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Here is another promo that showed up today on KY3 a few minutes ago just before the start of The Place on KYTV (my first time seeing it on any of their three stations KYTV/KYCW/KSPR). It still may mean nothing, but I am seeing more of these showing up as time goes on. IMG_4073.mov

I’m to starting think that KY3 in Springfield might be going to make some changes soon. That same promo I posted about recently, using the GrayONE style is still airing, but today I noticed they started using the tagline “Leading The Way” which is the same as WLWT 5 in Cincinnati uses. WLWT is not gray, but the tagline for KY3 sounds like it is spoken exactly the same way by the same announcer WLWT uses. They have both had that same announcer for quite a while, but it caught my attention when I heard that tagline since I hadn’t heard it on KY3 until today. I was also watching a recorded ABC Primetime show today from Monday night that aired on KSPR, and the tagline was used during a commercial break there also so I will watch to see if it starts to make the rounds more often . It may still mean nothing since some things are not necessarily created in-house, but I will continue to keep my eyes and ears open for anything else that might potentially suggest something could be coming.

KY3 the only Gray station I have ever heard use this package which is the same one Morris Media’s WTVQ ABC 36 in Lexington used before I moved from Lawrenceburg, KY to Branson, MO and still uses today under ABC 36 News Now. Now that Scripps is buying WTVQ from Morris Media, which will give it a duopoly of current NBC followed by ABC coming if the FCC approves the transaction, I imagine WTVQ will change to a new graphics and music package to conform with other Scripps stations. Only time will tell, but it seems as Scripps stations are becoming standardized in their packages. One thing I will like, if KY3 does go GrayONE, is the expansion from 7 days to 10 days on the extended weather forecasts if they also make that change. It seems most stations which have converted to GrayONE, that didn’t have 10 day forecasts prior to conversion, have adopted 10 day forecasts either at conversion or shortly thereafter such as WKYT and WYMT did while ones like WBKO, WSMV, and WFIE, which are now GrayONE, still haven’t but I imagine probably will at some point. We will see what happens, but I agree that KY3’s current package does make them unique which I do like that. I like that they seem different, and it seems as their anchors, reporters, weather people, and sports people all put more of a personal touch on everything they do to where the station has quite a local hometown feel to it with that “I care” aspect really showing. I can tell other stations care as well, but KY3 just seems to put that extra bit of touch on it.

From my post reference the other day on seeing a promo from KY3 (KYTV/KSPR/KYCW) that looks like a possible indication of them maybe switching to GrayOne soon, I found the promo which is about the new and improved KY3 app. I just saw it on TV a few minutes ago and also found it on their Facebook page as a reel. It may mean nothing, but the graphics used here look much like the opens on stations using GrayOne. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18JWa5VZUT/?mibextid=wwXIfr

I noticed today on KY3’s stations in Springfield Missouri, on a news promo, that they used a graphic/screen that looks like the open on other stations that use GrayOne such as in Kentucky. I didn’t think to record it because it is the first I have seen of any twinges of an indication that they might be moving in that direction so I wasn’t expecting it, and it ended before I could get the recorder ready. I took a screenshot of the open on WYMT in Hazard Kentucky which the KY3 promo I saw used a screen that looked like this but just with their own content instead. I don’t know if this promo was a first indication of GrayOne coming soon or not, but I will be on the lookout. I have noticed, within the last couple of weeks at least, they changed around a couple of their music cues for mid-commercial break screens with one such being Lake Levels which comes on during the break between segment 2 and First Alert Weather. I’m thinking that if they are about to change it will probably happen sometime before the May sweeps. Photo credit: WYMT TV Hazard Kentucky