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Looking at WCCO's history they didn't seem too big on syndicated pkgs until after CBS took control. The majority of their stuff before then was local. They had a couple Mayoham packs and the Wow & Flutter theme but they didn't begin using a Gari or 615 theme until after CBS took control.

I really want to know who made their 1983 theme.

I bet CBS had a say in this. Remember they're buying WQAM and they also own WFOR. They probably don't want him working on their competitor and likely told him to choose between TV and radio. It wouldn't surprise me if they addressed Adam Kuperstein soon enough as well.

I have a feeling Nexstar will do this with Comcorp because that deal is moving like molasses...

I hope KENS won't be running four subchannels. They've got CBS, Estrella TV and VIPIR 5 Radar currently. Methinks that the radar feed will get the can to make room for this new channel.

IIRC correctly KIII has four subchannels already. ABC, Me-TV, MundoFox and Cozi.

So, apparently WMC has a three anchor morning newscast now. Why?

KVDA and the Fresno station are no longer listed on ZGS's site so I think you are right. However they are still using Hola Cuidad as their website so it must've been very recent.

There's no open up for KFOX but I found a promo posted 4 days ago. The amazing thing, KFOX is still using Scott Chapin. [yt]1hjSL_eB0jE[/yt]

Yeah there's three potential designs they're looking at. If you scroll up we talked about KTVX offering similar survey.

Yeah, they also switched away from John Young to Jeff Laurence. I have their open but it's a bad capture. I'll retry tomorrow for better captures using my software that doesn't put a watermark on the video because I paid for it...

I hope KSNV follow suit. I looked at their current gfx, when and why did they mutilate Look F so much? I think they're a rare example of a station I would turn away from solely because of the graphics. That's how bad they are.

They don't work now, they won't work that way either. I want them to update it so that way the graphics do not get chopped off on my screen but that won't happen. The mentality of these designers and most of the people here is watch it in HD or watch it with black bars hogging up screen space. The reality is the majority of viewers have ol' reliable tube TVs and I want the entire screen filled without information getting chopped off. Even Sinclair's new package is designed a lot better than Gannett's. It'll be interesting to see how the stations here will adopt them when they do. It wouldn't surprise me if they change the web address away from myfoxzone.com. First off they're leasing the domain from Fox. Second I never understood why that's their web address to begin with. Yes I know that's what they began using under Bayou City but it really needed to go when they went to news. I know they need something generic to accommodate the two stations technically in two DMAs. So let's see what Gannett cooks up for them... Also I saw Molly Garrity transferred from KREM to KIDY? So, is she replacing Jenna Rogers or something? I think Rogers has been gone for months. Also I don't get why you would move from a decent sized market like Spokane to San Angelo, but to each their own, right?

yay out of state companies who want to continue to contribute to the various stereotypes of Texas... The reality is outside of the license plates and government documents nobody uses the motto around here... rkolsen, on 30 Oct 2014 - 01:28 AM, said: I know you're a fanboy of WBAL but you couldn't have found a Gannett station's logo to use?

WOAI will likely take it in December when they move to the KABB facility. WOAI master control is now coming out of KABB (I can tell because the in-program bug has shrunk drastically like KABB's and KMYS' are) so the transition seems to be moving along nicely.

According to Street View it was changed sometime between May and October 2011. GE must have been cheap... To bring this back on topic, it looks like WTSP redesigned their site to look more like USA Today (also their slogan reeks small market).

Sounds like cheap production music. Well, it's better than the stuff their in-house guy came up with. (I honestly think he also did the 2012 theme which sounds like a refined version of the 2011 theme). These moves probably came from Gray corporate since the station management is the same. Also Bob Tracey isn't the best VO but is a huge improvement over Jason Davis who sounds like a guy they found off the street and handed him the copy and told him, "read this".

The same guy who fired Doug McKelway while he was GM at WJLA?

They'll probably have to, to add the ABC logo because ABC is so adamant about their logo being prominent on the affiliates. I don't know why. the circle three looks fine the way it is. The "kiii tv" part could stand to be updated some, but don't mess with the circle 3. Another logo that I hope stays, KBMT's 12.

Note the url, ibdigitalagency.com. So, Nexstar must be migrating from Inergize to Internet Broadcasting? Actually, are they merging into one CMS company to give WorldNow a run for their money? I ask because Nexstar consolidated Inergize into IB's offices earlier this year. They're waking up and realizing the current design (which is just a refined version of what they used when their sites were on Joomla) is not very good. The first design I got was nice, it's an improved version of Tribune's sites but it looks a lot more functional and user friendly, blending the best of the blogging layout with a functional news interface. The second is a time machine to WorldNow circa 2003, yuck. I will likely answer the survey on that and tell them it sucks. Never got the third one. With some luck I did get the third one finally. It's OK, it reminds me a lot of KSAT's current site, to the point where I wouldn't be surprised if IB actually did do their new site. The first one, A, is by far the best. I hope that's the one they go with.

USA Weekend is different from USA Today. It's a pullout magazine in Sunday newspapers just like Parade is. Not the same as the Friday edition of USA Today which is branded as USA Today Weekend. Also I read on TV Spy that WVEC hired a new meteorologist, Iisha Scott from WECT, to do weekend mornings. So, did Julie Wilcox leave? I think that aside from cosmetic changes, Gannett should run WFAA like under Belo where it was basically their baby and WFAA got whatever it wanted. I know Gannett holds KUSA in high regard but they shouldn't. Denver is a slow-growth market compared to Dallas and Gannett should treat WFAA as such.

Great, they're partnering with USA Weekend... Thing is, not everybody's local newspaper carries USA Weekend. Most of them carry Parade (which is the main competitor). Fortunately, my local paper, the Express-News (a Hearst property), actually carries both now but for a long time they just carried Parade. Gannett needs to think these things through before they roll out something like this...

Check out KIII's FB page. I hope the constant promotion of shows and asking people "are you watching TV3 right now, because if you're not you're missing..." is a Gannett thing, because KIII used to not do that until after Gannett took over. Strangely KENS does not do this. But, not a lot happens in Corpus Christi anyway so maybe that's why...

Hopefully when they get their new set, they will also pick a logo and stick with it. If I'm not mistaken they use three different logos, the two in that video and then one on their site which I think is also used in the opens...

So good they are making the day after Christmas a paid holiday. Good for them.