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That is the strangest thing they've ever acquired.. It's a good site for quirky list comedy (new format for the list?!?) but it's a terrible fit...

Compared to Univision buying The Onion a few months ago?

Lucky Ducks!

That show will be heavy with weather...but the lead story will most always be a community 5k fun run or some other insipid event. All the "B" and "C" string reporters will clamor to fill-in anchor that show...on Easter. and Christmas the stations cleaning lady will anchor. Breaking news will be stringer video of an overnight car crash. Expect to see repeats of packages that ran during the week with NO script updates.

 

You may ask how I can be so clairvoyant????.

Beside the fact I'm a friggin mind reader???

 

Scripps does it exactly that way in San Diego every weekend morning.

Natasha Zouves once anchored one of those boring shows...and she is now a big-time anchorette at KGO in Frisco.

 

...and I said "Frisco" just to piss people off.

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

More like that they won't sell any of their stations, and maybe they aren't a buyer right now, but what about a few years from now? In fact, that deserves its own thread in the speculatron

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.

Which is why Scripps ought to be bought by ABC (who can then divest the non-ABC affiliates to any companies of their choice).

A partial ownership stake might. It worked with Fox before it bought NW communications (and had the 2 NBC affiliates divested).

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.

Which is why Scripps ought to be bought by ABC (who can then divest the non-ABC affiliates to any companies of their choice).

I can't even.

I would understand if there was severe weather like a tornado or a hurricane, then those would warrant more attention, but for rain that was forecasted more than a week in advance?

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.

absolutely. About 15 of the first 20 minutes of the 7pm newscast was dedicated to weather coverage. I kid not. There were 2 commercials a bit less than two minutes each and then about a minute dedicated to a story on a stolen bike. Excessive puts it mildly.

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.

(Also, given its inexplicably reduced prominence, the lighthouse will probably be dropped outright at some point. I'll never understand certain companies' allergy to recognizable logos)

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.

I'm surprised that KGTV didn't brand themselves as Scripps 10 News.

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.

Here's the noon open (w/ breaking news tag) from today:

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.

The fact that someone faked a cereal box so well is ridiculous... The fact that someone actually sold some us crazy....

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.

Anybody want a bowl of Scripps brand cereal?

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.

The 4am weekday morning news trend is growing by the month...

 

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And yet they STILL don't have an 11pm newscast....not since they were a CBS affiliate.

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.)

And the MCTYW theme is still alive in Buffalo.

They tried to kill it off, I don't hear much of it anymore.

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.

Didn't hell already freeze over when he went back to ESPN? So perhaps it has melted and refrozen over?

I think hell would freeze over if Olbermann returned to Fox Sports.

MSNBC needs help badly at 8pm, so why not?

Newsnation with Tamron Hall is now MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall

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.

I could see Hayes being moved to weekends (although not back on Up) but his show has been such a ratings drag on the rest of primetime, it regularly takes a dive from Hardball, that he'll get moved off 8 at some point.

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.

This guys hat in the lower left looked kind of odd... WXYZ has never used the abc7 branding before. Their last set of hats had their normal 7abc logo. I don't really know whether they are going to rebrand but they have dropped all references to 7 Action News the last few days except in the tosses to and from reports instead calling just calling it "Action News has helped..." etc. which has historically been the way they did self promotion during newscasts.

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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.

I can't help but feel that the opinion show block in primetime may be next on the chopping block. If it isn't, it should. And I'm talking about a mass cancellation.

Given that the other news channels have opinion programming or documentaries in primetime, MSNBC would be best served going with live, long form newscasts instead of the same ol', same old'.

But that's just me.

Hmmm this is a good point. An update would be nice then, at least for the stations that have already had it for 3 years.

The elimination of the CNN-esque animated box on the left-hand side of the screen would be enough of an update. Otherwise, the package is fine the way it is.

Scripps and Renderon created this package to last a long time. And it's world's away from the 2010 standardized look (and music especially).

When are the stations from Journal going to get the Scripps graphics?

Might I kindly suggest that you please read the last few pages in this thread, as said question has already been asked before.