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The cut they're using sucks. Can't wait for the other stations to get this.... To the uploader of that video: Uhh, hate to break it to you but you recorded that off their webstream. Sorry, something I'm nitpicky about and why I usually don't watch that particular user's videos...

Those graphics clash with the set. Not good at all... Also, are they using This is Home as the theme music or still with Tower V2? Everybody is mentioning graphics but not once have I seen anything about music... Why would KGW get the graphics? They are a Sander station. Besides, their current in-house graphics are so much better than this Gannett corporate crap...

Hopefully WOAI (Sinclair) will drop Live Well. They used to have Mexicanal on 4.2, which was pretty interesting to watch. Much better than LWN. I would like to see a station here pick up Antenna TV.

So they're not going to do anything about WEVV? That's the biggest one holding them up.

Haha that's actually pretty funny. Spurs are huge here and how dare you talk bad about them Heat fan While we're on the subject: KSAT and WPLG are making a friendly wager again. If the Spurs win the Finals, WPLG's morning anchors have to wear Spurs jerseys on the air and donate $500 to a San Antonio charity. If the Heat win (which they won't), then KSAT's morning anchors have to wear Heat jerseys on the air and donate $500 to a South Florida charity.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know who ABC's off camera in-house meteorologists are? Ginger Zee right now mentioned two people named Max and Samantha upstairs in the weather office.

I hope this is true. John Muller is better suited for a broadcast like this than what he's doing now.

Unfortunately, yes. I have younger siblings that are six, seven so I can tell you that from experience. I didn't know when it became aceeptable to say "sucks", "screw", "moron" in a children's show.... (I'm looking at you "Irregular Show") end rant

Like her filling in for three months wasn't a tryout for Diana's position... I hope they do promote Marci Gonzalez though. I like her. Has a great personality and fits the program well. Now they just need to find a way to get rid of John Muller, he's not that good. As bland and boring as they come. He would be better as a reporter.

He had his obligatory copy of USA Today at the ready...

Pfft, that happens all the time now because companies want to hire the cheapest people they can find. If you can look around on there, you'll find there's instances of 130 market jumps for instance.

WOW. What a find. This is so cool. Never knew the old KMOL theme was done by a locally-based firm. Thanks for finding this out Raymie. Also, the first ad from 1979 said they had been in business for "a dozen years" so that means they were established in 1967. Let's see if Raymie can find out more about this "Hayes Broadcast Corporation" and when/why they went out of business.

WOAI has now found their new female co-anchor, and it's Evy Ramos, formerly of KGPE in Fresno Here's the source, accompanied with stupid comments typical of the E-N

I figured he was going to take over. Considering he had been chief at KENS over 20 years, it was only natural to promote him. I like him, he's a great meteorologist. Unfortunately, he had an incident in 2001 where he plagiarized material for his Express-News column which cost him his job at KENS. Fortunately WOAI has given him a second chance but a select few viewers have not. Any time there's an article on My SA about him most of the commenters will bring up his plagiarism incident from 2001 and say he's not qualified to be chief and shame on WOAI for promoting him. Sorry but he deserves a second chance and all he did was plagiarize. Give him a pass. He's gotten over it a long time ago. If he was a journalist then yes, I would think about it differently. But he's not, he's a meteorologist, so the standards are a little different. No, I'm defending him plagiarizing but the incident happened nearly 15 years ago. Just forget about it..... Other briefs coming out of San Antonio (I can't remember so much media news coming out of this market before): the original poster didn't mention this, but Mike Hernandez from KABB will be filling in on the morning shift until they hire someone else. Will be curious to see who they hire. Lately, Blaise Labbe has been bringing in a lot of outsiders in to the Sinclair shop here, as you'll see in a moment. Also, I hope Hernandez won't be working seven day weeks since he is currently KABB's weekend meteorologist and does Daytime at Nine during the week. He generally gets two days off during the week. KABB has Robert Luna as a weekend fill-in but I don't see him getting a full-time position because he is a high school teacher during the week. Honestly, I just see Siobhain Anders adding KABB's 9PM news to her plate since it's much cheaper than hiring someone else just to do one thirty-minute newscast two days a week. KABB and WOAI have a direct fiber link that was installed not long after Sinclair took over, so Anders could do the 9PM weather live from WOAI for KABB. Once they move in, that will be a moot point. According to the Express-News, Blaise Labbe is this/close to announcing a replacement for Elsa Ramon. Some believe that Delaine Mathieu will permanently add the 6 and 10 to her schedule, while others think they will hire an outsider. Time Warner Cable News San Antonio has announced it will launch June 2. Currently on cable channel 14, which is where TWC News will be, is a loop of Capital Tonight and Sports Night both from TWC News Austin. Michael Pearson, who is the news director for TWC News Austin, will also work in the same capacity for TWC News San Antonio. Newscasts will be anchored out of Austin but will have local reporters. Eventually the San Antonio channel will produce its own content. My take away: Time Warner seems like they don't have a lot of confidence in the channel if they are outsourcing production to Austin, which is a smaller DMA. They don't even have their own ND. The guy from Austin is going to run the channel. Who's supposed to make daily coverage decisions, especially if one guy has to run two newsrooms? Having said that, I hope this channel succeeds, even if Comcast's proposed merger goes through. It will give San Antonio a fourth English news operation again, since WOAI/KABB are basically one newsroom now (still using two separate buildings AFAIK). Will be interested to see who ends up on the channel. However, I won't be watching it, since I do not have Time Warner Cable and have no plans to switch back to that wreck of a company. Source: http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Time-Warner-S-A-news-network-debuting-June-2-5383548.php [*]KSAT has begun running promos for Adam Caskey. I didn't pay attention to it so I don't know how it goes. I just know at the end, there's video of him along the S.A. river smiling with his name, he will be debuting in June and the KSAT logo on the screen. I'll see if I can catch it. [*]Speaking of KSAT, they have released some details for their new lifestyle show they'll be launching this fall. From TVSpy: [*] I'm sure many viewers are relieved to know Michael and Kelly at 9AM won't be going anywhere. KSAT does the best in that timeslot because of them. Although I don't know why they didn't put it at ten and tape delay "The View". Or, better yet, at 11 so I'm not subject to day-old episodes of "The Chew" where "Extra Value Fridays" airs on a Monday... But it doesn't sound like a typical show. I might actually watch this when it starts. I'd like to know if Fiona will be soloing or if she'll have a co-host. I guess we'll have to stay tuned to this one. Also, I don't think they have the studio space to do it from their main building, even if they wanted too. I'm still wondering if the studio from their old building was left intact because nothing has changed there. However they did get a new CG because the L3's animate in/out sometimes. [*] KABB has announced a replacement for Cynthia Lee. And it's not someone internal like I had thought. Guess Blaise wants to make his mark. This is straight from the Express-News: [*]

The newscast started during the previous ownership group. Nexstar (specifically Brian Jones) was the one who made the decision to cancel the newscast. This would be perfect for Gray. Then Nexstar would be free of any ownership in the Billings market. Then they could make a play for Cordillera with virtually no conflicts. Nexstar is my favorite for Cordillera. I can't see them fitting with Gray like someone else suggested due to too many conflicts.

From my limited understanding, I think they have an in-house designer based at KARK. I think they then hire local companies to actually fabricate and install the set. Before that, they used to use Modular Broadcast Design for at least the old WROC and WBRE sets.

I didn't know Isis and Phil Anaya were dating, nor do I really care. Wish they would've gotten married then had kids but it's their relationship I suppose. Isis is not that great of anchor anyways. And you gotta love the Express-News comments of people gawking at Isis.... I'm not too big into Cinco de Mayo but as for the Spurs, glad they beat the Mavs and even though everyone I talked to says they should have won the series much earlier, I think it's great it took them seven games because it keeps them focused. They don't get too much rest compared to if they had sweeped them.

Cynthia Lee is the next person leaving a San Antonio station. For the second time. Cynthia was originally there until 2009, then left to pursue other opportunities. She returned in 2012 as a weekend anchor then was bumped up in 2013 when Karen Martinez passed away from breast cancer. Here's the article It's unfortunate she's leaving, definitely one of the best at KABB. She may have been getting tired of having to revoice all of those Waste Watch reports... Any which case, they are now going to have to find someone else but it looks likely that Grace White will get bumped up. Now, Blaise Labbe has two female lead anchors to look for. OR, this may have conveniently happened just as they are about to move in later this year. The Sinclair duopoly here is losing people and fast though. Something has to be done and they probably want to have their new people in place by the November book. Could we be seeing some more people bolting KCTV for WOAI/KABB? Keep your eye there.

And you know what that means, HD news and new graphics are probably on the way soon...

How would that be illegal? They mention the call letters and city of license. Not necessarily in the order they should have, but they did nonetheless. Our government has much more important things to be worrying about than if some TV station is identifying themselves properly.....

John Gerard, chief meteorologist at WOAI, is leaving the station after the May book for a weather position over at WFOR. Source: http://blog.mysanantonio.com/jakle06/2014/04/woai-tv-losing-its-weatherman So now, this means WOAI will be without a chief meteorologist OR a lead female anchor. And knowing WOAI, they tend to take their time looking for replacements. It took them a little more than a year to replace Brian Collister. And I understand Blaise Labbe says "it happened pretty quickly" so it will take them a while to find somebody. This is BS because they knew for a while Elsa Ramon was leaving, and nope, still nobody has been hired. Anyways, I'll miss him. He was my favorite weatherman in the market. Hopefully he will NOT be replaced with Alex Garcia from KABB. He is by far the worst in the market. I watch the weather to find if it's going to rain tomorrow, not to get a lesson in meteorology, and Garcia certainly loves to teach more than he does putting things into simple terms that an average person can understand. That and he always likes to remind us when the NOAA will be having their next storm spotter classes. Katie Vossler at KSAT is also starting to get bad about this too...

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OK hold the phone there. I guess you're counting Jeff Penner who is usually not on the air unless he's filling in for one of their regular meteorologists. I've always seen it as four with an off-air producer who fills in sometimes. I generally don't count the off-air people. And there's nothing wrong with having six meteorlogists at the station. KSAT will soon have six total once Adam Caskey starts. Five on-air and one off-air producer (who never fills in). If you want to get extreme they technically have seven if you count John Honoré who KSAT alleges is still employed by them...

Can Delmarva support three news operations? This is going to be interesting and what's more surprising than this is the fact that WMDT or WBOC never added NBC on a digital subchannel...

According to TVSpy, Stacey Cameron will be joining WOAI as an investigative reporter. His last stop was KCTV, which (probably not coincidental) is where current ND Blaise Labbe came from. So basically he hired his buddy. I'm not shocked but I'm a little surprised. I'm intrigued they say he will be "one of the station's lead investigative reporters". More like he'll probably be the only full-time investigative reporter there. He replaces Brian Collister who left the station about a year ago. Now they have another major vacancy to fill and that is main female anchor. That'll probably take another six months or so knowing WOAI... Anyone from Kansas City DMA, is he a good, hard-hitting investigative reporter?