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5 minutes ago, TheRyan said:

KSPR in 2005 when it was called "Springfield 33 News"--Here are a couple of sponsored idents and a short teaser. 

 

 

I probably remember the Springfield 33 News era during the times my parents and I would make that 4 hour trip to Branson for a Vacation

Meanwhile in Indianapolis, WISH-TV is expanding the Saturday edition of their 10pm newscast to a full hour beginning November 23rd.

https://tvnewscheck.com/article/more-news/241473/wish-adds-another-weekend-newscast/

2 hours ago, 24994J said:

 

Content is key, of course, but THIS ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE. Nice nod by TEGNA and station leadership, for once.

I wonder if Soo Kim's influence on Tegna has something to do with this

2 hours ago, JCB4TV said:

It was easier for Nexstar to let Eli go as he was essentially the new guy, for all the others, Uncle Perry would need to probably retirement packages for the long time KFOR personalities. Do we hear "retirement" announcements after sweeps?

I doubt if we hear about any potential early retirements except for maybe Galen Culver and Tara Blume but outside of those two, I think everybody else is pretty much safe at this point. 

4 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

Appears a rebranding is imminent, as Fox Sports Florida is getting rebranded "within the next few months".

Also according to this, The Twitter account of SportsTime Ohio has been merged with Fox Sports Ohio and they now go by Fox Sports Cleveland and Fox Sports Columbus on Twitter.

I've also noticed that Fox Sports Sun itself no longer has it's own Twitter account (they do have one for each individual team but that's it) same with Fox Sports South/Southeast as well as Fox Sports Tennessee and Fox Sports Carolinas (with the exception of the PredsonFSTN and CanesonFSCAR accounts)

9 minutes ago, edladd said:

 

First off something got messed up in the system not entirely sure what happened with that.

Second off, Kevin is only 59 he don't turn 60 until the 23rd of next month so I don't think Nexstar would force Kevin into early retirement because don't forget he's also the moderator of Flash Point on Sunday mornings.

Otherwise I think Galen is safe, I think Tara is fine where she's at I don't think she gets laid off and given how Severe Weather savy Oklahoma is it'd be a big mistake for KFOR and Nexstar to let Mike Morgan go imo

On 11/1/2019 at 8:17 PM, ScottSchell said:

She is a lawyer now but I think does the news on the side

 

Which that does make sense since she did attend Oklahoma City University and got her Law Degree.

Although it is quite interesting to see how someone like Abby Broyles can get into television news with her Law Degree. It goes to show you how broad and wide the Mass Communication degree is as I've learned in my semester that I've been attending College

32 minutes ago, KentBrockman said:

Forreal, can we talk about the success story that Hearst has had with standardization? I feel like we’ve all at some point or another downed companies for making all their stations look cookie cutter and standardized, particularly CBS O&Os, but Hearst has been doing it for over two decades and somehow does a hell of a good job with it.

To be honest that's because Hearst knows how to do standardization correctly.

On 11/2/2019 at 6:36 PM, JCB4TV said:

Sadly, I'm forecasting a bloodbath at KFOR as several of their personalities, Kevin Ogle & Mike Morgan, have been there for nearly the entire KFOR era and have survived all previous owners, Palmer > NYT > Local TV > Tribune. I see Nexstar making KFOR/KAUT younger and cheaper. As for poor Eli, he took over for Lance West after the latter's forced resignation, thus, it was West's old position that was eliminated. Moreover, Scott Hines depated just before the sake was completed.

 

Current KFOR Personalities Who've Have More then 10 Years Tenure

Tara Blume - 1991

Brian Brinkley - 1990

Joleen Chaney - 2007

Galen Culver - 1991

Ali Meyer - 2000

Mike Morgan - 1993

Kent & Kevin Ogle - 1993

 

Other Questions:

Does Nexstar keep Chopper 4?

Does Nexstar allow KFOR to staff 5 Meteorologist?

 

Looking at how WFLA, WAVY and WOOD have done since the Nexstar era, I think Nexstar will allow KFOR to keep Air Comfort Solutions Chopper 4 and also Nexstar might eliminate Sarah Libby's position as a freelance meteorologist.

Beyond that the only changes I envision are anchor lineups and merging of newscasts (i.e. 4:30pm newscast merging into the 4pm hour and the 6:30pm newscast merging into the 6pm newscast)

On the latter since as you said Nexstar eliminated what was Lance West's old position most likely I see Kevin and Joleen adding another 30 minutes to their anchoring duties. Also don't forget about Heather Holeman too if you don't include that period from 2007-15 where she was a stay-at-home mother she's been with Oklahoma's News Channel 4 since 2000 as well.

Things are about to get interesting at 444 East Britton Road that's for sure

47 minutes ago, Samantha said:

The 4 was thinned out when the station overhauled its image in 1994: compare 1993 and 1994.

So KFOR has used the current 4 styling for 25 years right?

2 hours ago, groupwfan said:

KFOR been using that "4" since the "4STRONG" days...

In different variations that is. You can see the difference as far as how the current "4" is shaped vs how the 4 was originally shaped in the 4Strong era

23 hours ago, jbnews said:

Dang. Why did they eliminate his position? Are they going to replace him? Don't they need an anchor at 4, 5, and 6:30?

More than likely it'd be Kevin Ogle doing the 4 and 5pm newscast. Most likely what Nexstar is doing is they're consolidating the seperate newscasts with seperate anchors into one newscast with one anchor team each now I don't know what that means for the future of anchors like Heather Holeman most likely she could just slide over to the 4pm side with Kevin and let Kevin/Joleen anchor all other newscasts except for 9pm on KAUT (unless Kate Smith gets the axe too).

All I can say is that changes are coming to 444 East Britton Road and this could either be a good thing or it could very much be an epic disaster and before anybody asks about ratings I can't comment about them because no one in the OKC area does local station ratings anymore and the most recent relevant data I can find dates back to 2001 (that's 18 years ago)

On 10/29/2019 at 4:25 PM, Sendir said:

What is wrong with their LOCAL philosophy? It is what times a community to an asset when there is so much noise on cable, this phone I am typing on, etc

For Companies like Capitol (WRAL/Z, WILM) and Griffin (KWTV+/KOTV+) localism works great for the 7 aforementioned stations.

In the case of Nexstar, localism works great in some places but in other places it just doesn't work that way. It just depends on how the media market looks like with the ownership groups that are in those markets.

21 hours ago, NEOMatrix said:

I guess "Wake Up Central" as in, KTHV is central to waking up.

 

Question: Who is number one in the AMs in Little Rock?

I am gonna say in a market where your only choices are Sinclair, Tegna and Nexstar. My educated guess would be that KARK is Number One in the mornings

1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Looks like Nexstar's happiness with WGN is sort of carrying over to WGN America.   I saw a WGN America promo on a legacy Nexstar station, so it looks like they've inherited that practice from Tribune...

1 hour ago, Georgie56 said:

It's a long shot, but could they be rethinking their "local" philosophy? 

It wouldn't surprise me if it ends up being "Tribune acquires Nexstar" rather than the other way around.

In a way it looks like Tribune influence is overtaking Nexstar and in reality, it helps that several Tribune executives came on board with Nexstar after the merger.

39 minutes ago, Samantha said:

 

I mean, they could (they branded as Arkansas 11 for years in the 80s-90s), but the first thing that comes to mind is maybe they don't want to sound like KATV's "Good Morning Arkansas".

I'm sure they could but at the same time it'd make it seem as if they serve all of Arkansas to the viewers in Central Arkansas even though in reality the DMA doesn't cover the entire state of Arkansas

9 minutes ago, Yankees4life said:

Yep. Time to get that antenna sorted. This one is gonna be a long one.

If you live in places like Mobile and Rochester, NY it'd be a good idea to get an antenna because (and I hope I'm wrong and this dispute gets resolved soon) I see no end in sight with this ongoing dispute

15 hours ago, JCB4TV said:

That just leaves the Sinclair sidecars to be resolved.

Let's just put it this way chances of AT&T and the Sinclair sidecars reaching a fair agreement is getting slimer and slimer as each week passes by I mean we're only nearly TWO full months away from the calendar turning to 2020 and neither side is any closer to any form of an agreement. 

I think it's gonna be a miracle if something gets done between the two sides by the end of the year

17 minutes ago, MidwestTV said:

 

Looks like they're taking a page from WHAS whose morning show is also called "Wake Up." Though I'm perplexed by the "Central." Central because they're in central Arkansas? Central portion of the country (except not really)? I'll be curious to see if they use the WHAS Wake Up graphics (they had a special package made just for the morning show). Unfortunately, there isn't anything on youtube. That's unfortunate because WHAS put together an incredibly unique promo for the show that THV tried to mimic and did so VERY poorly.

They're probably referring the "Central" part of the branding as in "Central Arkansas" KTHV couldn't just call the morning newscast "Wake Up Arkansas" because the Little Rock DMA doesn't cover the entire state of Arkansas.

According to this Facebook post WHO in Des Moines is expanding "Today In Iowa" to 4:30am starting tomorrow (10/28) https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2280410128736340&id=316872231756816

KOCO from October 1998 Features a partial newscast from October 14th, 1998 (just before I was born)

On 10/25/2019 at 3:49 PM, Conrad said:

Yes, but WHO produces KDSM's local news.

Now you see why I got mixed up because the way it was written it made it sound as if WHO and KDSM were in a duopoly even though in reality they're not.

4 hours ago, MorningNews said:

 

 Since I've moved to DFW, I've noticed that WFAA's breaking news coverage is underwhelming at best. KDFW is this town's news leader without a doubt, and KTVT has very solid coverage as well. Just a little weird at how bad WFAA is compared to how strong I've always heard the station was.

IMO, Marty Haag and Chip Moody would both be rolling over in their graves right now seeing what Tegna has done to WFAA. It's not surprising to see WFAA's Breaking News coverage being as undelwhelmed as it was

Tegna's trend of rebranding morning newscasts continues.

KTHV in Little Rock is going to drop "THV11 This Morning" in favor of a new newscast title called... "Wake Up Central". It'll begin next Tuesday (10/29)

1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:

It could be a myriad of factors.   But money may be the holdup.

 

Being a smaller company, they don't have the clout of larger broadcasters like Sinclair. (Even though they physically run the stations, programming is indeed separate aside from newscasts and shows produced by the SSA partner).   Deerfield has to pay Sinclair to run the station, and they probably have to cough up money to the networks for programming costs.   Now if they get a portion of the station's sales that Sinclair sells, that should provide a stream in which to operate from. 

 

Now if sales are down and programming is too expensive, Deerfield may have no choice but to ask for more money to carry the station.  AT&T is driving a hard bargain and isn't budging with their price.   Bottom line, this imbalance could upset the apple cart and make the arrangement unprofitable and could be insolvency waiting to happen.... 

Of course it's all about the almighty dollar. Quite frankly I think the STELAR Act needs to be repealed and replaced with something that makes it fair for both the broadcaster and the cable operators not something that tips the favor towards the broadcasters and not something that tips the favor towards the cable operators.

I firmly believe that Congress will do something about the STELAR Act and hopefully prevent future lengthy disputes such as Deerfield's and Northwest's disputes with AT&T from happening again.

Speaking of the STELAR Act, Senators are taking a closer look into the STELAR Act and signs are pointing towards a renewal in that act