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KTVU had a Ukraine Donation Ad in place of the News Ad but it’s been gone for a few weeks now. Yay for being Ad free.

Hothaus designed that package. This was when KGTV was at its best and very competitive with KFMB during its “Local 8 News” era.

Wow that extended forecast WLS is using brings back late 90’s vibes. KGTV used something similar before. also KGO and KABC still haven’t updated its abc on-air bug on its newscasts. However regular programming and promos have the updated version.

Allen Martin retires from KPIX. You’ll see some former co-anchors from the past at KPIX, KSBW and KFOR in this package. https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/kpix-5-anchor-and-reporter-allen-martin-set-to-retire/?fbclid=IwAR2gAMagVRxtftnq2y4tPkIqTdsgO6SVHkhXG7qs3V5BLP9hohifC0LI7xo#l44mfr3flnvzpl79798 also KGO did a farewell this morning to General Assignment Reporter Amy Hollyfield who is leaving after 21 years. She started off as a writer then becoming an on air GSA Reporter for ABC7 Mornings.

All that hype for nothing and the old set still remains

It will debut in May for May Sweeps

Rob Roth retires from KTVU after 38 years https://youtu.be/yJ55JWHhE_E Maria Cid Medina is leaving KPIX next week. https://www.instagram.com/p/CaDt5xYPQZV/?utm_medium=copy_link Morning Meteorologist Mary Lee is stepping down at KPIX, she will be freelancing on science and earth stories here and there. She also went viral earlier in February when her fiancé proposed to her in studio while taping a weather segment for CBS NEWS Bay Area. https://youtu.be/lg_HHHIAKDE 3 New Reporters join KGO Tara Campbell from WOWT Karina Nova from WBNS. She already filled in anchoring this past weekend on the evening shows Gloria Rodriguez from its O&O group WTVD. She will be mostly be reporting in the mornings.

The original set is almost 9 years old and the refresh of the current set they built on the side where the old GDLA is only a few years old.

FTV reporting KPIX 5 News Director is out. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2022/1/4/breaking-news-san-francisco-news-director-out this comes as Ryan Yamamoto and Sara Donchey are supposed to make their debut sometime this week.

KGO’s Laura Anthony retiring after 30+ years in the business and 20 at ABC7

Sad news to report, a well known news anchor in my area was arrested on suspicion of DUI last night. The video of the anchor ramming the other car and getting arrested was overwhelming to watch. im not going to post it. You can put the puzzle pieces together and will most likely hear about it this weekend.

Just noticed the other night that KGO’s station affiliate logo isn’t the transparent black when returning from break. Just noticed now during the Celtics and Bucks game it’s a full white logo now. Makes sense because the Black ABC7 logo was so hard to see before switching over to the abc logo

Status Quo

With the spike in new cases of the new variant. All the stations in my market are social distancing again. Hello Brady Bunch boxes!

http://www.newsmusicnow.com/player.php?id=4219 found the cut that’s catchy (Tease B). This is the full closing theme used at Noon and the 3pm show, but they use a minus one version for its bumpers on the A Block (12:10pm) at Noon and B block (3:22pm)

Oh wow Gari is being phased out just listened to the sampler of CBS Local on NMSA. All this time the morning promo music was CBS Local. Interesting.

Didn’t want to make a new thread under News Music. Wasn’t sure if this is part of a new update with graphics soon….. KPIX now decommissioned the CBS Enforcer Metropolis Package in favor for either a 2021 Version 2 Update or a new CBS Enforcer Version 3 theme. (It’s not the version 3 theme that was uploaded on YouTube a while back and deleted) Metropolis is only used for its 4:30-6am opens only. Millenial Beat, Modern Classic, Epic Energy from Version 2 is also decommissioned for its bumpers and closing music The Noon, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 11pm Opens are now rolled out with the new updated Enforcer theme along with new bumpers and closing music. The new theme is more slower and dramatic. However there is one track on its bumpers which I do like because it’s upbeat and catchy.

Roberta Gonzales announced on her Instagram that she is returning to the airwaves and joining KTVU as a part time meteorologist. It’s been 4 years after she left KPIX to focus on starting her own production company.

Morning Traffic reporter Jenny Milkowski posted on Instagram that she is leaving KFMB and will be moving up the dial across town to KUSI.

https://ibb.co/JBFL0L0 here’s a new graphic shot KPIX used over the weekend

I was thinking it was a toolkit because KPIX uses the same Network Eye graphic where it breaks apart and switches from KPIX 5 in white (without the gold 5) to CBSN Bay Area on its monitors in studio.

I’m going to miss the California O&O package (KABC, KFSN and KGO). Even though there are different colors, variant schemes, different consistencies with the fonts on 3 of the stations, It was the most simplistic look without fancy animations and all the bells and whistles.

Ryan Yamamoto announced on Facebook that he is coming home. He is currently anchoring mornings at KOMO and will be anchoring evenings at KPIX 5. He replaces Ken Bastida who recently retired after 30 years. Ryan will be joining Elizabeth Cook at the desk in 2022.

Ken Bastida signs off from KPIX after 31 years. They did tributes to him all week and here is his final goodbye. https://youtu.be/Qm-gJX-1YTg

Kyla Grogan is leaving KTVU due to the internal issues that has been on going behind the scenes. I’m guessing the Frank Somerville fiasco was the ice breaker. https://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/2021/10/kyla-grogan-apparently-leaving-ktvu.html?m=1