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Mark Giangreco is a strange strange guy... That "Your Team At 10" banner looks like it's straight out of the old graphics package... Decent promos to be sure though they come on a little stronger than they should...

Apparently Colbert isn't doing the same for WBBM although their news product is in the toilet relatively speaking...

Maybe it's similar to something that happened while I was at WDIV... Our news normally beats WXYZ by 1-2 points on the average. Sometimes they do better and get closer to us due to big ratings lead ins (being the highest rated ABC affiliate in primetime is extremely helpful.) Usually they win primetime easily and everybody tunes out and switches to us for the 11pm. It was always rather puzzling to me. When the Ferguson verdict came down we got a 7 something rating which should have been good enough to win. However opposite DWTS they got nearly a 12 rating for their newscast at 11. That DWTS lead in helped them where their lead in viewers normally switch to us. They got lots of occasional viewers sticking around. NBC 5 had Chicago Fire last night... My guess is that it's really popular in Chicago and they just rode that lead in. It doesn't sound like ABC7 picked up much from Chicago Fire viewers switching for news so maybe what NBC 5 had was either lazy viewers who didn't feel like switching or folks that don't normally watch news but stuck around plus their normal allotment. Lead ins can matter a lot depending on what it is and the market. Would I be correct in assuming 7 has a high tune-in rate at somebody else's expense?

WLS won the post game Cubs coverage from game 5 with a 5.1 but lost to WBBM's NCIS airing which got a 7.4... WLS won the 25-54 with a 2.6 to 2's 1.4 however. WMAQ won the 10pm with an 8.2 / 13 SHR to WLS's 7.6 / 12 SHR... WMAQ looks much more competitive with WLS's former 10pm guy as managing editor... That works wonders I guess... http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/cubs-win-wls-post-game-coverage-wins/156890 The above was from a Feder article... Not included was a couple of other numbers that I don't know why TVspy omitted: 9pm: WGN 4.4 / 6.6 SHR WFLD 1.8 / 2.7 SHR 10pm 25-54: WMAQ 4.6 WLS 2.7 WBBM 1.2 WGN 0.8

Well Scripps (or someone in Detroit) tweaked the header banner for lists and other such full screen graphics as of 10/8. Now, instead of being one line of text with a colored line below it they have a big plain white bar which has been used as a breaking news bar with red text as well: I've also been seeing these flat blue boxes in promos and now in a new election graphic they used for the first time during their 10pm newscast tonight (10/9) (the part that says election update is what I am referring to): I don't know if this is indicative of a slight refresh (the election update style box graphic I really like) or not but the look is changing a little around here although the old header bars for weather and sports are still in full use and the full screen breaking news graphics are as well so the old versions aren't totally gone...

That's a little quirky but it's very clever and well put together...

Phil never should have been hired to begin with but as an NBC Lifer it's hard to see him do anything but get moved elsewhere in the company... He's needed to go ever since they started the tilt leftward (remember his "lean forward" slogan that FNC ripped into MSNBC on?) What a joke...

I'm afraid I lost that somewhere before I clicked the link... But I gotcha.

And WGN too... Look at the Demos between 5 and 7 too... Tied. That's a tight race that I doubt 7 is relieved about at all...

On a tape delay too

I was thinking of this based on the position of the 7... I'm not sure if it was from before 80 or not at WLS... Ours here was from at least 77... It looks like we were thinking of 2 different things... But yeah that 84 set has the same circle 7 just about on it. The colors are very late 70's like I was thinking of though. Those 80's sets were awfully dark...

No. 77-78 to maybe 84-85. That tiny set existed at all 5 O&O's identically by the mid to late 70's. I know what you said too but that doesn't make you right. Note the circle 7 is plain. God that looks sweet. It looks like they redressed the area they used fort talent opens and weather promos. Maybe it's a clue on the new direction for their new set?

No kidding... yuck.

Does she somehow flutter her voice to imply dancing at the end?

The only relation I know of here in Detroit is the plug at the end of the newscast with pre recorded Kimmel tease that the anchors toss to and he says "thanks (anchor names)"... Doing a plug on Twitter might be a local level decision...

What is it with them?

As bad as WXYZ is doing they might as well do anything and everything including a new version of their logo... one interesting thing to note is that the last time they did a major rebrand with a news director from New York they copied WABC (Bill Carey). The guy in charge now helped make that happen as Carey's assistant and he came from... New York. At any rate it is a funny mistake. The fat circle 7 (like the bug) does not appear on any of their merchandise though save for jackets with a colored logo and even then it's not as thick.... That's what got me wondering. They even still use old non 7abc umbrellas that may be as old as the O&O era. Surprisingly I found a shot of the 7abc cap: If you go to 55 seconds and pause it when the reporter looks down briefly you can get a really good view of what the current cap looks like with the 7abc logo. If there is a difference in the circle 7's (outside of the colors and abc placement) I'm having a hell of a time seeing what it might be... They appear to be the same shape and thickness and everything looks to be the same size in the gaps... It's like somebody just moved the abc and turned it white on a black cap.. One of the frustrations about WXYZ is that they have like 13 (well maybe not quite) versions of their logo floating about that get seen from time to time on their air... sometimes I think using the same logo on stuff isn't even a thought there.

Yeah that is very classy... Kind of a sad night at the old number 9...

This guys hat in the lower left looked kind of odd... WXYZ has never used the abc7 branding before. Their last set of hats had their normal 7abc logo. I don't really know whether they are going to rebrand but they have dropped all references to 7 Action News the last few days except in the tosses to and from reports instead calling just calling it "Action News has helped..." etc. which has historically been the way they did self promotion during newscasts.

It's always something in Scripps world....

It's still about 2 sizes too small for their 5 biggest stations. They almost needed to create a package just for the top 20 market stations or let them have their own. Too cheap for that I suppose. The more I've watched it over time the more I've thought "gee this would look nice in a mid market". It is worlds away and better from the 2009 package for sure.

They really need new lower thirds for the V2 package but other than that it's probably in it for the long haul unfortunately... I wish the package had been complete when introduced in 2012 but they keep adding stuff they should have had in the first place to it...

For the sake of completeness there have been a couple positions filled behind the scenes of Windy City Live after those recent departures of some key people: David Plummer who has been a producer for WCL has been promoted to Line Producer and will oversee the Live production of WCL. He replaces the recently promoted Matt Knutson who became Executive Producer after the departure of Marlaine Selip. Cassandra Belek has been hired as Booker/Producer for WCL coming over from Harpo Studios. She also has experience at ABC Studios and CBS's "The Talk". She replaces the recently departed Emerald-Jane Hunter. The show is still looking for a Supervising Producer and they hope to have one by October. http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/7667-abc-7-filling-windy-city-live-staff-vacancies

I get it now thanks. Telling me to Google something on a forum site would normally be pretty rude but this is NSFW so gotcha...

It could be used as a temp area I suppose... But it seems a little big for a studio by Chicago standards... What is FHRITP?