TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion

[PhillyWatch 239]

Doubling down on the "morning" theme with what appears to be a sunny-side up egg floating in a mug of coffee

[JosiahCubed 280]

4 hours ago, PhillyWatch said:

Doubling down on the "morning" theme with what appears to be a sunny-side up egg floating in a mug of coffee

I just watched the opening (and rewatched it), and its just the way the 'O' in "Mornings" morphs from the coffee cup.

[groupwfan 96]

On 6/11/2020 at 12:32 AM, Payton39 said:

 

Off topic, but "42 Freway?" That sounds very SoCal, not SoJerz. 

 

Anyhow, I do like that traffic ticker, but it goes slightly fast.

and concerning the "10" logo for WTSP, I like it in general.I used to live there, but forget what it looked like from 91-93.  I love the shapes, and I love going back to the past, like KFMB 8 here in San Diego. 

'TSP still had their "sunset" logo since their "Stay In Touch With Ten!" era in '91 before they had the WCAU-esque "10" with the waves in '93/'94

[JohnnyNews 119]

I think TEGNA is in process of switching weather icons (again) WWL And WFMY are using some new tropical weather icons. 

[MidwestTV 1232]

56 minutes ago, JohnnyNews said:

I think TEGNA is in process of switching weather icons (again) WWL And WFMY are using some new tropical weather icons.

 

 

Updated icons had been in the works for months. They finally became available a couple weeks ago.

Edited August 24, 2020 by MidwestTV

[JohnnyNews 119]

4 minutes ago, MidwestTV said:

 

Updated icons had been in the works for months. They finally became available a couple weeks ago.

When are the rest supposed to debut on the air? I wonder why they keep switching the icon sets

[MidwestTV 1232]

11 minutes ago, JohnnyNews said:

When are the rest supposed to debut on the air? I wonder why they keep switching the icon sets

Really up to the individual stations if they want to bother downloading them. Not a hard-fast requirement. Mainly the tropical icons were updated along with a few other updates and a couple new ones.

[JohnnyNews 119]

1 minute ago, MidwestTV said:

Really up to the individual stations if they want to bother downloading them. Not a hard-fast requirement. Mainly the tropical icons were updated along with a few other updates and a couple new ones.

Well then you know what any of them look like?

[Nelson R. 569]

1 hour ago, JohnnyNews said:

I think TEGNA is in process of switching weather icons (again) WWL And WFMY are using some new tropical weather icons. 

I will have to keep my eyes out for WCNC

[MidwestTV 1232]

3 minutes ago, JohnnyNews said:

Well then you know what any of them look like?

They're all largely unchanged, just a few minor edits. Nothing radical.

[TheMassMediaGeek 98]

So... the TEGNA graphics have made it to the Susquehanna Valley on August 19th.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 26, 2020 by TheMassMediaGeek
Added the 5pm, 10pm, and 7:30 AM opens

[WCX-TV 17]

As of yesterday WTIC has fully switched to the TEGNA graphics.

 

[dman748 1256]

And the day they debut the Tegna graphics, they're covering Tornado Warnings 

 

[AaronQ 281]

And here's the open 

 

Edited August 29, 2020 by AaronQ

[ABC 7 Denver 1714]

40 minutes ago, AaronQ said:

And here's the open 

 

 

Meh, that open seems pretty slapdash.

[Yankees4life 558]

2 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

Meh, that open seems pretty slapdash.

Still trying to adjust, I see

[ABC 7 Denver 1714]

1 hour ago, Yankees4life said:

Still trying to adjust, I see

 

Me? No. I know the cost of these things though.

[MidwestTV 1232]

On 8/28/2020 at 12:30 AM, oknewsguy said:

And the day they debut the Tegna graphics, they're covering Tornado Warnings 

 

 

What a horrendously distracting severe weather set up.

[dman748 1256]

4 hours ago, MidwestTV said:

 

What a horrendously distracting severe weather set up.

While it is very much agreeable that this is a very distracting set up however this is something that I would've expected for a market like Hartford that deals with primarily Nor'Easters and not so much Severe Weather. If this was in a Severe Weather aggressive market that would be very much understandable.

[MidwestTV 1232]

In another video message to employees, CEO David Lougee announced that work-from-home guidelines will remain in place until at least January 4, 2021. This means that employees who can work remotely and don't absolutely have to be in the building (i.e, sales, promotions, etc) will do so until next year. However, on-air talent may be allowed back in the building on a market-by-market basis depending on what the COVID numbers are in their respective locations. Some other notes include:

 

-85% of employees completed the company survey

-everyone will get a $100 UberEats gift card

-non-TV station buildings will be modified with COVID in mind and then they'll be required to come back to work in January

-people who want to keep the option to work form home after the January 4th date need to talk to their immediate leaders

[jbnews 344]

26 minutes ago, MidwestTV said:

In another video message to employees, CEO David Lougee announced that work-from-home guidelines will remain in place until at least January 4, 2021. This means that employees who can work remotely and don't absolutely have to be in the building (i.e, sales, promotions, etc) will do so until next year. However, on-air talent may be allowed back in the building on a market-by-market basis depending on what the COVID numbers are in their respective locations. Some other notes include:

 

-85% of employees completed the company survey

-everyone will get a $100 UberEats gift card

-non-TV station buildings will be modified with COVID in mind and then they'll be required to come back to work in January

-people who want to keep the option to work form home after the January 4th date need to talk to their immediate leaders

So it sounds like after January 4th -- TEGNA will essentially start requiring everyone to come back to the station?

[Samantha 2895]

Tegna is objecting to the license renewal of a low-power TV station in Virginia because it interfered with its WVEC after the repack.

 

On June 8, DirecTV informed Tegna that it was having trouble receiving WVEC. After inspection of its equipment and a consultation with DirecTV, it began to suspect interference from WGBS-LD on RF channel 11; the station was displaced to 12 by WVEC. It then temporarily took WVEC silent—and voilà, DirecTV got WGBS-LD in its stead!

 

Tegna SVP, General Counsel and Secretary Akin Harrison writes:

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As a low power television station, WGBS is responsible for avoiding harmful interference to full power television stations such as WVEC and for promptly eliminating any such interference that occurs, including by powering down and/or changing channels if necessary. In this case, WGBS was aware that once WVEC transitioned to Channel 11, WGBS could no longer broadcast on that channel without causing impermissible interference to WVEC. Moreover, WVEC received its license to cover its Channel 11 facility on May 11, 2020, thus putting WGBS on notice that WVEC had commenced Channel 11 operations. Yet it appears that, nearly a month later, WGBS chose to resume impermissible Channel 11 transmissions for a period of at least several days, thus willfully interfering with local viewers’ ability to receive WVEC’s signal. Before it grants WGBS’s application to renew its license, the Commission should assure itself that the station’s licensee understands, and will comply with, WGBS’s non-interference obligations.

 

 

[MidwestTV 1232]

On 9/1/2020 at 11:35 AM, jbnews said:

So it sounds like after January 4th -- TEGNA will essentially start requiring everyone to come back to the station?

 

Non-TV stations, so places like their corporate office.

[jbnews 344]

WQAD has been 'Tegna-fied'! Here's their 11am open from this morning! (T18 and C Clarity actually launched on 9/10)

 

Edited September 11, 2020 by jbnews

[JohnnyNews 119]

So there’s WCNC with the new tropical icons