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  1. tyrannical bastard
    WKRG's mic flag is old, they replaced it when they changed to the CBS package 2 years ago. For as penny-pinching a company Nexstar is, you would think that buying a single electronic LED mic flag that you could instantly change the logo on would be more cost effective than shipping and changing out hundreds of mic flags....
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    In the annals of history, although Fred Silverman didn't make all of the right moves at the time, some of them led on to bigger and better things. Flash forward to Jeff Zucker, and as he fell upward, everything he touched turned to . That followed him to CNN too. If if wasn't for a certain reality show he helped launch, we may not have a certain orange-haired being in the oval office.
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    Casey Kasem (who also voiced Shaggy) was also the voice of NBC in the late 70s...I wonder if Silverman was responsible for this too?
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    NBC did try to promote themselves like the other networks by the late 70s. Looking at the stuff they were putting out in the early to mid 70s, it was very plain and boring. The first sign of any real effort (aside from the trapezoid "N" logo) was in 1978 and NB-See-Us, followed by several years of Proud As A Peacock, which brought back a simpler peacock, combined with the "N" to create the "Proud N" which would last into 1986. Silverman's tenure at CBS and ABC included a conceited effort to rebrand virtually every year and generate excitement for their programming. NBC's lax efforts combined with stale and unfocused programming led to their fall and cratering, which Silverman was recruited to try and fix. Unfortunately, many of these risks were even costlier and performed worse. It said something when Redd Foxx was lured back to do a reboot of his original show, minus Demond Wilson.
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    It definitely was at it's nadir when Silverman was there. But several of the shows he greenlit including Hill Street Blues began to thrive when Grant Tinker and Brandon Tartikoff took over. Semi-related was the implosion of SNL at time, with Lorne Michaels leaving and Jean Doumanian replacing him. Only Eddie Murphy survived the total recasting, and Al Franken lampooned Silverman in the infamous Limo for a Lame-O monologue, which cost him any chance of helming the show. The death knell was Charles Rocket dropping the F-Bomb on air which got Doumanian and most of the cast ousted. And perhaps the most infamous piece of Silverman's tenure was this.... (As an aside, broadcast tv has fallen so far that any network would kill to have an 18 rating/14 share these days)
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    While most of his NBC efforts were his kryptonite (and not out-sucked until Jeff Zucker was in charge), he was a legend who redefined CBS and brought ABC into prominence in the 70s. He had a mess at NBC to clean up after some costly bombs before his tenure and losing the 1980 Summer Olympics to the US not participating.
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    I wonder how much this is the case at some of Tribune's newer acquisitions that Tegna picked up. I guess it depends how much Tribune put into their stations, whether they were legacy or Local TV acquisitions...
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    ...and if it was 20 years ago, it would be... Who Wants To Be A Millionaire-ish...
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    Add another group who wants Tegna to sell or merge.... Enter HG Vora Capital Management, who last had a stake in Tribune, and cashed it out when Nexstar took over.... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tegna-hgvora-exclusive/exclusive-hedge-fund-hg-vora-wants-tegna-to-consider-a-sale-or-merger-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1WP
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    Actual reach is 39 percent while the UHF discount brings it down to 32.
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    Standard Media has zero competition from any Tegna TV station, as each company has no stations in the same market, and even if they did, they're exempt in many places because they are low power (especially the Waypoint ones). Digital is another story, as the lines are undefined, but there's nothing stopping that. Regardless of our opinions regarding how Tegna operates it's stations, it's a company ripe for takeover, and if anyone is going to take station groups and make them bigger, or make something out of the leftovers, it's outside investors and private equity.
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    I can only imagine if Gannett remained the same company as it was before the split.... The current "Gannett" is like the rebirth of AT&T, after SBC renamed themselves when the old AT&T was sold off piece by piece. It's technically GateHouse, but under the Gannett branding. Same as Tegna being the old Gannett company and the split company keeping the Gannett name. Usually, the print side is the one to go batty. Gannett is the behemoth in this case and Tegna is treated like an upstart company. One that has trashed many of their stations and the investors are finally clamoring for them to come to their senses. Some stations are too far gone (WXIA, WTSP, WWL, WKYC), others have some hope to them (WBIR, WMAZ, WTOL), and there are the new ones that haven't had the chance to C-Clarity.....yet.
  13. tyrannical bastard
    Looks like CBS wants complete control of this so they can start expanding their CBSN apps into these cities. Roping affiliates into it would make it more complicated and expensive, despite competing against them in Atlanta and Tampa, and "re-establishing" in Detroit.
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    Deb McDermott, the head of Standard Media worked alongside Kim in the latter years of Young and Media General, and was one of the board members Kim wanted to put on Tegna's board. If they buy their way into Tegna, Standard could be roped into it though a hostile takeover using Kim's money.
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    Meridian and Hattiesburg are the outliers, the closest Tegna station is WWL in New Orleans. Going back to Tegna, pencils have erasers, so if Standard's people get some seats on the board, maybe the "Tegna Experiment" will come to a screeching halt before more stations succumb to it.
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    Many of these stations are low-powered upstarts built for the sole purpose of bringing affiliations to markets where they previously did not exist. Hopefully bringing some scale to these stations could be a major plus for them to better compete in their markets. What you see is a lot of peeved viewers who lose an adjacent affiliate they've had for years replaced by a local one, that is grossly inferior.
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    Keep in mind that Soo Kim and Deb McDermott had the Media General and Young stations under their watch, and later merged them with Lin and if they had their way, they would have merged with Meredith instead of Nexstar forcing a hostile takeover of the above... Had Sinclair gotten Tribune, they would have gotten some higher profile leftovers. Sure, the former Citadel stations were a mess to begin with, but Tegna needs a serious intervention before they trash more stations with their so-called innovation....
  18. tyrannical bastard
    Here we go..... https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/243396/tegna-to-fight-proposed-board-changes/ “The board is also concerned that his significant investments in and influence over other broadcasting companies would create a conflict of interest as a Tegna director. “Accordingly, the board unanimously determined that adding him to the board is not in the best interests of Tegna and its shareholders. Mr. Kim was informed of the board’s decision on Jan. 10.” I smell a Tegna-Standard Media merger in the works....and as for the the "best interest of Tegna and their shareholders"... we all know the garbage that Tegna has been putting out. Time to overhaul the board and make something out of Tegna.
  19. tyrannical bastard
    You are correct....it is the 5th floor that the main studios are on. I believe their current WOUB News set was from Spectrum News, and the one before that came from a station in Missouri (KMIZ?) It's good to see these older sets being recycled like this for future generations to cut their teeth on.
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    Just the desk. As you can see, it's gone through many paint jobs and renovations over the years. WCPO's version of the set looks nearly identical to the one WEWS had. The weather center, monitor arrays, and the color-changing background. Part of the Ohio University J-School setup was the 2 retractable blue panels that could have been used for chroma-keying a monitor shot. I'm told the desk had to be cut in 2 in order to get it into the basement of Scripps Hall (where the studio was and the Journalism school was located at the time). When WOUB got it, it moved to the 6th floor of the RTV building into studio A, their larger studio. At least they had a freight elevator.
  21. tyrannical bastard
    Yep, although this was just a cable newscast run by J-school students for one of their required classes. Everybody did everything from producing, assignment desk, reporting, shooting, editing, and anchoring. It even made Tosh 2.0 back in the day.
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    Swing...and a miss. Oh well, some things were better left undone. Audition may be a good tool, but it can do it's evil too. I wonder how Northeastern & Central Pennsylvanians will react to this....would this be much worse than losing the theme entirely? Let's go to Talkback 16...
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    Most importantly, it was this very desk that viral video history was made....
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    Who wants an old Scripps desk from the 80s? WOUB-TV (run by Ohio University) is retiring the desk that was last used for their high school football program. It was also used by their j-school on their daily newscast (which happens to be the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism). I believe this came from WCPO originally. If anyone is interested, or knows someone who wants this piece of history, they should contact WOUB-TV in the next week or so before it joins the big WEWS "circle 5" in the sky....
  25. tyrannical bastard
    Due to the impending severe weather in the South this weekend.....WPMI has decided to bust out Alan Sealls two weeks early. He was introduced on-air this past weekend and did his first forecast as Chief Meteorologist earlier today at 5pm. https://mynbc15.com/news/local/severe-storms-possible-on-saturday
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