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It's summer guys... Probably just vacation.

Weekend Sport Anchor / Sports Reporter David Solano is leaving WXYZ in Detroit for Oregon. He had been at WXYZ since 2012.

It certainly could be... With 14 years at the helm of a newscast that hasn't changed much since he left a year ago he'd have a pretty good idea how to beat them or at least make a good try.

Richard Maginn, former EP of the 10pm on 7 has joined WMAQ as its managing editor. http://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2015/06/11/wmaq-channel-5-ups-the-ante-in-its-bid-to-be.html

Indeed... Interestingly the local boards (think CRM) seem to get stations to listen fairly well. WBBM is pretty darn sad...

Industry people read message boards... But I doubt that had anything to do with a change that major.

They are behaving like they are going through something "more" whatever that means... They can be perfectly happy breaking even and that's fine... But it'd be nice if they make real efforts to attract viewers rather than "boldly go and viewers will follow".

How do you reconcile "The Scripps Studios" and a big lighthouse on the wall with "great seperation"?

Must be oblivious people watching then. All the Scripps logos and studios and stuff is foreign to me. It's like those other stations are from some other company. Interesting.

Is KGTV one of those stations that mention Scripps often and has the logo on the set and stuff? If they don't that would explain it. The stations that don't do that behave like ABC is the mothership. That's how we do it anyways... You can't tell Scripps owns it except for the copyrights. They even stopped using the slates. Wonderful recognition of ownership going on there in San Diego.

The measly profits I touched on earlier were actually the final results for the pre-merger EW Scripps. We won't know as you say until the 2nd quarter results come out how they did with additional stations and lack of money draining print. While they are fiscally responsible they just sit and break even. They have been for 6 or 7 years now... McGraw-Hill coming into the fold didn't boost them. Maybe this will but they are a tough financial nut to crack. I don't have my hopes up... At some point they will be forced to sell to keep afloat. These moves will catch right up with them if they continue to disinvest in their properties and sit there happy with 3rd and 4th place on a vast majority of them. I've never seen a company try as little as Scripps to grow their business.

If you look at other companies profits and growth they are all way higher than Scripps, especially in digital (I'm finding growth in the hundreds of percent while Scripps was only 27%). While all companies (really in any industry) cut back in the recession most of them have bounced back (broadcasters included to a lesser degree). Scripps has 13 extra stations and is forecasting flat revenue and profit for the second quarter. They made a whopping $22 million profit in the first quarter plus $9.5 million from newspapers. Yuck. They've been break even like that for several years too. No matter what they do they can't make any real growth in their operations revenue and profit. I think that scares them. I don't know any photographers who got put in front of the camera... I know some reporters who were made to run the camera though I'm seeing MMJ less these days. I think they are using KNXV as a guinea pig for this no news director experiment.

Splitting from SNI was the worst thing that could have ever happened to those stations. I don't really know to what end they keep cutting. It's obvious they must be VERY cash starved to keep doing it when nobody else is and then they keep merging to get more cash I assume. Cuts like this are what you do in a depression... The digital whatever seems more like an excuse. They have not been at all profitable and are struggling to figure out why. Of course if they ran good stations and invested in keeping them that way they would make a heck of a lot more money. But I digress.

Those both look pretty good. I think that Cubs one looks better than what they used.

CBS 2 Meteorologist Megan Glaros is going to co-host "The Talk" tomorrow for the third year in a row. http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/7445-cbs-2-s-megan-glaros-to-co-host-cbs-the-talk-for-3rd-time

And in their biggest market too... Scripps is a joke.

I assure you there will be a clearance sale soon... Start saving your money up now...

They got new graphics and music in 2013. But yeah all the ABC O&O's change at a glacial pace. That's gonna catch up to them sooner or later.

WXYZ does as well. I like the effect. WLS is very conservative with its presentation though. Give it 20 years maybe.

That's too bad... it's pretty nice to have.

Do they ever use their OTS boxes that way anyway with video?

Sometimes you need a picture quick...

Understood. I figured... She even looked the part.

Im gonna be honest... Feder wrote an article about that Tisha Lewis girl but I have NEVER heard of her. The turnover and lack of stability there is almost a sport in itself. A darn entertaining one too.

Tisha Lewis a Reporter/Anchor at FOX 32 is leaving for WTTG in D.C. She joined FOX 32 in 2011. Of note she is a protege and mentee of Roger Ailes. This is from a Feder article but it's behind a paywall so there's all the relevant bits.