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Can’t imaging working in their Southeast bureau: “Reporting from the Southeastern bureau of North Central West Virginia’s News Station, I’m…”

Yeah, that's an oddly specific description of their area. Also, I feel like the strokeweight of the Circle 5 logo is different at 0:10 and 0:36. Maybe my eyes fail me, though.

Ha. A very directional news station. North central West Virginia.

Wouldn’t be surprised if HLN goes the way of NBCSN and Morning Express becomes a CNN+ flagship show. Forensic files and other shows move over to TruTV or sold to networks like Oxygen and Discovery ID

I don't have a solid answer for you, but I believe it's part of the NBC theme that (may have been) made for this year. An anecdote is the Olympic Zone broadcast made for the O&Os, which is like an "olympic behind-the-scenes/lifestyle" show. It uses the same music.

It just looks so....off. Especially how the top of the "5" overlaps the circle. Is Morgantown still part of the Pittsburgh market? I'm sure that's an area the Clarksburg/Fairmont/Weston stations want to themselves.

ABC13 Houston anchor/reporter Steven Romo announced his engagement to FOX 26 and future Fox weather meteorologist Stephen Morgan on his social media pages. In the announcement Romo also said he’s moving to NYC soon and will be leaving ABC13.

And KTVZ came really late in the game - 1977 in fact. Bend was just considered part of the Portland market and cable brought TV to Bend. Yes, our newscasts in Yakima have ranged from decent to laughable over the years. But one thing that stood out from Seattle and big cities was the approach of the word 'community.' They used to serve the whole community, not just report from whichever town had a fatal shooting overnight. Community events were announced on the air and during newscasts (and in some cases, still are). And not just big events like the fair or 4th of July fireworks. In fact, some of those major events, like the Sunfair Parade (part of the Central Washington State Fair), were broadcast live on KIMA each year. Seattle stations did the same thing, but they served a massive audience of (potentially) a couple million. We serve a potential audience of roughly 225,000. Close-knit, in other terms. But those days are (mostly) over. They keep trying from Tri-Cities but like everywhere, the audience has dwindled down and gone to social media/streaming for news. I keep wondering when KIMA will just hang up shop and send everyone down to Pasco. It can't be THAT far away at this point, sadly.

I’m not a fan of Trump myself although I guess that’s not appropriate. Many like Bill and he seems like a decent person although I have a story about him. When I was a young kid I used to call newscasters because for some reason I wanted to speak to them I guess because they were well known. I called Bill and left him a message maybe around 9pm one evening. He calls my house at around midnight to tell my parents he didn’t appreciate my call. I can understand him feeling that way although I don’t think it was necessary for him to have called at midnight and even tho my parents didn’t think I should have been doing that they also didn’t appreciate his midnight call. It could have waited for the next day.

Couldn’t agree more.. I’ve actually started to turn to other stations because of it. I’m actually really starting to like WCBS at 5.. and I love the format at 6 on FOX5 with Lori Stokes. If FOX5 would get more serious at 5 I think a lot more people would tune in with Steve and Lori.. And let’s be honest if he was commenting “the other way” (we’ll leave it at that) it would not be allowed.