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  1. Full 3pm newscast Most of the O&Os were struggling, even with the channel numbers. What do they have to lose with this?
    4 points
  2. From the Discord. I don't have the user's name handy, at the moment. KPIX_2022_3PM_Trim.mp4
    3 points
  3. We're not doing this with every affiliate.
    3 points
  4. The peacock isn’t the problem there. The rest of the logo is. Local stations need to get with the times and update their logos instead of holding the networks back.
    3 points
  5. Honestly I have to agree, I really would like to know how the whole "call sign/ call number branding" came to be as it's uniquely American and confusing for international spectators. You have "Global News BC" "BBC Look North" "9 News Queensland" but not "ABC Philly News" or something I don't know. Was it because early station owners wanted to be more unique or something more complicated?
    2 points
  6. The obsession with numbers and call signs is going to be your undoing. It’s weak branding and a relic of the old age. This is the future, I think you will be disappointed when rather than numbers coming back, call signs go away altogether.
    2 points
  7. I'm interested to see what the new weather graphics will look like when launched.
    2 points
  8. I'm rather disappointed. Even though I am opposed to the new numberless branding, I expected to like the new graphics. That bug is huge and it looks like a copy and paste of the CBS News streaming package (which is the point, I get it). Didn't think they could do worse than the outgoing O&O package but this feels lifeless to me. I expect a return to numbers within two years.
    2 points
  9. It's very common to be running with the old logo these days and not go through the trouble of updating them. Kmart, Kroger, Sears, Macy's, Marathon, Exxon and many others do the same thing. I know that's retail, but that's where logos get a lot of exposure like tv.
    2 points
  10. If this is the kind of 'acting' we can expect of programming on the Nexstar-era CW it's safe to say that trophy shelf builders won't be needed at Perry's golf mansion. Most station groups have basic knowledge of what providers exist in a certain area so you don't get embarrassing situations like this ad airing on WFRV, where one Comcast system exists in the entire state of Wisconsin, or KTVI/KPLR, in Spectrum's home city. Comcast customers get Peacock free with local stations $5 extra, so this is becoming a problem easily solved by the consumer, and Comcast is still getting paid; they could also just presumably pipe in a distant NBC/TMD owned station the same way Time Warner did to Nexstar during a Hearst dispute and if Congress somehow whines, takes the fine as 'putting the customer first'. Same with Paramount+. And the CW is in its holiday dead period so nobody's going to care if they miss Riverdale.
    2 points
  11. interesting that they dropped enforcer for a new package based on the cbs 4 note branding they rolled out in the last few years.
    1 point
  12. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/head-of-ctv-news-michael-melling-reassigned-after-lisa-laflamme-fallout-1.6201404 https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/michael-melling-out-ctv-news-laflamme-1.6691180 https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/12/19/after-independent-review-in-wake-of-lisa-laflammes-ouster-ctvs-michael-melling-is-out-of-news-operations.html Michael Melling has been reassigned. Interim CTV News head Richard Gray will stay head of news
    1 point
  13. The placement of KPIX just looks so wrong. Otherwise the graphics looks really good
    1 point
  14. Anyone else getting Tegna vibes from the L3's?
    1 point
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  16. The Maag family is just trying to stay afloat in a market that's had its' population halved over 50 years. There's far too many radio stations in Youngstown and 1-2 too many TV stations. Even the Maags gave up on the city's lone daily newspaper. WFMJ's biggest weakness is the fact it remains locally owned; thanks to the M&A mania, WKBN-WYTV have the bigger advantage of economy of scale. WFMJ doesn't have the resources to compete with those two long-term, and even launching a 5pm news felt like their resources were being strained. The better question to ask is when do the Maags throw in the towel with WFMJ and sell the NBC affiliation and station IP to Nexstar.
    1 point
  17. I only suggested this as they do something completely different with the NBC peacock... But I will comply and not mention anything further... sheesh
    1 point
  18. Well, looks like the gun may have been jumped a smidge. The set is getting a "refresh" , not a full replacement, with a new duratrans, new colored lighting beneath the desk & some other areas, and the video wall getting replaced. Morning anchor Mindi Ramsey posted pictures of in-progress shots, and a video on her Facebook. It's a very confusing choice instead of a full set refresh, but then again this is NEPA. And any changes are met with vitriol, pitchforks, and a very busy Talkback 16 line. Video w/ Lighting Test: https://fb.watch/hwjYovxx_d/
    1 point
  19. Today CBS Sunday Morning was back on its full set for the first time since March 2020. They’ve done on-set shows for Thanksgiving and Christmas the prior two years, but it was a scaled down version and looked like a mess. Good to see the full set back. Hopefully it’s back every week.
    1 point
  20. The most recent discussion is confirming that in many markets, there is already saturation of 10 pm newscasts. In some markets there are also 9 pm news broadcasts and not to mention regional "hyper local" cable news stations like Spectrum News, NY1, News 12, etc. It begs for alternative programming on NBC affiliates. How much news can a station put on? NBC stations already broadcast newscasts at 4, 5, 6 and 11. How many stories can be repurposed? If NBC and other networks decide to pull a Fox and give up 10 pm, it begs for program suppliers to come up with some creative alternatives. I'd be concerned about a talk show considering how Jay Leno flamed out very quickly at 10 years ago.
    1 point
  21. I’d put my money on WCCB moving MeTV to 18.1 and selling off their program inventory to Nexstar.
    1 point
  22. I’m sorry but having two different versions of the same logo is stupid. There’s literally no reason to use the old logo and the new one is miles better. Nostalgia doesn’t make something better than new.
    1 point
  23. It really depends on the market though; those two markets have had sustaining newscasts since the WB/UPN days that have continued on and on, and WAXN, WRDQ, KMCI and WMLW have been aversions where they have an independent schedule built on strength that hasn't needed an affiliation. Others since then...it's hard to start a news operation or convert a station which has been stuck in VLC automated irrelevancy since MyNet bailed out of scheduling competitively to carrying some news. The only real case I've seen that happen is WMYD, and that took a transition away from a scratch rated INN product and Granite puttling little money into the station, to Scripps buying it and having WXYZ put newscasts on, to pull off. But you're not going to be able to finance news operations on irrelevant stations much longer. WCCB's op is pretty much on death watch now because the moment that CW contract ends, WMYT is getting it. In Milwaukee, WISN presumably could've placed a 9 pm show on WVTV anytime since 2006, but instead is happy to let it air on True Crime Network and call it a loss leader that provides a good alternative to WITI. The same with KOAT and the Acme duop in ABQ before Nexstar paired them with KRQE and just put the 9 on what's now their DT2 Fox. And I notice that WCNC wasn't even mentioned in Myron's comment; they've always been irrelevant back to the Ted Turner days. Eventually they'll throw in the towel and call it a day because there's only so much news you can watch or put on in a market before it just is complete white noise. Eventually you might just see some of these stations move the only thing with a pulse, the J!-WoF hour, to 10pm and just put on news from 2pm to primetime.
    1 point
  24. It might be out of sheer ego and resentment towards Fox that WCCB still trudges along under Bakahel but they aren’t exactly in the best shape. WJZY flopped so badly under Fox ownership that Nexstar completely blew up the station’s identity in a bid to be competitive. WAXN is owned by a private equity firm so the obvious outcome is them doing it all on the cheap with no investment, extending already strained resources at WSOC. When you add in WBTV doing More Local News under Gray (and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them try a 10pm news again somehow), something is bound to give. If WCCB and/or WJZY were to throw up the white flag and concede a battle for ratings that amounts to diminishing returns, no one should be surprised in the least. This is not 1993 or 2003 or 2013. The landscape today is not the same as in the past and people have every incentive to abandon OTA TV if the content they want no longer exists. Having nothing but cheaply-run local news with practically no distinction between them is a recipe for trouble, especially with a finite audience that risks shrinking—even ever so subtly—regardless of the market size. Why would I want to watch the “attack of the clones” that is the same late-evening local news on a plethora of stations, with the same music from SAM or Gari, the same format with emphasis on Bad Things with minimal Actual Local News of Relevance, the same minimal sportscast and the same 10-day Super Doppler Googleplex Extended Outlook? Am I saying the audience for OTA is dying? No. At least not for a few decades. But it’s absolutely eroding; even if it is a small erosion, it is still a needlessly self-inflicted wound for the industry.
    1 point
  25. They used to have four with KCOP in the mix, and KCOP struggled for years before Fox ultimately subsumed everything into KTTV. Los Angeles is almost an anomaly with three 10pm English-language newscasts battling it out against each other. If such a thing were to be tried out in Memphis or Jacksonville or Omaha, the results would be beyond disastrous. There is such a thing as too much local news in Anytown, USA. When you gripe at operators “cheapening out” on news and graphics and music, muse about off- and on-air talent resigning and getting out of the industry, or insist MMJs are a pejorative for Something Bad, maybe it's because the economics of More Local News doesn't exactly add up the way you want it to.
    1 point
  26. 1. I'm glad they did not do that. They have some real good 10 pm shows. 2. I would not be surprised if they are trying to convince another network or both to join them. 3. It gives local stations more time to consider what to put on - it could be a boost to syndicated dramas or comedy. Let's be real, just how much more local news or Family Feud do we all need. Many DMA's already have one or more options already for news at 10, and, have cable options as well.
    1 point
  27. Oh you're big mad about this.
    1 point
  28. NBC to keep the 10pm hour (at least for next season)
    1 point
  29. Ads have already started running in affected markets with a Nexstar-owned CBS station:
    1 point
  30. CBS News Detroit launches in January with afternoon and late newscasts. Their morning show will launch later in the first half of 2023.
    1 point
  31. I hope getting laid was worth their jobs! So sad they couldn't keep it together. You NEVER hear anything in the tabs about Muir's love life! This story from CNN says the issue isn't the affair itself but rather that TJ was point blank asked and he allegedly lied. "People familiar with the matter previously told CNN that when the Daily Mail first reached out to ABC News for comment about the relationship between Robach and Holmes, a surprised network spokesperson tried to determine whether the allegation was true. The spokesperson contacted Holmes, who poured cold water on the tabloid's reporting. That resulted in the spokesperson trying to push back against the outlet's reporting. The Daily Mail wasn't deterred and published its explosive story. When ABC representatives later saw the images included in the Daily Mail's story, they were taken aback, the people familiar with the matter said." https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/12/12/media/abc-gma3-anchors-internal-probe/index.html
    1 point
  32. Huh, it's like the world changed in 2020 and no one noticed. Golly gee, imagine that, so baffling...
    1 point
  33. CNN reports the death of investigative reporter Drew Griffin. Hell of a talent. I have linked the documentary "Breaking News" that aired on TLC in the late 90s/early 00s. It followed KCBS as it tried to bring itself out of the ratings basement. There is a segment with Drew as he works on an investigative piece dealing with shady doctors across the Southland.
    0 points
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