Greggo

We’re not talking about Demetria. We’re talking about the ND and GM. In November, the station didn’t win a single news time slot in households and/or 25-54. That’s pretty bad for a once-great station. Fast forward to May and their only win was in households at 6p. Fox 4 now owns the market.

WFAA is a shell of what it once was. And the team that has overseen much of this decline gets promoted? Another genius move by Tegna.

Word is he wasn’t renewed. They didn’t announce he was leaving until Friday, the same day he left. People on their Facebook page are mad. His farewell, if you can call it that, lasted about 5 seconds at the end of the newscast. No through-the-years montage. No long speech. Both the main anchors were off, too. Awkward.

No way. KXAN is important to Nexstar for several reasons. It's home to Nexstar's Texas capitol bureau team. Nexstar also airs KXAN's weekly political show on all its Texas stations. And corporate leans on the management at KXAN pretty heavily for assistance in a variety of matters (including production assistance for statewide debates, their regional New Year's Eve special broadcast live from Dallas, etc.) since it's their biggest station in the state ... for now, at least. More important than all that, though, Nexstar has revived plans -- shelved long ago by previous owner, LIN -- to construct a new building for KXAN (NBC) and sister stations KNVA (CW) and KBVO (MyNetworkTV). It's still in the early stages at this point. Right now they are crammed into buildings on opposite sides of a busy street. It's not unusual to see employees sprint across MLK Blvd. in between the cars. Super safe. Anyway, if Nexstar was looking to unload KXAN, why would they waste millions on a new building? Leave that for the new owner.

Chris Parente, an anchor at Tribune's Denver duopoly, slid his stool back a little too far and shattered one of the monitors on their nine-screen video wall ON LIVE TV. Hopefully the tightwads at Tribune don't make him pay for the repairs ...

Very sad story. A behind-the-scenes employee for KTBC, the Fox O&O in Austin, was hit and killed by a city bus while riding his bike home from work. http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/fox-7-austin-mourns-loss-of-employee?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=fox7austin

WWL has ratings “momentum” from 7 to 9? Ha! Have you actually looked at the numbers lately? They’re a solid third at 7 and at 8. The two-hour newscast they slid over to WUPL was first (or occasionally a close second) when it was on WWL and is now fourth. https://www.nola.com/entertainment/2018/11/wvue-fox-8-overtakes-wwl-in-new-orleans-local-news-ratings-race.html Also ... why are all your posts boldfaced?!?

Considering KIII/Corpus got a used set from WUSA and KCEN/Waco got one from KUSA, I’d be shocked if KWES got something new. Both Waco and Corpus are larger markets than Midland. (Waco is actually more than 50 markets bigger.) WFAA essentially refreshed its old set. KVUE and KENS got the set in a box. Neither KVUE nor KENS had a “fancy” set worth saving like the two recycled ones mentioned above, but who knows. Maybe KWES will get the KHOU temporary set when they move to their new digs. Or not.

There is already a Nexstar capital bureau for Texas, based out of KXAN/Austin. It has been in operation for about 2 years and was pitched as one of the “benefits” of the Media General/LIN merger.

Clarice anchors solo these days. Steve anchors with Heather Hays.

If it is indeed WBNS that he's heading to, it was incredibly tone deaf for him to announce his move to Columbus less than 24 hours after Bradley said he's dying and going into hospice. WHIO gets some of the blame, tho, too, for demoting him to the noon newscast effective today ... a month and a half before he's actually leaving ... prompting the announcement. Why?!?

Regardless of whether the incident was "real" or "fake," emergency crews still swarmed the area. People were freaking out. It was all over social media. You can't just ignore that. If people tune in and you aren't live, they'll find a station that is.

Sounds like KDFW needs more security. First the guy who rammed the building with a truck. Now this ...

Don't worry. They'll still be in 3rd/4th place even with all the social media ridiculousness that buys management a few more months. "LOOK WHAT WE DID, CORPORATE!"

KPRC is first in the mornings. (And most of the rest of the day now, too.) Then KTRK. Then KHOU and KRIV fight for third.

Here's why: KVUE is #1 in the mornings in Austin. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's the only time period where they consistently beat KXAN. WFAA meanwhile is typically 3rd in the mornings in Dallas and KHOU slides back and forth between 3rd and 4th place in the Houston morning news race.

KHOU's downtown Houston studio is almost complete. Features the fugly new logo. (It was supposed to open in March.) https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/khou-11-sign-mounted-above-new-avenida-studio-outside-grb/285-593830410?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5b9a90a504d3010f0dfd0bea&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

Spectrum News is scaling back sports coverage in Austin, including killing their nightly 'Sports Night' show http://tvradio.blog.austin360.com/2018/08/28/spectrum-news-austin-scaling-back-sports-coverage/

They're going to replace it with a 2-hour version of their lifestyle show, 'Studio 512,' starting in October. Reruns of 'Studio 512' are airing till then. They didn't really give viewers much warning and folks on social are mad -- even though if you look at the ratings, that newscasts never really got more than a .3 or .4 .

This isn't going to end well for KUTV. Just look at what happened to the ratings for WWL's morning news when they were forced to move it over to WUPL to make room for "CBS This Morning."

The Lost Ogle has a pretty good summary of what happened: https://www.thelostogle.com/2018/07/18/lance-west-resigns-from-kfor-over-sexting-controversy/ Essentially someone tweeted out screengrabs and tagged KFOR in the tweets to make sure they were seen.

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.

From one last place station to another ...

KPRC/Houston dumps ThisTV for MeTV on Channel 2.2 starting tomorrow, 5/28. Hearing there is talk of adding a local newscast exclusively on MeTV in the future.

Crazy! Someone managed somehow, some way to briefly interrupt a newscast on KRIS/Corpus Christi last night. The screen went black, then you can hear some dude say, 'F--- it. Lick it. Smell it.' The anchor managed to recover and apologize faster than you'd expect in a market that size. No explanation yet. https://www.caller.com/story/news/2018/03/20/kris-broadcast-interrupted-vulgar-audio-viewers-react-social-media/441083002/