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Eventually.

It's 100% the WTOP theme with a different signature.

To me, this seems like a whole lot of something over a whole lot of nothing. But maybe I'm missing something.

Susan Carlson stepping away from NBC 5 and tv news. https://twitter.com/susancarlson111/status/1308766285279514624?s=21

WGN, never change.

I don't have any insider information, but I can't imagine that things are good over there. Just spent a week at home in Chicago and channel surfed. It's amazing how lackluster the product they're putting out is compared to the other stations. It's just not nearly as polished as the other stations. Extremely disappointing in market #3. One of the glaring things I found in watching is that Brad Edwards is unlikeable. I don't know who in their right mind though replacing Johnson with him was a good idea. I half expect him to try and sell me a used car at an inflated price. He's not a good anchor, point blank. He doesn't seem invested in what he's doing and comes off at not genuine AT ALL. I don't know exactly what can right the ship over there, or if anything can.

WGN is the last holdout in the market for having a traditionally switched newscast. Last I recall, some shows were automated and some weren’t. There originally were integration issues with their newsroom system when they built their automated control room. It’s immediately adjacent to their normal booth, and I think replaced the original CLTV control room closet. Due to the integration issues and other conflicts CLTV used the automated and they left the main channel to use the traditional set up. Now that CLTV is gone, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them slowly change to more automation.

Technology is quite amazing. At a station I used to work at, we had the ability to have the weather anchor cut into programming without anyone else being in the building. There was a setup in the weather center where all you had to do was push a singular button and the weather computer and the specific mic were put on air. Then, push the same button and we're back to regular scheduled programming. It wasn't fancy, but it prevented having to call a bunch of people in for severe weather at off times. Mind you, this wasn't market #3.

Sorry for being purposely vague. But as you all can see now, WUSA will be hosting the CBS Evening News this weekend anchored by none other than Lesli Foster.

A very reliable source tells me that the CBS Evening News on Apr. 25/26th will originate from Washington DC.

Next weekend.

It's Rockford, they have a two hour morning show. Weather sells and it's not like there's piles of content in big markets let alone one the size of Rockford. Also, it was roughly 3 minutes and forty seconds.

Ravi Baichwal posted on Twitter that Karen Jordan gave birth to a healthy baby boy, John Robert Farr, about an hour and a half ago! [MEDIA=twitter]836769502440337408[/MEDIA]

I actually beat Feder to the punch, wasn't referring to his article when I made my post. I think that's going to remain in place. She did the 4-4:30am solo today and the format works very nicely for how early it is.

Alex Maragos is now officially co-anchor of NBC 5 News today from 4:30 - 7am alongside Zoraida Sambolin. Assuming he's taking the midday role as well.