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Found the ABC affiliation agreement for all the Sinclair ABC station when it was renewed back in 2010 including KDNL: (unfornately they did a bad job scanning it because it hurt my eyes trying to read it):
It gave them the same news requirements it gave WJLA but did grant KDNL and WXLV an exception to meet that requirement by a certain date which both station eventually did do (KDNL did with KSDK and WXLV with its partnership with News 14 Carolina).
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I've never seen one of their "Town Halls" locally despite being from Baltimore. If I recall didn't Mark Hyman moderate political debates for them? Here only their primetime anchors moderate debates it's sometimes Jeff Barnd but usually Melissa Gilbert. I do think some democrat politicians may object to Jeff Barnd hosting because Sinclair used him for political robocalls or political polling for republican causes (several of the questions had negative connotations.)
I'm surprised they haven't done it before. I know NBC affiliate agreements make them air a newscast before Today, Nightly News, and their late night hours. I was looking at WJLA's ABC affiliation agreement requires them to air a minimum of a half hour before Good Morning America, ABC World News and Jimmy Kimmel Live.
I think ABC did that with Sinclair too because shortly after they renewed the affiliation contract, KDNL formed a news partnership with KSDK. Similar thing happened when WXLV formed a news partnership with TWC News.
Sinclair is probably trying to find a way to do the bare minimum at the lowest cost just so they can keep the affiliation.
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I believe KSDK had called in sister stations to assist as well; I know they called in Faith Abubey from WFMY at least. Not sure if KPLR/KTVI has called up from other Tribune stations, although WGN isn't too far away.
I did see a WGN satellite truck in the background on one of the newscasts I watched.
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Oddly enough. KMOV did a Town Hall special last week on race relations in St. Louis.It finally dawned on me....but you beat me to it.
There's got to be more to the story on why KDNL is dragging their feet with restarting news. The ABC affiliation is up next year, and the way Tribune swooped in and swiped CBS from WISH, it makes total sense to do the same thing with KPLR. Sinclair could be just dragging out the inevitable while the cards are in their hand. KDNL is far better suited to be a CW / MyNetworkTV or independent station than it is with ABC.
Now the question would be, IF KDNL was actually covering this story, how would it be covered? The cavalcade from Baltimore could come in to do one of their "Town Hall" meetings...
But it would certainly give Sinclair more content to provide to their affiliates instead of the standard CNN and network feeds. Gannett has shared a lot of the content from KSDK with their other affiliates as well as Meredith with KMOV. Last nights newscast on KCTV in Kansas City was basically a simulcast of KMOV.
As far as KDNL is concerned, there were rumors that they were restarting their news operations but I haven't heard anything since then and there aren't any job openings for KDNL on their website anymore.
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It can't be much worse than anywhere else... Lots of traffic people are out of some nowhere broadcasting school too. Good luck... I guess. It's a lousy idea but at the same time... It's only traffic, that's not exactly journalism.
Exactly, it's morning TV which isn't supposed to be taken too seriously anyways.
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Taking this in another direction...
Watching the riots, I've been switching through three stations. KSDK, who is erratic with the live streams, KTVI/KPLR, which crashes my iPhone and fails to work half the time, and KMOV, which employs one of the biggest counts* market #4 has ever had as their lead anchor. I would like a legitimate fourth choice.
What's going on at KDNL is an absolute disgrace. There is a civil emergency going on in that market right now, and one of the big four affiliates is simply unable to cover it for arbitrary budgetary reasons.
If Sinclair is committed to news on its stations, if Sinclair is buying up stations left and right, there is no reason whatsoever that its ABC station in Market 21 should not have a news department. I'd prefer Sinclair build a news department instead of losing the affiliation, because the station it would go to would be KPLR and we'd still only have three voices.
*Taken from my absolute favorite Roger Grimsby quote. When asked what his most embarrassing moment on television is, his response: "Easy. I mispronounced 'count'."
I agree with you 100%. This is without any doubt going to make ABC put more pressure on Sinclair to establish some news presence on KDNL and get them to finally stop dragging their feet.
This has got to be embarrassing for both ABC and Sinclair. But at least ABC has a national reporter stationed in Ferguson for this story.
BTW: Not a fan of Sharon Reed huh?
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Looks like the segments mandated by Sinclair are making their way into WJLA's newscasts. I saw a Waste Watch story on WJLA.com.
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/08/waste-watch-u-s-defense-spending-106109.html
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They still are using the old graphics, I still find it odd that the flagship hasn't switched over yet
It makes no sense to me either. Especially since stations like WCHS/WVAH are getting them even though they were one of the last ones to get the last package.
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Well he criticized local news. I think that's actually smart of them. He got what he deserved. Don't bite the hand the feeds you, or in the case, gives you publicity.
Still pretty petty, but then again look who we're talking about here.
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Wow. I wonder why the change of heart from Sinclair regarding this station? This is the same one that didn't have HD newscasts until last year.Oklahoma City's Fox affiliate KOKH has announced in a new station promo that it will enter into early evening news for the first time, with the launch of a 5:00 p.m. newscast that will premiere on September 1. The program will replace episodes of "Two and a Half Men" and "The Big Bang Theory" that have been airing in the timeslot (the former of which will move to sister station KOCB, which already airs "Two and a Half Men"'s weekend runs, on that same date). This is the second local programming expansion on KOKH this year; in June, the station quietly launched a Sunday morning local public affairs program called "The Middle Ground".
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It used to just be "This is ABC 22 News at 11". Don't know why they felt the need to add in the address.
Though it does look like they had the address changed to match the channel numbers. hehe
I didn't even pick up on that. That's kind of clever actually.
It's located in an office park hence the "Corporate Place" address. But I agree, it's pretty stupid. WSYX doesn't say "live from 1261 Dublin Road..." or WBFF with "live from 2000 W 41st Street"
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New graphics are up and running in Charleston/Huntington!
AND on WKEF/WRGT in Dayton!
I guess we've all been blindsided by the Allbritton hoopla, that these launches slipped by....
WKEF/WRGT VO during the intro:
"Live from 2245 Corporate Place...this is ABC 22 News at 11"
They really couldn't think of something better than that?
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I believe WSYX, and a few other stations have run the story as well.
The ATVA has weighed in on this claiming the stories are one-sided towards Sinclair because it is self-serving towards their needs.
http://www.multichannel.com/news/carriage-deals/atva-slams-sinclair-retrans-story/382763
Now if Conan wants something to bash....THIS is one of those rip-and-read stories, and DOES show the agenda-pushing side of Sinclair that has been debated for years.
You're right. The link you sent links to a story from KMPH in Fresno which happens to file a report made by WBFF in Baltimore. So this is definitely being spread throughout the station group.
Reading stories like that makes my blood boil because their whole excuse for why they keep jacking up the retrans fees every time a contract is up for renewal is so absurd and full of BS ("reinvest into the local community"? Really? More like reinvesting into the station if even that!). They're just as bad as the cable companies when it comes to this debate.
But I'll save that for another thread.
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New graphics are up and running in Charleston/Huntington!
AND on WKEF/WRGT in Dayton!
I guess we've all been blindsided by the Allbritton hoopla, that these launches slipped by....
Looks like WKEF/WRGT got these back on July 14th. Wish they would've changed those crappy logos for WKEF and WRGT. The square logos look weird inside the bug.
Any guesses on the next station to get these?
Speaking of WKEF/WRGT, I stumbled on this interesting story regarding the government intervening between cable cos and station groups like Sinclair: http://www.abc22now.com/shared/news/top-stories/stories/wkef_vid_21408.shtml
Was their feud with Buckeye about to go into federal arbitration or something? I just find the timing of this story a tad odd.
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It looks like it's already launched, especially since these look like excerpts from either last night's WVAH or WCHS news.
I guess the next opportunity to find out is tonight at 6pm on WCHS streaming live!
And WBFF still hasn't gotten them yet. I'm honestly shocked that it's taking this long for their flagship to get these new graphics, wonder why that is.
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Yeah. In not suprised either. The footprint that Garnett has for the logo in the L3 is to skinny and wide for the current NBC CLT logo to fit in.
Good time for another branding reboot too. Hopefully Gannett sticks with this one.
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Who knows what Gannett is going to do with the Belo and London stations in Texas? Although it is hard for the London stations not to be standardized.
That percentage of Texas viewers served by a Gannett TV station is mind-boggling. 83%. Good Lord.
Especially considering that just a year ago, it was 0%.
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I don't. They're on 36, not 6. I don't care for cable positions especially because satellite and U-verse doesn't conform to it
You must really hate the Ft. Myers-Naples, FL market then.
The only ones that doesn't use their cable positions in their branding is WINK wnd WGCU.
As far as WCNC is concerned, I don't care what the branding is as long as they stick to it for more than 2 years. They're worse than WGCL at that.
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And NPG will take over operations of these two stations in 3....2....1
If that happens, that means that NPG will control every commercial station in the Bend, OR market.
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I really hate KGW's new logo. It's like they put no effort into it at all.
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Something happened: as seen from the FCC Broadcast Actions today, the three ComCorp stations to be transferred to Marshall were OK'ed to go to Mission.
Wonder why the change of heart?
Also wonder what this means for the Sinclair/Allbritton deal.
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former channel 9 KMBC morning weather man Joel Nichols officially started today on channel 41 KSHB as the new co-host of their disastrous struggling painful-to-watch morning talk/lifestyle show Kansas City Live.
http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/tv/article683616.html
You never know. Maybe Joel Nichols is what that program needs. Seems like KSHB is profiting off of KMBC's fall from grace.
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I thought KVUE was using the look in promos.
Texas would be interesting because that's a longtime signature theme... and Gannett has used Propulsion in the past.
Looks like KVUE is starting to use the same mapping software that the Gannett package uses. I think it's only a matter of time now.
WFAA is too:
KHOU too (you have to catch it at the first split second):
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It's too early to tell on the Texas stations (WFAA, KHOU, KENS, and KVUE).
I would've thought that WFAA would be the first of the bunch to get it but then again, KVUE already has the Gannett website layout.
Could be anyone's guess.
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I know some of them cut the stream early because they don't have the rights to stream sports highlights. I think that's why the Gannett stations do that.