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  1. I would assume it's Scott Schreer / NJJ Music as well, but I don't know if he has contact info. I know the NetworkNewsMusic guy got the ID on the WNBC theme (which NMSA still misattributes to someone else, along with lumping NJJ in as the same company as HLC and Killer Tracks). I do, however, know that Paul Libman (a Chicago native) did the next WMAQ package, the 1985 one (and the reorchestrated version of it too). He confirmed that with me. It was in connection with a campaign "Feeling the Beat of Chicago" which is registered in the U.S. Copyright Office under his name/company. (Listen to the end signature; ignore the NBC chimes in the middle, and it matches that slogan exactly.)
    5 points
  2. The ticker towards the end of the story mentions New York's indoor smoking ban taking effect which Google dates to July 24, 2003. If the woman at the end looks vaguely familiar to any Boston viewers, that would be a blonde Sharman Sacchetti, later of WFXT and now of WHDH. That pairing was criminally underrated and was a breath of fresh air from the "middle aged man and his meteorologist sidekick robotically yucking it up" shows going on at WRGB and WNYT at the time.
    4 points
  3. WPCQ...just as underwhelming as might have been expected. Also, the poor guy just could not escape Power News, could he?
    4 points
  4. With the screens package originating cross-town at KMOV.
    4 points
  5. The squares, yes. Those two stations used them too. As for the flying screens, I believe they were made by EGAD. WNYT debuted them in 1994 when they added a 5 pm newscast and they were the first graphics package with their current “News Channel 13” logo.
    4 points
  6. 3 points
  7. However, it may not have been dumped entirely. Look at WOFL (and WOGX), they still use cuts of the FOX O&O theme from time to time, especially during the 6 in 60 and Florida in a Minute segments.
    2 points
  8. KDFW is using the new music. Good Day is as well.
    2 points
  9. I think she is gonna work the bad girl thing for a bit. The whole Jane Fonda thing generated plenty of hits, views and clicks across all the NBC platforms...and many others platforms. Some of these bonehead moves by NBC are actually kinda brilliant. Women love to spar, and TODAY and GMA are becoming "women only" spaces just like most of social media is. NBC and Kelly can afford to try new things, let them fight if it generates buzz and clicks. Heck let them start getting drunk at 8am if they want. It's not like TV news media really has to worry about credibility anyway.
    2 points
  10. I can't stand to watch GMA nowadays. If they have an interesting story or guest, I'll set it up on my DVR, but other than that I'll flip between CTM and WTTG.
    2 points
  11. I was actually about to ask how the anchors are each being utilized these days, as I haven't watched a full show recently. I do find it interesting that on GMA's social media pages and on goodmorningamerica.com, the photo they highlight shows only Robin, George, and Michael. That elevates Michael's importance while minimizing Lara's and Amy's. (Once upon a time, those images showed the full cast of Robin, George, Amy, Ginger, Michael, and Jesse.) I'd prefer to see Robin, George, and Amy in the first hour, with Michael and Lara appearing in the second.
    2 points
  12. Jim and Jackie anchored at 4 but Jim was on with Erin at 6. Wonder what happened to Jackie.
    1 point
  13. Eat has a point. All publicity is indeed good publicity. The truth of the matter is that MK Today had to take the low road in terms of responding to a reaction to a certain actress. Sadly that crosses the line. For me, this would have been the point of no return by airing a local newscast at 9am a la WHDH when they were ready to preempt Jay Leno's show for it's newscast. (I know it didn't happen, but lets say it did.)
    1 point
  14. Scripps is performing a comprehensive restructuring, which includes selling its radio stations, as well as centralizing some services. However, it sounds like Scripps is doing this so that they possibly could acquire more TV stations. EDIT: A thread has been started on this topic.
    1 point
  15. Is that the Karen Adams who later worked for WPRI?
    1 point
  16. I imagine there are more for the Olympics. They were invited for that sole reason. On one of the reports they were told that they couldn’t record and requested that footage be deleted but continued to do so anyway. How exactly would they get around that? I thought I read that some cameras had a mode where you could hide that your recording (no lights or anything) but what about the files?
    1 point
  17. Holy crap. Never thought I'd see the day that something pre-1976 saw the light of day.
    1 point
  18. ABC 7 will be starting their news at 4AM tomorrow, and Karen Jordan will be filling in, hence her absence on the news tonight.
    1 point
  19. Speaking of WNYT, here are some WTOG commercials taken from around the time that the station was in the process of being sold to Viacom, and Hubbard was acquiring WNYT and WHEC in return. All I can say is, Scott Chapin and PSA’s galore!
    1 point
  20. I'm a teacher and caught GMA one day last week during a snow day. I found Michael's presence to be annoying, and the studio audience thing towards the end just seems out of place. Also, what has always bothered me about Michael, WHY DOESN'T HE FIX the gap in his teeth?! Drives me nuts!
    1 point
  21. Here is a horrible news open from RTE in Ireland from 2003-2007 with all those letters and numbers. You should be glad we here in the USA don't have an open like that and to me it seems more futuristic than Gannett's 2008 broken fax machine: In case you want to see this atrocious and extremely uninspired news open, go to 0:32. What does something like T9B868D5 7BR69T8RD5EVCG8B7R9877-BR69B6BR6 even mean to viewers?!
    1 point
  22. Those WHBF opens were uploaded by Ken Gullette, That was two days before I started kindergarten!! Also those graphics were the second time CBS 6 snatched images from WBBM - the short-lived “News In Focus” Package was taken from their “Works For You” era, which itself was already gone by the time WRGB adopted it. The 2000 graphics used during the Enforcer days were also taken from WBBM’s sister station WBZ. Albany TV seems to take graphics and imaging from larger-market stations (WTEN using the 1990 KCBS open and then using the WJBK/WMTW/WDRB open for 11 years, along with the aforementioned WRGB images) and WNYT using KMOV’s “Flying TV screens” Package as well as the “Squares” Package (which may have started at WDSU??)
    1 point
  23. Starting the week of January 24th, 2018, the small DMA #200 market of Ottumwa, Iowa and Kirksville, Mo. will finally have all four major networks when KYOU will launch NBC on subchannel 15.2 This is what the market will have once KYOU has NBC: KTVO has ABC on 3.1 and CBS on 3.2 KYOU has FOX on 15.1 and will soon have NBC on 15.2 The market has PBS through digital translators from Iowa Public Television. It even has a CW cable-only affiliate from "KWOT" (The CW Plus) http://www.kyoutv.com/home/2018/01/08/kyou-nbc-release/
    1 point
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