NewsMaster

I wonder if Tegna offered him that as somewhat of an apology/or if they gave him an internal transfer to start up at KPNX

I imagine he'll be the secondary (assistant?) sports director at 12 behind Coop.

The spectrum auction has claimed its next victim: WBIN. The station will go off the air and NH1 News will be radio and digital only. WMUR will once again be New Hampshire's only television news source. http://www.nh1.com/news/WBIN-TV-sold-in-FCC-Auction-NH1-News-to-invest-in-new-digital-platforms/

WABI has a news sharing arrangement with WMTW in Portland; it will be interesting to see if that arrangement survives the Gray takeover. WGME is partnered with WVII. I have to wonder if WVII is now in play. Will Sinclair or Hearst make Rockfleet an offer they can't refuse?

I highly doubt Hearst would be interested in WVII, considering that it is by far the last-placed station in what would by far be Hearst's smallest market. Sinclair could make the move though, because...Sinclair. Whomever purchases WVII would have to put a fairly large investment into the station considering that they don't even have a weather department.

The plus side to this is that WABI and WCJB will now finally have a decent graphics package.

And, in WABI's case, better music. CBS Local, anyone?

I wonder what becomes of WAGM's local ops. Diversified owned them for a number of years, so this move brings them back into the same corporate fold. I imagine WAGM will become nothing more than a semi-satellite of WABI much like WLBZ's relationship with WCSH. Apart from adopting the corporate website design Gray has done nothing to upgrade WAGM since their takeover; now their lack of investment makes sense.

Wouldn't be surprised. I almost think that Aroostook County (or, for you Mainers, "The County") could be folded into the Bangor DMA considering that WAGM is (and, considering that DMA's size, always will be) the only commercial station in the market.

When did they start operating WATM and WWCP? At last check, they never did.

They tried to, but I thought that sale fell through.

Why is everyone expecting Nexstar to give everyone an Arnold theme? Nexstar revamped KLAS and guess what? THEY'RE NOT USING AN ARNOLD THEME. Instead, they're using the 360 theme.

For all we know, Nexstar might be, at best, a bastardized hybrid of new MG with Nexstar. We already know that they're going to cut, cut, cut.

I think it's because not only was KLAS' previous theme done by 360, that theme was commissioned by KLAS. The two probably have a good relationship.

More information on KFSN 2014 thanks to the NMSA: It's being called "ABC30 News" by DreamArtists Music, who has also composed music for the network itself. Makes sense considering KFSN is an O&O.

So now Comcast is in a pissing match with Spectrum? I'm not sure if it's just specific to KNSD or the whole NBC O&O stations, but there's a website urging viewers to contact Spectrum and voice their complaints...

 

https://t.co/Rxm4lHcHNU

It's all of them, apparently. This is a big problem in Boston considering that Spectrum is the main cable provider for Worcester and central Mass, and none of the 3 stations carrying NBC Boston (WBTS, WNEU or WMFP) cover the area decently enough.

It's a New Years Eve Retrans Double Header in Oklahoma...

- First it's Griffin VS Dish, deadline as soon as the ball drops:

KOTV- http://www.keepnewson6.com/ KWTV- http://www.keepnews9.com/

 

- Followed by Cox VS AT&T, deadline 2:00am Jan. 1:

KOKI- http://www.fox23.com/entertainment/television/attdirectv-faqs/479127871

Add Hearst vs AT&T to that list.

Danielle Gersh is leaving WHDH and going back to Cali. Good riddance IMO; I strongly believed she was hired for eye candy and nothing else. Which is totally something WHDH would do.

EDIT: Just as an underqualified met leaves, another one comes. Gersh's replacement will be Wren Clair, coming from WJFW in Rhinelander, WI. Keep it up Mr. Ansin, see how well it works for you.

Here's the stations yet to switch (stations that have switched since this post are crossed out):

• WCVB
  
• KCRA
  
• WTAE
  
• WBAL
  
• WISN
  
• WYFF
  
• WGAL
  
• KETV
  
• KCCI
  

WOLF looks to sever ties with WBRE and start its own 10pm news department...

About time. Scranton / Wilkes-Barre is the largest market with only two news departments ever since WYOU shut theirs down in 2009. That title would become held by Syracuse if this happens.

Interesting M&A on Wednesday: it appears Price Hill Television is selling low-powered NBC affil WRDE in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware (and serving Salisbury, Maryland) to SagamoreHill.

EDIT: It's not an M&A. Apparently Price Hill and SagamoreHill are the same company; near the bottom it reads: "THE OWNERSHIP OF PRICE HILL TELEVISION, LLC AND SAGAMOREHILL OF SALISBURY LICENSEES, LLC IS IDENTICAL." Sorry for the false alarm.

Just saw a tease for WTWO's 6pm newscast. They're using look G and The NBC version of iNergy

And to everyone's surprise: they did NOT change their branding to Local 2 News as far as I can see. The logo is the same, too, apart from some minor changes to make it look better with the graphics.

If NTV can snatch ABC from KLKN, I expect KFXL to put ABC on 51.2.

I feel as if in saying that you're suggesting that ABC in Providence should move off of WLNE and onto a subchannel of WJAR.

WDHN and KQTV are a few others that come to mind along with WIVT that need major work. Sadly, I don't see that happening anytime soon.

KQTV is being sold to Bob Prather's USA Television along with the aforementioned WTHI and WFFT, as well as KIMT. So if KQTV is getting a refresh it won't be made by Nexstar.

The HD launch for WTWO/WAWV is another step closer. They're now broadcasting on a temporary set. WTWO got their set in 2010 and WAWV got their set in 2011 when they switched from FOX to ABC, so I'm not sure if there will be brand new sets for each station or if it's a refresh.

It had better be a refresh; WTWO has now become Nexstar's ugly duckling since KMID and WMBD have both been refreshed.

If you think that's bad, WISC still uses channel3000.com and its sister station, WKBT, still uses news8000.com.

Fixed.

As long as WEWS doesn't change much else, News 5 is fine with me. To be honest, I kinda like the ring "News 5, On Your Side" has.

This one was out of nowhere. http://www.cleveland.com/tv-blog/index.ssf/2016/05/jason_nicholas_moving_to_channel_19_as_chief_meteorologist.html#incart_river_home

I'm not all too surprised. Jason was being seen less and less on WEWS to the point where he only does noon and weekends, and WOIO has been looking to replace Jeff Tanchak especially since the change from 19 Action News to Cleveland 19 News. I think he's a good meteorologist; he'll do very well at 19.

After two decades, Kelley Tuthill is leaving WCVB.

the same goes for KOIN 6 which might also gain an NBC affiliation, among others. Sook is a member of the NBC affiliates group and Nexstar has as good relations with NBC

NBC is NOT moving stations in PDX. KGW is one of NBC's strongest affils owned by one of NBC's strongest station groups, and they just reupped with the network not too long ago.

Did he say anything about why it was commissioned? Did ABC ever intend to use it on stations other than KFSN? It sounds like a candidate for a standardized ABC O&O theme, if they ever pursued that.

Hopefully such a plan would not include WPVI. Besides EWN still sounds good on most of the stations that it's used on.

Here's two clean and clear versions from Robby Elfman's soundcloud.

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Finally! That sounds great.

Now I need to find out who did this new theme for KFSN. For some reason I thought they could be the same composer, but I guess not.

If I'm a betting man, I'm going to say either myvalleymatters.com, valleyproud.com, or ourvalleyhomepage.com

I like the first one especially since WKBN and WYTV used to have myvalleyweather.com and myvalleysports.com before their websites were redesigned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bauoczXT7G8

For a minute I thought they stole WKYC's logo for the chopper.