[forwarding from that usenet thing.] Oh, take note:
"Then Banfield (Ashleigh Banfield) 10 pm ET. She is a tall fit blonde, Canadian, in her 50s." [a] "It's kind of cool that they are using reporters from affiliates for the reporting on the ground." - sound familiar? Doubly so for anyone ancient, err, senior, errr... experienced enough to recall The Sainted Linda Ellerbee and Lloyd Dobbins program... [a] misogynist/sexit much, eh?
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email protected]> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: WGN America rebrands; NewsNation expanding Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 22:27:00 -0000 (UTC)
Starting Monday, WGN America will be rebranded NewsNation. In the continuing evolution of the WGN superstation, it's gone from mostly rebroadcasting the WGN broadcast feed (which made the Chicago Cubs a baseball team followed all over the country) to completely separating the national feed from the Chicago broadcast feed. They tried some original first-run programming in 2013, like Salem. Tribune Broadcasting is no more. It's now Nexstar. Nexstar began NewsNation, based in Chicago, with plans to turn it into a national cable news service with 24 hour a day news programming to compete against CNN and MSNBC. They are politically neutral. They've had three hours of news programming in prime time, 8 pm to 11 pm ET. Starting Monday, it expands to five hours a night. 6 pm ET there will be an early evening report. Then 7 pm The Donlon Report (Joe Donlon). Then news 8 pm till 10 pm. Then Banfield (Ashleigh Banfield) 10 pm ET. She is a tall fit blonde, Canadian, in her 50s. There will also be a morning edition but that hasn't been announced yet. They've 100,000 viewers so they're off to a slow start, but Nexstar still thinks news viewers will be valuable to advertisers as it'll all be live.
