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Sad news to report from KARE11's own Randy Shaver. Prayers to him, his family and KARE11 family. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1845595172144188

At 2:16:16 in the OJ montage is a noon open - with that different VO guy KSAZ had at the time. I thought it was worth a repost: The opens now have “Spirit of Arizona” replaced with “Coverage You Can Count On.” And wow, Chicago weatherman Steve Deshler worked at KSAZ?

I doubt it’s that easy, even if backup facilities are still in place. It’s doubtful WWOR has a technical staff at work, on standby, or even employed, who can run things for a live broadcast. If the WNYW staff has never worked in the WWOR building, they can’t just “drop-in” and put a show on the air. Ask any director or engineer how long it takes to learn a system in a different station. Who knows what kind of shape the rest of the technical plant is in. It’s doubtful any equipment for a full live newscast is current, updated, operational or even still in place. Saying you have a back-up facility across the river and actually being able to use it for a fully produced show (instead of a simple emergency broadcast), are two different things. The Fox studio was turn-key. But why they used Shep instead of their own talent is a different question.

Rob Stafford, Allison Rosati and Brant Miller was doing the 10pm newscast following the Bears/Packers game last night. Siafa Lewis was also doing it and he did also doing the Bears pre-game show and "Sports Sunday". It is reminding me when Rosati and Warner Saunders doing the 10pm sunday newscasts during the 2006 NFL season 12 years ago.

I wonder if WGN is still planning on doing a late Saturday newscast with the late start to tonight's Cubs game. Edit: Yes, they do. They just advertised it during the game broadcast.

KBSC TV 52 (Now known as KVEA Telemundo 52) Spanish news from 1982. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=sNHyONuojY0;m=4;s=52

As they look ahead to their 70th anniversary next month, here's the WLS special from their 50th in September '98, featuring the gold standard anchor team in the history of Chicago; Drury, Burns, Magers, Brock, Krashesky, Yu, and Daly. Station history and Oprah: News, daytime, and Oprah: Whoring out for the network's fall schedule...and Oprah:

I may have said this here before, but I firmly, truly believe that if TEGNA's smart, they will roll out a Next clone in every market they own a television station. Copy the format and get personable, young-ish talent to man it. There's no need to reinvent news on broadcast TV when they already have that successful formula. Seriously. Just...do that!

1. Quite obviously the WNYW show at FNC was staffed by FNC technical personnel. 2. This is 2018. In New York every station, network, production house, independent studio, etc. is linked by fiber that can send/ receive any signal to/ from practically anywhere. (Google “The Switch New York”) Arranging to send a signal from any fiber equipped studio to practically any other U.S. location can be done in minutes. (International can also be done, but takes somewhat longer to arrange.) This is a very common everyday practice in New York, where pool feeds for media events are common, and distributed by fiber to/from every station and network every single day. By necessity, WNYW’s hub, wherever it is, would have to have fiber capability. Of course satellite to a hub is also possible, but from New York, fiber is actually easier. 3. It is a relatively simple procedure of putting a show on the air from a remote location, again, especially in New York. Let me put it this way: Let’s pretend WNYW negotiates to air a pre-season, non-network Giants game from [wherever]. WNYW does not send 65 technicians and three truckloads of equipment to [wherever] to produce the program. A third party company produces it and feeds the program in its entirety (minus commercials) to the WNYW hub for air. Fox producing the WNYW newscast and delivering it to WNYW’s hub and air is no different. As far as why a station has an alleged remote facility in New Jersey that is not airworthy or is not usable, you would have to ask them. But I would bet it’s a license requirement, because WWOR is licensed to New Jersey. And, while their license probably requires them to have the capability, there is probably nothing that says it has to be used.

Yes, some stations have gone down ratings wise. But, that is on the station, not the company. The news director and executives at each station are the people making the day-to-day decisions. A lot of these concepts are different for sure. But, TEGNA is pushing it so TV news will survive. A lot of these concepts and new ideas have captured the audiences they were intended to (young people). TEGNA's new graphics and music packages have outperformed the previous, and KUSA's "Next with Kyle Clark" is now the top rated newscast in all of Denver in any time period. So, yes, these are different ways of doing the news, but they're working.

A triple play of Oklahoma City newscasts from Walker Brown's YT channel: First, a May 20, 1998, broadcast of KOKH's 9:00 p.m. newscast (then titled The Nine O'Clock News), nearly ten months after the newscast had expanded to an hour (on August 4, 1997): Second, the first ten minutes of the May 16, 1999, edition of KWTV's News 9 at 10:00: ...and finally, the first 17 minutes of KFOR's Oklahoma's NewsChannel 4 at 10:00 from October 3, 2002: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=0YBybDemzbU;t=607

Why they used Shep certainly is the big question, especially when other FOX5 talent appeared on the broadcast just fine. One thought I had: Is it possible Shep and that studio were on standby for breaking news that night? If so, perhaps the deal was we’ll produce the show for you tonight, but we need our team and anchor in place in case we have to quickly dump out of local and break in on FNC or on the broadcast network? Just a thought.

[MEDIA=twitter]1032982153871679488[/MEDIA] Off-model but a very good clone

My9 was in Seacaucus NJ.. Fox News is in Manhattan like WNYW.. that would be easier to get to.. the real question is why did they have Shep Smith anchor as opposed to Dari and Steve

KTUL is Sinclair (as is KOKH). I remember as of a few years ago, KJRH was kind of on the rise while KTUL wasn't doing as well. Maybe Scripps has dragged KJRH down since then.

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.

Usually it's the competing stations that decide to put on 7pm newscast to try and counter Wheel or Jeopardy. At least Eastern & Pacific have the full hour before prime time to program locally, while Central/Mountain has the 6pm news to work around, unless they are a station that doesn't have one or is better off not running news then....

Jeopardy! Should of been moved to 3:30PM and a great lead-in to 4PM news. Inside Edition would be better at 1pm instead of Jeopardy! IMO- Wheel/Jeopardy! Have always been together (depending on the market) On CST WALA & WDJT have the show tag-team at 6pm and do well and KRQE airs the show at 6 & 6:30pm on MST. On the EST side could any station take the risk and do something other stations on other times zones will do. For example can any station run hour-long 4 & 5PM news and Jeopardy! at 6pm/Network News at 6:30pm, Local News at 7, Wheel at 7:30 EST Time or. Hour-long 4 & 5pm News, Jeopardy! at 6pm, Local News at 6:30PM, Network News at 7, Wheel at 7:30? Again, can anybody see any market that on EST doing something different and changing it up like the other time zones?

Unless Wheel and Jeopardy! air on separate stations in the Central/Mountain time zone, it seems that Jeopardy! gets the shaft since they only really have 6:30 as access time which usually goes to WOF, unless both shows air on a FOX station (like WALA), or Jeopardy! is on the other station in a duopoly or .2 (like WLOX...where ABC has news at 6 and WOF at 6:30....and CBS on the .2 has Jeopardy! at 6 and news at 6:30) 4:30 seemed to be the optimal time paired with something like Inside Edition, but with more and more stations adding more news....

Can we really blame him here? He didn't study journalism.. The executives, however, know what's up.. They need to open their eyes and ears

The VO isn't bad. He must have been on station staff at the time; years ago Jim Heath had a set of opens from fall '94 (independent period) and this was the voice they had, though those said "Spirit of Arizona". The last thing we have yet to see in terms of opens would be maybe some more Arizona Prime and material from the "10 News" era, which was definitely an attempt to make the product Fox-ier. ctmikect used to have a news tease for their 4:30 newscast which he had as '95 but with this material must be '96 (it was the summer — one of the stories teased was keeping pets calm during monsoon season). That was the first time KSAZ had news in the 4:00 hour — it would be another 20+ years before they returned to the timeslot.

A WINK report from 1992 - I recall a news open from around this time from the station surface on this thread but can’t find it anywhere. I’m thinking of doing Fort Myers for news open compilations... Also Susan Parks tells us what’s ahead on WTHR:

Poor Alex Trebek. Are Jeopardy’ ratings in Houston Really that bad? Ever since 2008, KHOU and now KTRK seem to have been alienating J! fans alike. In 2008, when the Doctors premiered, J! got bumped to 11:45pm, then after Oprah ended her talk show, KHOU moved it to 4:30pm until 2015 when it introduced a newscast at that time, and that in turn moved J! to KTRK at 3pm, But now it is downgraded yet again to 1pm. Does Houston Really Hate Jeopardy!

I would have to wager Fox News has a fibre link to the O&O master hub in Las Vegas or fed their control room feed to WNYW who then piped that to Vegas. As for WWOR - the license still dictates a studio presence in Secaucus - that being said at this point it's probably just a sales and creative services location. The studio and control room may be mothballed at this point. If they've gone automated at WNYW for their control room there's probably a small chance anyone there has stepped foot at WWOR. I think I read they did some uplinks from there (the controllers may be in NYC somewhere) - for all we know it might just be a glorified sat. farm at this point.

Did not see that noon open with the screeching bald eagle! I'm surprised it doesn't say "10 News", though. The "Channel 10 News" lockup at the front is a bit off model — the word "Channel" isn't compressed like in the rest of the package and it dominates the thing.

And for over a decade, Ilona only anchored at 4 and Art only anchored at 5 (30-minute appearance). So I guess 30 minutes for Chauncy and Mayra wouldn't be the craziest idea. Hell for several years, Tom Koch anchored from 5-7 am and again at 4 pm M-F. Channel 13 has had some odd anchor lineups for sure. What's silly to me is the 6/6:30 anchor split and the three-team 10 pm newscast. All I want to see is Tom Koch and Gina Gaston as the 6 and 10 pm anchors. Not pairing them together again makes me wonder if one of them has indicated their plans to leave soon.

I’m betting it’s contractual/union issues preventing them from using the existing evening news anchors.

Michael Strahan interviewing one of the Jacksonville shooting survivors at the top of this morning’s broadcast and he leads off with the hard hitting question: “How are you feeling?” Someone please send this man to an intro to journalism class and then let him back on America’s most watched morning newscast.

Wow, more Arizona news from 1995. This time, the story is the OJ verdict. At one point, KSAZ opts to cut to KTTV's coverage. At 1:55:49, a brief feed loss reveals a CNN Newsource slate. There's also coverage from some other outlets toward the end, including Hard Copy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0zmqrxFeRY There's also coverage of other events from AZ here: the 1987 papal visit including the full Mass done at Sun Devil Angel Stadium, where they had to cover the "Devil" up at the Pope's request! and a 1997 Motley Crue concert that featured a riot. This is late 1997 — note the "NEWS" in the Fox 10 News logo now stretches the width of the logo.