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  1. Rusty Muck
    The only - ONLY - station to have revived a newscast theme due to popular demand... was WPVI in 1996. And they had good reason: NO ONE liked the London Philharmonic Orchestra's rendition of MCTYW. This is Home isn't bad. It's generic. It's a bit corporate-ish. But there's nothing that garners immediate negative reaction like MCTYW by the London Philharmonic Orchestra did. And honestly, I don't think the majority of viewers to either station are spitting angry that "The Spirit" - a musical signature barely in use for YEARS - got retired. Your idea is not only impractical, it is impossible and almost childish. No suit from Gannett is going to read posts on FB fan pages for WFAA or KHOU and think, "Ah ha! Let's bring back The Spirit!" That is not how the world works.
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    Scripps has made official that KMGH's ND Jeff Harris is jumping over to WEWS. Take from that what you will.
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    WEWS just posted a promo for "The Now Cleveland," which unsurprisingly has it's own dedicated YouTube channel. [yt]PE1agocDwlo[/yt]
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    Sharon Reed was an embarrassment to Cleveland television news. She was only hired by Bill Applegate because of her outrageous persona - the WCAU flameout was pretty much a resume enhancement** - and was best known for her "Body of Art" sweeps stunt. When WOIO finally 'fired' Reed (the Plain Dealer infamously spiked a plausible rumor - which somehow got published on their own website - as to why) the station became 100% more watchable. Plus WOIO hired away the very respectable Romona Robinson from WKYC to replace Sharon, and WKYC shockingly was able to lure away Russ Mitchell from CBS to replace Romona. So it effectively became a trade of Russ Mitchell for Sharon Reed. And that's a hell of a trade. **If you think I'm kidding, look at Catherine Bosley and Chuck Galeti as other public rehabilitation projects that Applegate initiated. But at least those two had some likable qualities.
  5. Rusty Muck
    As long as hashtags aren't incorporated into the graphics (see KALA-TV as a prime offender) then it's not that big a deal. More of a viral marketing effort than anything else as well as to help with search efforts on Twitter.
  6. Rusty Muck
    Actually, WJW needs a new anchor/reporter to replace Zinni. He's headed back to New England at an unspecified station (Zinni worked at WPRI before joining WJW in 2008).
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    I don't know if anyone has posted about this, but WEWS has also added another hour to their Saturday morning news. Now wrapped around a live clearance of "GMA Saturday" at 7am, WEWS has local news from 6a-7a and 8a-10a. The third hour of Litton's E/I ABC package gets scooted to 11am Sundays. So here's the local-news-on-Saturday-morning landscape for Cleveland: WKYC (as of early September): 6a-7a, 9a-10:30a, and 12p-12:30p. "Today Saturday" from 7a-9a. WEWS: 6a-7a and 8a-10a. "GMA Saturday" from 7a-8a. WJW: 7a-10a. (You have to wonder when they up the start time to 6a.) WOIO: none, surprisingly. "CBS This Morning" runs from 9a-11a.
  8. Rusty Muck
    So remind me again why Linda Pellegrino had to leave WKBW's news department when "AM Buffalo" was converted into an infotainment program?
  9. Rusty Muck
    WKYC uses sponsorship billboards leading into their newscasts. They've done that since 2006. And WEWS's newscasts were "brought to you by Ohio Edison and the Illuminating Company" for decades up until the late 90s (likely when both utilities merged to form FirstEnergy). WOIO's newsroom also has a sponsorship billboard usually run after the second commercial break... I forget the sponsor.
  10. Rusty Muck
    Oh God. Don't remind me of those AND the Rampage Music. The Belo stations were damn lucky that they were never subject to those.
  11. Rusty Muck
    I just heard that the Dollar Tree is going to buy Family Dollar for $1B. The combined company will be called Two Dollars.
  12. Rusty Muck
    Who knows what Gannett is going to do with the Belo and London stations in Texas? Although it is hard for the London stations not to be standardized. That percentage of Texas viewers served by a Gannett TV station is mind-boggling. 83%. Good Lord.
  13. Rusty Muck
    Has any station ever switched out their graphics system while a news/weather emergency was taking place? This could be a first.
  14. Rusty Muck
    I tried ux.wfaa.com to no success (it was the first Belo station that came to mind). So I would assume that they are building these new sites one at a time. It should be noted that you can replace "www" with "ux" on any Gannett website using Presto - e.g., ux.wkyc.com, ux.wgrz.com, ux.ktvb.com - and still access their main websites. EDIT: I tried out ux.kgw.com... and it has the Presto layout with content populated. But oddly enough, no logo.
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    And it's still the same setup today. So expanding it should not dilute that much to begin with. If the stupid, worthless E/I rule didn't exist, I bet most stations would literally program their entire Saturday morning block as one extended newscast.
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    I see what you did there...
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    WKYC is doing the same on weekends, come September. (The one hour of E/I programming will supposedly move down to the 11am hour on Sunday). Of course, WKYC has had weekend morning newscasts continuously since 1991.
  18. Rusty Muck
    Jesus, it sounds like it's being played in the key of R.
  19. Rusty Muck
    So I take it that KTVB is not known for subtlety. It's almost as if they saved some of the background images from Gannett Presto, and uploaded them onto the Broadcast Interactive CMS.
  20. Rusty Muck
    It was also used for NBC's Look C graphics. Dinot is one of the variants that is available on a commercial scale.
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    Which, as S!nclair is doing by proposing the moving of WBMA+ and WCIV to subchannels of their existing stations, exposes the fatal flaw in Tom Wheeler's JSA scheme. (Or is that more of an intentional 'poison pill' than a fatal flaw?) I would not be shocked in the least if, months from now, Nexstar withdraws those sales to Marshall and makes a proposal to move KLJB, KMSS and KPEJ to subchannels of an existing station they own, and simultaneously handing in those three licenses in to the FCC - thus, completely skirting the JSA rules altogether. Obviously they can't do it now because of what S!nclair just did, but they should if not to expose Tom Wheeler for the utter fool and telecom shill he is.
  22. Rusty Muck
    Wouldn't shock me for the CW to make a deal with Litton. Heck, Litton is already on BOTH ABC and CBS.
  23. Rusty Muck
    Every time a disingenuous plug for USA Today is made ("one of the nation's leading newspapers!"**) I lose at least ten brain cells. **According to a survey of randomly-selected motel and hotel housekeepers.
  24. Rusty Muck
    I kinda feel the same way. But then again, after WJW went through their "ei8ht IS NEWS" phase (which is at the same time WJW's 10pm newscast totally overtook WUAB, and never looked back) viewers seemed to adjust. Somehow, I guess they thought that a 7pm newscast made more sense.
  25. Rusty Muck
    Speaking of Elisa's former employer, legendary WJW meteorologist Dick Goddard - after assisting in expanded severe weather coverage Monday night - had to be rescued from his car after the interstate off-ramp he was on became completely overwhelmed with rainwater. He was trapped in his submerged car for close to 45 minutes and started to suffer from hypothermia. Mind you, Dick is 83 years old.
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