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1 hour ago, ns8401 said:
Bernie Smilovitz (main sports anchor joined in 1986)
Had a brief stint at WCBS in New York in the 90s but he was part of the station “massacre” at that station which resulted in him getting laid off.
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1 hour ago, NowBergen said:
Al Roker
Except Al Roker decided in 2000, to switch over completely to network he had been doing 5 and 6 while Janice did 11pm so he could do the today show. But he stop doing WNBC in full on February 17, 2000.
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15 hours ago, DMA said:
Not sure if it’s been mentioned but Derrick Waller appeared as a reporter on the dayside last week. I’m not a regular WCBS viewer so unsure if this was freelance or if he’s fully joined WCBS.
Hoping for the latter as he’s a great reporter and it’s a shame WABC wasn’t able to accommodate his request to move off mornings.
Yes he's there full time.
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13 minutes ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:
Didn't realize she was pregnant!
Me either, the station had a lot of pregnancies lately which is weird s little.
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2 hours ago, Wilo said:
Small changes to Look S throughout TLMD and NBC O&O Stations. Lowerthird a bit bigger.
Yeah this update started with Los Angeles rolling out the update, soon I saw it in Boston, then I saw it in Telemundo 52 LA, now it’s in Orlando it’s coming fast!
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40 minutes ago, GodfreyGR said:
It took a massive rain delay at the Indy 500, but WTHR is now airing this year's race live.
That per there NBC affiliation correct.
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8 hours ago, MediaZone4K said:
Not sure. If they're salaried probably not.
There is no traveling involved as CBS 2 and CBS News are in the same building.
That just not fair, there getting national exposure to the point Maurice and Kristine are almost CBS News personalities. They should be paid, I know Maurice files for CBS Sunday Morning frequently he should be paid if this is a combination under this brand of local and National then it should be treated as such. Makes me wonder if the national talent such Elaine Quijano who doing WCBS weekend morning which feels like part time is getting paid herself. It feels like all the New York station who personalities fill in for the network talent on occasions get this exposure and yet they know it’s hard to get a national news job and there filling in for no pay seems unfair for me.
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It’s still surreal that they’ve adopted this theme.
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19 hours ago, MediaZone4K said:
That being said I do love seeing the national talent anchoring the local newscasts.
Do anchors like Kristine Johnson who anchoring this Saturday broadcast and Maurice Dubios do they get paid for filling-in or part timing. I know they can’t be doing that for free, spending time away from their family and traveling and making no dough.
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3 hours ago, Recovering Producer said:
I think any serious discussion of whether Mission has to sell WPIX needs to be put on the back burner of everyone's minds until after the election, and I'm guessing "get past the election" is their legal strategy as well. A shift in partisan control of the FCC or Congress passing a law that loosens or eliminates ownership caps could make this all moot. And even if things remain the same, the backup plan is certainly to extend the appeals process as long as possible in hopes the regulatory environment shifts.
Well it's unlikely Trump is getting elected so, (despite polls being in his favor, which I don't believe) and Biden is strict with television ownership, Trump's FCC allowed Nexstar to get away for all these years. I wouldn't hold your breath on that
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2 hours ago, Vlad said:
How will the new sets and studios complement the new look. The sets for all the O&Os are now out of date.
ABC O&O WTVD got their new set in 2018, for their downtown studio, in fact it's so small they still do sports from Durham still. WABC is moving to a new building so wait that, KABC set is still fresh after almost a decade, WPVI is ight. KFSN just got a new set last year. KTRK ill admit they need an upgrade, KGO set is still pretty nice, WLS set (built in 2016) is still pretty nice, WLS is in WTVD's situation a small street level studio which makes it hard for them to build a new set.
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9 hours ago, jero85 said:
Charlotte has the potential to be a major top 20 market in its own based on its rapidly growing metro. Otherwise Charlotte would have long fallen & stayed behind Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville market in the DMA rankings.
Also the Raleigh-Durham market has way more cities over 50+ miles away including Fayetteville, Rocky Mount, and Goldsboro in it to match Charlotte. The Charlotte market is the Charlotte CSA (which the main MSA counties in NC & SC and the newly added Hickory-Morganton-Lenior portion of the CSA) by itself.
CBS, NBC, ESPN, & Fox have had studios, news and/or sports bureaus in Charlotte since the 1980s. l wouldn't be surprised if Charlotte doesn't start to break out rankings past Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville in the next few years.
Well CBS is taking a try on Raleigh, citing it as a fast growing metro, CBS did have a bureau in that other NC city but it was closed. ABC ofc course has a bureau here in WTVD, FOX only has studios there for Nascar purposes, the NBC News Channel is leaving their building and downsizing to certain office building. But both markets have the possibility to crack the top 20 but Sacramento is tough to beat, and will probably stay ahead of both NC markets for the foreseeable future. But both markets only trail by a few hundred people, its really close, also the Lee and Harnett county was added back to the Raleigh CSA, the only problem is the Census refuses to remerge Raleigh-Cary MSA with Durham-Chapel Hill based on commuting patterns, making stats pro-sports, and advertising a bit difficult. But both markets I see are gonna be fighting each other for a minute, I don't see both areas hitting 3 million in its CSA. NBCUniversal has returned to Raleigh to own the Telemundo station, honestly it's gonna be a nasty fight for a few years, both metros are growing fast but Raleigh has messed up statistics due to split up MSAs. Which is why Raleigh has a hard time we've been as one person said criminally underserved.
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On 3/20/2023 at 4:22 AM, JTT said:
I remember a while back, all KNBC had was Christopher Nance doing the morning newscasts weather and Fritz Coleman doing the evening newscast. On the weekends, they would have one of the co anchors reading the weather report with the weather maps on the screen. A few years later, Paul Johnson was asked to work 7 days a week, m - f doing traffic, and on the weekends the weather.
I feel like it’s an LA thing that there used to be not enough weather anchors. Like KABC owned the weather coverage with Dallas Raines a great meteorologist and a very funny person imo. But ya know I was studying the Spanish stations and it was like a decade I noticed then that KVEA only had one weather anchor and KMEX had only 2 they both now have meteorologist covering all newscast. But my question was with LA crazy climate why wasn’t weather not taken seriously. I remember watching a vintage video from the 1991 or 1990 of KTLA and I saw their 10pm news intro from back then and I noticed there was no weather anchor, when they launched the morning news Mark Kristi (I believe his name was) did weather and traffic, but there no weather anchor at 10. I always wondered why some tv stations don’t feature weather anchors for their evening shows. Maybe it because I’m not from California and I live in a state with wild weather but it felt weird for me.
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3 hours ago, Vlad said:
Yeah we are already starting to see hints of that already on the ABC network so it's only a matter of time before we start seeing this more and more in the future.
I haven’t seen it maybe NY or LA, but in all the other owned markets there no network talent filling in. Now Brittany Bell who now with WABC and formerly of WTVD used to fill in on GMA and WNT a lot. Sydney Scofeld did a report for ABCNews live after those 4 cops were killed in the another NC city (outside of the Raleigh market) which I found surprising. But ABC and there owned stations are either 1 or 2 in the local ratings in their markets. I don’t think there in a position like CBS where local and National need to be under one unified brand. -
3 hours ago, Encore 323 said:
They just showed the closing credits for the 11am news and they were using the 2012 theme briefly but halfway through the credits they changed it to the WABC theme that they are using now. I thought they were going to let the old one finish out like before but I guess that's not how this works.
It’s an end of an era for them.
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On 5/19/2024 at 8:22 AM, Georgie56 said:
There’s a reason why this name exists, people. It’s not for cosmetic purposes.
Yeah and that’s why so many network journalist are part timing with CBS you got Elaine Quijano on WCBS, Jaime Yuccas who’s on KCAL both journalist both part timing on network and local. I think we’ll see a lot more network journalist on the local stations since this unified brand means one unified group.
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22 hours ago, NowBergen said:
WPIX is in DMA 1, so it would be a major sell off of small market stations or several larger markets to stay under the cap. That is probably a hard pill to swallow, especially if his vision is to own most CW stations.
He has to own WPIX if he wants to own all CW station I haven’t heard of any network owned group that doesn’t own their own flagship NY station to complete the job he needs New York. Perhaps he’ll sell of stations where there no chance that he’ll own a CW station there are a bunch of markets where he has no chance of getting CW control most are in small markets. -
2 hours ago, MorningNews said:
Yeah not sure I understand all the bemoaning. Was there confusion on what a station group mandate was?
It was a pretty flat out rollout pretty straight and basic.
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38 minutes ago, mer764KCTV5 said:
Womp Womp. Perry takes another L.
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Apparently KABC is a carbon copy of WABC as they are now using their custom 1999 cut of Gari’s Eyewitness News.
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I not gonna lie I was a little let down. I like their old theme, maybe perhaps they had an audio problem and forgot to roll out the music theme. I know at the beginning they were having some audio problems. The breaking news theme was cut off a little.
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Finally there the last this new look is done rolling out. It looks good on them but I will miss the last package though.
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On 5/19/2024 at 12:11 AM, jero85 said:
Charlotte will remain the largest DMA in the Carolinas.
Again they’re right next to each other and could remain that way for awhile, but I’m betting Raleigh might overtake them.
By the way CBS News is opening a Raleigh bureau. TVNewser reported that here’s the link.
https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/cbs-news-overhauls-streaming-channel-adds-new-bureaus/
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5 hours ago, abric said:
From FTVLive:
Current WBBM GM Jennifer Lyons will be the interim President & GM at WWJ
She could help them tremendously, I thought she was ND when was she promoted to GM?
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Laid off is almost similar to getting fired anyway. Bottom line he was out of a job.