Rusty Muck

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...

I know they're still an ABC station, but on air, the peacock is attached to the 12News logo on the LCD screens. ANd I meant #2 as, they actually did put it on their website, literally as the banner pic: www.12newsnow.com

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.

I agree, this company is destroying itself slowly. There's a reason I said Sinclair is a far better broadcaster than Scripps. Yes they have their stupid must-runs but for the most part they are hands off, and they give their people the resources to do their job adequately.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if another media group like COX Media Group buys Scripps within two years and rights the ship at these stations. Yes they would suck the personality out of most of their talent but in this instance they need it. Cox will cut the crap like "trending internet topics" and get back to real news.

 

We can only hope, right?

Unrelated to the cut of music am I (the only) one who thinks it's weird that their open states that WTSP's newscast in HD sponsored by Bright House? I think it's a bit tacky. I hate sponsored segments but I understand it's needed in this day and age as stations need to make money in any way possible. I would honestly prefer if the sponsors logo is unobtrusive and not mentioned.

Oddly enough, the sponsor mention is the only place where the "Channel 3 News" title is shown in the newscast open (WKYC's main logo is otherwise shown).

The Now Buffalo anybody?

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

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

Has anyone posted this infamous WDAZ open before? Ye Gods.

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.

(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.

 

Music remains [with the damn DONG]. But there's a missed opportunity - for the ID, a nice instrumental bed that could've built up to an updated Chroma Cues track. But no. (Oh, and the animations have, typically, gotten worse)

 

Does anybody secretly wish WJZ could fall in the ratings so CBS can override their look? It's practically begging for death.

"In your community... where you live... it's WJZ. Maryland's News Station."

I have no idea how Pat Garrett can say that mush and keep a straight face. Why is K.C. Robertson ashamed to have Pat simply say, "From WJZ 13, Maryland's News Station, this is Eyewitness News" ???

Did K.C. Robertson acquire the computers WKBW ditched after the Scripps takeover? Because it sure looks like it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 

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.

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.