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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.

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)