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Here was my experience getting set up, I don't mean for it to sound like an ad (you can adjust it to fit whatever programs you are gonna use with the tuner): I went out and bought a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950Q TV Tuner Stick. It came with the stick and install CD. The program can only record one program at once and can do some scheduling functions. It cannot edit. It works on Windows 7, 8 and Vista. The tuner and the program it comes with were $80. Being a stick tuner it's simply a USB plug in that's like a giant flash drive in size. There is a cable recepticle at the end of the tuner stick and I bought a $9 RCA antenna which works good most of the time. I plugged it into the stick and it's sitting on the desk in my home office, the cord came with the antenna and is maybe 3-4 feet long. You have to get the antenna to make the tuner work. Like with any antenna weather is a factor. So once I got the software for the tuner itself installed I downloaded Quicktime for Windows as my linear editor and discovered that the file extension that the TV Tuner kicks out is .TS which meant I had to get a (free) .TS to MPEG4 converter so I could edit in quicktime. So whatever program you decide to use to edit, see if it can take a .TS (or whatever you end up getting) file and if not there is probably some kind of free converter program available online to get it to the right type. Oh and one last note: When uploading to youtube the highest quality it will give me once I convert from .TS to MPEG4 is 480P which is good but not quite HD. You've seen a few of my videos so I'll let you judge the picture and sound quality. There may be some audio/video sync issues now and again as well. But all in all it's not bad for around $90. Hope this helps.

I gotcha... Time to cave and join those of us with tuners and quicktime as an editor. The Quicktime part may only be me. :lol:

We'll if they don't then I'm counting on you to post some clips.

Do we know for sure if they will be streaming the 7pm on their website? It wasn't mentioned in the announcement so I thought I'd ask. I assume they will.

I wonder how long it will take her to actually get on air now that she got a little practice in the Bulls halftime show?

I hadn't seen this until now, but in October Scripps bought WeatherSphere which has 3 million mobile weather app users. Supposedly the purchase was going to complement the StormShield pay app that Scripps has. http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/07/1066895/

Those look like better Scripps graphics... Not bad but the layout is just really similar.

WXYZ will be airing a Bill Bonds tribute special on Friday 12/19 at 7pm.

I've seen that in some other places... does anyone know why this happens? I thought we had the technology to not make things look bad in HD?

I think you are both right in that there may not be many better places than WLS to learn in a hurry how to do it the right way. Since this is "effective immediately" we will probably see her before Christmas and get a feel for how she fits with the existing talent... maybe including on the 10pm.

I'm just not sold on her as any more than a fill-in, she seems a little young and under-experienced.

That's a great list, lots of iconic talent there. WXYZ's coverage tonight was absolutely perfect, no mistakes, no goofs, no problems, no awkward moments... Just the way Bill Bonds would have demanded it be done. When they want to they can put out some incredible TV. I really wish they would be that incredibly polished more often.

WXYZ Is devoting their entire 10pm and most of their 11pm to him, lots of former air personalities either appearing in-studio or on the phone and in interviews conducted tonight. Also a 1999 interview the station did with him has been played. Also a Detroit TV Historian. 5pm Anchor JoAnne Purtan's wedding video that Bonds did an amusing well-wishes comment for, And a shortened weathercast -- similar to decades ago In length in his honor. Bonds gets the last word with the last commentary he ever gave, in 2008 for the stations 60th anniversary. The 11pm newscast will be expanded to 1 hour tonight. Edit: All of the legacy ABC talent has now made some sort of appearance on WXYZ.

WJBK in Detroit has upped Charlie Langton, their Legal Analyst and host of the Thursday/Sunday public affairs program "Let It Rip" to Weekend Morning News Anchor. He has been at WJBK since 2007. http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/81497/wjbk-ups-charlie-langton-to-weekend-anchor

Chauncy Glover is leaving his Reporter and Back-up Weekend/Holiday Anchor position at WDIV to be an Anchor/Reporter at KTRK in Houston. I'm thinking he'll start after the New Year down in Houston. He had been at WDIV since 2011.

Looks right to us ET people

Even more of a nice thing to do. Hopefully everything is relatively ok.

That's pretty good. If he didn't give any specific explanation, I suppose he wants to keep it private but didn't want folks to worry about him. Pretty good of him to even post that really.

Also leaving WILX is Anthony Sabella who is taking a Reporter job in Flint at WJRT. http://www.wilx.com/news/haveyouseenthis/headlines/Anthony-Sabella-Says-Goodbye-to-WILX-284251271.html

Good question. They have a 4pm show called "Local 4 News: First At 4" that has been on since 2007. It's a half hour show followed by Inside Edition and then comes the 5-630 news block. Where they are going with these two new hires I don't know although they do have a few folks that are in the twilights of their careers, including Carmen Harlan the lead female anchor at 5, 6 and 11 and Ruth Spencer at 4 (also the consumer reporter).

Can you say "We're playing for younger viewers"?

I remember that too but weren't we a little more uncertain beyond the fact they might sign her depending on what WMAQ does. This is much more concrete than what we talked about before.

Well that's gonna go well, I hope 7 knows what it's doing. They are bound to trip up sooner or later.

WILX in Lansing is losing lead anchor Jason Colthorp to WDIV Detroit where he will be an Anchor/Reporter. He has been with WILX since 2000. His last day at WILX is December 28 and he'll start at WDIV after the new year. http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2014/12/01/jason-colthorp-leaving/19749083/