sanewsguy

this would actually be an improvement over what WFAA and the rest of the Belo stations have right now. This looks clean, the Belo sites I never really got used to, they're just too cluttered IMO.

Looks great! Better than a lot of the newer websites being developed. (not sarcasm)

Their new logo reminds me a lot of KXAN's logo. And did they hire the same company that designed the new CBS O&O graphics to design their new graphics too?

yes

Wouldn't surprise me if they promoted either Shannon Wolfson or Sally Hernandez to the main spot. Both are deserving of it. Though if Christine Haas had just waited a little longer for an opening... Someone on the comments section of their site suggested their weekend evening anchor would be bumped up. That won't happen because their weekend evening anchor is David Scott...

I'm pretty sure WOLO has a control room in Columbia again since they air morning newscasts now.

NMSA's name for the theme: "I Love Chicago"-themed News Package"

Good. But the guy who replied above you completely ignored it. ^_^

What bothers me the most is that everyone is calling the "Chicago My Home" signature the "Enforcer signature". Sad that is associated with Enforcer more than anything. I've never considered it the "Enforcer sig" but always the Chicago My Home signature or the "CBS Inc. Signature"...

I was wondering why they aren't using the new graphics/on their new set. Maybe by this weekend? KGPE isn't very good with uploading video on their site, but the stuff I have seen, still with their old set/graphics/SD equipment. Yes the KGPE-KSEE site debuted early yesterday.

No it's not. Having said that, it definitely sounds like Arnold did something custom for them. I love it, beats Enforcer any day.

Yeah, but with the government shutdown, nothing's going to get approved now (depending on how long that lasts)...

I know, but just the way you said it, with the capitalization and profanities and everything, definitely made my day.

It's not that bad. The old logo was good, but it was getting dated (although it held up well for all these years). The 22 does look a little "old" but I don't mind it. You crack me up CircleSeven.

Really? "We can't wait to get this party started!" Who's running their Twitter feed? A teenager?

If I'm not mistaken, KCOY produces the morning newscasts for both KCOY and KION. Then KION produces the evening news for both stations.

They still use that logo for the statewide Montana Television Network. I've seen it elsewhere on their sites in the recent past. It's very ugly and dated and I don't know why they've kept it.

Maybe they'll stop favoring recent Emerson College grads at their stations once Nexstar takes over (but then they'll start favoring people from Texas...). I don't like when these come up. In a perfect world, yes Hearst would've owned it. But Hearst could've sold it to somebody else within that time frame. Sinclair may not have had triopolies, they could've sold to someone else. WLOS could've been sold to Gannett instead of Sinclair (for example). So none of that would have happened. Speculation at its finest...

Nobody wants WLNE because it is a poor-performing station in that market. WJAR is the ten-ton gorilla in that market because they signed on first. Therefore most have never switched away. WPRI signed on second so they're second place. WLNE signed on last so they've always been last place. WLNE will probably go to Sinclair. They would be the best thing to happen to that market. I still think Nexstar will go after WBNG. Who cares if they have a monopoly on Binghamton? It's a very small market and I'm sure most of y'all haven't been there. I'm shocked they were able to sustain three news operations for so long (until Newport finally pulled the plug on WIVT's local news and now they have a half-assed attempt at local news that still uses graphics from 1995). They'll be fine with just one news station.

Who says NBC is going to operate it? They may be purchasing it to ensure they have still have a Telemundo affiliate in such a pre-dominantly Hispanic market as the Valley. But my money is on them outsourcing operations to ZGS once they close in on the license.

Yeah, so somebody's having a little too much fun. TVNT's favorite "social media reporter" comes up again as I was perusing her twitter feed. Let's just say tyrannical bastard is right, she should be pulled off immediately. Look what I found: She also complained that she didn't get ice in her drink at Taco Bell. This was on her station twitter. Honestly, who cares? Excuse me a sec...

According to her WPMI bio (they didn't waste time posting it either), she was previously a producer in Orlando, West Palm Beach and New Orleans. Most producers, not all, are usually behind the scenes because either they don't want to be on TV but want to work in it, or suck really bad but still want to work in TV. But she's young and she's blonde so she's qualified... :bang: At least they made her clean up her twitter handle... And Taren Reed looks nothing like Jordan Early, she looks like a "behind-the-scenes" type person. They probably know she's a lot better than Jordan, but let's be frank. Mobile is not big enough (or doesn't have enough traffic) to justify a separate traffic reporter. otherwise that's probably where they would've put Jordan. But with no traffic reporter, their excuse to get eye candy on the morning newscast is the dreaded "social media reporter". They probably do consider her a 4th member of the morning team, and in due time I'm sure Creative Services will start including her in promos. You probably don't see her at noon probably for the same reason you don't see traffic reporters at noon. No reason to have 'em on. They want Jordan on there n the mornings, when certain people (you know who) are more likely to watch than at noon when everybody's at work and not really watching the noon news. I'm done with this rant.

WETM's graphics (the 2005 KXAN graphics package from GO) aren't too bad. They've held up well. They use the 2005 NBC Artworks graphics for weather (they updated them a couple of days after Nexstar took control), which makes me think that they might start using that full time, but maybe not.

OK, I'm going to vent here for a minute. Why do stations need "social media reporters"? It's a pointless position if you ask me. Anybody can do social media, you do not need somebody specific to just do social media. It's much like the traffic reporter position. It usually exists so NDs can put some inexperienced young female right out of school on the air because "she resonates with the audience" (BS an ND would tell you). Some stations (such as KSAT) actually take this position seriously and put experienced people (off-duty police officers) on the air. Most don't. Now ND's have found another position they can use to place an inexperienced young blonde on and that is the social media reporter position. It's a stereotype, that the average person who uses social media is young and female. While that may be true, you really don't see stations hiring an older male (or female) for this position (imagine Rob Jennings as the social media reporter, yeah that'll never happen...). Besides, Jordan Early is not a good fit for this position. I looked at her twitter feed (@JordanEmmaEarly) and she barely tweets, maybe once or twice every two or three weeks. If you're going to be a "social media reporter", then maybe you should tweet more often... Done ranting there... Yet we're still waiting for them to greenlight the Barrington deal and the Comcorp deal... With the exception of WMUR, none of these are owned by mega-chains. WVIR is owned by a Florida firm whose only three stations are WVIR, WBBH, and WZVN. The other three are locally-owned. Maybe this has to do with it? Also of note, WRAL and KSL are on in-house CMS's.

Hell, that looks better than KABB's mugs. KABB literally printed their logo on cardstock and just taped it on the mug (with ordinary household tape). But hey, it's Sinclair, what can you do?