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[Weeters]

Milwaukee's FOX station WITI recently rolled out a new Wordpress-powered website, replacing the standard Tribune Interactive site that all other Local TV, LLC stations have.

The new site takes on a blue, red, and black/grey theme, more in line with their logo than the former red and white color scheme used on the previous Tribune Interactive site.

During the move, it seems that some content was removed from the site. After being generally neglected after anchors stopped participating in live chats, it appears the "SpyFOX" studio webcams have been permanently removed. Senior Web Producer Cary Docter replied to one users inquiry about the webcams with "at this time, the studio cams are not expected back." WITI was one of the pioneers of the Studio Cam, with many other FOX O&O's eventually using WITI's page template on their own site. Many of those webcams have since gone offline as well.

Prior to this change, WITI's morning talk show "Real Milwaukee" had been beta testing it's own Wordpress-powered site for a number of months. It recently was moved out of beta itself.

[Viper550]

It's actually pretty nice. The CBS Local/radio station sites have been using Wordpress-based sites too for a while now; WordPress 3.x also has some good new features (such as the ability to have the post in the editor take on the actual stylesheets of the site itself.

Also, I tried to submit it to the WordPress showcase, but their fancy script said that they couldn't detect WordPress. Odd, cause its clearly running on WordPress.com VIP service

[trev57]

This comes on the heels of John LaPorte being named their new news director.

http://www.jsonline..../138212849.html

[tw-804]

WITI isn't the only one. Fox4KC.com (WDAF in Kansas City) did the same thing.

[kjohnson]

Hopefully they plan on rolling this out to the other LocalTV/Tribune sites. Looks nice.