No Saturday National/World Newscasts?

I went looking on the cable program grid Saturday for evening network news, but none of the local stations elected to take earlier feeds of WNT, NNN or CBS EN.

There were network sports events at 7, 730 & 8 in the East, presumably with the usual network news in normal time slots.

Here, KOMO did Sinclair's 'Full Measure' at 330 and local news at 4.

KIRO ran paid at 330 and local news at 4.

KING ran paid at 330. And after Golf, it ran five straight paid shows. First local news aired at 10 on KONG, 11 on K5 after Dateline.

This happens a lot during college football Saturdays, but was surprised today that there were no opportunities.

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Rebecca Stevenson has left KOMO

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A Farewell to this Fox 13 Seattle host

Carly Henderson - co-host of Studio 13: Live - was laid off in the recent KCPQ expansion which we broke. She posts her goodbye on FB. She never really clicked on the pay for play lifestyle mid-morning show. It will be cut to a half hour for awhile and moved to 10 a.m, according to reports, before moving back to 11 on Aug. 4. And I am told it will remain 30 minutes, not be re-expanded to an hour. Thank goodness. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16HFRSYM8x

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