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Not really a news program, but some PBS nostalgia nonetheless:
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I like it now that I've figured out that clicking the green dot jumps to the first unread post in a thread.
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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:
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I still have the same question, and I couldn't find an answer on their site: where is all the content coming from? News video doesn't appear out of thin air.
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Ignite was the automation system they were using and has nothing to do with Xpression. I believe they're standardizing the group onto Xpression for graphics and OverDrive for automation (so yes, there will probably be subtle changes at the other O&Os too.) I couldn't say what the draw is for ABC to get Xpression, but I can say I often hear that users of Xpression elsewhere like it.
As I understand it, they actually switched over a month ago, when that new backdrop debut...
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.
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Mike Landess is leaving KWGN after the November book:
https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/10/10/signing-off-in-denver
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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.
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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.
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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.
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According to their website they need a ND for Pittsburgh and AND for LA and Philly.
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.
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News Director out at KDKA-TV. This is the second staff member to leave the station since the July arrival of new vice-president and General Manager Jay Howell.
That leaves how many open ND and GM positions at the CBS O&Os? Something's going on.
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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.
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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
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A KUSA viewer took exception to the "end of the world" music that NBC chose for the SCOTUS special report:
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How does one go from filling in on a flagship network news program to the lowest rated revolving door in DMA 10?
Keyword is "filling in." He was a prominent face at MSNBC and had a consistent slot for a while. Then he didn't. It was pretty clear that his time at NBC was up. He probably could have stuck around NYC to try to find something else, but think of how many other people are doing that while salivating at the chance to get hired fulltime somewhere?
The other big factor is probably money. Meredith is no small company, and they were probably able to offer him something worthwhile to be main anchor, even if it's a last place station. Plus, didn't he work for CNN in Atlanta for a while and/or his husband also has connections to Atlanta?
As far as career development goes, I suppose it's a step down from being a midday anchor on MSNBC, but it's probably a step up in terms of quality of life.
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KUSA political reporter Brandon Rittiman is moving to KXTV.
https://twitter.com/BrandonRittiman
KUSA's loss is KXTV's gain.
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I really liked the BBC rebrand in 2008, but ever since then, their entire look feels really stale and uninspired. They should have gone for a more radical evolution of that look when they moved to New Broadcasting House in 2013.
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Here's KUSA from exactly 14 years ago to the day. Coverage from when a guy went on a rampage in an armored bulldozer tearing down buildings owned by people he had beefs with.
Also, this is probably the earliest clip of the KUSA HD era online. KUSA would have been two months into HD newscasts by this point.
(This aircheck was 4:3 and uploaded stretched to 16:9, obviously)
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I don't see any of those scenarios happening anytime soon. Fox would tell Sinclair to suck it if they wanted a national evening newscast from Fox. Fox and Sinclair already have a somewhat testy relationship. Fox objected to the Trib sale, and sure, Fox never submitted a bid for Tribune in the end, but it probably doesn't sit well with them that one company owns a good chunk of their affiliates.
I don't see either Fox or Sinclair trying a national broadcast, and the reason for that is that both of those companies are so cheap that they'd much rather keep extending local news and filling it with repeated and filler content. The way I see it, only if/when they start shutting down news departments would be the time when they would do a centralized national newscast.
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I tuned in again for the first time in a while, and I couldn't believe how subtly different the show is now. It definitely blends in with its competitors more than it did before. Reporter packages are seemingly shorter and have a faster pace. Glor is on a tight shot in front of the video wall for almost the entire broadcast – he could very well be anywhere or nowhere. And I'm not against the idea of having a super on the screen the entire time, but does it have to be so big?
It's not necessarily a bad broadcast, but it just doesn't feel the same or as comprehensive as it did before.
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Lieberman is reporting that Ken Wayne is leaving KTVU-2 since his contract is up.
Big loss. He was there 26 years. Really nice and friendly guy too.
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New GM named at KGO-TV: outgoing ABC News exec Tom Cibrowski.
http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/tom-cibrowski-leaving-abc-news/360206
Here's to KGO getting a new news director in 3... 2...
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Also, Turko is a stage spelling. Here's a classic clip from KOA-TV, where he is "Michael Turcot." You can also see what is probably a toupée in a stand-up bridge and some me-roll.
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Ick. That's pretty bad. The worst part about it is that this is Heartland's first go-around at re-branding a station and this could roll out to their other stations. For a group that I was fascinated to see what they would be like, this is extremely disappointing.
Heartland doesn't really have much design foresight aside from passing down some warmed over graphics packages from big markets that looked passable 10 years ago. They're hoping that a team of consultants and "late breaking news" will be enough to solve any branding problems in their markets.
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What did I just watch?
I normally love KGW, but that is a bizarre move. I can't tell whether that's a terrible idea or genius. Any chance the full episode is anywhere?
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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.