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This is from Radio Insight and reposted from the TNC Discord server...
These are the new registered domains for the yet-to-be-announced brands for its independent stations.We know WUPA will be Atlanta 69, WKBD as Detroit 50, and WPSG as Philly 57. But this is what the domain websites will be for the others, which could give us an indication as to what CBS is thinking with future brandings for their stations...
- KMAX - Sacramento31.com
- KSTW - Seattle11.com
- WTOG - Tampa44.com
- KCAL - LosAngeles9.com
- WBFS - Florida33.com (this one makes no sense to me)
- WLNY - NewYork55.com
- WSBK - Boston38.com (getting away from TV38?!?!)
- KTXA - Texas21TV.com
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8 hours ago, KS-IL-IA said:
KSNW in Wichita is moving and expanding its "Good Day Kansas" from its current 12:30-1 p.m. to 11 a.m. to noon, effective Sept. 4. KSN already bumps the third hour of today and Hoda & Jenna an hour to run Kelly & Mark at 9, so I wonder what's going to be missing. Competition KAKE and KWCH already have news/local talk at 9.
Live's going away, according to TitanTV on KSNW's website. KSN News at Noon becomes an hour-long broadcast once again.
EDIT: I believe KAKE's is straight-up local talk while KWCH's is all news/weather. Don't quote me on this since I don't live in the market so I may be wrong.
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5 hours ago, jerseyfla said:
This is a great pickup next year for WCJB in Gainesville (the original network affiliate station in Gainesville) who could have easily swapped to CBS when WJXT the de facto CBS affiliate for Gainesville went Independent 21 years ago or even before it when CBS got exclusive rights to include the Championship Game in 2001 due to how important Florida Gator athletics are for the area. ABC has probably the most small market or former single station affiliates in the country between WCJB, WWSB, and WLOX.
It wasn't the original. WCJB was with NBC for two years from their 1971 sign-on until 1973. Then, they went with ABC for the reason @tyrannical bastardmentioned... the contract to air Florida Gators football at the time.
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On 8/17/2023 at 8:31 PM, JustinH said:
ABC wanted schedule synergy among the east coast and central time zone stations. Kelly & Mark @ 9:00, local news @ 10:00, The View @ 11:00/10:00 Central, Local News @ Noon/11:00 Central, GMA3 @ 1:00/Noon central, Tamron Hall @ 2:00/1:00 central, and GH @ 3:00/2:00 central.
That's true. Outside of WPVI airing local news at 4AM, all three stations' schedules will be the same quite literary all day.
Local news from 4:30-7am, GMA from 7-9am, Kelly and Mark at 9, more local news at 10, The View at 11, more local news at Noon, GMA3 at 1, Tamron Hall at 2, GH at 3, local news from 4-6:30, ABC WNT at 6:30, J!/WOF from 7-8, ABC Primetime at 8, final local news at 11, JKL at 11:35, and Nightline at 12:37am. Overnights will be the only difference because, again, WPVI does 4am while WABC and WTVD still start at 4:30am so its one half-hour less of a Jeopardy! repeat for WPVI to start their morning news at the time they start it.
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4 hours ago, cxd7346 said:
So I made another discovery tonight. Hello News II.Its The Great News Package with the Hello News Melody. WDTN Dayton used this before and so has WOKR (WHAM) Rochester and a few others, according to NMSA.
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18 hours ago, Spring Rubber said:
On weekend mornings during the hours that there's a Fox Business simulcast, Fox Weather First Weekend always takes longer breaks than normal Fox Weather programming in order to account for the longer breaks that take place on cable.
To date, on the streaming side, Fox Weather always filled this extra break time with a musical interlude featuring live camera shots from cities around the country. Looks like this weekend, they've finally decided to change it up and air actual weather information during the musical interludes, which is way more useful than the live camera shots.
This is better than the webcams they had before. I just wish they did this sooner. Question... is this during all breaks or only during live programming with longform airing just the countdown clock?
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4 hours ago, Chase29 said:
Meteorologist Carly Cassady will be departing KDVR.
I'm not surprised at all. She wanted to do more weather forecasting, not live in the field reports. The station pushed her on the latter very hard and thus is why she is getting out.
I've never seen her in the studio during severe weather coverage, only in the field. She's a meteorologist but the way she worked and was treated, it didn't feel like it at all.
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Huh... interesting change in Pittsburgh but not really a surprise for the San Francisco one.
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7 hours ago, Greggo said:
KPRC/Houston has added a third hour to its Saturday morning news: 6-7, 8-9 and now 9-10 as of this past weekend.
Also, they will be replacing Dr. Phil at 3 p.m. with a 3 p.m. newscast this fall.
These on-air additions — plus recently expanding their morning online stream from 7-8 a.m. to 7-9 a.m. — are all happening after they canceled their 4:30 a.m. newscast earlier this year over what they alleged at the time was a shortage of hiring and keeping producers.
I thought it was just 6-7 and 9-10am and now putting in the 8am hour, but I guess I was wrong.
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How in the world is FOX Weather continuing to gain distribution, yet continues to have a shortened plagued staff?
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FTVLive here so take it with a grain of salt. However, just read this.
https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2023/6/6/fox-weather-staffer-sounds-off
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I think this may be the first time that FOX Weather broadcasts an entire program live on location. In this case... Fort Myers, Florida for the start of the Hurricane Season.
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So, for those wondering, at last check, here are the times WSNN's newscasts are on (sorry for creating a list but excuse me on this one to make a point), at least on weekdays...
- 06:00-09:00AM
- 10:00-11:00AM
- 11:30AM-12:00PM
- 01:00-03:00PM
- 03:30-04:00PM
- 05:00-07:00PM
- 08:00-09:00PM (08:30-09:00PM on Fridays because of Music and The Spoken Word at 08:00PM)
- 10:00-11:30PM
- 03:00-05:30AM (The overnight repeat block I believe)
So you got the first block competing entirely against WTTA/WFLA (plus the 6:00AM hour against WWSB), then the next hour at 10:00AM is all alone, 11:30AM is up against WFLA's hour-long midday news at 11:00AM, the afternoon block from 1:00-4:00PM (sans 3:00PM) is all to themselves, 5:00-6:30PM against WFLA (and WWSB), 6:30PM is alone to themselves, 8:00PM is against WTTA, 10:00PM is alone to themselves, and 11:00PM against WFLA (and WWSB). The overnight block doesn't matter because its repeats but still...
So there's a lot of consolidation and possible cutting that WFLA may have to think about once this channel is entirely under their/Nexstar's control.
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On 5/20/2023 at 8:24 AM, Georgie56 said:
I think it may be due to the successful culture WSVN has built through the decades in Miami/Fort Lauderdale. Many of their English-language rivals in the market have taken key elements from them or in the case of WPLG, flat out copied them completely.
And, in the case of ratings, has failed and backfired IMO on WPLG tremendously.
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15 hours ago, JosiahCubed said:
An end of a very long era. The CBS Enforcer has had a really good shelf life in terms of News music.
Let's clarify something up... its no longer used on O&Os but is STILL used by affiliates. KWTX Waco and the Griffin duo of KWTV OKC and KOTV Tulsa are such examples.
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On 5/24/2023 at 10:16 PM, Spring Rubber said:
It looks like there's even further work underway to integrate the Fox News weather team with the Fox Weather team. This week, Fox News weekend meteorologist Adam Klotz played the "third wheel" role on America's Weather Center Monday-Wednesday, hosting occasional segments throughout the show each day.
And now tonight, Rick Reichmuth is hosting Fox Weather @ Night.
None of the Fox News weather team have been added to the Fox Weather personalities page on their website, but it kinda feels like that's right around the corner.
I wonder when Janice Dean and The Weather Machine (as Shepard Smith liked to say) will finally show up on the channel.
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I'm not impressed but it is an improvement over the 100% virtual set they had before.
EDIT: I was wondering who the two folks were on set... I just realized that's Chris Earl (formerly with KCRG) and Nadeen Yanes (formerly with WKMG). Woah.
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On 4/14/2023 at 1:11 PM, CircleSeven said:
This is somewhat related. The last Scripps' outlet to carry MeTV is dropping the network.
Next Friday (4/21), WPTV is yanking MeTV off of 5.2, and its moving to Hearst's WPBF 25.5.
The memo is on top of the MeTV page:
No word on what diginet (likely their own) WPTV will replace on 5.2.
Another win for Hearst here. They love Me-TV so much. Some of its affiliates have been carrying it from the beginning.
EDIT: The only Hearst stations now that don't carry Me-TV after KOAT Albuquerque (its on low-power KTEL-CD), KSBW Salinas (its on low-power KYMB-LD), WISN (Weigel has a grip on its diginets across its Milwaukee stations, including WBME-CD where Me-TV is at), and WTAE Pittsburgh (its on WPXI instead).
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On 3/18/2023 at 4:53 PM, tyrannical bastard said:
In Macon, I wonder how much of their news they cut. WGXA has traditionally been the #2 station far behind WMAZ, I wonder if Morris' WMGT has surged ahead.
And now with WPGA being traded to Gray, its practically a station set up to get its last laugh, if they succeed in luring away ABC and/or FOX from WGXA.
Their weeknight news at 5:30 and their Sunday-Friday 10pm news is now gone, the latter replaced by you know what... TND.
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1 hour ago, Spring Rubber said:
With Katie gone, I'm curious if they:
A) Keep the Orlando operation with just Kelly Costa.
B) Hire a new OCM to replace Katie, bringing Orlando OCM staffing back up to two.
C) Give Kelly notice to relocate to NYC if she wants to remain part of the network.
D) Hire twice more meteorologists than they do now to help support a 24/7 full-time expansion of the network plus provide meteorologists in Orlando.
E) Same as D but move the Florida-based part of the operation from Orlando to Tampa where you have a much stronger O&O and a much bigger weather team already there.
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On 3/26/2023 at 6:44 AM, Spring Rubber said:
The on-air staffing shortages are starting to show. It appears that sometime within the past few weeks, Katie Garner has departed from Fox Weather. The link to her bio has been removed from https://www.foxweather.com/personalities - based on the web archive Wayback Machine, her bio was still linked there on March 15th, but now she's gone.
Yeah... she gone. Her LinkedIn profile pretty much confirms that.
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6 hours ago, Spring Rubber said:
As far as the discontinuing of the original version of the regional "Across America" segments back in November, I have to wonder if it was the O&Os that complained about having to produce these pre-recorded hits twice a day, or if it was a corporate decision where the folks in New York didn't see the value of the segment. If it was pushback from the O&Os, then I would wonder if there would be issues with getting them to participate in any other type of localized forecasts. Heck, even when "Across America" was fully-fledged on Fox Weather, there were only like 10 O&Os that participated, with WTXF in Philly being the only one in the northeast that would participate. In the southeast, only the two Florida O&Os participated.
If I recall correctly, the ONLY FOX O&Os I saw participate in that segment where KSAZ, WOFL, WTVT, KMSP, WTXF, KTBC, KDFW, KRIV, KCPQ, and WITI.
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3 hours ago, T.L. Hughes said:
Ironic that they weren’t added to the KSTP and KSTC editions of Eyewitness News Morning as well, where having weather segments at the top of each half-hour would be most useful.
Maybe because they already do weather at the top of every hour or half-hour without branding it as such.
Another question off-topic from that... when will FOX Weather finally start allowing its O&Os or affiliates who carry FOX Weather on a subchannel to finally start providing local weather updates on there? -
On 2/21/2023 at 10:57 AM, DGD1314 said:
I'm not sure about that, but I did just check the cable listings and WSB has a better placement that WGXA's ABC .2. Interesting...
https://www.cox.com/local/residential/ga/macon/tv/channelsIt also helps when Cox Media Group is still connected to Cox Enterprises who owns Cox's cable unit, so no need for a carriage dispute there.
Prayers for Don Browne
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I'm sorry to hear about this. He did lead a remarkable era of the station's history so my best wishes to him. Hopefully, he can recover and get back to normal ASAP.