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Now in Columbus (OH) there is a crawl running on WBNS saying Spectrum viewers will lose 10TV if a new deal isn't met...
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I happened to be flipping through the channels and saw Daily Blast Live on WBNS. It was on after James Corden instead of an infomercial.
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6 hours ago, MorningNews said:
WFAA’s morning news featuring Demetria has managed to beat longtime front runner Fox 4 Good Day several days in the last few weeks and been in a virtual tie the others. That’s a huge switch from several years ago when the show was in the ratings gutter.
But, but, but a novelty name for the process that Tegna puts their stations through to bring them in line with corporate standards.
EDIT: Why does putting "-itis" on the end of "TEGNA" autocorrect to that definition? I didn't type that.
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Gray adding NBC and CW affiliations to KEYC (Mankato, MN) in the form of a new low power station, KMNF.
https://www.keyc.com/2019/06/24/keyc-tv-adding-more-network-affiliates-this-fall/
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8 hours ago, DirtyHarry said:
According to Wikipedia, Tegna made $698.4 million in operating profit. According to one of the Articles yesterday, the purchase price for WTHR and WBNS was 7.9 times earnings. Doing some quick math, that backs out to about $68 million dollars in profit.
Can two mid-market stations really account for 10% of the profit of a 50 station chain? Will Tegna management be able to keep these stations as profitable as they are?
Certainly possible but the stations will see less of that back since each station will have to share profits among the others. One of the downsides of these large groups is that the good stations prop up the poor ones (fiscally speaking).
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OK, one more off-topic post
. Since being on at WCMH Darlene Hill has said she went to Ohio State in the late 1980s. Her hiring still comes as a head-scratcher seeing how she was still freelancing in Chicago weeks before being on in Columbus. The Doug, Mona, Jimmy & Jym era at WCMH was before my time, but from all indications Doug Adair was a real newsman's newsman, and was also a good guy all-around. I don't really critique anchors too much because I don't want them telling me how to do my job. I also personally know Colleen Marshall. A hell of a journalist, she is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. Her husband also used to work at WCMH as a photographer and editor.
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9 minutes ago, DirtyHarry said:
Doug Adair, Mona Scott, Tracy Townsend, Bob Kendrick, that new black lady at Channel 4, Tom Lawence, Jim Finnerty (didn't last long, but he was good), to name a few. I think Bob Hetherington was from a larger market and he was good too. Scott Light's from Atlanta, he's okay.
Also: Tyler, Bacome, Bowersock and Ted Hart. Not anchors, but rejects from larger markets.
You said good anchors.
Some of those folks are rejects, and for whatever reason they have an insatiable thirst for fame and take jobs wherever. Plus reporters in a large market will bolt for an anchor job at a smaller station.RIP Mike Bowersock. He was one of the good ones. Sorry mods for drifting off topic.
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1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:
I can believe reaching the outskirts of Dayton (especially Springfield). The Columbus market totally surrounds the Zanesville area (Muskingum County) and extends all the way to Morgan, Noble and Guernsey Counties.
WTAP has only had WIYE-LD on the air for a few years, so WSYX and WBNS are still available in Parkersburg along with the other Charleston-Huntington stations.
As for Cleveland area, that's probably stretching it a bit much. It reaches the fringes like Mansfield and New Philadelphia (especially South Tuscarawas County). WOIO getting CBS probably had a lot to do with this since it had less reach than WJW.
Before Lima got their own stations aside from WLIO, I believe WBNS made it all the way up there as well.
WBNS is carried on cable in Miami and Wyandot Counties. Miami County is nowhere near the Columbus DMA, but Wyandot does border Crawford County, which is in the Northern fringe of the DMA, so it may be the same rural cable provider to parts of Crawford County. Same goes for places in Richland and Tuscarawas Counties as those counties border counties in the Columbus DMA.
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39 minutes ago, DirtyHarry said:
I like her well enough. For the most part, the best Columbus anchors have always been rejects from bigger markets.
Who have been rejects from bigger markets? I don't think Colleen Marshall has worked anywhere else. Going back a ways, while yes, Doug Adair worked in bigger markets, he essentially worked at WCMH as a retirement job to be closer to home (he was from Xenia). I wouldn't exactly call him a "reject." Lots of folks have worked in the Columbus market to move on to bigger and better things who you probably didn't realize ever worked in the market.
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I'm too lazy to find the exact post about folks with 30+ years experience...Dispatch already took care of that to a degree. About a year ago they had a round of layoffs that didn't make the news. A dozen folks -- some even in sales (bad sign) were layed off or forced to retire. Others were in engineering or promotions.
Willing to bet that zero members of their staff are surprised by this. I did think, though, they'd at least wait until after the election.
EDIT: TEGNA saying they now reach 2/3 of Ohioans makes sense. WBNS is carried on cable much farther than the other Columbus stations.
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18 minutes ago, Weeters said:
This. CNN Newsource was probably already routed into the switcher and the producers just went with whatever feed would put pictures of the news on-air the fastest.
The last thing on their mind was "Gosh I wonder if WABC is feeding this somewhere. Let's waste time getting that feed routed into the switcher instead of taking the one already available."
All of this is correct. Do the ABC O&Os have an internal bonded cellular grid like pretty much everybody else? Even so, WABC in the heat of the moment may not have been feeding.
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On 6/1/2019 at 7:18 AM, rkolsen said:
Okay is this normal for so many people to retire at once? WJZ named 10 people by the anchors and ran a full credits roll with Ocean City, MD scenes. CBS This Morning had 18 people leaving/retiring and at the Evening News had 30. I’d assume the two network shows were results of the shows are relaunching and the stations were the buy outs that were occurring. I guess the buyouts had people end on a certain date.
Nearly all of those folks mentioned by KDKA took buyouts.
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7 minutes ago, NEOMatrix said:
Jay Crawford of ESPN is coming to WKYC in the fall and will anchor a "interactive" midday newscast and a (FINALLY!) 5pm newscast coming sometime in 2020.
On top of being from NEO, didn't he call Browns pre-season games last year for WEWS? (Not sure if that means he was employed the team, by the station, or both?)
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With smaller staffs you don't need as many managers, or rather the structure doesn't have to be so hierarchical. That is happening not just in TV, but business everywhere.
When news staffs weren't as big in the early days of local TV news the main anchor was also often the news director or managing editor, or the production manager was also an executive producer.
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KOCO 5 (Oklahoma City) weather from 1990 with Mike Morgan (since 1993 at rival KFOR) reporting on a tornado on the ground with a considerable lack of hype compared to today's severe weather coverage.
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As was posted on the KFMB thread, the news staff are fostering a dog (Scoop) until it gets adopted. Now, WUSA is building out part of their newsroom for a play area for dogs (to allow folks to bring their dogs to work)
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Yesterday was WBNS reporter Maureen Kocot's last day after 24 years.
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16 hours ago, PTVNews said:
I think hubs are great. They are very efficient. I've never heard of "channel-in-a-box". What is it and how much "attention" does it need from "existing staff" (who I assume are not MC operators)?
I've worked at stations with different hub setups. One was completely hubbed and we never really had any technical issues (at least on air) that made me think it wasn't worth it.
Two examples are Grass Valley iTX and Florical Acuitas. Rather than having separate PCs running playlists, cacheing, ingest, QC'ing, prep, etc. it's all in one system. Even EAS and CGs for legal IDs and snipes are from the box as well. Harris I think even makes a system that will do that on top of clips for a newscast. They just seem to streamline a lot of things that all have to connect to each other in one integrated "box".
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On 5/2/2019 at 2:42 AM, channel2 said:
Denver would probably be the better choice - since it's not as prone to excessive heat as Phoenix, either.
Or better yet eliminate hubs. They were practical a decade ago when master control first went tapeless, and the computers that ran the playlists and other equipment could be controlled from a hub. Now channel-in-a-box systems eliminate the need for a traditional master control. For live programming they easily interface with a traditional (or virtual) switcher that can be manned as required by existing station staff. I work at a hub station, and when stuff goes down it sucks troubleshooting whether it's something on their end, or a piece of equipment at the station because there is so much back-and-forth.
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2 hours ago, CLETVFan said:
Former Cleveland (WKYC, WJW) and Columbus (WCMH) anchorman Doug Adair has passed away at age 89
He was at the helm of the team at WCMH when for pretty much the only time ever they were the clear #1 station.
I did not know he had Alzheimer's later in life. That is tough, but at least he is no longer suffering.
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20 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:
It seems like it should be the other way around. After seeing the beating that Panama City took after Michael, Denver seems like a much better place to house a broadcast hub than Jacksonville...
I agree, especially with Jacksonville being in a hurricane-prone area (and to a lesser degree Greensboro where the CBS hub is), but with these hubs having been in place since 2008 it's hard to go back now. I think, though, it's relatively easy for an individual station to switch their Crispin automation to spoke mode, and operate locally.
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A post on the broadcasting subreddit says that KUSA's master control is soon going to be hubbed from TEGNA's centralcasting hub in Jacksonville. I did not realize KUSA still had in-house master? Wonder how that will work with all their translators.
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2 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:
But it would be great if Tegna or Scripps steps up and acquires channel 55. Since WKYC has some Indians telecasts, it would almost be like a re-incarnation of the good old WUAB we all grew up with....
While that sounds fine and dandy and oozes of warm, fuzzy nostalgia, don't count on it. The rights fees for MLB telecasts nowadays are way too rich for any local broadcaster. That's not even going into how viewing habits have/are changing. Heck, a few years ago WKYC surrendered Browns pre-season rights to WEWS.
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3 hours ago, Weeters said:
It's not exactly a law, but if you have a contract with labor unions and you try to go outside of the proper union to get work done, you're might end up with most (if not all) of your union employees not at their desks, picketing outside.
NABET has a national contract with NBCU that covers a lot of engineering/production/technical jobs. However you also have IATSE's various chapters doing various things across the country. You might have a NABET camera operator and a IATSE lighting technician and a carpenter from a completely different IATSE chapter that's focused on scenic. Chicago has at least 8 separate IATSE chapters (Locals 2, 110, 476, 750, 762, 769, 780, and B46.)
DGA (Director's Guild of America) is another one that represents control room directors at top market stations and at the network level too. And while it's not broadcast specific, a handful of stations' employees are represented by IBEW, too.
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10.4 is still bars and tone. MeTV (10.2) is HD though, which it wasn't when it was WCMH's 4.2. I was going to say Quest isn't HD, but it might just be this show. On my 48" set their crystal bug and Quest's in-show promos are definitely HD.