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    Nexstar...again

    in Corporate Chat

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    6 hours ago, oknewsguy said:

    Meanwhile the layoffs at Nexstar continue to pile up, this time around it's in Kansas City with WDAF.

     

    10 people at WDAF including an Editor who has been on their morning newscast for years and reporter Ashonti Ford (who left the station late last month after joining WDAF this past August)

     

    Hopefully @TheRob is okay and his position didn't get axed

     

    I'm still here. But if the company gives me my walking papers someday, I'll be fine for a while.

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    Nexstar...again

    in Corporate Chat

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    7 hours ago, AJClementeFan69 said:

    What I find interesting is that it seems the cuts have so far haven't hit the more unionized ex-Trib stations. Haven't heard anything about WGN, KTLA, WDAF or KTVI. Could be just a coincidence though.

     

    https://www.sagaftra.org/files/sa_documents/BroadcastStationListOCTOBER2019.pdf

     

    I don't know about WGN or KTLA, but we cut some people (mostly part-timers), and I expect KTVI did too. Open positions aren't being filled either.

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    Nexstar...again

    in Corporate Chat

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    3 minutes ago, J1975am said:

     

    Very true.....

     

    BTW, since you brought up Office 365, I do have a tech question I would like to ask (however corny it may sound):

     

    When your station was owned by Tribune, did they make you fill out your time sheets electronically, or were they making employees fill out time sheets in paper form? I ask because when I was working at KADN (when it was owned by ComCorp) we had to fill out our time sheets on paper, and also, we had to put the time of our shifts in military time (e.g., 1500 to 2300 [3p-11p]), if you can believe that! (I can only go by my experience at KADN; I don't know how many, or if any, other ComCorp stations used paper time sheets.) After the sale to Nexstar, their manner of having employees filling out time sheets electronically (which I'm assuming is at every one of their stations) was a huge improvement!

     

    I don't fill out a time sheet, but those who do, they've been submitting them electronically since Tribune bought the station. I haven't sent in a paper time sheet in about a decade.

    Nexstar...again

    in Corporate Chat

    Posted

    Nick is a news/traffic anchor, not a meteorologist.

     

    But gather 'round everyone, and let me tell you a story of the great mass email of 2019.

     

    All of our email addresses end in fox4kc --dot--com. Most are firstname.lastname - at - fox 4 kcdotcom. The assignment desk has "news" at fox4kc-dot--com. But those are just shadow email addresses. Under Tribune, we were logging into computers, workday, outlook, etc., with (username #2) at tribunemedia-dot-com. This week Nexstar began migrating our accounts to its servers. Now we corporate accounts that are (username #3) at nexstar-dot-tv. Unbeknownst to us, news --at--nexstar dot-tv is a mass email to all the newsrooms. No one had ever told us that. When you combine a sleepy, medicated employee, some confusion that already existed over which username to use, and throw in another account name to remember, then I'm surprised this didn't happen earlier. Ironically, we never received the mass email, because Nexstar had not added the Tribune newsrooms to that group yet.

     

    Basically what some of us are doing right now is:

     

    1. Logging into computers using account #1 at tribunemedia...

     

    2. Logging into outlook for email using account #2 at nexstar....

     

    3. ...so that we can send emails using accounts that end in fox4kc dot-com....

     

    4.. ...and some of us still have to log into the newsroom software using old wdaftv4--dot--com addresses.

     

    I can keep it all straight, but some co-workers cannot. 

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    Nexstar...again

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    16 hours ago, fan of la tv said:

     

    What I gather from the article is that their back of office/management is probably sloppy compared to how Nexstar runs things. I think KTLA had a lot of autonomy in how management ran the station and probably that was the case at most Tribune stations.  Nexstar appears to run a much tighter ship with many corporate policies. My assumption is that KTLA probably has lax policies that Nexstar thinks need to be tightened.  KTLA's on-air product isn't the issue as they have solid #1 ratings in almost all of their timeslots. I wouldn't expect a shakeup in talent as its currently stable and is working. The shakeup will come in the form of management.

     

    I think that's accurate. Tribune had a build it/break it attitude. Nexstar strikes me so far as much more like a corporation, conservative but strategic, placing value in documentation and accounting for every penny. I also suspect Nexstar and Los Angeles will clash more often in the future.

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    Out & About

    in General TV

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    We discussed that scenario today. Normally we don't have tornadoes in football season. But if it happened with our local team, we would double-box the game (weather big box, game in the little box). 

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