Rusty Muck

The Now Buffalo anybody?

That's what I was thinking.

 

Normally, Scripps has brought on new talent to anchor 'The Now...' but KB's sports director Jeff Russo recently made the switch to news, and now handles the 5:30pm news solo.

That the local segments of 'The List' are being canceled, making the show an entirely national production with everything coming out of Phoenix. Other rumblings say the the whole program is being canned, but Scripps denies any notion.

 

http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/scripps-eliminating-local-segment-on-the-list/141361

Funny and sad that WKBW has links for both "The List" and "LAA" at the bottom of their website, yet it's likely that "The List" will never air on KB.

 

And WKBW will have a void in the 4pm hour once Queen Latifah's show leaves the air, IIRC, in June.

Unless Dr. Phil is getting trashed in the ratings, it's doubtful. That show competing against the other 5pm shows really helped WKYC climb out of 3rd place and made them a factor in Cleveland's ratings for the first time in decades.

They used to have a 5 or 5:30 show back in the 80s and 90s, but it was short lived due to the then-powerhouse "Live on 5" which was the only game in town until WJW added news at 5:00 in the mid 1990s and WOIO following suit almost a decade later.

Cleveland is one of "Dr." Phil McGraw's strongest markets and has been since WKYC landed the show. And Ellen is a powerhouse for them at 4pm.

 

(Seriously, Phil is as much a doctor as you and I are.)

WXYZ changed it's Sunday morning lineup this past Sunday to reflect the end of the NFL season and added moved another half-hour of news.

 

Their old lineup was:

6am 7 Action News This Morning

7am GMA Weekend

8am-930am 7 Action News Weekend Morning

930-10am This Week

10-1030am Spotlight On The News (Public Affairs)

1030-11am 7 Sports Cave

11am-noon Lions Game Day Live

 

New lineup is:

6am 7 Action News This Morning

7am GMA Weekend

8am-9am 7 Action News Weekend Morning

9-10am This Week

10-1030am Spotlight On The News

1030-11am 7 Action News Weekend Morning

11-1130am 7 Sports Cave

 

Kind of an interesting place to put a 30 minute newscast.

WJW has a 30 minute newscast at 11am on Sundays. Obviously because of the NFL on Fox, it can't run at noon.

Present Day circa 1993

 

This Roman 11logo been on WXIA since 1993, and yes they need an updated logo....

So does KSDK and this logo has also been around since 1993.

The logos for both stations are fine IMO. It's the tacking on of the NBC peacock that just doesn't work... and that's more than likely due to the terms of their NBC affiliation contracts.

Uh wait - why would Fox want to buy WSVN?

If they had a strategy of buying high performing FOX stations in large markets, I could certainly see it happening. However it is not and Miami by virtue of the conference of their football team does not fit, therefore it won't happen.

Although, when WSVN inevitably gets sold, the new owners will probably be forced to rebrand the station as "Fox 7." It won't be "WSVN 7" forever...

Its not new either.

Fox is even more strict and even threatened to pull their affiliation with a few stations over branding. Part of the frosty relationship with KTVU was over the lack of the Fox branding and Fox threatened to buy KIRO and move the affiliation from KCPQ partially over disputes with branding.

Luckily WSVN is tops in ratings or Fox would be getting on them too.

That, and Fox may be simply biding their time on WSVN. Ed Ansin is, what... in his 90s?

 

Fox really was the first network to have a clear branding mandate (using the network logo and name with the station logo and name), which dates back to when the former MetroMedia stations were rebranded as "Fox" stations. The former WNEW-TV was colloquially known for decades as "MetroMedia Channel 5," which became "Fox Television Channel 5" as WNYW months before the Fox network even began broadcasting.

 

Fox, MyTV and the CW usually have strict branding conventions, but CBS, NBC and ABC generally limit their branding conventions for affiliates to logo placement.

You know what you're talking about, so I put it to the test.

 

I would tuck in the ABC bug to the lower right corner not unlike how WXYZ and WKBW display it...

If you think about a signature journalist that literally shaped a television station and became their defining personality for decades to come, the following five people immediately come to my mind:

 

Ralph Renick at WTVJ.

Dorothy Fuldheim at WEWS.

Irv Weinstein at WKBW.

Jim Jensen at WCBS.

...and Bill Bonds at WXYZ.

I'm starting to wonder at this point if Dick Goddard is immortal or a cyborg or something. Here's to many more years.

He may be on the air until he goes to that Great Woolybear in The Sky. The same thing pretty much happened with Dorothy Fuldheim... she was at WEWS every day until she tragically suffered a stroke at her desk.

 

It should be noted that Dick has reduced his on-air presence to the 6pm weeknight newscasts in a Johnny Carson-type ceremonial schedule. Melissa Mack and Andre Bernier do the majority of work on WJW's evening newscasts, especially in the event of severe weather.

Well it's about time. WFTS is expanding its morning news offerings.

 

TVNewsCheck states this morning that on January 12th, WFTS will start its morning newscast @ 4:30am. It will also have an hourly 9am newscast, after Good Morning America.

IIRC, that leaves WKBW as the only Scripps station on the East Coast with a 5:00am morning news start time.

But it sounds like it's starting to be.

If their plans to turn NewsChannel 8 into a national network - either via cable or subchannels - it would render much of those newscasts blocks redundant and unnecessary.

 

Timing is everything. KSNV really can't put any other syndicated programming onto that timeslot right now because the TV season is already underway. I betcha by September, S!nclair will plug in their group-purchased syndicated offerings and daytime strips onto KSNV, and move many of the displaced newscasts onto KVCW.

In it's place, a brand new 6:30 p.m. local newscast starting December 15th: https://changingnewscasts.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/ksnv-go-live-630-las-vegas-starting-december-15th/

That screams "placeholder" to me. I personally doubt that S!nclair will follow through on turning KSNV into a de facto all-newser.

Wow. I had the impression that Kai was going to be the "heir apparent" for Gordon Peterson at WJLA.

Not bad for the market size. Is WORA the first affiliate of any Big Four network to have flagship non-English newscasts?

Didn't WTVJ have a seperate Spanish-language newscast back in the 1960s?

 

As for a station where Spanish-language newscasts are the primary newscast, I believe that WORA is the first. XHRIO (when it was a Fox affiliate, that has since been moved to KFXV-LD) had and has English-language newscasts but has its newscasts set up similar to that of Univision affiliate KVNO.

Sorry, but it's just that everybody here complains about them, and I thought that maybe, we as a group could run them better. We could perhaps spinoff the former Fisher/Allbritton stations as a separate company. And besides, I've always wanted to be part of a pitchfork-wielding mob, and Sinc-liar (yes, I'm spelling it like that) seemed like a very viable target.

Are you purposefully trying to be a troll?

 

What your posts are suggesting amounts to anarchy by forcing an unnecessary takeover of a company that has been playing by the rules the whole time. There is no justification for what you suggest, nor would there be any.

 

It is impossible to comprehend just how wrong-headed you are.

All I'm saying is that we should all assemble in person and take over the company, so we can dismantle the monopoly machine they've got going, and help restore dignity to the industry; we'll embarrass the FCC while doing it, given how they've just sat on their butts and are content to let Sinclair take over everything. And besides, we're trying to do something good for the industry, and we are perfectly mentally healthy, as compared to the WMAR guy, who didn't seem to have any motivation.

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Everything Sinclair's done since the late 90's has been a disaster of some sort;

They should be given quite a bit of credit for the rise of WSYX. And they probably do make some money off of Ring of Honor.

we really need to form an angry mob and ransack their HQ already. Who's with me?!

You're asking this after a nutcase drove a dump truck into WMAR? Seriously?!?

I've been watching a couple of videos on their website and it seems that WKBW is getting help from it's scripps sister stations in covering the massive lake effect snow they've been having. Notice they aren't using WKBW mic flags or jackets, I have the impression that it's because reports from WEWS and WXYZ couldn't get to the WKBW studios to get them (or maybe WKBW just doesn't have that many to give out).

 

http://www.wkbw.com/news/roofs-collapse-on-several-southtown-homes?autoplay=true

 

http://www.wkbw.com/news/traveling-to-buffalo-is-anything-but-easy?autoplay=true

 

http://www.wkbw.com/news/a-snowy-scene-greets-reporter-in-dunkirk?autoplay=true

 

http://www.wkbw.com/news/southern-tier-dealing-with-its-own-snowy-mess

It looks like Nima Shaffe was able to get to the WKBW studios; his second report has him in a standup at their outdoor gazebo. It kinda helps that WXYZ and WKBW now use the same Circle 7 logo.

 

John Kosich (a former KB anchor/reporter himself) probably hasn't or simply isn't able to arrive in Buffalo. Of course, he's covering the area in between WEWS and WKBW, as everywhere east of Ashtabula is getting socked by this storm.

 

Bringing in Nima and Kosich was the smart move overall, as KB's reporter pool has probably been taxed heavily covering this storm.

I take it Haslem is leary of WOIO seeing how they messed up their preseason rights when Randy Lerner was the owner.

I don't think the WOIO/Randy Lerner fiasco had anything to do with this. Almost everyone connected to that story is no longer at the station or with the team. Rather, it's all about the $$$ and available airtime that WEWS was going to offer the Browns.

 

Look at the radio agreement that the Browns have - it was all about the amount of Browns-produced airtime that competiting all-sports stations WKNR-AM and WKRK-FM were going to give up per week.

 

Unless this agreement allows for the next-day replay of preseason games on Fox SportsTime Ohio to continue, that's a considerable loss for the regional sports network.

WEWS has inked a deal with the Cleveland Browns to carry the team's preseason games, in addition to ancillary team-related programming house organ material produced by the team.

 

WXYZ, WKBW and future sister station WTMJ-TV are other Scripps/Journal stations that are the preseason home of their market's respective NFL team.

So I take it the Today Show wanted a more catastrophic mess than what befell the Tonight Show in 2010?

 

This would have been tailor made for an Abbott and Costello comedy bit.

KDNL aired the Ben Carson paid ad after Ring of Honor today.

 

The funny thing is that they ran the disclaimer they usually do for paid advertisements.

Oops.

 

Well, technically, it would be correct as Armstrong Williams basically paid for the airtime. Curious if any other stations that carried the "documentary" also aired such a disclaimer (if it is their MO to do so).

 

I actually am surprised that WEYI, being a Stirk station, didn't even carry the program. You'd think that Armstrong would want his own vanity project to air on a station he 'manages.'

Of course, one or two of those subchannels would have to go, most likely MundoFOX if it moves to KUQI.

Pretty much.

 

KIII will need replacement programming for that subchannel if Mundo FOX moves to KUQI. Plus KUQI's English-language programming inventory will need to be sold off.

Will Corpus 18 flip KUQI to a Spanish network? If so, what will happen to FOX in Corpus Christi?

It wouldn't be that far-fetched for KIII to launch a subchannel with the Fox affiliation (considering it is a legacy London station).