DirtyHarry 745 Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Yep. WMUR, WMTW, WVTM and WJCL were the stations that Hearst bought since the Pulitzer deal, and except for WMUR you're exactly right. WLWT aint so hot, either.
Mrtraveler01 739 Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Nice find. it looks like they were testing the new graphics. This means that they'll switch fairly soon.
LTSC1980 114 Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Wow. They changed smartphone look and also abandoned Alabama's 13 branding.
NEOMatrix 1307 Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Thumbs up from me. Now let's see what WJCL got in it's bag of tricks.
cbs4dallas 17 Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Does anyone know if KXAN will get new graphics, now that they are owned by Media General?
sanewsguy 514 Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Does anyone know if KXAN will get new graphics, now that they are owned by Media General? They may be "owned by Media General" now but remember the new MG is basically a continuation of the former LIN. So I doubt we'll see much change there as they are a legacy LIN station. They are due for a refresh though. But knowing LIN I doubt giving KXAN a new look is high on their list of priorities right now.
Big Country News 435 Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 They may be "owned by Media General" now but remember the new MG is basically a continuation of the former LIN. So I doubt we'll see much change there as they are a legacy LIN station. They are due for a refresh though. But knowing LIN I doubt giving KXAN a new look is high on their list of priorities right now. They need a new set more than anything, to be honest, but I agree that Lin/MG have bigger fish to fry.
tyrannical bastard 4066 Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 KXAN and WALA's packages are very similar...KXAN's is built arond X's and WALA's uses circles and curves. Both share a similar color palette and font style and were Giant Octopus packages. Even the WNCN package shares some similarities to KXAN. Any idea who created it?
GAnews 2 Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 I've noticed that Hearst seems to favor branding by call letters so the rebranding to WVTM 13 doesn't surprise me
TheRolyPoly 2641 Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 I've noticed that Hearst seems to favor branding by call letters so the rebranding to WVTM 13 doesn't surprise me That's true... WESH 2 News, KCRA 3 News, WLKY News, KCCI 8 News, WCVB NewsCenter 5, WISN 12 News, etc... They love call signs, don't they ?
Big Country News 435 Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Even the WNCN package shares some similarities to KXAN. Any idea who created it? That was created In-House at MG.
KevCor 344 Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 Is it a possibility that WAVY will lose their signature theme, or will MG force them into their group theme? WAVY has used Newswire for 20 years, and just recently had it refreshed by 615...
tyrannical bastard 4066 Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 Is it a possibility that WAVY will lose their signature theme, or will MG force them into their group theme? WAVY has used Newswire for 20 years, and just recently had it refreshed by 615... Doubtful. In fact, many of LIN's former stations including WIAT and WKBN are picking up 615 themes (WKBN actually went back to one!) Only a couple of the legacy stations use the old JDK theme from 2006. And the Stephen Arnold "Canvas" theme used on most of the other legacy stations is used on non-MG stations like WALB, KAMR, and even WBIN. WJAR and WVTM use it too, but expect it to be phased out when Sinclair and Hearst make their respective changes.
mike91 67 Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 The only MG station I would worry about losing their theme is WHTM (Gari's Empire). Most of the New Vision acquisitions were using Gari and all have since switched to Stephen Arnold or 615.
William1111 41 Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 So it seems like WVTM has switched it's logos, graphics, and branding on their website and social media pages. Nothing has changed on air yet. https://www.facebook.com/WVTM13 http://alabamas13.com http://twitter.com/WVTM13 And they have WVTM13.com registered, but as of today; it's just a redirect to Alabamas13.com Meanwhile WJCL has had no Hearst-ization from what i can see (other than the copyrights being updated on the newscast closing and website)
scrabbleship 429 Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 The only MG station I would worry about losing their theme is WHTM (Gari's Empire). Most of the New Vision acquisitions were using Gari and all have since switched to Stephen Arnold or 615. Even among the ex-Young stations using Gari packages such as KELO (Enforcer) and WTEN (The Edge)?
mike91 67 Posted March 14, 2015 Posted March 14, 2015 Even among the ex-Young stations using Gari packages such as KELO (Enforcer) and WTEN (The Edge)? Ah I forgot about those, MG is just too damn big lol.
TheRolyPoly 2641 Posted March 14, 2015 Posted March 14, 2015 By the way, the only Hearst stations that don't use their call sign for news branding is KSBW, WGAL, WPTZ / WNNE, WTAE, KOAT and KHBS / KHOG. Out of those stations, only WPTZ / WNNE and KHBS / KHOG don't use their callsigns at all, even if its for general purposes.
Samantha 2905 Posted March 24, 2015 Posted March 24, 2015 Media General is buying back up to $120m in shares with the proceeds from the sale of WJAR. Vincent Sadusky, the CEO of the company, said this was because nothing on the market tickled their fancy.
KevCor 344 Posted March 24, 2015 Posted March 24, 2015 So it seems like WVTM has switched it's logos, graphics, and branding on their website and social media pages. Nothing has changed on air yet. https://www.facebook.com/WVTM13 http://alabamas13.com http://twitter.com/WVTM13 And they have WVTM13.com registered, but as of today; it's just a redirect to Alabamas13.com Meanwhile WJCL has had no Hearst-ization from what i can see (other than the copyrights being updated on the newscast closing and website) alabamas13.com now redirects to WVTM13.com.
channel2 982 Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 Media General is buying back up to $120m in shares with the proceeds from the sale of WJAR. Vincent Sadusky, the CEO of the company, said this was because nothing on the market tickled their fancy. Seems to me like servicing their huge debt load would be a better use for the money...
Breaking News 843 Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 Questions about Young Broadcasting when they were in operation. Were they a company that was cheap? They seem to keep the main faces on their evening news around. Remember Darla Montgomery, left KLFY for KATC to come back to KFLY and got some more money. Before they went in debt for KRON which parallelized them, but they seem to keep their other stations stable, but wonder more about them if anybody knew more about them, and they let their stations do news. WKRN was a strong #3, but a few times their late news was #2 a few times in the early 2000s.
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