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Did they change the Count On It font?

I believe with their set they switched to OverDrive but added Viz engines (VizRT even tweeted it out). WCAU is going to continue to use OverDrive and will launch with Expression graphics. Did Ross purchase Expression (or a predecessor) from someone or was this a product they developed themselves? It seems like they only been launched graphics platforms few years ago. I know Stadiums use them.

That being said when building a show a graphic could be built in the automation software.

No it wouldn’t. But it could affect play out of graphics and video.

I’m not sure if WABC transitioned yet but I noticed that the other O&Os are switching from Grass Valley Ignite automation to Ross OverDrive.

Mum making as in flower arranging? (Making sure that it’s not something else). So glad that the news here in the morning is straight newscast aside from some the trending segment and WJZ’s Manic Monday’s.

Contracts are locked up for years. Plus the individual athletic conferences make a lot of money by operating their own channels or using ESPN to make a channel for them. They get to keep all the revenues. The NBC RSN do show some college games here.

Yes he does.

That’s a pipe dream. I would be upset as he’d leave The 11th Hour a show he has molded in his own and you can see his personality. I’d imagine the finalists would be between Savannah, Kate or Jose. However I’d imagine they’d be reluctant to take Savannah from Today unless the worked it out where she would not have to come in as early for Today and come back for Nightly in the late afternoon.

I see what you mean, but the black/red color scheme is a lot easier to read than all the various color schemes and fonts before.

I was skeptical about this guy being successful running the Michigan station but seeing that it worked was amazing. However I don’t see any large station groups signing on to affiliate with this diginet. They’ll want to sign on a diginet that has some stability - with a secure programming slate and financial backing. If they were using crowdfunding for the first try and failed - what will make this successful? The satellite distribution costs alone will cost more in a month than the amount they were trying to raise in the first go round. And who will be providing them content AP, Reuters, NewSource? Those costs are going to add up quick. Also, any station that signs on is going to barely make any ad money on this deal. Unless they plan on paying for carriage like some diginets do or did when starting out. I only see this really appealing to small or minority broadcasters that are running five subchannels already.

Do they necessarily need someone in the Mobile Weather Lab? Surely they could scrap the segment when there’s no one available.

Care to spill any more?

Isn’t this the same GM that FTVLive says is rarely seen in the office but somehow knows everything?

So far Gura hasn’t been political but I’m curious if he’ll show his opinion. Edited: since I updated to iOS 12 my keyboard has been autocorrecting and changing things like crazy.

They still may not have access to all the footage or high quality copies.

They probably don’t have a lot of the footage handy anymore. Their new facility is tapeless and I believe they donated their library to a university. It would probably be a pain to dig up stuff off site. Edit: Looks like they donated their library to UNT shortly after their move to the new facility. Infact the UNT Library was just awarded for their work in archiving the stories from KXAS through 1979.

I wouldn’t claim it’s notabe to non news viewers except for maybe being in How to Get Away with Murder or other shows in set Philadelphia. People probably think MCTYW was “theirs” and not WPVI. WGN at the time they probably had a clue was still a superstation and could have been broadcasting Jeopardy. I’m going to guess What is Paper Mache? Wow, they really oversold it. Unless the social media person was going for the old 6abc is Philly , Philly is 6abc (or was it Action News) branding (that was a brand at one point right)?o

Like if your a morning anchor at a dog station but get an offer to anchor the evening news in a top staton in a top 10 market you’d jump. Oh another example is Marianne Bannister she apparently was the midday anchor at KABC and left to head to WBAL in the 90s because the money and promotion were right.

WBAL initially had a 7-8AM Show but it was axed when they launched the 4:30 newscast. It was successful enough for them to launch the 10PM newscast. The morning show lasted 3 years, 3 months and 10 days (10/03/2011-01/12/2015). The ratings were minimal in the beginning apparently but good enough for them to launch the 10PM five months later. I think the 7AM show was axed perhaps because of contractual reasons - but that’s just a guess. Anyway there’s a neat WBAL logo style I haven’t seen before promoting Matter of Fact: And maybe slightly updated graphics package: I learned that the show is edited and put together down by HTV design. I would of thought the DC Bureau would be in charge of the program.

Yup.

Their ticker looks much better compared to WBFF.

So this popped up on my Instagram timeline again. A journalist at WCAU saw this picture of a monkey on. One of the outside sources. Turns out it came from a switcher test video out of 30 Rock that was sent over satellite (and for some reason they received it and put it as a MW source). [MEDIA=instagram]BNu-4KTjZoQ[/MEDIA]

A commenter on DCRTV was wondering if Cox shuttered it’s DC Bureau in advance of the sale. Can anyone in Cox markets provide insight?

I see where your going.