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That reminds me of something on WBAY a couple years ago where there was an ad for a home medical provider showing their building and ten seconds later coming out of that break... 'Breaking news from Allouez, where a car has driven into a building'...and they cut to that same home medical building, now with a car halfway through its front window (thankfully nobody hurt there). Gotta love it when the sponsor somehow gets 'lucky' with another mention without the ad department getting involved.

The green shade was absolutely blinding when in a full bar indicating gains, the gold shading is confusing, and the entire package is a middle finger to those who are colorblind. When your competition (Bloomberg here, since FBC has become an FNC annex, let's be serious) upgraded their presentation to 4k specifically to show more information, this is a major step backward. There is no reason for the index numbers to be that big, and it will definitely get adjustments, hopefully, especially if they do that superimposition of the live Dow they occasionally do on heavy market days. (No change so far on CNBC World, by the way)

Pretty much even after a move to a new building and with WSAW, WEAU and WBAY all getting refreshes, they've still kept pretty much the same package for over a decade. It feels like going back in time when a sister station shows video/packages from them. And their logo imaging has been glued completely to NBC's since the trapezoid N era in 1976, nearly 50 years, so I don't understand the loyalty to keeping the appendage coming off the circle-15; just get rid of it or get a new logo.

Considering the debate's other iffy sponsors...they lucked out big time in getting their logo as visible as it was since the Free Beacon and Rumble were its main sponsors and them, along with Megyn's SXM show, only got bookend mentions. Could have been a lot worse for them.

Not all of us are on Logopedia 24/7 (that would be hell in itself) or would know it's repurposed at all; it's the same as the old KMOV logo with a bit taken out on the right, and it's obvious from their last iteration of the logo that Meredith/Gray already knew they had to modernize it, because Belo certainly wasn't doing it. The average viewer couldn't name the CBS station in Miami or would know, or care, about how they looked circa 1997, and those who comment on Facebook tend to be old, traditional, and fearful of even the slightest change. That's why all but the most traditional businesses never depend on Facebook comments alone on how to do business.

The same viewers really want Larry Conners and Vic Faust to be their new anchor team and the entire newscast to be a rant about being cancelled and for the good ol' (aka pre-integration) days to come back. St. Louis is truly a market two decades behind the rest of the industry, and if it was up to those viewers KTVI would still be ABC and the Gridbirds and Cardinals would still be playing on Astroturf at Busch II. At least Gray is trying something else and modernizing things, while you have KTVI and KSDK still trying to learn what a JPG is and that you can modernize your logo. This one though...they've been lockstep with NBC for 40 years as far as branding. There are better ways to get out of the network branding rut, and blanding it doesn't work here. This isn't WBAY, where the network brand has always been secondary to TV-2/Action 2 News.

I see "Local 8" as a natural transition there with "Local First" as their slogan, and since they already have one "Live Five", it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to see KVVU become that too. And I don't understand why dumping network branding is a bad thing at all.

I do like they leaned into their longtime font rather than the 'Dare to Defy' font with the design; it's clean and simple in that sense, but I'm just tired of oversized scoreboards. Whenever scoreboards compress to show some stat it looks much better in a smaller form than as a full-screen banner, but sadly vertical video has made a middle score compulsory for social sharing.

If KRDK or KNGF got them otherwise, it would probably be the best-case scenario. But for now going by how ABC/Fox Alaska is effectively a Superfund site outside ABC and WoF/J! (they'll be out ASAP) and KTWO now standing for the number of local employees it has, these stations are doomed.

I wish them luck keeping DP in line because knowing how the last Barstool tournament coverage degraded into the announce table screaming for the teams to point-shave, their S&P will not have a silent night.

It aired at 4pm for a long time on some stations, including WBBM; like Inside Edition they push out editions every half hour with updates if needed up to a certain time.

And that's why it's the perfect thing to watch during work or out in public. Very few talking heads, you can jump in and jump out, the graphics aren't complicated or flashy, and it's a show without MorningSave '82,000% off this Bluey toothbrush trimmer' spots. I'm happy with it, though I wish NBC News Now had control over breaking news rather than having to hand off to the Today or Nightly teams; when they do have to cover it they are much better at it than when the 1A control room and correspondent egos get in the way. GMA3 was fine for awhile, but then the 8am hour team seemed to get more say and once that certain couple got forced out, they were able to get the show they wanted for the most part where it's all about selling and harmless news at noontime.

There just needs to plain be a rule that RTC announcements are limited to commercial time and that's it. They're not on the level of EAS/NOAA warnings and non-applicable to folks who don't have these providers, and just generally interfere with watching a program. It's absurd with cable disputes, but at least there they have the excuse of having to transmit to multiple broadcasters. There's less excuse with both a local TV station, and the ability to just not send the ticker on a certain provider if you have that direct connection to the headend, and it simply shouldn't appear for OTA viewers outside Dish disputes (because they're still in 1982 as far as signal acquisition).

They're in an adjacent market and WITI was a sister station to them until 2020 (even discounting she came in a year later you don't exactly sever sister station relationships that quickly), so they probably have more than a glancing familiarity with her work.

I know one team locally is waiting to announce something but is waiting for word from the courts about what they can do to end-around Bally's rights to get those games elsewhere. Let's just say if everything looks static right now for your team and they're happy on air with Bally, that isn't the reality in the front office at all.

Weigel is definitely not an afterthought in the market and they've long left their 90s era struggles at this point. They definitely have the more powerful schedule and good overall lead-ins outside mornings, and they (along with the other four ops in town) hire good people from everywhere rather than MMJs who are hamstrung from the get-go. WTMJ is just in a fugue state where they're still stuck trying to recapture their 90s peak, but with Carole Meekins about to depart they no longer have any of those people in the newsroom and it's mainly either personnel with no connection to the area, or those who came on to try to salvage things, or those who are just there because they sucked up to management still living as if Journal hasn't fully ceased to exist. There's just no encouragement there, or any management that wants it to be unique; their GM did absolutely nothing with WGBA and somehow got promoted, and their 'no comment' in that Next TV article says it all; it's a station that wants to do the bare minimum without Cincy catching onto them.

A new (but really not surprising) acquisition; Jimmy Swaggart's church arm is buying WIWN/Milwaukee for $8.9 million. They had carried Sonlife on their main channel for a couple years and have maintained a subchannel slot in some form (currently DT8) on the station since, though most pay systems in the area carry Sonlife already.

Exactly this...FCC and other federal agencies aren't going to take action on any company based on corporate shell games and shifting affiliations around, along with their E/I issues that in the grand scheme didn't affect anyone that much. If Sinclair is going to get caught, it's going to be for something we won't even notice until it's revealed like one of their station holding companies getting sloppy with accounting, an advertising contract gone wrong, or tax-related issues.

Until these groups finally realize that they need to get a local resident to file a detailed and proper complaint, they're going nowhere. There must be a local person behind it that's just an average viewer (not the ones long checked off to the spam box who think a woman meteorologist wearing pants is somehow a violation of community norms), not a whistleblower engineer who knows too much. This is why radio license appeals usually go nowhere, because the average listener finds the obvious voicetracking and 14 minute ad breaks to be tolerable as background noise, and even the worst produced syndicated radio show with obnoxious bias still 'sounds' better and is tightly edited to the millisecond better than any local afternoon show was circa 1992. The other thing is that local news still makes up a minority of the broadcast day. The old days where a license could be pulled because of things viewers easily noticed, like network programming being pulled for offending the GM's morals or their racial views are gone; they air the shows without any changes because they lose their affiliation if they don't and can't refuse shows outside breaking news. The network also controls the technical quality, so you're not seeing licenses revoked for poor on-air quality or using a Peacock stream for the on-air feed. The burden is extremely high to revoke a license and must involve all 168 hours a week of programming, not just news.

They should've had that music a lot sooner than they did; it's a bop that works for the area and the time of day.

Smart way to use the WMYD leverage to fix what was an awkward situation of sports lead-ins and outs doing absolutely nothing. TVTitan shows it'll be rebranded so creatively as "Arizona 61", and it combines two Nexstar operations onto one signal for 15.2

I'd say; I can't blame Univision to tell them to go kick rocks (and also pull their affiliation in Portland). And if Sinclair knew they were killing Stadium OTA in September already for A&E's Crumbs..I mean The Nest, why didn't they just put The CW on a KUNS sub in the first place?! Also that 'they have a channel if they want it' line sounds more like a mob threat than a kind offer, as if they should be thankful Sinclair deigned to affiliate them in the first place (which they didn't, they bought out Fisher). We know where they won't go because of ancient beef though; KFFV and KVOS are out (Weigel/WCIU). KONG's subchannels are fair game though, or KRUM-LD.

Accounting for NY1 they'd probably be comfortably tied with WPIX; it's a pretty good set.

HC2/Innovate would literally be a better owner of that station than him. Even the haunted spirit of Ernest Angley knows how to navigate an affiliation agreement (and even if he had no role when WBNX lost the CW, it's still a thriving station now).

Any other market these stations would've long ago moved to bigger quarters or a part of the market where parking isn't a nightmare (like WCAU keeping their base on City Line while being in a big Comcast Tech Center space). We're nearly getting to the century mark of 30 Rock and the CBS Broadcast Center is much older than that, and Fox abandoned a nice studio in Secaucus to keep the dreary Fox Television Center because they have to keep that Manhattan address no matter what. Only ABC is making any kind of move to Hudson Yards and you have everyone whining because there's 'so much history' and 'it's always been there' while they have to shoot around the network's schedule (and The View is on an old soap opera stage). You'd hope someone would make a jump to Brooklyn or that NBC would even just call game and shift to Stamford. These executive egos needing to be Manhattan are just doing so to the demerit of how their stations are treated. A studio space for a local news operation in New York shouldn't be the same setup as a low-rent Sinclair station.