Rusty Muck

Cox would need to rid itself of their newspaper division in order for that to make sense.

WKYC has been doing the same thing for close to a decade now. Currently, the Calvetta Brothers Floor Show is the main sponsor. 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).

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.

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.

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

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.)

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

Chroma Cues would work with the CBS standardized look. It's just the rest of the open that is beyond hokey and small-market. But that's not the worst part: "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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

... There. Are. No. Words.

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

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 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.