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I'm surprised that has not been done already because master control for those stations is done out of KTVA now. If you're familiar with FTVLive, he has a lot of hate towards their previous GM Bill Ransom, so I understand the meaning of the headline. Not really since KTVF is owned by a third party. I could see GCI making a play for them and dramtically improving the quality of the product coming from those stations.

Seattle Times, please kindly shut up and just deliver the news...

This is why WKMG is last place in almost all time slots, because there's no stability there. Their main male anchors just keep coming and going. As you just start getting used to one he leaves.

So, I was perusing the web earlier and went to Alvin Williams hard to read Examiner blog. I came across this: I live streamed their newscast the other day and did not see Early, just Kelly Jones and Deitra Tate. So did they do away with this whole social media reporter thing? I hope so. What does Jordan do now? Just another GA reporter? Or if she is still doing this social media thing, does she pretape her reports now? They also have two other social media reporters: Taren Reed and I came across another one, Abby Gresham. Do they really need three social media reporters? Either or, glad they finally came to their senses and took her off the desk. It made no sense to have a social media reporter at the desk with the other three anchors.

WSYR Turnover WSYR in Syracuse is having quite a bit of staff turnover as of late. First reporter Leigh Issacson left for Fox8 New Orleans back in July after her contract expired. Then weatherman Chris Brandolino is leaving to work in New Zealand. Tanja Babich is going to work at a station in the Chicago area. It was reported that Caroline Gable their traffic reporter, is not returning from maternity leave because she enjoys her new role as a mother so much. Finally weekend weathercaster Julia Weiden is leaving to go to a station in the southeast. They finally filled Issacson's position with Rachel Polansky from sister station WUTR. They promoted Stacy-Lyn Honda to take over for Babich when she leaves the station to work in Chicago. Jim Teske who is currently the noon meteorologist (what a waste of money to have a weather guy only for the noon news) will add The Morning News to his duties as well. They recently announced former chief met Dave Eichorn is returning to the station but they haven't found a slot for him yet (he will not be chief again, as Dave Longley will keep those duties). My prediction is he will take the weekend evening duties and they will find a new meteorologist to take weekend morning news, or just cancel the weekend morning news because Nexstar hates weekend morning news. Or they can just go with three meteorologist from now on, but that is doubtful as WSTM has four and the #1 station would obviously want to have four. Now they have to replace Weiden, Gable, Honda. So, hopefully they will back at full staff levels soon. I wonder if Nexstar has anything to do with all these people leaving but I highly doubt it. source is cnyradio.com, you can find all of the articles there (too many for me to link) You may be on to something. WEWS is down a meteorologist after Christine Ferriera quit. They have a freelancer filling in Saturday mornings but I would think they want to have their own in-house meteorologist again (Trent Magill got pushed to weekday mornings and I would assume he's staying there). Now that I'm making the connection, I wonder if Juila Weiden is going to take a position at WCCB, since the article said she was going to a station in the southeast. I doubt it but it's a interesting conclusion if that does happen.

Considering the crap they have now, this is an improvement...

You can't get much worse than Time Warner. I hope Comcast buys them.

I'm not surprised this is happening now as much as I'm surprised that this didn't happen sooner.

Sorry, can't see it happening in Tyler. Maybe Baton Rogue. I know that in Shreveport and in Midland/Odessa, Nexstar stations there will probably produce primetime newscasts but that's all I see happening. Tyler could benefit from it though. For those not aware of KETK's news, the content and style is almost like Fox News-local with a very evident conservative bias on their political and government stories. Their ND Neal Barton (who also doubles as their main anchor, whether that will change under Nexstar is unknown) does commentary after every weeknight 5PM newscast called "Point of View with Neal Barton" which are very conservative in tone. And this station used to have a segment called "Talk Back" on their morning news where they partnered with a local radio station and they had this host Garth Maier read comments on a pre-determined topic (which were also politically conservative in tone) until they got in hot water and did away with their segment. I hope this crap ends with Nexstar ownership. They can keep Barton as main anchor for all I care but please get a REAL ND not out to pass a political agenda, or heck switch Barton to weather since he is also a meteorologist. He can stick to weather since weather is a non-political subject. Their current weather guy is . KETK makes Sinclair's national reports look neutral and balanced in comparison.

They will probably keep everything status quo. Comcorp and Nexstar operate similarly.

Ha. Called it.

Yes, Fox used to be on K47DF, now an indie station. I could actually see Entravision snapping up Fox like they have in the Valley and in Laredo. It wasn't on London's end, the Caller-Times reported: This is correct. Their OTA signal is very weak, and I only managed to get caps of them overnight (around 2-3AM). They don't do HD outside of Fox as their plant isn't HD, so the picture quality is bad, really bad. It's almost like low-res 480i. Imagine security camera quality, that's what KUQI's picture looks like. Here's the video as promised. Note that they never did a legal ID within that hour this was the closest thing they had: [yt]bs0GaF7KUhw[/yt]

Good, I hope somebody decent like Sinclair buys them. I have video of them from August, let me see if I can get it up so you can see how bad this station is.

Oh thank god. Gray will definitely pour some much needed funds into KGNS, hopefully including HD newscasts and more staff.

No, there's also KEVN.

Glad they're selling to Schurz and not Sinclair (for certain users I don't hate Sinclair, but I think Schurz will do more heavy-lifting and investments than Sinclair).

KSDK has this design now. All the others remain the same.

Since when did Post-Newsweek own the word "local"? They may have originated the brand but that doesn't mean they own it.

Yes they do.

KSEE dropped Chapin in 2009 in favor of John Young, because Granite mandates their stations use him as their announcer,

because most view it on an ipad now... although I agree with your point. But this is so much better than the CBS Local sites or that dreaded Fox & Friends site that looks like someone loves Windows 8 too much... the Gannett sites also needed an update after the new graphics were adopted, as the current sites have elements of the old graphics package (mainly the breaking news banner)

The Spirit is not a Belo mandate. KENS has never used the Spirit signature, neither has KVUE... That's a total shock, wow. Definitely gone way too soon. RIP Alan.

Wouldn't shock me, also thinking music will be The Rock and John Young will stay their VO.

Not really considering all of Gannett's websites and CMS are done in-house.