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Whoa that's big news (and I wonder how long it'll take for Swoop to be axed from all but WPVI's Autumn opens lol). I hope ETN and CSN split the production duties of the preseason games. It would be cool to have the SNF look to them. ETN hasn't had the best of graphical looks for games over the years. The Eagles could very well be on 3-4 (maybe 5 or 6 with flex scheduling) SNF games this year with how much attention they've drawn on themselves nationally and this market loooooves their football team so I'm sure 10 and CSN will have that covered. As for WWSI, in theory they could (big could) a Spanish language TV simulcast for preseason games only. You can't do it for regular season as they're not a rights holder. The Eagles do have a Spanish radio network that is available through SAP.

There's reports that say Anzio would follow. But yeah Peter Dunn brought KYW out of the gutter and built it up into a contender then he went to WCBS and now he runs the station group.

It's a kick in the balls for WCAU esp if he takes Anzio Williams with him but they'll turn WNBC around like they did here. I'm confident that they'll bring in a competent replacement cause if they don't they'll hear about it from Comcast.

I'm pretty sure the video content on the NBC O&O sites are HTML5 based not Flash.

Yeah. The TV Spy article said the PPD was not happy about her jumping the gun on announcing his death before all of the family had been notified. That's usually standard protocol in any shop that you wait before going to air with it no matter how many sources confirm it.

You feel for her but what she did is a big no-no in journalism. You always wait til the family's been fully notified before going on air with that.

TCN is becoming the ESPN2 of CSN. If you noticed they recently peacocked the logo and the network is using the same IDs and graphics as CSN all day. Looks like the Breakfast on Broad will be like First Take (I hope not as annoying) as a morning talk show. Also Jillian said her good byes today on the 11AM news.

They kinda just started going on at 4. No announcements or anything like that. 4AM is the official start time though. If you go to the page that hosts their livestream it'll give you their current broadcast schedule and I believe that it does say 4AM on it.

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He'll probably be covering the Trenton Bureau. That had been reporterless for a little while now with Cydney and Ted covering stories from there.

Everyone in the market went early this morning. WCAU and WTXF started at 3 and normally start at 4, KYW and WPVI at 4 and normally go on at 4:30. It's not that big a deal. Our AM rush believe it or not does start around 4:30-5ish so to be on that early really isn't outlandlandish esp when 3AM was the predicted height of the storm.

Yeah we got about 5 inches in and around the city.

It's going through PHL's master control though so it very well be different equipment being used. What happens is instead of running that feed to their own master control, what 6 is doing is sending that feed either via fiber or microwave to 17's MC who then broadcasts the newscast.

Actually they switched in June of '11 coinciding with when they refreshed Look C.

Eww it looks like they regressed back to Accuweather's weather system. They had been using TruVu Max since they launched their current graphics package.

http://www.360musicproduction.com/nbcono/ The way Arnold/Chad Cook produces packages it wouldn't surprise me if the number of cuts in this package pushes 500. There's 5 different main themes and like 10 other franchise themes all with numerous submixes. WCAU only ever edited together the original cut they used for a bump. The theme they used/are using is a min long.

Yup (sorta. They're using a stripped version this time with the full theme unlike that loop they used before). We talked about it in the No Emotion Box earlier this week. I hope they bring it back in earnest with a few changes in cut selection.

It's from the original LA Groove package. I like it.

I misread that. I thought you were referring to Sarah who works Sunday-Thursday.

Imagine if your employer told you to work a 7 day work week.

Interesting. You wouldn't happen to have an idea as when it'll debut would you?

Good find on the new hires. They haven't had a true reporter for The Valley since Stacey Stauffer left the station. Good to see that filled. They have been using George Spencer for investigative pieces a lot lately so I guess him Harry and Mitch will make up the investigative unit. It was mentioned earlier that the weather center is staying put. That's not a bad thing either. It's really held up well for being 10 years old.

Doubt it. Their recent track record has been to debut new things at 11AM or 4PM and they've usually have been on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. I think this set change is more extensive than we all originally thought. It's been about a month now since they've been on the temp set now and if it were just a refresh I think it would have been done by now.

Like I mentioned earlier, I smacks of monkey see, monkey do. 10's sports department is the market's one and only RSN and their sports hits are done from their newsroom so I guess they want their sports hits to have that same prestige but they fell quite a bit short.

If you watch the promo for the "Sports Center" they have a few "fly on the wall" shots of it and that's nothing but a corner of the sports department. It's a really crappy setup. Also one head scratcher. If they're gonna call it the Sports Center, how the heck do they not co-brand it with corporate sister ESPN? I'm quite sure a couple phone calls could get the real Sportscenter logo and maybe some music over there and make it look like it wasn't some half baked idea. I'm sure this was conceived partially in reaction to NBC10 and CSN's partnership but it just seems rushed and poorly executed.