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Maybe those long awaited talent opens will appear?

Scripps quality lives on...

Looks like 7 flipped on a new antenna atop the Willis Tower last week... towards the bottom of this Feder article... supposedly the signal is crisper and clearer OTA... http://www.robertfeder.com/2018/04/10/robservations-chess-records-remote-fulfills-dream-dave-hoekstra/

If they stick with those then I can live with them... they aren’t bad at all...

So DMA rank determines whether anything is happening? One could argue that smaller markets with less revenue are more unstable... there is far more happening than you think. Don’t place much stock in DMA ranks... it’s not ranked by anything but population...

Scripps and by extension management at WXYZ is a slimy group of people... they kept this guy on their air despite knowing about his sexually harassing coworkers in grotesque ways... their HR even reportedly asked “how do you know it’s his?” in response to his sexting female colleagues pictures of his genitals... eeek this is a pretty good article about how not to handle sexual harassment allegations these days... https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2018/03/31/malcolm-maddox-sexting-wxyz/468202002/

For the first time in 10+ years we are getting the story intro then “Good evening I’m blank in for blank and I’m blank...” refreshingly old school and beats the hell out of “first at 11” as an opening line...

WXYZ is having quite a rough anchor situation: Morning Anchor Malcom Maddox has been fired for sexual harassment. No replacement named. Morning Meteorologist Keenan Smith has been filling in. Lead anchor Stephen Clark retired to go to Nashville to do country music and suddenly is going to 104.3 WOMC the number one radio station in Detroit to host their morning show. No replacement named. Noon and 4pm anchor JoAnne Purtan was laid off in the Scripps cuts after 20 years there. And 6/7/11pm anchor Carolyn Clifford is out for surgery. So no morning co-anchor, no noon anchor and no regular 6/7/11pm anchors at the circle 7 right now...

Is it a different show there? I’d love to see the WPBF version... maybe it’s actually interesting...

How does a random catch all thread have a topic?

Neither of those groups has much hope... both are big but both have previous financial difficulties... now you are in Greyhound territory... how many bankruptcies can we squeeze out of this thing?

Umm... Granite was eventually peeled apart wasn’t it? As far gone as these stations are and the amount it would take to make them hum again why would you restructure rather than getting the cash and walking away? I don’t see the incentive there... it’s not unlike Sears-Kmart... what fool would try to restructure them and what would they get out of it?

Here in Detroit they used the red breaking news ones a lot... those were well... red with a little white on the edges and stuff... it’s not like the trapezoids became rhombuses or something...

I’ve always thought that the cable networks allowed the TV operation to be well oiled and expensive but when they were removed Scripps had no idea how to cut and it’s simply become a mess and a downward spiral... this is what it looks like when a firm goes under though... that slow burn into oblivion....

Those are hardly different than the old ones... they added some edging and that’s about it... the transition is slower but I’m not seeing much different there...

I think it’ll be picked over in pieces in a bankruptcy or liquidation at some point... Here’s Another cost cut... Longtime WXYZ Noon and The NOW anchor JoAnne Purtan is not being renewed after 20 years at circle 7... her last day is March 23rd: http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/wxyz-anchor-says-her-contract-isnt-being-renewed/201647

Scripps is dying... that in and of itself is causing them to cut like mad to save the ship... new graphics, additional resources to stations... it’s all too expensive for them now and everything is getting to the point of being too far gone...

That’s the format we were promised originally when The NOW launched...

J is right I was referring to the celebrities and journalists both of which are a class above most of us... but I will never know you... why would you even bother bringing that up? Usually put that way it’s some sort of threat of violence...

Yay... the opinions of disconnected people reported by disconnected people. Oh goody.

Because the Oscars really aren’t News... it’s fun. News is things that actually effect people. How does an Oscar personally effect anybody? Does anyone actually go postal over it or does a family not eat over it?

Former WXYZ reporter Tara Edwards is suing both Scripps and Channel 7 for harassment by Morning Anchor Malcom Maddox... he’s now been pulled off the air indefinitely... earlier this year he was placed on leave for similar allegations... now they don’t have a lead anchor or a morning anchor... it’s a sinking ship... https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/03/06/female-reporter-sues-wxyz-anchor-malcom-maddox-sexually-harassment/399088002/

I think it indicates you were well liked and nobody is happy about it...

Apparently she has landed a gig on 100.3 WSHE as their afternoon drive personality along with Jay Stiles... at least she landed on her feet... she starts March 29th...

Ji Suk Yi got axed from WCL on Friday... cost cuts aren’t fun... http://www.robertfeder.com/2018/03/05/abc-7-drops-ji-suk-yi-windy-city-live/