Encore 323

The Miami TV market is a more serious news market compared to Denver and even though the newsplex idea is a little bit over the top and other news outlets copied it, that is what made WSVN unique and the quality of the journalism there is what makes it the news leader in South Florida. As for KMGH, they have been doing the neighborhood news thing and Scripps has been cutting costs lately so it doesn’t really matter if the set is small or not.

I’m glad Sinclair is being held accountable for this because most people trust local news and by reading off the same script, they are just brainwashing people to believe in the company’s bias and local news is supposed to be an impartial source of news. Plus, they have run a lot of their stations horribly by getting rid of local news in certain markets, not investing in some of the stations, and pushing their conservative agenda in major cities like DC, Portland, and Seattle, where most people don’t have conservative views.

Dallas Raines celebrated his 40th anniversary with the station today. Time sure goes by very quick these days.

Weekend morning anchor Samatha Chatman returned to the anchor desk today after 2 months of absence due to surgery. She sounded great on air today.

I'm very surprised that they let the 2012 closing theme play out in full at the end 11am show today especially after what we saw last Friday. This theme, the breaking news theme, the weather theme, and sports are the only ones that KABC continues to use from it's recent past. At least it's not a 100% carbon copy of the flagship and big sister, WABC.

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.

I was very shocked to see the new news graphics come this quick after a month or so of the weather graphics but I am disappointed that they got rid of their 2012 music package that was made for them only until KTRK started to use the midday theme. The WABC theme does not fit the Los Angeles area because SoCal is known to be more relaxed but it is market number #2 and there is always something urgent going on. I don’t know if the early morning opening theme is going to stay the same or not so we will see.

I’ve noticed lately that KTLA has been using a new font when they show current/future temperatures. It’s a possibility that they may be testing for a new graphics package in the near future but I don’t want to speculate too much.