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Ted tried to go live during the 4PM today and was heckled and interrupted by striking workers so I guess they decided not to go back to him for the rest of the night. The control room is contact with the field reporters and I'm sure they relay to the control room whether or not their live shot might be picketed.

When Sandy hit, they brought in reporters from WMAQ, KXAS and WTVJ. They might do the same this time around and hopefully have some photographers come with them. Also it wouldn't surprise me if reporters doing taped packages are out flying solo. In a lot of these taped pieces reporters are using lapel mics instead of handhelds.

WCAU's on air talent is represented by SAG-AFTRA.

I don't see how. Once the strike is resolved they'll be back to the way they were. So any laughing they're doing will be short lived.

They're running on a skeleton staff with few photographers and replacement technicians in the control room that aren't used to their setup. It's gonna show on air.

Anzio reports to Ric and Ric is the general manager of the station. Anything that goes on at the station essentially goes through him. He reports to Valarie Staab who runs the O&O division of the network. I would think Ric has to run something as big as a new union contract by her though. Also why would union workers tell people to watch WPVI which isn't a union shop at all? Stupid if you ask me.

Here's the article rklosen was referring to: http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2015/09/25/nbc10-ibew-local-98-union-comcast-contract-strike.html Looks pretty straightforward to me that the station wants to implement some level of automation (esp during cut-ins and breaking news) and the union isn't having it. Just my opinion, but do you really need a fully staffed control room just to run a 2-3 min cut-in? I know we're talking about people's jobs and all but it does seem pretty wasteful.

I saw it. It looked like something in the studio shit the bed. If you noticed, it took them 15 mins before they actually had an in-studio shot. Possibly a video switcher went down or something of that nature.

I would think that's why he's been off. Jim Gardner also took off for Yom Kippur.

Yeah they started at 11AM and got trounched by TPIR and The View so they moved it to Noon and it didn't make a dent there against 3 and 6 so they eventually cancelled it.

Word is they're getting people from KXAS in case there is a strike.

They had been experimenting pairing Sue up with Dave Warren for weather in the mornings with Dave doing the "Morning News" portion of the show and Sue the "Good Day" portion but that seems to have gone by the boards.

Oops. He's starting today though. He visited 94WIP's morning show today.

Former weekend sports anchor Don Bell has been named sports director.

I guess screw you Scott Williams huh.

Is Michelle just freelancing til they find a permanent meteorologist or is she it?

Oh yeah someone should tell 29 to update their bug to reflect the URL change

Site is a mess right now. Looks like someone's grandmother slopped together a Geocities page. The clunk is just awful and it's really never a good idea to hide the navigation pane on a desktop site. That works for mobile sites cause screen real estate is so precious but for a desktop site, some sort of active navigation is nice. On the plus side though, going back to fox29.com is great. It rolls off the tongue and saves a few keystrokes (although that URL always redirected you to the site).

That's Jim Donovan, the station's consumer reporter.

FOX broadcasts in 720p but WTXF compresses their signal to death. WFMZ probably isn't capable of HD out in field yet so they put out an widescreen SD image. Hence the blurriness.

Depends whether she's charged or not. If she's charged the station will extend her leave pending the outcome and whatever internal investigation they do.

Easy. I misread your post and I wasn't attacking you to begin with. It's not that serious. This.

You must not know the current schedule. 6's Noon news now runs for an hour. Millionaire's been running at 2. I wouldn't be surprised if Millionaire is the odd man out in. From what I've gathered, the second Jeopardy airing has done well for them and Millionaire has been irrelevant for awhile now.

Must not have been that obvious given your previous post. :chill:

You're late. http://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?/topic/13329-the-cbs-3-eyewitness-news-thread/page-5&do=findComment&comment=136727