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9 hours ago, jase said:

 

Well...unless something was to occur during the 9-11P hrs., it wouldn't make sense to stay because the weather is unpredictable. 

Huh... I’m used to folks sticking around till about 2am if there’s a chance of something interesting then handing it off to the morning person and going home... same crowd that breaks in for Severe Thunderstorm warnings on the other hand so maybe overkill is the policy... also different market so YMMV...

On 5/23/2019 at 2:43 AM, jase said:

 

Pete (WMAQ) broke in a few minutes ago & said he will again when necessary. Likely won't see Mike (WFLD) or anyone else for awhile because I believe they all live in the burbs.

Nobody bothers staying over when this kind of weather is forecast?

6 hours ago, Eat News said:

 

HLN still has some dignity left...and often beats the mother ship in ratings in many dayparts. HLN is the "escape pod" of CNN.

Dignity where? Endless repeats of forensic files?

On 4/5/2019 at 10:54 PM, Ramona said:

 

Heads up the station's community outreach, charity and social programs.

Ah so not really an editorial director...

Was this an on-air position?

On 4/4/2019 at 9:53 PM, kmetz said:

Well, the community director position at WFTS is being terminated on April 5th. 

 

 

 

What is a community director?

That is by far the best color scheme on an ABC O&O package in that style...

So what this appears to be is simply renaming The NOW, using the regular news graphics during local news, filling most of the show with the usual national cut-ins (no graphics used) and then some nifty green-screen graphics customized for the station. So The NOW is alive but in another form that folks can identify with. Some of the new custom transitions look pretty nice actually but overall this is a letdown.

16 hours ago, DetroitTVNews said:

Not just WXYZ wants to be done with "The Now". WEWS has just dropped "The Now" name. In their case, they're now "News 5 at 4 PM".

Smells like a Scripps corporate decision...

WXYZ has begun running promos for “7 Action News at 4pm”... looks like somebody got the memo about “The NOW” and it’s going bye bye...

9 hours ago, mre29 said:

Those look pretty good.

 

It looks like somebody flattened the origins Scripps package... 

4 hours ago, who?cares said:

This seems to be flattest thing I've found that RenderON has done. Which I wouldn't not oppose as a full on news look. 

I've heard they are coming in the fourth quarter.

The NOW’s graphics to all and to all a good night!

seriously... they already use an extremely flat look for those... it wouldn’t be a stretch to repurpose them on a broad scale... 

Oh and NO orange...

1 hour ago, mardek1995 said:

Their must runs only add insult to injury.

That’s every stations C block... 2 or 3 stupid stories after a break from weather and before a break for sports...

If somebody wants to be different they’ll run their last 15 minutes a night as an expanded two segment sportscast... but hey... what do I know... 

5 hours ago, 24994J said:

The dam is breaking open. The mapping software isn't new (adopted after the flagships), but that branded graphic sure is. The Helvetica style remains, but not much of a clue beyond the color scheme and the flat look. It's big like WABC, that goofy "YM" is similiar to KABC, but the look overall might not fall on either side.

 

That is a fantastically terrible name and the graphic isn't much better...

1 hour ago, 24994J said:

New morning show promo with a very different look debuted tonight. They've departed from the standard graphics for the morning news before ("7 in the Morning," anyone?), but this one is definitely out there. I REALLY don't like this voiceover. She does work for the west coast O&O's, and that style just doesn't click east of the Mississippi.

 

 

Yeah... no...

Standardization anyone?

3 hours ago, 24994J said:

7 billion people on Earth with thousands, if not millions of different names, and I'm still amused that a newscast can be fronted by Cheryl, Mark, Cheryl & Mark.

 

That’s almost as good as an all Dave (Solo anchor/weather/sports) newscast on WXYZ a few years ago on a Saturday night...

Well...

WXYZ has “new” morning show lower thirds and a new morning show logo to go with them:

All other graphics (full screen etc.) is the same standard stuff. The flying box is static in this look too which is nice... the moving logo stuff is getting stale. They are trying very hard to emulate GMA. Their anchors have also adopted some of David Muir’s odd speaking style in the evenings. They’ve always done this kind of copy the mothership stuff.

On 1/8/2019 at 6:23 PM, Weeters said:

 

We're barely a week into the year. If there will be new graphics this year, they've got plenty of time.

 

Rumor is they didn't even start the preliminary process of getting new graphics until late fall. So it probably wouldn't happen until summer or fall 2019 at the earliest.

That means we can start speculating on their graphics package that follows the new one in 2026 right?

When you discover that CNN Newsroom at 4am on a Sunday looks rather good compared to their weekday programming that’s a terrible sign...

On 12/17/2018 at 12:05 PM, DetroitTVNews said:

There's a new face on WXYZ's weather team. Mike Taylor, who will be on during weekends, presented the weather yesterday at 6 PM and 11 PM.

He's an in-house hire who came from WMAR. Previous to that, he had a previous stint at WXYZ, as well as positions at WCIA and WBKB.

This could be a definite sign as well that Chris Edwards will actually retire. WXYZ's weather team currently consists of Dave Rexroth, Kevin Jeanes, Hally Vogel, Beth McLeod (for who knows how long) and now Mike Taylor is back.

His previous stint was as an intern. He’s not bad. Allie Hoxie who recently came over from KSHB is awful and yet they let her hang around on the 11pm... she always looks completely frightened of being on TV...

WXYZ has also finally redone the WXYZ.COM lettering on the front of their desk. The Copper from the old 2009 Scripps package is gone and it’s now dark blue just like the flying box. Way overdue.

Where is the unread posts button on this thing?

Here's what FTVLive thinks of WEWS not covering the breaking news story this week:

 

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/11/14/scripps-station-drops-the-ball-in-cleveland

Gee... from someone who relentlessly attacks Scripps at every turn? Do tell...

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Ahhh Florida... I hear it’s rather well heated this time of year...

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Good for him... some of these people out there need to get a grip...

If I were to guess, they just want to act like they're "checking in" with her, and not treating it as a full sports segment. They should do something, with all the events in a standard weekend, but want to keep it in-line with the sportsless weekday 5 o'clock show.

Which doesn’t really make much sense but we’ll go with that anyways... I’ve never liked the idea of a sportsless hour of news... you wind up ignoring one of the most popular subjects for your audience...

"Employees at MSNBC, , say that the company orders them to air biased political segments, and that it feeds interviewers questions intended to favor Democrats Brietbart reports."

 

See how that reads when you change the network and the political party?

 

Just sayin'

You could do the same with FOX News too...