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1 hour ago, GoldenShine9 said:

Are there any Gray stations that do not have the "First Alert" branding at all, in markets where none of their competitors had it first? (So throw out, say, Kansas City).

KVVU. Not sure about the history of competitors' branding in Las Vegas, but no station in the market currently uses "First Alert." KVVU has a First Alert Calendar but brands their weather overall as Local Las Vegas Weather.

23 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

The GrayOne package looks nice and all, but I still hate the main font.  I thought I read somewhere it was chosen because it was "easy on the eyes?"

And the fact that Nexstar has a package that uses it in many markets....

The font is Barlow. It’s free to use. Makes sense why multiple station groups use it, one less thing to pay to license for 100+ stations…

It’s the same package that WANF has. Eventually all Gray stations will be migrated to it once graphics hardware is upgraded over time.

15 hours ago, DesertNewsGeek said:

It looks like KLAS is either refreshing or replacing their news set.  Morning newscasts and sports segments have been broadcast from Studio B since Monday (?), and evening newscasts are live from the newsroom. 

 

The weather center in Studio A is still being used for WX segments.

They had a small fire in their Studio A over the past weekend. Not sure of the extent of the damage, but I would assume that’s what is making the desk/3x3/horizontal monitor area unusable right now.

On 8/1/2022 at 5:41 PM, rdtv said:

KVVU in Las Vegas is adding a 7pm half-hour newscast beginning today. Their afternoon news block now consists of 1-2pm, and then 3pm to 7:30pm. The new 7pm newscast bumps Extra back to midnight.

I think we all figured this was coming... KVVU added a 2 PM newscast now that Ellen is officially done with reruns. They're on the air nonstop from 1pm-7:30pm.

KVVU in Las Vegas is adding a 7pm half-hour newscast beginning today. Their afternoon news block now consists of 1-2pm, and then 3pm to 7:30pm. The new 7pm newscast bumps Extra back to midnight.

Announced today by Meredith: Todd Brown, GM of KVVU in Las Vegas, has been promoted into the newly created corporate role of Senior VP and Chief Revenue Officer for the entire local media group, "effective immediately."

And Kevin James (no, not that Kevin James) also earns a promotion to GM of KPHO/KTVK, Meredith's duopoly in Phoenix.