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2 minutes ago, Nelson R. said:

Overkill

Not really. This is Los Angeles after all.

@Spring Rubberand I are both huge watchers of FOX Weather ever since this channel came out.

Yes, I have noticed this as well. Is this the start of live 24/7 weather? I don't think so but the changes are really noticeable.

For now, the program guide on The Roku Channel still says the program names and the times it airs. 

15 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

That seems to be the new trend emerging at the news-intensive stations that don't have to deal with network programming at the time.

 

WGN Chicago goes from 4am-1pm central.  Any other station exceed that time, locally? 

Only 1 hour of that is devoted to lifestyle programming...Daytime Chicago, from 10-11.

 

Might be a good time filler on some former superstation of theirs, but alas....

KTLA from 4am-2pm and that's all-news.

On 7/28/2022 at 4:36 PM, Nelson R. said:

 WSOC’s John Paul leaving for Philadelphia

 

 

Allison is lucky to have had lots of WTOV colleagues work alongside her at WSOC, him and Natalie Pasquarella included.

On 7/29/2022 at 12:12 AM, tyrannical bastard said:

An update...the midday news will be at 11am-noon and Studio 10 will be 2 hours from 9-11am beginning on September 5th. 

In other words... all local, all morning from 4:30am-12pm.

11 hours ago, Spring Rubber said:

Effective today, America's Weather Weekend now runs until 2pm ET. Steve Bender and Kiyana Lewis anchor the 10am-2pm ET portion. One of them still stays afterward for an unknown amount of time to provide top and bottom of the hour updates during Fox Weather Live from 2pm ET onwards.

 

They have updated the corner graphic to reflect the new schedule.

We both knew this was going to happen. We both knew it!

Now watch, this will be the start of an expansion to actual 24/7 live weather fox FOX Weather instead of just airing long-form programming on weekends or even FOX Weather LIVE taking up the majority of its time on weekends.

On 7/22/2022 at 6:50 PM, asdu48 said:

It might be the final nail in the coffin for the local on the 8s as we know it, but only time will tell.

It won't be. This is an isolated incident with a cable headend in Des Moines.

But it was very disturbing to see.

Good news... no longer in the newsroom. They were really terrible when doing so from the newsroom.

Bad news... new set, worse one in the market.

15 hours ago, sanewsguy said:

All I have to say is that you are definitely in the minority.

You're talking about viewers who will call these stations by old, no-longer used brands (I used to have a co-worker that still called KSAT 12's newscasts "NewsWatch" in the 2010s), their network, or their cable channels. The average viewer does not admire station branding to the extent you or this community in general does.

Yeah, I know. I know I'm not an average viewer. But then again, who else is? Pretty much everybody else here. Haha.

I know average viewers don't care.

if I wanted to watch them again, it will only be from 6-10am, 5-7pm and whenever the hell Prime is on, but now that program is in danger if Megyn Kelly officially joins. Plus, I'm not sure if the 11pm hour will be even better.

I feel so bad for Marni Hughes. Just like Rudabeh Shahbazi, I hope she gets to leave soon and escape from this madness.

On 7/18/2022 at 9:09 PM, nycnewsjunkie said:

People check the weather, they don’t check the “First Alert Forecast™.”

They eventually will say that. I'll check the AccuWeather Forecast from Channel 7 (WABC) or my First Alert Weather Forecast from WBRC FOX 6. Eventually, it will graze into your mentality.

I'm already used to saying 7 Weather Forecast for WSVN or my First Alert Forecast from NBC 6.

Do not talk about Orlando. Everything is staying put. The owners are happy with their stations, and SERIOUSLY have no plans to sell anytime soon. Not now, not for a long time.

To put this into perspective... WESH has been owned by Hearst since 1999 (WKCF since 2006), WKMG with Graham since 1997, WFTV since 1985 (WRDQ since 2001), and WOFL since 2002 (WRBW since 2001).

To think that NO major Orlando station (not counting WKCF, WRDQ and WRBW) has changed ownership in twenty years is just purely amazing, and it also tells you that these stations are not being planned on being sold anytime soon.

7 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

KYW now has Next Weather.

It seems to me that CBS O&Os are finally taking weather seriously with either a unique weather brand (Next Weather) or an overly used brand (First Alert Weather) but at least they're not just going by Weather anymore with sounds very boring.

4 hours ago, sanewsguy said:

No, I don't have time for that.   (kidding)

https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-news/news-13-reveals-new-studio/

I love, um, how they, um, included the "um"s when they quoted Tom Lewis:

 

This has to be the most BS thing I've ever heard of in a Nexstar new set story:

Quote

News 13 took into account viewer and employee feedback and implemented it into the studio renovation.

No they bleeping didn't! Its just another Nexstar set in a box!

1 hour ago, Requiere said:

Kind of mixed feelings about the NEXT weather for WFOR. I know that WTVJ had the First Alert Weather for a long time now, still think First Alert is too generic though.

WPTV uses it, so does WBBH.

In other words, all NBC affiliates (WTVJ's being an O&O) in Southern Florida (I mean South of I-4) use the First Alert branding.

On 6/30/2022 at 9:59 AM, tyrannical bastard said:

WALA FOX 10 is expanding Studio 10 to TWO hours and adding a midday newscast this fall.  Not sure if the midday news will be on at 11am or noon.  Joe Emer announced this morning on Good Day Gulf Coast, and he will be moving to these new shows, bringing Eric Reynolds back to the program with Sarah Wall. Eric currently anchors the 4:30-7am portion.

 

That's the first time I've seen a lifestyle program expand to 2 hours....has this happened anywhere else?

 

KTVX Salt Lake City is calling. They got Good Things Utah on from 9:00-11:00 a.m.

3 hours ago, SFTV said:

My bad didn’t know KTLA had a full hour at 3pm I thought it was online streaming and I thought KDOC was a full hour per it’s tv listings on its site. 

No, it is. I'm just saying that once KABC's news on KDOC goes away (and it will, thanks a lot TCT), there will be that 7:30 p.m. break.

29 minutes ago, SFTV said:

So much News on every channel in LA except from 2-3pm, 3:30-4pm, and 11:35pm - 4am

 

More car chases to come….

 

4am - 2pm News

Hour Break from 2 - 3pm

3 - 3:30pm News
(:30 min break)
4 - 11:35pm News 

 

Umm... KTLA's 3pm news is on for an hour.

It will actually soon be 4am-2pm, hour break from 2-3pm, 3-7:30pm, 30 minute break at 7:30pm and 8-11:35pm once KABC's news on KDOC end due to the latter's sale to TCT.

On 7/9/2022 at 12:21 PM, Spring Rubber said:

Fox Weather is now using two separate OCM teams on America's Weather Weekend:

 

6am-10am ET: Craig Herrera and Amy Freeze (Michael Estime filling in for Amy today)

10am-12pm ET: Steve Bender and Kiyana Lewis

 

Then it looks like Kiyana Lewis sticks around to provide occasional weather updates during the automated Fox Weather Live.

 

Seems like since they're adding Steve and Kiyana to weekends now, it's a missed opportunity to not provide fully-live weather programming until 1pm or 2pm ET, instead having them only work two fully-live hours of programming.

I've seen Kelly Costa on late weekend nights in some instances for occasional weather updates.

And yeah, that is a missed opportunity. Make it 6am-2pm at least. I mean, hell, TWC stops at 1pm so that 2pm hour would kick their butts.

WTVJ 6.4 Miami has added it recently too.

20 minutes ago, Nelson R. said:

WSBK is keeping their 8pm news and moving the 10pm portion of their MyNet schedule to 1am. I think it would’ve been easier for them to have the news at 9 and 10 and MyNet from 11pm-1am. 

No because... competition. WHDH is on at both 9 and 10pm. Why not keep WBZ's traditional news on WSBK at 8pm and have the experiment on at 10pm.

On 7/2/2022 at 12:58 AM, Requiere said:

I didn't realize until seeing this thread but it looks as though NBCU went with WTVJ 6.4 and not WSCV for Oxygen. For years now there has been no 51.3, only .2 for TeleXitos and .4 for an SD Telemundo version for Palm Beach. Anyway, has any update on whether or not Spectrum dominated areas will get Oxygen OTA?

I'm not surprised. NBC O&Os get first blood for Oxygen OTA with Telemundo only picking them up on stations where there's no NBC O&O in the market (Houston for ex.).

5 hours ago, ATLNewsExpert said:

WXIA called, they want their terrible logo back...

KCBD has had that "11" since 1994.

@Spring RubberIt looks like the new weekend schedule is permanent. Just checked the schedule for today and tomorrow, it will be the third weekend in a row that FOX Weather will air FOX Weather LIVE from 12:00-8:00 p.m. along with its usual 11:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m. + 5:00-6:00 a.m. airings and, of course Night Light from 1:00-5:00 a.m.

The 8:00-11:00 p.m. hours seem to be various programs each weekend. For example, last weekend at 9:00 p.m. was FOX Weather Wild, but this weekend, it will be a special Tracking The Tropics with Bryan Norcross. Also, at 10:00 p.m., it was Park'd with Abby Hornacek (a FOX Nation thing) but this weekend, its FOX Weather Reports. So, it will be various programs during the 8:00-11:00 p.m. timeframe, as in long-form programming.

But overall, FOX Weather is now airing more current weather programming on weekends.

EDIT: Here's what the new weekend schedule entails...

• 6:00AM-12:00PM: America's Weather Weekend
• 12:00-08:00 PM: FOX Weather LIVE
• 08:00-11:00 PM: Various Programming (this could be FOX Weather Reports, FOX Weather Rewind, Tracking The Tropics, etc.; changes week to week)
• 11:00PM-1:00AM: FOX Weather LIVE
• 01:00-05:00 AM: Night Light
• 05:00-06:00 AM: FOX Weather LIVE

On 6/23/2022 at 9:39 AM, TheRob said:

 

Wow. From the Big Apple to the Big "D".

Interesting move here but why would she leave 'PIX for 'TVT?

On 6/23/2022 at 2:02 AM, sanewsguy said:

This was sent to me, but FOX8 in Greensboro, NC is replacing "The Real" with self-syndicated "The Lee and Hayley Show" (originates from WTVQ in Lexington) on July 5th. The timeslot currently was being filled with a second helping of "Judge Judy". As much as I like Judge Judy, two hours is overkill. Good on FOX8 to pick them up.

 

Would love to see more stations pick up Lee and Hayley with all of the other talk shows being canceled or realigned this season (I would suggest KCWX in San Antonio pick them up but they don't exactly make it easy for viewers to get in touch with them).

 

Anyone who knows me knows I am a major fan of this show and it doesn't get enough love because this show is just amazing.

 

 

 

After watching that interview, I see why you loved them. You got a nice studio! Our place is a dump.

On 6/23/2022 at 6:26 PM, CircleSeven said:

 

GMA3 actually have an Noon ET/11am CT feed.

 

Sister station KETV Omaha, and another ABC affil WBRZ Baton Rouge carry the earlier feed.

GMA3 has two feeds? Wow. No wonder why I'm seeing more ABC affiliates on the Central time zone either moving or adding news at 12 Noon now.