T.L. Hughes

Is it possible to identify the composers of these themes?: * WGN Nightbeat Theme * WGN 1980 News Theme * WGN 1984 News Theme * WGN 1991 News Theme * WPIX 2010 News Theme * KTLA 1962 News Theme * KTLA 1970 News Theme * KTLA 1982 News Theme * KTLA 1990 News Theme * KTLA 2005 News Theme * KWGN 1988 News Theme * KWGN 1991 News Theme * KWGN 1993 News Theme * KWGN 1995 News Theme * KWGN 2008 News Theme

WPIX has hired former WNYW weekend sports anchor Andy Adler as entertainment reporter for the PIX Morning News, besides that she will also serve as sports anchor for the program. And so, the reformation of the sports department begins. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/andy-adler-joins-wpix-morning-newscast_b117050 http://tunedinnyc.com/2014/03/12/andy-adler-returns-to-new-york-as-wpix-morning-entertainment-reporter-and-sports-anchor/

I believe I saw an open from KVIA once (it is available on one of NewsActive3's compilations) that greatly ripped off WSVN's 1992 to 1994 news open package, complete with the spinning "Circle 7" (WSVN and KVIA's being different "Circle 7"s for obvious reasons).

I think you meant 1986.

TVSpy observed a blunder with a Facebook photo showing off a newly wrapped live truck used by KHSL-KNVN in Chico, California. In the original photo, a disabled parking sign is visible under the back wheel of the truck. Shortly after this post (posted yesterday; Wednesday, March 5), the photo was changed; the only difference is that it is taken from a different angle and the disabled parking sign is still partially visible.

Didn't KTLA do this years ago? One of the clips in a compilation I made of KTLA news opens infers they did (the clip I'm taking about is at 1:39).

KOKH morning reporter Terre' Gables has announced she is leaving the station. Her last day was today (February 21). Jim Tarciani, who has been an investigative reporter for WJAR in Providence for 32 years, has announced that he will be retiring in April.

Quoting a Seth Meyers-Amy Poehler Weekend Update segment: Really?! If one of your own stations' reporters gets arrested, you'd better report it. Transparency in reporting is key in the news biz, viewers aren't blithering idiots and shouldn't be treated as such. This seems to have happened quite a bit the last couple years with anchors/reporters/weatherpeople ending up on the wrong side of the law, anything from DUI to being accused as a child predator. On a compleletly separate note: to illustrate sanewsguy's note about Leslie Draffin joining KOKH, the station has been without a morning co-anchor for Bill Young (who rejoined the station not too long ago himself after a short stint as a reporter during the pre-News Central era) since August. That's FIVE MONTHS without a "permanent" anchor.

Whether a station has heavy subchannel penetration or not varies depending on the market. Oklahoma City is one of several markets that have no ATSC-M/H stations of any kind, and is heavily represented by subchannel services. Except for KWTV, which carries a news rebroadcast channel on its 9.2 feed, most of the full-power and LPTV stations (except for KOCB, KXOC-LP, and for now, KAUT-TV) have subchannels carrying affiliations with multicast-only networks that require slightly more bandwith than a locally-operated service.

So this is where Troy Christensen landed. He recently left his role as a weekend meteorologist at KFOR-TV a couple of months ago.

I'm guessing WCCB will be only the fifth(?) station ever to carry early evening news on weekends without an existing weekday newscast in that daypart: KPTV, KDVR, WPIX and WFLD all carried newscasts in such a manner (although WPIX's 6 p.m. weekend news launched after it cancelled its weekday early evening newscast before debuting its current 5 p.m. weekday newscast and WFLD never expanded its early evening newscast to weekdays and cancelled it outright). In addition, this makes WGN, XETV and KCWI the only news-producing CW affiliates without weekend evening newscasts that air before primetime (the latter two cases are justified since XETV doesn't carry an early evening newscast to begin with and KCWI does not have any evening newscasts; WGN is peculiar though since its 5 p.m. news could easily be expanded to weekends as its sports programming rarely bleeds into or starts at that timeslot on Saturdays and Sundays, even during baseball season as White Sox and Cubs afternoon games often end before 5 p.m. on those days).

You're right, it's so-so. I saw the logo last week while getting a page link for a Wikipedia article on WSBT I'm editing soon. However, since that WSBT is still using its TVbD-designed logo on-air (based on the videos seen on its website), is there a timetable as to when the new logo and graphics will roll out on-air?

Oklahoma City NBC affiliate KFOR-TV has hired veteran storm chaser Reed Timmer as part of its storm tracking field unit. Timmer started at KFOR on April 17, during a severe weather event that produced seven confirmed tornadoes across Oklahoma, along with flash flooding. The University of Oklahoma meteorology graduate was most recently seen on the now-cancelled Discovery Channel series Storm Chasers. Timmer will chase Oklahoma's severe weather in his proprietary SRV Dominator 2 vehicle (which Timmer co-designed with Kevin Barton and Terry Rosema), an 8,500-pound vehicle, encased with 16-gauge steel and Kevlar, and containing anchoring spikes that would allow it to encounter strong tornadoes. A full description of the current iteration of the vehicle and its original version is included in the Wikipedia article in the second link.

Oklahoma City Fox affiliate KOKH has added three new members to its news staff: * Wendy Suares, who was among those laid off from KARK/Little Rock in December as part of its owner Nexstar Broadcasting's acquisition of Fox/CW duopoly KLRT-KASN (through proxy company Mission Broadcasting) and the merger of KARK and KLRT's news departments, is joining KOKH as its new weekday morning anchor. Suares replaces Liz Dueweke, who left the station over the weekend and will become the new weekday morning and 11 a.m. anchor at soon-to-be-sister station KOMO-TV/Seattle. * Rebecca Schleicher joins the station as a general assignment reporter, having joined KOKH from NBC affiliate KCEN in Waco, where she was also a reporter. * Christine VanTimmeren also joins the station as a general assignment reporter, coming to KOKH from Rochester, New York NBC affiliate WHEC. VanTimmeren had also previously worked at Grand Rapids Fox affiliate WXMI.

An update to the anchor changes at KDVR-KWGN as the stations have hired Brooke Wagner (who left KCNC in January) and Kirk Yuhnke (who was last with ABC affiliate KNXV/Phoenix) to anchor KDVR's morning newscast Good Day Colorado, both will start on April 22. A staff email sent by news director Ed Kosowski revealed several other anchor changes at KDVR-KWGN: * Nick Emmons will move from Good Day to KWGN's 7 p.m. newscast, anchoring alongside Hema Mullur. * Emmons' Good Day co-anchor, Melody Mendez, will transition to a general assignment reporter role as well as serving as a fill-in for Natalie Tysdal on lifestyle program Everyday, Tysdal announced that she will be leaving the station at the end of May. * Reporter Boris Sanchez will take over for Jeremy Hubbard as co-anchor the 10 p.m. newscast Nightside with Hema Mullur beginning tonight (April 8). * Kim Posey will solo anchor the weekend evening newscasts (presumably only the Saturday 5 and 9 p.m. shows), while co-anchoring with Eli Stokols on Sunday evenings.

CBS affiliate WKYT/Lexington, Kentucky will debut weekend morning newscasts on Saturday (November 10). The newscasts will run for two hours on Saturday mornings (from 6 to 8 a.m.) and for one hour on Sunday mornings (from 8 to 9 a.m.). The newscasts will be anchored by weekend evening anchor Elizabeth Dorsett with meteorologist Keri Hall providing weather forecasts, though Dorsett will helm both the morning and evening weekend newscasts until December, when general assignment reporter Brittany Pelletz will take over as anchor of the weekend evening broadcasts. WFTV meteorologist Brian Monahan will be leaving the Orlando ABC affiliate to join CBS affiliate KIRO-TV/Seattle. Monahan will serve as meteorologist for the weekday morning newscasts in early December. Monahan's last day at WFTV will be on Saturday, November 17. Ray Antony Miles, who barged into the newsroom at CBS affiliate WIBW/Topeka and assaulted four station employees in May, was convicted Thursday (November 8) on charges on four felonies: three counts of aggravated battery and one count of making a criminal threat, and was also found guilty of misdemeanor counts of battery and criminal damage to WIBW's studios. Miles attempted to exit the courtroom during the proceedings, as reported by the Topeka Capital-Journal: Finally some sad news, Jeannie Hayes, anchor at Rockford, Illinois NBC affiliate WREX died Thursday (November 8) from complications of leukemia at the age of 29. Hayes had only been diagnosed with advanced leukemia on Tuesday (November 6), and additionally was diagnosed with a bladder infection when she sought medical treatment on Monday (November 5). After making a call to 911 on Tuesday after her condition began worsening and following her leukemia diagnosis, Hayes underwent emergency surgery on Wednesday, subsequently falling into a coma. Hayes joined WREX in 2005, and was anchor of the station's noon newscast shortly before her death. All of us at TVNewsTalk send our heartfelt condolences to Hayes' family (she leaves behind her parents and two sisters) and her WREX colleagues.

For the second time in 2012, a member of KOMO-TV/Seattle's news staff has died. Three months after the death of longtime weeknight anchor Kathi Goertzen, Joel Connable (who had just joined the ABC affiliate the week before and married his longtime girlfriend two weeks prior to his death) died on Monday (November 5) due to complications from Type 1 diabetes at the age of 39. As reported by anchor Dan Lewis during Wednesday evening (November 7)'s 6 p.m. newscast, Connable likely died as the result of a seizure. Connable joined KOMO three years after his 2009 firing from NBC-owned WTVJ/Miami for allegedly violating that station’s policy on accepting free gifts. Prior to joining KOMO and WTVJ, Connable had previously worked at WLTX/Columbia, South Carolina and KCBS-KCAL/Los Angeles, California. Connable had a lawsuit pending against the station at the time of his death. All of us at TVNewsTalk extend our condolences to Joel's family at this time.

Ryan Klund, a multimedia journalist for ABC affiliate WBND-LP/South Bend, was arrested on Thursday (November 1) on felony sexual conduct charges after a woman reported an incident that occurred at a party in South Bend on April 29, in which she, Klund and a group of acquaintances had been drinking at a friend’s residence during the gathering and at a local bar; the woman told her friends she felt she was going to vomit and went into the apartment's bathroom. Klund came into the bathroom uninvited and started “rubbing the victim’s exposed genital area with his hand … and kissed the victim’s bare buttocks.” Klund left the bathroom after the woman yelled at him to stop. The documents filed Wednesday (October 31) in St. Joseph Superior Court show that Klund has been charged with two counts of sexual battery. The accuser stated she did not consent to the sexual acts and that Klund had made advances toward her throughout the evening, even as her boyfriend was in the apartment at the time. Klund’s bond was set at $25,000. Klund had last reported for WBND on Monday, though in light of his arrest (which was reported by WBND during their newscasts Thursday), his bio has been stripped from the station’s website.

Melissa Newton announced on her Twitter account on Thursday (October 11) that she will be leaving Dallas CBS owned-and-operated station KTVT, where she has been a morning reporter since June 2009, to join her husband in Oklahoma City. Newton married Damon Lane on September 22, Lane has been a meteorologist for KOCO in Oklahoma City since August 2009, initially seen on the station's weekend morning newscasts before moving to the weekday morning show the following year. He has reportedly been promoted to chief meteorologist at KOCO, a position that has been open since Rick Mitchell left the Hearst Television-owned ABC affiliate in August after an 18-year run at the station to become the 4 and 10 p.m. meteorologist at Fort Worth-based NBC station KXAS (in which Mitchell will assume the chief meteorologist position currently held by David Finfrock after Finfrock retires following the 2018 expiration of his current contract). Newton’s last day at KTVT will be on November 21. This will be Newton's second go-around in Oklahoma City as she previously worked in the market for brief stints at two stations: first as weekend anchor/reporter at Sinclair Broadcast Group's Fox affiliate KOKH and then for an even shorter-lived reporting stint at KOCO, both between 2006 and 2008. David Bark, author of the UncleBarky.com blog, reports that there are sources that claim that Newton is being courted by two of the four local news outlets in the area to become a full-time anchor, meaning that she could rejoin KOCO or KOKH, or even join CBS affiliate KWTV or NBC affiliate KFOR.

Matt Turner. anchor and reporter at CBS affiliate KTHV in Little Rock, died Saturday evening (October 6) at the age of 32. Turner had only been working as a weekday morning anchor for the Gannett-owned station since joining the station in September from at NBC affiliate KNWA/Rogers (Fort Smith-Fayetteville). Turner died in an accident around 7:30 p.m. as he and his family were traveling to visit family in his hometown of Arkadelphia, Arkansas (something Turner often did for the first two years after the death of his father, who served as a pastor at 3rd Street Baptist Church in Arkadelphia) in separate vehicles. His Chevy Tahoe ran off of Interstate 30, near the Highway 70 exit in Saline County, Arkansas (outside of Benton), fallling 400 feet below and hit the concrete base of a highway sign. A graduate of Ouachita Baptist University, Turner started his broadcasting career at KNWA in 2003 as a sports anchor/reporter, before transitioning to news as a primary anchor in 2006. Turner's family released a statement on the tragedy Sunday morning (October 7): TVNewsTalk sends our heartfelt condolences to those Turner is survived by: his wife Julee and 10-month-old daughter Preslee Bell, as well as his mother, Lisa, and brother Andy.

Scott Michael Trager, weekday morning anchor at WWTV/WWUP and WFQX-TV/WFUP in Cadillac, Michigan, died suddenly Wednesday morning (September 26) at age 46. Trager had been anchor of Michigan This Morning at the CBS affiliates owned and Fox affiliate managed by Heritage Broadcasting Group (WFQX-TV/WFUP, which Heritage began managing alongside the CBS stations in October 2007 under a shared services agreement, began airing an extension of the program in 2008). Trager started with WWTV/WWUP in 1990 as the station's sports director, before transitioning to news anchor in 1998. During Trager's tenure as sports director, he helped create the station's 11 p.m. sports wrap-up segment Sports Overtime, which continues to air in the present day. Reacting to the news of Trager's death, WWTV/WWUP general manager Bill Kring said in a statement: Trager leaves behind a wife and three children (all of whom are triplets). All of us at TVNewsTalk send our condolences to the Trager family at this difficult time.

Colorado Springs station KKTV has purchased a building from local architect James Nakai, that will serve as a new studio facility for the Gray Television CBS affiliate. The station will relocate from its current studios on Nevada and Cascade Avenues to the new facility on East Colorado Avenue in early 2013. Gray has enlisted Nakai to assist in the redesign of the building.

WDRB, the Block Communications-owned Fox affiliate in Louisville, Kentucky, will produce a new half-hour 7 p.m. newscast on CW affiliate WBKI (which Block will operate under a pending shared services agreement with owner LM Communications as part of a virtual triopoly that also involves Block-owned MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYO). The newscast debuts September 17, and will replace an existing 10 p.m. newscast produced by Belo-owned ABC affiliate WHAS-TV.

NY1 reporter Vivian Lee was reportedly attacked Friday morning while preparing to do a story in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn by a woman adorned with a white sheet (with a T-shirt underneath it, as well as sweatpants and green flip-flops) who entered into a NY1 news van, who was caught using Lee’s make-up and eating snacks. Lee asked the woman to leave, and the woman allegedly swung at Lee and not long afterward, punched Lee in the neck. The driver of the vehicle apprehended the attacker until authorities arrived. The story Lee was working on at the time the incident occurred was about a 61-year-old man that died Thursday night after part of a church steeple fell onto a street after it was struck by lightning during a line of strong to severe thunderstorms that moved through the Tri-State area that evening.

Chad Krispinsky, weekend sports anchor at ABC affiliate WYTV in Youngstown, Ohio, has been arrested for the second time on a DUI complaint. At around 2:25 a.m. ET last Thursday morning (June 1), A police officer in Krispinsky's hometown of Boardman, Ohio, saw Krispinsky’s car drifting partially into the center of the road on Market Street near McClurg Road in the southern part of town, but did not pull over Krispinsky’s car. The officer later noticed Krispinsky a short while later walking on Roche Way (a few miles northwest) and while speaking with him, detected the smell of alcohol on Krispinsky’s breath. Krispinsky refused to take a Breathalyzer test and was arrested, with his license suspended for one year. 34-year-old Krispinsky was scheduled to be arraigned last Friday in Mahoning County Area Court in Boardman, however court records don’t indicate if he attended the hearing. Krispinsky's first run-in with the law occurred In August 2010, when he pleaded guilty in a Canfield court to an amended charge of failure to maintain physical control of his motor vehicle after registering a 0.181 on a Breathalyzer test, more than twice the legal limit of .08.