Out & About

[rkolsen 1686]

Tonight was Maria Salinas of Univision’s last newscast.

 

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[Devon 37]

WXIN Fox 59 in Indianapolis is apparently getting a new set with construction starting today. No more details than that though at this time.

[TheRolyPoly 2592]

Tonight was Maria Salinas of Univision’s last newscast.

 

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I saw both Maria and Mark (Suppelsa)'s farewells yesterday. Both amazing.

[USNewsie 50]

I believe Johnny Archer is the new NBC 6 weekend evening anchor. He previously worked at NBC 5 in DFW. Johnny will replace Keith Jones who moved to weekdays.

[east-tx-tv 121]

I believe Johnny Archer is the new NBC 6 weekend evening anchor. He previously worked at NBC 5 in DFW. Johnny will replace Keith Jones who moved to weekdays.

 

That was too bad that KXAS lost him, he was really good.

[TVLurker 241]

That was too bad that KXAS lost him, he was really good.

They didn't "lose him". NBC just moved him to another one of their O&O stations.

[east-tx-tv 121]

They didn't "lose him". NBC just moved him to another one of their O&O stations.

 

Thanks for the clarification. I really wasn't aware of the exact details other than here-one-day-gone-the-next. Guess I could have looked closer at unclebarky's site, he's usually pretty good at getting departure info. Archer was an asset to KXAS' newscasts, and it's too bad he's not there anymore.

[TheRolyPoly 2592]

Have you heard of TicToc? No? Well its not the Tic Tac Toe game, but in fact, TicToc is the new Bloomberg global news network that'll be streamed only on Twitter. It begins next Monday, a week before Christmas.

 

https://twitter.com/TicToc

[ColtFromGulfcoast 731]

TicToc

 

What's their slogan? Don't stop, make it pop?

 

TicToc on the clock, but the news don't stop, no!

 

 

Sorry, had to do it.

[hmaxhanson 650]

Bloomberg is free on anything that has a functioning web connection at this point (though without the sidebar GFX). They probably figured that into why not to carry it. TWC you can excuse as dumb, but Bloomberg has just as much blame here for their looseness with how you can watch their channel.

 

Now that I didn't know about! I know that Sin-Don't Care's digital subchannel networks also have free internet streams (BTW, I mostly watch TBD, but also Charge for American Gladiators).

[Breaking News 839]

Variety reporting Steve Edwards is out at Good Day LA.

 

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/steve-edwards-good-day-la-out-1202636751/#ampshare=http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/steve-edwards-good-day-la-out-1202636751/

[TriangleTriadMediaNews 267]

http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/12/8/raleigh-station-names-new-anchor

 

WRAL taps WBNS weekend anchor Jeff Hogan to take over for the retiring Bill Leslie in the summer, although he'll start in January. I'm honestly surprised WRAL didn't promote from within, Ken Smith was my choice to get the spot, as he had worked with Renee Chou in the past when she was his weekend evening co-anchor.

[PelicanGuy 117]

At minimum, it seems like Ms. Reed isn't well-liked among newsroom staff. This story could take an interesting turn.

 

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/12/8/was-the-email-to-atlanta-anchor-a-fake

 

That would be messed up if true.

[TheRolyPoly 2592]

That would be messed up if true.

 

My point exactly that WGCL should just blow up its evening team and start over. I feel like both Reed and Swann aren't liked well in the newsroom.

[tyrannical bastard 4036]

WJW has added Sinclair-owned diginets Comet and Charge! to their .3 and .4 subchannels.

 

Have any of the other soon-to-be Sinclair stations made this move in advance of their eventual takeover?

[CircleSeven 1960]

WJW has added Sinclair-owned diginets Comet and Charge! to their .3 and .4 subchannels.

 

Have any of the other soon-to-be Sinclair stations made this move in advance of their eventual takeover?

 

WGN added TBD on 9.4 a couple of weeks ago.

[scrabbleship 429]

The purchase agreement says that the sale does not include WPME's existing programming contracts and that Ion will have to change WPME's call sign, so it seems that MyNetworkTV will be moving to a WPXT subchannel. Interestingly, there's also an SSA in which Ironwood will continue to provide Technical services to WPME after the sale.

 

EDIT: According to Wikipedia, WPME is already carrying Ion on 35.2, so that will probably just move to 35.1 after the sale.

 

I wonder what this means for WPXT long-term. With the Top 8 rule poised to go away, you would think that Tegna and Hearst would be chomping at the bit for WPXT at minimum if not Gray using it as a trojan horse to enter the Portland market if no other avenues open up.

[news89 468]

News from the old number 9. Jim Ramsey has announced his retirement.

 

http://wgntv.com/2017/12/12/wgn-weatherman-jim-ramsey-announces-his-retirement/

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Tom Sherwood is a fine reporter, glad he'll still be over on WAMU (NPR).

[broadcastfan9751 140]

As per WPXT’s Wikipedia page, Ironwood is in the process of selling WPXT to Sincair, which would pair it up with WGME & WPFO, but there was no citation or other sources.

 

It was originally posted by an IP address editor, so it may be false.

[TheRolyPoly 2592]

I know this is not news and not a big thing, but here you go... the Gray-ification look to WCAX and its new logo.

 

[TennTV1983 807]

I know this is not news and not a big thing, but here you go... the Gray-ification look to WCAX and its new logo.

 

Not bad, but why does it look like the "3" is trying to eat the CBS eye?

[24994J 5630]

Not bad, but why does it look like the "3" is trying to eat the CBS eye?

It's hungry.

[Georgie56 3326]

Not bad, but why does it look like the "3" is trying to eat the CBS eye?

 

Pac-Three

[rkolsen 1686]

Not bad, but why does it look like the "3" is trying to eat the CBS eye?

 

It's hungry.

 

I’m thinking they were going to put the CBS Eye in the negative space (is that the right term) of the bottom half of the 3. But someone realized that it could possibly go against the CBS Eyedentity standards.

 

Just by eyeballing it (pun intended) it looks like the CBS Eye fits perfectly in the bottom half.