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Correction: Chris Corley to Malmos.

 

No, they went from Chris Corley to Eric Gordon then to Malmos. Here's a video confirming that:

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New promos for KDBC. Interesting that Brian Lee and not Richard Malmos is the VO.

 

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.

 

Sold! WLOV will become the first non-Alaska property of Coastal Television, owner of the Fox and ABC affiliates in Anchorage. The sale is probably related to that of WTVA that was announced late last month; it also will mark a separation of WTVA from its longtime LMA partner.

 

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.

 

Thankfully they didn't get their silly domain names (LexingtonHomepage? MaconMatters?).

 

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

 

TVNewsCheck this morning has an interesting profile of DuJuan McCoy, whose Bayou City Broadcasting recently moved to buy WEVV Evansville. This quote is really interesting:

 

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.

 

Another Look G ripoff, courtesy of KNBN in Rapid City, SD:

 

http://www.newscenter1.tv/news/watch-newscasts

 

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.

"We waited until now to do HD, because frankly, we wanted to do it right."

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...

Bumping this up. Apparently, if you believe the NMSA, the WTLV 1972 theme is now called, "Production Music: Tabloid" by Frank Denning. Would love to know who found that and how.

Hey there, so here's an update from the consolidation at KABB and WOAI. It looks like they are targeting a move in by December at the latest. WOAI's news set, anchors, control room and master control are still downtown. Everything else is now located at KABB's facility. The two now operate from a consolidated newsroom on the second floor where sales used to be. For whatever reason they decided to paint the walls the same colors as the old newsroom downstairs. Why? I don't know. But here's a before and after.

 

OLD

 

 

NEW:

(taken from Ted Garcia's twitter)

 

WOAI OLD NEWSROOM:

 

All of the reporters and photogs now work out of this new newsroom. I have yet to see what the assignment desk looks like.

 

The old newsroom space downstairs has been gutted and is being converted to additional studios (and I assume an additional control room too) You can bet Devlin is doing the set but I have no clue what it looks like. No word on what happens to SA Living and where their studio will be. That's the latest.

 

Wonderful, they're going to use the same opening cue KING 5 & KGW is using. Great {sarcasm}.

 

And to add on to the greatness you likely won't be able to see it because the nazis at KTVB will have it pulled from YT (surprising how we're in 2014 and some stations still don't want their opens online)...

 

she has expressed an interest in reporting as well, which means we'll probably see her on the 11am news and occasionally the 5 and 6pm.

 

Actually I wouldn't be surprised if they used her for occasional sports reporting too. If I'm not mistaken they used her to do some sports reporting at WTXF as well. Though I do question that author's assessment that she "expressed an interest in reporting". I think it's KSHB trying to multi-task their people and get their money's worth. Their staff is probably stretched thin compared to a larger market. Kansas City is a far cry from Philly when it comes to how the media works there and hopefully she realizes that.

 

Speaking of Michelle Apon, I would not be surprised to see her land at KXTV. Stay tuned. KSHB still also has to fill her vacancy in the weather department too.

 

And while we're discussing KC, KDAF has hired Molly Balkenbush as a reporter.

 

Finally,

 

TBH, her replacement, Dane Murray, sucks.

 

do you mean Dayne Marae? I tried doing a google search for Dane Murray because I wanted to see if she's as bad as you claim but nothing came up.

 

Yeah, she's pretty bad lol... Got to love small market television...

 

And in other ND news.. Robert Cartwright, former ND at WSYR, will be joining KEYE starting on the 13th.

 

I read the press release on that. I found it odd Scott Livingston is the one quoted. So the NDs are hired at a corporate level?

KSHB did not, of course, hire McDonnell because she’s romantically attached to an NFL player.

Uh, yeah right...

 

I also like how the ND came right out and said she's attractive.

WJLA has named Mitch Jacob as their new ND. He's currently the ND at WSYX. He follows his old GM Dan Mellon to 'JLA.

 

I do like the city backdrop for the 7-day forecast. It's a decent package, but they went the cheap route when it comes to animation.

 

We'll have to see if they introduce it tonight or tomorrow.

 

As far as the Sinclair template...they really should outsource that.

 

Why can't they just use wordpress or something? It's easy to make an in-house site that actually looks and works good. In fact, there are individual stations who outsource to local webdesign firms, who do a much better job than what Sinclair is doing. Just look at KTVA.

 

KUTV seems to be phasing in the new graphics on weather segments, but everything else is still using the blue/red package from before.

 

 

Also I must agree; those weather icons need to be re-done. Personally I'd make the suns match the orange-yellow on the subheading. They also got the Sinclair "responsive" template on their site now too.

 

So you quickly answered your own question, I suppose. It's like they're making all these changes with KUTV but we don't notice because we're too busy looking at WBMA and WCIV...

 

Most Gannett stations and newspapers are integrated into the USA Today product because the states/schools use a backend product called Schedule Star.

 

AZCentral is by far the largest exception to the USA Today integration in large part because Arizona is not a Schedule Star state. In addition here Gannett has a partnership with MaxPreps, which in turn has a partnership with our state high school association.

 

But do they need to name the entire segment after the paper? You go to WOAI, who's called Friday Night Fever, KSAT has Big Game Coverage, and KABB has High School To The Max. All are local brands used for many years. Then you go to KENS and it's called "USA Today High School Sports". It just looks so dumb. I don't mind if they mention it casually throughout the segment. It's a minor annoyance, but to actually name the entire segment after it? Ugh, can't wait for the spinoff to be complete.

So KENS5 changed the name of their weekly high school football segment. It used to be called "KENS5 Friday Night Football". Guess what? It's now "USA Today High School Sports"... :bang:

 

Telemundo is adding 30 more minutes of weekday evening news to 14 of its O&Os, at 5:30/4:30 (when the mostly-new weekend early newscasts already air). This is the largest step yet in Telemundo's dramatic local news expansion which has added weekend news (and in some cases, returned local production) to the various O&Os. The network also recently announced it will begin a national weekend evening newscast. The national weekend news debuts October 4, with the expanded local news coming on November 3.

 

30 more employees are expected to be hired nationwide.

 

And it's not just NBC that's in the habit of expanding local news: a new newscast bowed on WRMD Tampa (owned by ZGS) back on September 9.

 

Do you know if KVDA is included? NBCU holds their license but for all intents and purposes they are a ZGS station.

KENS5 changed the opening cut to the one that KING and KGW are using. Man, it sucks. What they were using before was at least semi-tolerable.

 

WCNC picked him up too.

 

Are you the one who misidentified KOIN's and WCNC's current VO? Neither of them sound like John Beach...

 

Still can't stand Sarah Haines's voice - it's like nails on a chalkboard to me!

 

More than just her voice, she acts like a snobby, annoying little kid and crosses the line at times with some of the comments she makes. Not someone I'd want to hang around with, or watch for that matter. No wonder she usually doesn't fill in for Lara on weekdays...

Michael Valdes is out at KABB after 20 years and one of the original members of the KABB news team.

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/jakle06/2014/09/s-a-anchor-exits-tv-after-20-year-run/

Nice to see WVEC's promos still have the "feel" that they did pre-standardization, they just change the fonts to match the news graphics but same feel to them.