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It looked nice at the time, and I’m sure you could dig up a post from me in which I would have been very complimentary of KMGH adopting the Scripps look. But it now looks three steps behind everyone else in 2019. The chip/gizmo box was never a good idea, and I don’t think it has always translated well onto all of the stations that Scripps has purchased in the last few years. More than any other station group, so many of the Scripps stations look like they dumped their legacy logo into the default templates with few modifications and called it a day.

Here is a rare Richmond news goodie...a WXEX news open and clip from March 1984. You can view this news open at 1:56:34, but beware...there may be low audio.

Oh my god that's gorgeous.

Let's be clear, though. The Scripps package was inexpensive because it's not an original design. It's a reworked Renderon IndiaTV package - https://www.renderon.com/#/india-tv/

In this case, I was told they made up an internal document outlining the kind of stuff they were looking for, with a couple of examples (surprise, it was all the flat, Tegna-style graphics packages in the industry right now.) That goes out to companies that respond with some proposals. They then pick whatever proposal works best. That's how we end up with all those set design proposals people like to come on here with and post about, saying how they found what's totally going to be WXXX's next set, posted three years ago on some random guy's website.

Variety posted a profile on Nexstar and interviewed Perry Sook on Friday. https://variety.com/2018/tv/features/nexstar-tribune-perry-sook-ceo-sinclair-1203094572/

Yeah that sucks. Videos being pulled really annoy me when I make these compilations. For example Video Archaeology had a boatload of Charlotte, NC clips until they got taken down, which is part of the reasons why I’m not doing Charlotte. It’s market #22 and they’ve got an archive the size of a market in the 90s! I’ve also had yet to find some WBRE clips from the 80s on YT as well, which I assume also got pulled (did they?). I wanted to do compilations them, WYOU and WOLF to go with the WNEP compilation made back in February. Please ping me if you find any. This week I will be finishing Spokane and, starting Wednesday, Baton Rouge with WBRZ (kudos to jacky9br’s mound of vintage BR material!)