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A federal judge issued a 14-day restraining order Wednesday against Oklahoma Superintendent of Education Ryan Walter's and Board of Education spokesman Dan Isset. The board cannot ban KFOR reporters from rooms where the BOE meets, cannot ban them from press conferences and cannot physically impede their access. Isett attended the hearing and still insisted KFOR isn't a legitimate news organization in comments made after the hearing.

Not starting a new thread over it, but KUSA has adopted the new open first seen on WXIA.

I’m not suggesting that ABC will mandate sets but I’d love to see something like this for WABC’s new set next spring.

How is Adam Symson still the CEO despite everything going on with Scripps? Scripps has cut numerous jobs, Scripps News is dead as of November 15, and the company's stock price is down by nearly 59% since this time last year.

Scripps News is history.

At 4 and 5 only for traffic. The monitor looks great. Back to a mix of green screen and green screen and the much more advanced weather center for the morning show. It’s like a security blanket or something, but whatever. The big board (not to be confused with the retired “Big Board” ) offers a more modern approach, and a good option for the weather anchor to walk back to the desk less awkwardly than with the green screen in the old setup. And the effective impossibility of doing that with the current green screen setup. They seemed fine using one of the standup areas for traffic and the rear-most touchscreen, so keeping the green screen for that seems…needless, and doesn’t add to the appeal while detracting from having all the personalities able to engage on the set more easily. But again, whatever. They cling to it, they cling to it. It’s all well and good to have tucked away as a backup, but with that much space available, they could do just fine. Just like the last set was a nice evolution from the previous one, this follows suit. Not a radical departure, but a well-done revamp that keeps it fresh and engaging with possibilities for visual variety. The expanded weather area and multiple screens could be used effectively in a severe weather scenario, a little more cohesively than the last setup. That wasn’t lacking, they just made some nice adjustments. Onward and upward. Let’s see how they put it to use in time. One or two days in is barely fresh out of the box. There can be more ways to do things to come.

A pairing of former First Daughters. Intriguing…

Being privately owned has its advantages at times, particularly for Hearst. The company seems to invest in its stations, and it's not beholden to stockholders.

Yes, but satellite stations aren’t considered to be a duopoly arrangement until they cease simulcasting their parent station to offer their own slate of programming (like what effectively happened with KNWA and sister KFTA, when the latter stopped simulcasting the former’s NBC programming and converted into a Fox affiliate in 2006).

KNWA had previously used the KFAA calls from 1989 to 2004, adopting its current calls shortly after being sold to Nexstar. Unless otherwise noted, this would mark the first time the same base call letters, disambiguated only by different leading prefix letters (“W” swapped for “K”, or vice versa), were used on a duopoly. Until now, there only have been cases of this occurring within the same station group, but in different markets (the Big Three’s New York and Los Angeles O&Os being a major example), as well as cases like WPKD (a nod to parent CBS O&O KDKA) where the junior partner station’s calls only partially reference those of their duopoly parent.

TEGNA has applied to change KMPX’s calls to KFAA-TV.