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oh boy... here we go... the race to the bottom is about to reach lightspeed... no... LUDICROUS SPEED!

i know people who work with chuck... pretty sure the last thing he wants to do is host "today"... how about jimmy fallon? or seth myers? maybe they could get lorne michaels to find someone... hey, jay leno isn't doing anything either... maybe they can win back conan, or andy, i mean they already ... :rolleyes:

been back on since yesterday... http://beta.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-cbs-dish-reach-deal-blackout-ends-20171124-story.html

don't get why people think NBC will get angry for preempting olympics for breaking news.... they won't if it's something significant (like a mass shooting)... that is the first cut-in WTMJ broke in to the '12 summer olympics (on a sunday morning!!) for the Sikh temple shooting... once more crew came in, olympics got pushed off to 4.2 for the rest of the day... they are still one of the oldest NBC affiliates in the country... sports? hell no... but if there's a major breaker they can totally preempt the olympics... no one wants to be the network that punished a local station for covering local news... the reason WRAL probably didn't cover it? olympic news preemptions = less staff scheduled to work & calling in crew not scheduled to work = $$$overtime$$$!!!

scripps has more requirements for it's "must run" national "investigations" than sinclair does with their crap... everyone loves getting told by corporate that you MUST run this story at the top of the A block at 10pm on a certain date...

the logo in your avatar got ditched in 87 for the kcop one when they moved to west sac... then they realized the new one sucked and debut a refined version of the previous logo around 1990... that logo is still painted on their helipad... KOVR has a unique history... and the internet hasn't documented it well...

scripps is barely investing in WGBA outside of (necessary) technology upgrades. vizrt/the virtual set and HD news are a sign of that. keeping the staff lean makes me feel that they are going to try to "flip" the station. green bay seems too small market for scripps, and i bet they dump it in the future. same goes for WSYM in lansing. WGBA and WTMJ getting talent opens at the exact same time is no coincidence. TMJ's art department is operating as a partial extension of the scripps graphics hub, doing the graphics transitions of the journal group. that's why the rollout is so slow.

scripps corporate had nothing to do with the "denver 7" rebrand... which is why all the initial graphics sucked... if anyone wasn't too impressed by the rebrand, it was the scripps home office...

hahahahahahahaha... don't say i didn't warn ya...

wexler was responsible just as much as berra was for allowing berra's cockamamie franchise ideas to destroy the station's integrity. "speedbusters"?? "dirty dining"?? and dont forget how he would allow stories to be sensationalized to the point they'd get sued over them... anyways it's not wtmj that's changing... i will say the biggest thing people on here will have a problem with is the new logo for the station that is rebranding... not good...

there is a rebrand coming for at least one scripps station... but 'XYZ isn't it... if and when it does happen, this site is gonna lose its mind... i can pretty much guarantee it... no hints. i already said too much!!

they'll get it eventually... this isn't some push-button change... the only reason tmj got it first was because their graphics department picked up some of the work so the (slow) scripps hub didn't have to do it. most of the journal stations don't have proper graphics departments, so... a lot of the Journal viz infrastructure is old, and they are finding out that upgrades need to happen so the graphics work as well as they do on the stations with brand new hardware...

do you see any of the journal stations using the scripps pkg yet??? i don't... yet... there is a lot of stuff that goes into launching packages. all the stations can't get the new graphics at once. wftx was one of the last to get the journal pkg if my memory serves me correctly. they are working on a few stations at a time, and the "bigger" stations will be first to get it, but not necessarily in the order you may think. that is done and already on a few stations... WCPO just switched to viz in the last few weeks.

they're spending plenty of money... you just don't see it... go to any of the former journal communications stations and ask how much scripps has invested in them... many are adding staff like crazy & upgrading equipment left and right... WTMJ is running out of space in their newsroom to put new staff... it's no coincidence they turned a profit this time last year and not this year... since then they bought a bunch of poorly run stations that need a ton of money sunk into them... JBG was cheap... cheap in the way they would rather keep paying union engineers to sit around for hours a day doing nothing between shows instead of spending big bucks automating the control room... now it's up to scripps to make those investments and they ain't cheap...

they couldn't even if they wanted. the vizrt version of the scripps graphics won't be ready for a few more months. can't do much worse than their 3:00 and 4:00 shows are doing now.

posted this in the speculation board but it may interest more people here: wgba in green bay has been posting some locally-branded content that used the scripps package to twitter for the last few weeks. [MEDIA=twitter]633435764974616576[/MEDIA] are the ex-journal stations that had no real art departments are starting to jump on the hub?

tmj is adding much needed producers and mmj's... announced in a meeting last week (along with field equipment upgrades... maybe they will retire the satellite truck they have been driving around since the late 1980's)... but they're also planning on installing ignite... gotta free up the money for those new positions somewhere... a couple of veteran engineers getting laid off should balance out the six or seven new low-paying newsroom jobs... adding to the i-team too, new i-team producer started last week... the biggest problem at tmj is low morale due to lack of communication from management. everyone knows things are going on but nobody talks about them. gm says "no rumors" but can't commit to saying yes or no about layoffs due to ignite or hubbing (traffic, master control, graphics). ktnv has always been a wreck... moreso since their nd jumped ship right before sweeps... they're adding staff too... they stand to improve a lot if scripps fixes all the messes journal created... actually putting staff in their giant empty newsroom is one. riding tmj's dirty coat-tails is the other (dump "dirty dining" already!!!) one fun station to watch should be wgba... journal never seemed to care much for this station despite it being the closest market to the main office... still in 16:9 standard def and using a bastardized version of the journal graphics. they got all of wtmj's hand-me-downs and i think their entire budget may have been whatever money tmj had left over at the end of the last fiscal year... LOL. the only thing they can do in HD are the ridiculous Packers TV Network programs because journal bought them an hd field production kit (tricaster) for that... allegedly they still switch on an ancient GVG-200...

"blue helio" is rey and "red creative" is ruth. c'mon folks... not that hard to figure out. they are both capable of making motion graphics on their own or by working together. trying to assign the source of a graphics package to one person is ridiculous and unrealistic. christ...