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  1. 8 hours ago, dman748 said:

    What's going to be really interesting is how Tegna itself reacts to this. By Kim making this move that just opened up a can of worms for both sides. We'll just have to see what happens with this one.

     

    Probably not going to be all that interesting. I know it's fun to rip on TEGNA, and they deserve it for any number of things, but seriously if you open the books on ANY broadcast company, you'll find these exact same problems. I also know we like to imagine that the mom-and-pop-owned Dispatch stations were a haven before TEGNA, but this behavior didn't happen overnight once new ownership came on board. Every single local station I ever worked for had issues like these.

     

    You can trace back a lot of those discrimination complaints, like at WTSP for example, to the Joel Cheetwood-era of getting local management to fire all of their expensive legacy talent for much, much cheaper younger talent.  

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  2. 4 hours ago, SFTV said:

    Is Bruce in charge of the O&O look? Is he as bad as the (not going to name) person who is the creative director at WJZ who was so against the “look”


    Yes, but bad in a different way... (ask any woman who ever worked in creative at a CBS O&O...)

  3. 16 hours ago, jero23 said:

     

    In lieu of Nexstar's low budget Fox look?  Yeah... I keep tell you all this Nexstar ownership of this Charlotte duo will be shortlived. Fox isn't stupid just wanted their hands on KCPQ/KZJO in their hands while Nexstar waste money on building up a news operation they were too cash strap to do themselves.  Charlotte is destined to be a top 15 market, and Fox will be back. Isn't ironic that Fox has expanded its FS1 facility across Charlotte?  It's only a matter of time before its right back in their hands and Nexstar is back out of Charlotte for everyone's sake.  

     

    You think they're expanding the FS1 facility to bring in a local television operation? 

     

    Charlotte needs to add like 500,000 people to make it into the top 15, when do you see that happening?

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  4. 1 hour ago, TheRob said:

     

     

    Kinda makes you miss the days of control rooms warmed by the many cathode-ray tubes... and no salvation under the hot studio lights anymore, they've all gone LED! 

  5. On 2/5/2021 at 11:12 PM, Roadrunner said:

    Forgive me if I'm mistaken but I think this is actually a derivative (or the same, not sure) of the Enforcer cut that WCCO uses. The whole version usually plays during the close of WCCO newscasts (I think). So I don't think this is new. As far as the new Enforcer cuts, I think KCNC is the only station to use it regularly (and I'm honestly not a fan --- it's so...dark. And oddly foreboding.)


    It’s not related to the WCCO track.
     

    It likely is from the newer stuff, even though it sounds like it’s from 2005... 

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  6. I think they just wanted larger boxes. The ones in this package were still 4:3 safe if I recall and most of these newscasts live in double boxes now. 
     

    I can’t imagine anything from this current look, which was a pretty lame evolution of the previous look, will show up in their new package. 

  7. 18 hours ago, PhillyWatch said:

    Butchering local town & landmark names while a tornado bears down on the viewing public. Anybody wanna take a crack at pronouncing "Schuylkill River"?

     

    The Weather Channel has had no problem covering local severe weather remotely for what... 30 years or more now?  I'm sure this won't be a huge issue for whatever this is Fox ends up doing. 

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  8. 59 minutes ago, ThatSowislander said:

    When you think things couldn't get worse for Ted, well.. (from WISN radio host Dan O'Donnell)

     

     

    If he loses his job, there's a pipeline to WDJT from WITI via their new GM... put money on it.

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  9. 55 minutes ago, rkolsen said:

    He boxes like that were some odd design quirk. They do something similar when it comes to meteorologists names. Why? I do not know.

     

    I can tell you the most likely scenario - a producer somewhere felt it "needed to be special"! That is how stations go off-brand 99.9% of the time. 

     

    (The other .1%, well actually considerably larger than that, is when sales sells something and doesn't let the creative team know so now we need to shoehorn a massive heating and air company logo into a 7-day forecast banner or ticker design... and you won't even be able to make it out... but hey, it's added value so... 🤷‍♂️)

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  10. 19 hours ago, newsdude said:

    Imagine being a reporter or working behind the scenes at WUSA. The bosses have now paid money to lure 3 primary anchors away from WTTG and yet, they’re still in 4th place. And still, everyone’s being asked to shoulder the load of corporate pain, taking unpaid furloughs, etc.


    Imagine being one of the many reporters who were offered weeklong tryouts for the spot on Get Up and getting slapped in the face like this. Really poor news leadership over there. Absolutely pathetic. 

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  11. 1 hour ago, SFTV said:

    Bay Area Blogger Rich Lieberman in hot water after 29 female journalists past and present sign a letter denouncing him as sexist.

     

    https://medium.com/@bayareanewswomen/we-are-better-than-this-5780d57c7ff4

     

    This guy is disgusting. Most of his stories are completely made up. After running into him at a bar in Oakland a few years ago and seeing how he behaved, this all makes sense. Glad finally someone is saying something. 

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