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1998 called. It wants its HDTV back.

I have a bad feeling about that soon-to-be new "19" logo. I wished 'OIO adopted the WXIX logo from '86-09.

From Austria, a preview of ORF eins's new look, which is set to launch next week:

Pretty much when WOIO canned "Action News" was the death knell competitiveness at Reserve Square. Axing David Wittman, plus Denise Dufala (who had been at WOIO since 1995), and Romona Robinson pretty much sealed Snoozefest 19's fate. Now they're trying to build around the "19 First Alert" brand ("19 First Alert Headlines"?!? REALLY?!?) and Tucker and Tanaka. Now all we need is "Like Fireflies" to replace TITP and we have the potpourri of clusterfuck.

Here in Columbus, WCMH is planning to celebrate it's 70th anniversary all day Wednesday, with vintage clips during all the newscasts. Really surprised to see WCMH going all out on this one, apparently, in light of the cuts suffered recently.

Fun Fact: Hot Haus' Matt Quinn is based in Cleveland and has done a lot of work with both WOIO and WKYC. Quinn was behind OIO's famous graphical looks through most of the 2000's. Not a stretch to think they went local again with a familiar face. Much like the Nashville stations do with 615 (WCPM)

A closer from Les Nouvelles TVA in 1985 with Jacques Moisan. Plus, the full theme used by the newscast in the early 1980s! A promo and a CFTM news update in December 1988. Ici Montreal was the name of the local newscasts that aired on CFTM at the time.

Was WeatherRate a Raycom decision on WOIO? In the post-Goddard era of Cleveland television it may seem a little more tolerable, but nevertheless, one of those things a company pulls out of their "bag of tricks" to try and make the station better again. Consultant-laden drivel. IIRC, the WeatherRate folks do their own research, and go to the "most accurate" station. If the station buys into it, they can proclaim that they have the "Most Accurate" forecast. (if it wasn't for Sinclair, I'm sure some snake-oil salesperson would do the same thing with the "most accurate" news coverage....too bad the Poynter Institute doesn't do this with Politifact for TV too much....) Back to topic, A decent graphics package would be nice, but there are much more things Gray and WOIO need to do to make WOIO a contender in Cleveland. Inertia (the fall of WKYC and WEWS...along with general ratings declines) will probably play the biggest part. Nexstar potentially messing up WJW could help as well... Action News put them on the map, and while it was sensational and over-the-top, it worked even when its competition was still putting out a quality news product. (WEWS was in an alternate universe in the time that only a "Circle 5" could save them from) Raycom shot themselves in the foot when they killed "Action News" and later chased off all of their recognizable...cough cough "highly compensated" talent right before Gray took over.

Big follow up. WCBS's AM reporter Janelle Burrell will be traveling down the turnpike to replace Rahel as new AM & midday anchor.

Don't forget WJZ in Baltimore. They just got a new set after 20 years. Many of their staff retired and the young ones have moved on to other markets.

This augmented reality weather is looking good. I wonder if they’re using Ross XPression or WSI for the AR tracking.