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Yes, this is terrible news. Nancy was beloved in the New Orleans and Baton Rouge areas. I remember her from her WAFB days, too...even met her at the SWAC basketball tournament back in the mid-1990s when the tournament was held at the Baton Rouge Centroplex. She was a very down-to-earth person...very nice.

 

My condolences to her husband Glynn Boyd, their kids and their extended family.

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57 minutes ago, PelicanGuy said:

Yes, this is terrible news. Nancy was beloved in the New Orleans area. I remember her from her WAFB days, too...even met her at the SWAC basketball tournament back in the mid-1990s when the tournament was held at the Baton Rouge Centroplex. She was a very down-to-earth person...very nice.

 

My condolences to her husband Glynn Boyd, their kids and their extended family.

 

Absolutely shocked. Very sad to hear this. Sending my condolences to Glynn, Nancy's family, friends and colleagues.

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2 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

Okay... getting off-topic with WKYC's new logo hatred. I feel that way too but I'm going back on-topic.

 

Calvin Sneed retired from WTVC in 2016 but is coming back and temporarily stepping away from retirement to join WRCB but in a temporary fill-in basis to help the station after anchor LaTrice Currie suffered a medical emergency in late August.

 

https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/41034687/calvin-sneed-to-fill-in-for-latrice-currie

 

Meanwhile, WDBJ 7 is running under low-power because they're under a new frequency and are trying to upgrade their tower and antenna, but county gov. is preventing them from doing so. It may not be until late October or early November when WDBJ is on full-power.

 

https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/WDBJ7-temporarily-operating-at-low-power-until-building-permit-approved-for-tower-and-antenna-560135321.html

 

Finally, KSTP is adding another hour of local midday news at noon over on KSTC starting next week. Matt Belanger and Leah McLean will anchor.

 

https://kstp.com/news/5-eyewitness-news-announces-new-midday-anchor-team-additional-hour-of-news/5489240/

 

Also, KGBT meteorologist Alex Herbst passed away yesterday at age 26. Cause is unknown but some have suspected suicide.

 

https://valleycentral.com/news/local/cbs-4-meteorologist-alex-herbst-dies-at-26

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And off the heels of the loss of Cokie Roberts, it's being reported that former NBC and ABC correspondent Sander Vanocur has passed away at 91.

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/veteran-television-newsman-sander-vanocur-dies-91-65675917

 

Among the things Sander was known for would include being a panelist on the first Kennedy-Nixon debate and being the last surviving member of the "Four Horsemen", as NBC used to call their 1960s convention floor quartet of Vanocur, Frank McGee, John Chancellor and Edwin Newman.

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Albany, NY just lost a broadcast news legend today. Ed Dague, longtime WNYT and WRGB anchor, has passed away at the age of 76. 

Ed Dague, longtime WNYT anchor, has died


https://wnyt.com/news/ed-dague-former-wnyt-anchor-has-died-/5562128/?cat=10114

 
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4 hours ago, Info Junkie said:

Albany, NY just lost a broadcast news legend today. Ed Dague, longtime WNYT and WRGB anchor, has passed away at the age of 76. 

Ed Dague, longtime WNYT anchor, has died


https://wnyt.com/news/ed-dague-former-wnyt-anchor-has-died-/5562128/?cat=10114

 
(Via WNYT.com)

There goes another part of my childhood.

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It's now been a very sad weekend with the loss of two good news and sports legends; WNYT's Ed Dague and WHTM's Gregg Mace. They'll forever be called dedicated and trustworthy

broadcasters in their own prime. Mace was Central Pennsylvania's popular sports director/anchor/reporter when it comes to Central PA's sports of all sorts for over 40 years. 

 

And Dague is the Capital Region's most trusted news anchor and reporter. From the halls of justice to everyday people in Albany, NY, breaking news, good news; Dague made a true

difference in his  50+ years in to journalism.

 

They'll never be another Gregg Mace and Ed Dague... They're forever and always legends in their prime. Mace and Dague are Central PA and Capital Region institutions, and they'll

never be forgotten.

 

Thoughts, prayers, and condolences are with the families of Ed Dague and Gregg Mace.

RIP, Gregg and Edward... and Godspeed.

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9 hours ago, TexasTVNews said:

It's now been a very sad weekend with the loss of two good news and sports legends; WNYT's Ed Dague and WHTM's Gregg Mace. They'll forever be called dedicated and trustworthy

broadcasters in their own prime. Mace was Central Pennsylvania's popular sports director/anchor/reporter when it comes to Central PA's sports of all sorts for over 40 years. 

 

And Dague is the Capital Region's most trusted news anchor and reporter. From the halls of justice to everyday people in Albany, NY, breaking news, good news; Dague made a true

difference in his  50+ years in to journalism.

 

They'll never be another Gregg Mace and Ed Dague... They're forever and always legends in their prime. Mace and Dague are Central PA and Capital Region institutions, and they'll

never be forgotten.

 

Thoughts, prayers, and condolences are with the families of Ed Dague and Gregg Mace.

RIP, Gregg and Edward... and Godspeed.

 

It's sad enough when one broadcasting legend passes, but to have two in a short time...That's even sadder.

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Some sad news out of Cincinnati, as Elliott Block, the owner of "WKRP" has passed away.

 

https://www.wvxu.org/post/wkrp-tv-station-owner-elliott-block-dies-71#stream/0

 

WBQC-LD has been known as "WKRP" for the last decade, capitalizing on the infamous sitcom about the easy listening station turned rock and roll.   It was the original home of the WB, and switched to UPN after Sinclair dropped that network in favor of the WB.   When the CW was launched, WKRC added it as a subchannel and WBQC returned to independence.

 

It was always a station that tested their limits with coverage, launching a campaign to get a slot on Time Warner Cable, long before the retransmission boxing matches we have today.   When DirecTV picked them up as a UPN affiliate, they did a parody of the Verizon "can you hear me now" commercial, using a guy and a satellite dish asking "can you see me now?"

 

Even as an independent, it has been a repository of subchannels, with RTN replacing regular programming on the main channel in 2011.   I don't know what the future holds for the station, unless he established a trust or heirs to run it.

 

Up in Cleveland, W16DO, formerly W35AX was sold by Media-Com television to HC2 Holdings.  Media-Com (the Klaus Family) still owns WNIR-FM, one of the longest running FM talk stations in the nation.

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Sports reporter Carley McCord died in today's plane crash in Lafayette, La. She freelanced for ESPN and WDSU.

 

https://www.wdsu.com/article/carley-mccord-a-member-of-wdsus-sports-team-dies-in-plane-crash/30351254

 

She was also the daughter in law of the LSU offensive coordinator.  

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This doesn't involve New Orleans or a plane crash, but still very sad nonetheless... WAFF 48 reporter Allen Stroud has passed away after a year-long battle with Stage IV lung cancer.

 

https://www.waff.com/2019/12/29/waff-reporter-allen-stroud-passes-away-following-fight-with-cancer/

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