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CBS News anchor/reporter Terrell Brown is joining WLS as a reporter and contributing anchor. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/terrell-brown-to-join-wls-as-reporter_b118434

Longtime KSDK morning anchor Jennifer Blome has announced that she will be retiring from broadcasting, to take a position as director of humane education at the Animal Protective Association of Missouri. Blome's last day on-air will be March 28. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/ksdk-s-jennifer-blome-retiring/article_69155ef4-3dd9-5d65-8e29-e02cc586c713.html

I went there to check not long after the above post was made, that specific page was down earlier. Looks like the problem was fixed.

I'm not really sure where to find it. It's not in the NMSA, nobody has submitted it yet. I remember how the melody went (there was a telegraphic sound in parts of it), all I can tell you is that the end refrain of the piece is similar to the commercial break bumper used on The Rush Limbaugh Show during that period.

I got another theme that needs to be solved, but its not just the composer that needs to be identified but also the name of the piece of music. When I used to travel to Shreveport as a little kid, I remember hearing a theme that was used on KTAL's newscasts from about 1996 to 2001 (during the NewsCenter 6 era). I believe it was production music, as I have heard it in a couple of commercials elsewhere during the early/mid-2000s. It was kind of a light music piece featuring piano and trumpets.

I should point out that the examples I mentioned regarding KFOR and KOKH, sometimes these miscues aren't caught in time. Whole commercial breaks have accidentally been miscued and the stations don't catch it in enough time, causing you to miss part of a program. I would think there would be someone at master control to override the incorrectly insterted break before promos or commercials run through once they interrupt a scene mid-program.

KOKH has sparked the inquiries of conspiracy theorists everywhere when it inadvertently cut into the premiere broadcast of Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey on Sunday (March 9). Video of the incident has gone viral, resulting in a lot of people theorizing that given Oklahoma's largely conservative ideologies (not to mention that KOKH's owner is the same one that preempted Nightline on its ABC stations when the program ran a list of soldiers killed in action during the Iraq War and ran specials scrutinizing Democratic presidential candidates), the station did it deliberately. As the story in the Los Angeles Times link below states, contrary to reports, the portion of the episode that was interrupted was not the only reference to evolution (directly or indirectly) in the broadcast. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-oklahoma-city-fox-affiliate-cuts-evolution-from-cosmos-20140313,0,4969385.story As a person who has watched a lot of local television (we receive TV via antenna), KOKH's Twitter apology that this mishap was an operator error isn't far off. KOKH and KFOR-TV have blundered several times in running locally inserted commercial breaks when they were supposed to be airing a scene in a network program (KFOR has had these mishaps quite a number of times since the early 2000s at the earliest, though I remember this happening on KOKH a few times before, as recently as last fall). These kinds of errors doesn't happen very much with KWTV, KOCO or any of the other commercial stations in OKC. KOKH will be rebroadcasting the premiere episode of Cosmos on Saturday at 7:00 p.m. local time, as Fox already had it scheduled to repeat that night.

One obvious knockoff was done to the Hearst "camera" package (used from 1995/96-2003/04). I'm not sure if any other stations have used a standardized graphics originally used by another station group other than those run by the Big Four networks. KEZI used this copy during the late 1990s-early 2000s. The lower thirds are styled the same as how the Hearst stations used them, down to the use of BankGothic; however, the intros use a combination or Copperplate and what appears to be either Helvetica Extended or Univers. Also, Score's "ABC Affiliate News Package" was used instead of "The B Package" or "Image News".

It looks like Time Warner Cable is preparing to expand its regional cable news holdings with a new channel in San Antonio. http://blog.mysanantonio.com/jakle06/2014/03/time-warner-launching-s-a-news-channel/

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.