dman748

At this point I think it's on especially given what Kim is bringing along with him.

Deb McDermott (currently heads Standard Media)

Colleen Brown (formerly head of Fisher Broadcasting from 2006 until the 2013 sale to Sinclair)

Ellen McClain Haime (formerly VP of Fiance at Hearst and before that she was Senior VP among other roles at Granite)

This is going to get interesting folks, all I will say is enjoy the show.

I should also mention that all of those names I just mentioned those are very high profile names, that may be just what the doctor ordered for Tegna but, I'll belive it when I see it

P.S. I think the Standard-Tegna thing deserves it's own thread.

As posted on Discord, some sad news to report this morning.

KFOR Weather Producer Robert Moose has passed away at the age of 42.

Rest in peace, Robert. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.

Hate to bump a stagnant thread but, SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt will be moving to Washington, D.C. in August.

And it'll share the same studio space as Pardon The Interruption as well.

Not sure if ESPN will renovate the current space in the current PTI to accomodate the SVP SportsCenter, build a seperate set for SVP or build an entire new set that will house both PTI and SportsCenter with SVP. We'll find out in the coming weeks and months ahead.

31 minutes ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:

It's been this way for a little while now... At least 2 months... Very sad

Given that their former sister station WISH dropped the "24-Hour" part of their branding, sadly I knew that it was only a matter of WHEN, not IF WOOD was going to follow suit.

WOOD has officially dropped "24-Hour" from it's branding and it's now simply known as "News 8".

This is the video that was shared on Discord 

37 minutes ago, ns8401 said:

What has improved? They all look identical outside of the bug thing...

The addition of the box during the tease (something that neither KXXV, WFTS, or WTXL implemented when they received this package)

7 minutes ago, ns8401 said:

So they can put the logo in a box during the tease... this is the payoff for all the small ball executive hires to oversee their news operations as a group...

Correct, but what's so strange about it is they can't do it during the actual newscasts.

At least it's being improved somewhat as each station receives the new package, that's the biggest positive I can take away from this package that I can see at this point with this package.

Here's the actual opens (Morning and 4pm)

Here's the open (even though it's a news update) 

The main takeway from what we're seeing so far in these images and videos that's been posted in this thread so far regarding this set refresh is that there's a lot more happening behind the scenes regarding this than what ABC is willing to tell us.

I truly believe that there is some form of a MAJOR renovation that's taking place in the main WNT set, how major is anyone's guess at this point.

6 minutes ago, TheRyan said:

It's very subtle, however I'm noticing the lighting is very slightly different than what I recall being normal.  The best way I can describe it is the lighting appears a bit duller than normal.  Maybe it's nothing, but just something I noticed.

 

This is what WNT looked like over the weekend:

 

Compare that with a few months ago:

 

The biggest change that I took note of from the 2 videos is that on the 2nd video in the link it didn't have the map of the world in the background behind the anchor desk like it does in the first video.

I think if nothing else, ABC is doing a refresh to the current set and any significant major changes won't take place until when they do make that move to Hudson Square (IF they even do make that move)

41 minutes ago, Samantha said:

Job postings indicate KNXV is about to extend its morning news onto KASW. An AM news/traffic anchor and an AM anchor/meteorologist are being sought, as well as a News Producer/Content Planner, all with job postings that mention "The CW61 Arizona". h/t formeraa

 

Are they looking for anybody at 9pm too or are they planning to use the main evening anchor team at 9pm on KASW?

1 minute ago, who?cares said:

My sources say WRTV is still a few months out. 

So it looks like KMGH and maybe one or two other Scripps stations will go first before WRTV in terms of the new graphics

As posted on Discord, apparently the trademark for "Diamond Sports" expired on New Year's and in it's place, Sinclair a few days before the New Year trademarked "SportsTime" as a name for Diamond Sports Group.

Given that one of the RSNs is already branded under the SportsTime name (that'd be SportsTime Ohio) it would make logical sense to rebrand the rest of the chain under the "SportsTime" branding I do wonder 2 things:

1. Does Sinclair intend to merge Fox Sports Ohio into that of SportsTime Ohio (or perhaps rebrand Fox Sports Ohio to SportsTime Ohio and then rebrand the current SportsTime Ohio to SportsTime Ohio 2)?

2. Did Sinclair perhaps hit a snag in it's negotiations with the buyout of Stadium?

Something to watch, folks.

9 hours ago, newsbot said:

WHDH/WLVI/WSVN owner Ed Ansin says he wants to die with his boots on - and he's gunning to swipe the FOX affiliation in Boston away from Cox/Apollo's WFXT
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2020/01/01/whdh-owner-ansin-still-charge-want-die-with-boots/OUdRVkqeC7AtU5c1YGlr4J/story.html

This is probably worthy of it's own thread but I'll post my thoughts here.

I think the possibilities does exist as far as a potential affiliation switch is concerned the biggest question mark may come down to this:

How dissatisfied is Fox right now with WFXT? Is the negotiations between Cox and Fox not going well in Boston?

26 minutes ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

Just a Denver update. I head the new SAM package signature on KMGH during the 10p. We'll likely be getting the new graphics soon.

Could it go something like KMGH being the next to receive the new package then WRTV to follow or could it go WRTV first then KMGH?

Regardless of the order, those are the 2 Scripps stations that will most likely receive the new package to start 2020

As posted in Discord, KOKH Meteorologist Marcy Novak's last on-air date is today (January 2nd) she is leaving the broadcasting business after 13 years and will be spending time with her newborn babies. According to her Facebook post, her husband got a new job in the Dallas/Fort Worth area https://twitter.com/Marcynovakwx/status/1212555372495552513?s=19

1 hour ago, J1975am said:

Not sure how this happened, but KLFY in Lafayette used the 2017-19 Nexstar animation to close their 5p news (it does have the 2020 copyright, BTW). Does any other Nexstar market (including the former Tribune ststions) have this close as of today??

I can confirm that the copyright year it was updated to reflect that but from what I could tell, KFOR is using the current Nexstar animation.

This post will be edited if I do spot the 2017 animation on KFOR

2 hours ago, Greggo said:

It was inevitable. Radio isn’t their business. How long till they unload the Dispatch radio stations in Columbus?

I'd say give it about a year to a year and a half and Tegna will probably sell the WBNS radio stations

This is in reference to this article regarding the sale of KFMB's radio stations 

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/182739/local-media-san-diego-acquires-kfmb-am-fm/

Not a surprise to see Tegna sell it's radio stations, it was likely known for quite some time that Tegna was going to sell the Radio stations

Does the carriage dispute between AT&T and Hearst include DirecTV? 

Because I've been checking the guide on DirecTV and KOCO hasn't started running the info channel about that as of yet

12 minutes ago, groupwfan said:

Or "There's No Substitute"... that theme SCREAMS 9NEWS.

Ironically enough, that very music package that you mentioned was used on KUSA's newscasts during the final three years as an ABC affiliate (1992-95)

Matt Gephardt will be leaving KUTV at the end of the year, his last day on the air will be of course New Year's Eve (December 31st) https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/12/20/get-gephardt-will/

11 minutes ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

I'm not sure if his contract at KYTX was not renewed or he decided to move back to Colorado. If you recall, his children and grandchildren live in Colorado and his ailing mother live(ed?) in Tyler. He left KMGH (during a tumultuous time at that station, to be sure) to be closer to his mother, but had frequently returned to Denver where he owned a second home to visit local family. I haven't asked him directly, because it's none of my business, but he could have simply decided not to renew his contract at KYTX because he had no more local ties. He seems to persistently reside in Colorado these days, even after his KDVR/KWGN contract was not renewed.

My educated guess on that one was that Landess' contract with KYTX wasn't renewed.

Maybe @east-tx-tv can fill us in on this subject because there's something that happened between Landess and KYTX that caused him to leave the station

11 hours ago, cg41386 said:

WAVY already did a refresh to their theme a few years ago, it doesn’t really need any updates. Then again, I didn’t think the previous iteration needed any changes.

Anything is possible, WAVY might surprise us with an update to Newswire for their 25th anniversary, but they might not.