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no, it's not. Scott Chapin sounds great still and he'll still do the occasional promo, but they've been phasing in this new guy for a while (2009 is when they started using him), I think he's local because I've never heard him elsewhere: [yt]Y1LGyNqTljM[/yt] The four reasons I generally don't watch 12 anymore: You can't go five seconds on the station without hearing "Expect More.". KSAT has promoted the living hell out of that slogan. Horrible VO as seen above. It's sad a VO is one of the reasons you won't watch a station, but he's pretty bad. Heck, Eric Gordon is far better than him. David Cuccio = stale promos/feel of station Poor quality newscast.

Well, for the market size it's not bad. At least they are not using the Fox 1998 package for their music like their sister ... (KVRR's graphics aren't bad but they'd be so much better if they could use fonts other than Tahoma or Impact)

I agree. I've actually met her on multiple occasions, she's always seems to have come across as stuck-up and arrogant. Not very friendly. Fake personality on air when she has to fill in for Monica Taylor. I've never found KENS or KSAT to have a great product. KENS has broken many journalistic ethics just to break a story and I've seen it happen first hand. I'm not going to go into further detail there but ever since that particular incident happened with them I refuse to watch them, aside from the obligatory check-ins to see how Gannett is driving them further into the ground running them. I grew up with KSAT because that's what my parents watched. It's too flashy and blood and guts for my taste. Station's feel is stale due to same CSD since 1997. They also have a horrid announcer who tries too hard to be Scott Chapin and actually that VO is part of the reason why I try not to watch KSAT. Honestly out of all the owners who bid on the Newport stations I thought WOAI would've ended up with Nexstar. I think Nexstar would've given 5 & 12 a run for their money but I'm guessing Sinclair outbid Nexstar. LIN would've been great too to given lonely KXAN some company. But, unfortunately we're stuck with more Sinclair. WOAI's primary team is actually pretty solid now. Randy Beamer is far and away the best anchor in the market, Evy Ramos has an excellent chemistry with Beamer and is also the best female anchor in the market right behind Beamer. She just came in one day and fits right in. Actually she has the same personality as Beamer so it works out great. Right balance of personality, charisma and seriousness and I hope they stay as a duo for years to come. Easily the best team in the market. Delaine Mathieu is very personable and is one of the nicest anchors you'll meet. Albert Flores and Don Harris are longtime mainstays of San Antonio news. With that, WOAI has a powerful evening team they can capitalize on, unlike KENS who changes their male anchors every couple years (let's see if Jeff Goldblatt's contract gets renewed, I don't think so, and actually I haven't seen him on the air lately), or KABB who is in flux with their talent and their primary anchor has been here less than six months and is honestly a little tough to watch. She didn't have much chemistry with Michael Valdes either and actually I do think it was his decision to leave. He seems so much happier being out of there. I think what Blaise Labbe needs to look at, is to stop hiring so much out-of-market talent and hire more San Antonio market veterans or natives of the area, who are bound to stay longer. I will give them props for hiring Ashlei King, who's from the area. Hopefully they will make more hires like that in the future. Prior to all the recent M&A activities, San Antonio was a very stable TV market but lately all these people are leaving and we're getting cheap-rate small market talent that are frankly not great and don't even want to be here and just leave when then contract is up. KSAT just hired a weekend morning reporter from Tyler, TX and honestly I think she's too green for this market, doesn't have a great on-camera presence. Like I would've liked to see Vicki Buffolino resurface somewhere locally, or even Leslie Komet who WOAI used as a holiday fill-in last year. In any which case, there's a lot going on in this market and I don't think we've seen the last of it.

Interesting read about what's going on at the Sinclair duop here. Sylvia Rincon is the latest to leave. Many staffers are worried WOAI is getting preferential treatment over KABB and that the "small tight knit family" KABB once was is becoming more like a business. Not sure I'd agree with that assessment as a viewer. KABB seems to get more preferential treatment on the air, the quality of WOAI's promos are lowering to that of KABB's standard, and so on. (WOAI had some great promos while they were a separate entity, now they are poor quality much like KABB's were prior to the buyout). Content wise, WOAI far and away has the best newscast in the market, and the newscasts here aren't that good to begin with honestly. http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/entertainment_columnists/jeanne_jakle/article/KABB-exits-mount-as-another-news-vet-quits-5835411.php

OK, here's tonight's KENS 6PM open featuring their current music: [yt]Q2YRyfM6RaY[/yt]

Here's an update on Joe Swift, the sportscaster fired for saying farewell to two co-workers. According to him, he was fired over Skype. http://www.nptelegraph.com/news/local_news/former-sports-director-keeps-options-open/article_a6a0c595-b3bf-569b-8e5d-a4375ba114ea.html

Yes and no. For a while after they dumped the staff, they kept their meteorologists and still did live weather cut-ins from the "Texas Weather Center". They would also run limited "original programming". For instance, TXCN took KVUE's "Does It Work?" segments and made it into a thirty minute show. So some hours would be original programming, and others would be rebroadcasts. However around 2011 they went to straight rebroadcasts only. Considering I watched TXCN a lot in their prime, wow, how the mighty have fallen. Haven't seen a second of them under Gannett so I don't know what they do now, last time I watched them was in 2011. I do know that Kevin Selle is no longer chief meteorologist there so I don't know who does the weather there still. WFAA's people, maybe?

I hope. TXCN has been a joke since 2006. I also hope they add TXCN to the digital multicast so that way more people can watch them.

The almighty dollar rules again... (copyright laws in this country seriously need to be updated) Hearst has been known to abuse their DCMA power. You should've filed an appeal with YT and claimed fair use. It's not like you're trying to profit off it...

Unfortunately I do not know anyone who has Time Warner Cable anymore so I have no way of seeing how TXCN has been since the Gannett takeover. NWCN is a real 24 hour news station though, TXCN is a joke.

Hoak seemed to have a thing for knocking off Hothaus. WMBB, Valley News Live, KNOE (the closest knockoff of the final Belo look)... That WMBB look was also picked up by KHAS and KNOP too when they went HD last year. (although KHAS/KSNB now uses a stock Gray look)

KENS no longer uses that cut, I will post what they use now on Monday if I remember. They actually changed music pretty quickly, less than a month after the G3 look launched.

I don't know why, but I like that custom cue so much better than the crap KENS uses (the same cut as the NW cluster). I wouldn't say it sounds "Texas-y" per se, but it does sound very authoritative. As for the London stations, they all use Stephen Arnold themes. I wonder if they used them on a group wide contract basis similar to Nexstar. If they have a heavy Texas accent to them, I'd say it's more Arnold's style and a coincidence. I will miss Third Coast on KIII though. It definitely fits the market in my opinion, (I've been to Corpus countless times over the past fifteen years for a quick getaway. KIII is the station I usually watch because I can't stand the kiddie corps reporters on channel 6). TiH is a very generic theme in my opinion. It's not as bad as cbs2 makes it out to be, but it also isn't a one-size-fits-all theme. That's why I'm not a big fan of standardization, because certain themes fit certain markets like a glove, and then some are out of place. Like TiH would be very out of place on KIII. But unfortunately standardization is inevitable and here to stay. Also, unlike most people especially those outside the state, I've never really held the Spirit of Texas in high regard. I'm guessing it's because a station here never really used it long-term. KMOL had it in the late 80's but it was gone by 1991 (at the latest, I can't pinpoint an exact date) when they went to their "Straight Talk, Straight Facts, Straight To You" ad campaign.

Sounds like WFAA's cut...

This sportscaster was fired for saying farewell to two co-workers who were leaving the station. Station is KNOP which has seen changes lately now that they are owned by Gray. [yt]EFmI2Vz11Cc[/yt] Here's an article to give you more context: http://www.northplattebulletin.com/index.asp?show=news&action=readStory&storyID=28780&pageID=3 Also another sportscaster was fired but this time in Fargo: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/fargo-sports-director-faces-felony-assault-charges_b131787

for lack of a better place to put this. I managed to watch an episode of "The Right Side with Armstrong Williams" this morning and the production values on the show are horrible. The last time I watched Armstrong's show years ago, it was filmed in a dark room with a table, kind of like Charlie Rose's set. Now the show is apparently produced out of WPDE in Myrtle Beach. The intro is the same as when I last watched, but apparently the rest of the graphics are WPDE's news graphics, and the "bug" is the show's logo (looks like it was made in MS Paint). Talk about a horrible clash. The set looks like the same one they use for "Carolina and Company". The guests interviewed are mainly from around the Myrtle Beach area so they don't really have any relevance to a national audience. Back when his show was filmed in Washington he had semi-decent guests. To the show's credit they tried to make the topic relevant to a national audience (I think they mentioned the police and how their roles is changing with officer violence like in Ferguson, how social media has impacted their job, etc.) but they interviewed a couple deputies from the Horry County Sherrif's Office. Tell me how much of America is going to care. Also Armstrong doesn't even refer to his show by the proper name. At the end, he thanked us for watching "The Armstrong Williams Show" and that he hopes to see us back next week... The show has the sloooooowessttt credits sequence ever too. And there's like four names but it took like 30 thirty seconds to get through the credits because they moved so slow. Overall, a b-rate production.

Thank goodness. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/wusa-news-director-resigns_b131231 I hope after this news, WUSA's new ND will move to improve the product.

No, they went from Chris Corley to Eric Gordon then to Malmos. Here's a video confirming that: [yt]-_js82ukZg8[/yt]

Sinclair doesn't seem to be forcing their stations to use Richard Malmos anymore, ever since their buying binge. Like WTOV still uses Jeff Collins, WHP switched to Beau Weaver then some unknown female VO after Sinclair took over, and I could go on and on... Though KEYE did switch to Eric Gordon then Malmos a couple years ago. Read into that what you will. And CBS4 Local reminds me too much of Nexstar.

Coastal is a horrible owner that has made zero investment in their Anchorage stations, aside from upgrading master control to play commercials and syndicated shows in HD.

Why would they? They're not owned by Nexstar...

Good luck, but I expect it be poor quality, looking at the crap that passed for "news" when he was in San Angelo. Also the MMTC lied. They said McCoy is one of only two African-American owners but remember Armstrong Williams owns two stations of his own. So that would be three.

Last night on James Spann's Weather Brains podcast, Kevin Selle broke the news that he will be the new chief meteorologist at KFDX replacing popular meteorologist Skip McBride when he retires later this year. Selle was last the chief meteorologist at Texas Cable News. Kind of a fall to go from DMA #5 to DMA #145 but I guess that's the state of the business now. Good luck to Kevin. I used to watch him on TXCN back when I still had Time Warner and he's pretty good. Also, Nexstar has moved WMBB to their new webpage, mypanhandle.com. No clue what KREX's new site will be.

The Look G attempt isn't bad considering the market size and effort they put into it. It's not a straight up ripoff either like KHSL/KNVN's. Theirs is pretty bad. Interestingly it appears that the opens and talent bump are played out from master control since they're in a HD and the odd transitions from the studio feed to the talent bump etc. For the morning show, oh it irks me that they're using Montserrat (a free Google font) and not Gotham. Could you guys really not afford Gotham? If they'd used Gotham then their ripoff would actually be pretty good. Well, at least they have a BIM site now. Whatever they used before was crap.

No, you're doing it now because Belo was too cheap to do it then and they didn't care too much about KTVB, their smallest station... Also, "new control room smell". Gotta love small market weatherman jokes...