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From the looks of it it just seems to be a chroma key. I imagine she’s standing in the newsroom weather center. If they wanted to make it slightly more realistic they could back up a bit and put some green on the floor.

Mike Landess has that kind of "voice" that was made for broadcasting. Every time he was saying something he had my attention. He is an excellent broadcaster...I will say that. The fact Tegna would dump him at KYTX is just exactly the kind of low IQ dimwit decisions I would expect of them. Time will tell if good change is coming to Tegna leadership--it needs to happen if Tegna wants to be around in 5-10 years or longer.

5-10 years ago, if a company sold its stations to Gannett/Tegna, I would've thought they were going to a good owner. Now, I assume that every station being bought by Tegna can be likened to a car going to a junkyard. Back in the day Gannett valued hard journalism. Now, Tegna despises it. There are some bright spots that are semi-immune to Tegnaitis, perhaps the best example: WBIR. And I believe a case could be made that KFSM might be able to weather the storm alright. But time will tell. Don't even get me started about WATN, however. I wouldn't be surprised if ABC would consider moving its affiliation elsewhere--to be honest, I wouldn't blame them. If anyone thinks WATN was bad before, just wait until they are transformed into the WKYC of Memphis. How does "Local 24 Studios" sound for an on-air identity? I will say that if the WSVN strategy (hard news) was applied to Tegna by Cheatwood, most if not all stations would be serious threats to their competition. It would seem just the opposite strategy was applied. C Clarity is and always shall be one of the worst news "music" (noise) pkgs ever made. They need to go back to This is Home as a first step. That would at least remove the inappropriately silly sound to the newscasts. That alone would make some improvement.

Gannett/TEGNA's decline started before Cheatwood came in. Trust me here. It started in 2014 when they decided to launch Atlanta Alive on WXIA. By early 2015 KPNX started to become, to quote Samantha, "the place with more fluff". Those two stations fell victim to TEGNA-itis before the split even was completed. I agree, even without Cheatwood I'm not sure if TEGNA will get better, especially considering that this is a company where you never know what actually is going to happen. There's a chance they'll continue on the current path of underachieving. As you know, Gannett Broadcasting used to be a good owner of TV stations. Gannett/TEGNA is a shell of its former self these days, and it's rather likely that it won't change.

My educated guess on that one was that Landess' contract with KYTX wasn't renewed. Maybe @east-tx-tv can fill us in on this subject because there's something that happened between Landess and KYTX that caused him to leave the station

I'm not sure if his contract at KYTX was not renewed or he decided to move back to Colorado. If you recall, his children and grandchildren live in Colorado and his ailing mother live(ed?) in Tyler. He left KMGH (during a tumultuous time at that station, to be sure) to be closer to his mother, but had frequently returned to Denver where he owned a second home to visit local family. I haven't asked him directly, because it's none of my business, but he could have simply decided not to renew his contract at KYTX because he had no more local ties. He seems to persistently reside in Colorado these days, even after his KDVR/KWGN contract was not renewed.

Part of a KNSD intro, 1995:

TV3, the studio space that GMA Weekend and WNT broadcasts from, is undergoing a renovation. That’s why last weekend’s Good Morning America aired from Times Square and it’s why WNT has been in a small, temporary set the last few days. This has nothing to do with ABC’s move downtown in 4 years.

I see they pulled a Meredith there....with the video wall. Seems like it's a lot like WSMV's last set refresh before their current one. Seeing as how Hattiesburg is market 160ish, this is a big move for them. How did WLOX get left out of the set upgrades when they were Gray'd? WDAM is uber-dominant in their market, and pretty sure that WLOX still dominates WXXV down on the coast.

I'm just 'asking for a friend' but if given a chance to long timers or them (Tegna/respective GMs) taking a stepback, would they be willing to hire back some of the dismissed talent or not, or if presented offer, would some talent decline? (basically enjoying retirement as is)

1000% agreed. Experienced anchors and reporters is the key to anything in this business and when your station owner and/or GM is booting the older anchors out the door, that's going to be reflected in a negative way for any station in this business. Innovation is great and everything but when a company does some of those things that Tegna has done to long time anchors, clearly there has to be concerns about innovative-style newscasts.

And then given the same boot along with Ernie Bjorkman at KWGN. This was really disappointing. Innovation is great, but long-term guiding experience is critical too (especially when it comes to anchors). Unfortunately, I can't say the same thing for GMs.

Including Mike Landess just to name a few of those KYTX anchors/reporters Tegna got rid of. Sure, Landess wasn't at KYTX for a long period of time but he was ousted for cheaper, younger and trendier people. Plain and simple.

I'm fairly certain (even though I have no ratings numbers) that Tegna did KYTX no favors in the "let's get rid of every recognizable long-time anchor and replace them with a bunch of no-name/talking-heads" mess, and likely gave away much of the viewership they'd built up over the years, to longtime ratings-topper KLTV.

Good luck finding it in your market what with all the group owners glomming onto the subchannel real estate with crap like TBD and whatnot.

Anatomy of a death spiral, of the once proud CNN... Just plain sad to see the network destroyed. https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/12/31/cnn-is-not-a-news-network/?amp