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This is what confuses me: the on-air brand changed without thought to the digital brand. If anything, in this day and age, there should be even less emphasis on TV branding. There has also been no explanation on air for the change from what I've seen. I get the sense that this was a reluctant and not super well-thought out change. WABC and KABC still calling themselves Eyewitness News, I totally get. I didn't think WLS' change back to that brand was necessary at the time, but I get they did it for a throwback reason that may have resonated with their viewers. For KGO, the only honest reason for this change is "because New York, LA, and Chicago all do it and it makes sharing graphics easier," and that's a pretty lame reason.

You were saying?!?! KGO does pick up "Eyewitness News" as of yesterday.

I do think KGO keeping ABC7 News as a brand online is not ideal, but that's a gripe I've had with them for years. Go all-in on ABC7 Bay Area best you can and call it a day.

Dispatch might be a little “too New York,” but it’s an improvement over KABC’s last package. All KABC, KGO, WLS, and KTRK need now is the WABC Eyewitness News font.

Dude. Don't give them ideas.

I've never heard of it, but considering the sheer number of diginets out there, I'm not surprised.

This also makes having the city/region name in their graphics all the more important. ABC 7 Eyewitness News Los Angeles, Chicago, and now the Bay Area. WABC doesn't follow the same route, thankfully, but you can probably see it as the same there, too, depending on how you view it.

Nice remaster though I think the music only saw play in this promo, and wasn’t a primary news theme.

Inside the CNN Newsroom during the Challenger Disaster, as we just passed the 40th anniversary of tragedy

That means they probably now operate KMYT as well. I have a feeling it will be "KOKI" soon, a.k.a., being seen on KTUL 8.2, have the newscasts merged, and operations will be gutted on both sides. Ugh. This is why Sinclair is pure evil. And no way in HELL will Sinclair will continue to maintain KOKI's current newscast schedule. Lots of cuts coming there too once operations merge if Sinclair is still dealing with financial issues (which I believe is BS though). Ugh.

I think ABC7BayArea.com would be just fine. I mean, its not that hard to change it or go with that route.

It's bad enough that KTUL got decimated by Sinclair. It's downright appalling that it appears KOKI is going to be gutted as well. That basically leaves Griffin and Scripps to serve the market, and even Scripps is in a risky position as well. Sickening for a market of Tulsa's size.

Ugh I hate these changes at least KGO didn’t switch to Dispatch aka WABC theme.

It feels nasty to have it part of the open. I think it wouldnt be so bad it if had a small opening that says "the following broadcast is brought to by ________ . Fade to black or a flash. Then the opening graphics run". To be so deeply intergrated into the open always feels nasty to me. But these days. Most things in local news feels like a downgrade.

Good vibes don't pay the bills.

I just checked the WSNN schedule, and it looks like Nexstar continues to reduce the station's news output. It's now only on weekdays from 6-7 a.m. and 5-6 p.m. (repeated from 6-7 p.m.) with weekends completely gone. It now airs a simulcast of WFLA's 7-9 a.m. news from WTTA as well as its half-hour weeknight 10 p.m. news, also from WTTA. Outside of that, that is it.

After the metorologist merry-go-round as KTUL took its last breaths, this may even be worse. KOKI was the true alternative in Tulsa and there should've been no way SBG gets to control three stations and undermanage them like this. I was so relieved when pre-Apollo Cox bought KOKI from Clear Channel and let them thrive. KTUL was a rug pull, but Apollo-era Cox, INSP and now Rincon just decided to neglect a station towards irrelevancy, which is far, far worse. I'm also fearful SBG will copy the Tulsa template with WHBQ and hub everything out but weather to WZTV in Nashville, and it's all but inevitable with KBSI.

I have the details on Tulsa. it confirms Rincon is just a sjnclair sidecar. As of today, Sinclair now operates KOKI, while Rincon retains the FCC license. Within three months, Sinclair will relocate KTUL’s operations to KOKI’s facility and merge them. KOKI’s GM has been fired and ND took a job with corporate. Lots of layoffs to come, particularly on the KTUL side. very sad.

Sinclair strikes again in Tulsa at either KJRH (Scripps) or KOKI (Ricon) or continues to ruin KTUL….

Hopefully CBS News Atlanta Mornings will expand into a full 4:30-7am morning news show as time goes on, more resources come in, and more hires are made. Oh, and there are the other dayparts to do in between 7am and 6pm as well as weekends but that is to come in near future and is a discussion for another day. Viewers are now seeing that WUPA is a station that knows what they are doing and the ratings are paying off as a result.

That happened to me at a hotel in NY with CBS there. But say what you wanna say about CBS News they polish there local stations and the fact that WUPA could beat WANF ratings-wise says a lot about the latter than it does WUPA, CBS knows how to run its local stations. Even WWJ in Detroit is even doing good in the ratings so CBS is good I'm some of its market at least the new ones.

And they are actually doing well in the ratings, I guess a new local news operation is still possible to launch off the ground in this day in age.

In the future lawsuit WINK: "we communicated internally to protect staff..." Who are apparently getting harassed in DMs. It goes both ways Devitt chose to go online and lie he was blindsided, when in reality he wasn't. WINK warned him repeatedly going back to 2024, and coworkers reported him to HR. He could have gone to his page and said he decided a year ago not to renew, that he and WINK decided to separate 2 months early before his contract expired, and that he will have an exciting announcement soon. Now he's making it sound as if his FB page was taken by WINK, when it could be Meta disabling it because he was verified as a WINK News asset. I wonder if his agent dropped him, he's not behaving like someone who is being advised

He Used company time, tried poaching employees while actively employed - meaning those he approached reported him to HR WINK will have to sign away their rights to whatever he was building. if he really did sign an acknowledgement letter, his agent/lawyer cleared it, anyone partaking with equity in the venture is fully exposed to litigation and more than likely doesn't own what they invested in And he keeps talking, after WINK took his Facebook page