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WLBT's story on Bert Case's passing:

http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/31073456/legendary-reporter-bert-case-dies-after-extended-illness

WJTV story:

http://wjtv.com/2016/01/28/legendary-newsman-bert-case-passes-away/

There will never be another personality like that in Jackson, MS television.

Y'know... There's probably a greater chance that the current ABC O&O's get sold to Scripps than it is that the Scripps ABC affiliates become O&O's.

 

Just sayin'.

With Scripps likely to ask for a stake in the ABC network in return under that scenario.

Wow, some big shake-up going on. Wonder what's happening.

Your guess is as good as mine that there are definitely some turbulent times ahead over at 1960 Union.

KTVI in St. Louis is starting an 11:00 pm weeknight newscast on January 18:

 

http://fox2now.com/2016/01/01/jasmine-huda-to-join-fox-2s-shirley-washington-for-new-11pm-newscast/

That's kinda odd for a TV station outside of the Eastern and Pacific time zones to have a newscast that late in the evening when everybody else goes no longer than 10:35pm on most nights.

Didn't Brittani Dubose recently take that position?

That's what I thought too unless they're planning to have a "tag team" set up with Brittani and Lindsey splitting weather duties in the mornings (WREG does this in the evenings with Tim Simpson and Jim Jaggers).

WJZY got new chief meteorologist, and the name is Brian Basham. He comes from WHBQ in Memphis. [MEDIA=twitter]659146131256037376[/MEDIA]

Didn't see that one coming, although the writing was on the wall that he was probably going to be leaving WHBQ soon when they moved Joey Sulipeck back to weekday evenings and Brittani Dubose to weekday mornings.

Awesome redesign. Definitely a huge improvement over the hot mess they had before...

No kidding. The old graphics alone were a mishmash of Look A and their attempt at mimicking Look F.

According to my TV guide it shows "Good Day Oklahoma" from 9-11am. Also speaking of KOKH is there a reason why they don't have a morning newscast before 5am like what KWTV/KFOR/KOCO have?

It's a Sinclair thing for some reason not to start their news at the same time with all the others. WZTV is the same way as they start their morning news a half-hour later than when WKRN, WSMV, and WTVF begin theirs at 4am.

WATN/WLMT in Memphis is retooling its morning newscasts starting Monday, changing from "Local 24 News Good Day" to "Good Day Memphis". John Paul (formerly of KHBS/KHOG) has been named the new morning/midday co-anchor (replacing Rodney Dunigan, who left the station in early August) alongside Joy Lambert. They will also have a new traffic reporter as Chelsea Chandler replaces Ron Taylor.

Also, WHBQ Chief Meteorologist Joey Sulipeck has been moved back to weekday evenings as of this week.

#CasualFriday

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Definitely a no-no, but hey, if they can't see your legs (let alone your feet) on live television, then it's no problem. Right?

Word on the street is the studio is being cleared of everything so the entire floor can be replaced. The existing set will go back, with some alterations, many of which will be focused on the Orange Room.

 

Allegedly, this is going to take two weeks.

Does that mean the revolving platform the desk sits on is going away?

 

NBC Now or NBC News Channel might work. Though there would be branding issues with calling it NBC News Now. On one hand, they probably would want to keep the NBC name in any shorthand on-air references, but on the other, using NBCNN for short might create some viewer confusion with you know which network...

 

Or they can go another route and call themselves NBC Nonstop (like the subchannels the NBC O&Os once had).

From WSMV in Nashville: Former Channel 4 anchor/reporter Cynthia Williams has died. She was 57 years old, and was battling thyroid cancer for the last few years.

http://www.wsmv.com/story/29688121/former-channel-4-anchor-reporter-cynthia-williams-dies

They could always bring in S.E. Cupp if they wanted another conservative on the show, though I don't think they're willing to do so anytime soon.

A couple of new faces at WHBQ in Memphis:

- Jim Spiewak is the station's new Chief Investigative Reporter. He previously worked at WBBH-TV in Fort Myers, FL.

- Brittani Dubose was recently hired as the new weekend meteorologist (replacing Wendy Nations, who left the station as of July 3rd to pursue other opportunities). Dubose recently worked at WCTV in Tallahassee, FL.

 

Les Smith retiring from WHBQ in Memphis after more than a decade

 

 

Smith had been in the news business in Memphis for a long time, going as far back as when he was a sports anchor at WREG. His stories and reflections on things have always been blunt and to the point. Godspeed to Mr. Smith as he enjoys his new life in Belize.

 

I hate to throw back to a post from two weeks ago, but I don't hang around these parts like I used to...

 

WTVF is the dominant number 1 in the Nashville market. It has won all time slots for more than a year now, and when it didn't completely sweep previously, it was losing by a fraction of a point in one newscast.

 

Upon joining Scripps it jumps in as the #2 station for revenue in the company. Behind only WXYZ. We ain't all 3rd or 4th place stations...

 

#wigsnatch

 

Part of that success at WTVF belongs to Debbie Turner and Lyn Plantinga, the former of whom now has a bigger role within Scripps as its Executive Vice President of Television (a similar role she was promoted to after WTVF was acquired by Journal pre-merger). Although she still has to report to Lawlor (the Senior VP), hopefully Turner's expertise in running a successful station is enough to turn around the fortunes of the other stations she now oversees.

 

KLAS has gotten a new website at LasVegasNow.com

 

At least the domain name makes sense unlike some of Nexstar's other websites.

Now one has to wonder if they're going to keep the "8 News Now" name or revert back to "Eyewitness News".

 

Can Media General run a cleaner slate than Scripps though?

 

I agree though WTVF is in a terrible position - it is regionally isolated from most of Scripps' portfolio AND a CBS affiliate for a company that has never had good relations with that network. Nashville is weird with so many "black sheep" stations with their owners due to all these acquisitions.

 

That's what makes the Music City unique in its own right.

 

Herman is not the news director. He is a newscast director, aka the button pusher in the booth, who keeps the individual newscasts running smoothly

 

My mistake. I thought they meant the same thing.

Fixed it.

KOLD newscast director Mark Herman is resigning. He made the announcement last week via (of all things) a cake:

http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/28970534/sweetest-resignation-letter-ever

His last day is May 22nd, two days after the May Sweeps period ends.

 

WXYZ is now using the Inergy morning theme for at least part of the opens on The NOW Detroit. It's amazing what putting 2 extremely experienced anchors on this show does... It's actually.... Good.

 

Somebody permitted them to further cut the junk out of it as well.

 

But will it translate to better ratings? That is the ultimate question.

Looks like Gannett has decided on a new name for its broadcasting unit. It'll now be called TEGNA.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/04/21/gannett-changes-name-to-tegna/26127343/

Yeah, I don't get it either.

 

They just get more interesting.

 

Today azcentral.com received a minor redesign, and KPNX got its own website back: 12news.com.

 

That needed to be done a long time ago. Made no sense for a TV station to have all of its content behind a paywall.

 

KLAS' traffic guy just announced on his Facebook page that he and the station's chopper "have been eliminated." Not surprising, but sad to see. That leaves KSNV as the only Vegas station still in the air.

 

That is, until Sinclair decides to give KSNV's chopper the axe as well.

Maybe this will give Scripps an opportunity to make a statement at the expense of both KLAS and KSNV by bringing back KTNV's news helicopter?

 

Why does Nexstar insist on these clunky domain names anyway? Nothing straightforward?

 

It's kinda their M.O. for some reason for their website names to not make much sense.