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His pet fantasy I guess...

Scripps is installing Ignite and hubbing master control to cut cost in the long term, employing people cost alot of money. It really isn't alot of money to spend investing in automation but it can cause alot of problems. Scripps isn't adding news staff, they're returning to staffing levels from the Journal days, but they're replacing veteran reporters and photojournalist with mmj's with very little experience. Scripps had alot of poorly run station before Journal. WTVF is top 2 in revenue for the whole group and Nashville is the 10th largest market for them. WTMJ and KTNV also produce more revenue than other Scripps stations in larger markets than them.

Disney doesn't even want to own 20% of ABC/O&O's, let alone 20% of Scripps. Don't understand why mardek keeps bringing this crap up repeatedly...

Tribune doesn't think its stock price is high enough. http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/tribune-media-sale-1201718095/

Raise up what? Just because Scripps does poorly overall doesn't mean it can't have ABC stations that do well... I'm sure not every one of Hearst's ABC stations is a market leader either, and Scripps and Hearst own nearly the same amount of ABC stations...

The AccuWeather team launched a promo featuring TENGA like graphics. I didn't see the video but this is just a promo, I repeat this is JUST A PROMO! They will definitely not use these anytime soon as weather or news graphics. [MEDIA=twitter]704115164254183424[/MEDIA]

Worth noting that Al Sharpton was on the air this morning and my TiVo listings show a regular schedule this week. The past few weeks it was pretty much The Place For Politics after Morning Joe. Speaking of Morning Joe I was disgusted by that leaked audio during the Trump Town Hall discussing the types of questions upcoming during a commercial break. Mika sounded like she was going for harder questions but Joe over ruled her. I also grew tired of how over the past few years how Mika went from the objective host has started becoming too cozy with politicians and how she submits to Joe despite her books on empowering women.

I wish. If I did own shares of both Scripps and Disney/ABC though, I would advocate that ABC own 20% of Scripps. If they really don't, my guess is that Scripps purposely cheapened itself so that it wouldn't be bought by anyone.

But even with an automated system, there is a human being involved in prompting the actions that occur. What appears to be happening is that whomever is running the system isn't checking things along the way. They just say the hell with it and just keep pushing things through/pressing the button. Automation aside, there still some idiot in the graphics dept. that keeps making these kind of mistakes. I'm just surprised no one higher up the ladder hasn't taken more preventive action to stop these mistakes from occurring.

It's a Cox thing for some reason as I believe WSB-TV does this as well.

And so does sister-station WHIO.

With a school-issued subscription to the Chicago newspapers' online archives and some free time, I've been going through 23 years of Robert Feder columns, covering most of his three decades at the Sun-Times. It's not as obsessive and time-consuming as it sounds, but it's been really informative to see how Chicago television evolved from 1986 to 2009. I'm currently in 1994 and just stumbled on this ironic note from WGN. A new news program was being marketed as an alternative to the freewheeling, irreverent antics of Bob Sirott's 'Fox Thing in the Morning'. It's amazing how things change, and who came out on top. From July 5th... "With a Sept. 6 start date, WGN-Channel 9's new morning newscast is shaping up as a straightforward hard-news product. "It won't be a goofy, gooey kind of show," said Channel 9 news director Jennifer Schulze. "In the WGN tradition, it will be very local, very solid and it will give Chicagoans information to get their day going." At the outset, the weekday newscast will air from 7 to 8 a.m. Within six months, Schulze said, it may expand to two hours. Eventually, a third hour also may be added. The new newscast replaces "The Bozo Show," which shifts to Sunday mornings this fall. Channel 9 noon news anchor Dave Eckert, a recent hire from KMBC-TV in Kansas City, will double as morning news anchor alongside a female partner to be named by the end of July. Also hired for the new newscast was meteorologist Paul Huttner from WCCO-TV in Minneapolis. He previously worked for the north suburban-based weather forecasting firm of Murray & Trettel Inc. Joining Channel 9 as morning news executive producer is Ken Ericson, a Chicago native now working at WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, Larry Potash, a weekend news anchor and reporter at KOTV-TV in Tulsa, Okla., has been hired as a general assignment reporter."