Catch-up post #3… KOSA/WCIA/KIAH.

KOSA-TV 7 / Odessa – Midland, Tex. (“CBS 7”)

WCIA 3 / Champaign – Urbana – Springfield – Decatur, Ill. (“WCIA 3”)

KIAH 39 / Houston (“CW 39 Houston”)

It’s time for another catch-up post so you stay up-to-date and up to speed on any new changes going on. Quite frankly, I knew about all three of these changes TODAY alone. Therefore, all three will be mentioned here.

Small minor newscast change… #333.

KOSA-TV 7 / Odessa – Midland, Tex. (“CBS 7”)

KCWO-TV 4 / Big Spring – Midland – Odessa, Tex. (“The CW West Texas”)

FIRST ON THE BLOG: Another small change to report, this time from West Texas.

Small minor newscast changes… #198.

KOSA-TV 7 / Odessa – Midland (“CBS 7”)

WSAV-TV 3 / Savannah, Ga. – Hilton Head, S.C. (“WSAV 3”)

FIRST ON THE BLOG: Some small changes to report from West Texas and the Georgia Coastal Empire and South Carolina Lowcountry.

Newscasts debuting this week… Edition #41.

A new month comes in a new week which comes in a new list of newscasts debuting this week. Here’s this week’s list and its bigger than last week’s for sure.

A small minor newscast change… #57

KOSA-TV 7 / Odessa – Midland, TX (“CBS 7”)

FIRST ON THE BLOG: A small change is coming for West Texas and it will be about time that KOSA does something that its rivals are already doing…

KOSA will discontinue its 4:00 and 9:00 p.m. news on August 28th.

KOSA-TV 7 / Odessa – Midland, TX (“CBS 7”)

FIRST ON THE BLOG: KOSA will make its first moves under its new ownership with Gray Television. Unfortunately, those moves will be a discontinuation of some newscasts.

On Friday August 28th, 2015, KOSA 7 will air its weekday half-hour 4:00 p.m. newscast (CBS 7 News – Front Page at 4:00) and its weeknight half-hour 9:00 p.m. newscast for KOSA-DT 7.2, the My Network TV affiliate (My 16 – My News 16 at 9:00) for the very last time. Afterwards, the 4:00 p.m. timeslot will be replaced with an episode of Family Feud with Steve Harvey while the 9:00 p.m. timeslot on KOSA-DT 7.2 will be replaced by an episode of the sitcom Mike and Molly, starring Melissa McCarthy and Billy Gardell.

Also after this, KWES 9/KWAB 4 (NBC) will be home to the ONLY weekday 4:00 p.m. newscast in West Texas (Midland – Odessa), however KOSA 7 will continue to start its early-evening news coverage at 4:30 p.m. with CBS 7 News – Closer Look, which will still be home to the area’s ONLY weekday newscast at 4:30 p.m. And also after this, there will be NO primetime newscast at 9:00 p.m. in the area, since KMID 2 (ABC) doesn’t do one for sister station, KPEJ 24 (FOX) while KWES 9/KWAB 4 doesn’t do one either for its digital subchannel KWES 9.2/KWAB 4.2 (The CW).

So, this is not good news for a station that is supposed to keep Your Eye on West Texas.