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WBAL's Rob Roblin and his longtime photographer Ken Brown Sr are retiring next week. Rob Roblin has been with WBAL for 30 years and Ken Brown has been with WBAL since 1968. http://m.wbaltv.com/congratulations-to-rob-senior-on-career-well-done/30156798

None of these channel shuffles have taken place. The only change is WBFF 45.3 Bounce became affiliated with WMAR. ThisTV airs on 45.2. I take it since you cross posted this in Speculatron that these are your theories.

I thought that as well. I'm now thinking that Sinclair wants to go with someone familiar to viewers in the market to help them out of the ratings ditch. WJLA only became a Sinclair station in August and I doubt they have had much exposure to Kai.

Kai Jackson will be replacing Jeff Barnd for all of Fox 45's, WBFF, afternoon late evening newscasts starting January 19 at 4,5,10 and 11 PM. Kai Jackson will start at WBFF on air beginning January 4 after his non compete expires. Jeff Barnd will become Sinclair's Washington based national correspondent while Jennifer Gilbert will remain co anchor. http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-kai-jackson-wbff-returning-to-baltimore-anchor-at-fox-45-20141201-story.html (Cross posting to Out and About Thread)

Kai Jackson will be replacing Jeff Barnd for all of Fox 45's, WBFF, afternoon late evening newscasts starting January 19 at 4,5,10 and 11 PM. Kai Jackson will start at WBFF on air beginning January 4 after his non compete expires. Jeff Barnd will become Sinclair's Washington based national correspondent while Jennifer Gilbert will remain co anchor. http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-kai-jackson-wbff-returning-to-baltimore-anchor-at-fox-45-20141201-story.html (Cross posting to Sinclair Broadcast Thread)

Thanks now I got a good idea of how it looks.

I'm just having a hard time visualizing other areas / layout of the set and the studio. From one of the photos it looked like they had a plasma mounted cart in front of the windows. Is there anything there stopping them from doing that now or are the windows damaged? You know while WJZ is the step child of CBS it amazes me at how well they kept their set up over the last 16 years. I do realize they made some changes for HD like new news desks but it still looks good on TV (aside from the corner they do the morning show grok with all the tchotchkes which I don't care for.).

But is there any reason why they do not use the full studio?

Two things: How was the set before hand? How do the currently use the set as opposed to the way they could?

I wonder if this has to do anything with what's going on in Ferguson? I'd imagine ABC could force their hand to start a news operation. I would imagine the networks like having a "safety net" of sorts (in a major city) where if there is breaking news the affiliate could feed them initial video and information until their correspondent and crews arrive. My reason for saying this is during the Boston Marathon bombing ABC and NBC got a lot of information and at times carried coverage from WCVB, WHDH and NECN right after the bombs went off until the suspects were captured over the week.

It looks normal to me. It doesn't have the blocks that a normal Gannett promo has.

Sounds like ID, Investigation Discovery.

I hope they aren't broadcasting from the studio during lunch hour. Seeks rude to watch people eat and also rude when part of their ass is exposed. I'd imagine they would have what WABC does by having several blinds, one of which is a for a blackout, and the other few filters for letting some sun in and finally I'd expect a fully branded blind with their logo.

I'm sure you know that the Modells no longer own the Ravens. I don't think Sinclair is even thinking of this as anything other than a standard program buy and if they preempted network air time they would get hell from the network as this isn't a breaking news/sports situation.

My guide still lists the 2PM slot as Paid Programming and 2:30PM as Derm Exclusive! I'm thinking maybe one reason the logo is at the top of the page is that they negotiated directly with Hunt Valley for the programming time and his organization was sent back this list of airings. It's a bit interesting that they are paying all this money to air this "documentary" and they couldn't find a better way to list the air dates and times. Also I realize he probably negotiated this with Sinclair simply because of the geographic reach but WMAR has been his media parter for his "Carson Scholars Program" as year after year they are the only ones who advertise the scholarship. Keeping with the Ben Carson theme WJZ is airing promos for their 11PM news on will he or won't he run for president.

I'm reading the FCC document and it appears that they have to ensure reasonable programming prices to other MVPD (cable companies) and to make any content Comcast makes available to its subscribers available to other MVPD at a fair price. Maybe they just have to go through the motions to show that they charge X amount to their subscribers so that other MVPD will have to pay that amount if they want the feed to comply with the regulations.

Here's an interesting tidbit of information: Comcast's website lists in December they have to renegotiate the carriage of Telemundo's delayed feed that's carried on their Hispanic tier. I wonder why they have to renegotiate carriage with their own broadcast networks? http://xfinity.comcast.net/learn/programming/

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this but I don't know where else to put this sad news. Marianne Bannister's daughter, Claire Marie Wagonhurst, passed away October 16 at age 17 from melanoma. Marianne stated that her daughter developed the cancer as a result of hormonal changes caused by puberty. Claire was recently accepted into the University of Alabama and planned on attending the school next year. I came across this news because I wondered why I haven't seen Marianne Bannister on WBFF lately. Her WBFF fan page hasn't had any updates since mid June. I assume she has been on leave since July. My prayers are with her and her family during this difficult time. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-claire-wagonhurst-20141020-story.html

Yes I saw that live but I'd like to think that the average person would no urinate in front of a hot camera minutes away from his live hit. I would like to think that they would a move to the wooded area out of frame. I mean the guy was perfectly centered on screen. Maybe he was using his phone and didn't have the touch screen gloves. I know I have put one glove between my legs as I have to free my hand to get mail from a locked mailbox. Plus I don't know what man would risk getting his gloves covered in piss right between his legs. If anything I'd stick it in my armpit if I had to urinate.

The only reason why I would think ABC News would want to take over the production of The View is to increase their revenue. Morning shows have been said are what finances the rest of the news division. For example in 2011 Today brought in $485 million in revenue while GMA brought in $299 million. Now I'm guessing The View will add $75 million of revenue to ABC's coffers.

Who knows when it will be replaced? What I'd like to know is why they aren't temporarily using NBC News/MSNBC's camera that's permanently pointed at the Empire State Building? That camera should be on their router and is still in working order. The only difference is that I believe WNBC's camera is a PTZ where the networks' locked in place (unless it's the other way around).

Those two were the only logos that I have (masters of) that have a larger vertical logo in addition to a horizontal logo. But ideally that is how I would like to see the lower thirds layer out.

Okay here's the quick mock up that I had in mind for a tiny change in the Gannett Graphics package.The first image will be used when they are live on scene or have an exclusive story. The second image will be used when they are live in the studio and do not need to include a live bug so the logo will change to the bigger version. After the anchor's introductions are done and are not needed on screen that row will merge the two columns to for supplementary information as level 2.

PLEASE DELETE. I tried doing this in word but nothing work.

What I would like to see done is for them to place the time and temperature down in the ticker, place the LIVE bug (you could also use the location to denote exclusives as well) where the the and temp was previously and finally make a larger area for the stations logo and hashtag through the upcoming story bar. I'm on my iPad but thinking of this as a text based version of the table where the station is either live on scene or has an exclusive: INFORMATION BAR LEVEL 1 LIVE/EXCLUSIVE BUG INFORMATION BAR LEVEL 2 LOGO/HASHTAG UPCOMING STORY 1, STORY 2 & STORY 3 LOGO/HASHTAG TICKER W/ HEADLINES, WX, TRAFFIC TIME/TEMP Here's how I would visualize the graphics if they were relying on prerecorded packages and I plan on using the LIVE bug space for a larger logo that changes sizes/orientations as needed: INFORMATION BAR LEVEL 1 LOGO/HASHTAG INFORMATION BAR LEVEL 2 LOGO/HASHTAG UPCOMING STORY 1, STORY 2 & STORY 3 LOGO/HASHTAG TICKER W/ HEADLINES, WX, TRAFFIC TIME/TEMP