Rusty Muck

I wonder why WJW never jumped back on the 11pm news bandwagon. Many viewers were accustomed to their 11pm news back in their days as a CBS affiliate, and if FOX would have acted on it during their ownership, it could have hampered WOIO's ability to climb out of 4th place as they did in the mid-2000s. Seeing as how WJW has gradually filled their day with news since then, they remain one of the holdouts NOT to expand to 11pm.

Somehow, I guess they thought that a 7pm newscast made more sense.

Speaking of Elisa's former employer, legendary WJW meteorologist Dick Goddard - after assisting in expanded severe weather coverage Monday night - had to be rescued from his car after the interstate off-ramp he was on became completely overwhelmed with rainwater. He was trapped in his submerged car for close to 45 minutes and started to suffer from hypothermia.

Mind you, Dick is 83 years old.

KABB has announced a replacement for Cynthia Lee. And it's not someone internal like I had thought. Guess Blaise wants to make his mark. This is straight from the Express-News:

 

It seems as if about half of the 10 highest newscast outputs in the country (and probably, North America) belong to Tribune-owned stations: WJW, WXIN and WDAF are among them. I think KTLA or WGN also fall in there somewhere. If anyone knows which stations have the 10 highest local news outputs are, please post here or create another thread.

Add in their local discussion shows at the 5pm hour, and that is 16 HOURS of local output per weekday!

@tyrannicalbastard (seems I can't quote posts on the mobile version on the site): KREX and KAUZ used the syndicated versions of the WEWS package.

So did KFBB-Great Falls (my old station), right down to the logo as well.

But prior to the fire, KREX's logo was a verbatim copy of WEWS's 2004 logo.

Good point. I also wonder if this means that station groups like Hearst will need to find another website designer or if Nexstar will allow them to keep working with IBSYS.

I like the current site LocalTV Wordpress template, but it isn't responsive design. Ideally, they should upgrade that template to be responsive, and let it be.

As for the Tribune Fox affiliate graphics package, that is so badly needed for the LocalTV Fox affils, it isn't funny. I remember that Tribune allowed other non-Tribune Fox stations rights to their previous package (KBTV/Beaumont and WAWS/Jacksonville come to mind) mainly because it was almost a knockoff of the Fox O&O V.1 graphics package. This one, however, is totally proprietary.

Speaking of WKBW, they recently hired a new morning traffic reporter (a former intern last year)... and a publicity shot on her Facebook page has her holding a "7 News - Live, Local, Late Breaking" mug.

There are no words.

Nexstar and Stephen Arnold have some kind of agreement. All of the Newport stations will be getting a SAM theme soon.

Doesn't WPVI use some cuts of Gari's EWN for breaking news stingers?

I think in this case Nexstar would be a MAJOR upgrade for WKBW.

However, XEPM, XHJCI, XHJUB are all on the voices chart grouped together under Grupo Televisa as the tenth voice in the market.

Windsor, OTOH, has two standalone signals: CBC O&O CBET and CTV two O&O CHWI. You really can't group them as one singular voice.

 

WKBW has always struck me as a "yucky" (for lack of a better term) station. The ABC logo completely ruins what little dignity this logo had, so a redesign is in order. That being said, KGO/WABC style circle 7's are becoming way too common among ABC stations nowadays. If WKBW was to adopt a circle 7 logo, they'd have to make it unique or risk having their logo be another clone of all the other circle 7 stations out there.

 

And for Buffalo's sake, WKBW needs to do something about those awful graphics! Their last decent graphics package is from when, 2003?

 

Hell, if they adopted a logo style similar to WATN's "Local 24," that would be sufficient enough.

"Yucky" is not the word that comes to mind when I look at WKBW. "Tragic" would be more appropriate.

Speaking of WKBW, they trotted out a logo that finally embeds the ABC logo on the side. But still.

Seriously, if Nexstar buys the station, please please PLEASE retire the Capital Cities-era "7" logo. Hell, use the ABC circle 7 (which WKBW would have adopted anyway had CapCities/ABC retained it). Keep MCTYW - albeit with the WPVI variants - and the EWN name, but blow up everything else. Start fresh.

Also, I can see Nexstar pulling a WATN with WKBW minus a call letter change (the call letters are well known in Buffalo) since their ratings are so bad and they need to improve that and return to their former #1 glory.

When your graphics department

You heard me right... one guy. A Big Four affiliate in Buffalo has only ONE guy making an entire graphics package for their news department.

At least it's not as bad as