TheRolyPoly

I thought it was just 6-7 and 9-10am and now putting in the 8am hour, but I guess I was wrong.

How in the world is FOX Weather continuing to gain distribution, yet continues to have a shortened plagued staff?

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

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.

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.

And, in the case of ratings, has failed and backfired IMO on WPLG tremendously.

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.

I wonder when Janice Dean and The Weather Machine (as Shepard Smith liked to say) will finally show up on the channel.

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.

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).

Their weeknight news at 5:30 and their Sunday-Friday 10pm news is now gone, the latter replaced by you know what... TND.

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.

Yeah... she gone. Her LinkedIn profile pretty much confirms that. https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-garner-05604894/

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.

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?

It 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.

Yep. Off The Clock from 2-3, L.A. Unscripted from 7-7:30 and right now, the only syndicated show before 8pm is Two and a Half Men at 7:30pm. It also looks like they're trying to up their game with KTLA+ by airing repeats of their locally-produced programs from 7:30-10pm there to keep it a 24/7 local operation.

Right now, its 4am-2pm, 3-7 and 10-11:35pm.

If they grow like that into year two and three... ANF could really theaten WSB-TV's longtime dominant decades-long #1 status.

You may say that... but at least so far, WWJ has debuted one new newscast every week. First... launch on January 23rd with weeknight 6 and 11pm news, then exactly a week later on January 30th with hour-long weeknight 5pm news. Now, the February 6th launch of hour-long 4pm news. I wouldn't be surprised if Noon launches the week after that, then weekend evenings after that, then weekday mornings and finally weekend mornings. Also, if this is done within a four-week span, then they would have its full schedule by March, if that one post that said about that timeline is true.

KTLA goes an hour further, 4am-2pm. Also, I live in South Florida. That "1am newscast" is actually a repeat of their 11pm news, just like how WFOR and WTVJ repeat their 11pm newscasts just after 1:35am, while WSVN has their 11pm news repeat at 12:30 and 4:30am.

15 and a half hours. That's how many hours of news KTLA would air every single weekday if this goes through. 4AM-2PM, 3-7, and 10-11:35PM. The only other outlets in the Southland that do more hours of news than KTLA every weekday... is KNX News - 97.1 FM. KTLA would actually TIE (yes, your hearing this right) Spectrum News 1 SoCal for the second-most local hours of news every weekday on either radio or TV (SN1 SoCal is on 5AM-7PM plus half-hour installments at 9:30pm, 12 Midnight and 1:00am. They air other stuff during other hours like L.A. Times Today, L.A. Stories, etc. Yes, I did check the schedule myself.).

This. This is exactly why CBS Los Angeles did what they did.

I thought Jane had a significant part in the weekday edition of FOX Weather First (and Sunrise beforehand).

The weather section is provided by the team at WDAY-TV.