oklahomanewsman

Alright I have a question:

KOKH in Oklahoma City uses a different news music package for their opens and teases, but they still do use the 615 Music package for other things such as reopens and teases to weather and sports segments.

But what music package KOKH uses for their opens and teases to commercial breaks (not the weather or sports segments but the teases to commercial breaks) they use?

KOCO was going to go off of Cox just before the Oklahoma Sooners vs Ohio State Buckeyes game (on September 7th or 8th) but that's been resolved

http://www.normantranscript.com/news/university_of_oklahoma/cox-koco-dispute-resolved/article_5983d26d-64cc-5235-a867-b68b17b530b6.html

KHBS/KHOG is adding a weekend 5pm newscast on Saturdays and Sundays on their 2nd digital subchannel (also known as Arkansas CW)

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/107324/arkansas-cw-launches-weekend-5-pm-news

It'll launch this Saturday, September 23rd and it'll utilize the award-winning newsgathering resources from local ABC affiliate and sister station 40/29 TV, the 5:00 p.m. weekend newscast on The Arkansas CW will offer local viewers an additional option for coverage. 40/29 Weekend News at 5 p.m. on the Arkansas CW will feature familiar faces, including news anchor Allison Wise, weather with Taylor Pannell and Reese Miller with sports. Teams of field crews from across the entire region will cover important news and weather events from Fort Smith, The River Valley and all of Northwest Arkansas.

Here's the statement from KHBS/KHOG President and General Manager Shaun Oswald:

“We continue to be committed to localism and to serving our community on The Arkansas CW by providing local viewers our award-winning coverage at a time that is important to them, on Sept. 11, we expanded our morning news, 40/29 News Sunrise on The Arkansas CW at 7 am to an hour and we are excited to continue our expansion of our local news product into the weekends for the 5:00 p.m. time period.”

KBOI isn't the only station who did it.

 

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And I see here that this one is identical to the one KBOI posted. Coincedence? I think not.

Well that's a shocker, NOT!

It's all copy and paste from the looks of things

So after forty-three months of sitting idle, the FCC has finally greenlighted WPFO's deal to Cunningham.

 

This deal was sat idle, after former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler issued a guidance to scrutinize deals that had sharing arrangements. That guidance was removed by current chairman Ajit Pai.

 

Because of this approval, I wouldn't be surprised if that other idle deal, KRNV/KENV to Cunningham, get the greenlight as well.

 

Unrelated to this, it appears that Sinclair proper wants to buy KOMO-FM from South Sound Broadcasting outright.

If that's the case I wonder which markets where both Sinclair and Tribune overlap could use Cunningham and/or Deerfield?

My prediction for such markets to have sharing agreements would be any market outside of Seattle, Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City, NEPA and St. Louis (For example in Portland they could use Deerfield to run KRCW in Portland and perhaps Cunningham to run WXMI in West Michigan and so on and so forth).

Harrisburg would be a toss up for me while both WHP and WPMT rank in the Top 4 the question is does the regulators feel that Sinclair has a case to use Deerfield/Cunningham to run WPMT? That decision is to be determined by antitrust regulators. (Same with any other market that Sinclair could try and use sidecards)

Do you (or anyone) remember when KOAT first got the camera graphics and Image News?

KOAT switched over to "Image News" at the end of 1999 however...

KOAT continued to use "One & Only" until sometime in 2000.

Wasn't KOCO the only Hearst station not to use the NewsMusicCentral package while still using the camera mandate (in other words they began using the NewsMusicCentral package and the ring graphics at the same time)?

Yes sir they did as a matter of fact if I remember correctly KOAT got rid of the camera madate around 2003 but kept "Image News" until KOAT got the Newsmusic Central package (initially with the WTNCF signature despite having the "Coverage You Can Count On" slogan until KOAT switched to the CYCCO signature in 2005.

Also KOCO switched to the WTNCF signature for it's Opens and Talent Rejoins in 2010 but kept the "Live. Local. Late Breaking" signature for it's news closes until they got Strive in 2013.

Seems to me that with that management change and spinoff, they eliminated are trying to eliminate the "digital" brands they got stuck with in the TEGNA/Gannett spinoff and go straight media. All thats left of the TEGNA Digital (outside of their advertising subs) is CareerBuilder, which they'd be best to get rid of before the Tribune-Sinclair deal becomes final. (Tribune & McClatchy are 1/3 owners with TEGNA).

 

That same fact also bodes well if Nexstar really is trying to buy them. Becoming pure media makes them prime bait for an M&A.

Nearly pure media, TEGNA still has a stake in CareerBuilder TEGNA has a stake in CareerBuilder along with The McCatchy Company and Tribune

Acually, Sinclair would hold a "quadopoly" in the Seattle market since they also own Univision station KUNS, which is and was part of the KOMO duopoly.

Salt Lake City (KUTV-KMYU-KJZZ and KSTU)

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (WOLF-WSWB-WQMY and WNEP) However, both of those markets, Sinclair uses their shell companies for at least one of the stations in the same market.

Harrisburg and Richmond they can't form duopolies in both of those markets as they have too few full-power stations to permit legal duopolies (plus the top 4 market rule as well)

Lisa McRee's last newscast for WFAA in 1991 before she went on to co-anchor ABC's "Good Morning America"

KFOR-TV intros since 2008:

2009:

2011:

(The only change from 2009 to 2011 was "Chopper 4" was replaced by "Bob Moore Chopper 4"

2014:

Brian Lee instead of saying "You're watching NewsChannel 4 at Ten" at that point says "You're watching NewsChannel 4 at Ten, The News Leader."

2016:

2017:

New graphics plus KFOR went back to the "Oklahoma's NewsChannel 4" moniker that they used from 1997 until 2008

I know KOCO has gone from these:

To these:

Nowadays I think Hearst has turned over whatever changes the stations make to the tunes of the current music, to the way the opens and talent rejoins animate and they can even change the look of the copyright bar (which was first introduced by WJCL in Savannah, GA after WJCL finally got the Hearst graphics/music package in 2015) but as far as the new theme music goes that's hubbed at WESH so I say Hearst has turned over all of the music/graphics responsibilities to the stations.

If the FCC changes the rules for Sinclair those same rule changes apply to other station groups too...

 

Just sayin' before we head down the "CONFLICTS!!!!!!!!!!!11!" path yet again.

The ONLY thing I've heard so far from the FCC regarding ownership is the possibility of a repeal of owning Newspapers and Televsion stations in a single market (which has been in effect since 1975)... for now!

And what I mean by "for now" I mean the FCC may change ownership rules (that includes raising the cap) and they haven't even started reviewing the national ownership cap as of yet.

Stay tuned y'all that's all I have to say about this

I live in Oklahoma City (KOCO) and they debuted the Camera mandate when they updated it in 1998 (of course they went from "5 News" to "Eyewitness News 5" that year) and they kept it till 2005 and they continued to use "Revolution (a.k.a B Package) until 2005 when they finally switched to the NewsMusicCentral package.

What's so strange about KOCO is they held on to the "Camera Graphics" and "B Package" until 2 years after WESH in Orlando were the first Hearst-owned station to debut that graphics/music package yet it only took 8 months before KOCO got the diagrid graphics and "Strive" in April 2013 (also they dropped the "Eyewitness News 5" moniker in favor of "KOCO 5 News" when they got the new graphics and music in 2013)

KFOR-TV 10pm Intro (taken in 1998)

KFOR-TV's promo for "WeatherSchool" (also in 1998)

6 News, a local cable news operation in Lawrence, KS, will be shutting down its operations after 45 years. Minnesota cable company Midco is expanding their Midco Sports Network into the market and ending 6 News. Lawrence is technically in the Topeka DMA but receives signals from both Topeka and Kansas City, so both markets cover them equally. A very sad day indeed.

 

https://www.6lawrence.com/6lawrence/index.php/2017/05/16/midco-sn-expands-lawrence-6-news-operations-end/

That's a shame, hopefully someone will fill in the hole that 6NEWS left behind for the Lawrence area

http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/5/16/pushed-out-in-denver

Ed Greene, the longest-serving weather forecaster in Denver, is being kicked to the curb at KCNC.

The Denver Post says that the station will not be renewing Greene’s contract as senior weather forecaster. Over the next six months, Lauren Whitney will be phased in to the evening newscasts in his place.

The move is not his decision, Greene said.

“I guess management is ‘going in a new direction?’ ” Greene said in a frank email. “I did not ask for ‘more time to spend with the grandkids’ (don’t have any, yet), or to spend more time at our home in Santa Fe (wife still busier than ever with her business … and we still have a student up at CU).”

Greene will become a part-time contributor at the station, doing fill-in work and representing the station at community events.

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Then tell some people who still say that Sinclair will do this/that to stop that, then I won't have to repeat myself this.

Been trying to tell them that I don't know how many times and some how and some way it's fallen on deaf ears

Fourth.

Like in Oklahoma City, the DOJ/FCC will not allow Sinclair to form a triopoly between KOMO and KCPQ/KZJO

My understanding is that it's historically been 1. KING 2. KOMO 3. KIRO.

What about KCPQ?

Without looking at the numbers, my educated guess is that it's a three way race between KFOR, KOCO, and KWTV, not necessary in that order. At this time, neither of them are promoting themselves as the market leader. Regardless, of the ratings, I believe that Sinclair will have to divest either KOKH/KOCB or KFOR/KAUT.

If you were running Sinclair and you had to make a decision to keep the lower rated KOKH or buy the higher rated KFOR which one should Sinclair do? Keep the lower rated KOKH and sell the higher rated KFOR or buy the higher rated KFOR and sell the lower rated KOKH?

Where does Oklahoma City stations rank in news ratings?

I'd make them use their cell phones.

Nah I'd use paper if the iPads didn't work

I have a couple questions about WCVB.

 

1. Why do their reporters say "WCVB, News Center 5" at the end of their live reports? They used to just say "News Center 5",

. Reciting the call letters at the end of a live report is verbose and unnecessary.

2. Why does the Ch. 5 logo during Chronicle look much sharper and vibrant? Why can't this also be used during the regular newscasts? Instead, the logo is superimposed on 2 blue parallelograms, which looks ugly.

That's like from 1998-2011 KOCO's newscasts were known as "Eyewitness News 5" in 2012 they added "KOCO" to the Eyewitness News 5 name making it known as "KOCO Eyewitness News 5" and then when KOCO got new graphics and music in 2013 they dropped the Eyewitness News brand/format and became known as "KOCO 5 News"

It was fully sold recently for $70 million (I think), probably in anticipation of the Time Warner-AT&T merger.

That makes sense probably AT&T wanted nothing to do with owning a television station