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Probably when local news talent got younger and younger and of course TV is trying to go after the younger demo now. The young perceive these old people with "authority" to be mean-spirited goons. So, in an effort to get the younger demo, it seems like TV is stooping down to their level. Is it inappropriate? Absolutely. It kinda sickens me actually to look at the social media pages of anchors/reporters that viewers perceive as attractive and read all the comments from perverts, such as "You always look good, (insert name here)." or "Good Morning, ---. I hope you're having a great day today!" Almost always it's some weirdo posting that because most regular people do not look up to the news personalities as their friend. If I saw them in a grocery store and said "Hi", that's one thing and something I don't have a problem with people doing. Sometimes you can't help it, as somebody you see on TV. But I think social media takes it too far. To think they're attractive is one thing and I'm sure it's a feeling a lot of us have. But to actually engage in conversation with them is kicking up a notch and I think it takes it way too far. Technology and social media has definitely made it easier to communicate with these news personalities. All I have to do is find them on Twitter or Facebook. Hell, one local meteorologist here in San Antonio (won't say who) doesn't even have a public fan page. He just allow viewers to friend his personal Facebook page. That I think is taking it way too far. You don't even personally know them and quite honestly I don't need to know or care about what's happening in the weatherman's personal life. Then again, I wouldn't limit it to just news but look at society as a whole. Some teachers in grade school now give out their cell phone numbers to students and try to be their friend. Maybe I didn't know better then, but now at an older age, I think it's inappropriate. They're there to be your teacher, just like the news anchors are just there to give you the news. Nothing more. It's definitely a blurry line.

They do, as Al-SA-TX confirmed it here.

Haha, the irony of the question... (btw you dodged it)

KENS' does look like a rip-off of KING's. KING's would've been good hadn't they used a huge-ass font for the "This is Weather, This is Life", etc. But, local television for the most part has lost its individuality, so I expect a degree of sameness in all of them.

Did WJW ever find a new co-anchor for Mark Zinni? Just curious considering our Fox affil stole his co-anchor...

The KENS version is much better. Almost as if KVUE saw KENS promo and decided to rip it off. Lame. In fact, my strangest suspicions are confirmed in this promo, that some news people don't know how to dance.

Alright, I saw the commercial cbs4dallas was talking about. I captured it with my webcam since my new tuner hasn't come in yet. I'll recapture it over the weekend and post it in good quality. The graphics are actually launching the 14th, a Thursday. [yt]AgNUFci5D54[/yt] If you can make it out, they actually used the NBC cut in the promo. Your ears are not deceiving you. And an additional treat, KENS 5's version of This Is Home! :awesome: :drool: :wub: [yt]9Ob5scDPbm0[/yt] This has not hit the airwaves yet so you're getting the early look at it. Wow, I'm in love with it. That's impressive. Still doesn't change my opinion of the crap that comes from G3 but the stuff KENS can do in-house, wow. I also like how they worked the meanings of the colors in there without coming out and telling you (or mentioning USA Today lol). Also, looks like KENS won't be adding the CBS eye to the open like the other Gannett stations have. I hope not, it would look awkward.

Thanks for the tip. Will see if I can catch it and post it by the weekend. The 15th is a Friday BTW.

Gotta love the average viewers who have no idea how retransmission consent works...

If watching KABB tonight is any indication, the consolidation of WOAI and KABB into the same building appears to be work in progress. KABB seems to be in the process of renovating and enlarging the current newsroom to accommodate the expanded news staff. This is based on the standups done from the newsroom. It feels different than usual. They mounted TV's on the wall with the various local stations, a ladder, wood planks and buckets of paint also appeared to be visible. However the camera quickly panned away from that when the photog caught it. Still no indication where WOAI would do their newscasts. There is only one "true" studio in KABB although they have three rooms they call studios. "Studio 29", where the news set is. It can barely fit KABB's news set and that may be why it took them a little over two months to debut it. The set designer probably had to think how they were going to fit the set in that space. "Studio 35" which is a small room where they do local commercial production and satellite interviews for CNN/Fox News are usually done in there as well. Then they have "Studio 43" which is just a small room that looks like a movie theater. I have no idea what they do with this aside from a couple promos I've seen in the past. And then they have the space sales is vacating. Studio 43 and the sales space are not TV studio dimensions. Unless maybe the control rooms would move into that space and then WOAI would take the space where PCR is now. Ever since the switch to HD, they really don't do much with most of the space PCR uses because the HD production equipment is much more compact than the old SD stuff. In any which case, I cannot see WOAI moving in until early next year at the earliest. I know KABB's building from multiple visits there. It's very small. Sinclair would've been better served finding a completely different location. In fact I don't think Sinclair ever bothered repairing the second floor of WOAI's building, and even then, it's over a century old, and most of the interior, aside from the lobby and all of the modern broadcast equipment, hasn't been renovated since the 60/70's. I don't know how WOAI's managed to stay there all these years. It makes me wish United could have stuck around two or three more years so 4 could've gotten a nice new building like KMSP, KPTV, and KTVX. (the KPTV one is not in use any more since they moved to KPDX's slightly newer building, what a waste)

I've been checking up on ux.kgw the past couple days. The talent bios still aren't finished, as a couple people lack photos. Some of these people have them because they were on the old site. Also nice to see they shrinked the size of the logo in the header down. It was HUGE when they were testing it. It looks better now.

But there's other places to go for news. And if you in a one-station market, you at least have the local paper as a source to cancel out on. It doesn't hurt anybody when the CBS affiliate in Evansville doesn't have a local newscast when you've the NBC and ABC who do as well as the newspaper and local news radio station. Just like in St. Louis, there's still 3 places to go for local news plus the Post-Dispatch, KMOX, KTRS, and Emmis' FM station. So it's not like the people in the Gateway to the West are losing out, neither the people in Evansville. Yes, it may look bad but in the end life goes on...

I hate to say this but I actually question whether someone based in the DMA would also cope and feel the same way as someone at INN. A lot of the people who work in local news are from out of market and may not connect to a story the same way as a native or established resident who's lived in the community for a long while. A lot of people who work in local news think, "I want to move up as much as possible" and may see their job as just that, a job to gain experience and they want to get out as soon as possible. Then there's those whose top goal is working in their hometown. I think the ones who work in their hometown or love a community so much they stay at the same station 10, 20 30+ years, I think are the ones who connect to a story more and ultimately do a better job.

Probably not but the reason I brought it up is because McCoy's previous stations, KIDY/KXVA, paid KABB to run their morning and 9PM news along with running their own news capsules. In the news capsules they referred to the KABB news as "regional and state headlines". They basically tried to give the impression the newscast was their own. They even ran some bumpers using the old SD Sinclair background and Daily News. I'm pretty sure people in Abilene and San Angelo also don't care about San Antonio news and KABB never mentioned the arrangement aside from briefly doing a quick one-day forecast for Abilene and San Angelo.

I'm curious to see what design "Great Day SA" gets when the main newscasts get the Gannett look. GDSA uses a variant of the main Hothaus pack and so it'll look odd to see new graphics on the news and then the same old graphics on GDSA. Anybody ever thought about that predicament? Also, I wish KENS5 would get the new graphics already. Whenever they show a map it looks weird because it basically clashes with everything else and the font doesn't match. However, from watching this evening, there's no sign aside from maps that they're getting new graphics.

Well, maybe they'll add news capsules like they did in San Angelo/Abilene. And a coincidence? Scripps happens to own the Evansville paper. They partnered with the Scripps paper in Abilene and San Angelo to do news capsules and maybe they can do it in Evansville too. If they want to top that off, they can pay a nearby CBS affiliate to simulcast their local news.

About time. ComCorp should finally get approved with this news. Though if how KIDY/KXVA is any indication, watch WEVV turn to crap. London actually improved those stations and with Gannett they're going to get even better. (never thought I'd say Gannett actually improved a station)

Pure speculation on my end, but has WKRC already found their replacement for Kit Andrews? Said anchor left WTWO this week and the new station is supposed to make an announcement next week. Betting $25 it's WKRC for a variety of reasons. Stay tuned...

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This must be a new mandate. When I was there last year, the ABC logo was almost nowhere to be found on KIII's air. If you didn't see network programming, you'd have almost no idea they're an ABC affiliate.

I can't picture that with the new Gannett graphics. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out. And since Gannett likes to include the network logo with the station logo, it will look even more odd to see the ABC logo with KIII 3 (the only time I've ever seen the ABC logo with the KIII one is during the bug they air for five seconds during national ABC programing before the main ABC logo shows up) Hopefully I have an excuse to go to Corpus Christi next year so I can get KIII news footage with their new graphics (I go to Corpus every couple of years, if you have no reason to go, don't, it's a dump with the most horrible drinking water I've ever encountered). I'm going to miss Third Coast though. This Is Home does not fit Corpus at all and I'm kinda nervous to see how KENS manages to use it. Also, I will go buy a TV tuner before KENS gets the new graphics so I can upload high quality footage and not see some dude upload video from their livestream.

As I said in an earlier post Sinclair had it changed to 2245. It previously was 2589.

It used to just be "This is ABC 22 News at 11". Don't know why they felt the need to add in the address. Though it does look like they had the address changed to match the channel numbers. hehe (the address when WBDT occupied the building was 2589 Corporate Pl)

Multi-media journalist = one-man band reporter = sometimes you'll have to go out without a photog and be expected to report, shoot, edit and front your story Gannett's legacy stations like to use the term "backpack journalist" for this but it's the same thing. If he was doing social media reporting they would blatantly say he's a social media or online reporter.

That was a pretty good report. They tell the truth which is rare for news stations these days. Yes, it's a must run and they used a WBFF reporter (should've used a national reporter) but it was a good report nonetheless. KABB and WOAI both took the report. KABB has it on their site: http://www.foxsanantonio.com/news/features/featured/stories/legislation-could-change-way-we-watch-tv-1615.shtml