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What am I looking for? Is it the annunciation part rather than ascencion?

Just for the sake of showing you the new version of the ticker that I referenced above: They moved the bug, added their web address and shored up the sidebars so they are even now. This debuted today, it's an improvement though I don't think it's gonna sway you towards a design like that...

WJBK FOX 2 Detroit Reporter Andrea Isom is resigning her position effective immediately to pursue things outside of broadcasting. She had been the main reporter on "The Edge At 11" weeknights. She joined WJBK in 2003.

7's ticker isn't that great either... The bottom of the bug with the website etc. Is covered up so the ticker is just a lousy overlay. If they did it right the bug would be over the ticker and shoved to the right side of the closings or the whole picture would scrunch and the full bug would move with it. Oh and all the lettering on the L3's and the bottom of the logo all run right into the gold band and are almost slightly cut off. I don't know what 5's looks like but I hope it's better than either 7 or 9. Really strange for an otherwise good graphics package at 7. Try this ticker: Nothing colliding, no lousy overlay, nothing screwed up. Picture moved up, bug on the ticker, it's pretty nice. On TV the picture winds up centered better so the two graphical sidebars are an even width without that little clear sliver of a gap at the right edge.

Whoda thunk we'd see the day when positive words were spoken about WFLD?

Tell somebody at their news hotline... It should be the assignment desk.

I've wondered if it's all live too... The transitions from interview at the desk to next story are atrocious on that show.

I'm not criticizing you, it's a great find on your part. I'm just not sure I get what they are trying to satirize. So any criticism is all on them. Maybe it work in an Onion sort of way?..

Was that supposed to be funny or make sense?

Maybe some doubt and they want to wait one more day to see more models?

I think it's got less to do with that and more to do with available personnel.

The Scripps lighthouse idents at the end of their programs now say "Copyright 2015, Scripps Media Incorporated" rather than the old "Copyright 2015, Scripps" format they have used since 2009.

I just don't get how you think who is where during the holidays has much bearing on anything if you know how schedules work?

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.