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  1. 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.
  2. MidwestTV
    Gonna give them credit, it's unique.
  3. MidwestTV
    Kudos to Scripps' CEO. He seemed pretty taken aback at the notion.
  4. 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."
  5. MidwestTV
    How is that a conflict of interest?
  6. 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.
  7. MidwestTV
    LOL that's rich. Time to oil up the Speclatron 9000.
  8. 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).
  9. MidwestTV
    Glass Lewis & Co was particularly scathing toward Kim ISS seemed skeptical of him too
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. MidwestTV
    More specific details: One week furlough for news departments sometime in the next three months ND and technology heads taking 8% paycut for 3 months GMs and senior VPs taking 20% paycut for 3 months CEO and board taking 25% paycut for 3 months NO layoffs
  13. MidwestTV
    Furloughs are coming to Tegna. One week sometime in the next three months. Managerial positions are taking temporary pay cuts.
  14. MidwestTV
    Expanding news in KC. WDAF is adding a half hour at 5 p.m. Saturdays because of no sports, and KSHB is adding a 3 p.m. newscast. They recently made their 10 p.m. an hour too.
  15. MidwestTV
    There's only one on-air job listed now. The rest are technical positions. Given how Tegna has extended their WFH policy until April 10th and are heavily encouraging people to not come to work, it shouldn't be a surprise that job interviews are on hold.
  16. MidwestTV
    ...Trinity?
  17. MidwestTV
    "I noticed you changed the color from purple to blue, so I'm hoping it's going to stay blue for every newscast." Oh that poor man. I can only imagine his horror when he woke up in the morning and when he saw that TalkBack using blue, purple and orange. Joking aside, I wonder what kind of changes Tegna might have made if they had this type of feed back in 2017/18. It makes one think if this is WNEP's sly knock at Tegna.
  18. MidwestTV
    I'm curious if Scripps will even bother repairing it. Also, I would think most stations would keep their chopper at an airport. Most TV stations are not favorable locations for a helipad.
  19. MidwestTV
    I did some asking...sounds like the contract is up in April and they're shedding it. It'll leave KMBC as the only station in the market with a chopper.
  20. MidwestTV
    KCTV must have ended their sharing agreement. The other side of that chopper will have KSHB's logo, and there's footage from their chopper from within the last week. What's most frustrating is how painfully SD the camera is.
  21. MidwestTV
    Your list mentions KCTV discontinued their chopper in January 2020. They shared it with KSHB (it's really their chopper). Did that agreement end?
  22. MidwestTV
    It's effectively the WHAS logo.
  23. MidwestTV
    WNT just needs to move to 16x9 graphics. It's the only ABC News program (as far as I'm aware) that's designed 4x3 safe. It's very odd.
  24. MidwestTV
    Nice! The previous look was getting quite dated. Only thing I'd change about this one is lessening the cut out between the orb and '9'.
  25. MidwestTV
    I like it fine and don't think it's as awful as many are saying, but then again, this site tends to hate anything new nowadays. My biggest gripe are the player stat line in the score bug is too small and transparent. They need to lower the opacity at least. The second gripe is the down and distance indicator on the field is very hard to see. If their goal was to make it appear as if it's painted on the field, they succeeded in making it look like it hadn't been repainted all season.
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