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KOTA uses WSI MAX, yes. Understand, weather graphics often ship from the group's design hub and they will "install" the right assets for the weather system a station uses, either WSI MAX or Baron Lynx, sometimes both. Once the assets are installed on the weather computers, while there will likely be some pre-made templates, it's up to the meteorologists to customize each individual graphic. For news graphics, though, each station needs to make sure its hardware is compatible, groups may make the decision to deprecate certain hardware configurations so that it's easier for their remote technicians to diagnose a problem. Depending on the station, they will likely have to wait until they invest in new hardware and will launch new graphics when they're ready. For each station, it's up to management to decide whether they want to wait to launch weather graphics with the new news graphics, or just go ahead and launch weather graphics when they're ready.

My best guess that's the case, and their graphics system likely dates back to when ABC moved from downtown Rapid City to Fox's facility on Skyline Drive, and hasn't hit the point in the capital budget cycle where it can be updated/replaced. (Affiliation is the only easy way to say that with how Gray rearranged the signals when they purchased, spun off, and eventually repurchased what had been KOTA-TV which is now KHME-TV, and moved the KOTA-TV call letters and IP to what was KEVN-TV.)

Is that the same story for KOTA then? They've had GrayOne weather for a while now, but still the old graphics package.

Yes. They use WSI MAX for weather.

are the weather graphics a completely different program?

Their hardware doesn't support GrayONE.

why didn't they adopt the full GrayOne package?? Kinda silly to do the weather and new logo, but not the complete package??

Se Kwon of KMSP Fox 9 in the Twin Cities will be moving to Fox 32 Chicago

Oh… Didn’t realize such a hat would be needed in LA. Lol.

Probably kept it from her KABC days. I recall Tim McNicholas reporting for WCBS while wearing a WBBM CBS 2 jacket.

West coast ABC7 logo on winter hat. I remember when they updated the website template and had the west coast version of the logo which was understood as site builder just needing to update the logo from the site template they used. But in this instance, someone has to actively order this hat. Obviously, it’s not the biggest of deals, but it’s funny to notice these things.

KDVR/KFCT & KWGN have a stream going too.. https://kdvr.com/live/weather/?ipid=live_weather_nav

Merry Christmas! It does look like Nexstar is becoming the next group to launch streaming weather channels. After posting on WIAT, it looks like these are two new examples I just discovered: WKBN: https://www.wkbn.com/weather/?ipid=navlinkweatherstream WRIC: https://www.wric.com/weather-update-livestream/

UPDATE He has since passed away. A giant in hurricane forecasting, he was 94. https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/dr-neil-frank-dies/285-26cc29fe-18ee-4e47-bdf3-5039367c021a

Not likely. Network logos isn’t required for NBC affiliates, not like Fox.

Did she make a mess or did she do precisely what she was hired to do? Perhaps she should have spiked the story earlier but regardless, she wasn’t hired for her skill set in shepherding the legacy of CBS News into the future. She was hired to be a hatchet person to that legacy. The degree to which we (the collective societal “we”) simply disregard and outright ignore what is happening around us as society falls is staggering to me. Perhaps it shouldn’t be. What has come out in the Epstein files alone would have brought down any other president. Now, it’s not even a blip. Setting aside the veracity of each individual claim, that preponderance of association and cloud of suspicion being utterly ignored by mainstream media is terrifying. Joe Biden slurred some words and the coverage was incessant. The current office holder rants incoherently, makes thinly veiled death threats against perceived enemies, wants to pull non-existent licenses from networks (and the president should actually know how thIs works, but I digress), is linked time and time again to perhaps the worst sexual predators in our lifetime — and the news outlets bring us the latest viral video, cute squirrel story, Taylor Swift gossip or what have you. Not a single one of the big three broadcast news operations is doing real journalism on a regular basis, and now the correspondent who did so has her story killed. Oh wait, I’m sorry, “postponed.” My time on this earth may not be all that much longer in the grand scheme of things. I look at the next generation in my extended family and fear for the world we’re leaving them.

Nice of Maurice to add a bit of Murrow at the end. Good luck to those two.

I bet these stations are breathing a sigh of relief. Their chances of being divested/sold may have gone down, but who knows? I’m shocked that KUSA isn’t on the list, since they’re one of TEGNA’s crown jewels.

Related: After decades with some variation of a red 2 and NBC peacock logo, KTUU recently launched a peackock-less WBTV knockoff station logo and more stylized "AK News Source" news logo.

Does this mean the peacock logos come back?

Does anyone have online access to TVNewsCheck for the article "As Media Consolidates, TV Stations Consider Their Programming Options"? If so, can you cut and paste the content here? Thanks!

A major transitional shift is about to happen at KCBD Lubbock. A lot to unpack so stay with me here... Karin McCay, Abner Euresti, and John Robison have been together on air on KCBD for decades, at least since 1983 when John arrived. Beginning in January though, while no one is leaving, part of the team will break up. John, the Chief Meteorologist, is leaving the 5:00, 6:00, 9:00 (KJTV) and 10:00 pm newscasts and instead will transition to their noon and 4:00 pm newscasts Monday-Thursday with Sundays at 9:00 (KJTV) and 10:00 pm. He'll also become Senior Meteorologist. Steve Divine takes over as lead forecaster on weeknights at 5:00, 6:00, 9:00 (KJTV), and 10:00. Finally, Meteorologist Shania Jackson will move to do weekday mornings for Daybreak Today (5-7 am on KCBD, 7-8 am on KJTV) and Good Day Lubbock (8-10 am on KJTV). https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSbPwz5CRXu/?igsh=czZsanR3dGh0ZWRz