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

My question would be: Were these things just experiments? They are pretty nice even if it doesn't quite fit their style...

Oh yeah... duh.... drew a blank on them for some reason... as soon as I saw the ws in the web address I figured it out. Thanks

Who is they?

I wonder if anyone will say anything to him about that? Not sure how stiff they are over there on stuff like that.

Marlaine Selip the EP of Windy City Live has exited her role and semi-retired. WLS is now looking for a replacement EP. She had been with the show since it's inception and helped with it's development. http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/7302-wcl-executive-producer-marlaine-selip-semi-retires-exits-wls-tv

WXYZ announced their new team for "7 Action News This Morning" starting Monday: Anchors: Malcolm Maddox (moving from fill-in / 10pm Anchor) and Alicia Smith Breaking News: Jeff Vaughn (Moving from 5pm anchor, I suppose it gives a more solid presence for news and a fill-in anchor too) Weather: Keenan Smith Traffic: Ann Marie LaFlamme (Came as a reporter a couple weeks ago from WXMI Grand Rapids, supposedly "Traffic With A Twist" whatever that means). Social Media / Around Town: Erin Nicole (Moving from Entertainment Reporter, this is a new feature for the show) Reporters: Nima Shaffe and Jennifer Bisram They are going to have different 5 and 10pm anchors starting Monday April 6 along with a new 6/10/11PM Sportscaster. Lots of changes happening. http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/84241/wxyz-detroit-expands-morning-news-team Supposedly some new promo's were shot for the morning show in New York with the GMA folks this week. They debuted this promo tying their 6pm and World News Tonight together. David Muir even has a few lines. Their set may be getting an overhaul soon too. When they zoom into the circle 7 logo they use the new all blue desk in Downtown Detroit rather than the 2011 main desk logo. I don't know if this says "Monday From 6-7PM" because something new is going to happen or what. I would have thought it would say "Weeknights from 6-7PM" or something. 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.

It looks completely correct to me... Most of the O&O circle 7's look off.... Even WLS's usual one is a little odd... This one looks kind of like WABC's without being as off center.

Chris Martinez has been promoted from reporter for CBS 2 to a correspondent for CBS Newspath. He has been at WBBM since 2012. His promotion moves him to LA starting May 4th.

WXYZ revised its social media box today starting with the noon newscast: Old: http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/family-demands-answers-after-24-year-old-dies-during-detroit-police-traffic-stop New: http://www.wxyz.com/news/body-found-in-lincoln-park-pawnshop-police-investigating They changed and slowed down the circle 7 animation, smoothed out the jerky web address fly-by (it shuddered and shook at the end), turned it from V1 Orange to their traditional blue and replaced "taking action for you" simply appearing with "TAKING ACTION" being spelled out one letter at a time. It looks better just for the fact it's blue if nothing else.

Looks like fun... he can actually read pretty good both inside and outside of character...

It's too bad WLS doesn't do press releases detailing its wins every sweeps... I'd really love to see the numbers beyond some quote that they won again...

Jettisoning long term talent always comes with inherent risk so those reactions from viewers to this aren't surprising... The question becomes how many left or are watching less now?

4am with snow.... Let's go with that...

How do they promote this thing? Does get a "don't forget to join us for Eyewitness News at 7 on The U and then again for Eyewitness News At 10 right here on ABC7" or anything on the end of the 6? You really can't get much lower than 0.3 before this show becomes an extremely elaborate rehersal...

Another wrinkle to the stream: It still uses the "ABC7 Eyewitness News" logo over cityscape before and after the program. So there appears to be, at least at present, 2 separate systems at work.

One of the ads that most surprised me was a "Garcia For Mayor" ad... I didn't expect the political ads to make it onto the stream... I like it but miss the aerial cityscape shots. I had a hunch that it was similar to watch ABC... I almost thought a wire got crossed somewhere for a moment until I saw the sports scores thing.

Well ABC7's live stream has been completely redone... It now has the scores during sports (complete with glossy ABC7 News logo), ads run during commercials, the ABC7 Eyewitness News logo over aerial shot of the city has been replaced with a rather generic ABC7 on blue moving background and the default screen when the stream is off says "We're not on the air, check back" in a box with the ABC7 logo below it and the standard spinning giant circle-7 background. Even saw a couple of ABC7 News This Morning ads with Hosea in them with the old graphics on monitors in the studio shots. Pretty cool overall. Aligns them more with at least KGO and KABC, I can't remember if WABC does that stuff yet.

Well that's one way to show your love for the guy I guess... :lol:

Michigans roads are awful. So WXYZ's solution is to get a Hummer H1 and bring you free tires to get you back on the road...

This will be an interesting test of their theory that a website guy can run an entire news department...

What automation system do they use? Usually everything from them is pretty smooth. Huh.

That probably wouldn't have much residual results beyond the night that Empire physically airs.... but if 32 gets a huge bump for that one night it'll skew the averages and make things look way different than they are. They could get crushed the other 4 nights and really really crush 9 the night Empire is on and make it look competitive even if the reality is that 1 night is that way and not all 5. Fun with numbers... This can even happen between the first 15 minutes and the last 15 minutes of a newscast... you could start tied with your next closest competitor for the first 15 minutes and then lose 1.5 ratings points in the second 15 minutes and come out in second and 3/4 of a point away in the end which makes it look less like the horse race it started as.

Well ok I gotcha. I really meant was it a station like WFLD that was bought in the 80's to be a charter FOX O&O. But that appears to be a big No.

Has KSAZ always been an O&O?