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Which was already established in the post your quoted and all the posts that followed.

It's one of their crown jewels - I highly doubt they are going to sell it.

They really need to go back to letting style and content decisions be made at the local level. They can control the budgets still but each station knows more about how to connect with its area than some suit in Cincinnati. If they decided to do hard news emphasizing breaking news and investigative stuff it would go a lot farther. The business doesn’t need to be reinvented. It needs to get back to the way it was 20 or 30 years ago. And a lot of that is style and writing. That stuff is nearly free.

EW Scripps is a mess. If they do give it to Hearst please. I would love to see ABC (now Disney) take it again, but I don't think they're in the business of buying tv stations anymore. I hate pointless live shots, especially ones far away, and especially when sports pre empts programming. I don't think the audience cares about a static live shot in front of a dark building. Live shots should be reserved for an active scene, breaking news/rapidly changing info, or when there's not enough time to assemble a package. Otherwise live for live sake adds nothing to a broadcast. At my old duopoly station, there was a policy that the secondary station could pretape newscasts delayed by sports. The primary station however had to go on live, even though they would just be copy and pasting the same broadcast on to both stations. I don't think ratings will drop if the broadcast is not live.

After suffering a mild stroke over Memorial Day weekend, KTLAs legendary morning weatherman Mark Kriski returns tomorrow morning. He will ease into his duties….only doing 7-9am. He usually does 7-11am. This is a welcome return since Mark had his stroke shortly after Sam Rubin’s passing. https://ktla.com/morning-news/mark-kriski-announces-his-return-to-the-ktla-5-morning-news/

I would have thought that the Blazers would have gone with Gray as well, but probably the financials didn't add up to make it viable for both parties. Beyond Gray and Sinclair, the other options in Portland were rather limited, between Tegna (KGW), Nexstar (KOIN/KRCW), and even Ion/Scripps. Through all of the different TV partners they've had over the years, the Blazers have always handled their on-air production in-house, so it shouldn't have any remnants of Bally Sports graphics or production styles in their telecasts. Although I'm not a fan of this team, I've checked out the reactions of Blazers fans on Reddit and a couple of their team blogs...there are quite a few that aren't happy with the Sinclair association. Never mind that Sinclair is only providing the outlets to air games, while the team is handling the broadcast infrastructure internally.

I'm more shocked that finally after so many years, the Blazers are finally ditching their weird love of pay-per-view broadcasts and cable, which they've been insistent on for years, probably only because most cable providers just don't do PPV any longer outside the satellite companies who still love rural WWE viewers who are naive and will hand off $50/event, or will not pay for Peacock and Starlink. They went kicking and screaming all the way to the end before returning to broadcast, but I get the feeling they'll promote the DTC service much more than KUNP. As for Univision, here we go again with the same issues their Seattle viewers faced last year. Unlike Seattle which got Weigel to take it on KVOS, there are no full-power options for the network unless they convince Scripps/KPXG or Gray/KPDX to take main-channel carriage.

A hearing has been set for Wednesday in federal court in Oklahoma City as KFOR-TV and The Institute For Free Speech looks to have a restraining order filed against Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Waters and Walters' press secretary, Dan Isett. KFOR management has complained that Walters and Isett have routinely kept its reporters from attending any meetings of the state Board of Education. Instead, it says its reporters were put in an overflow room. Management also says its reporters were banned from attending press conferences held by Walters or Isset. The reason: Walters says KFOR isn't a legitimate news outlet. In addition, the plaintiffs are asking for $17.91 in damages, to commemorate the year the First Amendment was ratified... and we know what the First Amendment represents. Lawsuit documents are on the web link.

Weird that the Blazers are partnering with Sinclair to distribute their Rip Sports network, considering other NBA teams have ditched Sinclair part-owned Bally Sports (though in their case, the Blazers ditched Root Sports Northwest). It’s especially odd, considering that Gray owns KPTV/KPDX in Portland and has created over-the-air RSNs in a few of its other markets (including New Orleans, where the Pelicans are moving to one to be carried over WVUE’s signal), which should have made Gray a natural partner.

or @tyrannical bastard could rename the thread since he is the creator and active.

I used to joke that if the carpets were cleaned, the station would be sold. I guess paint and shrubbery work too.

WWOR... you're the last to get with the program.

I hope you were being sarcastic. That's not Enforcer. That's the CBS O&O package from SAM.

Good to see, unlike the CBS O&O's, Gray continuing to embrace for its CBS affiliates using the CBS O&O package (thx ABC7Denver for correction) theme music. And btw, while there's new graphics, WOIO's cut of this has been used before by them back around the time they were transitioning from 19 Action News to Cleveland 19 News using John Young as v/o.

If this helps to explain it any, KOCO has used a sign-off for its storm coverage for about the past decade, “We bring you the First Alert”, that better conveys what “Your First Alert Station” is supposed to mean: that they’ll give you the “first alert” to severe weather and breaking news events when they happen. Ironically, while Gray owns the trademark to the “First Alert” brand, Hearst-owned KOCO was one of the earliest (maybe the earliest) users of the moniker in local TV news, having adopted the name for its on-air weather warning system (purported to be the first such system to be automated, allowing it to receive and display NWS alerts once they’re issued) and storm chasing units in 1989, when Gannett owned the station.

I meant to say a different skin/color set, not new version. Thanks for the clarification. I do like this one better than the one they used previously. Even the simplicity of the GDC elements are a welcomed improvement.

Those are the standard Fox O&O graphics. I don't spot anything different there. There are I think five different skin types of the Fox graphics with a different set of colors. Each one has an internal name that's a fox. I think the one with the light blue accents is called Arctic Fox.

I will never understand how they completely missed this cost and crew efficiency opportunity; Tonight in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, there were skeletal remains found and it's likely those of a child that went missing this winter. You have WGBA in the market, while WTMJ gets some coverage in the county, but certainly not in Two Rivers. There is absolutely nothing happening at 10pm in front of the Two Rivers Town Hall. Most stations would either just mention that they're waiting for new details and send nobody out, or have someone pre-tape a report in front of the town hall for the 10pm because the only news broken is literally contained in a sheriff's department Facebook post. WBAY did send their reporter devoted to it out live, but she has been with the story since day one and you would expect she'd want to be live for any piece of breaking news arising out of it. That move I won't question. Guess what the Scripps station did? If you said that they both wasted gas, reporters and crew and made them wait out football, and then go live after the game's end just to say 'we know just as much as the sheriff's Facebook post', with WGBA's reporter at Two Rivers Town Hall and then the WTMJ reporter at Two Rivers City Hall...you must be a Scripps station (WTMJ) that doesn't trust their sister station (WGBA) enough to report the story in a coordinated live shot simulcast on both stations. I know WGBA has really cut back, but I think they'd still know how to time a live shot with 'TMJ. That way, they didn't needlessly go 75 miles north to just read a Facebook post and get some generic 'oh I hope they found them' interviews with locals just because your station's ego is that wounded if you had to depend on your sister station to report on it. I'm just shaking my head; this is beginner's stuff and they've been sister stations for twenty years now. I'm less mad at WGBA here than WTMJ because the former did have an interest in being there, but either way, this isn't a good reflection of Scripps even able to get one of their prime stations to stop treating their sister like a red-headed stepchild.

There's No Substitute, Full music Package.

CBS seems to be trying to pattern their whole group on KCNC and their revived WWJ news department. Unfortunately for them, the big-market glamour stations have been spinning their wheels in the mud for ages, and the CBS O&O group has a long history of not being particularly well-run. They try to pattern the group after WCCO or KCNC but the glamour-market stations can't seem to wash off the stains. I've been discontented with the CBS O&O rebrands precisely because people talked them up as though they would bring about world peace, and I don't like how the likes of KCNC and WCCO get lumped in with WCBS or WBBM, but the fundamentals of the approach are solid.

0% chance it would work. Maybe less than zero were that mathematically possible.

Per Dylan Byers at Puck, Jeff Glor is among those being cut in the latest round of Paramount layoffs.

Phoenix may get an ANF-style rebrand when they get GrayONE.