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You cant forget Doug and Mona, who worked in Cleveland AND Columbus! But that one didn't last as they eventually divorced and Mona married Mike James who used to run NewsBlues and had her own grammar column....

I believe there's also a revenue threshold that must be met to require closed captioning. If they make less than 2 million dollars per year I think they're exempt due to "financial hardship" and can qualify for a waiver.

I'd love to see a carriage dispute between Cox and Cox.... ...or Xfinity and NBCU.... If Cox stations get sold to another company, it could get ugly for sure....

Looks like WEWS (and the other Scripps stations) underwent a website revamp, so that could have been how Mark's bio disappeared (it's back now, but empty) I'm sure the Gibber is happy to see Don again... And some very famous bloopers came from Don on the weather wall... And maybe he'll make up with Dorothy Fuldheim over this.... Godspeed.

Very sad news indeed. Next to Dick Goddard, Don Webster was a fixture of WEWS, from hosting Upbeat, and even serving as the stations' general manager in the 1980s (when he ceded weather duties to Tom Tasslemyer). He returned to weather in 1989 and was the chief meteorologist for the next decade until his retirement. It's good to hear that Mark didn't disappear either...could he be going back to mornings?

Trent Magill is leaving WATE in Knoxville and returning to WEWS in Cleveland. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/12/13/back-to-the-land He's rumored to be replacing Mark Johnson..any idea what happened to him? It seemed that Mark moved up to the spot after his predecessor Brad Sussman disappeared in the 2000s....only a few years after replacing longtime chief Don Webster.

I'll give Sinclair a pass for how they went out of their way to offer condolences for Chris Bradley. Remember, he was WSYX's chief before he went over to WBNS. Even better is how the entire market came together (including WCMH) to honor him and encourage others to support the fight against cancer. It's an issue that affects millions and anyone can be impacted by it. On the other hand, there is no excuse for what they did in Chattanooga. Bravo to their GM for leaving them. If she was subjected to a non-compete, it should be declared null and void and she should be free to work wherever she chooses when she is able to. There needs to be some kind of federal law to protect people from stuff like this. Since TV markets often cross state lines, it is an interstate matter that warrants federal protection. Sadly, under the current climate, it will probably never happen. Hopefully, Sinclair gets sued over this one....

Yet Scripps yanked them a few years back in favor of their own inbred syndication efforts. Stations like WEWS have never recovered...and helped stations like WBFF rise out of the ratings basement.

More like Sinclair has gone from the Washington Times to Breitbart and Infowars.... Probably being phased in when either software or hardware changes are made with the WX Central or Baron systems. These systems are much more standardized than the various CG systems throughout the company, and the base graphics are often pre-loaded.

Since Mike Davis has been filling in on evenings, who has been handling mornings? If Elwell is returning to WBNS, he could possibly get the morning job especially if the interim wants their old job back. Keeping Mike Davis in the evenings may be good for stability, given all of the other changes afoot...

WEAR has overhauled their weather graphics to the new ones like WBFF's package, although they still are with the 16x9 variant of the original "Curves" package. Here's a sample from their radar: Have there been any other Sinclair stations to take the plunge? Usually the WX computers are before and separate of the rest of the graphics, due to their specialized purpose....

It's downright ridiculous. These are premium a-la-carte channels that people spend money on (like $15/mo PER channel), and if the provider yanks the access (of course it's Dish, which is notorious for this), then the paying customers SHOULD be properly reimbursed. On the flip side, HBO should allow their paying customers to access their content regardless of the provider, especially if Dish yanks away the access. It could hasten the demise of the "bundle" and encourage others to become a-la-carte services (like HBONow), telling the cable and satellite companies to shove it once and for all...

And not a good sign of things to come since AT&T owns BOTH DirecTV AND HBO. And vertical integration is good because..........

Looks like Mel Wheeler is out of the TV business...all that's left is a group of Radio stations in Roanoke, VA. IIRC, they were the co-founders of WEAR in Pensacola and the second owner of WJDM Channel 7 in Panama City....before selling to James Harrison Gray, as WJHG.

At this rate, the kids these days will never know the difference between serif and sans-serif....then they will have no regard for Normal, Bold, Italic, etc... And soon uPPERCASE AnD lOWERcASE!! Perhaps I should have worded the problem differently....font-itis, font identity disorder, Typographitis..... Even a little "Chyron 101" may help these people learn how to load fonts into the system....I mean, in Windows, all you have to do is load it somewhere, click on it, click "install", and voila!

There's some kind of font-impairment disorder at the Youngstown stations... Talk about an unholy mix of Gotham and Arial! At least the ticker blends in nicely with the graphics in News89's post...even though that adds Lato to the sea of fonts being used!!!

I happened to discover it on YouTube...definitely worth a watch if you grew up watching WUAB... I especially liked the tongue-in-cheek commentary by Mike Polk about the "block" years, and even took jabs at the adver-tainment that was a part of it. (Even though this was about the time I gave up on them...) Same goes for all of the logos they went through over the years.

WKYC's 70th is coming up on October 31st. NBC signed them on as WNBK Channel 4 on October 31, 1948. Did WEWS ever do anything for their 70th anniversary? It was back this past December since they were "FIRST IN OHIO!"

I don't know if it's already been mentioned here, but there were traces of WOIO's 1995 package in adjacent market WFMJ's 1996 look... The most apparent was the Weather and Sports intros...using a weird hybrid of scrolling Helvetica on top and Bodoni on the bottom spelling out "WEATHER" and "SPORTS" Here's WOIO.... and WFMJ.... Got to love adjacent markets ripping each other off. Columbus stations were easily accessible in Dayton, likewise with WOIO being available in Youngstown (since it was their default FOX affiliate until 1994...and still available post switch until the late 90s after WKBN started their own affiliates...)

Scott Jones of FTV live poses the question of who copied who? WTAE or WATE? https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/9/26/whos-copying-who Other than the similar color schemes, call letter font and call letter differences, that's where the similarity ends IMHO.... I will have to fault Media General for copying Scripps for their on air look of WATE and several other of their stations...

If I was John Christopher Burns, I'd be cringing too...

If that's the case, then I hope there's a special place in hell for both of them....

Jeff Zucker should have never made it past his EP gig at Today. This was the last time he actually succeeded at something. Ever since he took over in increasing roles at NBC, he destroyed that network until it was bought by Comcast. Even then, much of its success has been a result of the declines of everyone else. And remember, HE himself was responsible for bringing on the Donald to The Apprentice... Flash forward to CNN. Much of the damage has been done under his tenure, from the endless coverage of stories like the missing plane to the never-ending coverage of the Oval Office. CNN, like the rest of the media was guilty by falling for Trump's never ending yapping and inability to shut his mouth, and gave this man the greatest gift any political candidate could ever receive, endless FREE publicity. After his election, someone finally had a stream of consciousness, and the endless coverage shifted to the antics that this president was generating. Of course, the "right side" used this as ammo to paint all of this smotherage as "fake news". Things are so screwed up, some of it deserves coverage. But there are other things going on in this world, and it's going to have to take a change at the top at this point to get back to the real issues we face, and so journalists can cover something else for a change. Leave the antics to the tabloids and whack-job partisan sites.....

Very nice package. I noticed they worked the Sinclair slogan in there (Connecting People With Content Everywhere)....

It is WUAB...saw it on Roly's Changing Newscasts blog... Still an oddball time to add news though, especially without a 7pm counterpart....