ColtFromGulfcoast
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Who exactly would be the surviving company?
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On 5/8/2021 at 6:34 PM, SoFloTVClassics said:
I smell a second Spanish language station for Cleveland.
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be Telemundo.
Is there really room for one??
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1 hour ago, mrschimpf said:
Really, does it need to be phrased so negatively here? They're in my market and they could be a lot worse, like WGCL worse or WWJ-TV non-existent, and they have management which is willing to spend. And when WTMJ is in the market continuing to drag it down, I'd rather watch a great fourth-place news operation trying hard than a third-place one we know can do 250% better (and has). They got to 25 years; there were times we were praying they got to 10 or even five, so it's a major accomplishment to me.
Exactly. Out of ALL the stations that gained big 3 affiliations after the Fox switcheroo, WDJT has been among the best. They could be so much cheaper than they are. What's the reason for being hard on them?
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3 hours ago, TVIntheDesert said:
The Vegas case was strange. Channel 21(KUPN -> KVWB), which was wholly owned by Sinclair, went from UPN to WB. Channel 33 KFBT, had just been sold to a company affiliated with ACME Communications (headed by then-WB president Jamie Kellner) and LMA'd to Sinclair. I think the ownership issue was the reason why they didn't pick up UPN, which ended up on low-power Channel 25.
If the Acme thing was the case, then why didn't UPN just go to 33 as part of the deal which saw Acme and Paramount airing each other's networks in groups where one network was missing a station? One would think it would have been a no-brainer.
When KASY rejoined UPN after that short break, Paramount had also agreed to have the WB remain on WWHO and WLWC and add it to WTVX. Acme did the same for UPN in Champaign and Knoxville, in addition to keeping it in off hours on KPLRm
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7 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:
Seeing as how they already provide news for WUHF, unless they have an alternate studio space and control room, they would have to be pre-taped.
Syracuse is a possibility since they produce both WSTM and WTVH's newscasts, and only the CW has a 10pm show, i'm assuming it's done on the WSTM side? That leaves the WTVH's side open for doing newscasts for Buffalo, potentially.
It's gonna be Syracuse. I read that on the article.
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After two years, evening anchor Shelby Cashman is leaving KOAT to take over the morning spot on KOCO. This isn't her first time in Oklahoma City either.
This surprises me because I thought Alejandra Briones was next in line to take the morning anchor spot but at the same time, it doesn't as I saw this eventually coming when Cashman left for KOAT.
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On 7/18/2020 at 3:35 PM, tyrannical bastard said:
FTVLive decreed that WKBN meteorologist Alexis Walters was making the jump from weather to primary anchor, and that such a move was something he had never heard of.
https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2020/7/17/moving-over-from-the-chromakey
Ummm......Stan Boney?
Not only did he make the move from Chief Met to primary anchor at WYTV, he moved across the hall to WKBN to be an anchor there.
Ron Young coanchored the 9am news on KSLA while serving as the meteorologist.
In a reverse example, Steve Bender left his morning anchor gig at KTAL to be the meteorologist at KRNV.
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50 minutes ago, GoldenShine9 said:
I can see him ending up across town in a company more suited for him...
As soon as that non-compete expires.
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15 hours ago, CLT-DCA-ORF-PTI said:
Wow - He has jumped around quite a bit. He was at Spectrum News here in Charlotte for a bit (literally, outside my apartment), after coming from WJZ. Thats a lot of moving around!
He was in my City for a bit too at KSLA.
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7 minutes ago, NEPANews said:
Even as a local it makes me wonder how Scranton, of all markets, gets to keep its signature sound, but all the others stations needed to toe the corporate line. Is WNEP that special?
Maybe no one else put their foot down. I mean, there is always going to be that station that goes a different route.
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I'm willing to bet that they are gonna only change the graphics and keep the music.
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Idk if this has been covered here yet, but Thanh Truong is leaving WWL but he plans to stay put in New Orleans. His final day was today. He is going to launch a True Crime podcast with his wife.
Didn't he JUST move to the Noon newscast not too long ago from the later shows??https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_9436cff8-51cf-11ea-a092-9f8736ea6a46.html
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1 hour ago, Nelson R. said:
https://www.facebook.com/116380896454/posts/10156702416376455/?d=n&substory_index=0
Christine Sperow, formerly Nelson, announced this morning on WBTV she is leaving for “a major TV job in Atlanta.” Her last day will be March 4. She announced it at 6:15, I’m not sure if she mentioned the station but I don’t think she did. Best of luck to you Christine, you will be missed.
Yet another anchor leaves WBTV. It has not been the same since the Gray takeover. Don’t even get me started on not replacing Delano Little and Ashley Strohlein and not even having sports in their weekday 6:00 news anymore. (I am actually not sure Ashley would’ve left if her position was going to be filled, given that she went to rival WCNC).
Mary King, who joined the station last year from sister station WIS, will replace her as co-anchor. Congratulations Mary!
Slightly off topic but WBTV isn't the only Graycom station dragging it's feet replacing people. KSLA has only one sports anchor. Furthermore, they now has solo anchored newscasts the whole day. The weekend morning newscast doesn't even have an anchor. It's just Jessica Moore giving weather updates and then prepackaged stories throughout. Somehow, KSLA manages to have the largest weather team though as they have four meteorologists in contrast to the three at KTBS and KTAL.
What is with that?
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1 hour ago, Morphtato said:
Sad news from Shreveport tonight as Bob Griffin passed away due to complications from an illness. https://www.ktbs.com/news/the-legend-bob-griffin/article_bda07e44-46f2-11ea-970a-13c3eb73815f.html
I watched him on both KSLA and KTBS. Met him once. He was amazing and he was very chill. He is a legend and he will be a part of the heart of Shreveport forever.
R.I.P. Bob.
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44 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:
The B&C article states that KTVT will only produce the Detroit show (WKBD).
The other two, WCBS will produce the Atlanta show (WUPA); and WFOR is going to produce the Tampa show (WTOG).
In regard to Tampa, what was so hard about getting WTSP to handle the news production? And then in Detroit, why not just rebuild everything again? I already know what people are going to say about that, and imo, it's no excuse. They should have just stuck with it.
I sort of understand Atlanta given that WGCL already has WPCH to do news for but then again, WWBT has news on both WRLH and WUPV and even here in my market, KTAL does KMSS AND KSHV.
I like the initiative but at the very least, have the respective CBS affiliates in that market (aside from Detroit) be involved in some way, even if you're just relying on them for certain things. I guess this is just how the cookie crumbled though.
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On 1/8/2020 at 11:48 PM, tyrannical bastard said:
If anyone ever thought combining that god-awful C-Clarity with the WNEP National Anthem was possible....
You're welcome.
I don't know why but I actually like this.
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https://www.kxxv.com/news/local-news/ann-harder-to-retire-during-her-25th-year-at-25-news
Ann Harder is going to be retiring from KXXV (Waco).
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2 hours ago, Georgie56 said:
Checked the schedule -- shows the 9am news hour, but not 8am.
3 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:Proof?
Would me taking a picture of the newscast be proof? Also, it was listed on TV Guide. I have a picture from earlier this morning.
That's Nate Fluharty on the right (of First News on KTBS) anchoring. Neil Shaw was in for Brian Fowler who normally does weather on mornings.
However, by the time they went to 9am, Dominique Brogle (who normally does that hour anyway) was anchoring.
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Staying on the topic of news, for whatever reason, known only to KTBS, KPXJ has seemingly expanded to 8am. I already posted on Discord.
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I don't know whether this has been covered here or anywhere else but KWKT has a 6:00pm newscast now and a lifestyle show. Apparently, this has been on for quite some time.
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34 minutes ago, Breaking News said:
Don't know how she sunk the ship when she was at 19 in Cleveland & KMOV. WGCL has been a titanic ever since Meredith bought them over 20 yrs ago.
Even before that, they weren't exactly like WAGA when it was a CBS station.
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2 hours ago, Georgie56 said:
This is a first. WDAZ-WDAY is taking their website behind a paywall.
Lord.
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52 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:
I hate to say this, but stations will take forever to fill something to save some money, and more than likely, to fill their own pockets with the saved money.
This must be what's happening at KSLA then. They don't even have a weekend sports anchor right now and the weekend morning newscast doesn't have an anchor. Plus a solo anchor currently does the morning and noon newscasts and has been doing so for about a year.
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1 hour ago, T.L. Hughes said:
WVUE is expanding its news to weekend mornings (finally!!!), starting July 6. Weekday morning assignment reporter Josh Robertson will anchor the two-hour broadcast (running from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m.), with Zack Fradella (previously with sister station KPLC) joining the station as a meteorologist for the weekend morning newscasts. WVUE vice president and general manager even noted that it was long due that the station venture into weekend morning news, “This is the next logical step for Fox 8. Frankly, it is overdue. It is our duty to provide our viewers with quality news and information they need and deserve, seven mornings a week, not just five. We’ve wanted to do this for some time. Now we are going to make it happen.”
I went to school with Robertson at one point. Good to see a buddy of mine making it.
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KSLA as well.