Greggo
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CBS hasn’t exactly hidden the fact that they offered buyouts at the network level and at the O&Os. When a company does that, everyone leaves on the same day. Because ... budgets. (I’ve been through this before.) While KDKA wasn’t explicit in mentioning that, that’s what happened. Look at WBBM, where Robert Feder reported multiple buyout takers, as well. It is pretty shocking, I will say, for KDKA to lose that many people. It’s more than 10 percent of their staff. That’s several hundred years of experience leaving to save greedy bean counters a few bucks.
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3 hours ago, TheWatcherAtl said:
I have no problem with WFAA.
I guarantee you if you watch their morning show you'll enjoy Demetria Obilor's work.......
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.
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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.
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That KEYE/CBS Austin ticker is brand new. I'm betting it gets rolled out at other Sinclair stations soon.
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11 hours ago, djlynch said:
KVUE's Mike Barnes hangs up the mic tonight after nearly 30 years at the station. Seems to be kind of a sudden announcement.
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.
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11 hours ago, TexasTVNews said:
Even though 36 is with Nexstar, you don't see KXAN as an NBC O&O?
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.
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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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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.
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CBS Austin (KEYE) debuted the new graphics tonight.
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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.
Also ... why are all your posts boldfaced?!?
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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.
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One of their anchors is only 20 years old, according to FTV. There also supposedly is a pic on his FB page of him wearing a MAGA hat, Scott says. Not a good look for a journalist. (And yes ... I’d say the same thing if he was photographed wearing a Hillary cap.)
https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2019/1/2/another-national-news-service-has-launched
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I'm curious: If KHOU is 3rd or sometimes 4th in the morning in Houston, what other station in the market would be #2 at the time (behind KTRK)??
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.
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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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KHOU's downtown Houston studio is almost complete. Features the fugly new logo. (It was supposed to open in March.)
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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/
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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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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).
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Instant Replay is expanding to a full hour on Sundays from 11:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
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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- KSAT 12 is doing the following...
TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion
in Corporate Chat
Posted
Do it the ‘Tegna way’? Does that mean dropping into the ratings basement like WWL and WFAA?