TexasTVNews

5 hours ago, MediaZone4K said:

Agreed, the new theme is bland forgettable. 

I wished all CBS O&Os including WCBS would use SAM's (Stephen Arnold Music) CBS Local.

27 minutes ago, Adam MadMan said:

Double posting, I know, but now it looks like Soo Kim is turning to the press: he wrote an op-ed article on Newsweek.

It won't help him.

As much as I dislike the branding, IMO WFOR should've been called CBS South Florida/CBS News South Florida.

1 hour ago, compubit said:

It sounds like KTVT is now CBS News Texas - but they've kept the CBS11 logo "in the box"...

 

Oh, I knew that, and I don't like it.

50 minutes ago, Adam MadMan said:

Hazel Dukes of the NAACP is PO'd at the FCC for letting the deal die.

She can get PO'd all she wants, but the deal will die and that's that.

4 hours ago, Geoffrey said:

I miss the days when news sets weren't just screens everywhere. And then to fill those screens with mostly just logos? 

I miss the main news set where the anchor desk rotate to the newsroom was back when they were K-EYEwitness News in 1995.

39 minutes ago, Myron Falwell said:

I for one can’t wait to read how this all came down in Soo’s forthcoming memoir…

He'll never get Tegna Media, period.

Sad news out of Detroit, former longtime WXYZ 7 Action News Sports Director Don Shane passed away at the age of 70.

https://www.wxyz.com/sports/longtime-channel-7-sportscaster-don-shane-has-died

Sad news out of Atlanta tonight. Dave Michaels, a longtime news anchor for 11Alive, CNN and other outlets died this month at 88 years old.

1 hour ago, roundtown said:

 

Allen Media To Launch ‘Mathis Court With Judge Mathis’

I told you Judge Greg Mathis will have a new court show soon. Now if Byron Allen would do the same for Judge Marilyn.

Judges Milian and Mathis will probably have new court shows in the near future... maybe in 2024.

Seeing the new WHIZ logo reminds me of the KMIR/Palm Springs logo from 2013-18.

1 hour ago, D Dwayne said:

I hope that NBC Sports rebuys AT&t SportsNet Southwest and rebrands it back into NBC Sports Houston.

I'm hoping that NBC Sports buys Bally Sports and rebrands. It would be nice to see Bally Sports Southwest change to NBC Sports Southwest.

According to TV Passport, KTVT still says CBS 11 News.

https://www.tvpassport.com/tv-listings/stations/cbs-ktvt-fort-worth-tx/1660/2023-02-20

11 hours ago, GodfreyGR said:

With MLB taking broadcasting in-house with the bankruptcy (as they have claimed they are prepared to do), I see deals with Fox O&O's, for example, to put MLB on the MyNets (WFTC in Minneapolis, KUTP Phoenix, KDFI Dallas, etc.)

It would be really nice to see Rangers baseball back on KDFI and KDFW (Should KDFW preempt daytime programming).

KEYE (42) deserves better than this. IMO, they should've stayed a CBS O&O station in the first place.

3 hours ago, Greggo said:

This thing is HIDEOUS. Very sterile. Could be popped into any market in the nation without a single tweak. Nothing about it says “Austin” or “Texas” 

 

 

Not only it's hideous, but it's also god-awful the worst set I've ever seen, and I've seen worst news sets. It's not KEYE and it's sure as hell it's not Austin.

No more Decades Binge, Through the Decades, and drama shows?

Longtime FOX 13 (WHBQ) reporter Tom Dees passed away after a long illness.

https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/fox13-mourns-loss-tom-dees/M4RIRJWTWJFJ7A47JV4QU7XIRY/

3 hours ago, east-tx-tv said:

...and may I add, sorely missed.  His laughs with his stage manager alone were worth the price of admission.

TS always cracks me up, even when you look up his name on YT, you'll find vintage episodes of The Tomorrow Show (NBC), and The Late Late Show w/ Tom Snyder as well as audio of Tom Snyder Radio Show (ABC Radio).

Late night talk is just not the same without Tom Snyder. Settle back, fire up the colortini, and watch the pictures... and the angels in heaven as they fly through the air. RIP Tom Snyder, and Godspeed.

One reason I stayed up and watched The Late Late Show is not because of Corden and Furgeson, but because of one host I admired for a long time. And his name was the late, great Tom Snyder.

1 hour ago, MorningNews said:

Is that the same desk as KXAN?

You guessed right.

1 hour ago, Myron Falwell said:

KYW didn't use the EWN name from 1991 until 1998, reclaiming it two years after Group W ceased to exist.

When KYW dropped EWN in '91, they were NewsDay (Morning), NewsBeat (Noon, 6pm), and The News Tonight (11pm) from 91-94 and then they were KYW News 3 from 94-98 and 3 brought back EWN in '98 and it stuck.

2 hours ago, carolinanews4 said:

After seven months of construction, KXAN has unveiled their new studio.

I wish KXAS (NBC 5) had a set like this.

1 hour ago, bmasters1 said:

Vintage WJZ EWN openings from 1980-83, both with the same music, and a different title formation:

 

--First, the late edition from that time, with title music in a more stereo format, and shots of late-night activities (fireman sliding down the firepole, carhop moving among cars at a drive-in, toll booth worker enjoying her job, etc.); the different title formation has the two parts of the Eyewitness News title coming together from the left and the right against a black screen (the way we were used to seeing it, the last shot [don't know what of] slid up and revealed the studio with the title superimposed on that shot):

 

 

--Then, same music, but with shots of evening activities for the evening edition (putting supper on the table, getting something out of the oven, someone lighting a menorah, ballet dancing, juggling, you name it); same title formation:

 

When you see intros like these, you will know that Baltimore and WJZ are just not the same without the late greats Jerry Turner and Al Sanders.