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See there really isn't a super compelling reason for either Jerry or Cheryl to not do the full 17.5 hours all alone...

There really isn't one but it's sort of the way they seem to like to do it. It's not the overburdening almost everywhere else for them to do as many as 4 and a half hours of newscasts... Nobody really cares if they split the evenings up or not... In fact it might dilute the weather brand a bit...

Energetic? There's not a hell of a lot of energy to 7's weather team... They are decent but none of them are super bubbly or anything... It's about as direct and straight a style as I can think of...

Apparently 32's morning show is soon to be expanded and Richard Roeper is one person auctioning for a role in it... http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/wfld-may-add-prominent-movie-critic-to-morning-show/154030

Don't you think it kinda fits CBS though... Nothing terribly modern about what they put out anyways... That's not a bad thing either.

Thanks for putting it up... That's really neat man...

I'm looking forward to seeing it then... That's really cool...

You can't let the fane go to your head now .. Did you happen to have the recorder rolling?

That's great "is that a parade?"

A lot of what 7 has done in newscasts and WCL has the look of flailing about... I'm not sure what's going on over there but they seem to be playing with fire a lot lately...

If I might ask... Are Chyron and Viz able to display the same graphics exactly the same or would this be an excuse to tweak the graphics to accommodate a different system?

If it doesn't have the VizRT system I wonder if they'll just install what the Scripps stations used pre-merger? It looks like the Journal stations are getting a pretty unmodified Scripps package... Have they implemented it anywhere yet on the Journal stations?

I imagine they'll be cut over soon if they haven't already... They were gonna hire a couple graphical designers a couple months ago to work with the VizRT system Journal used...

Another Windy City Live departure... This time Emarald-Jane Hunter a jack of all trades of sorts who did booking, produced segments and did fill-in EP work among other things. She had been with WCL since 2011. She left to become the Director of Media and Content Development for Chicago boutique PR firm Henson Consulting. The is the third major departure from the show in the past few months. http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/7593-more-executive-departures-from-abc-7-s-windy-city-live

WXYZ is modifying the main part of it's set. The 11pm newscast tonight used the auxiliary set on the other side of the studio that the morning and 10pm newscasts use. They have been making minor tweaks to the set over the last few weeks including a new monitor array duratrans behind the anchor desk. The modifications are supposed to be done sometime soon.

Wanna say that 5 times fast? That really is pretty cool though.

Well here's version 1.0 of a new duratrans image for WXYZ to use on their fancy new screen as seen on their 5pm on Wednesday as an apparent experiment: The fact that the images behind the circle 7 keep changing and the circle 7 is too big make this something that needs work. It does bring them more in line with the V2 graphical look by having the angular Scripps gold and blue swooshes in each corner. The old duratrans image was used for the 6-7-11 on Wednesday which further indicates an experiment.

Whoops good point. I didn't get the quote exactly right from 5 because I deleted the alert on my phone. I had the impression when I first read it that they had an exclusive STORY but you're right it was the INTERVIEW that was the exclusive. My bad.

Well here's NBC 5's 10pm newscast push alert: "Teen beaten by honor students speaks in an NBC 5 News EXCLUSIVE (caps mine) at 10"... Cue 7's right after that: "Group of college-bound teens accused of beating man over $500 bike. Details on ABC7 at 10pm" I guess it wasn't that exclusive...

Oh gotcha... Whoops.

Yuck... Having an actual newscast at 1am is almost silly...

They just might... ABC 7 Eyewitness News at 10 with Terrell Brown, Judy Tsu and Tracy Butler...?

4? Like 4pm? There are some screen grabs of the old set where it is now in the new set thread...

And mumbling... Stumbling... Picking the wrong words and generally doing the same crappy job whenever she gets in an off the cuff situation. They've made a bad choice of horse to hitch their wagon too...

It'll be interesting to see if they do something to make it look a little less silly in the interim... It makes Jerry look 12 feet tall..