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wave
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when i was growing up on the other coast my family and i knew all the local news anchors by name, they were almost like local celebrities sometimes. but i guess by early 2000s i fell off watching broadcast TV, much less catching "the news" every day/evening. internet ate that mindshare for me.

do you know any of your local anchors?

edit: to be honest while that's accurate i could probably go further and observe that is just another instance of my larger... abstraction... from my physical surroundings. when you stay home most of the time and don't do much else much of the world around you remains unknown.


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I don't, but that's because I wouldn't watch local Sinclair owned news channels if I had a TV.
I do follow a lot of local reporters and journalists though. That's kinda the same thing? Now I would watch a nightly reporting thing if any of them did that.

I don't know if this is exclusive to my area, but it seems like the weather forecasters are more the "celebrities" of the local affiliates. I don't watch TV period, so I couldn't tell you one single anchor, but the weather forecasters are usually floating all over social media.

I used to, but that was so very long ago, back when I had access to over the air television. Susan Geehaw from WOOD-TV comes to mind. No, that's not a donkey they trained to broadcast the news, but I can understand the confusion.

One of my least favorite television journalists is the detestable Trump lackey and Rita Repulsa stunt double Kari Lake. I guess she used to report for KOLD in southern Arizona until turning to the dark side.