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Yeah, I'm watching right now - most of the regions days aren't populated at the bottom of the screen. Didn't WPVI have a side bar for a while last year?

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Looks real. Check out this video for Dr. Oz from KTVU's Vimeo account: [MEDIA=vimeo]162008791[/MEDIA]

It wasn't reuploaded by YouTube - they probably got it from FTVLive who uploaded it to his own site and MediaITe took that as well. Not worth the hassle. Still somehow got 15K views. It was something of a chyron screw up during way too early where the stock ticker only displayed some very weird dummy text.

I imagine they see a future for this type of thing. Last year NBCU invested $200 million into Buzzfeed which is almost all listicles and a majority of their content comes from other sources (gifts and YouTube* videos). I think they see there's future in well produced sponsored content like what BuzzFeed frequently does. *Still kind of pissed they lifted a video from my YouTube and posted it as their own.

Also I should add I saw Wendy Bells name once or twice for some awards.

Well Hearst seemed to sweep the Headliner Awards. WCVB won best website, WTAE won two awards for their Chronicle show, and WBAL won best breaking news coverage for the Baltimore Riots and Best Newscast at 11pm.

I think WBAL is going to be next as their looking for another anchor and that they pulled Kate Amara from 10PM. I think she'd be paired with whoever is the new one. What time is Inside Edition fed to stations? I've heard headlines for stories that were broken around 5PM the same day.

Chuck and Savannah hosted the 9AM on Tuesday and Wednesday from NY. They came from a desk that I didn't recognize and the main desk was already in place.

Worth a read from the Hollywood Reporter about Lester Holt: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/lester-holt-his-rise-top-880720

The graphic makes me think that it's being held up together by two wrenches.

So Matt Lauer inadvertently gave out Savannah's email address. He thought that type of thing was public knowledge because he got emails from viewers and jokingly gave out here. I was a bit surprised that her (and other higher profile journalists) work related email didn't vary from the standard template of [email protected].

I think Chris Jansing was just set up to anchor because of what was going on in Belgium last week. On Tuesday the dayside anchors were Steve Kornacki @ 9 AM, Jose Diaz-Balart @ 10 AM, Tamron Hall @ 11 AM, Andrea Mitchell @ 12 PM, Craig Melvin @ 1 PM, Thomas Roberts @ 2 PM, Kate Snow @ 3PM and finally Erica Hill at 4 PM. Before last week when coverage was preempted due to broadcasts from Brussels the line up was similar - I believe they had Steve Kornacki do an afternoon shift along with Ari Melber at 3 or 4 PM.

Was he shaved?

I will add that I'm surprised they did not have a 10pm newscast long before this. Most Hearst stations have had them for ages either on their sister station or subchannel.

I think they were a bit overly ambitious with launching new 4 & 7PM newscasts this year. Let the audience find their way (and where MeTV Boston is) and give it a while.

Also does 1 million watts really matter? I seem to recall reading that anything over 250,000 watts is over kill. Also KNOE had an EEC S Band Dual Pol radar last year. http://www.knoe.com/weather/headlines/ULM-Radar-370930981.html?device=tablet&c=y Edit: nevermind

My question is who is the manufacturer of the radar? Baron or EEC? Will it tie into their WSI graphics (if it's EEC) or will it require its own system that just shows the one radar site?

I could easily see both KTVW and KTAZ claim ratings victories as there's a large Spanish speaking community in Phoenix. When there are only two main stations that produce Spanish language news the audience is going to be bigger unlike the English stations which are fragmented. Look at how WSCV has dominated their time slots the past few cycles.

So I knew WWSI's studio was small but not this small: [MEDIA=instagram]BAkxMV2S2Ky[/MEDIA] Look at how close the chroma key gets to the news desk: [MEDIA=instagram]BC8p1vyS2Nz[/MEDIA]

CBS Primetime is still in the safe zone. According to DCRTV former WMAR anchor turned WBAL Radio host Mary Beth Marsden has been let go from the station which has been suffering lowering ratings. She spent the past five years at the station after taking a buy out from WMAR. I think I way to increase WBAL-AM's ratings would be to merge the news departments or make them much closer than they already are. Maybe bring them back to sharing a news director.

Do even the NY stations have that many people on their weather staff. I imagine they have one or two producers in the background but now it seems that in the afternoon / evening newscasts one of the weekend meteorologists is there.

I love this new take on vertical video. Much different than the Mila Kunis one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMAYUuNRQNg

I've noticed that lately his time off has actually been for interviews. Say he's off three days one week and the next week he has an interview. His most recent absence (about two weeks ago) was due to the flu. Supposedly he's making $25 million and Savannah's at $12 million with the others about half as much. I think Parade magazine put Robin Roberts salary at $6-8 million.

Either way CNBC and CNBC 2 is redundant as the channels total a different audience.