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The E-Series Fords are no longer built... I think that is a Nissan.

WXYZ has named Heather Catallo as co-anchor for "7 Action News At 10 On TV20 Detroit" effective tomorrow. She replaces Malcom Maddox who moved to mornings on April 6th.

WXYZ has hired Camille Amiri as a part-time reporter. Amiri had freelanced at WXYZ and WRTV in Indy from 2001 to 2004 and was hired at WJBK FOX 2 in Detroit as a reporter where she worked until 2008. She left TV that year so this is a return to the business for her. Also on Monday at 5pm WXYZ will introduce it's new "Chief Medical Editor", Dr. Partha Nandi a local gastroenterologist. He will do segments on Monday-Wednesday-Friday on 7 Action News At 5. I suppose WXYZ is playing catch up to WDIV which has an ER Doctor at the Detroit Medical Center as it's health editor. WXYZ hasn't had anyone in the health reporter role since 2010. http://www.wxyz.com/news/health/ask-dr-nandi/chief-health-editor-dr-nandi-joins-wxyz-submit-your-medical-questions-and-stories Nandi has a syndicated show called "Ask Dr. Nandi" that airs in 78 countries as well. It looks like some really small stations in the states carry it. http://askdrnandi.com/ Finally with the departure of WXYZ Sports Director Tom Leyden after 3 years in the job and 10 at the station, Brad Galli is the new evening Sports Anchor. No Sports Director titles have been given out for now. The Now Detroit, 7 Action News At 5 and 7 Action News At 10 On TV20 Detroit will all be getting new anchor teams presumably on Monday as well in time for sweeps. This was all triggered by low demo ratings and the departure of their morning anchor Vic Faust who went to the FOX station in Saint Louis to be lead anchor. WXYZ already redid it's morning show completely on April 6.

Because ABC7 isn't changing things as fast as they did in 2013.

Realistically how often does a suit jacket really need changing? I would think less than everyday...

#lightbulb #idea #maybeyouareontosomething

Note that the knot on the tie is slightly different... I always slip my tie off so I don't have to go through the horrors of tying the thing. Apparently Ron does it a bit differently...

The NFC East is populated with 3 teams that (usually) can't get out of each others way to be 8-8 so they aren't so much competitive as they can't beat anybody but their own division and some terrible teams. It may have a lot of people and the ads from those markets make money for the network and stations which is why they get so many games but boy is it some mediocre football. The North or the West is probably more interesting from a football perspective. Just my two cents on the various divisions in the league. As for the switch from 6 to 10... It seems like NBC as a whole keeps beefing up it's sports presence every year. I'm surprised Disney lost the rights though.

Are the Eagles good enough for that many games? Something tells me no...

Yes he is.... You may be the only guy who noticed and bothered to care Good catch.

Renderon did Journal and Scripps V1 and V2. Renderon seems to have become the leading graphics company in the U.S. Of late.

In some markets that wouldn't fly....

Interesting how hit or miss they are with their stations too.

Why does FOX bother with news there again?

I think they may be developing new lower thirds and other stuff as well.... maybe even more customized (but still template based) stuff. Both the senior developer posting and the graphic designer posting talks about "new lower thirds" and there's even a mention of 3D animations in there. Weren't the existing Scripps stations using Chyron Axis? One would think they are either going to pick one or the other eventually, if that's the case is one product better than the other? Looking at the former Journal graphics as of now they look much more newsy and functional than the vanilla faux CNN V2 Scripps graphics. They also look a bit dated. I'd like to see something a little flashier like that as a universal replacement eventually, albeit with less stacked tabs on the L3's. It's all Renderon there.

Do they still need "HD" on their chopper?

I'm glad they finished stronger... my phone nearly ran out of juice so I missed it... was this the main 1017 forecast?

I can accept those points too... It just seems like this kind of thing wasn't worked out in advance.... I think that is a bit of a lapse on their part. It would have been less clunky in a more traditional situation like I described above. Cheryl almost looked like an intern sitting there...

In all of this it feels good to be right even if that result is absolutely terrible.

And that's what I'm complaining about... If this is the future of their coverage meteorologist wise... Not good.

Maybe they are walking it back?

I hope ABC7 didn't have the best coverage in town... Watching cheryl sit next to Jerry and nod was beyond pathetic... When I said tag teaming was good that isn't what I meant at all... I meant one at the green screen and one on the weather computer with them talking to each other and switching off with the person not on screen chiming in with updates etc. At no point should one be idle and sitting.

They are both there so two heads are better than one, especially with more than one storm. Tag teaming is always better when its possible. Have they been breaking into the ABC programming?

My only complaint is that they use yellow to describe a tornado watch... That seems unusual. Usually yellow is for severe thunderstorms and red is for tornados.

I'm glad they didn't... There's something uniquely WLS about that music package...