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  1. 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 ...

     

     

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  2. 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?!? 

  3. 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. 

  4. 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. 

  5. 19 minutes ago, TexasTVNews said:

    Next week, Clarice Tinsley will be celebrating its 40th anniversary at KDFW-TV. She is now the longest running female anchor at a single station to broadcast the news in Dallas/Fort Worth for four decades. From Barry Judge to the late Chip Moody, to Steve Bosh (KUSI), to John Criswell (Retired), to Dale Shornack (former 5PM Anchor), to Baron James to currently Steve Eagar; Clarice has set the standard for local television news. To us here in the Metroplex, she's our Ann Bishop... The Ann Bishop of DFW.

    FOX 4 is airing a special called CT40 Tuesday at 6:30PM after FOX 4 News at Six. From all of us at TVNT, Clarice congrats on 40 years at KDFW... and let's go for 50.

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

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  6. I mistyped — I simply meant “my best guess would be he’s heading back to WBNS”

     

    I checked the different websites in the Columbus market... there aren’t any job openings at WSYX or WCMH.

     

    In fact, WCMH just hired a new meteorologist, and the only news-related openings I was able to find through Nexstar were for a weekend anchor/reporter (is Katie Ferrell leaving already?), photographer and producer.

     

    WSYX doesn’t have any meteorologist jobs open. Only news-related jobs open are for producers, general assignment reporters, and for a MC operator.

     

    Chris Bradley is dying, sadly, and people have been leaving left and right, as the Wolfes have made cuts in the news and sales departments. In fact their ND Kelly Frank, who had been in charge since 2014, just left some time ago and went to WTSP in Florida.

     

    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?!?

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  7. Suspicious package outside KDFW

     

    [MEDIA=twitter]1061948290697113600[/MEDIA]

     

    UPDATE: Package is not a threat, according to Dallas Police.

     

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

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  8. I don't think that is the name of the show. It's a hashtag they want the viewers to use.

     

    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!"

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  9. Well, here in Texas, WFAA and KHOU have adopted the social media format for their morning newscasts. KVUE is more traditional.

     

    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.

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  10. Speaking of 7-9am news, apparently KXAN canceled that portion of their morning show on KNVA. That came unannounced.

     

    The 9pm news is still intact.

     

    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 .

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  11. Two things...

    • KSAT 12 is doing the following...
      • It will add a half-hour weeknight 9:00 p.m. newscast on Me-TV San Antonio as well as KSAT TV (its OTT channel) in the Fall.
      • It will trade its hour-long format from weeknights (current) to weekends (future) starting the week of January 1st, 2019.
      • Jimmy Kimmel Live and Nightline will air in pattern for the first time since 2011 (even though it will be the first time since 2013 that KSAT will air Jimmy Kimmel Live in its current 10:35 p.m. pattern).
      • Instant Replay is expanding to a full hour on Sundays from 11:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.

    https://changingnewscasts.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/ksat-about-to-make-plenty-of-news-changes/

    • KUTV 2 is doing the following...
      • Moving its long-time 7:00 a.m. hour from KUTV to KJZZ due to CBS' obligations involving its new 10-year affiliation agreement. KJZZ will be the exclusive home to KUTV 2 News This Morning at 7:00 a.m. starting September 3rd, as its already exclusive to the 8:00 a.m. hour.
      • Add two half-hours of local news at 4:00 and 4:30 p.m. on KUTV, also starting September 3rd.

    https://changingnewscasts.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/kutv-forced-to-make-changes-in-morning-thanks-cbs-also-bring-back-400-pm-news/

     

    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."

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  12. KOCO is not in last place and neither is KSTP.

     

    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.

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  13. 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.

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  14. I'm shocked at how KCCI has essentially ignored this story, just hoping it goes away. The local paper did a fairly lengthy story. The Nexstar station in the market did one, too. It's gone viral, Hearst. Might wanna do something before your reputation takes a bigger hit than it already has.

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