FIRST ON THE BLOG: There’s two more expansions to tell you about and see what we did with the last story with this story? Yep, there’s a pattern.

Now before we get to the stories, both will begin on Monday, September 10th so note that if your paying attention to any of these following stories.

First is Memphis where WMC 5 will be adding a half-hour expansion to its weekday morning news, WMC Action News 5 Today. The broadcast will start at 4:00 a.m., pushing NBC’s Early Today to 3:30 a.m., becoming the first station in the market to do so and will air in its entirety from 4:00-7:00 a.m. (since WMC no longer does a 7:00 a.m. hour for its second subchannel, otherwise known as Bounce Memphis, even though it retaints the 6:00 a.m. simulcast).

WREG 3 (CBS) and WHBQ 13 (FOX) will continue to start at 4:30 a.m. while WATN 24 (ABC) is still behind and will continue to start later at 5:00 a.m.

Meanwhile in Southern New England, WJAR 10 will be adding (yes) a half-hour 3:00 p.m. newscast, the ONLY ones in the market. NBC 10 News at 3:00 will join another Sinclair station WPEC 12 (CBS) in West Palm Beach in delivering a local newscast at that same timeslot. However, WJAR will rather air an informercial at 3:30 p.m. and to put this in perspective, no local station in the market offers at 4:00 p.m. newscast, meaning that WJAR will be on at 3:00 and no local news for another 90 minutes until 5:00 p.m. when both WLNE 6 (ABC) and WPRI 12 (CBS) will finally join in.

Notice the pattern of the last two posts? Yep. We can see more of this soon, especially with the new TV season about to debut next month so stay tuned for updates.