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If TEGNA does plan to buy Tribune Broadcasting, TV stations in Seattle, St Louis, Denver, Norfolk, and more are doomed to the FCC's duopoly rule.

C'mon, CBS, buy up KWGN. You need to line up your competition against KUSA.

At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if WFAA or even any of TEGNA's three flagships are next

So I wonder if Mark Koebrich was part of the Denver buyout and if Adele Arakawa is next on the list.

 

To go with WBBH's "take" of Look F, sister station WZVN got an actually not too bad version of KABC's old/KGO's graphics. It's clear that Fort Myers, besides the Fox station, is a market full of knock-offs.

That's not a knock-off. WZVN bought this package syndicated from Hothaus, and, as I posted in another thread, WBBH is using Look F from Artworks not their own take. If anything it was WINK that was using the Look F knock-off.

I doubt it'll name any of the MG ones until that deal is completed.

That's why my question was in future-tense.

and let it began for the soon to be gone WVMH stations.

 

 

 

WBOY is now WVAlways.com

 

WOWK is now TriStateUpdate.com.

 

WTRF is now YourOhioValley.com.

 

WVNS is now WeAreWVProud.com.

What is WKBN going to become!?

Or the 'Satellite Center' from 1990's.....or the "Update Desk' of the 80's.....or "The Newsroom" of the 70's...

 

Overused???

Never!

The Information Center. #Tegna

KQDS is stuck in 2006. and Even FOX O&Os did better than that in 2006.

And it looks like a hodgepodge of 3 different packages. Ripping off the CBS O&Os with those sweep nurbs.

TV21 in Macedonia has some vaguely American-looking elements to it (including English-language slogans such as "The News You Can Count On"):

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFiXUaViqnw

These are stock graphics!

KCRA has been using Random New cuts of strive from FUZEARTZ lately. its been very Wierd for KCRA to have.

 

I have confirmation from Brian Reidinger, co-owner of inthegroovemusic, that Fuze Artz does not own inthegroovemusic nor did they create Strive. Strive is a product of ITG and is informally represented by Fuze Artz.

No, it was her fake alias.

Fake alias is redundant. Just thought you should know.

There really isn't a good reason to get a new graphics package other than this one being three years old. It's three years old but some stations haven't had it that long (WKBW), and it will be "new" in the ex-Journal markets (where WTMJ has had the Journal package for nearly seven years with no updates) once it's ready for them. The older Scripps stations have invested potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in duratrans, vehicle wraps, signage, etc. that all reflect the current look, it'd be stupid to throw that all out for no real reason.

 

I've heard that Scripps is quite happy with this look and will continue to use it for the foreseeable future. I wouldn't be surprised to see it updated here and there, but I think the core orange/white/blue boxy look will be around for years to come.

So why are we going to screw the former Journal stations whom have invested "invested potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in duratrans, vehicle wraps, signage, etc."? Why not leave everything status quo until a new package is needed group-wide?

I wish that Scripps had taken the time and at least designed a new package for all of its stations, new and old, to use. The current one is years old now, so it just annoying to see them give their new stations a package that's already 3 years old and that they will use for presumably at least 3 more.

It's frustrating too that WTVF will be losing Impact V.6 and their really nice package.

Meanwhile, the Creative Service Asst. Director has moved to Denver at KMGH.

Pulled a WVTM with that logo, and I like it. The peacock in the middle is unique.

 

This is well overdue and welcome. I love that they're using Evolution, too.

Ugh. Looks very small market.

You guys beat me to it. Love the new graphics. Very nice look for World News

These graphics look very much like an update to with what World News with Diane Sawyer premiered. If only they bought the original theme back now!

 

I ran across some footage of KEZI in Eugene, which seems to use a bootleg cross between the KTLA look and the old KYW look. And it doesn't look that bad, really...

 

 

Maybe that's not a knock off and is the KCPQ package by Hothaus.

http://www.hothauscreative.com/pages/affiliate/kcpq.html

 

TEGNA announced that they have sold their McLean, VA HQ to the Tamares Group for $270m. As part of the sale, they will remain in the building for the next 18 months while they search for a new home for their business. TEGNA's corporate cousin, Gannett however, will lease back the space from Tamares for the print operations on a long term basis.

 

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/87051/tegna-sells-headquarters-building-for-270m

http://www.newsandtech.com/dateline/article_669e8528-25aa-11e5-abe9-e720c7593966.html

 

Could they move to Cleveland or Denver? I'd say Dallas, but they sold off the Belo tower.

 

I don't know if this still counts as the Gannett/Tegna thread, but the company had a morning show strategy meeting in Texas this month to try to "re-invent" the morning shows at Tegna stations, I've heard, focusing on KHOU, WFAA and KVUE first. I imagine we'll see whatever they came up with in a few months.

 

Tribune tried this with Eye Opener. It's moronic!

 

I doubt that it even matters. Besides, KUSA has generally been known as 9NEWS for 20 years.

 

I know, They just desperately need a new logo.

 

Washington, DC is the nation's capital. It makes sense for WUSA to keep the callsign, with or without the USA Today.

 

KUSA on the other hand... KTGA? It would be cool if Denver was their headquarter market.

 

It'll also allow for full ownership of KGW and WHAS because they won't be bound under cross-ownership restrictions Gannett is under right now.

 

I would not be surprised if a year or two after the split, Tegna goes on another buying spree. There are quite a few stations ripe for the pickin'.

 

There's another thing that hit me. Upon the split of Gannett's broadcasting arm into Tegna, will the stations' websites be altered in any way aside from changing from "A Gannett Company" to "A Tegna Company" at some point within a year from then?

 

That's it! Because the graphics package is pretty fresh still, neither that nor the web design will change for a few years. I suspect that the stations will continue the partnership with USA Today, as well.

 

No, we got affected by this delay too. We launch on Wednesday.

 

Any idea when the new site will be launched? http://ux.myfoxzone.com isn't active so the new model either hasn't been introduced yet or a new domain is being planned.

 

They just get more interesting.

 

Today azcentral.com received a minor redesign, and KPNX got its own website back: 12news.com.

 

That was done because of the upcoming corporate split between the papers and stations.

 

It's not really a hardware or software issue, well for me at least. I know what's wrong, I just don't know how to fix it in Lyric.

 

http://chyronhego.com/support/online_helpdesk/