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TheOneManHerd

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  1. I wouldn’t be one of them though; that’s a decent package, right there.
  2. If it weren’t for the live shot, you’d think this newscast was from 1969, not 1979.
  3. I have no clue about the odds. [The company formerly known as Gannett] is too big for any of the other broadcasters to swallow whole, so it would have to be hedge fund or private equity or some other company with limited broadcasting interests. If Standard buys them, you're definitely going to see a "back-to-basics" approach system-wide, not unlike what we see at the former-MG and LIN stations. This will benefit the "how do you do, fellow kids" stations like WTSP and WKYC, which could use a quick culture change. For stations like KARE and WBIR, who haven't lost all of their former luster yet; it may prove to be a downgrade. More everyday stories about robberies and house fires, less of those "slice of life" features.
  4. All of the conditions that led ABC to switch to KSTP, WSB, WSOC, WTLV, WSAV, WBRZ, and KOMU were present in the Tampa Bay market. I wonder what made WFLA decide to stay with NBC; and WIS and WSFA for that matter.
  5. What’s even more amazing, WDAZ went on the air in 1967; long after the K/W line was moved.
  6. I hope Robin Baumgarten gets invited to the grand opening.
  7. I heard it in a WBTV promo, too. It has an uncanny resemblance to NBC’s Go Where The News Is promo that premiered not long after Steve Sohmer left CBS for NBC.
  8. Weird, considering KGBT was only a secondary NBC affiliate.
  9. It sounds like a Network Music track, to me.
  10. The initial plan from Landmark was to sell WTVF to Bonten. Needless to say, it's good thing they went with Journal instead.
  11. I’m sure Samantha will appreciate that last one.
  12. Why do I have a sudden urge to watch Supermarket Sweep?
  13. You know what the KSN Theme also sounds a lot like? 9 Country/11 Country.
  14. I remember speculating quite a long time ago that SOTB was a Gari composition. I must have said that on YouTube or something, though, because I can’t find me saying that here. The instrumentation in many cuts sound a lot like Hello News; still others sound like So Good To Turn To. I guess I’m not crazy after all.
  15. Looks like Phil Collins is making his way to the NMSA.
  16. WNAC also used that jingle in the waning days of RKO ownership.
  17. FTVLive is saying that a news anchor was killed in a plane crash near New Orleans Lakefront airport. Scott is doing the responsible thing and not reporting the name until the official word is released.
  18. ...and the spirit grows stronger every day.
  19. Here’s a treat. WTVF circa 1977. Equipment bloopers. A very Scrippsy set decades before they’d actually own this station. There’s Chris Clark, of course; and, is that Dave Kaylor in Music City?!
  20. They ought to do a podcast together; call it Age Of Magerity.
  21. This is also Tegna. “The new video -- released as part of a WFAA exclusive in partnership with the Investigative Network -- fuels the Bland family’s suspicions that Texas officials withheld evidence in her controversial arrest and, later, her death” https://www.wfaa.com/mobile/article/news/investigations/sandra-bland-recorded-her-own-arrest-watch-her-cellphone-video-from-the-2015-traffic-stop/287-44ff2f5b-f481-48c3-a5ca-fad15296d979
  22. Pretty good looking and sounding for an almost sub-200 market.
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