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djlynch

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  1. KVUE's Mike Barnes hangs up the mic tonight after nearly 30 years at the station. Seems to be kind of a sudden announcement. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/mike-barnes-era-ends-at-kvue/269-d0014cda-4e9c-42ec-ab93-5ba1c5e67cb7
  2. Given that KXAN was LIN's guinea pig because they were across the street from the interactive team, KXAN being the first station to roll out a Nexstar design almost makes me wonder if they've somehow survived two mergers to become Nexstar's web team.
  3. A little late to the discussion, but I really want to echo this. The social media generations already know what happened. We're more interested in why things happen and what they mean. Give us several minutes on how bad the situation was for the people showing up at the border to seek asylum, and not just what happens afterward. Do a full package on the most important agenda item at the city council meeting before it happens, not just a quick SOT when it passes.
  4. Did I see correctly that the DMA runs all the way from southwest Missouri to the Oklahoma/Texas line? I know that there's no big city between OKC/Tulsa and Texarkana/Shreveport, but that seems like a very long distance.
  5. Don't know exactly when KTBC made the switch, but Good Day Austin is using the new package this morning.
  6. No change on the air this evening, but I immediately thought about how it would look right at home with the very flat KXTV graphics.
  7. When they were using that branding, KTBC always used "The Fox 7 News Edge at (time)," but they also spent the 80s, 90s, and early 00s with at least one newscast branded as "The Channel 7/Fox 7 News (time) Report".
  8. When I flipped past MSNBC shortly after news broke of Fidel Castro's death, they had KNBC's Colleen Williams anchoring from the LA bureau. I know it was late on the Friday night of a holiday weekend, but how did the entire NBC News/MSNBC global organization not have anyone at the network level ready to go on camera?
  9. Is this part of the KXTV package or is Tegna rolling out more than one new look? KVUE has started using them within the last couple days, and it doesn't quite feel like it matches the minimalism I can see on KXTV's web site.
  10. If "reporter in the building" is the same thing as I've seen popping up in other markets, it's basically someone stationed in the newsroom who covers news that comes in during the broadcast or is developing but not local or not big enough to warrant sending a live truck out. I figure it's either an attempt to keep from having to constantly feed the anchors in the studio new copy or a way of looking on the ball with breaking news.
  11. It was part "Weekend Update", part morning zoo roundtable riffing, part sponsored segments. I'm pretty sure that the only reason it existed is because they don't want to go from a full hour on KNVA at 9:00 straight into KXAN at 10:00 without a chance to reset (even though they do 2 1/2 hours on KXAN straight into 2 hours on KNVA in the morning.)
  12. Usually, I think it's live or close to it, considering that Charles reads the headlines himself. However, I think I remember the occasional toss to whoever they can borrow from WCBS/CBSN in studio 47, usually the Sunday of a holiday weekend.
  13. Does anyone actually know what the largest market is with no choppers? I have this suspicion that it's not Austin (#39), but I couldn't tell you which of the ones in the upper 20s or 30s it is.
  14. And the weekend sports anchor a couple weeks ago, plus a couple other departures of relatively long-tenured talent in late 2015 -- reporter Shelton Green had been there for close to 20 years, and 5 PM anchor Jim Bergamo had been at KVUE for few years after first coming to Austin in the early 00s. I think they've lost more years of experience in the last eight months than some of the competitors have in total.
  15. It seems to be a Gannett thing. Or at least an ex-Belo thing. KVUE leaves theirs up during the weather segments, and I think I remember seeing that WFAA left theirs up the last time I was in Dallas.
  16. KABB went to the new look some time around the 7th or 8th. They've reversed the L3s so that they're blue text on a white background, and it wouldn't surprise me if WOAI gets the white-on-blue ones that most (all?) other Sinclair stations have been using.
  17. It isn't a new thing. I remember it happening when Peter Jennings was anchoring somewhere other than NYC or an ABC News bureau (and IIRC NBC used to do it even for big events like the Olympics). I feel like it made more sense back in the 80s and 90s because it probably was easier to gather the rest of the news out of New York back before the internet and cell phone data plans than it was to try to do that wherever they happened to be.
  18. Basically, when the New World deal hit, KTBC were the non-sensational, hard-news operation in Austin, so they promised they wouldn't "Foxify" things and stuck to almost exactly their old schedule. By 2000, they had a new set, new music, an entirely new weeknight anchor team, and had pretty much Foxified everything, so the charade was pretty much gone and I guess that's when they decided to pull the plug and move to 9:00.
  19. And in yet more central Texas news, KDVR's Hema Mullur is joining KEYE as the replacement for retiring weeknight anchor Judy Maggio. http://www.keyetv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/keye-tv-announces-new-evening-anchor-team-addition-18030.shtml
  20. IIRC, the dayside stuff is HD (it certainly looks a lot crisper on an HD now screen than it did when they first launched), it's just that they decided to keep the L bar instead of having a lot of unused space on the edges of the screen like a lot of news operations that haven't gone to letterboxing their HD feed do.
  21. Even so, as a resident of the market, I can say that he's about the only person in KVUE's weather department who could come close to producing that level of excitement, even on demand. They're all so sedate that they had a long-running promo campaign promoting them as "the calm in the storm."
  22. Let's just say that it was pretty well known among gays and lesbians why the Obama team picked her to be the interviewer when he said that he had changed his mind on same-sex marriage, even if it was always talked about with a wink and a nudge because the etiquette is that you don't "out" people who haven't come out themselves. However, I kind of assumed that if she didn't come out during the cancer treatment, when she was talking a lot about her personal life, she wasn't going to talk about it at all. When I saw that it was published on Sunday evening, I kind of assumed it was going to get a few minutes on Monday's show for those who hadn't heard and to let her explain the decision to make it public now, but there wouldn't be a whole lot said about it other than that (pretty much the same as Sam Champion got when he came out by announcing his engagement.)
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