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Like most things in Grand Rapids, was it funded by the DeVos family or the Van Andel family?

Sometimes you will see newscasts doing a live shot, talking about a police presence at a certain location. It's just a shot of a couple police cars with flashing lights. Sometimes there is no information about what is going on regarding the type of crime, information about people involved, etc. Why ...

Network affiliates can pre-empt a certain number of hours per year to air local programming, so that must be what they were doing.

Sports News Highlights is out of business.

It's a shame that a station in market #14 is so bad.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/ne ... ears%20ago.

Larry and Tiana have been good reporters for that station.

.....including a year of health insurance. Hopefully they don't have sticker shock when that runs out. Half way decent insurance will run $700 to over $1000 a month at that age (Over 55) Not sure what the job market would be in that industry at that age. I'm guessing not good. Right, I would not ...

The internet has hurt TV and radio, but not to the extent that it has affected newspapers. Most newspapers have skeleton crews and little to no local coverage, so it's no wonder that people don't read them.

I don't think Angie will change. She has been there what, 30 years?

ineedsleep wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:35 pm

SBaxley wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:03 pm from what she'd posted on her IG /FB page , me thinks she's now full time at B1G TEN Network

According to her Twitter, she now works at Sports News Highlights, a sister network of NewsNet.

Where is Sports News Highlights based out of? Detroit maybe?

Grand Rapids is a weird sports market. It is a larger market. A lot of various sports teams. People are very supportive of those teams. That being said, those teams are ones that in the grand scheme of things, no one cares about. No major college teams. Minor league professional sports. Due to that ...

What would Bill Bonds think of this?

Fox 17 doesn’t want sweaty Brad anywhere needs its broadcasts. In fact, they don’t even want Brad working out of GR. They put up with him, because they are told to by Scripps management. But as bad as morale, revenue, and ratings are at Fox 47, this “arrangement” with Sugden needs to change. Why wer ...

I have noticed that Audacy is now producing the Fly on the Wall SNL podcast with David Spade and Dana Carvey. Previously it was produced by Cadence 13. Note: I just looked it up. Audacy is the parent company of Cadence 13.