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Maybe it's just me but the ticker doesn't seem to work with the graphics. How many times can you have a logo on screen without it being overkill? (The logo in the ticker doesn't count in my book because I expect the headline separator to be the station bug.) I'm thinking three is too many. Keeping with the three too many logos here's a quick aside: My local station seemed to think it was okay to but three versions of their bug up when the Today Show had it's prior graphics: first was the basic crystal logo that appears during primetime, then a horizontal version of their logo made to look like it belonged in the graphics next to the Today.com URL and then third that would sporadically appear. Then earlier this winter we got this gem of graphical vommit : https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdlE7coCcAA_TJh.jpg

Is he really that bad? But I expect their will be set changes and new graphics - new GMs seem to always want to change things to put their mark on it.

Is it the commercial talking about home security systems where two people are chatting in front of a large tv with a bad copy of the Scripps orange graphics (the gfx that were prior to the current ones)? I was going to make a thread about it but thought maybe it was local. I think it would be very easy to confuse people especially when the commercial airs on a Scripps station. As a similar side note about sponsored content into newscasts here in Baltimore there is this financial consulting firm that is currently or has in the past ran a weekly show on WBAL-TV (NBC) and WJZ (WJZ) called The Money Guys at the same time on both stations. While I have nothing wrong with stations running paid programming in off hours ( I believe it was like 11:30 AM or Noon on Sundays) they further run a commercial during the newscasts that is deceptive by saying right here on WBAL-TV 11 or WJZ 13 almost implying that they are part of the news team. I am surprised that the two top television stations in the market are willing to let a commercial air during a newscast inferring that the station is involved with it. Further more WJZ has aired one or two stories of the financial consulting firm making a donation to a local charity during the evening newscasts. The really funny thing is each show is the same as the week before (the last I checked) using data and charts that ended in 2012 so the show is long out of date especially when it comes to investing your money and I think deceptive sales practice. http://www.everestwm.com/media.html

I think that has more to do with on the contour map WBAL-TV has strong penetration of all but 4 MD Counties and one Delaware County, those five excluded counties are the only ones that are included in the Salisbury DMA. WCAU only covers two northern MD counties SNF one Delaware County. The Salisbury DMA only accounts for Delaware and Maryland, leaving out the southern tip which is part of the Newport News VA DMA on the western shore. All of this gives me reason to believe that there is significant coverage but lack of the need of a permanent affiliate for NBC since NBC can be received OTA on the for more than half of Delmarva peninsula save for the Salisubury market which receives WBAL via cable and a satellite. All of this plus the fact that Salisbury DMA is in a tourist area part of the state where there aren't many permanent residents. WBAL-TV Contour Map: https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/wbal-tv/contour-maps/ WBOC-TV Contour Map: https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/wboc-tv/contour-maps/ WCAU-TV Contour Map: https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/wcau/contour-maps/

Early Today and MSNBC First Look anchor Veronica De La Cruz posted on Facebook Friday that she got the main evening anchoring job at the CBS O&O in San Francisco, KPIX.

They are all hubbed from Atlanta at Encompass Digital Media which provides NBC Local Media with master control solutions for all their stations and most of Telemundo's O&O. When a channel does local news, the ads are placed there on a local server and locally controlled on site but for everything else it's hubbed. The stations are all interconnected by fiber and satellite at transmission and in the event of emergency one station could broadcast to another area (say if during a hurricane WCAU is knocked off they would have WNBC fill in). http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/55504/outsourced-master-control-drives-nbc-oos/

According to an LA Times Night Side was in Charlotte because of access to an airport that allowed correspondents and tape to come in person via US Airways and earlier satellite access to European news (Really?) and that it was cheaper than producing it in New York. http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-04/entertainment/ca-780_1_overnight-news Thinking about it I wonder if it was chosen to be located there because it is a service for the affiliates where either they voted for Charlotte or one of the affiliate board at the time chose to base it at his station.

As a side question why is it that NBC decided to locate NBC Newschannel at WCNC?

I'm reading this and can't help but laugh at "Heathens of Hunt Valley" I live a mile from them on a clear day can see the building.

Don't they know using a drone for commercial purposes is illegal. Look at what happened to an employee at WFSB http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/a-journalist-almost-lost-his-job-for-droning-a-deadly-car-crash