A3N 996 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 That's gotta be one of the strangest arrangements. Working for two competitors at the same time? It's truly bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Do we have an update on whether or not KFMB secured the channel 6 position on cable and satellite providers? Otherwise it seems channel 4 would be the logical choice. Or is 4SD still around? How does that work for DirecTV and Dish when assigning their OTA channel? They have always gone off of real OTA channel number. Isn't there strict regulation on that? Can't have channel 8.3 on the satellite line up. I'm looking at Dish in particular and there is the occasional nonsensical number... KSBW-DT2 is carried on 16 WENY-DT2 (CBS) is carried on 55 WAGM-DT2 is carried on 16 (both KSBW and WAGM are RF 8, VC 8) KHON-DT2 is carried on 3 WJHG-DT2 is carried on 8 In a few cases, the branded channel number is used wholesale: WGGB-DT2 "Fox 6" is carried on 6 KECY-DT2 "ABC 5" is carried on 5 and its DT4 Telemundo on 3 (but The CW is on 16 instead of 6) In some cases, the RF number is used when it varies: KHBS-DT2 (CW) is carried on 21 WCBD-DT2 (CW) is carried on 50 They carry XHAS on 34 (their RF number) for some reason instead of the expected 33. In other words, their Dish position will be a big unknown, but I expect DirecTV to just put it on 8-3 as they like subchannels and hyphenated numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A3N 996 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 And now she's doing weather on 6's 10pm news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 And now she's doing weather on 6's 10pm news. What if I put a green screen in my garage... ? Ya think she may stop by ???? (cue music from Jaws) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFTV 484 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 And now she's doing weather on 6's 10pm news. Isn't that a conflict of interest? Didn't that happen with an anchor in the Midwest but I'm thinking it was a contract issue. The new station made her as virtual Anchor something similar to the sims until she was finally released from the other station and she was ready to be on camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Isn't that a conflict of interest? Didn't that happen with an anchor in the Midwest but I'm thinking it was a contract issue. The new station made her as virtual Anchor something similar to the sims until she was finally released from the other station and she was ready to be on camera. Most of the CW6 reporters were freelancers /1099's, and part-timers. It's not uncommon anymore to see them bounce in-market. Once you secure a contract it all changes. Stations would prefer you stay loyal if you are getting daily work. But if you are only getting a few days a month it's really no biggie. Keep an eye on the deep AM KGTV weekend shows, because a lot of the new Muffy's and Skippy's seem to pass thru on those shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A3N 996 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Most of the CW6 reporters were freelancers /1099's, and part-timers. It's not uncommon anymore to see them bounce in-market. Once you secure a contract it all changes. Stations would prefer you stay loyal if you are getting daily work. But if you are only getting a few days a month it's really no biggie. Keep an eye on the deep AM KGTV weekend shows, because a lot of the new Muffy's and Skippy's seem to pass thru on those shows. Kristen Keogh is leaving soon. Her position is being advertised already. As for Tabby, I'm a bit perplexed as to what her role will be at KSWB seeing that all the weather positions are taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Where is KK going, back to AZ? I noticed they have her doing spring training hits in Peoria. Bummer...she was a favorite of mine. Well here is a nice pic of her I have been saving.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvtime07 250 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Kristen Keogh is leaving soon. Her position is being advertised already. As for Tabby, I'm a bit perplexed as to what her role will be at KSWB seeing that all the weather positions are taken. I always thought Kristen was too good to be a weathercaster on just the weekends, so I'm not really surprised she's leaving. As for Tabby, she also does freelance on conservative network OANN too according to a recent Twitter post of hers, so she's everywhere. Not surprised that she's gotten the opportunity to go to a new station this quickly. Perhaps they are opening up a weekend morning telecast soon and need help? KSWB is still sweeping out talent from XETV till the bitter end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4167 Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 That's gotta be one of the strangest arrangements. Working for two competitors at the same time? I can't think of anything similar to this on the TV end. I mean, people can jump from station to station in the span of a day, but not simultaneously. On the radio end, radio sportscaster Mark "Munch" Bishop jumped from the Cleveland (what is now) iHeart cluster to the market's ESPN Radio affiliate back in March 2007. Somehow, Mark was on both the iHeart stations (in the morning) and the ESPN affiliate (in the afternoon), simultaneously, for a full week. Never understood how that was even possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compubit 670 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 That's gotta be one of the strangest arrangements. Working for two competitors at the same time? The only thing I can think of, is that everyone knows CW6 is a goner in a few days - and they're letting her "double-dip", knowing full well "She ain't goin' back after Tuesday...". J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 The only thing I can think of, is that everyone knows CW6 is a goner in a few days - and they're letting her "double-dip", knowing full well "She ain't goin' back after Tuesday...". That's exactly what it is. As people begin leaving the moribund operation for continued employment elsewhere, they're looking for help just to finish out the quarter with the bare minimum news service. They're probably contractually obligated to their advertisers to retain newscasts through 3/31, plus it's nice and neat to close on a quarter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A3N 996 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 That's exactly what it is. As people begin leaving the moribund operation for continued employment elsewhere, they're looking for help just to finish out the quarter with the bare minimum news service. They're probably contractually obligated to their advertisers to retain newscasts through 3/31, plus it's nice and neat to close on a quarter. It's not surprising that XETV would allow it seeing that they really have nothing to lose/gain at this point. What's surprising is that KSWB would allow it-- would it have been detrimental to their operational needs to have her wait until April 1st to make her debut there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 It's not surprising that XETV would allow it seeing that they really have nothing to lose/gain at this point. What's surprising is that KSWB would allow it-- would it have been detrimental to their operational needs to have her wait until April 1st to make her debut there? It's all about warm bodies. These are freelancers that just about nobody really knows. One fine morning long ago I was watching the noon offerings of PIX, KTVU and whoever else was on at that time. The lead story was some B.S. out of D.C. At the time CNN's Skip Loeser was fronting the generic affil liveshot on the story that would hit around :01... Next thing ya know every SF station is running that B.S. live shot......at the same time. Just because they could.... The point is that most the canons , exclusive traditions, or even network "loyalty" is gone and out the window. Would anyone be shocked to find out that one local reporter has a part-time job at Forever 21? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1847 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Earlier this morning, XETV aired its last weekend morning newscast. After tonight's 10:00pm news, all weekend news on XETV will be over. It will just be weekday morning (5:00-9:00am) and weeknight 10:00pm news for the next three weeks afterwards until XETV shuts down news for good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radio1786 2 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Wish they could get cable channel 39. NBC 7 Telemundo 39 Very Nostalgic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A3N 996 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Gotta shift them bodies around. They had a producer or director, cant remember which, leave after Friday's 10pm show. This station is dying a slow painful death. And the most surprising part is that the AM and PM male anchors were off this past week. I'm guessing they had to burn off some vacation hours so the station didn't have to pay it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Will they even make to the end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenShine9 1509 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 It seems that the local owner of KFMB is trying to phase the operation in so that it appears seamless - maybe they will even keep the same logo? Are they waiving non-compete clauses as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Are they waiving non-compete clauses as well? There are no non-compete clauses in California. They are not allowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1340 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Will they even make to the end? Of what, the originally announced ending for news programming or their time as a CW affiliate? If it's the latter, I hope KFMB is ready to take over the affiliation early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A3N 996 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 It seems that the local owner of KFMB is trying to phase the operation in so that it appears seamless - maybe they will even keep the same logo? Are they waiving non-compete clauses as well? How? I haven't seen anything to that effect, unless I missed something. Hell, I don't think they're even advertising the new CW venture just yet. Of what, the originally announced ending for news programming or their time as a CW affiliate? If it's the latter, I hope KFMB is ready to take over the affiliation early. KFMB is already taking the affiliation early--on May 1st, as opposed to September. Highly doubtful they'll take it in sooner. Even though the news operation will shut down on 3/31, there will be some employees in the building to ensure that the network is still up and running until they shut down for good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 How? I haven't seen anything to that effect, unless I missed something. Hell, I don't think they're even advertising the new CW venture just yet. KFMB is already taking the affiliation early--on May 1st, as opposed to September. Highly doubtful they'll take it in sooner. Even though the news operation will shut down on 3/31, there will be some employees in the building to ensure that the network is still up and running until they shut down for good. Remember folks, there is no master control in the USA. All CW switching goes through Tijuana. Ronson road is only a news production studio. The Bay Cities sales office is across the lot in the old building. The only warm bodies needed to be in Kearny mesa are engineers and security guards and the people that will be stripping the place...or refurbishing the place for it's next "life". Looking for that "Future Home Of Toyota Collision Center" sign.... Look guys... All KFMB has to do it install a 13ghz hop...or a fiber hop to the KFMB studios on Engineer Road. It's less than a 1/2 mile between KFMB /XETV CW 6 studios. They could also just shoot the signal to the ENG recv site on Mt.Soledad and patch into the KFMB transmitter tsl/stl's Problem Solved! Total cost less than $70,000...and you get the entire 3 story news building functional without doing anything. The only thing would be staffing, does KFMB want to staff the CW operation out of Ronson Road??? Because it's easy peazy to do that if they wish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A3N 996 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Remember folks, there is no master control in the USA. All CW switching goes through Tijuana. Ronson road is only a news production studio. The Bay Cities sales office is across the lot in the old building. The only warm bodies needed to be in Kearny mesa are engineers and security guards and the people that will be stripping the place...or refurbishing the place for it's next "life". Looking for that "Future Home Of Toyota Collision Center" sign.... Look guys... All KFMB has to do it install a 13ghz hop...or a fiber hop to the KFMB studios on Engineer Road. It's less than a 1/2 mile between KFMB /XETV CW 6 studios. Problem Solved! Total cost less than $70,000...and you get the entire 3 story news building functional without doing anything. The only thing would be staffing, does KFMB want to staff the CW operation out of Ronson Road??? Because it's easy peazy to do that if they wish. Too much $$$. From the looks of it, KFMB seems to be investing only in what's necessary into this CW venture. Had they wanted to swallow up the XETV operation, they would have made that clear from the get go. It would have avoided so much uncertainty and this slow death that XETV is suffering. And *hypothetically*, if KFMB wanted to fully staff the CW operation, ala XETV, would they even have the room at their building to do so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Too much $$$. From the looks of it, KFMB seems to be investing only in what's necessary into this CW venture. Had they wanted to swallow up the XETV operation, they would have made that clear from the get go. It would have avoided so much uncertainty and this slow death that XETV is suffering. And *hypothetically*, if KFMB wanted to fully staff the CW operation, ala XETV, would they even have the room at their building to do so? Exactly... I'm mostly trying to re-cap for some of the newcomers of this thead. I'm getting a little punchy today so please excuse me cuz I know you already have a good grasp of what's up. My point now it that if KFMB got placed in a major pinch over news "space" ...Ronson Rd could work as a back-up pretty easy. But you know exactly where we have to bring it back to.... MONEY! Yup, KFMB will bare bones it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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