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KSHB anchor swap - weekend morning anchor Lindsay Shively moves to weekday mornings and weekday morning anchor JiaoJiao Shen moves to weekends.

FTV reports KCTV ND Larry Perret is heading to WGCL. He has been in KC for eleven months.

I don't know if other Hearst stations do this, but at KMBC, every time the talent is on camera -- every time -- they'll run the "name" lower third, even if the talent is on cam for a few seconds. I find it distracting.

I would expect Scripps, by adding more stations to the group, will be able to share feature stories from their stations more easily on these platforms. But I haven't seen evidence of it yet. List, RTM and to a lesser extent Now are just repackaged versions of Inside Edition and similar shows, without the syndication cost. Take videos from CNN and YouTube, some fluff stories from Gawker or HuffPost, call it a show.

An anchor from KJRH is moving to KSHB to join "The Now." http://escrippsnews.scrippsnet.com/node/3115

KFOR in Oklahoma City will break ground next year on a new building. http://kfor.com/2014/08/05/kfor-newschannel4-announces-major-plans-to-build-new-digital-multimedia-forecasting-information-center/

I found this at the end of a tape containing the 1991 NBA Finals. This is Inside Edition, back when Bill O'Reilly hosted. It aired on KMBC/Kansas City at the time.

I found this interesting: the ND for Madison's WKOW left to be the EP at Madison's WISC. I have no idea about the quality of either station. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/joe-radske-joins-wisc-as-executive-producer_b125264

You could pretty much do live shots at a 5K or a marathon every weekend morning if you wanted. There's a huge gulf in weekend news among Tribune stations. Some like WXMI and WJW have three or four hours of weekend morning news, and some like KTXL or KSWB have no news until 10:00 at night on weekends. Personally I prefer less since most weekend morning news is what we call "copy-flow" -- repeats of last night's stories and often one hour looks just like the next.

Speaking of New Hampshire, I noticed a flurry of job posts for something called NH1. This is a Binnie Media outlet apparently based in Concord. NECN competitor?

And I thought we had it rough doing 59.5 hours of local news a week. Of course if we ever add a 4pm newscast, we'll be right up there.

Technically, KSHB has three on-air meteorologists, one weather producer (Penner) and one "weather anchor" (Michelle Apon), who is not a real meteorologist. Nichols isn't a real meteorologist either.

Our weekend meteorologist gave us video of himself during his television weather debut -- 30 years ago this month.

I noticed KRCR in Redding is hiring an "assistant news director" to launch a stand-alone newsroom at KAEF in Eureka, California. http://www.bontenmedia.com/employment/assistant-news-director-eureka-kaefkbvu-eureka-ca/25195682

Former KMBC/Kansas City meteorologist Lisa Teachman is joining rival KCTV. This means KCTV will have a five-person on-air weather staff. Teachman will also do morning traffic. http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/15/4962053/meteorologist-lisa-teachman-joins.html

I had heard KMBC/Kansas City would replace its departing meteorologists with a guy from KMIZ who is barely out of school. It looks like they will bring on two weathercasters after all, presumably the younger guy for weekend morning and the KWTV guy for weekend evenings, which is what he does now. (edit to add: if this is true.) http://t.co/zMmdEfJKsW

I think they've learned by now there are some sacrifices to be made for the sake of upward mobility. Rhiannon anchored in nearby Topeka years ago. Mike was a reporter there under his real last name, but he was also reporting in Kansas City simultaneously. Then Rhiannon started doing traffic in Kansas City. They were both working two jobs 60 miles apart. Then both moved to New York where one worked overnights and the other worked in syndication, and then on to Miami on a different timetable. They are a goal-oriented couple, and they have a terrific agent.

The director should have returned to the studio. At high altitude, there is less oxygen, but being in Salt Lake City, that woman should be used to the mountains, I would think. She may have forgotten to bend her knees. When I was in marching band, the drum majors always told us not to lock our knees for long periods of time, or we would pass out.

Scripps is adding Newsy Videos to its portfolio. I don't think like an entrepreneur, so I never fully understood how Newsy made money. I guess the key is to start it and hope someone buys it. http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/09/scripps-buys-newsy-for-35m-to-expand-from-tv-and-newspapers-to-digital-video/

KEVN was in the news recently when a few of its employees got stuck at the station during a snowstorm. Rapid City is one of the smallest markets out there. For a few years after KEVN switched to FOX, viewers needed cable to get NBC (from KUSA in Denver).

That was 20 years ago. It's not a big deal, and you can't run a Kansas City newsroom the same way you would run a Los Angeles newsroom anyway. Perret has been out of work most of the year. He interviewed for the ND job at Meredith's KPHO in Phoenix, but didn't get it. I'm sure he'll do a fine job at KCTV. He's walking into a winning situation. Perret will probably draw more on his experience at Magid than anything. News directors who previously worked as consultants stroll into the newsroom armed with research. They'll tell you "this worked in market X, so it will work here" or "mostly women over age 70 watch newscasts at this time, all stories need to be relevant to them." That has been my experience.

I found this on one of my old nature program tapes. It's a pledge break from public television station KTWU, sometime in the late 1980s.

All of those Citadel stations have a tough road. KCAU, I think, is just down the street from all the municipal government buildings in Sioux City. But it resides in an ancient building with structural issues. WOI is licensed to Ames, and has always been seen as a competitive outsider, even though the physical station has been in Des Moines for a long time. KLKN - and I don't know who would actually want them -- sued a former worker last year for twice her annual salary because she quit and they had to spend money to hire and train someone new. That should tell you a lot about Citadel.

WVIT did very well during the Newtown, CT school shooting. They won a Peabody for their coverage.

It's a significant amount. But how many are real? I've worked at stations where the ND would post job announcements with no actual openings, just to get resumes and tapes on file for the next legitimate opening.