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Saturdays for both shows run one season back so it won't be until next year.

KUSA is temporarily in the former Daily Blast Live studio. Kyle Clark said there was some work being done on the main set. Aside from the atrocious white balancing on one camera and awful lighting in one shot, I actually don't think this looks that bad....

I feel like they had a long way to go before they got anywhere near WITI’s 9p. I never saw WISN’s 9p mentioned in any of their press releases celebrating their other wins, it was even hard to find any information on it at all… I thought they gave up on this a year or more ago.

With election season behind us, some of the bold and innovative newscasts local stations eagerly announced are starting to be cut. For example, WISN is dropping their 9 p.m. newscast on their True Crime subchannel… a smart move, considering the newscast seemed like a misallocation of time and resources. https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/television-radio/2024/12/16/wisn-tv-channel-12-is-dropping-9-p-m-newscast-on-sister-station/77009461007/?tbref=hp

The primary role of local news design is to support editorial content while creating a cohesive brand experience. At its core, design needs to prioritize clear, legible information for audiences, whether they’re watching on large screens or smaller devices across different platforms. A strong, well-defined hierarchy is essential to guide attention and ensure key details can be understood at a glance. While I absolutely agree that design should also be visually engaging, it has to stick to basic principles of layout and typography to do its job: enhancing and clarifying the content, not just chasing trends for the sake of being flashy. This is where I think some broadcast designers—and foamers—lose the thread. There needs to be real intention behind design decisions. In this case, I don’t see that intention, either from an information perspective or even in the overall design. That said, if you’re just into big, shiny 3D shapes, that’s awesome! I’m glad there are still designers out there who can create that for you.

He should've stayed producing those shows that you see at 2am on various channels

The situation with Wisconsin has an explanation though, as WKOW's sister stations did in the past start out as semi-satellites of it (with the FCC's blessing) and over time, broke off on their own as investments were made by their owners to break off the cord, as it were, with Madison, and Shockley and Qunicy had those resources to provide that support to their stations. It seems like all that AMG has is cheap programming and no desire to expand at all, so they've contracted two generations of progress with WXOW/WQOW/WAOW to basically return them to the state they were in the 70s, but with an ugly 2020s centralcasting twist. A red flag for me with the Quincy/Gray merger was the lack of fight to keep WYOW and letting it go for a pittance to Gray; it felt very out of character and there didn't seem to be any regulatory reason to do so. WEAU and WSAW are the strength of both their markets, but I can see good reasons for WMTV doing weekend morning newscasts for them at the very least, because some markets just really don't need them to begin with, and at least with E/I being opened up to the 5am hour it's literally better than nothing. And agreed; WBAY does some Gray things, but outside certain touches they know what keeps them on top and adding new things that keep that dominance, and Gray is smart enough to leave well enough alone with them; it helps that their building and staff just plain can't support doing much more than what they do in their market outside the obvious Packers coverage lead.

As long as Morgan Murphy doesn't acquire WJFW, that station is sitting there isolated - otherwise, the western/central markets would be all completely aligned. In the case of WEAU, nothing is being cut since there has never been such a newscast. The fact Gray doesn't own a station in Milwaukee prevents anything "completely" statewide from forming.

Dallas Fort Woth is a bigger metro area by about a million people. About 8.1 million people call the DFW metro area home. About 7.1 million people call the Houston Metro area home. The only reason Houston is the “biggest” city in Texas by population is because it is—quite literally— the “biggest” city in Texas. Back in the day, before Houston really started growing, the city of Houston annexed as much of the (then undeveloped) land around it as possible. So when developers began to build suburban housing developments in those undeveloped areas—they became part of the city of Houston, rather than becoming a part of a different “suburb” city. Dallas didn’t do that to the same extent. When Dallas began to grow, suburbs like Richardson, Garland, Plano, etc. beat the city of Dallas to annexing undeveloped land into their cities. In total, the City of Houston takes up 665 square miles, with a city population of 2.3. million. The City of Dallas takes up 340.5 square miles. And has a city population of 1.3 million. So the city populations area proportionate to the land area each city takes up. That said, Dallas has far more suburbs than Houston. And also shares a metropolitan region with Fort Worth, another major city with a population nearing one million within its city borders. ill give you another example. Oklahoma City is the 20th largest city in America by population. But it is the 42nd most populous metro area—because it doesn’t have many suburbs. It’s basically just Oklahoma City and a few suburbs. tldr: DFW contains more suburbs than the Houston metro, and has a bigger metro population because of this.

Allen should've never gotten into the local media business in the first place IMO.

Notice too that it didn't touch WBAY. Gray is letting WBAY do their own thing since it's the biggest market Gray owns in that state. Not only that, WBAY is superior compared to their competition (with all due respect to the rest).

New from Cyle Dickens from KWQC, some mid-80's motion graphics to a nice period beat from a BPME videomag.

I would like to see KCAL-TV in Los Angeles, California to add some Syndicated Programming what KDOC-TV showed like: Forensic Files, Cheaters, Pawn Stars, The Goldbergs, Young Sheldon, Bob Hearts Abishola, The Connors, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, Full Measure with Sharyl Atkison, The Carbonaro Effect, Street Magic, Popstar ¡Today!, Murdoch Mysteries and Bloodline Detectives in September because I heard CBS News and Stations airs these kind of Syndicated shows I also would like to see Family Feud and Funny you should ask moving to KCOP-TV Fox 11 Plus since King of Queens is leaving Syndication, KTLA-TV will no longer have Syndicated shows the only 2 Syndicated shows are Court Cam and Judy Justice for this fall

ABC has settled with President-Elect Trump in the defamation case tied to the George Stephanopoulos/Nancy Mace interview where Mr. Stephanopoulos misstated the verdicts in two civil lawsuits against Mr. Trump. $15 million donation to a non-profit established for a Donald Trump Presidential Library Publish a note of regret on the story in question on the ABC News website An additional $1 Million to Mr. Trump's lawyers https://apnews.com/article/abc-trump-lawsuit-defamation-stephanopoulos-04aea8663310af39ae2a85f4c1a56d68