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It's been a little bit since I've been this way, but I came across this just about, oh, 10 minutes ago.

"90s AF" would be an understatement.

2 hours ago, hmaxhanson said:

I'm purposely reposting the WMAQ 1997 newscast, because it has the extremely rare Jerry Springer commentary on it! 

I see Springer's commentary, and raise you Carol Marin's final 10p.

31 minutes ago, rkolsen said:

ABC I believe hubbed their master controls within the past two years. They’re all based out of Encompass which recently handled the NBC O&Os and I believe the CBS O&Os.

 

10 hours ago, 24994J said:

ABC must be having some kind of master control issue, because this has been happening sometimes on WLS, lately. That's the logo that flashes during the final few seconds of network promos, but it appears that someone or something is failing to turn it off, so it just keeps blinking.

I've been under the assumption that the bug/logo is inserted at the station level - and that simply WLS' graphics overlay was on the blink since I saw it happening during a newscast recently. If it's at MC/Encompass, however...

5 hours ago, TheRob said:

Nick is a news/traffic anchor, not a meteorologist.

 

But gather 'round everyone, and let me tell you a story of the great mass email of 2019.

 

All of our email addresses end in fox4kc --dot--com. Most are firstname.lastname - at - fox 4 kcdotcom. The assignment desk has "news" at fox4kc-dot--com. But those are just shadow email addresses. Under Tribune, we were logging into computers, workday, outlook, etc., with (username #2) at tribunemedia-dot-com. This week Nexstar began migrating our accounts to its servers. Now we corporate accounts that are (username #3) at nexstar-dot-tv. Unbeknownst to us, news --at--nexstar dot-tv is a mass email to all the newsrooms. No one had ever told us that. When you combine a sleepy, medicated employee, some confusion that already existed over which username to use, and throw in another account name to remember, then I'm surprised this didn't happen earlier. Ironically, we never received the mass email, because Nexstar had not added the Tribune newsrooms to that group yet.

 

Basically what some of us are doing right now is:

 

1. Logging into computers using account #1 at tribunemedia...

 

2. Logging into outlook for email using account #2 at nexstar....

 

3. ...so that we can send emails using accounts that end in fox4kc dot-com....

 

4.. ...and some of us still have to log into the newsroom software using old wdaftv4--dot--com addresses.

 

I can keep it all straight, but some co-workers cannot. 

Jesus. As an IT admin, I both feel for y'all and am cringing at the same time.

At least y'all are on Office 365...I hope.

2 minutes ago, DirtyHarry said:

 

Why? I can see the value of using that brand for a TV network, but do you really care what company makes a movie you're watching? Especially some movies where they flash logos for four or five different production companies at the beginning.  DreamWorks, Fox, Sony, Columbia ... None of them really mean anything, in my opinion.

 

Maybe the Fox branding is valuable for the cable channels they inherited, but I don't think it matters what they call the movie studio.

Let's not go too off topic here, but to quote today's Variety article about Alan Horn and his expanded purview...

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The next galaxy Horn will explore professionally is the freedom Disney now has to develop grown-up themed films, via the Fox labels.

“I’m fond of saying that when the curtain goes up and the audience sees Disney’s magic castle logo, they may not know what they’re going to see, but they know what they’re not going to see,” he says.

“With Fox, we can deal with adult themes — action, violence, sexuality, a hard PG-13 or even R. It’s exciting to think of doing these pictures through the Fox labels. Magic, but no magic castle,” he concludes.

6 minutes ago, DirtyHarry said:

It'll be interesting to see how long Disney keeps using the Fox brand.

According to the purchase agreement, they can continue using the brand in perpetuity. Whether they choose to is a different story but they'd be most foolish to nix it.

Full broadcast encoded in 60fps? Check.

Kent Ogle on a weekend 10p? Check.

8 hours ago, MorningNews said:

I didn't realize that KTVT also dropped the ball. Have they also released an explanation as to what happened? My theory is that KXAS opted to stick with a division rivalry game for the hometown team. Not an excuse at all but that at least explains what the hell they were thinking.

Rick Mitchell was the chief at KOCO when I was in OKC and breaking into programming when needed was without question...so the smell here's coming from up on high, I have a feeling.

7 hours ago, CircleSeven said:

They did update their graphics three years ago. But you wouldn't notice much of a difference in the open......

Video courtesy of "SCL Media" from YT.

 

Great example of "if it ain't broke"...I forgot the base of the package was that old.

1 hour ago, SoFloTVClassics said:

I see your Vintage WRBL newscast and I'll raise you a sleuth of KOTV news clips from 1989.

 

 

Just two years after Terry Hood joined the station and now about two weeks from her departure...coincidence? I THINK yeah, completely, but still. Simple observation.

1 hour ago, WWUpdate said:

WMAQ, Chicago; noon news, 1978:

 

 

Jerry Taft was clearly going for the whole Gene Wilder-vibe with that hair.

53 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:

Sports telecasts on WGN may not be gone for good after all. Perry Sook says in this interview that's he's making negotiations with the Cubs, Sox, Blackhawks, and Bulls.

 

As much as I'd like that to be the case, I'm not optimistic. I don't see NBC (Sox/Bulls/Blackhawks) or Sinclair (Cubs) blinking on their "exclusive home" claims, at least for the 2020 season.

Just look at how stubborn SportsNet LA has been after all.

14 minutes ago, Eat News said:

No disrespect to union furry's.

We got another one...and there's a common denominator here.

AT&T and Sinclair with a deadline of next Friday.

Some KWTV goods. This is the TV9 I remember growing up with before moving north. (And we won't discuss my mother's seeming infatuation with Mitch Jelniker...)

35 minutes ago, brb588 said:

It is more lucrative to be a morning anchor than the lead sport anchor? It seems like starting over to me.

In some stations/markets, it might be...but this is WBBM. They're in the throw-anything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks phase, like it's going to do much for them anyway ratings-wise.

(And yet Black Rock hasn't done too much about it, sooo...)

16 hours ago, mrschimpf said:

No, you don't mess with the Bachelor Nation...they aren't going to be happy with watching at 12:37am ever, and in the third largest market? Too much collateral damage. The move is more than justified here.

 

I'm gonna agree here...there'd be wine-fueled riots in front of 190 N State if Bachelor was bumped. Though @24994J has a point, maybe they're testing the waters in case Ma Bell doesn't blink. Not that a standoff with the House of Mouse would last long anyway...

9 hours ago, CircleSeven said:

It looks like they took the "3" from a sign out of a street corner.

Or copied it from the New York MTA.

I've seen some bad design decisions in my time - working in IT, its inevitable I suppose - but this...I can't even wrap my head around this one.

On 9/3/2019 at 2:33 PM, MorningNews said:

Does KABC use Eyewitness News, ABC 7 or Channel 7?

They go by ABC 7.

As for here in Chicago, at least when talking in the office about whatever may be on TV on any given day, I never hear them refer to it as ABC 7 - always as "Channel 7". Just as WGN is always, well, WGN and not "Channel 9" but I digress.

Some assorted goods from the home state, including a couple of hourly updates (one at the 6:25 mark, another at 7:26...the latter during the transition from the Gilmer package to the Wow+Flutter package).

It all comes down to money; if the program costs next to nothing to make but manages to bring in ad dollars locally, it's a winner in their book.

11 hours ago, ns8401 said:

Somebody should tell them to update the computer that runs their livestream... wouldn’t want it unsupported or anything...

And as soon as IT comes in, there's going to be the inevitable "No, you can't update this, you're gonna break this that and the other"...followed by the email chains with bosses CC'd when IT updates it anyway.

(Good times.)

1 hour ago, brb588 said:

Ryan Baker is on in the morning providing a new update during CBS This Morning. Does this usually happen with him?

Looks to be just for the week...

16 minutes ago, ns8401 said:

Any relation to FOX real or imagined is coincidence... carry on...

The only relation is in the name...that Fox Theatre was one of the original 5 opened by William Fox himself way back in the day. Same William Fox that led Fox Film, which merged with Zanuck's company in '35, got bought by the Murdochs in the '80s, and got split and swallowed by Mickey in March.

47 minutes ago, TheRob said:

 

Anyone on this board could afford to buy a half-hour of time on a mid-market local TV station.

Easily explains some of the "local" programming I'd see in OK before I made the move. Oof.