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Then they'd be dumping somebody else...

Weekday Mornings: Tracy Butler Noon Webcast: Tracy Butler 4pm: Cheryl Scott 5pm: Cheryl Scott 6pm: Jerry Taft 7pm: Cheryl Scott 10pm: Jerry Taft Weekend Mornings: Troy Christensen Weekend Evenings: Phil Schwarz Jerry Taft will be retiring next year and Cheryl Scott will take his place which means that they need another meteorologist to keep the status quo.

The push alerts with exclamation points over this storm I got from both 5 and 7 last night were incredibly stupid... 7's was the worse of the 2...

WDIV in Detroit has named Karen Drew anchor of their 4pm newscast effective next month. She replaces the retiring Ruth Spencer. Drew was the primary fill in for Spencer so this is a logical and expected move. http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/karen-drew-named-anchor-at-wdiv/159177

CBS 2 just picked up Sandra Torres as a reporter from Wiegel Broadcasting owned CBS affiliate WDJT in Milwaukee where she was lead reporter. She also was a producer and co-anchor for the Weigel owned Telemundo affiliate in Milwaukee WYTU. She has previous experience in Chicago first at WSNS Telemundo Chicago where she was a reporter from 2007-2010 and then as a producer and writer for NBC 5 from 2010-2012 before she moved to Milwaukee. http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/7795-cbs-2-hires-sandra-torres-as-reporter

Whoops... I wonder if she gets a warning for that? I kinda feel bad for her...

Perhaps... But lots of other stations make due with 1...

I don't know if it's neccesarily confirmation... But their style certainly is to use more than one for whatever purpose that serves...

You guys are getting a decent reporter... Not somebody I ran across much but from what I saw his work is very solid.

The fact that someone faked a cereal box so well is ridiculous... The fact that someone actually sold some us crazy....

TV...

Here's the new promo for "7 Action News This Morning" that the cereal box came from:

The Social Media on the revamped show amounted to 1 hit during the 6am hour. It's not so much telling as it is reverting to normal... WXYZ doesn't really push social media on the air outside of The NOW...

Anybody want a bowl of Scripps brand cereal? This is from WXYZ's brand new morning promo. The show is likely being converted back to a traditional 2 anchors with Weather and Traffic together format after having been expanded in April to include a live center and social media component... That conversion effort fell very very flat... I'll upload the full promo later...

I don't know of very many Scripps stations that replay during off hours... I've not run into doing so online either...

It was all over here earlier this year...

9 gets all its viewers from 7 and 2... How bout that... You just keep tellin 'em J...

Every station is down too... And the death spiral for local news beats on...

Theirs... Your grammar last evening was flawless...

Typo time...

They didn't always have to recue on transitions before... WXYZ's would stay static and the text would simply change. We also have an all white lower third I haven't seen anywhere else... The tabs look bigger and the font on the lower line looks slightly different. I did like the new non recue lower third transitions. I'm glad the new VizRT system is capable of handling the package without overloading. The lens flare effect is original to the package. It's a matter of having it turned on or not...

Yeah I suspect it's not an actual van either... but the news van seems to have a way of getting around anyways... real or not... Note the "... Century News" van to the rear in a Fox News Channel type logo... Somebody had some spare money on that show I think...

My immediate redirect took me to WSYM in Lansing of all places despite the fact that I live less than 10 miles from WXYZ's studios...

Did an actual reporter get to hold that mic there in the second picture or is this just a mockup? The van isn't exactly equipped to do much of anything it doesn't look like...

Those are 10pm numbers so that's why you don't see 32 or WGN's 9pm for that matter...