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Chuck Scarborough, WNBC New York anchor, marks a stunning 50 years at the station March 25. The station will celebrate his landmark anniversary with a range of programming events, including a 30-minute special. Scarborough, who is 80, anchors the 6 p.m. news with Natalie Pasquarella.

WCBS, WLIW, WMBQ, WNBC, WNET and WNJU are now available in ATSC 3.0 technology in the country’s No. 1 market.

The NBC-Telemundo duopoly promotes Amy Morris (pictured) to SVP of news. As news directors, Alexa Rodríguez at WNJU and David Manney at WNBC will report to her.

The former vice president of marketing at NBCUniversal Local, is tapped to be vice president of marketing and creative services at the New York flagship.

David Ushery, Natalie Pasquarella, Janice Huff and Bruce Beck will lead the new broadcast beginning June 7.

NBC flagship WNBC New York just launched a daily 10-minute(ish) newscast designed primarily for streaming consumption — specifically Roku and Apple TV. It relaunched it actually, the original News 4 Now was a two-minute news summary that fell victim to COVID. With pandemic pressures easing, WNBC made bringing back the “digicast” a priority, for a simple reason that other stations all over the country are starting to address as well. “What has happened since is that OTT has really exploded for us,” says Ben Berkowitz, VP of digital for WNBC and its Telemundo sibling, WNJU. “The growth has been extraordinary.”

Beginning April 5, the 10-minute weekday digicast exclusively for Roku, Apple TV and streaming audiences will feature local and national headlines, the latest weather, in-depth reporting and entertainment and lifestyle programming.

Hosted by WNBC New York Digital Reporter Kay Angrum and produced by WNBC, LX News New York gives Tri-State audiences a daily roundup of the news and community stories happening around them.

Employees at NBC’s New York O&O claim they’re being treated like second-class citizens when it comes to the company’s coronavirus testing policies. They are demanding they receive COVID-19 tests like their colleagues at NBC News, MSNBC and even Saturday Night Live, who are being tested at least once a week, sources close to the situation say.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include six openings: for an anchor/reporter, a meteorologist, a newscast editor, an investigative producer, and newscast producers for both a big city, major market network O&O, and a family-owned media company near beautiful beaches.