Mrtraveler01
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3 hours ago, Georgie56 said:
WGEM is next for GrayOne.
Looks like the logo is getting a slight tweak too.
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2 hours ago, PhillyWatch said:
I somewhat surprised (and annoyed) that KDKA got the revamp before KYW. KYW seems to be teetering on the edge of relaunching but, for whatever reason, hasn't yet.
I have a feeling they will switch very soon. KDKA was tinkering with the studio backdrop to match the new graphics yesterday before they implemented the new graphics today.
It's possible KYW has some bugs they need to work out first before they implement the new graphics.
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1 hour ago, lanman said:
I'll also add this, since it was brought up. How much of a big deal is the Wendy Bell fiasco in 2023? It's been 2 and a half years since she was taken off the air at KDKA Radio. I don't follow her, I don't know if she's still on broadcast radio/TV or just on the internet. She's never going to be back on KDKA anything, ever. I would think by now many people have largely forgotten about her time on KD. I could be wrong, though, as I don't actively follow her.
This is an aside, of course. Back to the main topic.
I don't think its as big of a deal now. You don't hear much about KDKA radio these days (the controversies died down the moment they canned Wendy), so the brand isn't as "toxic" as it was a few years back. Not to mention the KDKA-TV branding is a lot stronger than the radio branding these days so they were able to overcome any controversy from the radio side.
I don't even know where Wendy is these days. She keeps bouncing around different radio stations in Pittsburgh that have a much weaker signal compared to AM 1020. She's basically an obscure nobody these days.
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2 hours ago, Myron Falwell said:
Just because Action News is the Delaware Valley’s Leading News Program (Disney has to pay Apollo-Cox for the “Action” name) or Eyewitness News is “News York’s #1 News” (and Disney has to pay Paramount Global for the EWN name) doesn’t mean those names are ironclad.
I dunno. WPVI tried to replace MCTYW with a modernized version of it and we saw how that turned out.
Both WPVI and WABC are number 1 in their markets respectively. They have less of an incentive to rebrand like the struggling CBS O&Os do.
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4 hours ago, lanman said:
The new look for KD is coming sooner than we think. Check out this tweet:
They've getting a new newsroom. I have a feeling whenever they publicly reveal the new newsroom is when the rebranding will take place.
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15 hours ago, CircleSeven said:
Three months after Marquee acquired the station, Zanesville, Ohio's WHIZ is adding Fox on its subchannel 18.2 on November 14.
I'm sure Sinclair is thrilled to hear about this.
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I wonder if this has anything to do with it?
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3 hours ago, TheRob said:
This is huge in the Kansas City circle.
Between him and Gary Amble retiring at KCTV. One has to wonder when Brian Busby at KMBC will do the same.
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On 4/25/2022 at 1:29 PM, Medianext.MX said:
Rupert Murdoch's new TV project in the UK, TalkTV, has launched just under an hour ago. The new channel, operated by their radio subsidiary Wireless Group (but owned directly by News UK), is the new home to Piers Morgan's show (which will be also broadcast on Sky News Australia and Fox Nation), but it is being mostly built on the basis of Murdoch's opinionated DAB station TalkRadio, which going forward will be a radio simulcast of the newly-launched channel, and most of its programming taking on a filmed radio styling. The three new TV-focused shows, involving Morgan, former The Talk panelist Sharon Osbourne (with exactly the same name for the new show) and The Times political editor Tom Newton-Dunn, have bespoke graphics designed by Jump Design (with lots of cues to Fox News, indeed), music from Sitting Duck and set designs from Jack Morton and MOOV. These same premises worked with ITV Daytime/Good Morning Britain previously, and their executive director, Erron Gordon (who also championed Morgan as GMB co-presenter) has made the presentation much more professional than that of rival GB News.
If anybody's interested (for presentation purposes), the channel is live on YouTube and surprisingly, not geoblocked (however, in the US and Canada is not available thanks to Piers being on Fox Nation, also in AU and NZ, but it is in the rest of the world). Each hour is being individually posted both live and on-demand, as it was the case with talkRadio beforehand.
Looks like they're using the Fox News package for their lower thirds.
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1 hour ago, phillynewslover said:
Rick Williams for sure. Probably paired with Sharrie as well.
Considering he does the 10pm news on WPHL, I would be surprised if he's not next in line.
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2 hours ago, Georgie56 said:
Tornado warning in the Seattle viewing area. I wasn’t watching at the time, but KCPQ later took over locally. (h/t @Mrtraveler01)At first KCPQ was asleep at the wheel while the other stations in town were covering it. Then after a while, KCPQ started simulcasting Fox Weather while they were covering the tornado warnings. They eventually did go to local coverage only after the tornado warnings dropped.
Either way, KCPQ looked ill prepared today.
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1 hour ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:
I'm not so terribly sure, seeing that they tweaked the logo post-nexstar acquisition... why would they waste time and money doing so again??
The way they redesigned it, it would be easy to remove the "Local" branding.
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13 hours ago, TennTV1983 said:
I see. So, they're going with a WVEC-esque look now.
Only a matter of time before the same thing happens with WOI.
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19 minutes ago, AaronQ said:
Yesterday Nexstar and SportsGrid announced a partnership to create "SportsGrid Network". SportsGrid mainly covers sports betting. It'll launch on September 1st in 9 markets.
I'm not up to speed on my sport gambling laws, but I take it that these are markets in states where sports gambling is legal?
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18 hours ago, JCB4TV said:
Nexstar probably either realized that this was a bad idea, or they received too many viewer complaints.
Kind of dumb when people can watch a stream of WNEP news for free.
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1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:
Sinclair is "sort of" bringing news to it's remaining stations via Stirr...
Even St. Louis got it's own.
Have KDNL and WTWC picked up The National Desk, to air as a "morning newscast" before GMA or Today?
They haven't.
It does air on the "city channel" on Stirr which I think is why they launched those channels. Because outside of The National Desk, there are no local news programs on those channels.
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16 minutes ago, tjt24 said:
WISH and WNDY have already been taken off of both DISH and DIRECTV.
Curious if WRTV isn't getting a ratings bump because of all of this.
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3 hours ago, dman748 said:
Meanwhile Sinclair also announced that the DTC plans will complement the existing pay-tv services and go more of a hybrid approach https://thestreamable.com/news/sinclair-ceo-says-upcoming-direct-to-consumer-offering-will-complement-to-pay-tv-business
This just a bad idea all around. I can only imagine what the sport teams who had no say in this decision are thinking (especially the Cubs since they jumped in late).
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Coastal Television (KYUR/KTBY) is making news for all the wrong reasons (this story ran in the NY Post today too):
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On 6/15/2020 at 10:44 PM, Breaking News said:
Monica Matthews at WSB Radio tweets got her in trouble over WSB-TV anchor Jovita Moore.
Wow, picking fights with any of your colleagues is a bad move, especially someone as established and well-respected as Jovita Moore.
Sounds like WSB isn't losing much on the radio side.
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4 hours ago, TSSZNews said:
I'm going to guess it's a contingency open to run Philly and Pittsburgh if KDKA has to shut down due to the virus now that Pittsburgh is slowly getting out of lockdown. Have to believe a similar open exists at KDKA in case of vice-versa.
I'm sure what happened at the CBS Broadcasting Center in New York had all the O&O's evaluating their contingency plan. Makes sense that the back up for KDKA would be KYW since they're in the same state.
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3 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:
With the gradual re-opening of the economy, still-closed restaurants in some places decided to take it upon themselves to reopen in full force regardless of the orders in place (with the proper "social distancing" protocols in place, of course)
One in Spanish Fort Alabama, decided to reopen and got their hand slapped by the state health department.
WKRG:
https://www.wkrg.com/alabama-news/spanish-fort-pizza-restaurant-violates-gov-ivey-order-shutdown/
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WPMI:
Why would I be posting this story here?
Because if you read the WPMI story, the restaurant in question is owned by Greg Peterson, who is the primary anchor at WPMI.
Can someone say conflict of interest here?
In fairness, at least the station disclosed that in the story.
That's actually more than I expected a Sinclair station to do.
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On 5/2/2020 at 3:25 AM, RGSJenkins said:
This is what got him fired by KARE. https://alphanewsmn.com/meterologist-nazi/
I personally agree with his opinion, but I also know Tegna tries as hard as it can to be impartial, especially compared to other station groups. So this obviously isn't a good look for them and hence the result.
But like others have said, hopefully another station will pick him up after all the dust settles.
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With all the craziness going on in the world, we missed this Talkback 16 segment about the new graphics.
Eight CBS Stations to Ditch CW and Go Independent This Fall
in General TV
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I think part of the problem is that Nexstar...err...Mission hasn't fully acquired the station yet and I highly doubt Adell is working with Hulu and YTTV to get their channel on those two platforms as they have one foot out the door already.