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I saw them in reverse order because one of them was put up today, so...

Actually, it's the other way around. The Indiana part was first followed by the nationwide trend.

I gotta give credit where credit is due... The View this season is a really great program. I now is a good time if Whoopi is ready to go, Joy should be able to hold the fort down with Candace, Sara, Sunny and Jedediah. Paula is frankly a hot mess, not mean for a show like The View and she's gotta go, Raven is good as it seems she's on once a week (Fridays). It may be the election coverage but the program is really entertaining and thought provoking again.

Kimberly Gill was hired to replace Carmen and Carmen has been doing scaled back hours for a couple years. Never a question or contest for her replacement over there.

What's the first thing you notice about these ads? MEN! Hard drinking burly, no-shit taking News MEN. Back then when, the politico's lied to them...they got whacked upside the head with an EV-635 mic. And those "news women" in those ads.... Well they were just a bunch of "women's libbers" and drunken floozies. Real News men! And they used Manuel typewriters.... And rotary phones that weighed 5 pounds... And they were "the most trusted" in the market... (try saying that shit now-days) And they smoked 8 packs a day...inside the newsroom. And film cameras with cranks...no batteries....batteries were for pussy's... And they wore gold blazers...with cool patches. And L.A. only had one area code(213) There were no cellphones....just 2-ways and "mobile phones" that cost 5 dollars per minute to use.... And the internet was only for pussy's.... Cuz real newsmen read their porno in a real magazine...purchased from a sleazy bookstore next to the bar. All while the women cooked...and the men had sex with the court clerks (also floozies) after hours. And the news was only a 1/2 hour long...twice a day...because real newsmen got FRIGGIN RESULTS in just 1/2 hour....twice a day.

Yes... You are correct in your guess...and the 500 other guesses you may have would also be correct. I will let you in on the secret if you promise NOT to tell. ...It's gonna be a real cool effect/ shot (they hope)...and judging from the picture I have zero clue what the end result will be....except they hope it looks cool. Or they just might be "removing" those ugly cars with a pre-production element/shot....or just making a funky looking transition box for a stand-up. This could also be a trick....a giant green 'black hole" that unsuspecting viewers get tossed into and spun into social media hell...only to be tossed out naked during a commercial break. It's anybodys guess, but if you find out let me know cuz I'm curious also.

I'm slightly confused about the use of the green screen for these promo shoots 11 is doing? Would they be shooting straight into the green screen, keying it out and keying it over a better shot of the same location? [MEDIA=instagram]BLkX13kgkHk[/MEDIA]

David has been on weekdays for 2 years. My guess is Gus and Kerry will do weekends.

Anne Sweeney was her name. IIRC, she left way before Behar returned. The View was moved to the news division a few months before Joy came back.

It was actually mentioned in the CRM article about 'FLD that WGN has strong weekend evening numbers. Here's an idea if they really wanted to shake things up and give the evening products a shot in the arm: Steve Sanders replaces Bob. He could cut back his hours, and maybe do some feature reports during the week. Negovan gets midday, plus Negovan/Bair do 4pm to break up the Mark and Micah monotony. Then they could go back to the newsroom style for the 5pm with Suppelsa/Materre.

I haven't watched the show in some time now, but from what I'm hearing from you all, I may need to DVR it. I know a lot of people disagree with me, but I enjoyed the show most during the one season Rosie O was the moderator. It was appointment TV for me that year. I don't particularly enjoy Whoopi as the moderator, although she has gotten better over the years. I think Joy would be a fantastic choice to replace Whoopi if and when she decides to leave.

To me, this isn't the story of Fox 32's ascension, but the fall of WGN. A combination of independence on 9, and a few good lead-ins on Fox makes for bad news for Chicago's Very Own, but it really goes beyond that. Granted, it's early, but WGN's primetime schedule isn't getting any better as the baseball season ends. But again, not that's not necessarily their biggest problem. I'm going to suggest something I never thought I'd ever say...Frankly, one could make the legitimate argument that Fox is putting out the superior product at 9pm right now, and that's why WGN needs to be afraid. Sure, there are those annoying Fox-y things that will never go away, but I can't help but think that viewer fatigue is finally setting in on WGN. Instead of trying something unique with the well-deserved right, the expansion to 10 o'clock just dragged down the quality of the 9, robbing segments and features from the big show to feed the baby, moving around some longtime fixtures (i.e. sports, shifting from the end of the hour to 9:40), and filling in the gaps with more Skilling and useless filler. The last 10-15 minutes of the 9 o'clock news are a virtual throwaway. To a broader extent, opting for a single team across all nighttime shows is what really kills it, for me. I'm not the biggest Micah Materre fan, and I generally lose any interest in watching more than a few minutes of their 3.5 hour PM on-air shift when she's on. I'm sure others feel that way about any of the 4 lead personalities. The WGN News at Nine used to be appointment television, but when I have the option to watch the same product at 4, 5, 10, or not at all, the luster fades for the flagship. Heck the morning show is divided into 3 different blocks, and the midday news is comfortably formatted 2 ways. The one hour morning news adapted and thrived as it ballooned to 6 hours, and I never felt like the news at noon suffered by adding an hour at 11 (with a pit stop at 11:30). Why can't the evening shows figure that out? As for WFLD, 9 o'clock is certainly attainable right now. They should focus on that, and string a few months or even a year of gains/victories together before we declare it to be more than just a fluke. They're going to need older viewers to truly get over the hump (and go against the cardinal rule of television demography), since the demo really isn't an issue. Get that together, then you can set your sights on other dayparts. Unless the proverbial bomb drops only on Bradley Place, #1 in the mornings ain't happening anytime soon. Besides, they need to jump 4 stations in the morning, not just 1. I'll repost the relevant parts in the WGN thread tomorrow with a few unoriginal, familiar, but reasonable suggestions of my own. And one more item for my incoherent rant...Would it kill Dan Roan to wear a gosh darn pair of real life, big boy suit pants? I seriously can't be the only person than can see his bare knees and cargo shorts through the desk. Get a new desk...and set, and then you can sit there in a thong, for all I care. G'night, e'rybody.