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I welcome your input. Although I've already stated my take on the music twice (as I say is the staple and the sentimental part of the station), I don't really care if they get any graphics or build a new set. They already reached eight years with the existing graphics. What Comcast have done to Channel 5 was nothing short of heavy investing. Last year, their morning news was nearly as low as WBBM. But not only they did these set of cosmetic changes last year, they'd also made personnel changes, after many of them left and went to NYC (Faris, Zee, Sambolin). Although I still thought it was rush to get Lester Holt's son Stefen on that anchor chair (after just started at the station some months prior), it appears with him and Guzman have finally made some charm in their ratings boost in the mornings. But I'm not going to let it pass this dummy. He's already done smaller changes, it would not be a surprising thing if he would be doing major change. And based on what 24994J is probably implying, I don't think its only going to be cosmetic changes, but changes could also come from personnel as well. Look at it, since Sylvia's abrupt departure, they haven't made a new 4pm talent open. So that alone could be a possible sign of something. Yet I probably think they'll probably make one in the near future, its been since then that they haven't made one. Also since this past month, I've also notice that there's been more fill-ins this time around on the Weekday shows. I think last week Stacey & Karen was filling it for Cheryl last week at 5pm. And Cheryl & Kathy was filling it for Linda this week at 4. I dunno if its sign would be under Idler's radar to change the personnel in the future. Like I stated, I wouldn't let it pass him. Should he go on with personnel changes, IMO he'll probably hurt the station more than helping. But we'll see if that bridge will be crossed. But to say about their morning woes, I think Live is staying at 9am on WLS from here on out, even if its not (or ever be) in first place. When WCL started, I had doubts about it getting viewers, but most of that time, they even shocked me as being on top at 9am, except their August dip before the move to 11am. And based on reading the comments from the article, many have made their 9am choice. Hell, WLS continues to plug the new morning lineup on the 8:56 GMA cut, and it's been three weeks. Even with the 2 four minute news/weather cut-ins during WCL or that 10+minute online midday show, no Chicago viewer likes a 9-hour local news gap on television (7am-4pm). That's why many of the viewers are flocking to good ol' Channel 9 and the other stations.

Okay what broadcastfan9751 posted earlier, Feder pointed out WLS ratings have dipped significantly in the mornings since these changes went in effect more than two weeks ago. GOOD!!!! I'd expected this. What did I say, WGN did what they needed to do. They heavily promoted their 9am and 11am shows like a hawk and so far, it has worked wonders for them. I hoping their continued success. It's not that folks have find a way to see Windy City Live, Dumbo Idler. Its that many folk are keen to their midday news. If they're not getting their news from Channel 7, they'll get it from somewhere else. And what Channel 7 did was, since dropping its 2-decade newscast, they basically hand their #1 baton to WGN. I told y'all earlier that it was going to be open season, and it appears that it has. As for their morning show, Channel 5 announced their win in the 25/54 demo on the last sweeps period. But it would be interesting to see the new sweep numbers in November if Channel 7 finally lose their #1 in the early morning news. And as long as they abide by the Corporate Master in keeping Kelly & Michael at 9am, they can kiss their #1 at 9am & 11am. I have a feeling that the station won't be dealing with these big blows too long and WCL will see better days being dumped and their hourly midday news will return, with all their glory.

TVNewsCheck is posting that the Citadel leaders Ray Cole & Phil Lombardo stated that although they're selling their Iowa cluster, they pointed out that there's some "unfinished business" with its two remaining stations, KLKN & WLNE. He stated that he plans to expand the reach of KLKN towards the entire Lincoln market. I don't know how you're going to do that, unless they want to buy the NTV cluster, west of their viewing area. Anything they do for WLNE wouldn't matter while WJAR & WPRI continues to dominate Southern New England. But I think it's time for Cole and Lombardo to just hang it up and rest into the sunset.

New M&A Completion. The change of guard from one next-of-kin to the next have been completed. The sale of WLOV to Tupelo Broadcasting from Lingard Broadcasting was consummated on Friday. One small M&A that seems to still waiting on that greenlight is this KTVA/KATH acquisition to Denali Media Holdings, a subsidiary of telecommunication firm, GCI. It's been over ten months since they'd announced the deal and the paperwork was posted January 28. It won't be long until the FCC comes up some sort of ruling,

The only thing I wouldn't like cosmetically is that Gari-land would be ceased. And the musical force of Arnold would return. Pinnacle might not come back, but something will. But I wouldn't mind them getting rid of those ridiculous Circle logos and getting the WATN treatment. Rebranding WOI by its calls and returning the Eyewitness News name would be lovely.

I'm not escaping the fact that it could be a Revenue Frontier scheme, if this is permanent. Last season, they started airing infomercials during the noon hour on the weekends, and that was an unconventional time for them to air it, yet I wasn't mad about that. They dropped those, as soon as they'd expanded its Saturday Morning news and moved its Litton block from 10am-1pm. Anyone can say it's a smart move to place more infomercials to get more revenue dollars. I'm not going to contest that, since all stations do that. But to me, it is a very asinine move to get rid of a staple that's been their since damn near the station's existence, since WBKB!!!. If permanent, this is an end of an era and history going down the drain. And it's sad nevertheless.

#IDGAF!!!! It's been a staple at the station for a long time and Dumbo Idler continues to do all these stupid changes. And as I said before, he's been doing these changes not for the better, but for the worst. Why get rid of something that's have been there for a long time. All he cares about is trying to slowly change the aspect of the station, looking more like a carbon copy of an O&O from out east, while kissing Rebecca Campbell's ass in the process.

I'm happy Citadel is wanting out. I'm still puzzled about a possible sell of Granite, could Nexstar still possibly go for a media monopoly in Binghamton with WBMG. Or Brady probably want to trade the WICZ chips for WBMG. There the only one smoking with a decent news ops. in the market. I know Citadel is not going to keep KLKN & WLNE for long. This could be yet another opportune time for those lameos in Maryland to acquire KLKN & maybe the Pappas NTV cluster in Nebraska. WLWN-LP is nothing short of speculation bate.

I was first thinking, why wouldn't ZGS scrape some chump change and acquire it. I wouldn't even be shocked if NBC go ahead and resell it to ZGS proper in the not too distant future. Maybe in the interim, NBC could use enough capital to give them some infrastructure (build them a new set and get some up-to-date equipment, etc.), and then ZGS would take over the day-to-day managerial ops.

New M&A Tonight. This time it involves NBC. NBC appears to be buying Rio Grande's Telemundo affiliate KTLM from Larry Patrick's Sunbelt Multimedia for $8.5M.

I'm pissed off. :angry: :bang: Another one of WLS-TV's hallmark staples could be out the door, and it doesn't involve its newscasts. I checked out Channel 7 earlier yesterday morning after 2:35am, and it appears that it has now starting to air a block of infomercials during the overnight hours on early Saturday and Sunday mornings, in lieu of those Late Night "public domain" movies that they've always have aired. And if you think there isn't any significance, the station has aired those kinds of movies since the station bought a perpetuity license to carry those 1930s, 1940s "RKO, C&C Movietime" films in 1957!!! So they'd aired these movies for 56 years!!!!! Back when they were WBKB. This station was probably the last station in the country to air these kinds of movies on any television station. I'm hoping this is not permanent and those movies come back, because I never remember at any point in time that they've didn't air those kinds of movies late at night on the weekends, and probably before World News Now, they would air this every night before signoff. Earlier on this thread, I'd mentioned that it did have a new late night movie bumper graphic, with the new ABC 7 logo on it. So in my mind, that would make me think they'll probably update the late night movie open. But now it appears, they probably have different plans. Now some of y'all are going to think, why is he bitching about some sort of movies and you weren't even around that time. It's a point of having those movies aired on this station all this time, makes it a tradition of its own. And this really blows, if this move is permanent. Video Courtesy of lobsterstuffedwithta from YT

Stacey also filled in for Kathy on the 6pm show tonight.

Do you have a source or link of a source? Because I'm trying to find a link of info to verify what you just said.

She wasn't even over there. Was she ever on the air on that new channel?

A newsvan flip over on the highway this morning. WINK states that its station's newsvan was flipped over on its side after one of its tires blew out on Interstate 75, near mile marker 112, in Naples, FL. News reporter Jennifer Ruffes and photographer Lucas Bogg were treated at a hospital with only minor injures, and they were later released.

They also are going to air that 20/20 special at 9pm, an hour before most of country see it, pre-empting that special Bachelor crap to after 2am in the morning (GOOD!!) or later depending on how long their election coverage last. And they still have to air Kimmel & Nightline (in its entirety). I hope the special goes longer than 11:35pm.

Well, after viewing the noon web briefings, since Tuesday, they've since replaced that former afternoon bumper, with that same EWN cue that's used on the 72GO opening to end the briefing, and most of the Weather segments happen towards the last few minutes. I think today, it was Linda who filled in, and I think they went over twelve minutes. But I'm shocked no one mentioned about the Windy City Live news inserts, and its nothing more than basically one full news insert at the top of the hour. The actual WCL show opening doesn't show until after 11:04am, after the news portion is done. At around 11:45-11:50ish, there's another insert where Tracy would do full forecast, and Linda would return to preview the upcoming 4pm show. And during the news insert, it has a modified bug to orbit the ABC 7 logo with the circle WCL logo. If you like that tweak of that graphic, you'll love the 11am one during WCL. It doesn't glow too much, and it's almost transparent. Those local news inserts are also repeated during the noon WCL repeat airing on 7.2. But before this week, I seriously thought this. If they're keeping the late night WCL repeat, are they're going to include those outdated news/weather inserts? When I saw the late night repeat on Monday, I didn't see the news inserts, but I did hear from one of the host that Linda did mention about a news event happened, so I'd assumed that insert already happened. As I'd watched towards the end of the program, it appears that they've edited out the two news/weather inserts from the 11am airing on the 12:07am repeat and WCL is now producing new content (between around 12:55-1:04am) to replace the inserts entitled "Windy City Live AFTER DARK", where its nothing more than a filler of more WCL content to replace those inserts. Those segments are posted online prior to the airing. Hey, if I want to see any news at that time, WLS can be wise and get rid of that Katie repeat and bring back the 10pm repeat of the news, like it was a year ago. Who wants to see that disaster at 1:07am in the morning.

The CW is coming to WWAY. Wilmington Star News posting that in October 1st, Morris' ABC affiliate WWAY will add the CW affiliation on its digital subchannel. Before, folks would have to watch the CW via a cable-only CW plus affiliate or from a neighboring market station in Myrtle Beach. The 3.2 subchannel will be branded Cape Fear CW. Currently, Retro TV occupies the 3.2. That network will move to subchannel 3.3, a week prior to the CW launch. It's also stated that sometime next year, WWAY will add a 10pm newscast, airing after the CW primetime programming.

So the B&C posted today this little LP station in Tennessee got sold for $10.00 [Ten Dollars] and a motor home?!! Really?!! Read the article and see why he wanted a RV? And the worst part, he stated he bought the license of the station for $100,000.

New FCC approval this morning. It has greenlighted the assignment of license of KGNS Laredo to Frontier (through its Yellowstone subsidiary).

Thanks! I would love to see it, should you put it up. I don't too much care for picture quality, since I'm use to seeing WLS's & WABC's live streams and sometimes the quality could get worst. Sometimes it would freeze and I had to refresh the browser. But the most part, to me, it's tolerable. I wonder what they're going do their older wireless online url "abc7togo.com" since it shares the same brand as this new web brief show, "ABC 7 To Go". After all, as many folks have smartphone, they've constantly making or updated newer news, weather, and alarm clock smartphone applications. _________________________________ I forgot to mention this over the weekend. It appears there's another inconsistency. We already see a new logo on this, that's bad enough, when you don't do it for all the other shows. You know the Inside Edition, Jeopardy & Katie slates have the 2007 logo, with Roger Rose saying "Today at blah-blah-blah on ABC 7". Wheel still have (and I assume they haven't changed it yet) that old '98 logo with the "HD" next to it and Roger Thompson saying "Wheel Of Fortune in High-Def. Tonight at 6:30". But the voice on the Live with Kelly & Michael slates is Bill Ratner. Ever since Rose's VO's were back last week, I haven't heard any new VOs from Ratner. But talk about inconsistency!

I can't believe I missed it. I'm happy the NS2k+ afternoon bumper is being used in some capacity, since you'll probably never hear it OTA again, since the 11am show is gone. The web briefs have been around for a good minute, and it seems that this newly-branded web briefing have a strong promise. As long as they don't do any drastic changes with the online show, this could stick for a while.

What Did I say yesterday??!!! Click on that link. May 24, 2008. That was on a Saturday. So with that May 2008 graphics change, and that implementation of the new streetside studio, both occasions happened on a Saturday. Now could we break the trend tomorrow? This has nothing to do with this topic but Kelly & Michael start their new season tomorrow at 9am, could a new graphic change for EWN come on Labor Day?!! I wouldn't hold my breath if it doesn't happen tomorrow. In fact about it, I don't see any issue with the graphics they already have. However, we were promised a new open with the new ABC logo this month, so I'm thinking it might be just that, and nothing else.

Lazare posted on Friday that WCL's ratings in August did slip. The show cited that most of the shows were on repeats that month. Tomorrow will be a very interesting day. First time in more than a decade Live returns to Channel 7, but the very first time to hit that lucrative 9am timeslot.

I don't think they ever did a gfx change during the late evening newscasts. May 2008 graphics changed happened at 6pm. So if they want to do a graphics change on a Saturday, they'll just do it on the first news smoking. And that 11:30 is a tentative time, since Saturday Night College Football games tend to go even later. So get used to the 35 minute late Saturday Night news until November.