Mrknowitall526

WOW I don't think I've ever seen Chris do anything except weekend mornings! Always thought it was a shame, because I really like his forecasts.

It's mostly because in the Lehigh Valley, we're often forgotten by the Philly stations unless something really dramatic or gruesome happens. So we have nowhere else to turn for local news except for the Morning Call or Express Times newspapers, the latter of which is a sad excuse for a paper. WFMZ does a good job, but I think they could do even better and get even more hyper-local with the news. But they'd need a larger staff for that and that probably wouldn't happen.

They need to pay the good ones more! I still miss Meghan Packer and Hillary Lane. I'm actually surprised that Jamie Stover is still around, she is really good and has gotten better I think in the past year than she ever was.

Rick & Monica can do 6 & 11, Brian & Sharrie can pick up the 5 and nothing else will change!

I didn't think they were together at 10, but I only watched briefly. But I did notice they moved to the PPL Center. Not sure why they had ever not done the weekend evening shows there ... especially since the Saturday morning show has been done there. I wonder how much longer we have to wait for the new set. Seems like it's been a while.

How odd. Is 1.5 hours of news on Sunday night really necessary? I suppose it's probably cheaper than syndicated shows. Doesn't the network usually air sports things at that time?

Did I miss something? What report was so controversial?

I would think it's probably just old...

I also thought that was strange. I recorded it but have not watched yet.

Clayton is from Nazareth, so it's nice to have a home-town person. Maybe he'll stick around awhile! And I like Dan, too, so I'm glad they hired him!

So Chandi Lowry appears to be at some weird, small desk, someone (I'm assuming at the studio) and not the PPL Center - but the PPL Center was used for the morning show this morning. Very odd.

Oh no, I like her! She recently got married, though I thought she was from around here so she must be going to another station. I wonder who will do weekend nights? Dan Skeldon has done those a few times. I like him, he's very passionate.

http://www.wfmz.com/news/lehigh-valley/69-news-is-getting-a-new-set/595136271

Just aired a report saying it'll debut in September and they'll be using the PPL Center for every newscast until then. Interesting!

Yes, it was ... not sure why they said that. But the video said "in the coming weeks"

Message posted on the WFMZ Facebook page says they are working on a new set with the "latest technology" to celebrate the 40th anniversary! Yesterday, I noticed the anchors using Surface tablets at the desk.

She's been the one following most of the leads on that story ... "doggedly" as Rob Vaughn said

Sometimes the newscast is sleepy... but when a huge local story breaks, WFMZ really does a great job. They just had a full 9 minutes of coverage of the indictment of the Allentown mayor. There were 3 live reports. In fact it was the whole A-block. I wish they could do stuff like this everyday. It's really where they shine.

They announced at 10 on Sunday that Jacqueline Thomas is leaving the station, they didn't say where she was going.

[quote name='rkolsen']So does WPVI occasionally do the whole weather balloon thing? Or was it more a promotional gimmick for "there goes that action news van" advertisement to say they went to space? [IMG]http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/content/wpvi/images/cms/1520278_800x450.jpg[/IMG] I'm sure @Eat News will report that KBEX has one where if Dan Dan the Relapse Man is wet it's raining or pissed himself; if he's sweating profusely he's going through withdrawal or there's a heat wave; if he's swaying there's a strong gust of wind, he's still withdrawaling or on meth; if he's shivering it's cold or still going through withdrawal (it's a bitch); and if he's blue he overdosed.[/QUOTE] They did it once that I can remember in recent memory. They launched it sometime in the morning that day and I think I remember Karen Rogers going out to where it landed, live on the air during the morning show.

No, but I did notice the new weather lighting. I thought Ed Hanna looked brighter than usual! Strange that they would have cones and caution tape where it might be visible on air! The studio could use a revamp.

Hahahahaha! Wow. Thought it couldn't get worse than last year!

New graphics better be coming with it!

Was just coming in to post that Nydia Han said basically the same thing, that they are moving to a new set "across the hall". I don't think they're using a recreation of the old set. I think it's the old set in a temporary location that they spent the past week. But it was fairly elaborate to even move the video wall as well. (which, IMO, is still woefully under utilized). I can't imagine the skyline will go away, it's been a part of the set for what, 15 years now? We can all only hope that break graphics are coming. Ones that matched the weather graphics would do well. They still have that "Action News" look while being different enough and more modern. I still enjoy most of the graphics, but the L3's and especially the "headline" L3's are so, so outdated. And over used.

That's always looked like that, hasn't it? I commented on a post of Cecily Tynan's on Facebook what was going on with everyone sitting at the "kids table" and she said "Set construction"