Kenneth Kissel

14 hours ago, nycnewsjunkie said:

I don’t have a pic, but the Jets broadcast (produced by WCBS) used the new CBS graphics.

Here you go. 

18 hours ago, tjt24 said:

New graphics for Steelers broadcasts this year. Looks to be an in-house job. The team must be producing the games this year as there was a Steelers Media Productions tag at the beginning of the game. 

Here is more from this. This is completely redone with the Steelers Communications team taken over and KDKA-TV isn't shown at all in this package. 

Here is ALL of the Graphics Packages from Tonight.

43 minutes ago, Sendir said:

Hearst is almost debt free for not going on a huge M&A frenzy as the rest of the groups. This means free cash flow. While other groups are in debt in the BILLIONS, Hearst sits back with only MILLIONS in debt and are able to do so much more being a private company. 

This is why Hearst is my favorite owner of all the TV News Companies. I'm also glad to have a local Hearst station in my area as well (WTAE). 

WDRB in 2022 from Louisville Kentucky.  One of the last small owners in the Television industry. Their other biggest property is the Pittsburgh Post Gazette newspaper. 

17 minutes ago, froyo49 said:

I seriously don’t understand what message this is supposedly sending to the people at their cable channel. Can’t the network and MSNBC coexist? Also, wouldn’t this mean they were “sending a message” when they expanded Today years ago?

 

Also, the show will air live at 1. Unless WNBC has a crystal ball for one hour in the future, they’re going to have to shuffle their schedule a bit

The message NBC is sending with this move is that MSNBC is now a Political Network (Like FOX News Channel) and not a news network anymore. That is the only reason I can see for NBC doing this (show actual news on the NBC Broadcast network/NBC News Now and show Political coverage on MSNBC only). That actually makes sense if NBC were to do that.  It can coexist if it is done this way. 

Also, to be fair, the FOX broadcast network special reports (along with LiveNow) are much more down the middle then the Fox News Channel and they coexist. Maybe NBC is seeing that too and is doing the same thing. 

On 7/28/2022 at 7:59 PM, Kenneth Kissel said:

WJAC's Tim Rigby is retiring on August 4th. https://wjactv.com/news/local/wjac-tv-anchor-tim-rigby-announces-retirement

Watch Tim's Final Newscasts HERE:

5 PM : https://www.newson.us/clips/195/31025208

5:30 PM : https://www.newson.us/clips/195/31025209

6PM : https://www.newson.us/clips/195/31025210

https://wjactv.com/news/local/signing-off-longtime-wjac-news-anchor-tim-rigby-broadcasts-final-newscast

15 hours ago, froyo49 said:

*she

I fixed it. Thanks for the correction. 

16 hours ago, mrschimpf said:

You have to assume there will be a number of affiliates not happy right now to learn their schedule is incompatible thanks to NBC giving an hour over to news, and since Kelly Clarkson is a lead-out from DOOL in some markets, her flow is also screwed up. There are still NBC affiliates that have never recovered from the Santa Barbara hour going back to them and having to fill it with a C-level talk show (or now Dateline), which is why NBC couldn't give up the Another World/Passions hour when they expanded Today the second time. And now the affiliate base has to take the brunt of the 'what is a Peacock', 'can't you just air it anyways just hook up your TV to Peacock and broadcast it' and 'I will never watch your station again' calls.

 

If this was announced a year out maybe it would work out well. Now it just seems like a panic 'follow the leader' move because ABC lucked into a good thing with GMA3WYNTK and NBC itself has such a deep hard news vacuum between 7:40 a.m.-6:30 p.m. outside breaking news days. And oh God this is inevitably gonna have a 'deal of the day' segment like GMA3WYNTK and The Talk isn't it?

 

And...(LeBron timeout pain GIF)...MSNBC. You already have a news channel. You're basically telling Chris Jansing you don't care about her 1 p.m. show. ABC at least gave plenty of notice All My Children was ending and had the 'we don't have a news channel' excuse to cover the move.

Well said. I'm guessing that Comcast wants to make MSNBC a full political channel (similar to Fox but in the other direction) and use this as a "Real News" alternative. If they were that concerned about Chris Jansing, she would be part of this "NBC News Daily". I also believe that many affiliates could also lose Kelly Clarkson to other stations as well (WPXI lost Kelly to WTAE for example). I wish they would have just given this spot back to the affiliates. 

I'm surprised they got rid of Days for more news, I guess there has been too many break ins with Special Reports (and to compete with GMA3) that NBC just said ok, we will do this. I also wonder if this means we will see more local newscasts on some affiliates as well at 3 PM ET. 

On 4/2/2020 at 5:26 PM, TheRolyPoly said:

 

WTVF was John Young's longtime flagship client and was the voice of the station from the mid-90s until just recently replaced.

This is the 11 PM Newscast from July 31st, 2022. I miss John Young.

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2022/7/31/gone-in-altoona

Matt Alvarez is gone from WTAJ Altoona and former WUSA Meteorologist Howard Bernstein will be the new main anchor on August 22nd. Big market drop for Bernstein. 

WJAC's Tim Rigby is retiring on August 4th. https://wjactv.com/news/local/wjac-tv-anchor-tim-rigby-announces-retirement

5 minutes ago, Nelson R. said:

Unproven? I’m just going to leave this here 

 

 

I have edited the list and removed WJZY from it.  All of the other ones I'm sure are correct unless anyone else can prove otherwise. 

12 hours ago, Tyler said:

Because the NOW brand wasn’t meant to replace existing newscasts. 
 

As if those black and gold graphics weren’t ugly enough on their own. Paired with that green CW logo

The CW logo need to be gold along with the rest of the package (that is my only complaint). KDKA-TV'S balck and gold look has grown on me and I still hope when the new CBS O&O package launches, that they keep it. 

For now. WPCW (KDKA-TV's sister station) still has the 2020 KDKA look. Thank goodness. 

Look who joined the rest of the country in airing the January 6th committee hearing today.  Hi NewsNation.

What it looked like across the News Networks of America. All ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS Stations aired this.  You can see Fox News Channel, Newsmax, and OAN didn't take the Committee meeting.

These Fox Affilates DID NOT air the Jan 6 Committee Hearing Tonight (when I checked at 8 PM). @David Salter JR @C Block
 

KTVI St Louis MO
WDAF Kansas City MO
KVVU Las Vegas NV (Airing Local News)
KSWB San Diego CA (Airing Local News)
WJW Cleveland OH
KCIT Amarillo TX
KFOX El Paso TX
WXXV Gulfport MS
KOKH Oklahoma City OK
KFXA Cedar Rapids IA
KBVU Eureka CA
WUTV Buffalo NY
KABB San Antonio TX
WFLX West Palm Beach FL
KDVR Denver CO
KMSS Shreveport LA
WUPW Toledo OH
KTXL Sacramento CA
WGGB Springfield MA
KCYU Yakima WA
WVBT Hampton Roads VA
WBFF Baltimore MD
WRGT Dayton OH
WPGH Pittsburgh PA
WFXG Augusta GA
WXTX Columbus GA
WXIN Indianapolis IN
WTAT Charleston WV
KMPH Fresno CA
WLUK Green Bay WI
WDKY Lexington KY
KSAS Wichita KS

These are the stations I can confirm. There may be more.

ALL Of the FOX Owned and Operated Stations DID play the Special Report Tonight.

21 minutes ago, NYTV said:

Didn't CBS do a "News Central" at its LA duop some time back?

Yes. In 2009, it was a massive failure. 

6 minutes ago, NowBergen said:

What’s bad is in NY it replaced an actual newscast even if it was a repurposed version of WCBS 6 pm.  In markets with actual newscast competition or a co-owned newscast I can’t see this lasting. 

There is no way this would last on CW/My stations owned by CBS with CBS O&Os with actual news departments. Do they really want to go the same route that Sinclair did with News Central. I don't want to see another WPGH situation again.

15 minutes ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

Nexstar can't take it either. They hit their cap. Orlando is too big. Either TEGNA or Scripps.

 

Also, no. It's not leaving Florida.

Nexstar could buy them as Mission Broadcasting stations. Scripps is also against the cap.  My point was that if TEGNA became Standard, Cox merged with Standard, and then Hearst merged with Cox. Orlando (and many other places) will have new owners with an O&O or someone like Allen or someone else expanding their reach to fill in the gaps. 

7 hours ago, news2me said:

Doesn't Graham own WKMG? 

I forgot about that. I fixed it with Nexstar. 

4 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

"Hey Hearst. Sell your flagship to get WFTV." Are you insane?!

 

 

Yes, but in this little hypothetical where Kenneth doesn't understand how the industry works, Graham gets two big 4 stations and the FCC is run by Clippy.

 

I had ONE misstep and you want to jump down my throat on it. 

Hearst's graphics hub can be moved to another station if needed. I'm sure WBAL-TV would want it. 

8 hours ago, tjt24 said:

While that is a good idea, and I'm all for it, it wouldn't be a clean deal should that ever happen, and I highly doubt it would. 

If Hearst and Cox merge, The biggest Conflicts would be Pittsburgh (WTAE over WPXI) , Boston (WCVB over WFXT [Fox could get this station back]), and Orlando (WFTV/WRDQ over WESH/WKCF) 

WPXI screams Nexstar. 

WFXT goes back to FOX 

WESH/WKCF also goes to Nexstar. 

18 minutes ago, DirtyHarry said:

I would hope that Cox would be the survivor, not Standard.

Replace Standard with Cox. 

1 hour ago, Nelson R. said:

Hearst or NBC can take WCNC and WXIA/WATL.

Hearst could take all of the conflicts if they wanted too. 

Atlanta: Standard keeps WSB 2 (ABC), and Hearst takes WXIA 11 (NBC)

WATL 36 (MNT) could go to either. 

Charlotte: Standard keeps WSOC 9 (ABC) & WAXN 64 (Ind.), Hearst takes  WCNC 36 (NBC).

Jacksonville: Hearst gets WTLV 12 (NBC) & WJXX 25 as an Independent (ABC goes to Graham's WJXT 4)   Standard keeps  WFOX 30 (Fox) & WJAX 47 (CBS).

Seattle: Hearst takes KIRO 7 (CBS), Standard gets KING 5 (NBC) & KONG 16 (Ind.).

Spokane won't be a problem due to COX selling KAYU -TV to Imagicomm Communications. 

Memphis: Standard keeps WHBQ 13 (Fox), Hearst gets WATN 24 (ABC)

WLMT 30 (CW) could go to either. 

Hearst doesn't like FOX so that is why I avoided giving them any FOX stations.