Kenneth Kissel
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6 minutes ago, ScottSchell said:
Actually KOKI has been using this logo and graphics since 2013 not 2006.
I apologize, I was told buy another source that it was 2006. I have fixed that in my original post. These graphics still need an update badly.
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51 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:
Back to "if/when" the CW ends up under Nexstar. Unless they royally piss off a network on a major scale, they're not going to dump their major affiliations. It's a good duopoly filler to be able to have a network and to chart their own course with it. The only churn could be the other groups who want out because their competitors don't want to be afilliated with a network owned by the said competitor.
This screams that FOX may be the one who would be upset with Nexstar if they buy the CW. Remember, NONE of the FOX owned UPN stations switched to The CW because Tribune was also in every market they were in and Tribune owned a piece of The WB. Many of Nexstar's board members used to be Tribune employees. If I was FOX, I may want to start looking at other owners to fill gaps, it could be a repeat of 2011's retransmission differences all over again for Nexstar. If that happens, 44 markets would switch to The CW from Fox and 23 Stations would lose MyNetworkTV.
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I wasn't sure where to put this but If FOX wants to encourage its affiliates to update their graphics. I wonder If they could ask COX Media Group/Imagicomm Communications to update KOKI-TV FOX 23's graphics. This has been on this station since the ancient year of 2013.
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8 minutes ago, nycnewsjunkie said:
Imho, CBS screwed themselves more than they screwed Jeff. One can argue that Jeff somehow has the better end of the deal today. He works almost exclusively on Saturday mornings with a good cohort of people, and might even get another shot at the big chair down the road if/when CBS decides to fill its ranks with people who know what the hell they’re doing. In the meantime, he can sit comfortably knowing that he’s not involved with this current fiasco.
Jeff could do so much better if he was with NBC or ABC. We saw it with Tom Llamas when he switched from ABC to NBC. I could also see Jeff Glor do what Russ Mitchell did with WKYC. There are still stations that will hire network talent for the right price.
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1 hour ago, TheRob said:
New York Post article on O'Donnell (CBS denies they were looking to replace O'Donnell)
https://nypost.com/2022/06/02/norah-odonnells-salary-slashed-by-more-than-half-at-cbs-evening-news/
Paramount can deny it all they want but CBS was trying to replace Norah because Norah is terrible at doing the CBS Evening News. Ratings haven't been this bad since Dan Rather was at the network. Even Katie Couric had better ratings as the anchor then Norah has now. There is a reason why morale is at an all time low at CBS, it starts with Norah and ends with her too.
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9 minutes ago, Nelson R. said:
There’s no point in doing it if it is just going to be a repeat of the noon news.
I'm assuming they would make it completely LIVE if they had the full noon hour. Both competitors WTAE and WPXI have LIVE full hour noon newscasts
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10 minutes ago, Nelson R. said:
Wish CBS would give 12:30 to the affiliates, move Y&R to 1, expand B&B to an hour at 2 and dump The Talk.
If that happens, KDKA-TV could actually have a LIVE 12:30 newscast instead of a recorded CW version.
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Pittsburgh's May sweeps ratings for weekday local TV newscasts showed a rising tide for WTAE-TV, with a first-place finish at 5 and 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. in households and the key demo of viewers ages 25-54. In the mornings, WTAE’s newly-configured, three-anchor newscast put the station further ahead of its rivals than it was in May 2021.
KDKA-TV came in first in households at noon, 4, 5 and 11 p.m. The station was first in the demo at noon and 4 p.m. And KDKA’s 10 p.m. newscast on WPCW-TV, now anchored by Royce Jones, was first at 10 p.m. in households (a hair ahead of WPGH-TV in the demo).
WPXI took first place in the demo at 5 and 11 p.m.
Ratings released last week by Nielsen include household ratings that reflect a measure of popularity and the more important-to-stations demographic ratings, including the key demo of ages 25-54, that are used to set ad rates.
Year-to-year, newscast ratings are generally down in most time periods with mornings holding up better than other daypart ratings.
At 4 p.m., the addition of newscasts on WPXI and WTAE cut KDKA’s ratings by almost three ratings points, compared to 2021 even though Channel 2 still came in first. WPXI’s 4 p.m. ratings were off by more than three ratings points compared to when it had “Judge Judy” in the time period in 2021.
The addition of WPXI’s 6:30 p.m. newscast on WPGH-TV drew a 0.4 rating and 1 share in household and 0.2/1 in the demo. A year earlier, reruns of “Two and a Half Men” drew 1.5/3 household and 0.7/3 in the demo.
Source :Rob Owen of the Tribune Review https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-streaming-saves-the-mid-tier-movie-wtae-tv-improves-morning-news-lead-in-may-sweeps/
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2 hours ago, mre29 said:
Or, y'know, just not base their purchasing decisions on games involving grown men getting concussions and throwing weirdly-shaped objects wrapped in pigskin.
Like it or not, the NFL is here to stay for the longhall due to amount of money they are making. Fox, CBS, and NBC all need to capitalize on that. Especially FOX because they don't have much to fall back on now due to the Disney merger from 2019. It also impacts Nexstar (to get back on topic here) due to how many CBS, NBC, and FOX stations they have but I could see Nexstar investing in The CW while giving up many of their other affiliates to make the CW successful.
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1 hour ago, DENDude said:
KDVR/KFCT FOX31 is now on the KWGN set starting today with the FOX31 NEWS @4PM. It's unknown currently how long they will be using the KWGN set. The studio & set were last updated in Spring of 2019 by Design Group International. For now it appears this is only an update for the FOX side. No word on if KWGN will be updated after FOX is finished.
https://coloradonewscenter.blogspot.com/2022/05/fox31-is-updating-its-news-set.html
Why Only 3 years. Really Nexstar? BTW, Happy Birthday @DENDude.
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1 hour ago, Greggo said:
Everyone be careful you don’t get “hepatits”
I missed that. Nice catch.
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Some Minor Tweaks This Afternoon were made to the Weather Graphics and Open during the midday broadcast.
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1 hour ago, JCB4TV said:
From my understanding, starting in 2023, all NFL games will be free agents, dates will be announced first with time and channel later, similar to college.
Exactly, which is why Fox needs to consider more AFC markets to buy stations in and make them contenders. WISH-TV/WNDY could be perfect for Fox if they wanted to buy them and give Nexstar the CW affiliate to WXIN 59 at the same time. I know WXIN is the senior partner in that duopoly but you have WTTV CBS 4 as well. Just switch to that station being the senior partner and it will be OK.
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20 hours ago, EVVTV12 said:
In the case of WISH-TV, would they love to rejoin CBS? Yes. Will it happen? Probably not. When WISH lost CBS in 2015, many of us said they would probably been happier to gain Fox instead of The CW. With Nexstar taking over majority of The CW, this will make McCoy mad and probably rethink his affiliation rights with The CW when it’s time to renew. For people that don’t, McCoy did work for Fox26 in Houston and many of his former stations were affiliated with Fox. So he knows what Fox wants and how they work. If WISH/McCoy were to get Fox away from WXIN, McCoy could then go to DirecTV/Dish and say, “You are denying people the right to see Big Ten Football, Big Ten Basketball, NFL, MLB, and many other sports events along with Fox programming.” As for weekend programming currently on WISH, just put it on WNDY and put more local program on WNDY instead of just WISH.I doubt WISH-TV would go back to CBS but Fox seems like a natural fit for WISH. Fox could sweeten the deal by acquiring WISH and WNDY and making them FOX/My O&Os. WISH already has a news department and Indy has an NFL Team (Colts) which could help Fox market WISH/WNDY. Circle City has basically been Nexstar with a different name anyway( take one look at their news presentation and you will agree).
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18 hours ago, GoldenShine9 said:
It starts to make me wonder if CBS will put some of their stations on the sale block.
I agree, especially the CW O&Os. Myself and others talked about this in the Nexstar Buying the CW? channel in more detail but I believe KDKA/WPCW will both be going to Nexstar after Nexstar takes over The CW.
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15 hours ago, panewswatcher69 said:
The second half of this article has couple KDKA personnel pieces, KDKA-TV Pittsburgh has hired Shawn Hoder as their new news director.
Wonder what changes will be made over the next several months?
Also, the article talks about the recent sharing of on-air meteorologists across various CBS O&O's.
Shawn Hoder didn't do well in Tampa with WTSP being TEGNA's experimental station.
New GM Chris Cotugno has already stumbled with saying that Pittsburgh isn't a sports town. I'm very worried about Pittsburgh's long time ratings leader due to these two new hires.
According to many people I know at the station. Moral has plummeted since Kathy Hostetter became the GM of WJZ in Baltimore. This is not good for KDKA.
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KENS 5 Has the Updated Graphics as well.
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9 minutes ago, TVNewsLover said:
WCAU has had some guy in Dallas doing the weather weekend mornings while Krystal is filling in on weekday evenings for Brittney who is on maternity leave. Honestly surprised they just don’t have their NYC station meteorologists fill in as they are the closest.
I agree, NYC is the best bet. I wonder if cost has something to do with that decision as well.
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On 5/23/2022 at 12:59 AM, newsdude said:
She had such potential, but she seems to put more effort into being a clown on TikTok. And what does it say about CBS that they are importing their Philadelphia weather forecasts from Pittsburgh?Oh, it looks like KYW isn't just importing their weather from Pittsburgh, you can add KTVT Dallas Meteorologist Jeff Ray to this list. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2022/5/24/what-the-hell-is-up-with-that.
How does this happen in a Top 5 market like Philadelphia?
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1 hour ago, Nelson R. said:
I wish Gray would buy WMYT. A WBTV/WMYT duopoly would be more useful. WBTV could put news from 7-9am or even 7-10am on there. They could put 10pm news back on there, or even 8 and/or 9pm news on there. WJZY could put an 8 or 9pm news on WMYT but that’s about it.
That would be a huge fall for WMYT, It started as a Capital Broadcasting station (they own WRAL), bought by FOX to be an MyNetworkTV O&O, sold to Nexstar and then sold to Gray? OUCH.
It is more likely that WCCB gets the MyNetworkTV Affiliation or it goes on WJZY as a secondary Affiliation if WCCB wants to go independent so WMYT could grab the CW for Nexstar.
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6 hours ago, Superdude said:
I can't see WPCW being dropped. KDKA-TV has always been one of CBS's strongest stations. Having a second station is beneficial for additional news and sports programming and to place pre-empted cbs shows when necessary.
WPCW airs CBS Programming if KDKA-TV airs Breaking News, Severe Weather, or Steelers Preseason games and will move The CW lineup to overnights if necessary. I wish more stations would do that.
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1 hour ago, PhillyWatch said:
CBS has shown they're capable of running independent stations in 2022, and we know they're working on an alternative news development hub. I really don't see the potential loss of a marginally successful network (there is zero guarantee Nexstar is going to start pulling affiliations) causing CBS to throw up their hands and have a duopoly fire sale.
My point was that Nexstar would start with moving/buying CW affiliates to stations they would own to make them O&Os
For Example, I could see Nexstar selling its MyNetworkTV/Ion affiliations to Fox, Scripps, or someone else to pick up more CW stations (it would be needed if Nexstar wanted to buy WPSG,WTOG,and KBCW from CBS to keep them CW O&Os) then I could see Nexstar getting rid of its weaker FOX stations after that.
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9 hours ago, Nelson R. said:
Yeah that was crazy. WAXN was smart. They weren’t actually a Pax affiliate, they just aired a few Pax programs. They have always been an overflow WSOC station.
There is going to be A LOT of duopolies from non-Nexstar stations (including CBS/CW O&Os that choose not to sell) that will be in the same position as WAXN. I can see WPCW being one of them( they mostly are a dumping ground for KDKA-TV programming that can't fit on the main channel). You know Nexstar will want many of its own stations to be CW affiliates.
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1 hour ago, SF1964 said:
Tammie Souza was off today, so Mary Ours from KDKA Pittsburgh did the CBS3 weather this morning.
Not bad for someone who (just 4 years ago) was on WJAC with a not so certain future. I'm so happy for Mary. https://twitter.com/MaryOursWX/status/1528003287127040000?t=TbBY97KZyQt7nFR4jAfqMw&s=19
Nexstar buying The CW?
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Posted · Edited by Kenneth Kissel
Your wrong. They will change the Network name to Entertainment Nation (because of News Nation).
P.S: I don't really think Nexstar will actually change The CW's name.