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I thought I read recently that the company that aggregates the videos from youtube, and others...was being sued by FOX and some others over the "fair use "clause. The funny thing is the people that are suing, are also clients of this company. The fair use of certain clips, was decided in the 90's in Tur v KCAL in federal court. Bob(Zoey) Tur won that case. KCAL was accused of stealing the Reginal Denny beating video by claiming "fair use". Could we see an end to the cheap "clip shows'?

That's pretty bad ass. Margret Radford had 2 pkgs in that cast. Most people don't know that Jack White was the Technical Advisor for the movie Anchorman. White had Co-Anchored with Harold Greene AKA "Ron Burgundy". The OTS's were all on 35mm slides. And Ocean Ave WAS closed to cars for good, it's now part of the Pacific/Mission Beach Boardwalk.

Don't know if you caught this from TV newscheck. I guess KNSD is on top of the 'Social media rankings" in SD. http://www.netnewscheck.com/article/42311/datadriven-knsd-leads-social-san-diego

They are such idiots! I seem to recall the look lives started as a direct result of NABET interference during live shots when the contract was being negotiated. Did Valdez actually say it was result of FHITP??? Figgin amazing! I sample KNSD every few months, and like you, I'm not impressed. Cubbison is about all they really have left. Rory Devine is solid...but she gets that shit education beat. I really am holding back about some of these morons. I now am starting to see KFMB starting to drift into the same dangerous waters with some recent hires. I swear if I see one more novelty "stand-up" i'm gonna puke. What happend to the days of the nice network stand-up with a nice slo-push, and a mushed out background??? Do all stand-up require a prop??? KGTV photogs can't shoot steady stand-ups anymore due to this "prop" action. I can tell when KGTV reporters are lying.....they say this shit.... "We just checked" 'We first reported" not "We were first to report" "XXX person called 10-News" "We first told you on 10-News at 4:30am" It's gross....every vo-sot, lead-in and vo's are salted with this self-promo garbage. KNSD is starting to do it also. It's a Scripps wide issue from what I see. How about you give more FACTS as opposed to shameless self promotion in EVERY story.

KGTV...When all else fails....just distort the truth. A man killed his dad on the 4th of July, and fled to Mexico. A few nights later the man turned himself in to San Diego PD at the border. KGTV got shots of the suspect in the SDPD garage after his arrest. KGTV proclaimed "Exclusive"!!!! 'Only on 10 news"!!! One problem... KFMB got shots of the guy being turned over to police at the border...hours before KGTV got anything. Now KGTV is saying..... "Only 10 news was at police headquarters " for these "exclusive" shots. OK.... I guess that's true... KGTV was "the only station" at SDPD Headquarters... But that's because KFMB had already kicked your asses at the border! Tiffany Lupensky and her newsroom of complete liars and dolts!

The Frontline truck is being used buy KGTV. Don't know if it's a loaner or a tester, but a "little bit of both" is a good guess.

Some of us on the west coast are kinda liking this. What an ending!

That's the RCA building...as real New Yorkers know. G.E. Smith was the band leader for SNL in the 90's... Why would they name the building after him???

The breaking News Tracker is a giant liability and will probably end in a wrongful death lawsuit when the Idiot photographer gets killed or causes a major freeway crash. The stations all get the same overnight stuff, dui crashes, terminated pursuits, and dumpster fires. KGTV has the BNT and overnight stringers to pick from. The Idea is to fill the 2 morning live shots with whatever lame shooting happened overnight. KGTV lies and says some overnight video is from the Breaking News Wacker, in reality it's the same stringer video that all stations can buy. A few years back the stringers didn't cover all the stupid crashes, and got paid more for video that had"legs". Now there are so many stringers shooting crap, anything can get on the air, and one stringer sells everything he shot overnight for $85. So KGTV ,KUSI,KNSD and KTTY get 3 crappy clips for $85. KFMB fields an overnight shooter, and unless the story has "legs" KFMB won't buy the crappy overnight stuff in most cases. I'm pretty sure the chopper8 contract is yearly or bi-yearly. If one station pulls out, then others pay more. Anytime the ship launches the "switch is flipped" on for everyone. The KFMB desk maintains 2 way contact, and the traffic services(or used to) have separate channels of contact for the actual traffic info. Subscribing station have NO input where chopper 8 goes. Chopper 8 often launches about 3pm each day to grab b-roll for various KFMB stories, but the other stations don't seem to pay attention to what is shot because KFMB often shoots "exclusive" HFR(Hold For release) stuff right under their noses. If the chopper 8 agreement was terminated you can bet nobody would fill the void. All the LA providers have pitched the SD stations, nobody has any money for anything better.

The problem is lame pilots, and a desk(KFMB) that's too afraid to call them on it. Case in point... On Memorial Day of this year Chopper 8 was scheduled to fly the regular beach shots, traffic etc. The airship launched right around 3pm from Gillespie. Right about that time word came in that the elderly couple that had been missing for 2 weeks was found. The ship was asked to divert to Chihuahua Valley....over the mountains....thru the pass to hiway 79. The pilot refused to divert because he had not checked the WX in that area before launch. Fine, the pilot has the last call. However the conditions were 100%. Crystal clear all over Socal. Light winds 10-15mph. The Pilot could have easy radioed Flight Service or asked the desk to call FSS for the currents. The pilot could have landed and looked at the currents himself. Remember... The airship, pilot and reporter are all employed by Westwwod One/Clearchannel or whoever owns that old piece of junk now. The pilots won't fly if there are clouds, rain, wind over 5mph. They never learned how to fly around small clouds. They NEVER have enough gas for anything. They have NO gas cards. They can only fuel at Gillespie for some strange reason. They can't follow a car chase live anywhere north of Temecula or San Clemente, because the reporter cannot figure out how to enter LA ENG receive sites into the transmitter so we they can fiber back the signal., or use the LA switch video feed. They also have no Idea how to reverse route the signal from LA to SD back at KFMB, or they know....but just don't want to. Very simple procedure for this, you just have to rehearse it. At the end of the day..... All the stations ended up paying a stringer $85 each for crappy old ground video. All during the May ratings period, KFMB could have "owned that story".

You would be surprised how many people cannot wrap their head around the whole trans thing. Some people actually think there is a USB port "down there" that makes it all possible. He might be one of "those" people. Don't laugh because until the whole Jenner thing was news, not many people had been exposed to the concept. We now return to your regular scheduled TV/TS/TG program. Former LA chopper pilot Bob Tur is now Zoey Tur. Former KNBC Chopper Pilot Dirk Valle is now 'Dana". The Whirley Girls.

Last time I checked they had 3 trucks units 62 and 63 and the sat/eng combo. I got a shot of one of the old blue ones after it was sold last year. It was stripped of everything but the mast. It was on Robinson and Meade streets. I will find that pic cuz it's pretty sad and funny. Unit 5 used to be the North County car with MiniMicro. It's now a Dodge Caravan(?) I see it in NC and at the courthouse often. Pretty sure KGTV has mostly ditched "unit numbers" since most the cars no longer have VHF 2-way radios. Just the the instacams. The KGTV mini-mic's do not have the attached pre-amp/controller like the KFMB Sienna mini units. I'm sure you have seen the Ch69 Suburau??? Aint it cute???

I'm surprised you caught that at all. That was only about a 1 second shot from the helo. I saw it too....but my brain said WABC. I was kinda hoping the lost van thing panned out. "Minivan #14 was last seen westbound on the GWB"

Well somebody better cut a check to CBS for the use of "Eyewitness News". Could it be a WABC truck got lost?

It could be worse... It could be "AM Arizona"

Over the last few years KUSI has become one of the better shops in town. Most of the other stations have "sunk" below what KUSI used to be. KUSI has new live trucks, gear is being replaced, they picked up a few back pack live units. The set may be old, but KUSI has one major thing going for them. They cover politics and local civil issues better than the others. KUSI has not abandon older or legacy viewers. If you walk in the KUSI newsroom around show time, there is a smell of Old Spice in the air. If you listen carefully, you can hear the young female producers and reporters say..... "This place smells like my Grandpa's TV room".

Costco now sells "Kirkland Reporters". They have Blonde, Red and Brunette. Buy one now before the fake Christmas trees return in August

There are a lot of tv news operations here...but none are competitive anymore. Lazy reporting is everywhere. "Enterprise " reporting consists of emails and calls from viewers about problems with neighbors. Missing dogs eaten by coyotes, and sharks in the sewers looking for water in the drought. They are trying to beat the internet, and every video is "viral". In the old days they stole the stories from the morning paper. Now they read snopes and play "Fact or Fiction" with us. Except for a small handful of reporters...most are "repeaters" and not reporters. There are really only 2 jobs in tv now. The people that go in the field and tape interviews and shoot b-roll. Then there are those back at the station that move the words and videos around to the various platforms. That's pretty much it. Most stations do not demand you know much about politics, criminal justice, municipal operations or just basic human behavior. Bless those cute little souls....but they are facebook robots.

You are right. San Diego has used Phoenix as a feeder market, but in reality SD sucks for most these Zonies. Plenty arrive from Phoenix, just to turn back around and flee the high cost of living.

Demartino was at KGTV San Diego doing wknd wx and some reporting.. She was very likable here and pretty versatile. She sailed through a few breaking live shots. Too bad she left SD.

I forgot to post this when I first saw it....Oh the good old days..... WABC-TV LAYS OFF 36; 59 MORE CUTS EXPECTED Published: April 12, 1986 Correction Appended In the latest round of continuing staff cutbacks at Capital Cities/ABC, 36 employees were laid off yesterday by WABC-TV, the network-owned station in New York. At least 95 positions will be eliminated by the end of the year, station officials said. No on-air reporters were among those released by the station, but several news writers and producers were laid off, according to a station official who asked not to be identified. Bill Fyffe, vice president and general manager of WABC-TV, said that the staff reductions were based on a ''detailed study of the station's operations and procedures.'' WABC-TV employs about 400 people. Of the 95 positions to be eliminated, 21 are jobs currently open that will not be filled, 38 are engineers and desk assistants who will be transferred to vacation relief duty and 36 are staff members who were laid off. The layoffs affected at least three other Capital Cities/ABC stations -all of them stations that belonged to ABC rather than to Capital Cities before the merger of the two companies was completed this year. At KABC-TV in Los Angeles, as many as 80 positions were expected to be eliminated. John Sevarino, the station president, would not comment. At Chicago's ABC station, WGN, 36 employees were laid off yesterday and 36 positions are expected to be eliminated by the end of the year. Cutbacks were also announced at KGO, the ABC television station in San Francisco. Correction: April 15, 1986, Tuesday, Late City Final Edition

You don't like fountains?

Face it, There are some stations that are just dogs. Every few markets have one. I'm not talking about mutts, i'm saying dog. If you can't get a ratings from being a FOX affil in a big market then you have problems. The finest minds from science, broadcasting, nature and theology have asked... "What is wrong with WFLD"? It's doesn't really have nostalgia, we can blame everything and everyone... WFLD was "just born that way". Now I'm Sad.