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2 hours ago, TSSZNews said:

 

At the risk of sounding speculative, bank on Newsmax to almost certainly pick her up.

I’ve always been skeptical that someone like that really believe 100% of what they say...
 

Is she really Actually that much of a conservative that she believes in virus as impeachment ploy Or could she have been faking it because that’s where she was and what that audience wants to hear?

12 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

They're both sitting at the far ends of the anchor desk.

 

 

Their studio isn’t big enough to put them at opposite ends of it?

56 minutes ago, oknewsguy said:

COVID-19 hasn't prevented TV stations in general from rolling out new graphics. If it hasn't stopped Tegna from rolling out new graphics on their stations it wouldn't stop the Scripps stations from rolling out new graphics either.

 

My thinking here is Scripps is likely getting feedback from their stations that have already rolled out this package and what they want different within the pkg to make it work for their market I don't think COVID-19 has anything to do with why we haven't seen new Scripps stations rolling out this pkg in a while because it started slowing down even before COVID-19 took hold.

That’s from an employee at WXYZ... they have too much going on right now to mess with it with the statewide lockdown and all the precautions going on so it’s on indefinite hold until this blows over. They have all the promo graphics and bumpers switched over now including the sponsored by bumpers which are the newest thing. It all looks really good.

56 minutes ago, oknewsguy said:

1 hour ago, kcnewsjunky said:

I just don't understand how KSHB has not launched yet!?! They've been airing promos for weeks and no switch yet. This rollout is damn interesting

WXYZ was supposed to launch tomorrow.. Corona Virus has put everything on hold. We have had the new promo packages here for weeks too so KSHB is probably right there as well waiting to launch.

52 minutes ago, MorningNews said:

In terms of strictly news coverage, Fox News in my opinion has for several years had a much more solid offering than CNN. Bret Baier, Bill Hemmer and Shep Smith are among some of the best broadcast journalists anywhere.

Yes... but where have you been?

1 hour ago, MidwestTV said:

I'm curious if Scripps will even bother repairing it. Also, I would think most stations would keep their chopper at an airport. Most TV stations are not favorable locations for a helipad.

It's probably toast...

32 minutes ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

Worst voice over!

I don’t think that was it...

6 hours ago, Sendir said:

If you don’t see it....

 

 

It looks perfectly normal... most stations are doing that now.. instead of giving me hints why don’t you describe what you are complaining about?

If they don’t incorporate the world into their reporting or tell David Muir to talk like a normal anchor and not some theater dropout they’ll have a complete package... can we also not do weather with “millions impacted” every time a rain cloud rolls by?

12 hours ago, Sendir said:

The transitions are the worst. Going from a supertease into in the open is just terrible. TERRIBLE 

What exactly do you mean?

40 minutes ago, 24994J said:

 

Other than the monochrome logo, what else is new (to this untrained eye)?

The monochrome logo Is new and apparently it has a blue and silver twin since they used both in the same promo. I think by doing the monochrome it actually made the logo look thinner and it is significantly smaller than the one they use for their on-air bug with the V2 package. The silver version also lacks the badly done shine effect that made the outside edge of the curve on the 7 look jagged with the current package. The blue background with ghosted 7 is brand new as well. Some of the fonts are different from what they’ve been using but I can’t pin that down as I’m not a font expert. The text message boxes are catching my eye especially in that regard.

Their feature promos featured barely any blue prior to this and no 7 logos hidden anywhere. This actually will be the first time there has been a ghosted 7 back behind anything since at least 2009 when they had their own Giant Octopus graphics and still used Eyewitness News for music. It’s subtle but I think it’s a nice touch on Scripps part.

Obviously all the L3’s are brand new as part of the new package. These are the first use of any official parts of the package on air. The monochrome 7 did make it into a couple of investigative promos over the past couple of weeks but that’s been it until this. One would imagine if this is like the other stations so far that used a piece here and there they’ll fully roll out the new look this week.

Somehow when they monochrome their logo it starts to look a little more like what some of the O&O’s use. Maybe I’m imagining things.

Drip drip drip..

First use of the new look in a promo.. the new logo looks really good. The ghosted 7 is a nice touch. I’d say their debut is imminent.

1 hour ago, MarkBRollins88_v2 said:

So it looks like KMGH is not using the new musics in their opens. 

That’s the best thing I’ve heard all day.. there is hope.

1 hour ago, MarkBRollins88_v2 said:

Denver has not been a “mid-market” for most of our lifetimes. If we’re going to break down the 210 DMAs by “Large,” “Mid” and “Small”, the “mid” markets would be any between 70 and 140.

 

I would argue, for the “large” markets (1-70), you could add a sub categorization for “major market” in there, which would be at least the top 20 or 30. 
 

(Also, If your market is big enough to support a team from all four major sports leagues, like Denver, you’re definitely not a “mid” market.)

 

And to say a market’s size is the main determinant of a station’s quality is laughable at best. Sorry, but I have to agree with @ABC 7 Denver on this one.

What I’m saying is that to say Denver and New York which are only 16 spots apart (a drop in the bucket relative to 210 markets) are even on the same level would be ridiculous... all I’m saying is that there is a drop in quality overall that belies the market sizes. You would think that there would be very little difference. Maybe there isn’t enough really good talent to go around, maybe the revolving door effect where folks use the markets as stepping stone is in play and they keep getting green talent that needs to get better first. Whatever the reasons the drop in quality and talent is real... real quick. Go beyond maybe 75 and it’s really really noticeable... are they even doing the same job level noticeable... that’s not super polite but the truth hurts.

13 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

DMA 17 ain't exactly mid-market. But you're right in that the behavior in Denver news is rather subpar, especially at CBS 4 and KWGN/KDVR.

It was mid market a few years ago and I think the pace of growth has outstripped the development of the newscasts beyond mid-market level. Once you get past 10 there is a pretty precipitous drop in overall quality anyways.

6 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

I disagree. It's direct and concise. There is no scramble, no urgency, because it's polished.

So you disagree by agreeing? Am I reading that right? I’ve been extremely underwhelmed by it when I’ve seen it but it’s a mid-market newscast and it does its job and not much more.

44 minutes ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

Lol. You don't live here. We are not laid back and cold.

But their newscast is pretty chill with little urgency... that’s been the vibe since they became part of Scripps...

8 hours ago, Weeters said:

Not 100% sure, but the blue box in this WTMJ weather graphic vaguely looks like someone took a box from the new package and cranked down the opacity.

 

WTMJ's weather graphics are a hodge podge of random elements, the current Scripps look, and the old Journal look, so it's hard to tell if this is new or just something random that just so happens to look like it.

 

 

I started seeing those on WXYZ when they switched over to the Viz thing a couple years ago. It’s part of the V2 weather package but the refreshed one. Ours are darker than that and not as see through...

14 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said:

Really? I find that hard to believe. It took WNYT until 2020 to finally take that plunge?

They came from the same school of thought as KTVU and the 5 day forecast I guess...

12 minutes ago, oknewsguy said:

Meanwhile here's the WFLX news open with the new graphics. All I'm gonna say is what in the name of frankfurt is the WFLX logo? 

 

It looks like you get at least 3 choices and we have them in both a horizontal or if you prefer to be more compact a vertical...

Our resident KMGH fanatic is gonna be disappointed to hear this but... those don’t look bad at all...

13 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said:

The Live Well Network name is finally going away, years after ending national distribution and mainly being a repeat-focused lifestyle network.

 

Instead, it'll become ABC's Local-ish starting February 17th.

 

https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/243676/abc-oos-localish-expands-with-diginet-rebranding/

Soon to follow:

News-ish

Truth-ish

Worth Watching-ish

Fish-ish

Boring-ish

And introducing: Ish-ish

I think ABC’s motto must be “an ish in every home and 2 ish’s in every pot!”...

44 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

This is getting silly.

 

WADL is launching a new half-hour 10pm news program entitled News Now with Kevin Dietz, hosted by former WDIV reporter Kevin Dietz.  

 

But this will not be your typical news program. As explained by station owner Kevin Adell:

The program premieres tonight, one day before WKBD's new 10pm show (produced out of Fort Worth, TX) premieres.

 

 

It has a public access quality from what I understand... yikes...

11 minutes ago, ScottSchell said:

So KJRH used part of the new graphics package on one of the news stories about Tulsa Public Schools superintendent wanted to close some schools to save money but is still using the current graphics for the newscasts.

Good sign or bad sign if that almost looks ok like that? Getting closer at any rate...

On 1/19/2020 at 3:39 PM, JCB4TV said:

Florida (29 EVs), Georgia (16), Michigan (16) can be in play this cycle as these states can very well decide the election.

Yes and come say December 1st you can give yourself an “I was there to watch the short lived newscast CBS mainly outsourced” pin because most likely it’ll be gone by then. Georgia isn’t looking too in play yet (saw some polls last week that had Trumps smallest lead at 7 I think over Biden there) but Michigan and Florida are. 
 

Is CBS the only O&O operator with such a patchwork of news departments?