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In their post about Hugh's new show TVNewser also mentions "Thomas Roberts will anchor two hours in the evenings on both Saturday and Sunday, with coverage running until 9 p.m." Welcome Back Thomas to a regular time slot.

Continuing with this wholesale cleaning....... Chief Meteorologist Jim Kosek is OUT. Also, a noon producer, a news administrator, a managing editor, and an operations manager & chief engineer was also fired.

^ this post was nominated for JournoCenter's Not Top 10.

Gabe was a fine man with a wonderful family, and many friends. He was a great reporter and will be missed. ...and that picture is awesome. (looks like an Ampex 300 1/4 inch audio tape recorder with a mult-iline phone patch inside an NBC audio room...and a real RCA union trained audio engineer.)

It's ok....even if we don't have Mr. Mardek, we have someone else representing Oklahom... I mean the Emerald. -side eyes-

Thanks. It's not bad when they do use the newsroom except that they always have issues with the audio being over modulated.

A TON of issues this morning. Wonder what's happening

KPVI! It's not much, but not much is better than nothing especially for this station.

So after forty-three months of sitting idle, the FCC has finally greenlighted WPFO's deal to Cunningham. This deal was sat idle, after former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler issued a guidance to scrutinize deals that had sharing arrangements. That guidance was removed by current chairman Ajit Pai. Because of this approval, I wouldn't be surprised if that other idle deal, KRNV/KENV to Cunningham, get the greenlight as well. Unrelated to this, it appears that Sinclair proper wants to buy KOMO-FM from South Sound Broadcasting outright.

That's the same Somara who got fired along with Jackie Fernandez from WEWS for that political post on their social media pages back in November. Glad she found a new gig.

They were back in the studio for the 9 AM broadcast.

They are using the newsroom for the 6am newscast and the audio of the anchors is very distorted. There's also a delay when they go from the anchors to Amy doing the forecast where you don't her Amy for a few seconds..

This could mean Paul Ossmann may finally be chief meteorologist at CBS 46 (and in great company with Burns, Chandley, and Holcomb)!

So I know the tweet said 5 days... Anyone expecting a beta over the weekend?

A good broadcast engineer can fix a camera (and many other television components) no matter the size. They're constantly cracking open ENG cameras to repair/replace parts that got damaged in the field.

Sarah Caldwell signed off as traffic and news anchor today at WBAL. She's staying in the region but got a job at the Institute of Notre Dame (a girls catholic prep school) as the Director of Development. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1573113192707003 Edit: Appears WBAL hasn't filled the traffic reporter and anchor position AND they are looking for a meteorologist. I don't know if they are looking to add to their weather team or if someone's leaning.

Can't speak for the age, though easily they could be 10-15 years old. You can pretty easily replace parts in a camera to make them last several decades. Judging by the size of the temporary set-up, they probably only had 1 camera operator out there (I am guessing it's the same person who normally operates the robotics.)

So this has now been made official..as part of the demands that were made by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/al-jazeera-call-closure-siege-journalism-170623135809807.html The list of demands includes all Al Jazeera affiliates plus other news organizations that might have direct or indirect funding from Qatar as : Arabi21, Rassd, Al Araby Al Jadeed, Mekameleen and Middle East Eye, etc The full list of demands made by the four nations are here: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/arab-states-issue-list-demands-qatar-crisis-170623022133024.html and nothing has been stated about what the consequences will be if Qatar doesn't comply.

Peters was interesting, in that while they used the same slogan from station to station, the actual image campaigns were often unique to the station (or at least not shared between all stations who used that slogan; Ed Peters told me the former, but I know that two stations could have the same music - at least part of the WPIX "11 Alive" music package originated at KCST, it showed up in a snippet in a long lost retrospective I watched on KNSD's website in the 00s). In this case, I am pretty sure "X Belongs" is not actually the only Peters "Belongs" package. One of my phone conversations with Peters seemed to confirm my suspicion that KTNV 1981 was part of a "13 Belongs" image package from Peters. (The beginning of the intro seems to correspond with the syllables "Thi-ir-teen Be-longs".) This may be connected to a possible "13 Belongs" music package with a nearly identical motif, that KOVR used around the turn of the decade (though I do not know if they used it for news, I've just seen a movie intro with a "13 Belongs" logo paired with said music). Also, I have additional suspicions that WTVD 1979 is "11 Together", and that KTVX 1981 might be a separate "2 Together" package. In addition, I've wondered if WJBK 1980 could be an entirely different "2 Together" also from Peters. (KVIA 1985 could also be another "7 Together" package, but I'm not sure if Peters still held exclusive trademarks on those taglines by then.) So this "2 Belongs" could be by Peters without actually being "X Belongs".

A KBCI Morning Open from 1996, using the CBS This Morning graphics.

This ND has zero clue about how to run and manage a newsroom. But he sure does use all the latest newsroom buzz words. And... This goof is making the reporters pitch the active stand-up in the early meeting...before you even start shooting the story. This ND is going to be bent over and beaten by his own staff and hopefully at the company Christmas party where everyone can watch. BTW... Just how much money does every "like" on facebook generate for the station?