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WTHI, WLFI, and WFFT have all updated their logos to match each other. The combined newscasts are supposed to start tonight.  

A press release from Allen making the Weather Channel forecasts being seen on local stations seem a positive thing… it’s like putting lipstick on a pig and somehow making it look uglier. 
 

https://www.einpresswire.com/article/778247699/the-power-of-the-weather-channel-is-coming-to-your-local-television-station

I put together a montage of the first newscast at WTHI without Patrece and Kevin. It’s an interesting format that has been in place over the past couple of weeks. 
 

There is a lot of information in the description of the video such as the back story and details on more changes happening at the station as soon as next week. 

I’ve been told that big changes are coming to WTHI on Tuesday. From my understanding the station will be merging with WLFI and WFFT. 

Basically a ‘Wisconsin News Now’ in Indiana. 
 

6 hours ago, EVVTV12 said:

Once again, Terre Haute has been hit hard. Long time anchor Patrece Dayton and Chief Meteorologist Kevin Orpurt will be out of the station on Thursday. It has been reported that ND Susan Dinkel will become Regional ND. 

It broke my heart seeing this confirmed. Everyone was expecting, but it doesn’t make it easier.
 

I grew up watching WTHI and I was lucky enough to work with both for a couple of years. Patrece trained and mentored me. Both are amazing souls and talented individuals that are loved deeply by their colleagues and the community. 
 

WTHI will never be the same….
 

Similar to Wisconsin, KEZI and KDRV now have combined newscasts under the brand of Oregon News Now. 
 

On 11/28/2024 at 12:13 AM, tyrannical bastard said:

Allen is joining the newscast consolidation movement.  The first victims are WFFT in Fort Wayne, which will now get their news out of WLFI Lafayette. 

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/11/25/allen-media-to-hub-news-in-indiana

 

And a "slightly" bright spot in this.  WAAY in Huntsville will be producing a primetime newscast for WCOV in Montgomery with two reporters based there.

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/11/26/allen-media-merges-newsrooms

 

Seeing as this is another voice in the market, it's a little win.  But the market may be better served by the current WAKA newscast that they've put on for the last 15 or so years, and before that, WSFA.

 

This may now shift WAKA's efforts over to their WBMM CW station to compete against Allen at 9pm.

A source I know says other Allen stations in Indiana are talking about doing the same thing. 

18 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

Keep your eyes peeled on WHEC-TV Rochester. There could be a new look coming to them shortly. No, its not on the air yet, but they have already debuted a new logo that appears online. Its their first new logo in 20 years.

 

It’s about time. The old one drove me crazy. 

Your stuff looks good!  I taught broadcasting last year part time while working full time as a reporter at a tv station. 
 

I reached out to Stephen Arnold at the beginning of last year and they gave us a license for Lighthouse and access to The Vault For our projects/newscast.
 

I’ve since quit both jobs and am in the process of starting my own streaming news/weather website for the county I live in. Both with my project and when teaching, Stephen Arnold Music was very supportive and helpful. I actually just licensed Frequency for my operation. 
 

If you have a budget, I encourage you to reach out to Jeff Ryan at SAM and see what they can do to help you!! 

I’ve been told by a couple of people who have some close connections that NEWSNet is no more as of today. 
 

Has anyone else heard anything? 

Who designed this look? I don’t think any stations use it now, but several have over the last 10 years. 

20 hours ago, sfomspphl said:

Edited to add...

 

As of today KUSI.com redirects into Fox5SanDiego, with the KUSI logo at the top adjacent to Fox 5. 

Wonder if we’ll soon see a new url such as mysandiegoproudhomepage.com

Watched a few videos on WBRE/WYOU’s YouTube channel. On the lower thirds, they’re branding it as 22/28 News, Weather, Sports, etc…

They’re also saying “22/28 News” when tossing to reporters. 
 

A while back, WBRE and WYOU debuted new logos so I wonder if this is part of a slow rebrand. 

Looks like the 30 year stretch of In-Sink is coming to an end on WRAL. 

Downloaded a game I thought was kind of interesting from an ad on TikTok (warning the game sucks lol). The game started with a fake newscast. 
 

Can you tell where their inspiration came from? 

Remember when Gray tried to recreate WABC’s old look? Looking at this and seeing the Beehive graphics, it’s clear that Gray really needs a new graphics department. 

16 hours ago, Myron Falwell said:

It might be in everyone’s best interests for the program to be put on hiatus indefinitely and retooled outright.

 

If it got canceled or ended by Austin’s volition, well, I again fault the station for not doing a darn thing to help the product at launch. They failed him.

Not cancelled… 

2 hours ago, RGSJenkins said:

I think he's doing it weekly on Mondays only for now.

Not airing only Mondays. 

Assuming there was some technical difficulties last night, but he was back at it full force tonight with more improvements!

Also go to enjoy a long cut of News One at the close of his newscast!
 

1 minute ago, ctmajka said:

Thank you, @ABC 7 Denver. 

One thing I noticed is how absolutely hyper-critical this fandom tends to be without actually taking a step back and trying to understand the "How"s & "Why"s behind changes in news products. Are some graphics actually bad? Yes. Some are. Is EVERY SINGLE aspect of a graphics package bad simply because you personally don't like one aspect of it? No. That's absolutely not the case. These absolute statements and severe judgements based on a few minutes of witnessing something new just leads to drama, and I'm personally getting kind of sick of it.

It's not everybody, but I just find the irony kind of amazing that the whole thing behind news is being objective, yet we let our personal feelings dictate definitively that something is "bad". Not everything is 100% "Bad"

MY58's news department is a one-man-band with the budget of $12 and a ham sandwich. The product will get better over time.  There will be a lot of testing & figuring it out, and he deserves our support for taking on a project like this.

Bottom line is, Austin is one of us. He's a total news nerd just like we are, and he's a damn good journalist. He has a challenge ahead of him that he willingly took on. We really should, as a community, be in his corner to support him, and not completely rip apart his product on the first night.

In fact, we really need to learn how to sit back and observe things for a few nights before we draw our conclusions, weighing all pros & cons of certain things instead of just crapping on something the first time we see it just because it's different. 

TLDR: Guys, we really need to step it up and do better, instead of turning everything into a bitch-fest.

 

VERY WELL SAID

Not sure who first replied to NMN’s comment, but if we’re going to be honest, I don’t think they are “well positioned to be commenting…” They clearly don’t understand how big of a risk this could’ve been to the future of News Music Now and even NMSA. 
 

I wouldn’t say NMN has unauthorized use. I know the news music publishers know about News Music Now. Some publishers I’ve spoke with have mentioned the site, other publishers have been tagged in his posts and they’ve reacted to and even commented his posts. He has taken steps to prevent copyright violations and this exact situation from happening.  
 

Luckily, this was all a VERY BIG misunderstanding and he actually has a license for News One. But if cuts start getting ripped from the site by tv stations to use, they could view News Music Now and even the NMSA as a threat and ask for the sites to be shut down, then what would we all do? 
 

With all that being said, let this be a lesson to all of us, myself included… “don’t judge a book by it’s cover”. Austin is taking a chance and following a dream and that’s more than a lot of people can say. I hope these people criticizing him and critiquing him are reaching out to him and offering to help in any way possible; and if not, sit back down. 
 

I know I hope to see it grow and this newscast be successful. 

In case you haven’t seen Studio 31’s post, KMSG (fixed) in Fresno launched an 8pm newscast. 
 

The music used includes Eyewitness News (for weather) News One Versions 1&2 (for main theme) Impact for a segment and This is Home for Sports… 

What’s interesting about this is you can clearly hear the ‘chirp’ in the NewsOne theme from News Music Now’s website…

1 minute ago, TheSpeedKing said:

Any station using Nexstar NBC graphics is going to have their competition cream them. WJCL should've passed WSAV at this point.

Realistically speaking, a graphics package isn’t going to make or break a station. 

The WUSA/Gannett look was my favorite! There was also a blue version! 
 

On 12/16/2021 at 8:10 PM, froyo49 said:

It’s actually CBS Local from Stephen Arnold Music. I remember someone on this thread noticed that they were using the CBS Local election theme during their automated election results video stream last year. 
I recorded a brief clip from CBSN Bay Area:

 

 

That was me that heard the CBS Local used for the election. Makes me wonder if they’re starting to phase in CBS Local and will eventually be dropping Enforcer…  

WDKY talks about their “relaunch” 

18 hours ago, KnoxvilleTVFan said:

To update, WTOK now has new graphics and a new name, "WTOK News 11."
 

Gross. Another station picked up the beehive package… This isn’t a “new look” I’d be bragging about.