takes hold. When Atlanta gets 3.0, at least Tegna has WATL 36 which is on UHF. WXIA is on VHF 10. The VHF problem could by why Meredith held off on 3.0 in Nashville and Mobile/Pensacola, as both of their stations are not part of a duopoly and both on VHF.

…. and still is a member of the NBC O&O. Just not in Boston. Plus he knows in NYC it's a different playing field. He did 7 Years to be exact so he knows the rules.

Phil has started and filed his first report on Tuesday. There is a rule in journalism that the expression of personal views does not reflect of those at Television stations. So.. in theory what ever he says on his twitter page are his own personal views. If WNBC wanted to past judgement on those views he wouldn't be there and we would have a different conversation. As long as he can do his job properly and doesn't create a toxic environment at WNBC in which I'm pretty sure they don't tolerate.

I also haven't seen it on Fire TV as of the last time I checked a couple days ago. It must be a slow rollout.

I like that Scripps is bringing more news options to markets at a time when most other companies are reducing the news options in markets. Whether or not a market can “support” this many news options, it can never hurt to give people as many options as possible. The alternative (see Anchorage and St. Joseph) is never the answer.

Well color me surprised...... This is 2009-2010 all over again..... There's TWO Notice of Proposed Rulemakings (NPRM) involving two Tegna stations. They both want to get out of the VHF dial for a UHF allotment. One, Portland, OR's KGW wants to leave VHF 8 for UHF 26. While the other, Phoenix's KPNX wants to vacate VHF 12 for UHF 18. And I don't think they just want to get out of VHF because of viewer signal issues. On a footnote on KGW's NPRM (p.2), it stated based on the petition (PRM) they wrote that “moving to UHF would improve the station’s future ability to offer robust ATSC 3.0 service over the air.”

Very nice snag @promoguy98! I actually nailed a trio of interesting finds lately that are somewhat in the NMSA, but I wanted to put them here too: Shreveport The Shreveport Journal in 1984 did an article on news music and it included IDs for three different pieces of news music! https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59728001/ KSLA's theme is a custom by Jake Pittman of Dallas. (He died at 50 in 2004.) KTBS is also a custom done by Skeetz Music Co. of Indianapolis. The NMSA has yet to add this one because it actually represents a date change for KTBS '82. The mention of not having a final beat is a glove fit for this. KTAL used a theme by Al LeGrand (LeGrand and Associates, a local ad agency) and Dan Newman. We've never heard it, either! KOVR/Dan Milner Years ago, I ran on ASCAP into an entry for a KOVR News Theme by Dan Milner (Wintermoon Music) but had nothing to go on. Until @Spectrum27 turned up its use as a background bed on American Gladiators: Milner composed the theme to the show, too, and one of his demos has a few cuts from the KOVR '95 package in it. That's one way to ID a theme! KCST - Working to Be Your 1st Choice KCST 1985 (now correctly dated 1984) was not a package I expected to have an image associated. Well, I was very wrong! Wanted to bring this to the attention of the music hounds. Tuesday? Silvertree (which was formed at the start of '84)?

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