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Within the past week or so (for the first time since Granite abolished it a few years ago for cost-cutting purposes), WKBW has begun live-streaming its newscasts. It's like night and day comparing the station to before Scripps took over a year-plus ago.

http://wkbw.com/live

They do not replay their newscasts during off hours, though.

I have reason to believe WFTS has switched over to VizRT based on a tip I received and some video evidence I posted below. It looks like this happened a couple weeks ago.

 

Look closely at the lower thirds in this video:

 

And the "before":

 

Nothing too exciting. It helps to see the videos on YouTube so they're bigger and you can make out more detail.

Very subtle (L3s don't need to "recue" when transitioning from names to story topic; bug has lens flare; transitions in left box are faster) but barely noticeable to the untrained eye.

Speaking of DC, LiveWell is finally dead here. The subchannel was replaced by a sci-fi channel called "Comet," owned 50/50 by Sinclair and MGM.

Saw a commercial for it last night where I live. WMYA (the MyNetwork TV affiliate here) has picked it up for their .2.

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Probably a tell-tell sign of a possible Time Warner-CBS Merger? We'll see about that one.

You guys are reaching big time if you think that photo means that CBS and TW are merging.

Seems like alot of talent are leaving the Channel 9 Natalie, Blair, and others as well. Blair staying with Cox though. WSOC & WFTV are both ABC affiliates, with the same owner and the #1 status in ratings. However WSOC doesn't seem to have a strong bench of talent like WFTV. I wonder will WSOC get some young hires that will stay with the station for years to come.

You have to wonder if/when the turnover will catch up to them?

WBTV has to be licking its chops.

 

What about Universal News? You could also rebrand CNBC as Universal Business and buy the rest of The Weather Channel and call it Universal Weather.

 

it was also known as the General Electric Building 30 rock too so that's where the name came from not ge smith

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His last three twitter follows were Bill McGinty, Michelle Boudin and Dianne Gallagher, all 3 from WCNC

Makes sense if it's WCNC. WBTV and WSOC are pretty set anchor wise and I'd doubt he'd join WJZY or WCCB.

By the way, I've seen Fred anchor a few times because I have family up that way (NC) and didn't have an issue with him at all. Good get for 'CNC. I wouldn't be surprised if his wife took Astrid Martinez's vacant spot at WBTV, though.

Speculation is back that Natalie is on the way out. Reports say Hoda would replace her as newsreader and that she would go to Dateline.

 

http://pagesix.com/2015/05/01/natalie-morales-out-at-today/

 

Pure speculation on me but if Lester officially takes over weeknights, she would make a great weekend NN anchor.

Question is, would Hoda remain on TFHOTS if (IF) she replaces Natalie?

"Main anchor". What happens to Leon Harris?

 

WTAJ just started doing Forecast Firsts on every newscast this evening, not just the 11PM (where they initially did it since launching their HD newscasts in 2013). Are there any other Nexstar stations that just started implementing this change?

WATN was doing it as recently as their relaunch. I believe WROC (I might be mistaken) does as well.

I'm not sure if that's still the case, but I'm sure there are users in those markets that can correct me.

Whenever I think of WOUB, I think of this...

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Mike Nichols, Diane Sawyer's husband and an award-winning director who was a member of the rare "EGOT" club (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner), died today at 83:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/20/showbiz/obit-mike-nichols/index.html

Looks like the virtual set revolution hit Morris-owned WTVQ yesterday...

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/wtvq-launches-good-day-kentucky_b130581

“Good Day Kentucky” will mark the first time in the Lexington market that a local news program has been shot almost entirely on a virtual set.

 

“We feel that virtual sets are the future of news programming and ‘Good Day Kentucky’ is an exciting step forward for our station and our market,” said WTVQ news director Steven France, who has overseen the implementation of the new technology.

Hopefully it's better than this at their sister station in NC...

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WKBW poaches another talent in Buffalo. WIVB reporter Ed Drantch is moving to Ch. 7 and will start October 13.

http://talkintv.buffalonews.com/2014/09/24/ch-4s-drantch-headed-ch-7/

After a year and a half, WKBW's Hilary Lane is leaving the station for a reporter position in Philadelphia, near her family in New Jersey.

https://twitter.com/HilaryL16/status/511598717653495808

And the station's morning newscasts are scheduled to relaunch on or around September 29. Looks like they will use two meteorologists in the AM.

http://talkintv.buffalonews.com/2014/09/16/ch-7s-different-type-morning-show-weather-centric/

 

my range of emotions :angry: :ack: :bang:

 

RIP The Spirt of Texas. 1984 - 2014. One of the best local news image IDs to ever exist in the country.

 

Big changes starting to take shape at WKBW with Scripps taking over.

A week ago, Cole Heath and Tiffany Lundberg were fired; now Mike Randall will move from mornings to weekends and do features two days a week for the station, while Andy Parker returns to the station to take his place. Parker was there from 1993-2000 but left after a conflict and joined WGRZ.

Interested to see if they poach another station for morning anchors or hire out of market.

 

Aren't all COX's ABC affiliates like that also? WSOC doesn't use the ABC logo on anything at all.

 

 

and it appears they might be ahead of some others, if they are getting custom This is Home themes...

 

 

Tenikka Smith is leaving WSOC-TV to join sister station WAWS/WTEV in Jacksonville. https://www.facebook.com/wsoctv/photos/a.116581068378592.7728.114787771891255/699473420089351/?type=1&permPage=1

 

 

One would hope. The Spirit of Texas is probably one the well known image tags to EVER exist (never mind how effective it was back in the day.) Replacing that with the midmarket-type This Is [What] Home would just be a tragedy to the legacy of the Belo stations.

 

Speaking of well-known signatures, fast forward to 2:53 in the This Is Home package (http://southernmedia-nmsa.com/#3,1,1699)...

 

It looks like WXIA will be rebuilding their morning show so it revolves around Vinnie Politan. Say goodbye to 11Alive News Today and say hello to "Atlanta Alive." And you can say goodbye to Karyn Greer anchoring mornings...

 

http://www.11alive.com/story/life/2014/07/15/11alive-atlanta-alive/12716309/

 

In other news...

For the second day in a row a Charleston station launches a new set. Yesterday at 5am it was WCBD, and today at noon it was WCSC. They switched to the new Raycom graphics and are now using the updated CBS Enforcer cuts.

Your move, WCIV...

Sad news out of Atlanta and WSB TV. Herb Emory WSB traffic reporter stopped to help a car accident over the weekend passed away when he had a sudden heart attack.

 

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/wsb-traffic-reporter-herb-emory-dies_b119167

Heard Capt. Herb a few times while visiting ATL and was always impressed by his detail and knowledge of the area'a roadways. That's a huge loss for WSB.