David Salter JR

the 1/6 insurrection committee hearings begin this week with a primetime hearing on Thursday. Here are the broadcast and cable network plans. Note: this page will be updated as necessary. CBS: Norah O'Donnell will front live coverage. CBS's coverage will be streamed on Paramount Plus and CBSN ABC: live coverage will be hosted by David Muir. NBC: Lester Holt will host on both the broadcast net and NBC News Now Fox: Live coverage anchored by Brett Bair and Martha McCallum will be offered as a level 2 special report to Fox affiliates who want it (it is important to note that primetime on the network will not be preempted). CNN and MSNBC will likely use their normal primetime hosts for coverage. FNC will not be airing the hearings in full but will dip in as events warrant. the aforementioned broadcast will Brett and Martha will be on Fox Buisness network. Note: NBC has announced that the second hearing which is scheduled for June 13th will be exclusively on NBC News Now. whether or not that will be offered as an optional SR to broadcast affiliates is not known

Primetime was interrupted in the Eastern/Central timezones this past Tuesday for President Biden's remarks on the Uvalde, Texas school shooting. Fox slid back local news so that Name that Tune could air in it's entirety. NBC did not finish their airing of Young Rock so that the finale of This is Us could start on time at 9pm/8 central.

Is there any chance the tegna-verizon dispute is settled by this weekend?

there simply aren't enough high-profile trials going on to make a 24/7 court channel viable, this is why the original court tv was rebranded

i seem to remember FOX interrupting a baseball game when the news broke

Gutting a tv station sports department isn't going to fly in a town like cleveland

CBS must have thrown enough of a fit about golf preemption for both WJZ and WUSA to drop local baseball

This is what happens when you hire college kids to do your on-air graphics

i would expect them too as long as the cubs, bulls, and blackhawks want to do buisness with them

There is a zero percent chance of wboc getting sold

could this mean the end of the view and/or general hospital?

does this mean doug hill's days at WJLA are numbered?

maureen bunyan is 71, i don't think she wants to anchor anymore

is it possible that abc will ditch new year's rockin eve in the future?

why is she leaving, she has been the face of fox 28 for many years?

i expect WJZ to make the switch to 4:30am sometime in 2017

is she going to another station in the market?

who will replace iffel on the newshour?

why haven't they yet?

how much longer does WWL have on their current affiliation agreement with CBS?

they must have gotten a lot of inquiries about the cubs parade to be showing it nationally

how did fox let them get away with it for so long

why didn't they air fox news sunday at 9am from the start?

9 has probably been trying to force her out for the last several years