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Big-D wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2026 4:44 pm Yep. Who’s going to be the new Robert Price?

BTW, I’d love to piss on Bob Price’s grave for his destruction of WZZM in the late 1980’s.

The new destroyer of local stations in my opinion is none other than Adam P. Symson, President and CEO of Scripps News Group.

From reading one of Kevin Craig's Facebook posts, it sounds like there will be four people left in the newsroom: Janice, Matt, Andy and Daren. Assuming this will be the ones who appear in studio where the community reporters will be work from home in the cities they live and email it in. (I cannot ...

Well, news of another casualty on Plaza Drive whas been made known: Kevin Craig . According to a post he made early this morning on Facebook, he was told in May his contract was not being renewed and his last day on air was August 4 and the one year non-compete within West Michigan would be enforced ...

I seem to recall them (WWMT) doing the weather very old school with with a large pad of paper on an easel (think of the 80s game show Win Lose or Draw) during this. They could do programming but had no graphics or B roll but could do commercials. WOOD's issue got resolved sometime during the day ...

WOOD-TV is suffering from some serious tech issues. I noticed it early Thursday morning when they were airing Early Today instead of News 8 Daybreak, prompting me to watch via WOTV. The odd programming continued in the afternoon when NBC News Daily was airing instead of News 8 at 4. I wound up ...

So far the only known on air casualty is Elliott Grandia. I agree with SHolmes in that Fox17 News pretty much gets downgraded to a small segment leading into Michigan news from WXYZ. Similar to roughly 35 years ago how then WUHQ 41 operated as "News 8 South" opening the newscast with Mark Bedore ...

Who, if anyone, will replace Kolker on the Target 8 investigative team??? The position will likely go unfilled until the NexStar/Tegna merger is approved or denied and we know if the 8 and 13 newsrooms will be combined or not. I haven't watched 13 News in years but they used to have an ...

IndustryIsDead wrote: ↑Wed Jul 08, 2026 5:10 pm George Lessons is rolling over in his grave....

George is very much still alive.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Antenna TV owned by NexStar? Probably made sense financially to no longer lease transmitter space from Scripps owned 17. Antenna TV was originally on 17 only because at the time of Antenna's launch, both were owned by Tribune. When NexStar bought Tribune, it would ...

Adrianna announced today where she is going next: WESH-TV in Orlando. It's a Hearst owned NBC affiliate on Channel 2. If the call letters look familiar, former WWMT meteorologist Amy Sweezey was here for roughly two decades after leaving Michigan. What has me confused with Adrianna's announcement is ...

I doubt they got many outside applicants. I highly doubt anyone right now right now would want to apply at a Tegna station in a market where there is also a NexStar station until the merger is finalized or SCOTUS rejected. For all we know, Blake could be unemployed in 12 months assuming the merger ...

I've thought too that she might wind up at NewsNation since it's also owned by NexStar and is based at WGN in Chicago, which is also a larger market. The only other possibility is moving to another NexStar owned local broadcast station in a larger market given how WOOD will air human interest ...

Isabella posted she is filing in on the weekends at 13 for the summer. Glad to see her back on the air after she got the shaft at 17. Scripps decided to downsize the weather department, pink slipping Isabella.

Based on Sam's one post, it sounds like she realized she couldn't balance both a TV career and motherhood in a way that one didn't suffer. She also realized that her daughter only grows up once.

Somewhere I saw that News 8 had hired Karina Pietro as an anchor. She's been anchoring Weekend Daybreak consistently since David Horrack (sp?) left the station. Her bio on woodtv.com mentions she had previously been weekend anchor at NexStar owned WLNS in Lansing so it makes sense other than why ...