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Sinclair's ABC affiliate jettisons local news, axes 50 jobs in nation's 22nd-largest market
Only a few weeks ago, veteran St. Louis anchor Rick Edlund points out, KDNL-TV switched from Family Feud as its 5 p.m. news lead-in to Just Shoot Me. "That's highly prophetic," says the soon-to-be-out-of-work anchor.
Edlund, a longtime market presence who left a political job a year ago to return to St. Louis airwaves on the ABC affiliate, is not alone in his dismay or disappointment. Sinclair's decision to drop the station's long-- troubled five-year-old news department will put nearly 50 people out of work.
The elimination of the news operation leaves...