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Given WTSP's, uh, repositioning, let's not forget when KMGH similarly tried (and failed) to sex up the news:

Don't forget Michael Savage also had a short-lived show on MSNBC back when they were trying to do programming to the right of Fox News.

You wouldn't believe how many moronic sweepstakes questions come into newsroom phones. "Why didn't you idiots run Wake up and Win this morning?" Or my favorite, "I missed the Wake up and Win codeword, can you tell me what it was?" And of course because they call into the newsroom but nobody in news cares or even really knows any of the rules that sales set up, the best answer anyone can muster is to go online and look up the rules. To which a not insignificant amount of people will say "well I don't have a computer!"

^^^ How very KTVU/KIICU of them. Speaking of KTVU, in what is barely news, it's official: assistant ND and former managing editor Amber Eikel named ND: http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/ktvu-names-news-director/188758

That will not go over well in that newsroom. In terms of content, a live 11pm will be almost no different from the rerun of the 10pm. I don't really see much point.

For reference, the BBC *rehearses* exactly every six months what to do for rolling coverage if/when the Queen dies from suffocating on a pillow. That includes booting normal programming from their usual studios for a day or two to "rehearse." They have everything sorted out down to what color tie the male anchor should wear. Getting some graphics templates ready seems pretty tame by comparison, even if it may be in a little poor taste that they didn't omit the death year or put in a year impossibly far off in the future instead. But then again, I'm sure nobody thought that those would ever be seen outside CBS.

Get ready for these to be locked in three... two... These all look like very slimmed down versions of the current O&O image. No matter what they go with, they all are in line with how CBS News does graphics — nothing horrible, yet nothing great, nothing that fully matches anything else, and never anything that's more than half a step forward. I hope they go with something that has other cities in it, too, and it looks like most of the cities used are O&O cities. I see what they're trying to do by not having that awkward three shot at the top, but these make it look even more awkward if they do without it at the very top but still have it before tossing to the Eyeopener.

I agree that CBS This Morning is not just the best out of the three, but it's better than anything on cable too. The key difference is that it's a news show, not a circus with an abbreviated newscast at the beginning of the first hour. Before, I used to never even bother with the network morning shows. The Evening News is a great complement to it at night too. It's found the right speed of synthesizing "all that matters" in what's happening in the country and abroad.

A little more detail from KUSA's GM about the drawdown of the traditional sports block. Also, Drew Soicher has been hired by KPNX. http://www.westword.com/news/sports-anchors-like-drew-soicher-will-be-a-thing-of-the-past-for-9news-8785144

Forgive me if this was already posted, but this looks like something we missed. KUSA is doing away with the traditional sports block at the end of the newscast, instead spreading out sports features throughout the newscast. http://theknow.denverpost.com/2017/01/30/9news-switches-sports-coverage-features-less-play-play/135128/

How can you have a show run that much under time and not notice? I don't doubt that whatever happened was a result of some sort of automation in master control. But a hard time out is a hard time out. Does their 10pm show maybe have a hard time out at 10:55? I just can't imagine a situation where the newscast is so light that they deliberately end it a few minutes early and/or nobody noticed. There's still at least a producer and director in the booth, and that would be very sloppy producing if that happened.

More CNNI business movements: Starting tomorrow, CNN Money with Maggie Lake will broadcast from the NYSE. Richard Quest gets a new show, "Quest Express," which will also come from the NYSE. This is in addition to Quest Means Business, which (as far as I can tell) will continue to come from the New Day studio later in the day. Elder statesman of the Hong Kong bureau Andrew Stevens has left CNN. He had been at CNN for 18 years. His most recent title was CNN Money's Asia Pacific editor, though at the Hong Kong bureau's height, he was co-anchor of World News Asia, among other flagship CNN Asia shows. In the last few years, Hong Kong has been drastically reduced to being on air for only 45 minutes a day. https://cnncommentary.com/2017/01/26/cnn-to-debut-new-show-at-new-york-stock-exchange/

Why? They showed the same picture at previous inaugurations.

The format sounds like a souped-up version of The Now, which dropped the whole national concept pretty quickly on. Depending on where this lands in the schedule, this sounds like a great way to screw up KUSA's 4pm newscast, which already has a following, unlike KMGH's attempts at a 4pm show.

According to CNN Commentary, CNNI's European mid-morning business show, CNN Money View with Nina Dos Santos, has been cancelled. A simulcast of New Day has been running in its place. CNN Commentary says it's only temporary. I really hope it is, as CNNI's offerings recently are starting to feel pretty slim with so much domestic content on it recently. https://cnncommentary.com/2017/01/10/cnn-cancels-nina-dos-santos-show/

I'm a little torn on all this reignited Russia spat. On one hand, a lot of it seems credible and fits in well to the narrative, though intelligence that's credible and fits into a narrative yet isn't confirmed and fully vetted doesn't . As for the C-SPAN stuff, the router issue seems reasonable, though it is strange that it only affected the web stream. Then again, the Ruskis have scrambled American television signals before:

KPIX, 1998. Includes Drew Soicher, some of the more interesting cuts of Battery, and an amusing online promo at about 8:25.

Definitely strange. I was never much of a fan. I always thought his brother Marc was much better.

You're complaining that CBS didn't cover a breaker when its two competitors weren't even running news on one of the lowest staffed and least watched news days of the year?

I've never been a fan of the Hearst look and never understood why it was so well-received. The color palette and typeface are nice, but the rest of it is just way too busy. It hasn't aged well, either. Simplifying it and cutting down on all the flash would make it look a lot better.

Wouldn't be surprising. She's pretty much the only dinosaur left who hasn't taken a buyout. But I guess even if she isn't on TV, she'll always be there to tell you that YOU are delaying the departure of THIS train.

Possibly the same thing with the same hacks, just on the NBC payroll?

KUSA morning anchor Cheryl Preheim leaving after 18 years to become the morning anchor at WXIA: http://www.9news.com/mb/about-us/cheryl-preheim-is-off-to-atlanta/354885927

Still in Studio 57 this week. It looks nice, but it does feel temporary. They stuck to a shot of Scott standing in front of a video wall for most of the show.

Just off the top of my head, KUTV still only runs the 8am hour. That is probably the biggest exception by market size. KGMB runs it in full, but from 8-10am according to schedules. There may be a few others as well?