Rusty Muck

Nevermind the leaps of faith some have about a theoretical sale of WBNX (personally, if it gets sold, my money would be on Nexstar for a standalone market-entry not unlike KASW)...

If Tribune buys WBNX they could simply change the call letters to WGNX (a nod to the old WGNX which is now WGCL) ...

...and it's possible they could get the Indians telecast on WGNX.

Fox owns and operates SportsTime Ohio, not Tribune. Master control is still run out of WKYC's facility (dating back to when the Dolan family - vis-a-vis the Cleveland Indians Baseball Company - owned the network, and WKYC operated it).

And in any event, WKYC's contract to simulcast 10-15 STO games per year runs for several more years.

Is WKYC still airing Indians telecasts or did they completely migrate over to SportsTime Ohio?

WKYC still simulcasts about 10-15 STO games per year. And they are complete simulcasts with zero "channel 3" branding.

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.

Earlier, my thoughts about WOIO's new color scheme were that the colors were similar to Kent State.

 

But WOIO may have made an even bigger fail with their color scheme...

ESPECIALLY since the old colors (red and white) were similar to the Scarlet and Grey of Ohio State....

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.

Here's a better picture of Cleveland's CBS 19 News logo on their Facebook page.

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)

I'm glad that they've based the new logo off of the non-news 19, but those colors look bad. I know they're trying to move away from the "Action News" era as much as possible, but at least come up with a more dignified logo.

As far as WUAB, that logo kind looks more like one for a streaming site than a TV station.

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.

Cleveland 19 News is go. Monday at noon.

The $1,000,000 question. Will they finally use their 19 station logo, or keep their blah 19 news logo?

This Dan Deroos tweet should answer that question.

It will be more like this:

4p: Nolan/Dufala

4:30p: Wittman/Serino or Tucker

5p: Robinson/Dufala

5:30p: Wittman/Serino or Tucker

6p: Nolan/Robinson

10p: Wittman/Tucker

11p: Robinson/Dufala

I thought it was great to have Robinson and Dufala on the 6/11 news. One could wonder if Wittman and Dufala would anchor 5/10pm news? Again there probably no need for Nolan on the newscast just use Wittman/Robinson/Dufala on CBS 19 & have Tucker and Wittman on the 10pm on WUAB.

4pm: Nolan/Robinson

4:30pm: Tucker

5pm: Whitman/Dufala

5:30pm: Tucker

6pm: Nolan/Robinson

10pm: Whitman/Tucker

11pm: Dufala/Robinson

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.

It's almost always a good thing when a station dumps the MyTV branding, but 22 the Point! sounds more like a radio station to me.

Like "43 The Block?" (WUAB's on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again branding)

WAGA-TV will expand its late news by 30 minutes, going all the way to midnight.

 

http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2015/08/03/fox-5-expanding-news-to-midnight/

With CBS being in cost-cutting mode as of late, I don't see them investing in a TV news department for WWJ/WKBD anytime soon.

Heck, WWJ 950 is now voice-tracking their overnight newscasts after the recent bloodletting at the all-newser.

Also Tegna will be airing a talk show with TD Jakes as the host of it with WFAA, KARE 11, WKYC, and 11Alive as the test subjects and then to the rest of Tegna's stations if it proves successful.

http://deadline.com/2015/07/debmar-mercury-tests-td-jakes-talk-show-tegna-media-stations-1201472735/

In any event, the show wouldn't even be ready for a national roll-out until the 2016-2017 season.

Ironically they were slow and stubborn at rolling websites out to their stations 15 years ago... They say "innovation is in our blood" but i think it's the slow and stubborn part.

NewsNet5.com was relatively unchanged since the initial rollout in 1998 until it was finally integrated into the Scripps CMS back in 2010...

I'm not familiar with their new weekend morning girl so I can't tell you how she is but I saw a clip of their new chief meteorologist Angelica Campos and god she seems so stuck up, fake and plastic. She clearly isn't ready for a major role like the chief meteorologist position and there are far more qualified candidates out there too (but I know this is Scripps we're talking). I just can't seem to warm up to her and frankly she was kind of hard to watch.

I also saw a clip of their old weather lady Pat Brown and she seemed far more likeable and genuine. Hoping she will land somewhere, because KGTV just made their competitors job much easier.

And of course weather forecasting in Cleveland is much, much different than forecasting a perpetually sunny market like San Diego.

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.

Sinclair's MyNetwork affiliate in Pittsburgh is changing calls from WPMY to WPNT

 

Because SportsCenter has been around since forever on ESPN, whereas Mike and Mike... only since 1998. They see SportsCenter as more valuable than Mike and Mike.

So even with the show being on ESPN2, it's always been a cross-promotional tool for ESPN Radio.

KUSA on the other hand... KTGA? It would be cool if Denver was their headquarter market.

Washington, DC is the nation's capital. It makes sense for WUSA to keep the callsign, with or without the USA Today.

I suspect that the stations will continue the partnership with USA Today, as well.

I don't think viewers are going to flee ABC33/40 in droves because Sinclair bought it.

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.

Here is the new open for The NOW Detroit:

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.

Looks like Gannett has decided on a new name for its broadcasting unit. It'll now be called TEGNA.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/04/21/gannett-changes-name-to-tegna/26127343/

 

Yeah, I don't get it either.

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...