Rusty Muck

Elisa Amigo has done great work at WJW the past few years, and had been co-anchoring the weekend morning news alongside Mark Zinni. Good move by KABB, and best of luck to her.

CHCH-TV in Hamilton, ON has 64 hours of news a week, but it has the most local news output of any station I know of per weekday... from 4am to 5pm, and hourlong newscasts at 6pm and 11pm. Add in their local discussion shows at the 5pm hour, and that is 16 HOURS of local output per weekday!

KREX lost everything in a fire at the station a few years ago. I'm curious if they redid that graphics pack in-house because they had no choice. But prior to the fire, KREX's logo was a verbatim copy of WEWS's 2004 logo.

Hearst and P-N reupped with IBS just before the Nexstar purchase was announced, so it looks like it won't become proprietary to Nexstar.

I like the current site LocalTV Wordpress template, but it isn't responsive design. Ideally, they should upgrade that template to be responsive, and let it be. As for the Tribune Fox affiliate graphics package, that is so badly needed for the LocalTV Fox affils, it isn't funny. I remember that Tribune allowed other non-Tribune Fox stations rights to their previous package (KBTV/Beaumont and WAWS/Jacksonville come to mind) mainly because it was almost a knockoff of the Fox O&O V.1 graphics package. This one, however, is totally proprietary.

Speaking of WKBW, they recently hired a new morning traffic reporter (a former intern last year)... and a publicity shot on her Facebook page has her holding a "7 News - Live, Local, Late Breaking" mug. There are no words.

For WKBW's sake, if they wind up in Nexstar hands, they at least should retain MCTYW for the open. Bumpers and promos can use any Arnold theme (provided it is compatible with MCTYW) or they could get Arnold to compose a similar-sounding theme. Doesn't WPVI use some cuts of Gari's EWN for breaking news stingers?

So much so that I not only openly advocate for the buyout, I'd drive down to Washington personally and try to lobby the FCC into greenlighting it. What Granite has done to WKBW since 1993 is utterly criminal.

That makes sense, because that's a natural quadopoly for Grupo Televisa. Windsor, OTOH, has two standalone signals: CBC O&O CBET and CTV two O&O CHWI. You really can't group them as one singular voice.

Yup. That was the ill-fated "Live, Local, Late Breaking" graphics package, which actually was the best look they ever had, but it all got blown up when the EWN name was revived (their few ENG trucks still sport the "7 NEWS" logo, BTW). All subsequent redesigns have been in-house - and if I'm not mistaken, by the same guy who is STILL their lone graphics guy. Hell, if they adopted a logo style similar to WATN's "Local 24," that would be sufficient enough. "Yucky" is not the word that comes to mind when I look at WKBW. "Tragic" would be more appropriate.

Speaking of WKBW, they trotted out a logo that finally embeds the ABC logo on the side. But still. Seriously, if Nexstar buys the station, please please PLEASE retire the Capital Cities-era "7" logo. Hell, use the ABC circle 7 (which WKBW would have adopted anyway had CapCities/ABC retained it). Keep MCTYW - albeit with the WPVI variants - and the EWN name, but blow up everything else. Start fresh.

WKBW took it hard after Granite's bankruptcy, and they never really have recovered. When your graphics department , there is bound to be problems. You heard me right... one guy. A Big Four affiliate in Buffalo has only ONE guy making an entire graphics package for their news department. At least it's not as bad as or WSVI, but it's not as memorable, either.