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WTEN (Albany, NY) will start at 9am newscast on 9/12.
They will now air live news from 4:30-10:00am. This makes it the longest live morning news in Albany. I wondered if this would happen because WTEN aired Dr. Oz/Good Dish at 9 and picked up Sherri for 10am and there isn’t much new syndicated content they could have put at 9am.
The promo says meteorologist Jill Szwed and morning anchor Stephanie Rivas will anchor (it doesn’t appear Ryan and Christina who Stephanie anchors with from 4:30-9:00 will anchor the new broadcast).
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23 hours ago, nynewslover said:
Not saying it was a lie or anything but to pull them live on air? They don’t get the results before they go on? They couldn’t have cut to commercial and come back with an explanation? Cmon…
This is what they did.
Joy tossed to commercial and then it was just Joy and Sara. The show ended up being mostly audience questions, which was actually great to watch!
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But it was then revealed they were actually negative. What a wild show.
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I honestly don’t understand why they don’t try to put more News Nation programing on FOX/CW affiliates that Nexstar owns. Wouldn’t it be the best way to promote the network?
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40 minutes ago, Action Newsroom said:
So earlier I went to 1iota for no reason (and by that I meant "looking for talk shows near me that are bringing back audiences") and I got to see this:
A variation of the current logo calling back to the original logo in celebration of the 25th season and the silver anniversary. Looks much better than the first version, and reminded me fondly of the original.
Yes, I saw in in the promo they released last week:
I thought the same about it looking like the original logo, though with the 25 there, I want to read it as “The Iew” …I wonder if a version of the original theme makes a comeback too.
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“Also down the road may be a streaming version of NewsNation.”
https://www.nexttv.com/news/perry-sook-84-of-the-country-has-no-earthly-idea-what-newsnation-is
The fact that this is not the priority RIGHT NOW is the problem.
So, if you have brand recognition but people don’t get the cable channel what’s the point? 
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In a Instagram live with his wife, Al said they didn’t believe they would have as much access to the olympians, I also feel I heard this elsewhere too (maybe some of the Today show XM podcasts). The thinking is that they would only be able to zoom interview the olympians.
So, for planning, they thought the show would be boring and only planned for 1 week it sounds like.
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The changes continue at WNYT-NewsChannel 13 in Albany. The channel has no official morning or 11pm newscast now.
Interestingly, from what I understand, the ratings haven’t suffered drastically.
https://www.timesunion.com/kristi/article/Paulina-Bucka-leaving-WNYT-after-four-months-16350250.php
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2 hours ago, I’m a news junkie..so what said:
WREG has started putting previews of News Nation on their 5pm shows.
I noticed WTEN doing it at 6pm, and the actual channel numbers to find News Nation on.
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I actually liked Dan’s show on MSNBC back in the day.
I just don’t understand how this channel can be successful without a streaming option…why is Nexstar putting all this money in a cable channel? I mean can’t they at least offer it over the air to it’s affiliates sub channels?
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On 5/4/2021 at 8:12 PM, scrabbleship said:
Another day, another person leaving WNYT. And this one is a big name.
After 42 years at WNYT, 4:00/4:30/6:00 PM anchor and health reporter Benita Zahn is leaving the station to work as a certified health coach. Her last day will be May 28th
For those keeping score, this is the sixth departure at WNYT in as many months. A near unreal period of tumult for a station once known for being atypically stable.
I thought the same, biggest change since Lydia was let go. I wonder what it will do to long term ratings in the long term?
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On 4/10/2021 at 2:26 AM, DENDude said:
Is it me or does Nexstar seem to be afraid of digital? What I mean is, you don't see nexstar stations trying new digital things & live streaming appears to be very inconsistent across nexstar stations . While KDVR did launch "FOX31 NOW" that is just an online stream & it's minimal effort at that, mainly traffic accidents, weather ect.
For example: KXRM has very little in the way of live streaming on it's website, it does stream all of it's newscasts but that is about it. KREX & KFQX have no live streaming options available at there website. Again inconsistent across there footprint. I think that should be focus for Nexstar instead of pet projects like News Nation, which is a dumpster fire in of it's self.
I’ve often said this before, no focus on digital or streaming.
I will say WTEN does often does online only (political or entertainment) specials but there’s not a station wide focus on digital.
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Do any other ABC stations (on the east) start The 10 Commandments on at 8 instead of 7? WTEN has ALWAYS done this, so the 11pm News won’t be on until 12:44 and it is Sam DiMascio’s last night anchoring, she is leaving to be with her family.
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I’m actually surprised Nexstar doesn’t have a nightly program across the state, now that they have an affiliate in every market. Empire State Weekly (from WTEN) airs on the weekends across NY.
A 5:30 show called Empire State Tonight would seem logical on all NY Nexstar stations.
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1 hour ago, hmaxhanson said:
This whole having NewsNation as a cable channel you can only stream through your cable subscription instead of an OTT network you can watch for free on a service like Pluto TV is another example.
This
I don’t know why Nexstar doesn’t have an app for Roku, etc where you can watch your local Nexstar station and the News Nation broadcast. CBS is doing it very well and they must make a profit to continue it.
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Probably the worst View logo they’ve ever had in my opinion and I didn’t think they needed to change the logo.
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6 hours ago, scrabbleship said:
The funny thing is outside the meteorologist role it's been pretty stable in mornings for them. Not unlike WRGB which still hasn't recovered from Ed O'Brien passing away or WNYT which has as much of a revolving door. Last I checked they were neck in neck with 13 in the mornings.
I was going to say Nicol and Christina have been on the constant on the morning news. Sad to see her leave. Hope they pull from within for the third anchor.
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I noticed NBC CT started a weekly kids show? Any other NBC O&O doing this?
Seems like a great idea during this time and looks very well done, 2 episodes are on their YouTube page, the guide says it airs Fridays at 11:30.
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13 hours ago, TheRob said:
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.
Also interesting the old and new WTEN logo are there. The old one was used for a live shot yesterday.
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On 1/24/2020 at 8:42 AM, scrabbleship said:
It's not that hard to believe. WNYT is a station which is still stuck in the 90s in many ways - that they kept their 1995 vintage set until 2018 is probably Exhibit A. They never have had a ticker at any time of the day, their morning newscast still starts at 5:00 versus 4:30, their use of WNYA pales to that of WRGB's of WCWN or WTEN's of WXXA even. Much of this is at the feet of their longtime GM, Steve Baboulis, who has been GM since Hubbard took over at 1996, was ND during their worst-to-dominant period, and has been at the station in some form since 1977. For all of the "when (Benita/Jim/Elaine/Bob/Rodger/et Al.) retires 13 will not be the same" talk, when Steve calls it a career you know that stuff's going to go down at the hands of Hubbard...or whoever ends up with WNYT down the road.
The "one of the newest members" caption makes me wonder if something else is going to go down. Bob finally calling it a career and someone new doing noon/4:00? Neal Estano re-calling it a career and someone new going on mornings? This could get interesting.
This is a really good take on WNYT and even if you look at the new set they got a few years ago, it still resembles the old one in many ways and I do wonder how long before it starts to look dated especially with what WTEN & WRGB have. The lack of WNYT produced content on WNYA is shocking compared to what the others do on their sister station, though they do produce local sports shows on Saturday AM highlighting college sports teams for WNYA.
Outside of this, their newscasts still place a much greater emphasis on national news than what WTEN produces, where 98% of the time national news/politics isn’t covered.
The 2 new meteorologists will split Saturday and Sunday mornings and during the week, which is about the same shift Greg had before he left, according to posts from WNYT on social media.
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WRGB got these today. Not so sure about the chimes they’re using in between stories. Handful of negative comments on their Facebook page too.
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On 8/28/2019 at 7:31 PM, Info Junkie said:
WNYT’s been phasing in Steve Stone for their promos, specifically for TV advertisements. Don’t have any footage of it currently.
Makes you wonder if Ed Hopkins is retiring or if he just passed away. He is still doing promos for the news and the opens, of course.
I noticed this today too in a promo for the sports team and a proof of performance promo. His voice sounds so fresh and new.
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On 4/5/2019 at 8:31 PM, JacobC said:
Guys I hate to tell you this, but I received a notification from WNYT NewsChannel 13 on Facebook saying that their 10pm news on WNYA My4 Albany will be moving to 9pm. With this result, it will be the ONLY news at 9pm in the Capital Region. It starts 4/9 which is Tuesday!!! Looks like the 10pm newscasts will belong to WCWN (produced by WRGB) and WXXA (produced by WTEN).; aka two newscasts duopolies in primetime.
I saw this too and I have to assume it’s because ratings must’ve been so bad for their 10pm on My4 that they decided to put a newscast on when there’s no other competition?
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Regis was just on The View last week.
2023 Writers & Actors Strike discussion
in General TV
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Whoopi started The View explaining they had no writers because of the strike, which was evident because the normally elaborate open was only like 30 seconds and simply mentioned they would discuss hot topics and the voice-over wasn’t specific, like normal.