KHAS-TV Channel 5, the NBC affiliate in Hastings, Nebraska, was forced off the air last week due to some sort of ownership rules. The NBC affiliation and its local programming was instead transferred to KSNB-TV on Channel 4 which until then had been an affiliate of various minor networks. The station is still branded as "News 5", despite now being on channel 4.
A bit of insight of the "ownership rules" that led to KHAS getting its signal shut down:
Last November, Gray Television had bought KHAS's parent company and they own KOIN 10 /KGIN 11 in the same market.
The original idea that was in place was that Gray sell of KHAS to another company and run KHAS under a shared services agreement, However the Federal Communications Commission reversed the long-standing rule on joint sales agreements (where two different broadcasters own and operate a station) thus leading KHAS's intellectual property ( news department, programming et all) to move to KSNB channel 4 and the digital subchannels of KOIN/KGAS (channels 10.2 and 11.2) while KHAS-TV has officially shut down and all properties not moved to KSNB will be sold off
(TVSpy/Wikipedia)
The National's theme from the early 2000 is simply one of the best themes ever! Peter Mansbridge has always been a proper anchor. Used to love watching the National when I had CBC Newsworld. The rest of the channel was not very good presentation wise. Extremely dry compared to how the CBC presents news now. Its certainly a far more lively. The CBC's decision to sell to the Current tv creators was a stupid mistake IMO. But now its Aljazeera America.
I like the idea as well, perfect location for a morning show. The Danish Wikipedia says they have been broadcasting from the Copenhagen central station since 2002.
Here's an older clip from 2002. The train station makes a great backdrop.
I'm reading
Morning Glory: A History of Breakfast Television
by Ian Jones and he mentions that one of the production companies bidding to produce Channel 4's second breakfast program (which eventually became
The Big Breakfast
) had a similar idea. Quoting Micheal Grade of Channel 4: "another [company] thought the main concourse of Waterloo station would be an ideal location for a wacky, noisy programme."
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The first-ever edition of BBC's
Breakfast Time
in 1983 included clips and well-wishes from other morning shows around the world --
Good Morning Australia
(Ten),
Canada AM
(CTV),
CBS This Morning
,
Good Morning America
(ABC),
Good Morning Hong Kong
(TVB), and the morning show on Japan's NHK:
The first-ever edition of BBC's
Breakfast Time
in 1983 included clips and well-wishes from other morning shows around the world --
Good Morning Australia
(Ten),
Canada AM
(CTV),
CBS This Morning
,
Good Morning America
(ABC),
Good Morning Hong Kong
(TVB), and the morning show on Japan's NHK: