WXmanTim
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WMAQ, Chicago; 4:30 p.m. news promo, 1980:
Did Taft & Coleman switch stations around the same time? Coleman, I believe, would have been doing weather (from Chicago) for Good Morning America at this point.
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Cheezy indeed... But It wasn't just because Disney owned ABC that they used the Mouse in the video... You see, the controlling shareholder in Shamrock Broadcasting was Roy Disney.....Yes Walt's Brother.
Disney didn't come to own ABC until 7 years after this promotional video was produced. Mickey was used solely because of the ownership by Roy Disney.
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The exodus from Houston's KRIV continues.
First, it was reporter Ashley Johnson who jumped ship to WWOR's "Chasing New Jersey" broadcast.
Then Assistant News Director Howard Dorsey and Managing Editor Geoff Roth were cut loose.
Last week main anchor Don Teague was reportedly escorted from the building. FTVLIVE reports that's related to a sexual harassment complaint filed by a (now former) reporter (my inside sources say his departure and said reporter's *ahem* promotion to another station are related).
Today, the Chronicle reported that morning Meteorologist Lindsay Day is leaving at the end of the book.
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Whoops... My mistake... Doesn't change my opinion of the guy...
I wouldn't expect it to. From everything I've read about the guy over the last dozen years, on Newsblues, TV Spy, FTV, that seems to be the general consensus. This latest "hey lady reporters, go freeze your ears off" (because we all know a blackened and/of trimmed ear from frostbite is sooooooooo much more attractive than a hat) only reinforces that perception.
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Dan Salamone is their News Director (he's also a collasal prick).
No, he's their morning EP. Tom Doerr, my old news director at KRIV in Houston is the ND at Fox Chicago
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A producer at WFLD told female reporters to not wear hats during live shots because they “look a lot better without hats,” he would make an exception “if it’s 20 below.” Station management have said that it was never a station policy and that the producer would be reprimanded
That would be the Executive Producer, former WOIO News Director, Dan Salamon, according to FTV and TVSpy.
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Fox 26 reporter Katie McCall is leaving tv following her upcoming nuptials.
McCall joined KRIV in April 2014 after stints at KTRK, WBBM, & KIAH.
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The graphic, a yellow Star of David with the German word for "jew" was worn by victims of the Nazi atrocities in world war 2
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Ummmm....
Don't think that should have been approved...
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Courtesy Mike Mcguff's blog, here's the late Ron Stone's final newscast at KPRC2
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A pair of Detroit airchecks from 1996:
WJBK 10pm (Kalehoff galore)
Behold, the "tease every story multiple times" Era, may it rest in peace.
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I don't understand why Fox didn't sell KTBC to Local TV back in 2007. They don't air either Cowboys or Texans games and for some reason Fox still keeps it, but why?
They originating stations for the preseason games are bid separately from the main package. As stated, KTVT handles the Cowboys while KTRK has the Texans.
If KTBC was concerned about airing (either) package they would have ponied up the money.
That being said, I'm sure Fox kept KTBC precisely because of the revenue generated by the regular season network broadcasts. There are also, as mentioned, certain synergies by having a station in Austin versus always sending a crew out to central Texas.
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The good news is that WUAB is reverting to being an "independent". Techically all MNT stations are indy so this does work. Also, WUAB might have to drop its 9pm news because it was tried on WSBK in Boston (pre-MNT) and it failed miserably.
They aren't dropping MNTV completely, just moving out of prime time into late night. I guess it makes sense in that it allows them to air the 9-10:30 newscast and keep all the advertising revenue from the sitcom reruns in prime time.
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Don't most of the ABC O&Os now air an hour long late news on weekends?
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That's sounds entirely possible. There's been a lot redevelopment in downtown and along riverside drive the last few years, spurred in part by the nearby casino.The 25 Main Street building will most likely be repurposed. It is one of the nicest buildings in that area. I heard one the reasons they are moving is because the taxes on the prime property area so high.
Vectren and Old National Bancshares have both built new headquarters buildings in the last decade along Riverside as well.
Updated to add: Google Maps now shows 477 Carpenter St as WEVV.
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I would imagine everything would be moved to the Carpenter St facility, with the existing building on Main and Riverside repurposed (or possibly demolished).
The only advantage I see to moving to the old WTVW studios is that Nexstar may have laid the ground work for HD broadcasts before jumping to WEHT's Henderson facility. Whereas the existing equipment at WEVV's Main St building likely dates to when they shut the news department down 15 years ago.
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If you're looking for news in Spanish in the Rio Grande Valley, there's a new option starting today as KRGV begins SAP translation of its newscasts.
Why don't more stations in the southwestern United States do this...?
I'm surprised this station is doing it, or rather this size market. There's 2 ESP newsrooms (including a Telemundo O&O) in the market already, plus what is beamed across the border.
The only other station I know of that does this regularly is KRIV-Houston, but only for the 9pm weekdays newscasts.
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Looks like the template wasnt loaded correctly. I haven't used a newer generation WSI system, but if it's anything like the WXCentral box I used, the 7day "colors" are advanced by clicking on the saved layer for each day of the week.
For example, the saved "Monday PM" layer would have Monday as day 7, with the highlighted weekend as day 5 & 6. "Tuesday PM" would advance the colors one column to the left.
In this case, it's possible there are two layers (for the highlighted day, and the "wrap" at the bottom of the graphic) and the met didn't click both before rendering the movie prior to air. OR the movie glitched while rendering and didn't load the correct layer.
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What the... Ernie Anderson for a non-ABC station? What type of bizarro world did that come from?
And just 3 short years later, Ernie was doing opens for WSB
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Alright I missed some of these over the past few days so let me get everyone caught up:
First off KENS 5 has hired a new reporter, Chelsey Hernandez. What makes this hire different from the others is that she comes from Victoria which I think is DMA 205. We are DMA 33 so that is about a 170+ jump.
http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/reporter-chelsey-hernandez-joins-kens/147808
A stones throw from KENS we land at Sinclair (WOAI/KABB) where they have hired another reporter Andrew Lofholm. He comes to us from Casper, WY. They are DMA 196 so this is a jump of 163 markets. Sense the trend here? I guess we will continue to get cheap labor from tiny markets. This hasn't really happened in the past. I don't watch KENS so I can't tell you if Chelsey is any good. From what I've seen of Andrew, he seems decent for the market.
Up north I felt I needed to pass this along, I'm sure everyone here is aware of the FHRITP stunts that these lowlifes do. Well one reporter from City News in Toronto isn't having it and is taking matters into her own hands.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HKfZbCqoEIM
I commend her for standing up to these morons instead of just letting them have their moment. The guy lost his job for his remarks. Serves him right.
Finally I am way late on this one but better late than never right? The Spurs have hired Rachel Santschi as their new sideline reporter. I couldn't find much online about her other than she used to work as the sideline reporter for the Kansas City Chiefs and some article saying that she secretly dated Aaron Murray while he was dating the local news affiliates traffic reporter. Anyways I usually don't watch the pregame crap so I wasn't aware of this hire until I saw clip on the Spurs social media the other day.
That's all that's going on in my boring market right now.
A disturbing trend, but not unprecedented. A couple years ago, KPRC hired a sports reporter from Cheyenne, Gary Striewski (http://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2012/05/kprc-2-grabs-gary-striewski-from-kgwn-5.html?m=1). He was horrible andwas gone in The blink of an eye.
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Sharron Melton has decided to leave ABC owned KTRK in Houston. She joined the station in May 2007 as morning co-anchor before being demoted to reporter which KTRK was disguising it as "anchor in the field" in August of last year. I knew she would be leaving after being demoted. Wherever she ends up next I wish her the best of luck.
According to this followup post on Mike Mcguffs site (http://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2015/05/sharron-meltons-future-after-ktrk-abc13.html?m=1), Sharron Melton may return to the airwaves in Houston sooner than thought. She apparently is one of the few at KTRK that doesn't (or, in this case, didn't) have a non-compete clause in her contract.
At this point, though, I don't really see any openings at the other three stations where she might go.
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That logo looks great. Also notable that WEVV is moving into WTVW's old digs.
That part of the announcement surprised me more than anything. Built in the mid 80s, the existing WEVV building on Main St & Riverside Dr. ("44 Main St" http://goo.gl/maps/hNkZH) is about a decade newer than the WTVW facilities on Carpenter (http://goo.gl/maps/7CrRu).
Despite the fact that they didn't have a local news presence for most of its history, the WEVV building does have a good size studio & space for a newsroom.
Perhaps the draw is they are inheriting any technical upgrades Nexstar made before combining with WEHT at the Henderson facilities.
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KOLD news director Mark Herman is resigning. He made the announcement last week via (of all things) a cake:
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/28970534/sweetest-resignation-letter-ever
His last day is May 22nd, two days after the May Sweeps period ends.
Herman is not the news director. He is a newscast director, aka the button pusher in the booth, who keeps the individual newscasts running smoothly
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KOLD news director Mark Herman is resigning. He made the announcement last week via (of all things) a cake:
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/28970534/sweetest-resignation-letter-ever
His last day is May 22nd, two days after the May Sweeps period ends.
Herman is not the news director. He is a newscast director, aka the button pusher in the booth, who keeps the individual newscasts running.
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I'm not a fan of the overly synth update to the theme music, but I like the 4th video you posted (logo over clouds)