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1 hour ago, atlnews2 said:

WXIA had (has?? Not sure if still there) the same thing at Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta…it was funny that they continued to use the 90s era 11Alive logo and never updated the signage to the current red logo 

This is common enough that I'm sure it's just a licensing deal.

11 hours ago, TVNewsLover said:

My money’s still on FOX snatching up WPLG and makING it an O&O when Fox’s affiliation contract expires with WSVN.

I don't think that's realistic, given who PLG's owners are and their relationship with Graham.

8 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Interesting.  So he left (or they got rid of him) and he came back?

Went to KMGH. Was ousted when Scripps bought them and subsequently kicked GM Byron Grandy to the curb. Grandy served out a stint at a few Nexstar stations before returning to GM KDVR|KWGN and brought Becker back with him. Becker is doing the job he was never made for - Micromanaging, blindly listening to SmithGeiger, and spending stupid amounts of money for a new set that didn't need to be replaced. Becker doesn't know how to move the ratings dial at all.

14 hours ago, MidwestTV said:

 

We need to investigate who decided "News on the Deuce" was a good idea and potentially file criminal charges.

It was Clyde Becker. The former and current Creative Director of KWGN|KDVR.

12 hours ago, SFTV said:

I mean KWGN was ahead of its time back in 2009. They had the orange look on its graphics and CW logo during their Deuce era

It was an accent color on its logo, it wasn't a primary color. Those were gray and blue.

16 minutes ago, Archiva said:

I'd say the package WKRN debuted last year and the PIX package are both still good from Nexstar.

Define "good".

20 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

I would have added this to the original KOIN thread, but it's been locked. 

 

So here we are in 2025 and WKRG has once again separated the branding of their CW newscast as "Gulf Coast CW News"

 

 

Being a Nexstar CW O&O, I personally think the color palette is hideous.  They should have never dumped the green for the orange. But that's all Nexstar's doing for their attempts to make CW "America's most watched network with programming for everyone"

 

I wonder if this is going to be a trend for any of Nexstar's CW stations that are on and operated with other affiliates....

 

On the bright side, I don't think we'll ever be seeing this on stations like WPIX, KTLA or WGN...

 

I think that part of the issue here is that the graphics package is meh. Even Media General's flat package looked better than this. The green doesn't work and the color is more sunset peach which works well as a highlight complimenting golds, blues and white, but not as a primary. Combined with the green, it's reminiscent of watermelon.

2 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

SAM's Canvas.

And the WISH-2018 package. Off-the-shelf.

On 5/30/2025 at 2:58 PM, newsman123 said:

The current music pkg isnt even music. Its weak boring..  nothing. A few lame sounds to put you to sleep.

 

This is at least a music pkg with some style. God.. why have the Scripps stations become so boring and vanilla. They are unwatchable. No energy. WXYZ is the worst offender. Is that on purpose? 

Why? Because they keep hiring SAM.

I think the 25% opacity text across the screen in the opening is incredibly distracting. There's too much going on visually. Keep the C4D renders, the large text stroke, the names of the cities, and the background video.

36 minutes ago, Yayan4155 said:

The last time Nightly News rebrand is in June 2023, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of NBC television newscast (Remember, they ditched Serif-based font in favor of NBC Tinker one to more aligned with NBC proper branding). The rebrand was happened two years before Tom takes over Lester's role permanently in June 2025. I also think that current graphics package is too futuristic but still relevant for digital audiences, which are most consumed by younger people.

 

When Tom Llamas takes over the role 11 days from now, the current graphics package will be even more relevant, given how much younger Tom currently as a anchor (born in 1979).

Are young people even consuming NBC News digitally?

14 minutes ago, Recovering Producer said:

Less than three months until the change, and WSVN/Sunbeam is asking the FCC to return to only broadcasting in ATSC 1.0 and ending its channel sharing agreement with WPLG. Currently, the WSVN spectrum has WSVN and WPLG's ATSC 1.0 channels, while the WPLG spectrum has WSVN and WPLG ATSC 3.0 channels.

 

No similar filings from WPLG/Berkshire Hathaway to request a return to ATSC 1.0 transmission that I could find. Likely just a matter of when that is filed.  

When is WSVN going to adjust back to NTSC?

On 4/30/2025 at 6:20 PM, FiveNews said:

Not Scripps, but KSL uses the "Specialist" branding to this day and has used it for decades. Has been a successful brand for them

 

 

As valuable as a "Weather Nutritionists". It's not a protected term. Now before you get at me, Dietician is protected, but Weather Dietician isn't.

2 hours ago, ScottSchell said:

I like it better than the Plan on it they were using.

AI is better than SmithGeiger!? Lmaooooo!

48 minutes ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:

Speaking of WXMI, they have launched a re-branded weather team: The Weather Ready Team... with Weather Ready Alerts... Based on the story, it's very similiar sounding to TEGNA's "Weather Impact" branding.. Interested to see if this will be a local thing, or will it be launched at other Scripps stations....

That is one of the laziest brand names. I'm guessing AI created that. When have you seen a meteorologist slackin' on air? The only one that I see not 'Weather Ready', is Nexstar with a two-hour delay which can have consequences during a weather emergency.

On 4/21/2025 at 6:59 PM, Rusty Muck said:

Let me know when you find this mythical buyer for the radio stations. Radio is even more of a declining asset than television and the only people buying up stations are Godcasters like K-Love or Relevant Radio. Let's be real: Nexstar, Gray, Tegna, Sinclair and Sinclair know they can't find a third party for the radio stations and they aren't going to bother with Cox.

 

NewsNation is cheap and they hire cheap talent. They make good money on retransmission revenue from cable companies and don't have to pay for acquired programming like movies. That's the only reason why it's around.

I hope you are aware that younger demos and more and more of the 25–54 "money demo" are abandoning linear television for streaming. The audience for local television is getting smaller and grayer and the industry is on an unsustainable course with pushing endless local news to markets that can't support it. Nexstar, Gray, Tegna, Sinclair and Scripps are all destined to be too big to fail.

 

As for Apollo, they are only guilty of being 10 years too late buying Cox and four years too late trying to sell it.

You think Chris Cuomo is Cheap? Awe. That's quaint. Also, yes I know the ad demo is abandoning linear television for streaming  (which can be FAST), but generally, even without the key demo, News Nation would be delisted from the industry audience metrics. In fact, it does so poorly and consumes so many resources for itself and in a parasitic fashion from local stations, that I don't think it's providing any ROI, even if Nexstar demands it be carried as a sidecar to its local stations in retrans agreements. Local Nexstar stations have better metrics, both inside and outside the ad demo.

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2025/4/24/close-to-hashmarks

On 4/18/2025 at 7:04 AM, Rusty Muck said:

Good luck with that. None of the suspected companies (Nexstar, Sinclair, Gray, Scripps, etc, &c.) want radio stations and with Apollo wanting to sell the company as a complete unit, there are no available buyers, cap or no cap.

 

And the industry dies outright with two or three companies too big to fail that are crippled when the networks abandon OTA for streaming, taking the last of the younger audiences with them.

You think that would stop those suspected companies? Apollo can sell the group as a complete unit and one of these suspected companies could have quietly negotiated a TBA in the background. Once the Apollo sale is complete, whomever buys the stations, immediately sells the radio stations to the 3rd-party. Apollo has no recourse. 

The entire idea that the FCC grants licenses or allows local broadcasting to serve the public interest went out the window, when the greedy corporations began slashing budgets, experienced journalists and solely providing shareholder value, instead of catering to their communities. You made your point as if crippling the visual storytelling medium wasn't the entire purpose. Really, the 3 biggest station groups - Sinclair, Nexstar and Gray are lead by Conservative CEOs who are more interested in pushing their own opinions and sucking the assets out of local journalism than providing a public good. Why do we think NewsNation is still around? Sean Compton is a close friend of Donald Trump's. Nexstar's local stations are being siphoned from resources and Nexstar retrans agreement with cable vendors must include NewsNation, which both Neilsen and Comscore demonstrate has little value, but Nexstar keeps taking valuable assets away from their stations to propup Donald Trump's friend. So I call bullshit on the idea that this isn't the entire intent of these organizations and we cannot stop it.

2 hours ago, Rusty Muck said:

I’m going to be very blunt and say that, given what Apollo has to offer—a slightly above average group of television stations with an over-performer in WSB-TV and an unappealing laggard in WFXT, coupled with a whole bunch of radio stations—they’ll be lucky to find any buyers to speak of. Who’d want that hodgepodge of stuff?

 

it would not be surprising to see Apollo take Cox off the market because no one wants it. They waited four years too late to sell and aren’t going to get another novice like INSP that is willing to burn $400M just for the ego boost of owning TV stations. Gray, Scripps and Nexstar don’t need them at all (and they ESPECIALLY do not want the radio stations) and Hearst doesn’t buy stations, period.

That story would change if the FCC indeeds eliminates the ownership cap. I'd imagine Nexstar, Gray and Sinclair owning all of the stations in the US.

2 hours ago, NEOMatrix said:

I’m just waiting for Nexstar to make this a thing. Can’t wait for “FutureALERT” on WKBN! /s

Less meteorology and more clairvoyance?

1 hour ago, nathannah said:

This is really the year CBS is being starved; we're getting yet another Yellowstone spin-off too and they already cut 2/3rds of the FBI's to allow another one to start up.

 

But this is on Paramount for instead of contracting with someone you know will stay in Hollywood for several seasons, hiring a comedian at the height of her career who makes much more in touring host the show. I can't blame her for walking away when it seems like the format and limitations of broadcast TV just never worked for a show that started on cable, a very hands-on management trying to file every edge of their network down to satisfy the FCC to get the Skydance merger closed, and a certain heiress that needs to have her nose in everything who just needs to be given FU money and told to go away already. I already sense that Taylor and the writing team was getting network-noted to death to not comment about current political events (which they sadly won't do for Colbert, who I've just stopped watching because it's NOTHING but that) and just had no further appetite for the show.

 

As for the timeslot and local stations, it'll either be sitcoms, tabloid news shows, CBS's cheapo syndicated game shows, or infomercials. Nothing new or creative is going there.

I'm looking forward to a time when the national anthem plays and broadcasts end for the day because it's too expensive to run anything anymore. Remember, RFK is implementing a rule which wouldn't allow big pharma to advertise. This is a what I primarily see as the advert stream for evening newscasts. So the era of network evening newscasts may just end.

23 hours ago, atlnews2 said:

Keep in mind Apollo wants someone to buy the entire thing, not a piecemeal sale…that means the buyer will need to be willing to take the radio stations as well 

Could a 2-way sale satisfy that? Say Company A wants to by the stations from Apollo, but they don't want the radio stations. So Company A makes and agreement with Company B that upon completion of the sale from Apollo, Company B is transferred ownership of the radio assets, in exchange for a time honor agreement and a proportional contribution of the entire valuation of the sale (say stock and/or cash). Technically, Company A would acquire Cox since they owned the brokerage account and then would immediately split it. Of course, if Company A was tricky, they could negotiate in bad faith and then once the sale was complete immediately sell the assets anyway.

5 hours ago, 24994J said:

5 hours ago, TheNewsTV said:

Looks like they migrated from a rear projection display to a seamless video wall. Is that a vinyl image over a white plexiglass facia on the front of the anchor desk or did they finally put animation on it. I will say that this anchor desk looks more local news than network. It's huge for 1 person. I would much rather have a counter-height desk and and several stand-ups around the studio, than the anchor staying in one place during the entire show.

From what I could see in the video and from the image, it looks like they're testing the levels on these chairs to determine which would work well on camera. The problem with chrome is the reflectivity.

2 hours ago, ATLNewsExpert said:

We say often on here if it's not broken, don't fix it. I get that, WNT is number 1 and all, regardless about the quality but there has to be an exception to everything.

 

This look, graphics and set, is approaching it's initial 10th birthday and it's only gotten worse with age. Also worth noting that now no main evening Newscast (unless you count PBS) has a light aired look, all dark and ominous, though ABC pulls it off the worst.

 

I'll give them credit for the tweaks they did do, and who knows, maybe you can't really tell all the changes and uniqueness because it's the same graphics!

 

Now seeing this, I'm not very confident that we're getting new graphics with this new set, the set barley changed, so why would they want to change graphics?

Isn't Nightly News still using Studio 1A? That's a bright set and has windows. I really like this use.

14 hours ago, GraphicsMan said:

Ya know they had that logo since 2005, I do wish they change the red and white logo and leave “Eyewitness News” bare like its sister stations.

As long as Byron Allen doesn’t get it lol.

AMG may be looking for a sale.

Just flagging that this is the KFSN set.

8 hours ago, GraphicsMan said:

Some folks will still remain in Raleigh, but for now all newscasts are headed back from Durham I believe they’ve been working on this for years. Disney sure is investing in its stations recently with WABC getting its new home, and WTVD upgraded home looks like Mickey Mouse is calling an early Christmas.

Me thinks this might be a move to square the network up for a sale.

9 hours ago, GraphicsMan said:

WTVD today debuts its renovated Durham studio, they returning to there original Durham studio after being in Raleigh for a couple of years. Here some pictures.

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/18xmaQFnpL/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Honestly, that anchor desk feels pretty damn generic.