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Newly hired news director Alex Rydell arrives at Los Angeles television station KXZX-TV's Re-Action News to find the investigative news team chasing the biggest society scandal to break in years. All the while, Alex must come to terms with sudden single parenthood when his wife decides not to join him and instead sends their young son to live with his father.

The News Brothers start a side business involving videotape, buxom women, and automatic weapons. Marvin discovers the origin of the chopped liver bomb. Lou grapples with a professional athlete's wish to reveal his homosexuality during a Re-Action News broadcast.

The News Brothers continue their side video business, which leads to the arrest of virtually every man at Re-Action News. New GM Helen Forbes makes her presence at the station known

A man holding an abortion clinic hostage will only deal with his ideological mentor Marvin. Helen hires an image consultant, who is bent on cutting the news staff and updating LA 3's on-air look, prompting one veteran newsman to resign before the axe falls;

It's contract renewal time for Harry, who lists among his demands a ten percent across-the-board increase and ownership of the Beacon of Truth name. While General Manager Helen finds both Harry and his demands laughable, she starts to take both a little more seriously when it appears as if Channel 8 is courting him.

Station General Manager Helen Forbes sets her sights on bedding commentator Marvin Seaborn, but her research into his past commentaries suggests that having her way with him may be trickier than she thought.

The Re-Action News team is called into emergency service when a earthquake hits Los Angeles.

Alex sends Nancy and Sean undercover to prove that Uncle Sam's car repair, which is the station's biggest client, is a crooked operation. Brian begins his cosmetic overhaul of the news.

When the overnight recovery of a Hispanic shooting victim is attributed to a shadow resembling the Virgin Mary suddenly appearing on a local garage door, a reluctant Liz is assigned to cover the story. Nancy and Eddie set off to do a story in war-torn Nicaragua, accompanied by a severely out-of-place Ricardo.

After escaping their captors in the Nicaraguan jungle, Ricardo, Eddie and Nancy make it to the orphanage, where they find ransacked buildings and four terrified kids. After a long hiatus from the street beat, Harry tries his hand at reporting.

The News Brothers decide it may be time to break up the team. But when they're forced to work together one last time, their mutual anger turns physical. Rick gets his chance to produce when the station takes on a live rock 'n' roll special at the last minute.

When gay radical group Odd Man Out claim they will name a closeted gay in local broadcast journalism at a press conference, speculation as to who will be named consumes the news team, whose members debate appropriate coverage of the event while exploring their own feelings about homosexuality.