tyrannical bastard

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...

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.....

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

Well at least now there are no more affiliations hanging in the balance should WBNX ever go under.....if it does, it would be a great fixer-upper for Scripps, Tegna or whoever ends up with WJW....

Am I reading this right? WOIO is adding a 7:30pm show? Well Jeopardy! is about to get the shaft. Scripps should have NEVER cheaped out on these shows.....

Before a certain point, they probably have to push that day's episode to the next day. WEAR has done this with Extra! for years, airing it at 11:30AM....the morning after it should air...while cross-market counterpart WJTC airs it weeknights at 6.

Usually it's the competing stations that decide to put on 7pm newscast to try and counter Wheel or Jeopardy. At least Eastern & Pacific have the full hour before prime time to program locally, while Central/Mountain has the 6pm news to work around, unless they are a station that doesn't have one or is better off not running news then....

Unless Wheel and Jeopardy! air on separate stations in the Central/Mountain time zone, it seems that Jeopardy! gets the shaft since they only really have 6:30 as access time which usually goes to WOF, unless both shows air on a FOX station (like WALA), or Jeopardy! is on the other station in a duopoly or .2 (like WLOX...where ABC has news at 6 and WOF at 6:30....and CBS on the .2 has Jeopardy! at 6 and news at 6:30) 4:30 seemed to be the optimal time paired with something like Inside Edition, but with more and more stations adding more news....

A great honor indeed for the recently retired Baird, and the soon-to-be retired Bob Grip, who will be stepping down sometime next year at WALA. I believe Byron Day is going to be his replacement, as he has assumed anchoring the 5 and 10pm shows so far...

WKBN slipped when they cashed out to outside interests, and absorbing WYTV probably hasn't helped matters too much. Probably the most fatal error was when they let Bob Black go, and he helmed WFMJ's newscasts for the next 15 or so years....

You have to wonder how Vindicator/WFMJ is staying in it these days....GateHouse has been buying up anything that moves in Ohio (including the Columbus Dispatch, Akron Beacon Journal, and the former Dix properties centered around Northeast Ohio). It's probably the perfect combination of well-capitalized ownership in a declining city that few companies would be interested in purchasing.

Maybe WKYC will get the hint too. IIRC, their lack of a 5pm show makes them the largest major network affiliate not to have one. I'm sure they could stand on their own now given the shifts of the marketplace. WKYC has been a contender for at least the last 15 years.