TheRob

Yes, we sent our own team and did our own live shots, as well as a few for the Kansas/Missouri Nexstar stations. KRON and KTXL both sent their own crews. Nexstar assembled a team for the rest of the group, one set of reporters doing morning lives, and the other doing evening lives. They were doing live shots on three different paths simultaneously.

Just for fun, here's a bagful of mic flags from Nexstar at the Super Bowl. They will have done more than 1,600 live shots by the end of Sunday.

KOLN's tower collapsed during this week's snow and ice storm. https://www.1011now.com/content/news/KOLN-TV-tower-in-Beaver-Crossing-collapses-due-to-ice-storm-567106121.html

Here's our answer on the CBS O&O MMJ hiring spree: KTVT in nDallas is going to produce newscasts for Detroit, Atlanta and Tampa (presumably to sell political ads, not for outstanding content). https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/three-cbs-owned-cw-stations-add-nightly-news

Our anchor Dhomonique Ricks is leaving for Washington, D.C. where her husband works. https://www.facebook.com/DRicksTV/photos/a.1500542763536656/2594582514132670/?type=3&theater

Nexstar officially opened its Jefferson City bureau today. Jeff Bernthal from KTVI is staffing it for this legislative session, but they still plan to hire a permanent MMJ.

He's running for U.S. Senate. https://apnews.com/a320c0e2b8b7fa8e2df96fb8bffa82c5

The fourth of Today moves back to 10:00. Right This Minute airs at 1:00.

KSHB canceled its pay-for-play lifestyle show Kansas City Live.

Sports reporter Carley McCord died in today's plane crash in Lafayette, La. She freelanced for ESPN and WDSU. https://www.wdsu.com/article/carley-mccord-a-member-of-wdsus-sports-team-dies-in-plane-crash/30351254

Don Imus died today at age 79.

I heard Nexstar is shutting down CLTV in Chicago. Hopefully some of those folks will be able to transfer seamlessly into WGN.

I'm still here. But if the company gives me my walking papers someday, I'll be fine for a while.

I don't know about WGN or KTLA, but we cut some people (mostly part-timers), and I expect KTVI did too. Open positions aren't being filled either.

KSHB'S Christa Dubill is leaving at the end of the year. https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/41-action-news-anchor-christa-dubill-to-depart-station

I don't know if the reduction is happening at all Tribune legacy stations, but it's happening at most of them.

Whether it's Saint Patrick's Day, New Year's Eve, or a championship sporting event, reporters hate these live shots. https://twitter.com/WWLTV/status/1203495337673056256

I don't fill out a time sheet, but those who do, they've been submitting them electronically since Tribune bought the station. I haven't sent in a paper time sheet in about a decade.

Yes, we have Office 365. By the way, the story is now in the Washington Post. The world needed an escape, I suppose.

Nick is a news/traffic anchor, not a meteorologist. But gather 'round everyone, and let me tell you a story of the great mass email of 2019. All of our email addresses end in fox4kc --dot--com. Most are firstname.lastname - at - fox 4 kcdotcom. The assignment desk has "news" at fox4kc-dot--com. But those are just shadow email addresses. Under Tribune, we were logging into computers, workday, outlook, etc., with (username #2) at tribunemedia-dot-com. This week Nexstar began migrating our accounts to its servers. Now we corporate accounts that are (username #3) at nexstar-dot-tv. Unbeknownst to us, news --at--nexstar dot-tv is a mass email to all the newsrooms. No one had ever told us that. When you combine a sleepy, medicated employee, some confusion that already existed over which username to use, and throw in another account name to remember, then I'm surprised this didn't happen earlier. Ironically, we never received the mass email, because Nexstar had not added the Tribune newsrooms to that group yet. Basically what some of us are doing right now is: 1. Logging into computers using account #1 at tribunemedia... 2. Logging into outlook for email using account #2 at nexstar.... 3. ...so that we can send emails using accounts that end in fox4kc dot-com.... 4.. ...and some of us still have to log into the newsroom software using old wdaftv4--dot--com addresses. I can keep it all straight, but some co-workers cannot.

I think that's accurate. Tribune had a build it/break it attitude. Nexstar strikes me so far as much more like a corporation, conservative but strategic, placing value in documentation and accounting for every penny. I also suspect Nexstar and Los Angeles will clash more often in the future.

No one should be surprised by this, but we will be getting ENPS next year.

KDVR needed some help out of the snow. https://twitter.com/EmilyAReports/status/1187397550862524416