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And at the same time they have hired a new sports anchor, Mary Dunleavy, from WVIR in Charlottesville, VA. Article

I don't think you can. They may have been forced to install the ENG equipment on the bird. Also those radio reports you listen to on WTVN aren't live. They can record them and make them look/sound like it's live from the chopper and then send the recorded product back to the station for broadcast.

I can second this argument for the Sinclair stations. In fact, WOAI lead anchor Randy Beamer now has commentary during the 10PM newscast called "San Antonio's Voice" and his views are generally liberal. I don't think Sinclair shuns people who are liberal in fact I think they embrace them and are open-minded to other people's views. For the newspaper here (Express-News, a Hearst property), not only is its editorial viewpoint very liberal, its newsgathering has started to become evidently one-sided in the past few years, especially after Mike Leary from the Philadelphia Inquirer took over as the executive editor. It's gotten to the point I cancelled my subscription entirely because the newsgathering quality has been embarrassing for a market the size of San Antonio. They give newspapers a bad name and you wonder why people are leaving them in droves and no, I don't think it's necessarily the format so much the quality. Add to the fact TV does a better job and online has a variety of liberal and conservative news sources for your choosing. (I do get some of my national news from mainstream [which is predominantly liberal and supportive of the President] sources but I balance it out with news from conservative [which are critical of the President] sites too--not just Fox News but other conservative sites as well; this allows me to get a balanced view on the world and getting news some outlets don't and won't cover). :rant: I figured. Guessing Caskey will also do the 4 (TVSpy strangely omits it but KSAT does have a 4). Or they will continue to have Katie Vossler do three days a week at 4 and Caskey does the other two days. Somewhat disappointed that Mike Osterhage wasn't promoted but then again that's a good thing because their morning team has such a great chemistry together I can't see that being broken up soon. Looks like TVSpy lifted this from Jakle at the paper: Among other things mentioned: Caskey takes over in June (of course, after the May book). KSAT has six experienced meteorologists (they only have four, soon to be five, on-air meteorologists; the sixth is probably referring to their off-camera weather producer who has never been seen on-air) John Honore has been off the air since January (I told you this before Jeanne Jakle posted it on her blog a couple days later) and according to David Cuiccio (KSAT CSD), he's still on the payroll (a nice way of saying they basically didn't renew his contract and they took him off before it expired and they're paying out the remainder of his contract). Whether he's off-camera there or he's told to just stay home and not come in, I don't know. I'm am 99% sure this was Bernice Kerney's (ND) decision to dump him in favor of Vossler (so KSAT could have a female meteorologist). Also just putting this out there, but for whatever reason, KSAT does not use the term chief meteorologist, so nobody's really getting "promoted" here.

Wasn't WYTV managed by Barrington during Chelsey's ownership? Also IIRC, Chelsey's other station WHOI went to Barrington proper...

I wouldn't put my money on it. It's fairly easy to change the site over. It's more effort for the new look to launch because Gannett is standardized on completely different equipment from Belo and all that has to be installed first. The one constant: both companies used ENPS so that's one thing that won't be switched over. The one thing I hope KENS gets out of this: all-digital tapeless shooting and editing. Yes they still shoot and edit on tape, so field footage naturally isn't HD but it's stretched to make it look HD.

Yes, and lately the trend over at 'KYT is if a reporter vacancy comes up, it's generally filled with someone from WYMT. In a way it's also like a training station for them. The studio building even looks like it's a deliberate carbon copy of WKYT's rural mansion-esque building (but built later on). This station has come a long way from it's days when it was on "Making News Savannah Style" and they were owned by Piedmont which was truly a crappy company. If LIN sells this to be a part of Media General, I hope they end up with a company who's willing to make continued investments in them.

I wonder if Gannett has anything to do with that ie let's get outta there as fast as we can as Gannett is not a great company...

I don't mind This is Home, but yeah, I've made it clear more than once I'm not a big fan of the graphics, will be a definite downgrade to what they're using now. But someone posted that KVUE is getting a new site soon and everyone posted something critical of it. If it's the graphics and music that are bad, I don't know why it's getting lumped together with the site.

Why does everyone hate this layout, just curious? I for one, am looking forward to KENS getting a new site. The current one is way too cluttered and the less photo galeries they post the better.

Curious what he'll be doing. KSAT's weather team is maxed out. HOWEVER, Steve Browne's contract is up soon and he says he'd like to lighten his load. So maybe he'll be doing some of the evening newscasts. Jeanne Jakle might have some details on this soon, so I'll wait to see what she has to say.

Might as well post this here, but what's with GMA's infatuation with the Pharell song "Happy"? They play the song on virtually every promo for GMA. That song has always played to death (not just by GMA, but by the media in general) to the point it annoys the hell out of me every time it's played...

I can't believe this is happening, but Don Scott is retiring from WJZ in July. One-half of the market's best morning news duo is going away. I wonder who's going to succeed Don? Don and Marty had such a great rapport with each other. Would be nice if they could find a female who could "click" with Marty and keep the Eyewitness News Morning Edition on top. Here's the article: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/don-scott-set-to-retire-from-wjz_b119068 Also, from my home base: KENS, the CBS affiliate owned by Gannett that I avoid like the plague, has decided to unveil their response to the "ice desk" (which you can't have in San Antonio in the first place because it generally doesn't get that cold here). They call it the "Fiesta Desk" which is basically a giant pinata shaped like a desk. I'm betting 99% Gannett corporate made them do something so stupid like this (because they didn't do an ice desk during the winter). Now you see why I avoid them like the plague. And I didn't know about this until I read it online... KSAT of course, is the official station of Fiesta and will air all the parades live. If you don't know what Fiesta (San Antonio) is please google it. Better than me trying to explain. Oh, and KEYT is coming under fire. I'll let Mr. FTVLive tell us this:

This is hilariously stupid...

Not anything to worry about in most markets. Here my affiliate tape delays it and therefore I won't watch because I hate hearing "Monday on The Chew" references on Monday. Doubt they care though.... It is what it is.

Sorry for the double post but I also came across these, for our Memphis and Seattle peeps. I stole these both from FTVLive: Memphis Anyone think she's going to WATN or WREG? Can't think of any other openings in that market off the top. Seattle

What The View needs is a conservative talking head who is attractive (yes, this is TV after all) like Hasselbeck to help reign in the ratings and make the show interesting. The View now is just awful especially with Jenny McCarthy (and no I don't watch The View by choice). If The Chew is so important to ABC's Daytime lineup, then how come ABC can't provide an early feed for the Central time affiliates who want to run noon newscasts? Which forces them to delay it by a day and the viewers having to watch an outdated show. Either The Chew needs to provide two feeds, not be day and date, cancelled and replaced with something scripted, or the time returned to affiliates. I think by not providing an early feed, that's how much value ABC puts into The Chew.

Here's an idea: Either dump "The Chew", or provide another same-day feed of it so KSAT doesn't have to tape delay it by one day (the reccomeneded slot is Noon CT but KSAT airs the high-rated News at Noon at that time; this wasn't a problem when All My Children was still around since ABC provided multiple same day feeds of it). I could see the Chew getting the shaft and 9AM being given to the network. Better idea than dumping "The View" since people (not me) still watch that. And if they add a third hour, here's hoping it won't be anything like "GMA Live". That webcast is a disaster and painful to watch. Fox's "After the Show Show" is much better to sit through because the hosts are laid back and themselves and not running off five or six cups of coffee like the people on GMA Live.

Brian Collister joins KXAN from KTRK. Wants to be closer to his family. HUGE get for KXAN, since Brian is one of the best investigative reporters in the country. I believe he replaces Shannon Wolfson as full-time lead investigative reporter, after she was bumped up to main anchor. KXAN was already a good station, but now that they have Collister, they'll be my go-to station in Austin. Take that, "Austin's News Leader" (KVUE, who likes to remind you of this every chance they get) Sources: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/brian-collister-joins-austins-kxan_b118570 ; http://blog.mysanantonio.com/jakle06/2014/04/woai-ex-collister-nabs-new-tv-news-job/

This question is for whoever lives in Charlotte: Do they still even do the three anchor format? Because from all the clips I see on YouTube it's just Morgan and Kirk, even though all three get equal billing, are featured equally in promos, etc.

Average viewer does not choose newscasts based on the opening voiceover...

According to TVSPY, Nick and Danielle Kosir are leaving KMVT and going to the East Coast. TVSpy says they're going to Charlotte. $1 bets that they are going to WJZY to be a part of the morning team. From TVSpy:

it's not even finished yet lol. Don't know who has the worse in-house digital strategy, Sinclair or Nexstar...

A few themes I've always been wondering about: KMOL 1979 KTVY 1980 KSAT 1987 KMOL 1993 WJBK 1984 Us Viewing You (WJBK 1985/6-88) KMOL 1979 and KTVY 1980 sound like they came from the same composer. For some strange reason, I'm wanting to think these were commissioned by "Klein &"...

I don't understand why they feel they need to have two different content platform groups. Shouldn't Inergize be enough for them? Doubt it. You would've thought that after they got Inergize they would've done that, but no, they just took the existing design and adapted it to the Inergize CMS. Which means someone within Nexstar really loves that layout...

Want to see an even closer knockoff of the 1995 Hearst look? http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/dsplus/m.php?p=granada_tonight_1999.mp4