Rusty Muck

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).

I'm sure you know that the Modells no longer own the Ravens.

I'll give you a mulligan because you didn't endure what Clevelanders had to go through with the betrayal Art Modell committed.

 

After all, Baltimorians got a gift handed right to them, a fully functional football team a decade after the Irsays packed the Colts up in a few Mayflowers and headed to Indianapolis. Clevelanders had to contest the move in court and basically forced the NFL to create an expansion team for Cleveland and for Modell to relinquish the Browns' history and colors. Only the NFL was half-assed about the expansion team, and stuck it to the city (read Terry Pluto's "False Start" as to HOW).

 

Ask anyone in Cleveland what they think about the Modell family. Art's death was celebrated by a majority of people in town. That's how much people still hold him in utter contempt. They never even tried to return to Cleveland. And the Cleveland media has effectively blackballed Modell from the Pro Football Hall of Fame. One guy even PEED ON HIS GRAVE AND WAS SEEN AS A HERO.

 

Any venture Armstrong Williams will try in the Cleveland area will fail spectacularly once his ties to the Modells are made known. It's just the way it is. It's a betrayal that will never be forgiven.

 

Yes, Al Lerner did get off easy for his role in Modell's move of the Browns. But Al was able to win over public opinion as the guy who owned the new incarnation of the team. I didn't agree with that, but that's the way it goes.

They're not disclosing any stations, but since Armstrong Williams is involved, I suspect this will air on Sinclair stations:

 

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ben-carson-tv-documentary-set-to-air-across-country/

It's a total ego massage for Dr. Carson by David Modell's bestest buddy (and yes, as a Browns fan, I hold that against Armstrong Williams).

 

I like Ben, but let's face facts. He's no closer to becoming POTUS than you or I, mainly because he has never held an elective office of any sort. This program will really do nothing to change that, and few if any will actually watch it. And S!nclair is doing enough to actively bury the documentary in graveyard shifts; if they ordered a group-wide preemption of primetime programming to clear the program, we'd have a story here. But that isn't the case.

 

The comments on the Mediaite story are cringe-inducing, mainly because of Dr. Carson's supporters who have decided to overlook the disaster that was Herman Cain's 2012 candidacy.

You may not know that their website, kuqitv.com, is, uh, one of the greatest websites in television history.

This archived version of the site isn't that bad.

It looks like WHAM and WUHF have also switched to the new graphics package.

Definitely a downgrade from what WHAM had prior. But for the S!nclair pack itself, this is actually an improvement.

 

The open at least seems complete in comparison to WSYX's.

The same guy who fired Doug McKelway while he was GM at WJLA?

You would be correct.

 

Note what I said - it STILL is the smartest thing Gannett has done with W*USA... because they set the bar so low over the past 15 years.

 

They could hire Bob the Janitor as GM, and the same distinction would apply.

Per DCRTV.com, W*USA has hired away ex-WJLA ND Bill Lord as their news director and station manager.

 

Probably the smartest thing Gannett has done with W*USA in over 15 years, if that.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I noticed KALB (and its DT2) have new logos, and I believe new graphics as well. All traces of the Media General legacy are gone now.

Better, but not by much. The L3s are still hideously designed and far too big, and the animated bug is far too distracting.

 

And considering how badly mutated the legacy MediaGeneral logo design had become...

even if they add a signature; it still would be classified under my Worst News Themes To Exist.

Now, Rampage was simply abysmal.

 

TIH may be generic and a bit hokey, but there is no realistic way you can compare it to the auditory disaster that was Rampage.

If it ever comes to WBNX going away in the spectrum auction, WUAB could end up with the CW and MyNetworkTV could be shoehorned onto a subchannel.

 

Raycom really dropped the ball with WUAB by letting WBNX steal all of the good syndication and replacing it with infomercials and WOIO's rejects.

 

If Raycom didn't run WUAB as a total afterthought, that would be plausible. But there was a reason why the CW passed them over in the first place - WOIO clearly drives the bulk of attention for Raycom in Cleveland. And that was the case even before Bill Applegate and "Action News."

 

I really doubt that they are even remotely interested in buying out a competitor.

Fixed.

Yeah, I kinda threw Tribune in as the clubhouse leader for whatever reason. But indeed, WEWS will be losing Live Well on 5.2 (if ABC hasn't already shut down the network) and WKYC 3.2 has been in an eternal radar loop since 2009, with PSAs thrown in almost at random.

 

Out of all the potential buyers, Raycom is, far and away, the least likely to get WBNX.