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On 5/31/2021 at 2:06 PM, tyrannical bastard said:

It seems odd since they're still on their temporary set, almost like their plans were interrupted midstream. (Parts and labor shortages could be a real possibility)  Plus with other Nexstar stations getting upgrades, it reeks of poor planning and just being low on Nexstar's priority list at this point.  If they would have known this ahead of time then why would they have rip out the old set?  Unplanned interruption hopefully is the case of that rather than changing up things mid-project 

On 5/31/2021 at 11:57 AM, tyrannical bastard said:

What's taking them so long?  Trying to sell the station again?  Bueller? Bueller?

Watch they never get a new newscast set and wind up broadcasting from the newsroom until they are sold again...  This reeks of what happened to WFXT/Boston until it was pawned off to Cox.  It's not a bad setup for a newscast newsroom set with the colored lighting, mounted monitors, and whatnot. However, this market is too damn big to be having such weird issues on rebuilding a new news set, pandemic or not. I think there was a decision higher up the Nexstar food chain to stop rebuilding the newscast set as there's something else in the works.

On 5/22/2021 at 7:58 AM, Nelson R. said:

WCNC’s Savannah Levins moving down 85 to sister station WXIA.

 

 

It's hilarious how so many Georgians use Charlotte as their news career launchpad move to Atlanta but wind up right back in Charlotte in the end... 

On 4/24/2021 at 6:44 PM, tylerSC said:

Yes that was my point, not sure why they would want to shake up a seemingly successful program that was apparently gaining viewers. They had a good combination of personalities and nice balance of news, interviews and features. Now it is mostly news as they seemed to have phased out some of the interviews and cooking segments. And no more live reports from FOX News, although I knew that would change after FOX sold out to Nexstar.

WJZY is just being held by Nexstar at this point, but it looks like local management are idiots because they just completely undone the 5-years of success that was made in building up "Good Day Charlotte" by Fox in less than 12 months. You want to keep and nurture social media sensations like meteorologist Nick Kosir because the younger audiences are more social media oriented, less likely to watch news for general purposes, and more racially diverse. Honestly, a weaker station like WJZY needs more black news anchors that connect to the rapidly growing black audience in the Charlotte DMA like a native like Brigida Mack and a younger black female news anchor like Morgan Norwood.  Jamal Goss isn't the strongest news anchor, but they don't even try to develop him as a news anchor.  It is also tale telling that most of the black reporters and the lone black meteorologist (Brittany Hamilton) from the Fox O&O ownership have quit under Nexstar.  Nexstar has a huge problem with diversity of black and brown faces on the news desk in comparison to direct competitors like WBTV, WSOC, and WCNC, and it seems to be a common problem across their footprint. Ann Wyatt is cool, but she would have been better suited for the noon & 4PM newscasts. Nexstar management is extremely out of touch with Charlotte and it is showing in their decisions.

They don't know how to do anything other than throw some money into to start two news programs (noon & 4PM) and make the sports show, "Fox46 Sports Xtra" into an half-hour weekday nights or hour-long on Sunday night "CSL/Charlotte Sports Live".  "CSL" is nice, but it's not needed every single night at 11PM. Nexstar should be investing in a 11PM newscast and expanding "Good Day Charlotte" from 5AM to 10AM first.  Their lack of effort in building up the local news operation in the Charlotte market by hiring more racial diversity of news anchor talent, expanding newscast times, and not over-relying on other "regionally complimentary" (their stupid words) stations from Raleigh/Durham, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson (Asheville), or Winston-Salem/Greensboro/High Point for stories and content is shorten their tenure of ownership.  Raleigh and Columbia are the only cities they should be checking for because those are the state capitals within their bi-state market area.  Local stations make money by providing as much local content as possible for their ROI and stable ratings, but Nexstar just doesn't get that...

Well with all the bad decision-making occurring by Nexstar and then their dumpster fire called News Nation, Nexstar will be too broke to hold on many of their larger market properties at the rate they are going. These decisions will result in having to sell this duo (WJZY/WMYT), WPIX, WGN-TV, KTLA, etc. to cover revenue losses across the board. That's just my opinion, but I see it happening and very soon... 

On 4/16/2021 at 7:02 PM, Roadrunner said:

I honestly had no idea he was viral but his dancing seems pretty legit (much better than the average TikToker). Seems like he was ousted unexpectedly, so this is sad. FOX 46 needs to get over its growing pains soon, because there's been too much switcharoo recently.

This is another bad decision by Nexstar management...  

These above posts just reaffirms that WJZY/WMYT is going to bounced away from Nexstar like a ball. Nexstar has barely integrated the Charlotte Fox/MyTV duo because it knows it won't possess the stations for long. They know the market is too competitive and rapidly growing to be lazy...

On 3/6/2021 at 12:03 AM, Gavin said:

All I know is Carolina Demographics Raleigh is second fastest growing metro area next to Austin, TX (Where FOX ironically owns a station at).

All I know is Carolina Demographics, along with several sources say Raleigh-Cary Metro is the 2nd fastest growing in the nation, next to Austin, TX (Which FOX ironically owns a station in). And with Durham-Chapel Hill MSA most likely to get recombined with the Raleigh-Cary MSA in 2023 could mean some serious growth gains for the Raleigh metro area.

Charlotte's growth rate increased because of the pandemic and its region is in two states. The two regions are different, and I don't understand why you brought up Raleigh/Durham in this discussion. I'm happy to see ABC/Disney is holding on to WTVD, Univision with WUVC. and NBCU has its Telemundo O&O in the market. 

Charlotte is the larger one with 3 professional sport franchises and host site for NASCAR & ACC tourneys. It'll be in the top 20 in less than 5 years from now along eventually in the top 15 due to its size. It's weird the "whataboutism" always including Raleigh/Durham when it's irrelevant in the conversation.

My point is Fox has intentions of returning to the Charlotte DMA.

1 hour ago, Gavin said:

I don't have have Raleigh numbers, where's you source?

Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Planning Department (aka Charlotte Planning & Design Department), Mecklenburg County Development Services, and the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance are all my sources.

Just now, Gavin said:

Well have too see Raleigh-Cary MSA probably will get recombined with the Durham-Chapel Hill MSA. Raleigh adds at least 100 residents a day. I don't know the metro numbers.

The Charlotte MSA is gaining approx. 200 persons/day as of 2020 (Charlotte proper is approx. 160 persons/day during the same period).  The overall rate of growth I was referring to above post is the Charlotte DMA . 

On 3/4/2021 at 8:34 PM, Gavin said:

Raleigh growing faster bud, but it get it.

Actually, Raleigh is not, but you'll see soon enough when the Census numbers are released in 2022. Charlotte eased passed Raleigh in growth rate in 2020 during the pandemic. 

2 hours ago, Nelson R. said:

If they were going to move into that building, they would have eight years ago.

Maybe, maybe not. 

34 minutes ago, noggi said:

 

You think they're expanding the FS1 facility to bring in a local television operation? 

 

Charlotte needs to add like 500,000 people to make it into the top 15, when do you see that happening?

Sooner than you think. Metro Charlotte is gaining like 200 new residents per day now as verified by the consolidated development & building services department of the City & Mecklenburg County in last count of permits in 2020. Charlotte is in the top 5 fastest growing large metro regions in the US.  It's bound to leap past most of the current places ranked #15-20 in the Neilsen DMA rankings in the next few years.

It's also the hub for NASCAR and becoming the ACC football tournament champion host along with being a NFC & MLS franchise market. 

Fox does stuff that looks stupid on the surface at the time but benefits themselves in the end.

21 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

I'm sure the current O&O look has an expiration date on it as part of the sale from Fox.   Unlike the prior package from 2007, they're not really syndicating it (or making it readily available) to other groups for them to use.

In lieu of Nexstar's low budget Fox look?  Yeah... I keep telling you all this Nexstar ownership of this Charlotte duo will be shortlived. Fox isn't stupid just wanted their hands on KCPQ/KZJO in their hands while Nexstar waste money on building up a news operation they were too cash strap to do themselves.  Charlotte is destined to be a top 15 market, and Fox will be back. Isn't ironic that Fox has expanded its FS1 facility across Charlotte?  It's only a matter of time before its right back in their hands and Nexstar is back out of Charlotte for everyone's sake.  

On 2/24/2021 at 3:10 PM, ABC 7 Denver said:

I'm going to guess that this coincides with a new graphics package too, e.g. the Nexstar Fox package.

I don't know about that...

On 2/9/2021 at 2:57 PM, Nelson R. said:

WOW. So that explains why Ann Wyatt-Little has been on there. I wonder if she will be her permanent replacement or if she is just filling in until they get Morgan’s replacement. I also didn’t get around to mentioning that they also let Chuck Roads go at the first of the year. No more traffic reports. He is now at 730 The Game.

 

Morgan’s Twitter is now private and she has removed Fox 46 from her bio. She has not released a statement.

As I've said that station is going down the toilet because of Nexstar...

On 1/21/2021 at 8:18 AM, tyrannical bastard said:

I wonder how much longer Nexstar is planning on running WJZY under the FOX O&O branding.  Will it be like WJW where it took a good seven or eight years before they even tweaked the brand long after Fox had sold them off?

 

The current WJW look would look good on them.... as opposed to what happened at WXIN which got the current Nexstar FOX package.

Not anytime soon considering the current Fox O&O look is barely a year old. Also who knows what ownership reshuffle could occur in the future with that station.

On 7/16/2020 at 7:04 PM, TheBride said:

I'm not a Fox fan, but Shep Smith may be a great alternative to all of the major overly-opinionated cable "news" shows. And he will crush Joy Reid's ratings.

I highly doubt that one. The Reidout is a ratings winner.

On 9/2/2020 at 5:44 PM, TheRolyPoly said:

 

My god. Just be called ABC Alabama already and call it a day. Why they're still called ABC 33/40 without actually being on 33 and 40 makes no sense to me.

Uh here's the problem with the market, it's the Birmingham DMA. The degradation of the branding of the local TV news operations is one of the reasons why most don't even respect Birmingham as a major US city now. It's in the top 50 largest metropolitan areas in the US for Christ sake. Nobody should be calling the ABC affiliate for Birmingham "ABC Alabama" . 

On 9/2/2020 at 6:52 PM, TVNewsLover said:

Technically they are still on 40.2. The reason they’ve kept the name is probably because of brand recognition. And if they were to rebrand, I think ABC Central Alabama would make more sense.

Yeah it's a legacy brand nowadays.

On 8/24/2020 at 5:39 PM, CircleSeven said:

I guess it didn't take that long to find Allison Seymour's replacement.

 

Former WAGA Atlanta Anchor Melissa Mitchell is heading to the sister station WTTG in DC as a morning anchor.

 

Well the upside is she'll likely get to use the "fox5" handle on her social media accounts, likely the same retirement benefits

47 minutes ago, scrabbleship said:

 

I've found it somewhat amazing that Charlotte goes from 3 stations at 8:00 to zero at 9:00 and that even WBTV saw it not worth doing a 9:00 by going the lifestyle route instead. 9:00 is very low hanging fruit especially since most of the markets of size surrounding Charlotte are already there.

Yeah Charlotte is the standout market area out of both Carolinas in all aspects except its local news operations. Most of the news operations here scream small to medium size market. WSOC tries to break that mode, but is in the shadow of WBTV and its folksy product.  WCNC is having an identity crisis from Tegna's shifts "NBC Charlotte" branding to "WCNC" with a tiny NBC peacock logo; NBCUNIVERSAL/Comcast might need to buy them to fix that and help them elevate the news op. WCCB is folksy while attempting to be young and hip but no... Fox blew it with its launch of WJZY but gotten better as it went on. However, Nexstar needs to not revert to folksyness because WJZY will wind up remaining dead last permanently.

Mark my words the major networks are looking at Charlotte because of its emergence as a major city and market along with professional sports franchises along with NASCAR.

Yet the Charlotte market area punches well above its weight. It's like the twilight zone one is in understanding why folksyness is still prevalent in the local news operations. It needs to present major market news. The newly arrived transplants like myself love embracing of the local history and culture of "Centralina" as a region. Nevertheless, the local news products must also embrace that Charlotte is a now 3M+ metro and huge transportation (CLT airport) hub of a market trade area of an additional 300-400K more people outside of the metro area counties. 

On 8/16/2020 at 9:33 AM, Nelson R. said:

WJZY just hired a new news director and his first move is now not starting their weekend editions of Good Day Charlotte until 6am

 

They are adding more infomercials. No biggie at 5am on weekends. Don’t think this is really a big loss. I don’t think that many people could have been watching a weekend newscast that early on a 5th place station. That said, hopefully  it means they are eventually expanding during the week. 

His first move should have been extending Good Day Charlotte from 5AM to 10AM Monday through Friday rather than contracting the hours on news broadcasting aired...  The idea as Charlotte getting bigger in this rapid clip as it is poised to do is to make WJZY a more news-intensive major market Fox affiliate, not one that treats news like it's a second thought. I laugh at every move that Nexstar has made from the rush to shift the website to the obtuse usage of searchlights and kitebox when it should have been retired with the subtle over-the-air changes, to these moves of newscast hours reduction. It's going to make things worse rather than better for the station.

Strangely enough, WSOC-TV has adopted a new on-air bug logo with the ABC logo attached to the main 9 logo in the lower right hand corner.  Interesting it is airing during the ABC-Disney Television produced, Tamron Hall Show.   See below in the attachment

17 hours ago, mposeymil said:

Over and out for GM Mark Strachota after 6 years at WDJT...Anne Brown from crosstown WITI will be his successor.. Will be interesting to see how she will shape the station...

https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/television-radio/2020/07/13/tv-vet-mark-strachota-retiring-weigel-stations-milwaukee-witi-tvs-anne-brown-named-gm/5428900002/

She is likely jumping ship since WITI is under FTS control now and she likely isn't their (abeit short-term plans) ownership of the station.

On 5/4/2020 at 3:51 PM, TheRob said:

Andy Lack has resigned from NBC.

Long overdue. The decisions made on hiring horrible talent (Megyn Kelly) to pushing diverse yet essential talent out (Tameron Hall) was proof Lack was a horrible leader for NBC News.

On 4/21/2020 at 5:35 PM, Breaking News said:

News:

 

WISN 12 News  Mike Anderson has passed away.

https://www.wisn.com/article/veteran-wisn-12-journalist-mike-anderson-passes-away/32223015

 

 

I don't know if it was discussed but Donna Deegan former news anchor in Jacksonville running for congress

https://donnadeeganforcongress.com/

He from Columbus, but can't believe he would leave FOX O&O station for Nexstar.  I guess Mike health not too good.

WAGA has been hemorrhaging black on-air talent since last spring. First, Cynné Simpson, Marissa Mitchell, and now Kerry Charles.  It's seems like FTS isn't it for them. 

On 2/24/2020 at 10:33 PM, swillh2k2 said:

Wow. I enjoyed watching Christine when I lived in Charlotte as she and John Carter made a great team. Looking forward to seeing her on FOX 5!

This move likely led to Atlanta native,  Marissa Mitchell, who was already anchoring the 11:00PM to announce she is leaving WAGA.

https://www.ajc.com/blog/radiotvtalk/fox-atlanta-adding-newscast-with-new-anchor-christine-sperow/16XlYK3MohLg0gaf8jS7NK/

19 hours ago, Nelson R. said:

I noticed that WJZY’s Diana Alvear has now returned from maternity leave with her second baby. Also today was Brigida Mack’s official debut on Good Day Charlotte.

Yeah, WJZY via Fox is definitely upping their stock in the news product. Good Day Charlotte seems to be more like their sister station WAGA's Good Day Atlanta, where there is aim to have contemporary music played particularly Billboard Hot 100 songs during the newscast bumpers.  Brigida is definitely a relatable personality and seems to bring appeal to the growing number of black professionals that are relocating to Charlotte.  It's going to be interesting how GDC evolves with Brigida there as well as Nick, Paige, and Jason are very relatable to younger viewers (25-45 year olds) in general.  This might be the right mix for the station to accelerate ratings growth for WJZY in the mornings.  This is also giving credence to the second thoughts because Charlotte is a significant growth and very competitive media market with growing household incomes.