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  1. SterlingNorth
    Hey, all. Long time, no see. For whatever dumb reason, I was looking at the online listings for WUSA, and what do I see? "6-7AM: Get Up DC! (New) Host and comedian Reese Waters, provides viewers with his own unique point of view on local traffic reports, weather forecasts and important news of the day." Wait? What the WHAT?! [Puts on glasses] CO--ME--DIAN.... U--NIQUE POINT---OF---VIEW.....TRAFFIC...WEATHER....IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE DAY..... COMEDY.... NEWS... Oooookay So, is this like a thing where a (former?) comedian just takes up hosting a coffee clatch local GMA/Today type thing where the first five minutes is what happened yesterday, then they go to the guests to show new yoga moves or talk about the hot new parenting trend, or is this like The Daily Show or Stephen Colbert but in the morning? [Looks for something on YouTube about this show...] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=sm1kGplXSXI;list=PL0FBhSp_O7Myol7nIKklr0z-LAzSiy2Az Oooookay.. So, um, The One and Only Channel Nine has three different types of morning shows running at once: The traditional local morning show running from 4:30-6am, the advertorial thing that runs from 9-10am, and the one with the comedian from 6-7am that seems to be a marriage of the comedy bits of late night shows,Seth Myers "A Closer Look" and the "Today" show. And it's crazy that the shows are named "Wake Up Washington" (4:30), "Get Up DC!" (6:00) and "Great Day Washington" (9:00). It's like the namestorming sessions was just find the thesaurus! (Where "Great Day Washington" is the synonym title to WTTG Fox 5's "Good Day DC".)
  2. SterlingNorth
    And then they merge as SiGNA. Or does that sound too much like an insurance company?
  3. SterlingNorth
    I thought most marriages had that vibe.
  4. SterlingNorth
    It's a big segment though, given Fairfax County is the most populous county in the Washington-Baltimore region. Also, the city of Fairfax is in Cox territory. It's the Reston region where Cox doesn't service. (Comcast does).
  5. SterlingNorth
    Don't forget WUSA. Never mind. WUSA doesn't seem to have it yet.
  6. SterlingNorth
    WUSA did a town hall discussion (partnered with the Washington Post) about race relations a few weeks back.
  7. SterlingNorth
    But the question would still be whether there would be any benefits to even go through the trouble. Other than moving several stations out of subsidaries that appear to also be owners of newspaper properties (the org chart is inaccessible by the link above at the moment, but from what I recall the changes were moving WUSA and KXTV out from Detroit Free Press, Inc., taking another station out of Gannett River States Publishing and into a different subsidiary-- I think that was WJXX, but not entirely sure -- and I think moving KTHV into a different subsidiary), they just redesignated some subsidaries as LLCs. They probably also want to hold on to the old company names like Multimedia, Belo, and King Broadcasting. It would be easier by leaving those existing structures in place from each purchase than breaking each up for reassignment. And I doubt the financials would be impacted either positively or negatively by a restructure vs leaving well enough alone.
  8. SterlingNorth
    The structure is likely the results of each of the purchases Gannett made over the years, and cleaning that up would require lots of paper transactions needing regulatory approval and such and probably not being worth the hassle. For instance -- and what I found interesting -- is how WKYC is housed in a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Gannett that exists just for them. This likely stems from back when Multimedia bought 51% of the station from NBC, thus WKYC Holdings was how it managed it's partial interest in the station, until Multimedia/Gannett bought the rest of the station from NBC. I find that doubtful. None of the stations really trade on a look of a Gannett property or of the company itself, except WUSA, and their look is distinct enough from USA Today's (using a sort-of lowercase in its wordmark), to get away with it. Also, it looks like Tegna will be keeping the WUSA calls as is, given the creation of "WUSA-TV, Inc". (Didn't think they would give up on those calls, anyway.)
  9. SterlingNorth
    Speaking of, one change that will have to happen is that WUSA will stop being owned officially by "Detroit Free Press, Inc"...
  10. SterlingNorth
    I think someone earlier in the thread said that Gannett was going to adapt the graphics to the existing systems at the station, rather than upgrade them. Though I cannot find the post at the moment... Unrelated, I caught the WUSA broadcast off the internet feed, and I just noticed the temperature only variation of the bug.
  11. SterlingNorth
    KUSA does also leave the bug up during weather segments.
  12. SterlingNorth
    As does WUSA, whose weathercast is sponsored, thus a "Michael and Sons" logo is next to the WUSA bug.
  13. SterlingNorth
    Thanks to the eagle-eyes of the DCRTV "Mailbag", they've discovered that Gannett has posted want-ads for some one or some ones to host a coffee-klatch show on WUSA to start in September called "Great Day Washington". ("Good Day DC" was already taken by WTTG for its 9am coffee-klatch.)
  14. SterlingNorth
    Thinking about this for a little bit, it was probably no surprise that Fox probably has the strictest branding agreement with its affiliates, coming along in 1986 when the other networks had 30, 40 plus years of history behind them. Fox needed to get their branding out to people as heavily as possible. (And likewise in 1994-95 when they flipped so many Big Three stations to their network).
  15. SterlingNorth
    Doesn't look like WUSA got the updates yet. I've been watching the online feed.
  16. SterlingNorth
    KOAA, a non-Gannett station in Colorado Springs has introduced their own "Rundown" ticker at the bottom of the screen. Unlike Gannett's, it's not color-coded.
  17. SterlingNorth
    A new banner just appeared on their website, announcing the website change will happen Wednesday.
  18. SterlingNorth
    Look at your point 3: The Belo deal happened in 2013. Nearly 9 months ago, in fact. It's not news anymore. Graphics changes, are inside baseball things and aren't usually mentioned unless there is some sort of impact. The only reason these are getting a news story at all is 1) the legitimate necessity of introducing the technicolor cheat codes to viewers, some of whom may find it of interest, and 2) Gannett's insessant need let everybody know how they brand it's properties. Even though, "we're still owned by Gannett" is not a news story.
  19. SterlingNorth
    No station has ever said “Here are our new graphics introduced by mandate because of our [new] owner's corporate standardization policies.” The new graphics story is a must-run? Fine, stick it in C block and hope it doesn't stand out like a sore thumb.
  20. SterlingNorth
    Nobody's perfect. Just ask Apple.
  21. SterlingNorth
    They changed the header logo at KHOU.com. It's now within a white background box.
  22. SterlingNorth
    There's only one 'JZ.
  23. SterlingNorth
    I suspect the KGW logo change was something that just came about very very recently. The NWCN open which had the new KREM logo had the now old KGW logo. KHOU's actually looks like a live website, with the most real content as opposed to dummy content. [Never mind. They are testing by posting a lot of old stories. That said, it is fun to see the website update almost every five minutes with a bunch of different "new" stories. Maybe they are trying to move their entire archives to the new site.]
  24. SterlingNorth
    I thought the new weather graphics open came from Gannett since they've been using it from the very first day they got the rest of the new graphics. Anyway, it's the same way WJXX/WLTV uses the stinger. "This is Home" doesn't seem to have a hard open (and WUSA uses a very soft verison of the open for most of the other newscasts). [yt]kpM_ug3CVpQ[/yt]
  25. SterlingNorth
    Check WUSA's site now to see how they'll probably do it... (WUSA chosen because of the geographical proximity of DC to the Norfolk area).
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