DENDude

On 6/24/2022 at 3:57 AM, PhillyWatch said:

Scrolling through the guide on PlutoTV, I noticed the logo for WeatherNation actually read "WeatherNation Los Angeles" (my location), and upon selecting the channel I saw that it featured a localized L-bar with static, local time that cycled through cities in the region with current conditions and a 5-day forecast, along with a "local weather on the 7's" in the video feed (which isn't *quite* on the 7's given the stream lag). I compared it with the WeatherNation app on my Roku, and their app (while offering a local forecast on their landing screen) still only offered the national WN feed.

 

While I don't love the fact that WN is a corporate sibling to "Real America's Voice", I don't exactly love FOX Weather's sister channel either (and don't get me started on the Byron Allen scripted courtroom shows...), moreover I do appreciate all the options we now have for weather information, particularly in this case, localized weather info. I know localized versions of WN are available sporadically OTA,  but I'm happy to see this wider distribution via means such as Pluto. 

 

I imagine most of the major cities will have localized WN available on Pluto, but I'm curious as to what some of you might see when checking it out for yourselves. 

Not to sound Naive here---Real America's Voice, what is that??  I've never heard of it or seen it.   Is it similar to One America News?

I have never seen a football game on Colorado's Own Channel2.

CSU PUEBLO Vs COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES. A Simulcast of the RMAC NETWORK.

I wonder if this is a one off because of it being 2 Colorado schools? Or if we'll see more! 

On 9/18/2022 at 11:03 AM, TheRolyPoly said:

Great Day Colorado has been on KWGN for almost a year now while KDVR has had 4pm news for a while now too. Those are nothing new.

Did Great Day Colorado replace Colorado's Best??      What is new is that the 4 Pm  is now an hour news cast, used to be 30mins. 

6 hours ago, Nelson R. said:

That’s temporary until the midterm elections are over. At least it’s supposed to be. If they did decide to keep it, I could see them moving Tamron to 10am and dropping Kelly Clarkson…but I’m not sure who would pick up Kelly Clarkson…WXIA probably would if JHud got cancelled. It not maybe WAGA but might have to be relegated to WUPA or WPCH.

I don’t remember Goldbergs being on KTVD last season

The Goldbergs had been airing at Midnight M-Th on KTVD since January.

KUSA doesn't brand it's cut in's any differently than a regular newscast normal graphics too. (they haven't had an announcer in quite some time open a newscast *2 years*)

In Denver here are the  lineups Major Changes are in Bold:

KCNC: CBS4 NEWS @9AM  Drew Barrymore Show @9:30AM  CBS4 NEWS @4

KMGH: Afternoon Focus @3:30PM

KUSA: NBC E/I Programing @ 12:30PM NBC NEWS Daily @1:00PM, DATELINE @ 2:00PM, DAILY BLAST LIVE @ 3 & 3:30PM

KDVR: Daytime Jeopardy @NOON, XPloration DIY @12:30, TMZ Live @ 1:00PM, Inside Edition @ 2:00PM (Moves from Midnight) Access Hollywood @ 2:30PM, Judge Judy @3 &3:30PM, Jeopardy @ 6PM, Wheel Of Fortune @ 6:30PM, Seinfeld @ 11 & 11:30PM, Friends @ Midnight.

KTVD: We the Peopple w/Lauren Lake @ 4:00AM, Pictionary @ 10 & 10:30AM, EXTRA @ 1PM (Moves back from 12:00pm), We the People W/ Lauren Lake (new episodes) @ 1:30PM, ICrime @ 5 & 5:30PM, Dateline @ 6PM, Schitt's Creek @ 10:00 & 10:30PM, MOM @ 11:00 & 11:30 (Moves back from 6:00 & 6:30pm), & Family Guy @ Midnight & 12:30AM.

KWGN: Friends @ 12:00 & 12:30AM, Access Hollywood @ 1AM, MADE IN HOLLYWOOD @ 3AM (Moves over from KMGH), CARS.TV @3AM, Inside Edition @4AM (Repeat of what KDVR aired the day before) , Great Day Colorado @9AM, Live with Kelly & Ryan @ 10:00AM (Moves over from KDVR), Sheri @11AM, Rachael Ray @ 12:00PM (Moves over from KCNC), Friends @ 1PM, Gold Bergs @ 1:30PM (Moves over from KTVD), 2:00PM American Housewife (Replaces a Jeopardy repeat), 2:30PM Modern Family (Replaces another Jeopardy re-peat & moves over from KTVD), Judge Judy @ 4:00 & 4:30PM (Replaces KWGN's 4pm news & a syndicated program and is a re-peat of what KDVR airs earlier).  

KCDO: The Broadway Show w/ Tamsen Fadel @ Midnight, Monk@ 1AM, GOOD TO KNOW@ 2AM, (Replaces infomercials), Raw Travel @3AM (Replaces infomercials), Small Town Big Deal (Replaces infomercials),  Law & Order SVU @4AM, Infomercials @ 5AM, HOT BENCH @9AM & 9:30AM (Moves over from KCNC), Devorce Court @10AM & 10:30AM Moves over from KDVR), Relative Justice @ 11 & 11:30AM, The Jennifer Hudson Show @ 2:00PM, Infomercial @ 3:00PM, Mile High Living @3:30PM (Repeat from KMGH), Funny you should Ask @ 4PM & 4:30PM (Moves over from KTVD),  Family Feud @ 5 & 5:30PM, The Neighborhood @ 6 & 6:30PM, You Bet Your Life W/Jay Leno @ 10:00 & 10:30PM (Moves from 3 & 3:30pm) Impractical Jokers @ 11:30PM. 

KPXC:  Infomercials @1:00AM, 4:00am & 5:00am, 6AM-Noon: Ion Programing, True Crime @ 1:00pm, 1:30pm & 2:00pm, Infomercials @3:00 & 3:30PM (replaces a Hawaii-Five-O, Repeat).  Ion Programing from 4PM-12:00AM.

Out of the Denver stations  KDVR & KWGN have the most changes year over year followed by KUSA & KCNC.  This is one of the bigger changes to lineups that I can remember in recent memory for the Denver tv stations.  As per usual KTVD, KWGN & KCDO are the dumping grounds for most of the syndicated programing in Denver market.  I think that KCNC adding back news @9AM is a big deal as well as NBC NEWS Daily over on KUSA it gives both stations some opportunities to add news programing to the lineup.  Ring Nation is not cleared here in Denver.   I kinda wish KUSA would drop Colorado & Company it's pay to play program and shift the TODAY 4th hour into it's proper time slot and add more newscasts, but wishful thinking on my part.   And having Dateline on during the middle of the day seems odd to me, I know most NBC Stations are doing it but wow, strange.

At 1:22 & 1:52 PM  KUSA cut in with an update.  These news updates were 5mins each, typically a "TODAY SHOW" news update is around 2:30 mins.    I wasn't expecting a local news update to be honest.  

I'm curious are other stations doing local news cut ins?

So KCNC is re-adding a 9AM newscast back to it's schedule, the first time it has had a 9AM newscast since it was an NBC O&O, September 8, 1995, 2 days before the Switch to CBS.    And they are trying a 4PM Again, I hope these are successful.

NewsNation is pathetic when it comes to breaking news, hell Thursday, "NewsNet" & One America News were both covering the news out of the UK regarding the Queen.   At this point it's fair to say News Nation is simply a pass through news network focused on only domestic news and a poor one at that.   

NO ONE I know watches News Nation, no one I know has ever heard of News Nation. 

3 hours ago, TheRob said:

This is a bit old, but Westword wrote again about KDVR/KWGN departures. They basically transcribed some brief podcasts a reporter did last November describing her brief five years in TV news. She added a July 2022 update about waiting tables in Winter Park (she now works in marketing for the resort). "Devastating takedown" is not how I would describe it. Some people can handle the life and some people can't.

 

https://www.westword.com/news/ex-fox31-reporter-aimee-lewiss-devastating-takedown-of-tv-news-14792007

KDVR & KWGN have been loosing a lot of folks the past few months.  And from what I can tell they currently have 7 on-air positions open right now all for the FOX Side of the operation-KDVR/KFCT.  They also have 9 technical slots open (Photographer, Master Control, ect for KWGN & KDVR/KFCT).   I have been following all of the departures on my blog over the past several months.   

With Ellen leaving the air, KUSA is Putting Daily Blast LIVE in at it's old time slot of 3PM, And Dateline OTO will air at 1PM.    And Top Story with Tom Llamas will air at 1:12AM Tu-F. 

News Nation, behind on the news!!!     

Saw this gem today :

The Atlantic Hurricane season started June 1st.    There weather department may want to go check in with the folks over at Weather Nation, so they know what's happening in the tropics. 

Interesting move!   Here in Denver KUSA will time shift the new news program to 2PM Day's Of Our Live's current time shifted slot.   I'm sure it's so they don't have to mess with Daily Blast Live.

So basically News Nation is the reject news channel?  Interesting approach.  And so much for "NO OPINION, JUST NEWS" programing.  

2 hours ago, newsteam13 said:

I see two possibilities for KCNC Denver: CBS News Denver Now OR CBS News Colorado Now. But either way, sounds like a mouthful to say.

It will be CBS News Colorado, they are already headed in that direction with the streaming service.   I'm thinking sometime in the fall they will rebrand the newscasts to CBS News Colorado.    

I have only seen dark mode for mobile, not the full site.

On 7/2/2022 at 11:11 PM, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:

Has anyone else noticed that TEGNA websites now conform to the dark theme if it is enabled?? 

I haven't seen that.  The two here in Colorado don't have that. (9NEWS.COM & MY20DENVER.COM)

It would be interesting to know how many folks along Colorado's front range will ever tune into Oxygen because it's on a sub channel of KDEN-TV Telemundo Denver and not on KUSA-TV  I would love to see ratings for it.    

9 hours ago, mre29 said:

Since I'm sure the coverage was live in all time zones, what did network affiliates in the western time zones (Pacific, Mountain, Alaska, Hawaii) do for primetime?

 

KUSA, KCNC, & KMGH carried the network special reports live.   Then dumped out into regular network programing in progress afterwards at around 8:15PM MDT.

On 5/31/2022 at 6:46 PM, Kenneth Kissel said:

Why Only 3 years. Really Nexstar? BTW, Happy Birthday @DENDude.

Thank you for the birthday wishes!  As far as I'm aware it's a full re-do.

On 5/31/2022 at 7:23 PM, CircleSeven said:

The question I have is is this a "refresh" (small modifications) or is this a full replacement.

 

If its the latter, I find it unusual for a station to replace a set this quickly.

 

As far as I'm aware It's a full re-do, set to be finished sometime mid to late June.   I believe nexstar wants to maybe have there style for the studio instead of Tribune's style.   That is my guess. 

KDVR/KFCT FOX31 is now on the KWGN set starting today with the FOX31 NEWS @4PM. It's unknown currently how long they will be using the KWGN set. The studio & set were last updated in Spring of 2019 by Design Group International. For now it appears this is only an update for the FOX side.  No word on if KWGN will be updated after FOX is finished.  

https://coloradonewscenter.blogspot.com/2022/05/fox31-is-updating-its-news-set.html

6 hours ago, Chase29 said:

Another departure in Denver. Rachel Skytta is leaving KDVR/KWGN. Rachel Skytta says goodbye after nearly a decade in TV | FOX31 Denver (kdvr.com)

KDVR/KFCT & KWGN have been loosing a lot of folks in the past month or so.  

Found this clip and now I have a question:

Fast question here, did WTVJ end up turning this over to WCIX/WFOR just 2 years later??   If so that kinda sucks. (I know it's a long time ago but still). 

I wonder how quickly Nexstar kills off The CW?  Or tries to make it NewsNation+.      Something tells me this is going to go south fast if the sale goes through.

Well, it will be interesting to see how they utilize the truck during May when severe Weather starts happening more.    But at what point do these vehicles become too much of a distraction from actually Forecasting and watching severe weather??

it's KMSG-LP not KSMG, That is a Radio station in Seguin, TX.