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  1. MidwestTV
    In another video message to employees, CEO David Lougee announced that work-from-home guidelines will remain in place until at least January 4, 2021. This means that employees who can work remotely and don't absolutely have to be in the building (i.e, sales, promotions, etc) will do so until next year. However, on-air talent may be allowed back in the building on a market-by-market basis depending on what the COVID numbers are in their respective locations. Some other notes include: -85% of employees completed the company survey -everyone will get a $100 UberEats gift card -non-TV station buildings will be modified with COVID in mind and then they'll be required to come back to work in January -people who want to keep the option to work form home after the January 4th date need to talk to their immediate leaders
  2. MidwestTV
    What a horrendously distracting severe weather set up.
  3. MidwestTV

    In Memoriam

    MidwestTV replied to jdcnow's topic in General TV

    KCBD meteorologist Kelly Plasker has died. I have heard that she took her own life.
  4. MidwestTV
    They're all largely unchanged, just a few minor edits. Nothing radical.
  5. MidwestTV
    Really up to the individual stations if they want to bother downloading them. Not a hard-fast requirement. Mainly the tropical icons were updated along with a few other updates and a couple new ones.
  6. MidwestTV
    Updated icons had been in the works for months. They finally became available a couple weeks ago.
  7. MidwestTV
    I mean...that isn't exactly a new idea. Gannett used to have the rundown plastered on the side standard in the early HD days. WHAS does a quick "in the next 5 minutes" blurb during their 11pm as well.
  8. MidwestTV
    And this board generally tends to hate everything, so I'm not surprised
  9. MidwestTV
    Tegna announced today that they'll recognize Juneteenth this year as a paid holiday.
  10. MidwestTV
    Some people swear by Mark, but I swear he's getting more...eccentric...as he ages. Maybe he's better to work with, but on air it seems like you'd need a lot of patience.
  11. MidwestTV
    Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet or that there hasn't been a thread specifically about riots and the press. Lots of violence in Louisville last night. The most extreme was a police officer firing pepper balls at a WAVE crew on live television. WAVE issued a statement. WAVE also had a car spray painted. Speaking of cars, WLKY had one of their scompletely destroyed. WLKY also took damage from protestors/rioters themselves. WHAS took direct damage to their building. Windows to their front entrance were shattered, some parts spray painted, and tear gas even got into the building. In-building personnel were evacuated their stations to take shelter. Crews quickly worked to secure the building. Longtime anchor Doug Proffitt had a brief commentary on the situation at the end of their special report around 1:30 a.m. EDT. I am not aware of any damage of violence being inflicted toward WDRB or Spectrum Kentucky.
  12. MidwestTV
    That mint color only has me thinking of mint ice cream. A subtle feature I noticed that was surely was intentional is there are 5 black lines that comprise the '1' and '0' adding up to 10.
  13. MidwestTV
    Is DBL being moved? I'd imagine a 4pm newscast would pull in better numbers than DBL.
  14. MidwestTV
    The "select people" is prioritizing who will be let back in the building first. Departments such as sales wouldn't be as important as allowing anchors or meteorologists or technical staff back in building first. The "never going to let some people back in" applies more to possibly allowing (emphasizing that) some people at a later date to permanently work from home. Should this happen would these people be forced to permanently stay home and work? Well, I can't see how that could be possible as for some having a physical office space is much more practical.
  15. MidwestTV
    Tegna CEO Dave Lougee released a 21 minute video to employees discussing the status of their COVID operations and answer employee questions. Personnel will be allowed back in building on a market-by-market basis, and even then only for select people. He doesn't foresee any future furloughs or change to employee benefits. He also hinted that some people may be allowed to work from home permanently, but that wouldn't be decided until a much later undetermined date. Give Tegna slack for what you want, but they have done an excellent job being transparent with their employees about what the company's philosophy and approach to this crisis is. That's certainly a lot more than some other companies have done or would ever do.
  16. MidwestTV
    Gonna give them credit, it's unique.
  17. MidwestTV
    Kudos to Scripps' CEO. He seemed pretty taken aback at the notion.
  18. MidwestTV
    The WTSP re-design is certainly a...choice. Sometimes what old really isn't new again. But if Tegna "has no branding game" because they have stations with a network logo attached to a channel number or call letters, then 90% of all stations in the country "has no branding game."
  19. MidwestTV
    How is that a conflict of interest?
  20. MidwestTV
    While it wasn't explicitly mentioned in Tegna's furlough rules, all employees were told to not do ANYTHING work related during the furlough, not even answer an email, or else they will have been considered to have worked and their furlough will need to be moved, complicating the process. That extended to social media: don't post anything at all to your talent pages, work or otherwise. The only exception would be if a talent used their page as their personal social media page too, in which case they can post, just not anything pertaining to work. Also, the chief isn't always available to do severe weather coverage. There are other meteorologists who are more than capable of handling the situation, and it gives them great exposure.
  21. MidwestTV
    LOL that's rich. Time to oil up the Speclatron 9000.
  22. MidwestTV
    Tegna's value is $10 a share and they're furloughing workers because the coronavirus has wreaked havoc on everyone. Everyone is down. I'm not sure what that has to do with the board votes (of which Tegna employees get to vote in).
  23. MidwestTV
    Glass Lewis & Co was particularly scathing toward Kim ISS seemed skeptical of him too
  24. MidwestTV
    From the Tegnaverse today: https://www.tegna.com/tegna-applauds-iss-rejection-of-soohyung-kim-and-his-campaign-to-replace-leadership-of-tegna-board/ Quoted are a few paragraphs I found interesting. The presser has a lot more.
  25. MidwestTV
    Tegna has been ferocious in getting its employees to work from home. Anyone that doesn't have to absolutely be in the building is going home. Many stations have had to shell some serious cash to make sure that happens.
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