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Looks like most of the former Cordillera stations have the new website platform now.

If KPIX loses any more viewers, they'll start pulling negative ratings.

The 10pm is a repeat of the 9pm. KGO does not do live news at 10pm.

I also think Campbell Brown would have been a good and likely pick. I was always a fan of hers. I don't think it's a coincidence that she left for CNN shortly after Meredith started. She must have had an out in her contract.

Correct.

Lieberman says PIO at one point and PR in another, and those are not the same things. I didn't see any indication on Keller's Twitter note on where he's headed next. I saw him anchoring last weekend and was thinking about how he's underrated on air.

The remaining Fox businesses won't face as many changes as the businesses being sold to Disney will, but I'm sure there are plenty of boring behind the scenes changes required in splitting up a company of that size. I've heard that all the foxtv.com email addresses under the O&O stations will switch to fox.com after the sale. I doubt a rejigged website design is indicative of anything though.

KSEE received a very slight set refresh in the last week or so:

For ratings purposes, I'm fairly sure that Fairfield is considered the San Francisco DMA, but Vacaville is in Sacramento's. That means, for example, that KOVR doesn't get credit for anyone in Fairfield who might be watching them. There are a number of odd overlapping carriage situations in the two markets that mostly date back to older cable deals or some other reason. KCRA is still on the Comcast lineup in Contra Costa County, and I'm 99% sure that's a leftover from the KRON/KNTV/NBC spat. KTVU can also be seen OTA and on cable in the Eureka/Redding and Monterey/Salinas markets, though a lot of that also stems from its superstation era in the 80s.

Looks like this has been going on since May: I really wouldn't put much thought into this. KCDO is a one-off station that has always done some odd things.

It looked nice at the time, and I’m sure you could dig up a post from me in which I would have been very complimentary of KMGH adopting the Scripps look. But it now looks three steps behind everyone else in 2019. The chip/gizmo box was never a good idea, and I don’t think it has always translated well onto all of the stations that Scripps has purchased in the last few years. More than any other station group, so many of the Scripps stations look like they dumped their legacy logo into the default templates with few modifications and called it a day.

Glad to hear they're finally moving on with new graphics. The ripoff of the 2011 CNN look hasn't aged that well.

KMGH morning anchor Mitch Jelniker has left the station after 23 years. The Governor of Colorado declared December 21, 2018 as Mitch Jelniker Day to recognize his long-running 7 Everyday Hero Award series.

Not really a news program, but some PBS nostalgia nonetheless:

I like it now that I've figured out that clicking the green dot jumps to the first unread post in a thread.

KDVR had a pretty unremarkable history from the time it signed on the air in 1983 until when it became a Fox O&O in 1995 and started a news department in 2000. But this promo theme from 1987 back when they branded as "TV-31" is, uh, a sign of the times. The station's first logo as seen here is also rather unusual too:

Ross makes both OverDrive and Xpression, so they probably got some sort of double play deal on it. I also have a hunch that Xpression probably integrates much better with OverDrive than whatever the ABC O&Os were using before (I'm pretty sure most/all of them were on Viz). Ross also makes Inception, which is their homebrew browser-based newsroom software. When you have all of them together, they can supposedly do a lot more tricks like automatically clip newscast video and send it to the web. I'm not sure how many stations anywhere use it, but anything beyond iNEWS or ENPS sounds incredibly foreign to me.

Mike Landess is leaving KWGN after the November book: https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/10/10/signing-off-in-denver

I hadn't seen this clip before. KUSA 6pm news from September or October 2001. It's notable because Jim Benemann was briefly the bigtime anchor there from when Ed Sardella retired and before CBS yanked him away.

I've never worked for Tegna either, and I've never worked on the management level yet, but IME it's a two-way street as to what influences the editorial direction. The corporate level of any station group will bring in consultants to try to guide local management into what they think is the best way to make a profitable newscast, and local management will then figure out how to do that on the more granular level. Tegna didn't hire Joel Cheatwood to just sit around. (Or on second thought, maybe they did.) Corporate doesn't give station management carte blanche to do whatever they want, but corporate also doesn't "force" stations to do much either (at most companies, anyway.) WVEC backpedaled really fast on their 11pm experiment, and I'm sure that was a local decision. I don't think you can pin these experiments on just corporate or local management. I know I posted on here a while ago an interview with Kyle Clark and Tegna's CEO, who was KUSA's news director in the 90s. I remember him saying that they're proud of trying all kinds of different ideas in multiple markets because every station and every market is different. I don't think it's as easy as saying "every station needs to produce its own version of Next" because not every station is KUSA with strong management, not every anchor is Kyle Clark, and not every newsroom may want to commit to setting up such a specialized team for one newscast. Also, a GM with a sales background sounds bad until you work for a GM with a news background who won't let the news director do his/her job.

We don't have a domestic news channel anymore. They are all talk radio and inside baseball. CNN is shameless in how much of a ratings grab it's become. It is sad because of how great CNN used to be. CNN International still has some bright spots coming from Atlanta and London, and they still have a pretty great stable of correspondents. But you'll almost never see any of that on the domestic channel. CNN was always the dream for me professionally. Not so much anymore.

I don't think KPIX has yet named a permanent news director. I thought there was at least another station that had an open slot too.

That leaves how many open ND and GM positions at the CBS O&Os? Something's going on.

Somehow I missed that weekend anchor Tom Mustin wasn't renewed at KCNC and left in December. He resurfaced in the last week or so on KMGH with Theresa Marchetta, another former KCNC anchor from long ago. [MEDIA=twitter]1029567865815412736[/MEDIA] I can't tell whether or not he's just freelancing, but I'm glad he's on TV again. I always liked his style. https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/denver-station-releases-longtime-anchor-tom-mustin/198144

A KUSA viewer took exception to the "end of the world" music that NBC chose for the SCOTUS special report: https://www.9news.com/video/entertainment/television/programs/next-with-kyle-clark/this-piece-of-feedback-got-us-thinking-about-unnecessary-outrage/73-8185408