Watchdog

Ch. 2 recently endured a wave of layoffs and buyouts and such - the newspaper industry feels your pain - and also axed its "Sports Sunday" roundup show that had followed the late local news.

The last episode was seen March 30.

I'm pretty sure "Sports Extra" still is on Ch. 5, but now it's called "Sports Xtra."

And Mike Francesa's show on Ch. 4 gets solid ratings.

And ESPN, SNY and MSG probably do highlights shows, too.

So we'll live. But the moves at the station obviously are unfortunate for the people whose jobs were affected, or eliminated.

(That's Ducis Rodgers in the picture. He's still there, and does a nice job. I always forget to write about the guys and gals who do sports on the local broadcast stations, except when I write about how everyone forgets in the SportsCenter era about the guys and gals who do sports on the local broadcast stations, which I did about 14 months ago. I digress, I guess.)