Rusty Muck

Certainly sounds like MCTYW is being phased out, if it hadn't been already. That Inergy cut is apparently being used as the main cut for KB's newscasts.

Not sure exactly when it happened, but WKBW finally has a live stream for their newscasts. Downtime and commercial breaks are covered up by their various skycams.

Well, the WMMS Buzzard Morning Zoo was commanding insane double digits in the Cleveland ratings back in 1988. It was naturally heavily promoted on-air. If I remember the timeline correctly, the late Brian Chalmers (who later was in WKYC's art department) was behind most, if not all, of the art. David Helton - the artist who co-created the WMMS Buzzard, and was the station's in-house artist for years - had left or was in the process of leaving to do mostly freelance and eventually join WMJI-FM... both artists were and are insanely talented.

The first thing I thought of was the infamous WMMS "Buzzard Morning Zoo Corn Flakes" that Pick-n-Pay (a long-gone Cleveland grocery chain) actually SOLD back in 1988. They were redressed store-brand corn flakes.

Even without an 11pm newscast, that should ensure WJW's status as having the most local news output per week of any station in North America. (WJW even rebroadcasts the 10pm news TWICE - at 1am and 3am.)

MCTYW has been used mostly in headline teasers right at the start of the newscast, and occasionally at the end of headline updates posted to their Facebook page. That's really all it can be used for now, as MCTYW is otherwise incompatible with the Scripps graphics and Inergy. It was used as the end of the Keith Radford piece as he, along with Mike Randall, are the last two prominent staffers remaining from KB's glory years pre-Granite.

I think hell would freeze over if Olbermann returned to Fox Sports. MSNBC needs help badly at 8pm, so why not?

Smart move. Did they de-brand "The Rundown" as well? If not, I'm assuming that will happen once "Morning Joe" gets a fourth hour... which, as Andy Luck just told Variety's Brian Steinberg, is very much a possibility.

MSNBC's primetime ratings plummeted after Chris Hayes ascended to the 8pm slot. Ed Schultz at least was somewhat competitive in that time slot... Hayes simply has never clicked. While Rachel has been the only really successful opinion program (not hosted by Olbermann) that they have ever had, the show has also clearly suffered from Hayes as a lead-in. I'd take chances with Willie Geist at 8pm, and bounce Larry O'Donnell for a rolling news hour at 10pm. Repeat Willie and Rachel for the West Coast, then live rolling news to 5am EST.

That's the WABC circle 7 incorrectly used in that cap. Whoops! No wonder it was obviously an employee freebie. Note that WKBW brands itself as "7abc," and they now use the WXYZ logo outright.

I can't help but feel that the opinion show block in primetime may be next on the chopping block. If it isn't, it should. And I'm talking about a mass cancellation. Given that the other news channels have opinion programming or documentaries in primetime, MSNBC would be best served going with live, long form newscasts instead of the same ol', same old'. But that's just me.

The elimination of the CNN-esque animated box on the left-hand side of the screen would be enough of an update. Otherwise, the package is fine the way it is. Scripps and Renderon created this package to last a long time. And it's world's away from the 2010 standardized look (and music especially).

Might I kindly suggest that you please read the last few pages in this thread, as said question has already been asked before.

In this environment where cord-cutting has reached record levels? It makes absolutely no sense unless they want to use the channel space for their possible national news channel. But shouldn't they be buying OANN and NewsMaxTV instead?

Comcast is also taking a cue from when MCA slapped its name on a byline of the main Universal Pictures logo throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. MCA only was known for owning Universal Studios/Television and it's associated record label... and not for the talent agency it was forced to sell in order to buy Revue Studios, Decca Records and Universal International. And yet, Comcast is such a sprawling conglomerate with inconsistent branding standards throughout its many divisions. Some entities like Universal Television are still "A Division of NBCUniversal," while Comcast now has the NBC peacock on their main logo, while NBCUniversal has nothing but a ghastly blocky typeface as their logo. And so on. While TEGNA and Gannett slapping their names on everything is borderline silly, at least they are employing some sort of consistency.

Even if the test run was successful, the show wouldn't be entering regular production until the 2016-2017 TV season.

Well, they have to find some place to stick BriWi at, as just anchoring breaking news coverage won't be enough. Joe Concha surmised the same thing a few days ago on Mediaite. Wouldn't it make more sense to title Chuck Todd's hour as "The (Daily) Rundown" ... and have Jose Diaz-Balart and Tamron Hall anchor "MSNBC Live"-branded news hours?

This past TV season, WKYC stuck most of the E/I block at 12:30pm weekdays, with one show airing at the 11am Saturday hour to fulfil the three hour FCC requirement. Infomercials are now airing at the 12:30pm weekday timeslot as of this week. Prior to WKYC's major news expansion last September, NBC Kids ran from 10:30-noon and 12:30-1pm on Saturday, and from 7a-8a on Sunday.

Tomorrow morning.

And speaking of WEWS, they are adding local newscasts on Sunday morning... from 8am to 9am (following GMA) and from 10am to 11am (following This Week). That would leave WOIO as the only Big 4 affiliate in Cleveland that doesn't have a morning newscast on both Saturday and Sunday. Oh, and WKYC is bumping the start time for their Saturday morning news to 5am next week, along with the E/I block moving back to Saturday morning.

WJW isn't even clearing the program, instead opting for their 11am news and the weekly Howard Hanna real estate showcase at 11:30am. It wasn't even scooted onto 8.2 Antenna TV. Not that I really mind. Between "Tailgate 19" on WOIO (a de facto local lead-in to the Browns games at 1pm) and the Browns-produced house organ programming on WEWS, it probably wouldn't be missed that much.

Looking at WKBW's schedule, they are picking up "The List" at 7pm weeknights, with "Extra" moving to 4pm. They've also added "Comics Unleashed," "America's Court" and "Justice for All with Christine Perez" in overnight. Weekends look like they are slowly rebuilding their weekend programming inventory, with a cutback in infomercials. No sign that they will be producing "The Now" anytime soon, but KB reporter Jason Gruenauer was tapped to be a national correspondent for "The Now" awhile back.

Hubbard selling out... not yet. Their radio division has been slowly growing over the past few years (most notably with their purchase of Sandusky Radio) and they own WTOP-FM, radio's 800-pound billing monster. They will probably hold onto their TV stations for a few more years. Just my opinion...

Back in late 1995, WBNX (which was finally starting to find footing in the Cleveland market) actually aired WJW's 10pm newscast seven nights a week in a one-hour tape delay. That ended shortly after Fox completed its purchase of WJW in September 1996. I don't really fault Raycom for losing the Indians rights for WUAB. It was going to happen regardless of who owned the station, mainly because Larry Dolan overpaid for the team (Dick Jacobs was one lucky SOB; he sold the team at peak value with a massive payroll that couldn't be sustained in the long run). Moving solely to Fox Sports Ohio was a fait accompli. And as it went, the Dolan family eventually wanted to cut the middleman and operate their own regional sports network akin to YES, NESN and SNY, so they left Fox Sports Ohio and launched their own RSN in collaboration with Time Warner and WKYC/Gannett. (Extra trivia note: Larry's brother Charles Dolan vis-a-vis Cablevision bought and launched the original SportsRadio 1220 WKNR in 1991, making it a rather faithful clone of WFAN, and acquired the Indians' radio PBP rights. Cablevision sold WKNR to Jacor Communications as the era of radio consolidation began to rear its ugly head.) Thing is, the Yankees, Red Sox and Mets can get away with running an RSN, but a mid-major market team like the Indians really cannot... SportsTime Ohio was often hard-pressed to find any additional programming that wasn't Indians-related, not to mention that the RSN revenue pie was already cut thin with Fox Sports Ohio's continued existence (and they still had Cavaliers PBP rights in the midst of LeBron's first stint with the team). When the Dolans sold SportsTime Ohio to Fox, it was hardly a surprise to anyone. As for WKYC, they did air several games per year that were billed as from "Channel 3 Sports" for the first few years of STO's life. Jim Donovan was the lead PBP announcer for those games, which STO would simulcast. That arrangement was flipped during the 2010 season, around the same time Donovan had to relinquish the PBP role while in treatment for leukemia. Fun fact: that iteration of WGCL (again, the current WNCX/98.5) and WZGC/92.9 in Atlanta were sister stations, owned for many years by General Cinemas. Hence, the "GC" calls.

Nevermind the leaps of faith some have about a theoretical sale of WBNX (personally, if it gets sold, my money would be on Nexstar for a standalone market-entry not unlike KASW)... Fox owns and operates SportsTime Ohio, not Tribune. Master control is still run out of WKYC's facility (dating back to when the Dolan family - vis-a-vis the Cleveland Indians Baseball Company - owned the network, and WKYC operated it). And in any event, WKYC's contract to simulcast 10-15 STO games per year runs for several more years.