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Rusty Muck

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  1. WUAB will be making some major programming changes beyond the "CLE43" rebrand. Current lineup: Upcoming lineup: Yes, for the first time ever, Cleveland will have a 9pm newscast. And WUAB has apparently conceded defeat after competing with WJW in the 10pm timeslot for 21 years.
  2. That was worth the laugh. If anything, WOIO's new logo should have been in a blue and silver color scheme instead of blue and gold. I think 'dated...' because WJW's short-lived "Fox 8 Is NEWS" logo (for less than three weeks in September 1996... no proof of it exists on YouTube anywhere) had the same exact color scheme. The (SC)UofM and the Golden State Warriors are the LAST things that came to my mind.
  3. Couldn't they at least have tried to make it look a little bit more like the logos for the legacy Ellis stations? (WMC, WECT, KFVS)
  4. At least WOIO and WUAB aren't sharing the same logos (ie, "Hometeam 19" and "Hometeam 43"). Over/under on WOIO morphing from "Cleveland 19 News" to "CBS 19 News?" I say six months.
  5. This Dan Deroos tweet should answer that question.
  6. Which would work if Danielle Serino didn't announce earlier this afternoon that she's leaving the station.
  7. They are keeping the Dufala/Robinson pairing on the 11pm newscasts. Assuming that Tiffany Tucker and Whitman are staying in place, I believe this will be the anchor rotation: 4pm: Nolan/Robinson 4:30pm: Tucker 5pm: Whitman/Dufala 5:30pm: Tucker 6pm: Nolan/Robinson 10pm: Whitman/Tucker 11pm: Dufala/Robinson
  8. Former WKYC chief meteorologist/morning anchor Mark Nolan is joining WOIO as their 4pm and 6pm anchor. Denise Dufala is remaining at 11pm and probably is being assigned to the other early-evening newscast blocks. This as WOIO's rebrand as "Cleveland 19" is imminent. Nolan will remain as the morning host at WMJI "Majic 105.7," a role he's held since shock jock mega-icon John Lanigan retired last April.
  9. Like "43 The Block?" (WUAB's on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again branding)
  10. The amazing thing is, WJW is tied with WXIN for the most news output of any standalone station in the US (65 1/2 hours!!!) but has no 11pm newscast whatsoever.
  11. Heck, WWJ 950 is now voice-tracking their overnight newscasts after the recent bloodletting at the all-newser.
  12. TD Jakes' show will be taking the 2pm slot on WKYC currently held by "The Doctors." It's not like they are pre-empting the far more visible "Ellen" or "Dr. Phil," and it's a late summer fill-in... so why not? In any event, the show wouldn't even be ready for a national roll-out until the 2016-2017 season.
  13. NewsNet5.com was relatively unchanged since the initial rollout in 1998 until it was finally integrated into the Scripps CMS back in 2010...
  14. Having seen her work at WJW off and on for the past several years, I never had a problem with Angela. It took a while for Clevelanders to warm up to her delivery (mainly as she was the replacement for Melissa Mack, who returned to WJW as one-third of the evening Goddard/Bernier/Mack meterological triumvirate at WJW) but they did. And of course weather forecasting in Cleveland is much, much different than forecasting a perpetually sunny market like San Diego.
  15. From "vjm1," my partner in crime at RadioDiscussions, WEWS is picking up "Access Hollywood" at 7:30pm weeknights as the replacement for "Let's Ask America" (LAA is being banished to 1:05AM as it plays out the summer string). Until this past week, "Access Hollywood" was buried in late nights on WUAB, which has the bulk of tabloid newsmagazines not named "Entertainment Tonight" on their schedule.
  16. Disappointed in a way that they didn't revive channel 22's original WPTT calls, which were retired from radio a few years back...
  17. Mike and Mike is a must-carry show for ESPN Radio affiliates (a few stations don't carry it, most notably WPEN-FM; ESPN purchases time on WTEL 610 to clear it). So even with the show being on ESPN2, it's always been a cross-promotional tool for ESPN Radio.
  18. I doubt that it even matters. Besides, KUSA has generally been known as 9NEWS for 20 years.
  19. Washington, DC is the nation's capital. It makes sense for WUSA to keep the callsign, with or without the USA Today.
  20. And yet, WUSA announced a wide-ranging partnership with the Washington Post a few weeks ago.
  21. S!nclair only needs to keep James Spahn happy, and they will be pretty much set. The second he leaves, they will be toast. If any station may be on the way down, it could be WIAT. But it wouldn't be a sudden collapse because of CBS's dominance in primetime and their carriage of SEC football (also vis-a-vis CBS). And very little has actually changed at WIAT... the most major change simply being the nameplate of their owners.
  22. Wow. WXYZ really wants to scrap the "Now" brand and format. I betcha that, in a few weeks, it will be quietly renamed "7 Action News at 4." Maybe it happens in the next week, what with the ramp-up of May sweeps.
  23. It's just a scrambling of Gannett, with only one N and T. Whoever thought this up probably was the same person who played with Photoshop to "redesign" the Cleveland Browns helmet a few weeks earlier...
  24. 12.2 is branded as "K-JAC NBC," a nod to the longtime callsign of the market's former NBC affiliate, S!nclair Fox affiliate KBTV/4. If I'm not mistaken, ALL of KBMT's newscasts are simulcast on 12.1 and 12.2.
  25. Cox would need to rid itself of their newspaper division in order for that to make sense.
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