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All I know is that the schedules are built to try to be somewhat fair and accomodate as much as possible. That's why folks are all over the place. This is pretty standard in TV it would appear. Here in Detroit for example we had our sports director anchor the 6 and 10pm shows Monday and the lead anchor soloed on Sunday night at 6 and for 2 hours from 10-12. It all depends on who wants what when and who's still available what days as a result. That's what's determining who goes where. Nobody is going to try throwing experimental chemistry or scheduling into the mix. The schedules are determined well in advance usually and Scott simply bumped somebody to a day off or another shift most likely.

She did a 10pm too.... It's the holidays... This is a terrible pair of weeks to glean anything about scheduling.

How bout Mike at 4, 5 and 6 and Cheryl at 7 and 10? Seems pretty straightforward.

It was the unnecessary use of "about" and "like" that got me, especially the latter since it's misused by everyone outside of broadcasting (lots of people younger than 40) and doesn't belong being misused on the news. I don't hear anyone else using an unnecessary like virtually anywhere big or small to describe a temperature. The about I suppose I can live with but it's still cringe worthy. I would prefer to hear "low to mid" as a descriptor rather than "about". For some reason little things like that stick out to me, I certainly don't really mean to sound like a grammar nazi. I didn't watch her at channel 5 so this is a cold read, I'm sure she'll improve with time as most things in TV that last awhile seem to do.

My initial couple thoughts on Cheryl Scott: She sounds every bit the part of a weekend meteorologist and stumbles/seems hesitant far too much for a major market. "Into about the mid-40's" and "like the lower 50's" are not really very firm statements. She has a pretty dull personality from what I've seen so far, granted that isn't much. She doesn't feel like she really fits the ABC7 mold. Needless to say if she gets that 10pm job down the line she is going to have to get MUCH better. After seeing her I don't feel any better about not just moving everybody that's already firmly entrenched up a slot.

I'm guessing they would have staffed higher yesterday if they could but it didn't come together adequately.

JR did sports. Taft is in tonight as well.

Who's all there tonight?

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.