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Well whatever the case was, he's gone. Bio is gone and everything.

Saw his Twitter bio and he did change his Twitter Profile Picture as well so his 23 year career at KFOR is done

The short version is... don't sext at work. Otherwise, there's a good chance you'll be out.

 

Look at KFOR's Lance West for example. Out after 23 years.

 

https://www.thelostogle.com/2018/07/18/lance-west-resigns-from-kfor-over-sexting-controversy/

How did they knew about Lance was sexting? Did someone look one of his social media accounts?

I mentioned this in the other thread but, I say Nexstar gets broken up simply because Nexstar is WAY too big for one company to fully acquire it

Children, children now now now. KOCO has been in third place, but during a decade ago when Oprah was on at 5,6, it did really well. There been sometime where it was very competitive. As for KSTP it has been a revolving door. However it hasn't always been third. WCCO & KSTP use to fight it out. At one time in the 70s KSTP had a 50 share, and yes that was decades ago. However, the cracks at KSTP started in the 80s. Channel 11 was sold from MetroMedia to Gannett and Gannett poured alot of money and NBC was riding high. By the end of 80s into 90s. KSTP news moved into third place in all dayparts.

 

KSTP has always had a great news product, but the faces changed daily due to Frank Magid consultants who were college friends with Stanley Hubbard [even friends you are still giving me bad advice IMO]. If you can go and read the stories about Stanely Hubbard. They're legendary! He had issues with Ron Magers, saying Ron was doing drugs and Stanely sent Ron to a rehab place. Stanely Hubbard had some of the female talent desk locked and chained. Even memebers of the station said Stanely is his own worst enemy. Then there was the Cyndy Brucato debacle. She was the face of the station in the early days, and research wasn't too kind. The consultants said she was too manly on the news, and she was outsted and then appeared on the new NEWS 11 W*USA but doing some light reporting. While Stanely Hubbard was being a terror over in Golden Valley, Gannett had a win-win team at now KARE 11. Paul Magers, picked up where his little brother was the king of the Twin Cities News for 20 years . Also Paul Magers worked at KSTP as a dispatcher when Ron was there.

 

Stanely Hubbard rested on his laurels and the quote he said was "Nobody ever watch Channel 11, so we never took them serious, and thought who would watch their news." You can never rest on your competition and why didn't his best friend Frank Magid didn't tell him that or, maybe he did? The station has always invested in the tools, and throughout the 90s same old story faces come and go. They were able to get Colleen Needles from WCCO, but she left on her own. She has a production company that produce many reality shows that on cable now. Julie Nelson was able to move to from the morning to succeed Colleen to find herself getting a good deal from KARE 11 where she had to sit out for a year on her non compete. Harris Faulkner moved up to evening news and the ratings didn't move and she went over to WCCO now at FOX NEWS. Now with the pie so fragmented there been a few times where KSTP in early evening at #2 or #3. KMSP has step their game up, and despite Gannett/TEGNA woes KARE is not the break out star it once was, but it still solid.

 

It hard to find ratings online but here some old ratings from both markets.

http://www.b-roll.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-8449.html

https://www.minnpost.com/braublog/2011/03/wcco-news-soars-february-tv-sweeps-while-kare-falls

What seems to be the reasoning as to why in some places, the local newspapers don't even post about the ratings sweeps periods?

Oh, really? Anyone familiar with Minneapolis TV can tell you KSTP has been in the gutter since ... forever. Thus the neverending tweaks, including talent. Hello, Paul. OKC might have a little more wiggle room depending on how well KOCO did in any given book and how poorly KOKH may have done. If your idea of successful is fighting for 3rd or 4th place, local TV isn't for you.

The problem is none of the OKC-area newspapers report on the Ratings Sweeps so it's difficult to gauge how KWTV/KFOR/KOCO/KOKH is doing in the ratings

I was at a fair in downtown St. Louis today and happened to walk past KMOV. This is what I saw.

 

Make from it what you will.

I'm beginning to think that KMOV will probably drop the "News 4" moniker and become "KMOV 4 News" to match that of their cross-state sister KCTV

Not sure if we have an International thread or not (I can’t find one) but I am on an ITV kick right now. Specifically, ITV Central.

 

This might be one of the best station startups ever. Flashy graphics and tremendous music that build up to a crescendo at the end. I love it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfXziWcZ2P8

I have an idea, if there is no International Classic Video thread, how about we take the Classic Video Threads up to 2008 and the Modern Day Video Threads (2008-now) and make it International Classic Video Threads but I would set it up to whatever year you want to set it to as Classic and anything after that year a Modern Video Thread

So what will KMOV call themselves? CBS4 or KMOV4?

Probably just KMOV 4 but if they want to be like KPTV at least branding wise they should revert back to the "News 4 St. Louis" moniker

WDSU.

 

Their ex station KITV went HD within six months of the sale. Of course they just installed Sony PTZ camera’s and a Viz Opus all in one system.

 

It’s kind of funny to think a group of relatively small size, privately owned, sitting on a huge pile of cash isn’t updating their stations to modern day technology. Not all of the equipment in the stations have to be network standard but put out good HD pictures.

My educated guess as to why some of the Hearst stations aren't in HD at all is because of the fact that some of the facilities that some of these Hearst stations are in just simply aren't capable of transmitting an HD signal.

So basically for stations like WAPT, WPTZ and WMTW, the only way how they go HD is if either Hearst gives them better equipment or they give these stations new facilities that are capable of allowing those stations to go HD

IIRC, WMTW is still in 16:9 SD as well. There may also be a few other Hearst stations still not in HD.

If I'm not mistaken WAPT is still 16:9 as well

I wonder two things:

 

1: Might the new Upper Valley bureau be shared with WMUR?

 

2: Would this finally drag WPTZ kicking and screaming into the HD age?

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't WPTZ the only Hearst-owned station that's still in that 16:9 widescreen format?

And KFAQ simulcasts KJRH's morning show.

Could this mean that KFAQ might actually simulcast KOTV's "Six In The Morning"? We'll see about that one

http://www.wafb.com/story/38362607/donna-britt-to-retire-from-wafb

 

38 years at the station and she's battling ALS. She currently anchors the 6pm newscast and is retiring on June 13th (A week from today). I wish her luck with her battle and hope that she can enjoy her time with her family. Elizabeth Vowell took over for her whenever Britt stepped down from the 10pm newscast so I'm thinking she'll add that to her duties as well.

That is sad, thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family in this very difficult time

At least the guy got to pen a nice goodbye post.

 

Does he control that twitter ID or is that an NBC branded thing?

No. That's an NBC branded thing, most of the NBC Sports Regional Networks people have to have their Twitter handles start or end with "NBCS"

So, WGAL aired their Childrens Miracle Network telethon finale this evening. WGAL has been a great station for CMN. WGAL’s morning anchor Jere Gish was recently named best local TV personality for CMN.

 

WGAL didn’t use Studio A this year. Nope. They didn’t use WITF’s studio as they did years before, yes, they went there for it.

 

This year, sorry WGAL deserves a HOP. This year, not sure if it was a WGAL decision or Penn State Health’s decision but this year ... it was held in the Cafeteria ... by the tray return. Seriously?

 

 

Wow.

 

— Matt

So WGAL couldn't find a better spot than a Cafeteria to host the Telethon? Should've done it at their studios but oh well that was the management's decision not mine or yours

WSYX has a new website.

 

It's a much simpler, more mobile-friendly layout than the current template. It appears WSYX is the only station with it as of now....not even WTTE has it yet.

Looks a lot nicer than what the previous look, hopefully that look gets applied to the rest of the Sinclair group (including the soon-to-be former Tribune stations)

I tuned in again for the first time in a while, and I couldn't believe how subtly different the show is now. It definitely blends in with its competitors more than it did before. Reporter packages are seemingly shorter and have a faster pace. Glor is on a tight shot in front of the video wall for almost the entire broadcast – he could very well be anywhere or nowhere. And I'm not against the idea of having a super on the screen the entire time, but does it have to be so big?

 

It's not necessarily a bad broadcast, but it just doesn't feel the same or as comprehensive as it did before.

If anything, CBS maybe going back to the way they used to do it when Bob Schieffer was the Interim Anchor following Dan Rather's departure from the CBS Evening News in 2005 with shorter teases, etc.

Good Morning America expands to 3 hours, taking up an afternoon timeslot:

 

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The Chew is being sacrificed to bring the 3rd hour of GMA to life.

I think unless ABC wants to bring back Good Afternoon America and air it in the 3pm ET slot then the 3rd Hour of GMA needs to be at 9am ET

KOCO got a newer helicopter (built 2004).

 

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I figured it was time for KOCO to get a new helicopter anyway since how their old helicopter was at least 10-15 years old when since that time both KFOR and KWTV got their newer helicopters during that period.

I'll begin with 2 of my all-time favorite Sports promos (and I have a lot of the sports promos from every network (except CBS) on my YouTube channel

As narrated by late Hal Douglas:

"The NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball, Notre Dame Football, the PGA Tour, Wimbledon, the USGA Championships and the 2000 and 2002 Olympic Games.

All on America's Sports Leader, NBC."

This is the one I like the most:

"The NFL and the Super Bowl, the Breeders Cup, the PGA Tour, the NBA and the NBA Finals, Notre Dame Football, Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 Olympic Games.

All on America's Sports Leader, NBC."

Today's KMBC 9? To quote Pat Sajak from the 80s when he went Bankrupt on the Final Spin "Fire this man" or should I say fire whoever it was that came up with that idea

Shouldn't the discussion related to Family News Anchors be it's own thread? If so then we can start it and the admins can split the discussion off of this thread onto the appropriate thread

It's a family tradition of The Ogles of OKC. The legends lives on.

Now all we have to do is add Katelyn in the picture and you would have 3-4 generations of the Ogles in TV News in Oklahoma City (from Jack to the Ogle Brothers to Abigail and now Katelyn)

Lacey Lett (of KAUT's Rise and Shine) is a relative of the Ogle family as well.

I didn't know Lett is related to a member of the Ogle family

Don't forget about the Barry's in OKC (Bob Sr. and Jr.) even though both did Sports both were a father-son sports anchoring team until Bob Sr. retired in 2008

The Ogle Family is about to go back to having 2 members of the family appearing on weekday morning newscasts,

FTVLive is reporting that Katelyn Ogle, the younger daughter of current KFOR weeknight anchor Kevin Ogle will join KWTV as the station's Alert Desk anchor/producer in the mornings with current Alert Desk anchor/producer Ali Brooks getting promoted to weekday evenings

http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/5/5/another-ogle-in-okc