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KGW renovated their newsroom a couple years ago and now has a circle "Content Discovery Center" (assignment desk) in the center of the newsroom. You can see a behind the scenes view in this video at 13:27. But this is how it looks on-air at their newsroom cam (@ 5:10):

Music is bland and unrecognizable. Listen to that open....it goes nowhere. The graphics, like Weeters said, look cheap. The title slate with the logo is way too big! You have to move your eyes across the entire screen to read it. I'm curious about that technical glitch. I'm only speculating....Since it's a repeating video, it made me think maybe some of her on-cam segments were prerecorded to make sure there were no mistakes for the first show. But it's also possible that if this was a technical glitch with the switcher, the camera feed could have been captured and looped with that transition. (But I don't know why/how the switcher would be recording it's own feed like that.)

I know it's small market but that news writing is terrible! Almost as if the anchor is reading the press release itself. Doesn't help that she sounds robotic and bored.

The tease part of that I hadn't fully heard before, but it seams like it's probably just a different portion of the track that is used in the rejoin, which I have heard in a KGW stinger before.

I think hubs are great. They are very efficient. I've never heard of "channel-in-a-box". What is it and how much "attention" does it need from "existing staff" (who I assume are not MC operators)? I've worked at stations with different hub setups. One was completely hubbed and we never really had any technical issues (at least on air) that made me think it wasn't worth it. Another was a hybrid setup where they had local operators during key portions of the day to do MC duties, but then during overnights and weekends, the hub took over. I don't know why it was hybrid instead of entirely hubbed. At first I thought it was a union thing, but then heard that the MC operators contract had a "no manning" clause, meaning the station was free to hire and fire according to whether there was enough work to do and they weren't required to employ a minimum number of employees. So now I'm guessing the union contract would not prevent going fully hubbed.

I don't really have complete knowledge of the process but I know at least some stations bring in the DBL feed through their TVU receivers. IDK what path the signal goes before that and/or info about commercial insertion. Guessing it's similar to a network feed where there would be a spot or 2 for local fill.

Weird. Do we know for a fact he is an "employee", or maybe just interning or something? What's in it for the station? It's not that hard to have your professional weather people record segments for web.

Keep in mind just because a company logo is one there, that doesn't mean all the stations owned by that group use Lakana, or ever did. For example, Tegna has their own "Tegna One" CMS platform, though I don't know how many of their stations use it.

Wow....I've never seen such a thing. Really cool. I wonder if more stations will get something like this. What is the cost? Do you think stations would actually use DSLRs as studio cameras?

I read that wrong at first. That space makes all the difference.

Anyone get some screen grabs? Video has been taken down.

Here is the new open. [yt]hgy_DFid8_Q[/yt]

I saw a tweet by KGW news director Rick Jacobs and was wondering if KGW had plans to move which I would find very surprising. https://twitter.com/RickJacobsKGW/status/573600377989414912 "New relocation" is weird phrasing but I'm guessing he is referring to KING. Maybe some KGW staff will be helping them move.

KGW's new site is much better than their Belo site. Still has some kinks to work out. On some pages, their Instagram icon links to an account that is not theirs. (http://instagram.com/kgw)

KGW is teasing their new look as coming soon. Below is an online online promo, but other versions have already aired. [yt]Hlx5WHQs9KA[/yt]