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I believe even if the publishing and broadcasting divisions stayed together WUSA would still have partnered up with the Washington Post. Even though USA Today is headquartered in Tyson's Corner it is not a local paper by any means. Sure they cover national politics but that's it. A TV station partners up with a newspaper because of their local coverage not national.

I guessed either here or DCRTV that he was burning off his leave before he retires. I do find it surprising that they allowed him to take time off during the first half of sweeps but I guess they were confident. Since Rod has been off for a while now I think they would have tried other cohosts with Donna on air by now. Except for a day here or there it's been Stan anchoring the 6PM and I think it should be his.

I'm usually not a fan if odd shaped mic flags but I think they should of went with the kind that WABC use.

WVTM was hubbed but Media Generals hub was more of a control and monitor where operators in another region controlled hardware physically at their stations making me think they were more a store / forward operation. That article was from 2009 but I don't think there has been anything major aside from software/hardware upgrades. Based on the article it sounds like WVTM didn't necessarily have to make a lot of infrastructure changes given that a lot of their hardware was in place. Assuming everything was up to date it seems like they just need to handle the ingest of content and hire master control operators to build the playlists and monitor the programming. There have to be other things I'm missing but the point I'm trying to make is that WVTM was in a much better position to get off the hub as most of the equipment was already in place handling day to day operations.

I'm guessing WJCL is going to take some time. From what I've read about LIN is that they went the central casting route where everything was played out from one of two hubs. I believe everything is played out from from the HUB and there is no equipment at the station. Based on this I assume they are focusing on building a master control first. Look at how quickly Fox was able to hub KTVU and how long it's taking WFXT to get off the Fox's hub. It's been what at least six months?

I was honestly surprised that they were still testing. I haven't seen any updated updated letters from the FCC extending their authority which was originally granted 13 February 2013.

USA Today's is a what? https://twitter.com/usatoday/status/592082069188141056

It definitely appears that second run episodes on WFMZ are two weeks delayed after checking the original air date. I've wondered in the past why the episodes WBAL airs at 3AM are not the prior days and you helped me make the connection. It appears this is the case at most of the NBC stations that carry first run episodes of the show (including WCAU) air these second run episodes at 3AM. Would WCAU's second run overnights infringe on WFMZ's "exclusivity" or do second runs not include this protection? I assume the 3AM viewing brings in so little in viewership that WFMZ simply does not care or has no legal standing combined with the fact that Steve Harvey is distributed by NBCUniversal. It appears that NBCUniversal TV Distribution requires / urges many stations that air first run episodes to air the second run episodes as well on either their main channel or a duopoly when they can. One example is WFTV's first run at 9 AM and WRDQ's second run at 9 PM.

I like to think her "hacking" as her kids finding her Bluetooth keyboard / mouse who decided to drive their mother crazy. One of her other things she complained about was a loose wire hanging out / near her Fios box in her backyard. I can't tell you how often cable/phone company contractors leave wires in your back yard following an install.

Did they send most of their microwave trucks to the scrap yard? I know bonded cellular is neat but with microwave you can use it all you want and not have to pay for overtime (maybe gas and fcc licensing fees).

For some reason when I googled Tegna I misspelled it and got this result Tenga (NSFW - no pornography but it's definitely something you shouldn't be looking at at work). Did anyone at Gannett ever think of googling their new name (and misspellings) and seeing what similar results might come up? From now on when I hear the name Tegna I will think of those sex toys. Thanks Gannett for putting my head in the gutter.

Tonight Lester is in LA. The cold open started out in the large studio that's used mainly for msnbc and CNBC. Then Lester broadcasted most of the show from the anchor desk in the newsroom. Finally the last block was back into the other side of msnbc/cnbc studio where the RP walls that look similar to those in 3B.

God comcast is really upping their game with sports rights in Philadelphia at least. Sure most games regular season games won't air on the channel but you will basically get preferential treatment for everything. I'm curious does this include games /programs on WWSI? Then again is the Spanish language audience big enough to translate a few games a year.

Hearst Stations won several headliner awards. WBAL Radio won 2 awards, WBAL-TV 4, WCVB 5 and WYFF 2. It is very interesting seeing their flagships jockeying for the same awards. I wonder how many they were nominated for. I believe their newspapers won several as well but since this is a broadcasting forum I did not include them. Here are the results in alphabetical order: WBAL-AM Best of show: Radio: “Pimlico Preakness Jockeys of Tomorrow” Scott Wykoff Radio stations newscast, all markets: Second place “April 30th, 4 p.m.” WBAL Radio News Radio stations feature and human interest story, all markets First place “Pimlico Preakness Jockeys of Tomorrow” Scott Wykoff WBAL- TV Broadcast or cable television stations newscast Second place “11News at 5:00 – April 30, 2014” Shannon Encina, Traci White and WBAL-TV News Team Broadcast or cable television stations continuing coverage of a single news event Second place “26th Street Collapse” WBAL-TV 11 News Team Broadcast or cable television stations health/science reporting Third place “Medical Compilation” Lisa Robinson, Donna Hamilton and WBAL-TV News Team Broadcast television stations website First place WBALTV.com WBALTV.com team WCVB Broadcast or cable television stations newscast First place “NewsCenter 5 at 11: Back Bay Fire” Chris Roach and Nick Terry Third place “NewsCenter 5 at 11 p.m.: Revere Tornado” Chris Roach and Nick Terry Broadcast or cable television stations coverage of a live breaking news event Second place “Revere Tornado” Andrew Vress, Gerry Wardwell and the NewsCenter 5 team Broadcast or cable television stations health/science reporting First place “Battle Against Time” Kathy Bickimer, Brian Menz and Anthony Everett Broadcast television stations website Second place WCVB.com WYFF Broadcast or cable television stations documentary or series of reports on the same subject Third place “Chronicle: Shoeless Joe” Lee Brown, Jennifer Mihalic and John Hendon Broadcast or cable television stations business and consumer reporting First place “Chronicle: Main Street Carolina” Lee Brown, Jennifer Mihalic and John Hendon Sorry this wasn't organized neatly but I was posting this on my iPad which doesn't allow me to use the WSIWYG editor.

It now appears it was burnt in by the photographer. But I still don't know where they got that logo. Google does not return any other hits.

It was a toss up for me really. The bug moves around where when most people upload watermarked videos their name is static. I did a reverse image search for this logo and can't find anything similar to this. Finally the font they used seems to match the one used during the show.

I don't feel like starting a new thread for something so minor but tonight on Nightly News they used a unique courtesy bug: https://twitter.com/rkolsen/status/588535588510392320 Seems to go against their branding guidelines The bug switches to the right later on in the video. Do you think NBC would accept a video with this logo burnt in? Edit: Here's a higher resolution version of the image:

I would be surprised if ABC made a fuss considering the WLTV and WJXX, a duopoly in Jacksonville, simulcasts their newscasts and uses both logos in their chyrons. In this case I don't think ABC would really care as long as the NBC logo does not show up during network programming. Edit: After looking at the video and consulting Wikipedia it appears there are some separate newscasts only on the NBC station, namely the 11:30 AM and a 6:30 PM newscasts. The video looks like it was posted after the mid morning newscast. From what I've seen of this package I thought the but is inserted in the production control room but in this case it's gone. Perhaps because of this unique arrangement they deviated from the standard operating procedure.

It seems like it's been atleast three months. I thought the package launched at KXAS when they moved into their new building in November 2013 and KNBC launched them in February 2014 when they moved to Universal City.

I'm confused are you saying that with Serestar purchasing KTMW they most likely become the Telemundo affiliate for Salt Lake?

That is just downright cruel. I remember thinking how ridiculous it was that WBAL for several years had Stan Stovall and Tony Pann use morning shift and the 5 PM show - but they were able to go home for several hours and didn't have to do the noon shift. I hope they give Zoraida some time off after this week.

If your in Dallas you can go to the Dallas Auto Show this weekend and see KXAS' Texas Thunder Truck. https://twitter.com/txthundertruck/status/581623709850603522

I read somewhere that with the TVEverywhere services some ads maybe dynamically replaced if they did not sell the streaming rights. I wouldn't be surprised if networks and their affiliates stopped selling broadcast only ads.

Kirk Clyatt at WVIR was apparently fired for speaking to the Charlottesville, WV city council urging them to stop celebrating Lee Jackson Day. The holiday is celebrated in Virginia on the Friday before Martin Luther King day. Apparently he's relief US news presenter for a few radio stations in Australia and provides commentary. WVIR hired him knowing he did commentary online and on radio but it appears speaking out at a city council meeting was too much. I assume they did not care about the Australian radio commentary because they figured no one would pay attention to Australian radio. I'm guessing there is something else that precipitated his firing. http://wina.com/news/064460-recently-fired-weatherman-speaks-out/ Here's his blog entry: https://kirkclyatt.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/really-fired-for-speaking-to-city-council-about-a-confederate-holiday/ The audio of his speech: https://soundcloud.com/clyatt/what-i-did-said-that-so-upset-nbc29 As a side note WVIR was station number 38 he's worked at. A quick google search makes it appear he was fired from WBFF, WHP and WVIR.

Was this broadcast on TV or is this just a blurb on their website? Whatever the answer may be it definitely appears to be a conflict of interest. The article appears to be the type that you would read on Patch.com (is that still around?) or a free local newspaper. I guess they felt the need to promote this "award" given how much money the dealership spends on sponsored segments. This makes me wonder what would they do if the dealership were involved in a scandal? They would definitely have to walk a fine line between exposing wrong doing and maintaining an advertiser. I assume their response would be proportional to the scandal and whether or not they could afford to lose the sponsor.