Rusty Muck

WCPO's John Materese has his "Don't Waste Your Money!" consumer reports hubbed to Scripps stations regionally. WEWS has carried him for several years now.

Greg Easterly had a long and very successful tenure as GM for WJW "Fox 8" Cleveland. PIX is getting a very good leader.

It smells more of, "we want to retire the Cox-era 'TV-36' brand, but KRON is holding onto MyTV for dear life, so ehhh... 'KTVU Plus.'"

Compared to Univision buying The Onion a few months ago?

Last year, KB had two meteorologists and one news anchor and made it even more weather-heavy. It didn't work.

Disney has enough to worry about with the pending implosion of the cable bundle, which is bringing down ESPN. They are not a buyer... not now, not in the future.

I can't believe that you are even suggesting such a notion, when the mere thought of Disney buying anything television related - especially any TV stations - has been thoroughly debunked, dismissed and discredited endless times on here. Yes, Scripps is not necessarily the best group owner of television stations out there. But they are not selling out, they are not in a world of financial pain, and - last I checked - none of their stations, even the struggling ones, are in danger of insolvency. Especially to a network, and to a network owned by a company not interested in buying any other television stations, and hasn't since the Capital Cities era**. I could understand if you were posting this wild dream on the Speculatron boards. But not here. It's not happening. No way. No how. DISNEY DOESN'T BUY TELEVISION STATIONS, PERIOD!!! THEY SIMPLY DO NOT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM!!!!!!!!!!!!! ** Even if Disney wanted to buy WJLA, they didn't buy the station because it wasn't sold separately. Think of a girl who you had a crush on that was totally unattainable.

I can't even.

Here's the kicker for those who didn't know: Angela Campos came to KGTV from Cleveland. She covered actual snowstorms and actual severe weather.

WEWS' Mark Johnson will break into ABC prime time for wall-to-wall severe weather coverage, and he's done that ever since assuming the chief meteorologist position in 1998.

WJW jumped in on the "Johnny Manziel aka Billy Football" social media explosion during their 5:00pm newscast ... casting their legendary 4' 3" horror host "Lil' John" Rinaldi in the process. This is why WJW is THE news leader in Cleveland. And it justifies those 'trending' segments. Kinda.

Scripps kept the lighthouse logo and "give light" slogan as a perpetual tribute to Carl Magee throughout the past century.

Meanwhile at WKBW, they have confirmed a major change to the anchor desk just in time for February sweeps.

Still a better name than "Denver 7."

I remember the old days where weather watches or warnings would be denoted by a big "W" or a tiny cartoon thunderstorm or tornado. But I digress.

Certainly sounds like MCTYW is being phased out, if it hadn't been already. That Inergy cut is apparently being used as the main cut for KB's newscasts.

Not sure exactly when it happened, but WKBW finally has a live stream for their newscasts. Downtime and commercial breaks are covered up by their various skycams.

Well, the WMMS Buzzard Morning Zoo was commanding insane double digits in the Cleveland ratings back in 1988. It was naturally heavily promoted on-air. If I remember the timeline correctly, the late Brian Chalmers (who later was in WKYC's art department) was behind most, if not all, of the art. David Helton - the artist who co-created the WMMS Buzzard, and was the station's in-house artist for years - had left or was in the process of leaving to do mostly freelance and eventually join WMJI-FM... both artists were and are insanely talented.

The first thing I thought of was the infamous WMMS "Buzzard Morning Zoo Corn Flakes" that Pick-n-Pay (a long-gone Cleveland grocery chain) actually SOLD back in 1988. They were redressed store-brand corn flakes.

Even without an 11pm newscast, that should ensure WJW's status as having the most local news output per week of any station in North America. (WJW even rebroadcasts the 10pm news TWICE - at 1am and 3am.)

MCTYW has been used mostly in headline teasers right at the start of the newscast, and occasionally at the end of headline updates posted to their Facebook page. That's really all it can be used for now, as MCTYW is otherwise incompatible with the Scripps graphics and Inergy. It was used as the end of the Keith Radford piece as he, along with Mike Randall, are the last two prominent staffers remaining from KB's glory years pre-Granite.

I think hell would freeze over if Olbermann returned to Fox Sports. MSNBC needs help badly at 8pm, so why not?

Smart move. Did they de-brand "The Rundown" as well? If not, I'm assuming that will happen once "Morning Joe" gets a fourth hour... which, as Andy Luck just told Variety's Brian Steinberg, is very much a possibility.

MSNBC's primetime ratings plummeted after Chris Hayes ascended to the 8pm slot. Ed Schultz at least was somewhat competitive in that time slot... Hayes simply has never clicked. While Rachel has been the only really successful opinion program (not hosted by Olbermann) that they have ever had, the show has also clearly suffered from Hayes as a lead-in. I'd take chances with Willie Geist at 8pm, and bounce Larry O'Donnell for a rolling news hour at 10pm. Repeat Willie and Rachel for the West Coast, then live rolling news to 5am EST.

That's the WABC circle 7 incorrectly used in that cap. Whoops! No wonder it was obviously an employee freebie. Note that WKBW brands itself as "7abc," and they now use the WXYZ logo outright.