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I don't necessarily want to see this either, but with this current administration in DC, I see the Feds passing this merger through. If this goes through, I can also see some divestures of service territories, although it'll only really be one suitor--Xfinity. As I mentioned before, the Cox-Spectrum merger gives a nice cluster in the Southwest (SoCal [Bakersfield and Santa Barbara on south to the Mexican border], most of Arizona, and Southern Nevada), plus a good chunk of the central portion of this country (Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, most of Oklahoma, parts of Texas [DFW, central, southern TX], and Louisiana). Most everywhere around the country, Xfinity is the dominant MVPD.

Hopefully this fixes the stations that cram entirely too many words into one super. These are the ones that have the constant L3 that switches from the story, to the person on camera, back to the story. With text sizing, these supers are downright unreadable. Wish a group would bring back a form of "Texta", this was the non-obtrusive lower graphic that summarized a story that was introduced by WKRC in Cincinnati. It lasted through Citicasters into Jacor, Clear Channel and Newport, and Newport rolled it out to many of their stations. Some Nexstar stations (post-Newport) even used it and it survived on several ex-Newport Sinclair stations until the respective Sinclair package was introduced.

Ed Weinstock is retiring from WGAL after nearly 40 years there and after nearly 50 years in the business. However, he's not waiting 3, 4, 5 or even 6 months to retire. Instead... he'll do so on Friday. https://www.wgal.com/article/news-8-reporter-ed-weinstock-announces-retirement/64884648

Damn... I wish this didn't go through but thats not gonna happen

When she is doing reporting, will she accidentally close her report “ABC7 Eyewitness News” out of habit?

This one hurts. This one really hurts. There won't be another like him again.

Stan Atkinson passed yesterday at 92. He dominiated the Sacramento market and spent time at KCRA and KOVR.

Wow. Spent 30 years at KRIV, the first face of the Satellite News Channel, now gone. One of the great Cuban journalists of our time, now gone.

He was the consummate professional .. a superstar in the market for sure!

Was that wmtv 15?

In what seems like a rather abrupt move, KMGH has replaced Nicole Brady with Dan Grossman on Denver 7 morning news: https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/dan-grossman-experienced-co-journalist-and-former-scripps-news-correspondent-joins-denver7-a-morning-anchor

Earl we'd love to hear your stories - the inspiration behind and creation of the music to the facts of how it evolved. Coincidentally, RIP Stan Atkinson who passed this weekend. The music you made was of the highest caliber to match his style of broadcasting.

From Houston...José Griñán from FOX26 has passed at 72. https://www.fox26houston.com/news/former-fox-26-houston-anchor-jose-grinan-dead

BTW how do you know that much about these graphics you predicted walb and wilx?

One Week From Today.

It looks like KBTX will be switching to grayone later this week I found this on a zeam thumbnail for a kbtx newscast. Also a modified logo appears keeping the longtime 3 with a star logo

Glad your family missed the tornados.

Seems that KCTV under Gray is still a mess that no one can fix from the Meredith days maybe it has been that way for decades at KCTV.

Steve Wilkos wasn't aired for 2 & half years after FOX17 didn't renew it in fall of 2021 returned in Jan 2024 when CW7 changed things around after losing The CW which they didn't need make changes other than primetime in my opinion. Karamo wasn't added until March of 2023 on WXSP and now CW6.

Wow. Yes, that's my theme and 1 of many large orchestral arrangements. FYI: I was hired by VTS to VP a new West Coast office presence (Studio City, CA) in late 86 - til my 1990 departure. Best I recall, at the time, I did make available my copyrighted tracks for jingles and news themes, etc for resale in non-compete/crossover markets... all up and up, contractual protections. Still very proud of that theme and is near and dear to my music career.

Earl Grizzell, your KCRA theme made its way to KRDO ABC13 in my hometown of Colorado Springs. It was used from 1987 thru 1989. As you can see, its NEWS13 intro mimics that of the Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA - aerial footage, headshots and all

Jaysha Patel, formerly from KABC, has joined the station: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKHqPa2Abzj/

Looks like they're taking a page from WCBS with national personalities filling in on the weekend. Unless Yates doesn't want it, it's beyond past due for Toni to weekend anchor. She's got the perfect personality and she was great with Michelle, and she was great whenever she filled next to Rob Nelson.

Just found this, and glad to chime in on the FACTS. True, I composed the original theme for KCRA-TV whose slogan was "Where The News Comes First". My signed contract with the Sacramento based NBC affiliate clearly protected me as the Copyright owner of the theme notation and prohibited any rearranging or adaption related to the theme without my permission. Unfortunately, after many years of successful use of my composition, the copyright was violated, which led to litigation. I can also set the record straight on my involvement with VTS Productions (86-90) and the related drama. Let me know ... thanks! Hi. Earl Grizzell, here. Just happened on this site ... Thanks for the compliments. Would be happy to update all here and relay the FACTS on some issues in the wake of my original composition and production of the 5 note theme I wrote to compliment the spoken ID "Where The News Comes First". Let me know, thanks! Earl Grizzell, composer/producer THANK YOU! That's me and I have much to clarify for anyone who is interested.. Let me know, Earl Grizzell, Composer/Producer

Broadcast graphic design has trended alongside popular web app/mobile phone UI for a while now, and that's also stagnated quite a bit from where it was 15 or so years ago. Remember how news graphics always had to be "shiny" when that was the Apple iOS look? That slowly died off as Apple and Google shifted away from that design language. The Apple design language itself has become a broadcast graphics package. The corporate design world has a lot of weird stuff going on right now, the kind of abstract 3D ribbon-y stuff and flowing photorealistic materials is popular, along with funky fonts (more the design in the article than what it's talking about), but I'm not sure how any of that actually translates into the apps that these companies using them make, let alone local news. There is a lot of reasons why news graphics have trended this way, and I think we're more or less stuck here for the time being. Money and talent are two major factors at the local level. You can't have the talent without money, and you don't make money if your expensive talented designers are constantly making news graphics, so templates it is! Go find an agency to develops a template-driven "design system," then keep it for a long time because it was expensive, and nobody's doing anything wildly different anyways. TL;DR: The era of "unique" broadcast design died when motion graphics stopped being almost exclusively broadcast-related. It shouldn't be surprising this happened as video ads on the internet became commonplace.