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On 5/28/2023 at 1:04 PM, ATLNewsHawk said:
WMAZ in Macon is using new weather banners that incorporate more colors. Wonder if these are coming to other tegna stations
They're optional, and from I hear, developed by WMAZ itself.
Perplexingly, the weather package has been left alone by the graphics hub since the 2018 look came out. The only minor change was a refresh of some weather icons last year. Only the news (and maybe even sports) aspects of the Tegna standard pack have had any type of update. All of the recent weather design changes you've been seeing are from the stations themselves. WMAZ was simply very vocal about it.
WMAZ, KSDK, WHAS, WCNC, even KWES are some examples of stations that modified their weather banners by themselves. Hell, KWES totally bucked the standard Tegna 7-Day for a more traditional one at least 18 months ago without a peep.
Tegna seems to have relaxed quite a bit about rigid adherence to the look. Those new giant L3s from last year? Optional apparently. The only things that were really required were the new full screens and opens.
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In his second message to the company today, Dave Lougee criticized the FCC for not acting on a vote. However, he also said that the decision to sell off WFAA, KVUE, and KHOU was not the original Tegna board's idea and implied they didn't want to lose those stations. He also said that Tegna is not for sale and has no plans to put itself up for sale, but if someone came along asking to buy they would listen.
The most interesting thing: starting in July, all regular hourly employees will start making $20/hr, meaning the company minimum wage will be $20/hr. Not certain, but that might make them the highest paying hourly wage in the business. Nexstar is $15 and Gray is $18.
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Gerard Gebaily announced this afternoon that weather is being all but cut from NewsNation newscasts and that his position as lead forecaster has been eliminated in a "cost saving" measure.
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Dave Lougee sent an email to employees today saying, among other things, that they were the ones who decided to not pursue it anymore, that the company will keep operating as it has been, and thanked employees for their patience over the past 18 months and for helping the company post record results in 2022. He said he'd share more information tomorrow.
Naturally, employees aren't going to see any of those record results or any hundreds of millions they'll get from the termination clause. It also means stations went through months and months of hiring freezes because of "the sale" and an "uncertain economy" for literally nothing.
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Congressional Republicans are asking the FCC IG to investigate the FCC's handling of the deal.
I also discovered there's an entire website making the case for why the deal should happen. What I found funny was the part where they say under their leadership there's been an increase of 40,000 hours of local news...which I'm assuming is from the past 20 years under companies that no longer exist. They certainly haven't added that much news to the four stations they currently own.
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It ain't over yet. The FCC seems to be giving it one last chance to make its case. Standard has made a last minute effort to sate the FCC and get them to approve the deal by Monday, May 22, when it officially dies.
The Seeking Alpha article links to a response from Standard General about the FCC's concerns. Among other things is Standard making its depositions to the DOJ public, waive its rights to apply after-acquired retransmission rights, and memorandums of understandings with the various Tegna unions and civil rights groups.
Most interesting to me is they're now promising to not layoff anyone for at least three years instead of two, and supposedly will give all stations +20% budgets within three years of closing.
From the release:
QuoteStandard General has extended its commitment to maintain newsroom jobs for at least three years (extended from two years previously) – this commitment covers all NewsGuild-NABET employees at TEGNA. Standard General has also committed to increasing local news budgets and news programming by 20% across TEGNA-owned stations within 3 years of closing. Standard General has submitted various documents that detail these commitments to the FCC.
The clock is still ticking, but it's inching closer and closer to midnight.
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Well done. Clean, well-lit, plenty of space. The accessory plants are a unique touch and adds a bit of life (literally) to it.
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24 minutes ago, TennTV1983 said:
The set is okay. I have no real issue with it.
The graphics on the other hand just screams CHEAP. You can also tell that the opens tried to mimic the CBS O&O look in a way animation-wise, but overall, it just looks awful compared to the other stations in the market.
It doesn't feel finished. This is one of those instances were more gloss and shine would help, and color gradients. The glassy city shots looks ok, but the abrupt appearance of the logo at the end doesn't work like how they wanted it to. Also, that stark yellow for the midday open
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MSNBC must be giddy today
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4 hours ago, Adam MadMan said:
"“If it could happen to us it could, happen to anybody,” Kim said."
It did. To Sinclair when trying to buy Tribune. Not the exact same with a hearing involved, but it isn't the first time a deal has died.
"“I think that control over news is something that U,S, citizens should not allow the government to have."
But that's not what the FCC is doing? They're not telling any local station what news to cover and how. If they were, they would've stopped that Sinclair "this is a threat to our democracy" crap from a several years back.
"Sometimes — against the advice of his lawyers and lobbyists..."
So he's a headache not just to the FCC, but even to his own lawyers and lobbyists. Sounds like a bad client. I wonder if those folks are almost glad the deal will die so they don't have to deal with him anymore.
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On 4/22/2023 at 11:23 AM, Rusty Muck said:
She presided over the full-on erasure of Young Broadcasting, LIN and MediaGeneral as Soo’s hatchet person. She played a role in the depletion of many independent, unique voices in the “M&A rolling thunder”.
They may not go bankrupt but Soo may just have no choice but to unload those four stations and the licenses for WQHT—WBLS to Tegna when they sue his sorry butt for breach of contract.
Remember that Sinclair had to cough up several stations to Nexstar (vis-a-vis Tribune) after Tribune sued Sinclair when their merger imploded.
It would be quite the calamity if, in the end, Tegna ended up buying the Standard General shops for cheap. Just a fun thought - not trying to dive into Speclatron.
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Dominion still got a lot, but I bet Fox was really sweating at the idea of having their talent testify in court under oath.
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Patrick Ellis is leaving WLBT after 6.5 years for WMC.
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As old as Waterman his, he probably has some connections everywhere. My first thought is he feels Hearst would be most likely to maintain whatever standard/level he thinks WBBH is and that Hearst would touch it the least out of the others.
As for Hearst, it's definitely a stunning move. There could be endless motivations behind it. They're like that quiet dude at the party that says some off the wall thing you didn't think they were capable of.
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The termination deal has been extended (again) until May. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3938830-tegna-gains-as-deal-termination-extended-three-months More likely than not the sale will be finalized by late spring.
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On 2/13/2023 at 5:00 PM, ATLNewsExpert said:
And no new graphics at five
Notably I do like the warmth in this shot
Good use of multiple colors at once.
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Did anyone else notice the graphics occasionally seemed to fail to render? There were a couple instances where the video feed was fine, but the animations got caught on themselves and froze momentarily.
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1 hour ago, Viper550 said:
Prepare for something obnoxious or disappointing:
On 2/4/2023 at 1:18 PM, MidwestTV said:If baseball and college basketball are any indication, I'm worried that a new score bug is going to be unnecessarily giant and take up a huge portion of the screen.
What did I say? I hope what Kento Ito says is true and somebody finally told Fox to tone it down.
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20 hours ago, TennTV1983 said:
Wow. Just ......... wow.
CBS programming helps. A lot.
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Kate Glover has been fired as news director at KCTV. She lasted a year. She's their...9th(?) news director in 13 years.
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If baseball and college basketball are any indication, I'm worried that a new score bug is going to be unnecessarily giant and take up a huge portion of the screen.
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2 minutes ago, 24994J said:
This is taking a page out of the new ABC O&O package's 7-day.
Somebody tell them it's ok if the graphics are legible. Text is too small.
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On 1/15/2023 at 6:55 PM, TheNewsTV said:
Also appears in some graphics on Nightly News
Another example of why dropping the white fill doesn't make sense to me. The background is so dark that the purple and blue feathers (especially purple) are almost totally lost.
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This one slipped by, but KYTX (Tyler, TX - Tegna) unveiled a new studio. Like all Tegna studios, it's about as safe and sterile as possible.
Photos (from news director Mateo Gambo's LinkedIn)
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Standard General to acquire Tegna for $8.6 Billion
in General TV
Posted · Edited by MidwestTV
"As I’ve written here before, Standard General may not be the best broadcaster to run the Tegna stations, but it has demonstrated over the past decade that it is a capable and respectable one."
This was comical and I nearly laughed out loud. Almost a contradiction in terms. They have done barely anything with the stations they DO own. Poor pay, few resources while adding more work (such as KLKN in Lincoln, NE producing a newscast for...Cape Girardeau , MO?), old equipment, and poor ratings (pretty sure KLKN and WLNE are both last place). I'm curious to know where they've shown they're "capable and respectable."