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Fixed it for you. WFXT is in Boston. Nonetheless, what do you expect from certain people in the city of "Brotherly Love" when it's an oxymoron when they don't show their love back, after a person spent their time there before leaving, showing gratitude to the viewers. It's one thing to love your city, it's another when their attitude as such make that decision made by those like Mcdonnell easier at the end of the day.

 

P.S. As stated in the article, her boyfriend Aaron's brother Josh recently appeared on "The Bachelorette" 'winning' the heart of now fiancee Andi Dorfman in the finale.

 

No...it's WTXF.

Kacie McDonnell is leaving WTXF in Philadelphia for KSHB in Kansas City. She's also girlfriend to Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Aaron Murray.

I tell you what, never I have seen just pure hatred and rudeness directed at a personality for leaving a station. The comments towards and about her are atrocious. They're along the lines of "why would you ever want to live/work in Kansas City?" "some people spend their whole careers trying to reach a market of this size and you're choosing to leave it to go work in a small market like Kansas City," "you should have had a ring on it before you ever decided to move." What makes it odder is that her boyfriend Murray might not even make the roster...

Edit: WTXF in Philly and WFXT in Boston are way too similar. Originally said Boston.

 

This is a bad hire because she is not an actual meteorologist, and they really should have waited until she is a real meteorologist before making the hire. Also, she's jumping from Boise to Boston. Well, they must have gotten her for dirt cheap.

 

Having said that, she's not a bad forecaster because I saw clips on YouTube and I think she has a good on-air presence. I just don't think she's ready for DMA7 yet. But I'm not the ND so of course my opinion doesn't count. But whatever...

 

Is she pretty? KSHB's most recent weather hire wasn't an actual meteorologist, but boy was she pretty. It oddly seemed to be pretty common knowledge that she wasn't a true met too.

 

Oklahoma City's Fox affiliate KOKH has announced in a new station promo that it will enter into early evening news for the first time, with the launch of a 5:00 p.m. newscast that will premiere on September 1. The program will replace episodes of "Two and a Half Men" and "The Big Bang Theory" that have been airing in the timeslot (the former of which will move to sister station KOCB, which already airs "Two and a Half Men"'s weekend runs, on that same date). This is the second local programming expansion on KOKH this year; in June, the station quietly launched a Sunday morning local public affairs program called "The Middle Ground".

 

Wait, you mean to tell me KOKH doesn't have a 5 or 6pm newscast? What do they do then? Morning and 9/10pm?

Michelle Apon is leaving KSHB after just around a year. She's the third person to leave the station in the past 8 days.

https://www.facebook.com/KSHBJiaoJiaoShen/photos/a.231318040357325.1073741828.231294387026357/343510895804705/?type=1&theater

Well this was a surprise. Keith King is leaving KSHB after 18 years at the station. Today was his final day at the station. He was a general reporter, weekend anchor for a number a years and most recently their Call For Action reporter. No word on who will replace him.

 

Remember Rhonda Lee, the meteorologist who was fired in 2012 from Shreveport's KTBS after defending her natural hair on the station's Facebook page? Now she announced that she has accepted a job at WeatherNation TV in Denver.

 

http://thevane.gawker.com/weathernation-hires-meteorologist-fired-for-defending-h-1603909718

http://ftvlive.com/todays-news/2014/7/13/weather-nation-hires-natural-hair-meteorologist

 

Since we're on the subject of weather, TVSpy announced on their recent "On The Move" post that Jim Kosek is joining KCTV in Kansas City as their weekend evening meteorologist. The former AccuWeather personality recently left KTVX in Salt Lake City.

 

I tipped them off to Kosek quite awhile ago. Surprised they're just now mentioning it.

 

You never know. Maybe Joel Nichols is what that program needs. Seems like KSHB is profiting off of KMBC's fall from grace.

 

That's quite the understatement on both fronts. They have Bracco, the man that helped to create KMBC's decades of dominance, running the station now.

former channel 9 KMBC morning weather man Joel Nichols officially started today on channel 41 KSHB as the new co-host of their disastrous struggling painful-to-watch morning talk/lifestyle show Kansas City Live.

http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/tv/article683616.html

Sand desk anyone?

https://twitter.com/wraltraffic/status/483910764512571393/photo/1

 

You mean this type of full screen graphic http://www.rkolsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/image.jpg where inside the parallelogram there's the occasional live video feed? Or this one http://www.rkolsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/image1.jpg where instead of the first bullet point it's a small video box?

 

I don't think it's necessarily tabloid like WHDH and WSVN are, rather they are just using what's available to them.

 

Neither. If I can ever manage to get a photo uploaded up on here I'll show you what I mean. "Tabloid-y" is possibly the wrong terminology to use. I primarily said it because KMBC's product has become increasingly so over the past few years.

KMBC's ticker looks absolutely nothing like any of those. It's so minimalist and perfect. I don't have a picture, but all it consists of is a map of the viewing area and a ticker encased by a small grey box. There is none of that multi-colored boxes taking up the bottom or top sixth of the screen thing, it's "transparent" so to speak.

Again, with no pictures, but has anyone noticed their Hearst station using more "tabloid-y" graphics lately? I'll try to take screens later, but KMBC has been using a ton of stuff with full screen graphics with headlines and a video box to tell half the story. They didn't use to do this.

 

I still think they should add Tamron Hall to co anchor with Matt, but that's my opinion. I like Savannah but the ratings for Today are sad to say the least.

 

The Today show lacks something that GMA has & its working for ABC.

 

Add Sam Champion to the weather & NBC might have a winning combination.

 

What they're lacking is that sense of fun, unity and family.

Add Sam Champion? And do what with Al Roker?

 

NBC was in a tough position here. There is not definitive heir just yet and, if Matt wanted to stay, they would risk having to force out another anchor which would obviously not play well in public.

 

They made a smart decision. Sign him for a few more years, develop a bench with a few possible successors, and just keep trying to get back on top.

 

It's pretty obvious that the most obvious heir, as of this moment, to Matt is Willie Geist. He is the ONLY person people talk about as being a Matt Lauer replacement. The article says that his new contract "will take Mr. Lauer to two decades as the program's chief anchor." Presumably one could speculate that after that milestone is reached, Lauer will leave. Either way, NBC needs to spend the entire length of his new contract prepping up an heir and Willie Geist is the most obvious choice at least at this moment. If it's not him then it'll have to be someone else they bring in and work hard to be likable to the viewers, but Geist is already well received by Today Show viewers.

The network has also promoted the show’s recent ratings, which have brought “Today” closer to “G.M.A.” among viewers between the ages of 25 and 54, or those that are sold to advertisers on morning news. While “G.M.A.” still commands a sizable lead among total viewers, the gap among those salable viewers has narrowed in some recent weeks. Two weeks ago, “Today” closed the gap to 88,000 viewers, though ABC increased that to 184,000 this past week. “G.M.A.” wins among total audience by between 800,000 and one million viewers.

 

Which is stupid because this happens just about every week. CBSTM probably narrows the gap between them and Today on a weekly basis too, but do you see them citing it as an indication that their ratings are rising and that they will soon be the new #2? No, because they know it was just some random fluctuation. NBC can start claiming that the gap is really narrowing once the gap is down to under 100,000 for consistent weeks on end.

Mark Clegg is reportedly leaving KSHB after 12 years at the station.

 

 

Katina Rankin resigns from Jackson's WLBT.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/katina-rankin-resigns-from-wlbt_b122093

 

"After much prayer and fasting"? Geeze, she took that decision SERIOUSLY.

Anywho, Katie Horner has left KMOV to come back to Kansas City to live with her family.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/meteorologist-katie-horner-says-goodbye-to-kmov_b122162

 

http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/14/5023470/kctv-5-meteorologist-tom-wachs.html

Tom Wachs is leaving KCTV after six years as an weekend weather anchor for WITI in Milwaukee as an weekend meterologist.

 

Excellent. I couldn't stand him. Everything always had this sense of urgency to it. Sunny and clear skies for the next week? Always made it sound urgent like it was a hurricane instead.

 

It looks good, I think they got the design from msnbc which has used it since they went HD in 2009.

 

I don't know why they don't use unified graphics throughout their network and cable channels - it would make it a lot easier for sharing content between NBC, MSNBC and CNBC where you wouldn't have to create unique graphics for each channel. All of the BBCs output is the same between their BBC Breakfast and BBC News on BBC One with BBC News Channel and BBC World.

 

Eh. It's been five years now. MSNBC could stand an refresh/overhaul of their graphics. But if I were to place priorities, it would definitely be on CNBC (they still aren't in HD right)?

But that's not the discussion here...

 

Confirmed on air look released today.

 

Actually that doesn't look too half bad.

If he's so bad then what is it that NBC saw in him?

 

Technically, KSHB has three on-air meteorologists, one weather producer (Penner) and one "weather anchor" (Michelle Apon), who is not a real meteorologist. Nichols isn't a real meteorologist either.

 

Ehhhh Penner might be the producer, but he still has a degree in meteorology. Apon is working on her degree to actually BE a meteorologist, so I'm just giving her the benefit of the doubt.

 

OK hold the phone there. I guess you're counting Jeff Penner who is usually not on the air unless he's filling in for one of their regular meteorologists. I've always seen it as four with an off-air producer who fills in sometimes. I generally don't count the off-air people.

 

And there's nothing wrong with having six meteorlogists at the station. KSAT will soon have six total once Adam Caskey starts. Five on-air and one off-air producer (who never fills in). If you want to get extreme they technically have seven if you count John Honoré who KSAT alleges is still employed by them...

 

Yeah I am counting Jeff. I guess that's a good point, but he's been on the air enough times and is featured in all of their promos. Lezak brought him over when he left WDAF way back when.

For Kansas City though, that's weird. Hell, KMBC and now KCTV have two mets on-air in the morning and we generally consider it to be overkill.

It would appear that KSHB has hired Joel Nichols, the former morning meteorologist at KMBC in Kansas City that was there for 25 years. He would be the new host for their (somewhat disastrous) morning talk show "Kansas City Live" and the replacement for recently terminated Michael Mackie.

It's also sort of funny, as that would mean KSHB technically has SIX meteorologists at the station. It'll be curious to see if he ever got back on air doing the weather again.

Am I the only one here that believes that GMA is stocking too much up on women and that they can't run a successful morning show with virtually all women at the helm? If the Today Show was more or less all women, people would think they were batshit crazy and give them hell for it. I don't see that as much for GMA.