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http://mobile.philly.com/blogs/?wss=/philly/blogs/phillygossip/&id=271389461 I didn't notice it never mentioned there. This article doesn't either, but it includes her farewell video where she mentions it. Also check out kcradio.tripod.com and it'll be listed there.

Ohhhhh my mistake, didn't even notice. Sorry. I'll fix that.

No...it's WTXF.

Kacie McDonnell is leaving WTXF in Philadelphia for KSHB in Kansas City. She's also girlfriend to Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Aaron Murray. I tell you what, never I have seen just pure hatred and rudeness directed at a personality for leaving a station. The comments towards and about her are atrocious. They're along the lines of "why would you ever want to live/work in Kansas City?" "some people spend their whole careers trying to reach a market of this size and you're choosing to leave it to go work in a small market like Kansas City," "you should have had a ring on it before you ever decided to move." What makes it odder is that her boyfriend Murray might not even make the roster... Edit: WTXF in Philly and WFXT in Boston are way too similar. Originally said Boston.

Is she pretty? KSHB's most recent weather hire wasn't an actual meteorologist, but boy was she pretty. It oddly seemed to be pretty common knowledge that she wasn't a true met too.

Wait, you mean to tell me KOKH doesn't have a 5 or 6pm newscast? What do they do then? Morning and 9/10pm?

Michelle Apon is leaving KSHB after just around a year. She's the third person to leave the station in the past 8 days. https://www.facebook.com/KSHBJiaoJiaoShen/photos/a.231318040357325.1073741828.231294387026357/343510895804705/?type=1&theater

Well this was a surprise. Keith King is leaving KSHB after 18 years at the station. Today was his final day at the station. He was a general reporter, weekend anchor for a number a years and most recently their Call For Action reporter. No word on who will replace him.

So someone placed a camera in a WEWS restroom

I tipped them off to Kosek quite awhile ago. Surprised they're just now mentioning it.

That's quite the understatement on both fronts. They have Bracco, the man that helped to create KMBC's decades of dominance, running the station now.

former channel 9 KMBC morning weather man Joel Nichols officially started today on channel 41 KSHB as the new co-host of their disastrous struggling painful-to-watch morning talk/lifestyle show Kansas City Live. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/tv/article683616.html

Sand desk anyone? https://twitter.com/wraltraffic/status/483910764512571393/photo/1

Neither. If I can ever manage to get a photo uploaded up on here I'll show you what I mean. "Tabloid-y" is possibly the wrong terminology to use. I primarily said it because KMBC's product has become increasingly so over the past few years.

KMBC's ticker looks absolutely nothing like any of those. It's so minimalist and perfect. I don't have a picture, but all it consists of is a map of the viewing area and a ticker encased by a small grey box. There is none of that multi-colored boxes taking up the bottom or top sixth of the screen thing, it's "transparent" so to speak. Again, with no pictures, but has anyone noticed their Hearst station using more "tabloid-y" graphics lately? I'll try to take screens later, but KMBC has been using a ton of stuff with full screen graphics with headlines and a video box to tell half the story. They didn't use to do this.

What they're lacking is that sense of fun, unity and family. Add Sam Champion? And do what with Al Roker?

It's pretty obvious that the most obvious heir, as of this moment, to Matt is Willie Geist. He is the ONLY person people talk about as being a Matt Lauer replacement. The article says that his new contract "will take Mr. Lauer to two decades as the program's chief anchor." Presumably one could speculate that after that milestone is reached, Lauer will leave. Either way, NBC needs to spend the entire length of his new contract prepping up an heir and Willie Geist is the most obvious choice at least at this moment. If it's not him then it'll have to be someone else they bring in and work hard to be likable to the viewers, but Geist is already well received by Today Show viewers. Which is stupid because this happens just about every week. CBSTM probably narrows the gap between them and Today on a weekly basis too, but do you see them citing it as an indication that their ratings are rising and that they will soon be the new #2? No, because they know it was just some random fluctuation. NBC can start claiming that the gap is really narrowing once the gap is down to under 100,000 for consistent weeks on end.

Mark Clegg is reportedly leaving KSHB after 12 years at the station.

"After much prayer and fasting"? Geeze, she took that decision SERIOUSLY. Anywho, Katie Horner has left KMOV to come back to Kansas City to live with her family. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/meteorologist-katie-horner-says-goodbye-to-kmov_b122162

Excellent. I couldn't stand him. Everything always had this sense of urgency to it. Sunny and clear skies for the next week? Always made it sound urgent like it was a hurricane instead.

Eh. It's been five years now. MSNBC could stand an refresh/overhaul of their graphics. But if I were to place priorities, it would definitely be on CNBC (they still aren't in HD right)? But that's not the discussion here...

Actually that doesn't look too half bad.

If he's so bad then what is it that NBC saw in him?

Ehhhh Penner might be the producer, but he still has a degree in meteorology. Apon is working on her degree to actually BE a meteorologist, so I'm just giving her the benefit of the doubt.

Yeah I am counting Jeff. I guess that's a good point, but he's been on the air enough times and is featured in all of their promos. Lezak brought him over when he left WDAF way back when. For Kansas City though, that's weird. Hell, KMBC and now KCTV have two mets on-air in the morning and we generally consider it to be overkill.