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WXIN is adding more local newscasts. The Indianapolis Fox affiliate is adding a half-hour 7 p.m. newscast in the fall (adding to the 3½ hours it already carries in the late afternoon/early evening. 6 and 10 p.m. anchors Bob Donaldson and Fanchon Stinger will serve as anchors of the new 7 p.m. newscast as well. The station is also launching an 11 p.m. newscast on June 30, called Fox 59 NewsPoint, and has hired former WTHR weekend morning anchor Nicole Pence as its anchor. The program will be structured as a standalone newscast featuring “a concise wrap-up of the day’s events, plus a quick look forward to tomorrow’s weather” and will have “a distinct look and feel from the rest of FOX59’s newscasts seen throughout the day.”
In total, by the time the 7 p.m. newscast is added, WXIN will carry 66 hours of local newscasts each week (surpassing sister station WJW in Cleveland, which ironically supplanted WXIN as the highest news output among Tribune Broadcasting's stations when Tribune's acquisition of former WJW owner Local TV was finalized in December, for the highest local newscast output of any U.S. television station by a half-hour).
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/wxin-adds-nicole-pence-expands-evening-newscasts_b120080
And I thought we had it rough doing 59.5 hours of local news a week. Of course if we ever add a 4pm newscast, we'll be right up there.
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OK hold the phone there. I guess you're counting Jeff Penner who is usually not on the air unless he's filling in for one of their regular meteorologists. I've always seen it as four with an off-air producer who fills in sometimes. I generally don't count the off-air people.
And there's nothing wrong with having six meteorlogists at the station. KSAT will soon have six total once Adam Caskey starts. Five on-air and one off-air producer (who never fills in). If you want to get extreme they technically have seven if you count John Honoré who KSAT alleges is still employed by them...
Yeah I am counting Jeff. I guess that's a good point, but he's been on the air enough times and is featured in all of their promos. Lezak brought him over when he left WDAF way back when.
For Kansas City though, that's weird. Hell, KMBC and now KCTV have two mets on-air in the morning and we generally consider it to be overkill.
Technically, KSHB has three on-air meteorologists, one weather producer (Penner) and one "weather anchor" (Michelle Apon), who is not a real meteorologist. Nichols isn't a real meteorologist either.
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Our weekend meteorologist gave us video of himself during his television weather debut -- 30 years ago this month.
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I noticed KRCR in Redding is hiring an "assistant news director" to launch a stand-alone newsroom at KAEF in Eureka, California.
http://www.bontenmedia.com/employment/assistant-news-director-eureka-kaefkbvu-eureka-ca/25195682
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Former KMBC/Kansas City meteorologist Lisa Teachman is joining rival KCTV. This means KCTV will have a five-person on-air weather staff. Teachman will also do morning traffic.
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/15/4962053/meteorologist-lisa-teachman-joins.html
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I had heard KMBC/Kansas City would replace its departing meteorologists with a guy from KMIZ who is barely out of school. It looks like they will bring on two weathercasters after all, presumably the younger guy for weekend morning and the KWTV guy for weekend evenings, which is what he does now.
(edit to add: if this is true.)
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Jose, It was stated in the recent Holiday promos that Rhiannon was living in Miami Beach. At best, traffic in between Miami Beach to the WFOR studios in Doral is 30 minutes and that is stating best possibilities. I know that rush hour starts at 3:30 so that first scenario she would have to leave at 3 to make it work and that 6:30 commute home would take an hour or more due to how congested it gets in Doral all the way on the Dolphin over. WSVN is literally a pebble throw away to Miami Beach on N. Bay Village.
You know I never thought about the evening traffic part, I however was just using examples not considering the actual commute times etc. But if she did take the noon & 6 shift, at least she would be home at a reasonable hour.
I think they've learned by now there are some sacrifices to be made for the sake of upward mobility. Rhiannon anchored in nearby Topeka years ago. Mike was a reporter there under his real last name, but he was also reporting in Kansas City simultaneously. Then Rhiannon started doing traffic in Kansas City. They were both working two jobs 60 miles apart. Then both moved to New York where one worked overnights and the other worked in syndication, and then on to Miami on a different timetable. They are a goal-oriented couple, and they have a terrific agent.
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Did anyone see this? Most fascinating to me.
http://www.24saltlake.com/media/kutv-reporter-passes-out-live-television/
I wanna know two things:
1) What exactly causes her to faint in high altitudes and very cold temperatures
2) Why they didn't cut away from the live shot the moment they realized she was staying on the ground and the guy was beginning to undo her skiis because it could have been serious.
She handled it well though, trying to recover from it and continuing the interview.
The director should have returned to the studio.
At high altitude, there is less oxygen, but being in Salt Lake City, that woman should be used to the mountains, I would think. She may have forgotten to bend her knees. When I was in marching band, the drum majors always told us not to lock our knees for long periods of time, or we would pass out.
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Scripps is adding Newsy Videos to its portfolio. I don't think like an entrepreneur, so I never fully understood how Newsy made money. I guess the key is to start it and hope someone buys it.
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Yep. KNBN is the only other news operation in Rapid Falls, because the CBS affiliate is a KELO satellite.
No, there's also KEVN.
KEVN was in the news recently when a few of its employees got stuck at the station during a snowstorm.
Rapid City is one of the smallest markets out there. For a few years after KEVN switched to FOX, viewers needed cable to get NBC (from KUSA in Denver).
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Larry Perret has been named the news director for KCTV in Kansas City. He used to be a news director in Los Angeles.
He was also out in Salt Lake City at KTVX.
Based on his past, it's hard to gauge how he will run KCTV.
What was his past like? A market like Kansas City picking up a news director that used to work in LA seems like a pretty big get to me.
That was 20 years ago. It's not a big deal, and you can't run a Kansas City newsroom the same way you would run a Los Angeles newsroom anyway.
Perret has been out of work most of the year. He interviewed for the ND job at Meredith's KPHO in Phoenix, but didn't get it. I'm sure he'll do a fine job at KCTV. He's walking into a winning situation.
Perret will probably draw more on his experience at Magid than anything. News directors who previously worked as consultants stroll into the newsroom armed with research. They'll tell you "this worked in market X, so it will work here" or "mostly women over age 70 watch newscasts at this time, all stories need to be relevant to them." That has been my experience.
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I found this on one of my old nature program tapes. It's a pledge break from public television station KTWU, sometime in the late 1980s.
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All of those Citadel stations have a tough road. KCAU, I think, is just down the street from all the municipal government buildings in Sioux City. But it resides in an ancient building with structural issues. WOI is licensed to Ames, and has always been seen as a competitive outsider, even though the physical station has been in Des Moines for a long time.
KLKN - and I don't know who would actually want them -- sued a former worker last year for twice her annual salary because she quit and they had to spend money to hire and train someone new. That should tell you a lot about Citadel.
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But what I'm even more excited about is that a certain rogue reporter is leaving WLNE.
According to her twitter account, she'll
Actually, crap. Why would WVIT hire her? She is not that great of a reporter. I have a gut feeling she'll do this two years and then mommy will get her a job at WFAA. I will cringe if that happens. I will stop watching WFAA if they hire Abbey...
At least WVIT is the third place station in CT so not too many people will have to be exposed to her amateurish reporting...
WVIT may be in 3rd place but WVIT actually has more Facebook likes and Twitter followers than WFSB, WTNH or WTIC-TV.
WVIT did very well during the Newtown, CT school shooting. They won a Peabody for their coverage.
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It's a significant amount. But how many are real? I've worked at stations where the ND would post job announcements with no actual openings, just to get resumes and tapes on file for the next legitimate opening.Can someone tell me if this is a lot? KSHB currently has seventeen job openings.
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Former KCTV anchor Kelly Jones is the new morning anchor at WPMI in Mobile. The GM there is Bobby Totsch, who was the GM at KCTV when KCTV hired Kelly Jones.
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Two former KCTV employees got new jobs. Cynee Simpson is mentioned above; she's joining WAGA in Atlanta. Ash-Har Quaraishi will become a Chicago-based correspondent for al Jazeera TV.
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The one time I was in southern Oregon, in 2005, KOBI's logo was an interstate highway shield. I thought KDRV had the best product, but that wasn't saying much. They all looked outstanding compared to what I saw from KIEM in Eureka a few days later.
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MidwestTV, can you describe what KCTV is like under Blaise Labbe since he will be coming to WOAI/KABB on Aug 12?
I've heard that he can be somewhat arrogant and dismissive, but then again, those things are probably said about any news director or general manager at a television station. However he really did help to take KCTV away from their infamous days of in-you-face reporting and harassing, almost stalking like investigations. Not to mention that their news product was near TMZ-like and there was so much death on their newscasts you would've sworn it was a cop show and severe weather coverage of storms outside the viewing area. First on, last off. That was KCTV's philosophy.
However once Labbe took over, all of that stopped. They still have that stigma with them, but it's more or less faded now. He managed to calm the station down (significantly to say the least), build up its actual journalistic qualities and bring the station to a respectable position, both ratings and reputation wise.
I'm more interested in why Labbe is leaving a station on the rise, in market 32, for a non-winning duopoly in market 37. Family considerations?
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KSHB has hired Matt Brown as their assistant news director. He comes from KOKI in Tulsa, OK where he was their full news director.
Anyone know what he was like and how he did over at KOKI?
Oh wait now...upon further research I've discovered that Brown was fired after not even 2 years along with their general manager? I'm also getting implications that their news quality isn't the best. This seems to indicate that he didn't do a good job...makes me wonder now KSHB would have hired him.
Cox Media bought the station from Newport and decided to install their own people. I don't know if it's truly a reflection on the job Brown did as the ND. As I can attest, being the FOX affiliate is a tough road at times, and probably moreso in a medium market like Tulsa.
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Speaking of New Hampshire, I noticed a flurry of job posts for something called NH1. This is a Binnie Media outlet apparently based in Concord. NECN competitor?