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I’ll throw out WRC in Washington.

I worked in Radio/TV Engineering back in college (30+ years ago), and suspect that WMAQ broadcasts studio audio over that frequency. It’s probably intended for their helicopter (thus the name “Sky 5”) and isn’t subject to cellular signal issues up in the air (signal strength, tower switching. Etc.).  I suspect it’s probably a narrow-band signal that gives the remote end the ability to hear live from the studio - and is probably a simple analog signal, so it shouldn’t have the “lag” you often see from remote shots using cellular service (even if just for the IFB).

Jim

35 minutes ago, SoFloTVClassics said:

KFVS 12 News (unknown year)

 

 

1983 per the copyright…

interesting to see Dave Courvosier at 12 - I’m used to seeing him on Vegas…

Also, the Food Horizon’s ad (2nd ad in after Roberta droning on about her 3rd mobile home from Farrell’s) music sounds like something a smaller market station might have used for their own local news at the time.

J

10 hours ago, T.L. Hughes said:

Breezeline (the U.S. unit of Canadian pay-TV provider Cogeco) has dropped WBOC from its eastern Maryland systems.

 

According to both Breezeline and WBOC parent Draper Holdings, the removal resulted from it being considered an out-of-market station in the communities serviced by the provider (including towns like Grasonville, Kent Island, Chestertown, Centreville, Queenstown, Rock Hall, Church Hill, St. Michaels and Chesapeake City, MD), which are considered part of the Baltimore DMA. (As such, this isn't being put in the retrans dispute thread, since this doesn't qualify.)

 

Especially since the Baltimore stations thoroughly cover this part of Maryland in the local news…

Whatever happened to “significantly viewed” status?

I just ran across this (which I wrote 21 years ago...).  Good for a quick laugh, if you can catch your breath (and try to say it all in one breath!)...

Live, Local and Latebreaking, First on NewsChannel 37 Eyewitness News from the NewsCenter, being clear, accurate and to the point with all the news you need from your hometown newsleader, in touch, in-depth and up to the minute, together we're making a difference on your 24-hour Action NewsSource, covering the (Region/City) where the news comes first on your local News Station with your choice for news and coverage you can count on, your number 1 News Leader with today's news tonight.  Now with breaking news, live from the NewsPlex  X with News, Y with Weather, and Z on Sports,  on FirstNews Non-stop 11 at 11.

Happy New Year!

Sorry to revive an older thread, but was going through some old news clips on an old hard drive and ran across WJLA's weather team in 2012 - They had 13 weather people on staff:
- Chief Meterologist: Doug Hill

- Senior Meteorologist: Bob Ryan

- Meteorologists: Adam Caskey, Alex Liggett, Brian van de Graaf, Devon Lucie, Eileen Whelan, Jacqui Jeras, Ryan Miller, Steve Rudin

- Forecaster: Dave Zahren

- Weathercasters: Chad Merrill, Mike Stinneford

IIRC, Devon Lucie was pretty much NewsChannel 8, and I think the 2 weathercasters were tied to WTOP (longtime weather partner), as they didn't list "ABC7" in their titles...

Regardless, that's a lot on staff...

Jim

14 hours ago, NBC 5 Chicago said:

Yes. 

 

Some will be easy to “fix”, I.e., Inergy NBC > Inergy, etc.  Others will require a new theme…

Yet we wonder why Gray is moving away from network affiliation identification on their stations....

9 hours ago, HSV cheesehead said:

Its entirely possible that there's now two version of GrayONE, with version A being what we have seen with WAFF, KMOV, WCSC, etc and version B being what we are seeing on KNOP and KNSB. Other than the ticker and font there certainly are similarities between the two. Its possible there test alternative packages in smaller markets.

 

Additionally, this could be an alternative to be primarily used by ABC affiliates, but optional for others.

Or perhaps two versions where Gray has 2 separate stations with separate news departments and identities (e.g,, KÖLN/KGIN and KSNB/KNOP).

Just a thought (and apologies if I’ve missed  this concept in an earlier post).

Jim

I have been off my game visiting Huntsville for work:

• Missed this one today
• Missed WAAY’s most recent graphics change (while visiting)
• Missed WZDX’s TEGNA-fication by a day
• Missed WHNT’s Nexstar-ization by a week.

all of which were without my capture equipment…

1 hour ago, MediaZone4K said:

WCBS 2006. Big visual improvements to graphics and set over 2003-2005. The skyline lookes better than the plain blue backgrop they had for a while. I dont recall this graphics era but it looks good. By 2007 the station would be back on track after going off the rails since about 1996. 

 

Yes, visuals are decent (not a fan of using Trebuchet as a font) , but that opening theme sounds like a train wreck of multiple cuts…

Jim

They can, and occasionally do.

KGNS in Laredo has brought Signature (one of my favorites) back to the airwaves recently, and others can name additional stations that have.

Jim

10 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Unless Tegna has a duopoly partner (like in Denver & Seattle), I don't think the networks they're affiliated with would be too happy pre-empting network shows to air a local ballgame.  The network contracts are more iron-clad now and don't really allow for deviation unless it's a local news or weather emergency.  Not to mention all of the retransmission consent dollars the networks have their hand in.

For pre-season NFL, those are usually Friday/Saturday games in August, and I don’t know about y’all, but can’t recall seeing any gripping network programming on a Friday night in August…

[…and I look at the Washington Commanders who have had their preseason matches on WRC in the past (I didn’t pay attention this year), so there’s at least one network which does it on O&O stations…]

J

They could call it “Space City Home Sports Entertainment” and resurrect the legacy HSE brand…

I’m liking their implementation - mostly due to not using the extra bold fonts everywhere. (Though a little mixed case text wouldn’t be too bad).

My biggest complaint on the font is that the M looks out of place, as the inside doesn’t appear to even go halfway down the letter…

Jim

I’m not sure if they’ve fixed it, but in the opens, the blue “CBS News Colorado” covered up the station ID when the package was first released, making it look like the station was “NC-TV Denver”…

On 8/8/2023 at 9:52 PM, TheOneManHerd said:

Towards the middle is an unaired, and until now unknown, package presumably composed for KTVI.

Since we don’t have specific dates, I wonder if the reason it was unaired is:

- Just as they were going to use it, CBS rolled out their “We’ve Got the Touch” series of promos

- There was a management change who didn’t like the jingle/theme

- Something else…

(not going to take it any further into Speculatron areas on my part…)

What I found interesting is that although MTN is a statewide brand, the various stations still do their own newscasts (KPAX, KTVQ, KRTV, KXLF/KBZK, and KTVH) during the evening hours at least.

I concur on the font - it just looks too “chunky” (the only word I could come up with).

The “SIOUXLAND’S NEWSCHANNEL” font is fine, but there are much better general L3/GFX fonts available.  Even going back to the basics (Helvetica/Univers/DIN 1451/Frutiger/Myriad/News Gothic) would look better, IMHO. 
 

Just for god’s sake, please do not use Arial!

I would think an 11pm rebroadcast at 4/4:30 would work - the only thing I would consider would be to record a toss to morning weather for a little more current info. 
 

West coast is weird, in that a 4am would work better, as some folks out there work work east coast times, so are more likely to be up earlier.

Also being in DC, a 4am newscast didn’t help one of my coworkers: he left home at 3:30am to beat the traffic from Culpeper (70+ miles away).  He did stream the 6am news from WDAY (his hometown station…) at the office…

While they’re adjacent, I’d think they’re far enough apart to have shared virtual channels, but I’d let the FCC decide that one,  

But then you have to consider Philadelphia/New York/Hartford, where you have duplicate Virtual Channels:

New York/Philadelphia share 2,4, 6, 7, 8 and 10 (with both 2 and 8 also in the Hartford/New Haven market) - and that’s on the “VHF” band. “UHF” virtual channel numbers (14-69) also have a lot of duplication…

Whereas DC and Baltimore should be a “No Go” in my opinion, considering the main transmitters are about 30 miles apart…

Branding can be whatever they want to use.

The only legal requirement is the Top of Hour ID which requires just Call Sign and City of License.

Or could they go with something like KiAH has - traffic, weather and headlines in the morning and leave the 10pm to WPVI?

Question about YouTube TV and Nexstar CW stations.

I’m visiting Huntsville, AL, and when I go to CW, I get “Unavailable in the location” - but the station is an OTA station here (WHDF/15), as well as on 19.2.  Any thoughts on this?

I get WDCW/50 back home in DC…

Jim

I read this as “They’re not expecting the writers strike to be ending quickly, so let’s import stuff to air - even if it’s available streaming” [because we’re Nexstar and we don’t believe in streaming]…