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Which do they use more on air? ABC7 or Channel 7?

It might alleviate it done if they said "here on channel 7 and also on abc7ny"... But even then it really needs the .com... The limitations of using abc7 or whatever network letters as a channel brand are being demonstrated right about now.

Continuing coverage at a moments notice...

I think you have that backwards... KGO, KTRK and WTVD differ from the website and only because it was taken by someone else first. Everything else on your list uses the same handle for website and twitter. It looks like the corporate mandate is to brand website and social media the same whenever possible. You forgot to list WLS as one of the ones that has the same handle for both as well.

They still have "7Online" in the copyright. I agree though... It looks more like a station branding then a website. They are using abc7ny as a hashtag too.

It's not so much that the Detroit market isn't growing -- it is, but it is growing at a very very slow rate. There hasn't been overall population loss in the metro area, it's just that the folks that lived in the city emptied out into the suburbs and nobody replaced them. So when you hear about Detroit and population loss it applies to the city proper and not the DMA.

Was Cheryl Burton using a KABC mic flag?

That kind of says something about the priorities of the time... Somehow I don't think frequent updates are in their wheelhouse.

I think 4 would probably not want to go to the trouble...

There are also some Chicago folks up for awards... That's the real reason. Otherwise it's a waste of resources.

WJBK is very likely the highest rated FOX station in the country... Selling it would be plain stupid. The same could be said of WXYZ and WDIV as affiliates. WMYD is in a duopoly with WXYZ... Scripps would never get FOX on it or CBS. None of this crazy fantasy stuff is ever gonna happen.

38 is gonna be shut down in the auction -- that's the plan anyway. 31 is licensed to Ann Arbor so that would be odd. I would suggest just getting cable placement as say 5 or something and calling themselves CBS 5.

Well... News isn't everything.

Usually a similar card with sports scores and the same abc7 NEWS logo in the lower right comes up. Definitely a throwback from somewhere.

No bureau here that I know of... JBK, XYZ and DIV are all so established that trying would be very very hard... 62 is pretty darn low rated anyways...

I don't think they want to spend the money... They certainly could but it's all pretty entrenched with the 3 we have.

Due to some sort of issue the 10pm web stream started at 10:09 using the actual TV feed and this nifty card that we don't normally see:

I guess if they have the money... Though it seems a little extravagant...

That might be kind of cool... I'd hate to see just a live shot on the 10 though...

What's the point of sending someone to the ESPY's?

WXYZ has 4,298 for its version... I'm surprised they haven't rebuilt it in KC yet...

For the sake of balance NBC 5 wants in on push alerts gone wrong: "Severe thunderstorm warning issued Lasalle County". No time and the grammatical error too.. Not a good day to be in a web department at 5 or 7..

I'm on iPhone.. I think you mentioned before you were using android? Maybe there are some requirements that make sending 2 push alerts neccesary?

In fairness Phlager did write it that way but they could have done their alert better than that anyways... "Has strong words for rapper" would have sufficed.

Today's app alert for the webcast: Fr. Phlager tells Chief Keef to SHUT UP!!!!!!!! Watch ABC7 TO GO LIVE at Noon for the latest. What's with all the freakin exclamation points? It's a little less than I would expect from them... It looks... Small market.