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Here's an article from the Gannett Blog pertaining to the rollout of the new website design. The local newspapers are getting this design as well. http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/digital-badly-misses-year-end-site-app.html If I see somebody ask this one more time... :bang:

Either it was a slow news day or this was a clever ad placement cooked up by the sales department... "Good Morning Memphis After Hours"? I'm guessing they're copying Fox and Friends' "After the Show Show". Not as entertaining though...

Meteorologist Kate Thornton leaves WICZ in Binghamton, NY and joins WSYR in Syracuse as the weekend meteorologist, replacing Julia Weiden who left to go to a station in the Southeast (we still don't know which station, but we do know it's in Mississippi). Dave Eichorn their former chief met now covers weather at 5:30, 10, and 11pm. Dave Longley the current chief moves to noon, 5, and 6pm. And Jim Teske who used to just cover noon weather now does The Morning News. So they've basically filled all the vacancies now. EDIT: Not quite. Looks like sports reporter Lindsay Liquori is no longer with WSYR either. Her bio has been stripped from their site. The last time she tweeted was Jan 7, so this must've been fairly recent. There appears to be no article elsewhere confirming this however. Her job has been posted. They also have not yet replaced Caroline Gable's position (traffic reporter and Bridge Street host). And they're looking for another reporter still. So three vacancies at the market-leading Nexstar station.

Alright, I just noticed this article from my local newspaper the Express News and here I'll analyze it: News to me KSAT is starting up their own lifestyle show later this year. I wonder where they would put it. At 9 they currently air Live with Kelly and Michael which does very well in the ratings here. I do not think a local production would catch on and I know quite a few people who would rather watch Live than a local production. Can't really do anything at 10 because of the View and at 11 they air The Chew on a one day tape delay to accommodate their noon news. So airing it at 2 or 3 would be more realistic. Anyways it would be interesting to see what ends up happening there. Of course they are moving in to a brand new and much bigger building in the spring so they actually have space to do a lifestyle show. Hopefully a real news set accompanies the new building. Surprised by Jeanne Jakle's (the author) comment: "It also would be lovely if S.A.'s local lifestyle shows diversified more. The opening chatter about the latest happenings and trends is OK, but does it have to lead into what frequently resembles a string of infomercials?" The whole point of these shows is to be an infomercial. That's another reason "Live" does better than KENS and the Sinclair duop's shows. Regarding the comment about crime: I totally agree with that guy. All the newscasts here (with KSAT and KABB being the worst offenders) in one way or another, portray the city to be ridden with crime and there is a world of crime right outside your doorstep, but that can't be further from the truth. Yes, crime happens but not every street corner like the newscasts here make it out to be. Literally, the rundowns of KSAT and KABB are more-so, shooting, fire, wreck, burglary, arrest, etc. KENS and WOAI do try to cover more substantial news but still cover quite a bit of crime. And now with Sinclair owning both WOAI and KABB, WOAI has definitely added in more crime to the mix. And no, they will not interview the victims/their families to get their take. That requires effort, and the whole point of covering crime is that it requires little effort. Just send a photog, shoot some video, shoot some police spokesperson answering questions, trim it down. Boom. Done. I agree on living up to the channel name. Are you listening "Weather Channel"? As for Travel Channel mirroring Food Network more and more, well Scripps Networks owns Travel now. All of the Scripps networks (as well as most cable networks) are unwatchable now as they rely too much on reality based programming (boo) and not on real shows like in the past. YES to the revealing clothes. I do not watch the news for that reason; I watch to get informed in a direct and unbiased manner. Remember when women had to wear a suit but now just about anything goes for them (especially the bare arms)? Yet men still have to wear a suit and tie... What's the point of anchoring Sunday through Thursday? Who really cares who's anchoring what day as long as a newscast is there? I think stations should still do the Monday through Friday scheduling and let the main team spend time with their family on the weekends. Weekend anchors are usually younger. I agree 100% with this comment: “'All our newspeople should take a crash course in pronunciation of San Antonio streets and Hispanic names,' suggested Diana Aguirre Martinez." As I've said before, Jessica Headley the traffic anchor for KABB couldn't and still can't pronounce Hispanic names properly. She's a great traffic anchor, that's just the one thing she needs to work on. There are other personalities from out of town that came here too and well they can't pronounce them properly either. But Headley is one of the worst offenders. Danielle Saar is another one from out of town who's not very good either. Contrast that with Shelly Miles who's been here almost 15 years or Officer Marcus Trujillo/Detective Robert Dart on KSAT 12. Those three excel at it. BTW, all stations should copy KSAT and use real police officers to do the traffic. Quality of the traffic report is so much better versus someone who is there merely as "eye candy". I agree with the chitchat thing. I am sick of happy talk on the evening news. Just give us the news. Now on the morning news I think the relationship with the viewer is different. I believe the atmosphere is different and there I think it is OK to deliver the news while having a conversation with them at the same time. The people who do morning news tend to be very versatile, as I've seen them smiling during the morning news (unless there's a serious story of course) but during the noon news they keep a straight face the entire time. Again the audience is different. Usually people watching the local noon news are doing so from work. Positive news? Haha, look at WJZY in Charlotte who has definitely been emphasizing positive news over the negative. Look where they're at, especially on the weekend shows. I couldn't agree with that viewer more. YES YES YES to more local coverage. Just say no to national and world news during the local news. You can get that somewhere else.

Nonsense, new owner can dump the extra news and restore the syndies. I still think Sinclair is the favorite for this station (maybe the ones in Montana too).

Quality of the Greenspun school is no where close to that of the Mizzou program. Why do you think a lot of people who are in the business or want to be move to Missouri just to attend J-school? Mizzou is one of the best J-schools in the country and I would've attended it if it wasn't so expensive out-of-state. Anyways I honestly think his wife would continue to maintain the station but UNLV would not. The station is Sinclair's to lose. The station is also overstaffed for that market and the product they put out. Jim only bought the station in the first place because KORK-TV, KSNV's predecessor, pre-empted too many network shows in the 70s...

Two weeks ago you'll probably remember that I posted that WCPO reporter Kendall Herold drove under the influence and the station took one week to report it. Well this time around, WQAD (Moline, IL) main anchor Jason Fechner got charged with DUI and this time his station reported on it the same day during the 5PM newscast. However, viewers are angry WQAD chose to do this. So they took to Facebook to let WQAD know. Here's how it went down courtesy of TVSpy:

Remember when KUTV reporter Brooke Graham fainted on TV two weeks ago? Well I was watching Entertainment Tonight with Nancy O'Dell earlier and she interviewed Graham exclusively. Nice to see shes' handling it positively and in good spirits. Check it out: http://bcove.me/2ixhvl7q (fast forward to 16:08 to see the interview) Edited at 3:20AM CT: I forgot to mention this and I see it hasn't been mentioned here earlier. This from TVSpy: I'm betting this was handed down by Gannett corporate. It'd suck to see this happen to KENS' Chopper 5 here (even though they lease it, not own). It's nice seeing the big 3 here having unique helicopter shots.

First of all I came across this nearly year old interview from D Magazine with Perry Sook: http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-ceo/2013/march/breakfast-with-perry-sook-of-nexstar-broadcasting This is my favorite quote: Try telling that to Sinclair... And also, when did Nexstar take over the Citadel stations (excluding KLKN and WLNE)? They are listed on Nexstar's stations list already and Nexstar is mentioned on the jobs sections of the station sites. But I don't recall the FCC greenlighting it yet...

Here's a real treat: a tour from the 1960's of the WBOC studios in Salisbury. The title says it is from the early 1960's, but I think it's later than that. The Salisbury Mall did not open until 1968. Late 60s/early 70s is probably more accurate. Amazingly the TV station is still in the same building today, but it is has been renovated and added on to several several times, most recently in 2008. And the radio stations have long since moved out and are now owned by the Sinclair of radio (Clear Channel) under different callsigns. It's interesting to see how much has changed, both in the industry overall and at that station, over a forty year span.

So my predictions in that other thread were wrong. Glad they closed in today. EDIT#1: Interesting they are assigning KTVK to "KPHO Broadcasting Corporation" and not Meredith itself like KMOV was. EDIT#2: Obviously I struck a raw nerve with this comment: I will be more mindful of who sees this forum in the future with my wording. I apologize for calling your site "dumb". This is the first time in seven months of posting here this has happened. I'll try to be more careful in the future. However my general opinion of the situation remains the same. I would not have asked any additional questions. I think she covered it all in her blog. If she had anything extra to say, great. But honestly I would have left her alone. Sure she's been going through a lot lately with all the media coverage which I assume she's not used to. That's my two cents.

All to save money (younger people are almost always cheaper than the experienced people; stations pay more for the experience and the older people won't work for the amount the younger people do). They'll also be happy once Brian Busby is off their payroll whenever he retires because they can hire somebody younger for much cheaper. I just read that the first meteorologist won't start until April. Why? Is this person in another market or are they still in college or what? If you already hired them why aren't they are able to start until later this year? Very perplexing...

That's WAPI/WVTM in Birmingham, a good 1,200 miles from central Minnesota.

Thankfully it wasn't serious. I watch this reporter frequently with her identical twin sister who work at the same station. Both are great personalities and I could see them at the network level one day. If you read the blog post you could definitely see her bubbly side coming out. Good now she knows it's not serious she is laughing it off. Also "24 Salt Lake" is dumb. She basically had her comment in that blog post they link to yet they bother her anyway for another comment. I'm guessing she never wrote/called them back. Good on her. It's a low-rated weekend morning show. Maybe the producer knew the Graham sisters have this problem and so he/she told the director not to switch back. If I was producing the show, I wouldn't have necessarily cut back until I could tell for sure it was going to be serious. I may have done a double box with the anchor on the other side questioning the incident. Now I'm guessing you usually don't read this thread because I've speculated on this (and Rhiannon's future; it's pretty obvious they want her as main anchor) on at least two occasions here. GREAT news! While I wish him the best in recovering, it's time for some fresh blood there to run the station, and someone with enough audacity to fire Pero/Baier. They better not promote Pero to GM. IIRC, Grief used to be the ND before becoming GM.

Some interesting musings from the TV world: Leslie Draffin has left NBC affiliate KTAL and will be joining KOKH as their new morning co-anchor. You'll recall KOKH has been without a morning co-anchor since Wendy Suares was promoted to main anchor. KTBS got those tired WISH GO graphics, but a red and white variation of them: Judy Waggoner is now main co-anchor with Heather Williams at KTVE in Monroe, LA. Rudy Williams the previous anchor left. Carly Flynn Morgan is leaving Fox61 in Chatanooga to become the new morning anchor at KTBS in Shreveport. She replaces Chrissi Coile who is leaving to "spend more time with the family". Milwaukee's WDJT has hired Sachelle Saunders to be the new weekend co-anchor and GA reporter. She comes from WTVO in Rockford where she was the morning co-anchor. Jacqueline Crea joins KHOU as a general assignments reporter from KTSM, where she was an MMJ. WSVN lost their foreclosure lawsuit they filed against property developer Scott Greenwald, and his company Isle of Dreams LLC, for the piece of land right next door that housed former sister radio station WIOD. They are on the same parcel of land which is mostly a parking lot. WSVN staffers had been using that lot but can no longer. They now have to park across the street as there are only 90 parking spots on WSVN's land. WSVN is only allowing females and on-air talent to park on premises. Since the entrance to WSVN is on his land, they evicted the security guard and are going to demolish the guardhouse. Remember that anchor who tweeted to WPEC anchor John Discepolo: "Someone is hiding in your house waiting to kill you … find out where … tonight at 11." in response to a tease the anchor tweeted out. Discepolo decided to file charges. Well those have been dropped fortunately. Jenna Kooi who anchors the 7 and 11pm newscasts at WRTV has decided to call it quits, not returning after being on maternity leave. No replacement has been named yet. And finally (FTVLIVE): WCPO in Cincinnati ran this story on their newscast a week ago: [yt]hmvQ8XMe0Pg[/yt] What the station did not point out in the story was that their Reporter Kendall Herold was involved in the crash and was arrested for DUI. This week, WCPO finally got around to posting the story of her arrest on the station's website. Supposedly, they only posted it after Newsblues contacted the station seeking comment. The station wrote: WCPO Reporter Kendall Herold has been arrested for DUI. The arrest occurred Wednesday night in Covington. According to police her alcohol level was .08. Kendall Herold was released from jail Thursday morning. Since her arrest, viewers have been posting messages of encouragement across social media ( :bang: :bang: :bang: ): Herold has reached out to viewers on social media as well. The station is refusing to comment more on her arrest or on her future at WCPO. Kendall must be real popular there or something to still have a job. You can accidentally drop the f-bomb on TV and lose your job, but if you drive drunk and get into a wreck you still have one? A quick check of their site shows that her bio is still up. This is what I (myself, not the website I got this from) think about WCPO and their credibility:

I came across this today: Brad Mefferd from Buckeye Cable and Barry Faber from Sinclair talked with Toledo radio station WSPD recently about the retrans situation going on with WNWO right now. http://www.wspd.com/media/podcast-scott-sands-scottsands/1216-brad-mefferd-of-buckeye-cablesystem-24097241/ LOL at some of the things Faber says, including bringing up the Disney Channel and saying he doesn't know what Mefferd meant when he called WNWO "lowly rated" (which they are). And Buckeye is taking out ads like this one in co-owned newspaper The Blade: They even scrubbed all references to WNWO from their channel guide. (and this should've been in the Sinclair thread but I think it's OK here too).

Must be nice. Except for ME-TV on KSAT 12.2 all the digital subchannels here suck. WOAI has LiveWell, KENS has Estrella TV on DT2 and their doppler radar feed on DT3. KPXL has three home shopping channels (ShopTV, QVC and HSN) in addition to ion Life and Qubo. KABB has ZUUS Country and KMYS has MundoFox. All are horrible uses of subchannels. Me-TV, Antenna TV, Movies!, This TV are good subchannels. Hell even Bounce is better than all the subchannels we get here. I was happy when KSAT dumped LATV and WOAI dumped Mexicanal but WOAI replaced it with crap while KSAT put quality programming in its place. Please Sinclair or Gannett or anybody, bring Antenna TV to S.A.

prediction: Walter and Summer Knowles will become the new morning team and when Rhiannon Ally returns from maternity leave they will give her the main spot with Rick Folbaum.

Didn't they use panhandleparade.com at one point?

They just promoted the assistant ND last month.

So it sounds like Meredith leaves it up to the individual stations on what to do with subchannels and KPHO's GM just doesn't want to dump the weather channel.

It's market 203, cut them some slack. Just like the stories in that newscast (a IHOP manager getting fired for cussing out customers) would not make a top-100 market newscast.

At least Gray is far more honest about Excalibur than Sinclair is about their shells.

oh okay, I guess it makes sense now

No I didn't. Two women at 6pm? What's wrong with just having Dennis and Karen (or Natalie) do the 5, 6, and 10? Who does Natalie replace? I can't recall who left. Oh and Angela Hill should not have retired. She obviously didn't enjoy retirement because now she's with WWL radio.