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    I have a pretty reliable source who says the numbers show them back on top again for the most part. WBTV does give them heat in a couple time slots, but they seem to have regained the lead.

    There was no doubt that WSOC was back on top. I think they lost one ratings period, and people are like the house is on fire. Cox makes sure their on top in Atlanta, Charlotte, Orlando, Dayton and I believe they should of never caved into FOX with KTVU.

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    Mike McGuff reporting Natasha Barrett has left KTRK/ABC13 in Houston.

    http://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2018/04/natasha-barrett-leaves-ktrk-13.html

     

    George Smith will leave WFLD/FOX32 in Chicago to become lead anchor at WKOW/ABC27 in Madison, WI.

    http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/112781/wkow-adds-george-smith-as-evening-anchor

     

    MaryBeth Jacoby is named news director of WVLT/Local 8 in Knoxville, TN where she held the same job at WLTX in Columbia, SC.

    http://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/WVLT-Names-News-Director-479732873.html

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    Out & About

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    FOX O&O to add more NEWS

     

    WNYW New York increases a half hour at noon Monday-Friday starting July 23.

     

    WTTG Washington adds a half hour of news at 11:30 p.m. Sundays, starting April 29.

    The station also adds a 7 p.m. half hour Monday-Friday July 16, while sister station WDCA goes live 9-9:30 p.m. Monday-Friday that same day.

     

    WTVT Tampa Bay adds an hour at 4 p.m. Monday-Friday starting July 16.

     

    KSAZ Phoenix goes live 4-5 p.m. Monday-Friday starting July 2.

    Sister station KUTP adds 7-8 p.m. Monday through Friday on the same date.

    KSAZ tacks on a half hour at 10:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, in early August.

     

    WJBK Detroit starts its news operation at 4 a.m. Monday-Friday in September.

     

    KMSP Minneapolis adds a half hour at 6:30 p.m. Monday-Friday starting in July, while sister station WFTC gets a 7:30 p.m. news also in July.

     

    Charlotte and two other Fox markets still to be named are also slated for expanded news offerings.

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    Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but WSOC in Charlotte got a new news director about three weeks ago. Mike Oliveira joins the station from WFXT in Boston where he was the news director during the Cox takeover. Before that he was at WPXI in Pittsburgh.

     

    Inside sources tell me that Oliveira has been a welcome change and is bringing fresh ideas over the stagnated previous management who apparently wasn't too open to new ideas and change.

     

    The rumor mill is that WSOC might be getting a new set in the next year to replace the BDI set that premiered in 2012.

     

    WSOC also dropped Bill Ratner as their VO guy and replaced him with John Cramer (the guy who is the main voiceover guy on the EntertainmentStudios court shows). It's an interesting choice but having seen heard his voice on WSOC, it actually works well.

     

    Well I posted something a few weeks back, because FTVLIVE.com was hearing whispers that Cox "might" sell Boston 25 and they moved the ND from Boston to Charlotte. Speculation on several things. etc.

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    Sinclair Broadcast Group - General Discussion

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    the Koplars, who owned KPLR at the time, were never interested in selling until the late 90s when they sold it to Jamie Kellner, it also had the Cardinals and Blues that would have pre-empted a lot of ABC programming, KDNL had just formed a news department before it switched to ABC under a local company that $inclair later bought

     

    KDNL was owned by River City which owned WSYX, KOVR, WLOS until all stations were brought by Sinclair in the mid 90s. KDNL newscast wasn't bad. Was the Koplars even interested in being an ABC affiliate which was more high profile vs WB or being an Indy outlet?

    Sinclair Broadcast Group - General Discussion

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    Sinclair is a big ABC affiliate, plus ABC hasn't been a player in St. Louis since the affiliation went from KTVI to KDNL back in 1995 (prior to Sinclair owning KDNL)...that's nearly 23 years now. ABC essentially not mattering in St. Louis has become the status quo. The ratings and potential money ABC has lost over the years because of a lousy St. Louis affiliate apparently hasn't mattered too much. To my knowledge, ABC has never made even a halfway serious attempt to find a new St. Louis affiliate. In defense of ABC, the station deck in St. Louis has been stacked against them: No way KMOV or KSDK were going to switch; KPLR was owned by Acme for a number of years and tied to the WB; KPLR became the CW affiliate and Tribune is heavily tied to that, etc. Add to that, if the Sinclair-Tribune deal goes down, ABC will be dealing with Sinclair anyway. ABC's best hope would be to end up on KPLR with the CW being sent elsewhere. The only real alternative outside of Sinclair would be for ABC to strike up a deal with Weigel, who just bought KNLC and made the station a full-power Me-TV affiliate. I really can't think of a logical reason why ABC's ratings would be better on KNLC than KDNL.

     

    ABC apparently tried harder to get off of KTVI back in late 1988 or so when the network was upset about KTVI's lousy ratings at the time (plus ditching the 6PM local news for "Geraldo"). ABC had a meeting with Koplar (then-owner of KPLR) in New York that was supposedly about the technology of interactive TV, but the subject of an ABC affiliation for KPLR was apparently on the table. ABC didn't realize just how bad things were going to get just a few short years later.

     

    So was ABC considering dumping KTVI before the 1995 switch? When it was announced in the 1990s just like the CBS affiliates jumping to find new homes. Did ABC consider KPLR at first in 1994, because I'm sure when ABC saw that this would happen and they could of bought KPLR like CBS did with Atlanta and Detroit. Did KTVI really dump 6pm news to run Geraldo? Also the Party Machine didn't last a season.

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    Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

    in Classic Video

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    WXYZ/Detroit Action News update 11 with Di in 1995

     

    WXYZ/Detroit Newspaper Strike in 1995

     

    WXYZ/Detroit Action News 11pm full newscast (note this set only lasted for a couple years; you can see the whole set during the weather toss and the end of the newscast)

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    Meredith is apparently selling Time, Fortune, SI, and laying off 1,200 employees in the process. I am posting this as they've been rumored to be in the running to purchase station in the Sinclair-Tribune divestiture, should the transaction obtain final approval from Washington.

     

    Didn't the Koch Brothers give Meredith a huge boat load of $$$ for them to purchase Time?

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