norcalTVfan

KPVI is an afterthought in a two-newsroom market. Its quality is on par with its former sister KIEM. Longtime users of this forum know that KIEM and quality typically aren’t mentioned in the same sentence.

I am not surprised as KREM has turned into a mini dumpster fire since they migrated to the new AI production platform. I think they may have undergone some additional budget tightening as well… It took them a few months to replace their morning anchor, some weekends there isn’t even a reporter in the field, and it appears they dumped their 5 PM weekend newscast to air a 30 minute week in review show.

Dan and Steph were the best. Glad they retired before this “NonStop Local” branding gimmick. Give me back “Q6” and the over-the-top graphics and music.

KREM is running blue graphics and not the colored ones typically associated with each different day part. I watched the first few minutes of the 4 PM news and it was choppy; the 5 PM seemed much better. The studio is apparently undergoing a refresh, but there have been no visible changes. The couch has been moved to the standup area, the news desk has been moved to the couch area, and the big screen seems to only be for the weather. Shots are really tight and the main anchors always appear together on camera.

Dennis Richmond was a prominent fixture not only in the Bay Area but throughout California. The Ten O’Clock news was widely available due to KTVU’s superstation status via cable and satellite. Even as the number of Fox affiliates grew in the west, most opted to simulcast KTVU’s popular Ten O’Clock news — at one time the most watched prime time newscast in the country.

I was channel surfing in the Pacific time zone and saw Collins/CNN and Hannity/Fox on the story. Meanwhile, Maddow/MSNBC kept rolling with an Alex Wagner piece re: Trump. It was awhile before they went to the crash. CBS was on and off the air with a special report before NBC brought in Hallie Jackson. edit: Chris Welch from 24/7 anchored initial CBS network coverage

I honestly believe this may spell the end of local news in Eureka, CA. Station KIEM - with partner KVIQ (LP) air the only local news after Sinclair closed up shop (on a much better product) and rolled everything to Redding in an adjacent market. I don’t think KIEM will roll into Redding as the other owner is Allen. I don’t think anyone wants KIEM and, if they do, will have trouble keeping news in that stagnant economy. This probably should go in the speculation thread.

Emerald Yeh way before KRON/SF

I just watched via NewsOn and it appears just 11a and 4p are shared. The Medford station still has morning (5a/6a) and evening newscasts (5p/6p/11p). So it’s not as bad as it could be yet.

KREM 2 in Spokane is now airing pre-recorded weekend forecasts from Denver. With this change, Meteorologist Michelle Boss, a 25-year station veteran, showed herself to the exit. The lingering question here is why Denver when their Seattle sister station has/had a large stable of weather talent.

It looks as if all of California’s sub-100 markets dropped a place or two.

Stan was in there at 5:05 with Jennifer Whitney. Not mentioned but shown.

Probably because the 6 is a half hour and doesn’t need two anchors. I read somewhere that Sade prefers a co-anchor; this is likely why there are subs for Bill at 11.

News from Spokane, WA … Debra Wilde, popular KHQ-6 anchorwoman of the 80s and 90s, died Sunday. She spent more than 25 years as a personality in the market. https://www.khq.com/news/a-big-loss-for-the-khq-family-longtime-khq-anchor-debra-wilde-dies-at-73/article_1492dbe6-4885-11ef-9b1a-877790047cf2.html

Y'all don't want INSP or Coastal. INSP has some big time cellar-dwellers like KPVI in Pocatello, "The Delta News" quadopoly in Mississippi, and the little train that never could: KIEM. Coxpollo had these for a minute but didn't spend any money them. For a good laugh, check KIEM product online ... still bad decade(s) after their first mention here.

Sinclair has a half dozen or so of these sets (of various sizes) floating around. KIMAs is a little different than KEPRs … KLEW had a version of this for a short time before Boise took over … KVAL/KMTR in Eugene also has this with different color treatments … KTVL had this set when Sinclair decided to call it a day. As a former viewer in the market, there is a good chance this was KTVLs. KBAK put this up over the weekend as Friday’s news was on the old set.

No ticker on KXLY. There is a ticker on the KXLY+ steaming channel. The ticker disappeared when they switched to the monstrous lower 3rds in Spokane in the last year or so.

Here we go ... KRCR ... Northern California's legacy snoozefest ... now has three solo anchors for their evening newscasts. Glenn Cassie has been added there. So, one anchor from 5-6 that retires every few years and then comes back, one from 6:30-7, and then one that does 7/10/11. Either they're prepping for a third retirement for the 5 anchor or they have money to spend. A better idea would be to pair up and have traditional two anchor newscasts because the 6:30 person is very green.

Wow. It only takes a five-year career to make it to WGN now. They might as well just start recruiting in Laredo or Eureka for that matter.

On the US feed of CNN International the “Live” bug is kept under the CNN logo in Licht-style. This differs from the parent network which reverted to something close to the original.

JKOC is awesome. Surprising to see him in Yakima. He left KIEM to work for a local online news publication.

KLEW is actually in the Spokane market but is a satellite of KIMA Yakima (as is KEPR). Sinclair could really cut costs but selling off the frequency and eliminating a redundant station. If cuts came to KIMA/KEPR, I’d imagine the KIMA newscast would stop as they only do 5/6 weeknights — everything else is simulcast KEPR. All the action for “Action News” is in the Tri Cities.

Reports have also surfaced that KAEF wiped out their news operation — sans two reporters — in tiny Eureka, CA. This is bad for two reasons: one, Sinclair put out the best product in town and, two, their competition is KIEM. Longtime participants at TVNT know how terrible KIEM is with their junior high-level production quality. That station now puts on newscasts full of screenshots of local news blogs with very few local sound bites. Hopefully but not ideally, the KAEF changes just mean that newscasts are produced from their sister station or there are local inserts in the sister station’s newscasts like in the 80s and 90s.