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I'm not sure what company you work for, but I also work in the business and disagree with a couple of things here. Full disclosure, I was at a management level position for a TEGNA station a couple of years ago when the company spun off of Gannett. Not once did I ever encounter anything along the lines of "Corporate is making us do so and so" (Nor has this occurred at my current station). Standardized graphics you say? Nonsense. If a CSD really wanted to, they could launch their own package, but most stations these days do not have a graphics department to support the every day needs of the news department. TEGNA may encourage their business units to think outside of the box, but they aren't forcing anyone's hand here. That said, I would work for them again given the opportunity. Secondly, again, those social media driven/experimental newscasts are coming from local management. If it was corporate, you'd see something like that on it's entire television portfolio. In this case, some GM/ND came up with the idea and others started running with it. I guarantee you whoever first pitched the idea was someone from sales who found their way into a GM/ND position. Sadly, this is a common occurrence in this business.

I've seen Jemele on ESPN twice already this week which is more than she's appeared in the last 6 months. I guess she's getting some last minute exposure.

KTVT use to air Jeopardy at 11am (after TPIR), before they replace it with an 11am news. There been stations that aired IE at an earlier slot before. Anything before 3pm/ET, they're airing the previous day's shows.

Well, here in Texas, WFAA and KHOU have adopted the social media format for their morning newscasts. KVUE is more traditional.

Appreciate the perspective of someone who has been there. Again, just from my observations here and other places, it seems the TEGNA stations that are struggling with new format(s) are stations that were already the dog station in town (or certainly not in 1st place). So in essence they are trying to change things up because they have nothing left to lose, and they probably had inept management to begin with (rampant everywhere, not just in TV). I think people who don't work in the industry have any idea just how much sales can influence the news product of a station. I'm not saying it's right, it's just the way it is. Also, wasn't Belo notoriously slow to embrace new trends and technology in the industry? It certainly seemed like they were. Going from a company stuck in the old ways to a company that encourages change is going to have some growing pains.

Spectrum News is scaling back sports coverage in Austin, including killing their nightly 'Sports Night' show http://tvradio.blog.austin360.com/2018/08/28/spectrum-news-austin-scaling-back-sports-coverage/

Somehow I missed that weekend anchor Tom Mustin wasn't renewed at KCNC and left in December. He resurfaced in the last week or so on KMGH with Theresa Marchetta, another former KCNC anchor from long ago. [MEDIA=twitter]1029567865815412736[/MEDIA] I can't tell whether or not he's just freelancing, but I'm glad he's on TV again. I always liked his style. https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/denver-station-releases-longtime-anchor-tom-mustin/198144

I agree WKYC has kept to itself staying away from social media style newscasts. I still the miss the customized open for the 7pm newscast which honestly I watch.

I don't work for Tegna, so I'm obviously not an expert on what goes on inside its newsrooms so I appreciate your insight there. My position isn't really that "corporate forces stations to do xyz." I just think saying "It's all on local management" seems like a bit of an overstatement. While corporate my not force anything, there's no doubt it encourages some things. You need look no further than the fact that so many of its stations are run so similarly. Many of the stations run with ideas that just aren't seen anywhere else. I think if you walk into any given Tegna newsroom, you're likely to find a lot of consistencies. Lastly, I think that's a very good point about GMs with sales backgrounds. It is all too common and I really hadn't thought of that being at play with some of the sillier ideas.

*Houston is #7 now.

Time to update a now 5-year-old news open playlist...

** COUGH ** Election Season ** COUGH ** Seriously, nobody mentioned that in the last page and a half... it’s an ad grab and nothing more...

In 2014 the WWOR studio was being used for the live TV show The Juice on Veria Living. "The Juice is an hour long, Veria Living TV's lifestyle TV show that is shot in Secaucus, New Jersey with a live TV audience. Audience members can walk away with giveaways, cool products and vacation getaways." TV Studio: Channel 9 Studios 43 Meadowlands Parkway Secaucus, New Jersey, 07096 https://www.nytix.com/TVShows/2014/thejuice

A tour and behind the scenes of KIRO tv in 1976.

So, I totally fell asleep on this, but here's a quick, irrelevant story. I was at a minor league baseball game the other night, the new Chicago Dogs independent team out in suburban Rosemont. ABC 7 has been a sponsor of theirs all season, with digital billboards facing the expressway on the backside of the scoreboard (as seen below, from the outfield concourse), and they've run ticket commercials, produced by the graphics department. Early in each game, a local celebrity appears on the scoreboard saying how they like their hot dogs (shocker, no one says ketchup ). A lot of athletes have been featured, and even some real celebs, but I nearly spit out my drink when none other but DIANN BURNS shows up on the board. She even referred to herself as being "from ABC 7 News." A guy next to me, complete stranger, said exactly what I was thinking..."Getting fired 15 years ago hardly makes her part of the station," as she said it as if she still worked there now. We all had a good laugh.

Various CNN International promos from 1991:

How about some 2004 MSNBC?