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They didn't say anything in the release about paying extra for the add-on with the Tennis Channel.

WHDH's sports director is leaving:

A nightly 7PM sports show was added this past week, with onetime Met Nelson Figueroa as a co-host: https://pix11.com/sports/ny-sports-nation-nightly/former-new-york-mets-player-nelson-figueroa-joins-pix11-sports/

KGO starts at 5am. Plus WFXT moved from 4-10 to 5-11 during the pandemic (they've since restored 4:30).

Michelle Rotella (who usually splits the PM slots) is on maternity leave. In fact, she just gave birth: https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/michelle-rotella-welcomes-baby-girl-alexia-celeste/3568713/

Sam Zell, onetime owner of the Tribune Company, dead at 81: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-18/sam-zell-billionaire-investor-called-grave-dancer-dies-at-81

An NFL Wild Card game next season will be exclusively on Peacock (outside of the markets of the teams in the game):

This seems embarrassing:

Well LIV was cut off in progress across seemingly every CW affiliate:

Kelly released a statement about that:

And here's their sendoff: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/honoring-brian-thompson-a-sendoff-for-news-4s-intrepid-and-beloved-nj-reporter/4307872/

So Kelly Clarkson is indeed moving to 30 Rock:

I really doubt WATL wants to give up 90 minutes of programming with 100% local ad revenue. It's not like KRON, where they probably have no choice due to ownership.

Or Baltimore where Sinclair runs all the non-big 3 stations. Cable-wise they could pipe in WDCW, but that's an even tighter situation otherwise.

Scripps signed a deal for the Vegas Golden Knights to have every locally televised game on broadcast tv: Games will air in Vegas on KMCC, which is currently an Ion station. As a result, Ion will get a new home in Vegas, as KMCC will be rebranded.

Nexstar has an agreement with Hulu to continue carrying all of their big 4 stations and NewsNation, plus the addition of their MyNetwork TV and independent stations: https://www.nexstar.tv/nexstar-reaches-multi-year-agreement-with-hulu/ It doesn't say anything about their CW stations, though.

Jessica Faith just started this past Friday on WRC-TV after working for WPXI:

If I'm not mistaken, didn't Fallon's ratings fall after he interviewed Trump, hair rub and all?

In Tucson, it'll be on a newly-created subchannel of KOLD: https://www.kold.com/2023/04/28/new-network-bring-suns-mercury-games-southern-arizona-viewers/

KTVK and KPHE are the new flagships for the Suns and Mercury, with affiliates in Tuscon and Yuma to come: https://www.azfamily.com/2023/04/28/arizonas-family-announces-transformative-broadcast-partnership-with-phoenix-suns-phoenix-mercury/

Fox's Women's World Cup schedule is out. There will be 29 games on Fox, and that means a lot of games in the overnight/morning hours since it's in Australia and New Zealand: https://foxsports-wordpress-www-prsupports-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/WWCMatchOnlySchedule.pdf Two out of the three USWNT group stage matches managed to get a 9PM EDT start.

Apparently the wave of layoffs this week won't involve on-air talent.

Ion will air a weekly Friday night WNBA game starting this upcoming season: https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/wnba-scripps-ion-friday-night-basketball-1235589597/