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AWESOME! I'm so excited. I really hope he gets an anchor gig.

WQAD has been 'Tegna-fied'! Here's their 11am open from this morning! (T18 and C Clarity actually launched on 9/10)

4 minutes ago, Kenneth Kissel said:

Hoping WTVR  CBS 6 waits a little longer. I will miss "Moving Forward" when it goes away.

 

I'll miss it, too. One of my favorite packages! 

10 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

Really? A new color scheme and text size take a year and a half? WHAT!?

I could make that in a damn week.

8 minutes ago, DMA said:

I get that they're in a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mode but the desk really clashes with the rest of the studio design.

"Clashes" is an understatement. My GAWD.

26 minutes ago, MidwestTV said:

In another video message to employees, CEO David Lougee announced that work-from-home guidelines will remain in place until at least January 4, 2021. This means that employees who can work remotely and don't absolutely have to be in the building (i.e, sales, promotions, etc) will do so until next year. However, on-air talent may be allowed back in the building on a market-by-market basis depending on what the COVID numbers are in their respective locations. Some other notes include:

 

-85% of employees completed the company survey

-everyone will get a $100 UberEats gift card

-non-TV station buildings will be modified with COVID in mind and then they'll be required to come back to work in January

-people who want to keep the option to work form home after the January 4th date need to talk to their immediate leaders

So it sounds like after January 4th -- TEGNA will essentially start requiring everyone to come back to the station?

2 hours ago, NEPANews said:

The morning weather when Snedeker is on makes a graphic artist like myself CRINGE.  The 7-Day looks slapped together by a 5 year old. Nothing in-line, differing fonts, the boxes just put wherever.  

Not to mention, in the AM and Noon, Temperatures for all days are displayed "High/Low", but in all other dayparts, it's "Low/High".  Why?

I realize WNEP can get away with most anything it seems in the TEGNA empire, but my god, I wonder if anyone at corporate pays attention to their broadcasts.

He needs to be in my freshman year Digital Media Design course in college. I'm only 3 weeks in and this goes against everything I've learned.

2 hours ago, newsguy22 said:

 

GM didn't want to rock the boat. Station looked good, ratings are good (aside from COVID induced fluctuations) and didn't want to change the whole look of the newscasts. He's a fan of stability. ND wasn't a fan of the current look, and likes the fact that we would be able to share content with sister stations and not have to remake GFX to fit our look. I see both sides.

Yeah, I see both sides, too. They've both got valid points.

2 minutes ago, newsguy22 said:

Update from Norfolk: WTKR/WGNT will launch the new look, after all, Will happen in September. I assume WTVR/Richmond will, too. From what I understand, some in management (including the GM, who runs all three stations) wanted to keep the old Tribune package, which launched June 2016. Others wanted the new look. The others eventually won, probably with some help/prodding from corporate. 

Interesting. Yeah--I'm sure corporate influenced this decision. Why did the GM want to keep the current look? Why did others want the new look?

59 minutes ago, Superdude said:

Old news but I just learned this now that KDKA-TV revamped their morning news as 'Your Day Pittsburgh' from 4:30-7am.

Interesting. I didn't think KDKA was one to try something like this! I hope it works out for them because their morning news has always been #3. It's so stale.

I don't know how I missed this, but in late May, KDKA let go of Rick Dayton AND Susan Koeppen. Wow. 

I wonder if this, along with other changes, will hurt their ratings. Could this be the start of the end?

50 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

 

The music and the full graphics haven't debuted yet.

I know that 

3 hours ago, MarkBRollins88_v2 said:

A couple more snapshots from the stream. Looks like they’re using the new graphics for everything in the stream except for the news updates with main anchors. No new music yet either. 

This actually looks really good on KOAA. The graphics and music are a perfect fit for Colorado Springs.

38 minutes ago, Info Junkie said:

“Safe. Informative. Connected.”

Unique slogan replaced with a boring one. Also why "safe"? Safe from what?

59 minutes ago, anthonyz said:

Not sure how the newscasts were earlier in the day, the 6pm newscast today had Natalie standing in front of the desk with a backdrop graphic similar to TINY but added a tone of blue.

Ooh. I like that shot A LOT. Hope they keep using it post-COVID. Are any anchors at WNBC still at home? 

48 minutes ago, 24994J said:

 

Seating them this way allows them to distance while maintaining a video wall behind each anchor. Pretty simple.

 

 

Under the desk, like a foot pedal? The desktop one is probably easier to operate, and frankly, the handheld ones you suggest are more hideous, if you will. When anchors hold those, it's so obvious, and it looks like they're doing the weather or playing a video game. The model WCBS is using looked like a mousepad to me, at first glance.

The handheld ones are more hideous, if they are big. KOIN uses super small ones that are hardly noticeable. That's what I was referring to.

You can see them at around 2:56 below...

7 hours ago, IceManNYR said:

Why are the anchors off center? Also, why use those hideous desktop teleprompter operators? If you don't want to bring in your human teleprompter operator yet, at least buy the ones that go under the desk or super small handheld ones (which they do make).

3 hours ago, TVNewsJunkie15 said:

The reason Savannah is still at home I think is because of her eyes not having completely recovered. She still need more surgery  but at the moment that been put on hold due to the pandemic.  That could also be considered a underlying health issues. She told Ellen that she still see blurry spots.  I would not be surprised if it not until this fall that she back in stud 1A.  But Al, Jenna and Craig are still doing the show from home too so she not the only one.   

Craig is in the studio and has been for weeks.

How about we try this? I know it's unorthodox but use a CBS News facility. I mean, I know it's uncommon for networks to produce their newscasts in-house, but these are crazy times we live in.

On 5/22/2020 at 6:51 PM, MidwestTV said:

Tegna CEO Dave Lougee released a 21 minute video to employees discussing the status of their COVID operations and answer employee questions. Personnel will be allowed back in building on a market-by-market basis, and even then only for select people. He doesn't foresee any future furloughs or change to employee benefits. He also hinted that some people may be allowed to work from home permanently, but that wouldn't be decided until a much later undetermined date.

 

Give Tegna slack for what you want, but they have done an excellent job being transparent with their employees about what the company's philosophy and approach to this crisis is. That's certainly a lot more than some other companies have done or would ever do.

"And even then for select people." So, are they never going to let some people back in?

"See beyond the surface"

16 minutes ago, MorningNews said:

Good Morning America is moving closer to some form of normalcy. George, Amy and Michael anchored together in the studio for the first time in months Friday. Dan, Eva and Whit are anchoring in the TS studio together for the first time in nearly 2 months.

Yeah, I've noticed more and more local stations doing the same thing. They are slowly but surely returning to normal.

1 hour ago, oknewsguy said:

Someone suggested that WRTV would bring back the 6 News branding, honestly the rebrand to 6 News would make it too much like WTHR.

 

I would say based on the sightings on Out & About it looks like it'll become WRTV News

RTV6 sounds a lot better. Or they could go with ABC 6 or 6 ABC. But yeah they can't do 6 News if WTHR just rebranded to 13 News.

1 hour ago, MarkBRollins88_v2 said:

Check the cuts from KJRH posted earlier in this thread. They’re the only NBC station I’ve heard using it. And if you watch their newscasts now, it sounds like they aren’t using them anymore.

I think they use a mix, but I could be mistaken. I know for a fact they commissioned them.

35 minutes ago, LexTVandRadio said:

There is an NBC cut of this? 

NBC version available

Yup. The news director of KJRH in Tulsa told me his station commissioned it.

7 hours ago, CircleSeven said:

Well let's see which stations have yet to switch. I posted this back on Christmas Eve.

 

I've scratched the ones that gotten "Gray'd" since then.

That's good. I'm not too impressed with Gray's packages. I hope more stations pick up the WAVE look.