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My assumption is that like most people who don’t know when to ride off into the sunset there are signs he’s well past his expiration date.

On the contrary... you can be a street reporter turned long term fill in with a 12 credit hour weather certificate from Penn State and get stuck on the air during a tornado warning. Then a month later you do sports when the main sports guy leaves and find time to report in between in market 14. True story.

I think they have gotten better at editing. With WDIV an absolute dumpster fire 7 is the best station in town for what it’s worth.

Which station? WXYZ has been prerecorded for a couple years now at 11. You can tell because there are no anchor interactions with weather or sports. Unless they started doing that in the last month. The sometimes rough cuts not letting the anchor finish their sentence are another clue. All definitely more recent than fall 2024. Watching last nights show… it’s recorded for sure. Tonight’s had a live A block and then it was recorded.

I’ve been noticing more LIVE reports on WXYZ of late. I wonder if they are backing off the Scrippscast/Lets only record packages thing?

It isn’t like you can’t learn on the job from the two certified meteorologists and the weather producers. Plenty of amateur folks know their stuff.

I can't imagine Goudie being there until 77-80 years old. He's 70 after all.

I’m assuming he got bored in Toledo and wanted a change. A quarter century is a long time to be in one spot. Neither male anchor is great. 7’s shows still aren’t as bad as DIV’s. That place is hurting. Don’t really care about ratings for this thought exercise. Just that 4 makes tons more mistakes and has serious technical issues that would kill you before the day was out if you make it a drinking game.

Hopefully they have him anchor some too… they need a male fill in anchor in the evenings.

Their new graphics were inspired by a combination of brainstorming the most boring thing you make a lower third look like and someone on vacation watching the 2012 Scripps graphics and loving the way the transitions moved side to side. It is by far one of the worst looks in local TV today. The only graphics ABC ever had that I admired was what WLS had before they standardized everything. Those were pleasant to look at.

I’ve heard similar talk about that auction becoming a major upheaval in the broadcast TV industry as a whole so I would imagine the time is coming. At this point broadcast TV isn’t a growth industry.

Im honestly surprised they haven’t unloaded ABC and the broadcast stations with it by now.

Looks pretty nice… and blue…. Really blue… hope you can swim blue. Also somebody get that circle 7 on the floor an ABC logo…. Kidding. Nice to see at least one without it for a change.

By the time they get these out to all their stations it’ll be time for a new package.

What makes it the best station in their portfolio?

That’s the mostly likely scenario I think… break it up into pieces and sell it.

The only other one of the original 5 that refers to itself as Channel 7 is the orphaned one. It’s kind of surprising cause you’d think “channel x” would be a pretty standard thing across local TV. I don’t know that it really made all that much sense to go to ABC 7 in the first place. By the time they did it everybody knew the channel lineup no matter what city you were in.

A glaring downside to the Scrippscasts/avoid live shots thing…. Since nothing is live the reporting packages are always pretty good because they had time to get them right. When there is breaking news or a big event and they have to be live… the young reporters they hire these days seem to struggle mightily because they don’t do it often. That’s what I’ve started noticing in Detroit anyways. Some times they sound great live but other times the same person is tripping over their words and that’s been multiple people having the same issues.

The app logos on the Apple TV apps for the O&O stations got a new look as well. Instead of just a blue background they now have a cityscape in an opaque silhouette of sorts specific to the market the station is in. New York for example has the Brooklyn bridge as part of its cityscape background. Interestingly New York and Chicago have the ABC logo dead center on the left side and the west coast stations have it in the lower left corner so they didn’t standardize here.

That’s one of those matter of time oversight things.

Dispatch is the name of that track in the music package.

The ABC O&O lower thirds never become less disappointing....

I always have mixed feelings on these kinds of things... On one hand he can point at things... on the other hand the things he's pointing at are necessarily a lot smaller on the screen than they would be in full screen with him narrating since he has to be able to point at them. 3-D graphical elements that are projected next to the person reporting that they can point at... those are more impressive. So if there was a car graphic sitting on the floor there...

Hitting the eggnog early and often.

Sure. The Kansas City Star had an article: https://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/article313775394.html And so did the FOX affiliate there: https://fox4kc.com/news/entertainment/kansas-city-channel-4-news-station-featured-in-new-steven-spielberg-trailer/amp/ It occurs to me in a scene like this they can keep some actual folks who are working on the production in the far background in a scene like this and have it still look legitimate. I agree there are an awful lot of folks there when they might have 1 to do the floor directing.