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I wonder how this GOCOM ties into the GOCOM that eventually became Piedmont Television. Because in Youngstown in 2007, GOCOM sold WKBN to New Vision Television while WYTV was sold by Chelsey Television (post-Benedek instead of Gray) to Parkin Media. Seems more like a shell game to me...

Brewers will have 10 games air on WITI (as well as several other stations in WI) this year

I'm currently in the still-current-but-soon-to-be-old studio of Live with Kelly & Mark, and it was mentioned during today's interviews with their guests (featured here is Nathan Fillion) that this is one of the very last episodes in this studio and on W 67th Street in UWS before the move to 7 Hudson Square. They didn't say exactly when it will happen, but it is more than likely after this month.

And the aftermath… The station’s outdoor weather set was destroyed, several trees and tree limbs surrounding the building were snapped, and some cars were damaged (including the sunroof of meteorologist T.J. Springer’s car). The building’s roof managed to hold on, but it was partially bent from a couple of its clips, so it was a close call. It could’ve been worse, especially considering a house was completely destroyed farther south in Longwood. (Credit to an unknown user on the Broadcast Plaza Discord for the before and after photos.)

And captured live on television...

The old Graham Media Group thread is archived. It’s time to start a new one, due in part to this interesting development. Graham Media Group is apparently applying the MMJ concept (one person does the jobs of two or three people) to its local management. Its six stations have job openings for a so-called “Manager of Content and Coverage.” Judging by the job description, this sounds like a mashup of an assistant news director, an executive producer, and possibly even a managing editor. I wouldn’t be surprised if this MCC person even had to line produce on occasion! Here’s the job opening for reference: https://www.click2houston.com/careers/2024/05/28/manager-of-content-and-coverage-three-openings-available/ I can’t say I’m surprised about this new development in management. Graham is in cost-cutting mode. They recently went through a round of buyouts. Plus, they hired Sean McLaughlin, the ex-Scripps news executive who spearheaded that company’s bungled news reorganization.

Today (January 9, 2014) marked the two year anniversary of CBS This Morning. I think it's time they have WELL deserved a thread. So, in hopes that they are reading this let's have a few posts that have a few sentences that describe CBS This Morning and the impact it has had on morning news and you!

I think the radio side of this forum needs an Out and About section of its own, so I'm starting it now. Starting Monday, March 24th, KMOX will gain a full-time signal on the FM dial at 104.1 WHHL, where they laid off the entire staff last week. https://radioinsight.com/headlines/296285/kmox-makes-addition-of-104-1-simulcast-official/ Also, the popular Los 40 brand is well known in Latin America but most popular in Spain, the original country where the brand was created. Its finally expanding to the U.S. While it has been in the states since last year (mainly as a digital platform), only now has the radio side expanded via distribution from Hispanic Radio Network. https://los40.us/ https://radioinsight.com/headlines/296301/hispanic-radio-network-launches-pair-of-24-7-networks/

Closing the circle on local broadcasters (love that they have the home opener); WITI has broadcast Brewers games of course, but only as part of Fox telecasts. Now every commercial station in the market (not counting WVCY of course) has at least had one year airing games locally since the team came to town in 1970.

Sinclair gets to run a station without having to deal with the FCC. That's the new owner's problem. Not to mention getting some cold hard cash they may need... Plus, it frees up more opportunities to buy stations even though this new FCC could give them a free pass to go nuts.

Where's your source, which stations are set to lose their choppers?

Look for most Nexstar stations that still have them to lose their choppers very soon. You heard it here first.

Well actually the fact they had a prescence in Denver and that they bought McGraw Hill’s stations in 2011 are unrelated. Unless you know something the rest of us don’t. All shots aside… when Scripps Networks Interactive spun off the TV stations was when things started falling apart. Those purchases just put lipstick on a pig.

As of tonight, it appears WPIX is now using a ticker on all of its newscasts including the nights, the first time since (i think) 2016. Edit: the ticker doesn't appear on air, but only on streaming.

This is off-topic, but wow. Such a beautiful home, all destroyed. Ugh. I feel for the folks who lived there.

It seems weird to start someone just back from illness on the 11. I think I saw her on at 4 and 5 on Thursday last week too.

I feel sorry for those that lost their jobs at WXMI FOX17 and the sports department, I know Remi Monaghan left the business in Feb on her own terms good for her as she knew that she wasn't going to be renewed or saw the writing on the wall. I see Scripps on the market and selling their TV stations shouldn't have bought ION in my opinion. And I wonder if Scripps hands in the FOX license for WXMI FOX17 I doubt it but it's a slim chance it happens.

I had to record this from Friday night because 1... its WRAL. 2... its In-Sink. 3... the teaser and breaking news cuts together is just pure magic. More details are in the description of this video.

MSNBC has hired WABC Eyewitneess News VP of News Scott Matthews to become the VP of News Gathering at the future separated MSNBC and is taken with hiring over 100 reporters producers etc as they build their own news gathering staff. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/03/06/msnbc-news-scott-matthews-hiring/

ABC and FOX are now gone in Guam. Sorensen Media Group has filed with the FCC to cancel the licenses of both KTGM and KEQI-LD. All that Guam has left is NBC (KUAM), CBS (KUAM.2), PBS (KGTF), and, oddly enough, The CW (KTKB). KTGM: https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff394e080a001951a1c648e4791&id=25076ff394e080a001951a1c648e4791&goBack=N KEQI-LD: https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff394e080a001951a8a48a44902&id=25076ff394e080a001951a8a48a44902&goBack=N

I'm sure someone at Apple would love to have stores that look like that...with or without the video "tank" in the middle. Link's broken. You need to remove the extra "http://" at the beginning.

It’s almost like big changes take time to “take.”

A new program like that won't convince me to watch CNN anytime soon. Besides, WSVN is on.

They finally determined what the channel was.

Here's you're look at "The Arena's" graphics minutes into the premiere. Did not get the title card so I'll add the promo card instead. Very flat, funky, and use of gradients. Also, during the teaser Hunt was walking around, and the walls displayed similarly funky and "out there" pictures of the founding fathers, Lincoln, etc. The (morning) Situation Room kept the graphics and added Pamela Brown's name to the logo, very ugly though, I'll add.

Maddow made her thoughts on all this tonight, saying canceling Joy’s show was a mistake

God I wish they would reunite Velshi & Ruhle on Primetime

Also missed from this article...

Well if this is true that's a shame. She was a great morning personality. I will say PIX 11 is a station with relatively high turnover. From experience that's usually indicative of either a low-paying or toxic work environment.

Cool! I will disagree with Mo Racca's assessment that Duran and Seacrest are the only well know radio "DJ's. (IDK If he meant hosts). Charlemagne tha God and Steve Harvey are very well known.

WJZ 2012. I'm surprised the CBS owned and operated television station was allowed to look this graphically horrendous as late 2012. These are college newscast quality lower thirds.

To be fair to Tegna, they've really backed off of the edginess compared to when they first came into existence.

Yes, he passed away before I was born. However, Wolfman Jack will soon be back on the radio on the station his career kicked off from... 1090 XEPRS. https://news.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/headline_id=n45983

Sharing because I think it's interesting- Most of the former CBS Radio stations have severed ties with their TV O&O Counterparts (KYW-AM, for example, partners with NBC's WCAU now), but WCCO-TV and Radio have always remained somewhat close. The latest evidence of that- WCCO-TV Chief Met Chris Shaffer is taking over weather duties at WCCO Radio in November as Paul Douglas (who Shaffer succeeded at WCCO-TV as well) called it quits earlier this year. https://www.audacy.com/wccoradio/news/local/meteorologist-chris-shaffer-new-part-of-wcco-radio-family

WHGB-AM1400 (and its two translators) are reverting back to being an affiliate of ESPN Radio. The station was formerly known as Sports Radio Harrisburg and will start simulcasting all national ESPN Radio programming, with the exception of one show. https://radioinsight.com/headlines/277670/espn-radio-returns-to-harrisburg/

Yikes sounds like the job my assistant ND was already doing. Dont know where else to put this; ex Graham but still uses the look... What kind of cameras are WPLG using? Their in studio shots looks like SD, the lighting is very incandescent orange and the camera sharpness looks too high. Almost looks like the anchors are sitting infront of a green screen. WPLG is probably the best news product in the Miami market right now but their set isn't

It doesn’t sound like Graham is adding more managers. I think they're combining several management jobs into one. I say this, because one of the MCC job duties is to “act as the news director in their absence.” That’s typically up to the assistant news director to do. Other duties listed in the job posting sound similar to what you’d expect from an executive producer and a managing editor. It therefore sounds like Graham will reduce at least five jobs — assistant ND, morning EP, dayside EP, evening EP, and managing editor — into three MCC jobs. And I'm sure the salaries won't match the job responsibilities either.

They are hiring (3) of those positions per station. Its like adding 3 additional EP’s to oversee each daypart. They are replacing the longtime vets with more managers. “There will be 3 MCC positions available, working different shifts inside the newsroom. One of the shifts will involve early-morning hours to lead our morning news efforts. One will work later in the evening to lead our late news efforts, with the final a day shift leading evening products.”

After almost 3 years, KVUT decided to call it a day on May 24 (last Friday evening). In local media articles posted online, no real reason was given for the move, but it was most likely a financial decision. By the tone of the quotes from UT-Tyler, it sounds like the university was the primary funder of KVUT, and not as much from listeners. The station's website and its content is already gone, and trying to click the website now gets a redirect to UT-Tyler's main website. With the loss of KVUT, it means the loss of a job for longtime TV newsman Mike Landess, who had been doing newsbits and longform interviews of local notables for the station. No word yet on what will happen to the 99.7 frequency and license. https://www.kltv.com/2024/05/24/ut-tyler-announces-kvut-997-will-cease-operations-friday-evening/

Bloomberg reports that Neeraj Khemlani is stepping down as president and will take on a new role within the company. Interestingly part of his new " position with the company to develop books for Simon & Schuster." That part of CBS reportedly has been sold to KKR. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/cbs-news-president-neeraj-khemlani-to-step-down-change-role/ar-AA1fe5Q0 Update: Deadline has a lot more detail including two memos https://deadline.com/2023/08/cbs-news-neeraj-khemlani-steps-down-1235495240/

https://nypost.com/2023/01/12/cbs-news-boss-neeraj-khemlani-faces-internal-hr-review/amp/ What a mess!!!

Everyone has been so caught up with Coronavirus and Tegna speculation that this slipped under the radar. Disney CEO Bob Iger has stepped down (though will continue to serve as Chairman through the end of the year) and he has been replaced with Bob Chapek, who previously served as Chairman of Parks, Experiences, and Products for Disney. https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/bob-chapek-named-chief-executive-officer-of-the-walt-disney-company/ Having moved up from production assistant at ABC, Iger was very strongly connected to the TV side of things. The new guy is not. Chapek comes from a marketing and advertising background, and has bounced around Disney since he joined in 2011, but never with the TV side of the company. Meanwhile, the company is reportedly losing $30 million dollars a day due to park closures and theatrical releases being suspended. Back in 2010, Disney explored spinning off ABC because it didn't "add value" to their other properties, and that was when it was being run by someone who has basically worked for ABC his entire adult life. Now, Disney is rapidly losing market value, and is being run by the guy who was previously in charge of the "other properties". Buckle up, folks. This could get interesting.

It's amazing to think all the money they spent on acquiring FOX could well be part of Disney's downfall. If the implication is that ABC could eventually/quickly be up for sale, I can't think of literally anyone in a position right now to buy it--not even Sinclair.

My vote is to model it after CNBC which stands for Consumer News and Business Channel. GPNBC General and Political News Broadcasting Channel (Or PGNBC)

My first mistake was reading the comments. Why did I read the comments? I hope this is as true as what the sentence implies. msnbc doing more straight, hard news is a very exciting idea. However I don't think having Brian Williams anchor for two hours is a good idea at all. msnbc has enough credibility issues the way it is, the last thing they need is the man who was removed from the highest rated evening newscast in the country due to lying and falsifications in his reporting anchoring the news again regularly. Viewers will have a very hard time believing anything he says. Either way, these changes are very very much needed for the network, the question is whether or not they'll actually work. Seems that Rachel Maddow and Joe and Mika are untouchable though.

I grew up watching The ED Show since his debut, but I'm heartbroken that its going bye-bye.

Bringing Chuck Todd back for 5PM is a good move; they desperately need more hard-news credibility over there. 3-5PM could be Brian Williams? I didn't think they would keep him around just to be a breaking news anchor... what would he do all day? It looks like they're going to have him do a daily afternoon show, and anchor breaking news coverage when necessary, which is essentially taking a page out of FNC's book. But will BriWi really be able to rival Shep and his spaceship? Why Sharpton will still have a show is a mystery to me. The ratings are almost as abysmal as Ed's, not to mention the conflicts of interest/ethical issues. I imagine he (and Chris Hayes) will be the next to go, because Concha hinted that the 6 and 8PM ET hours are due for a shakeup as well. There have been rumors that soon-to-be former ESPN employee Keith Olbermann might be in talks with MSNBC.... Lord help us. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-rumor-alert-olbermann-coming-back-several-shows-getting-slashed/

CBS This Morning is a TERRIFIC show! Very different from the other two shows and also really unique. Unless Charlie or Gayle decide to leave because they've had enough of the dreaded morning shift, I think this team will be here to stay for at least 3 more years. CBS This Morning needs to make a name for itself through interviews with the 2014 and 2016 candidates. Getting a deal with BuzzFeed Brews helps but CTM needs to bring a lot more politicians into the studio to get grilled. This is how Morning Joe made their name. I wonder if the CTM/BuzzFeed partnership is the start of a continuing partnership between the 2 companies. Maybe CBS News' digital service which will be launching this year will include BuzzFeed as a content producer?

Has anyone seen the graphics PIX has for the election.. They are actually decent! Alot better then the regular ones.

In the promo with Sukanya Krishnan she calls her self the "main achor" of the PIX 11 Morning News. What does that make Frances Rivera? I thought they were co-anchors. Did WPIX hire Dyrol Joyner full time as sports reporter? He's been on every weekend during the NFL Season.