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The operation of Fox O&O's are not impacted by the Disney sale. They will continue to be controlled by "New Fox" and the Murdoch family. I'm sure it was a legacy Fox decision on when to change the websites, along with a long overdue Fox5 NY studio. All Fox decisions which Disney has no role in.

Me bad. When I checked the Optimum guide yesterday I thought it said 5 am. Today it says 4:30 am. Still, News4NY is the only local news at 4 am.

The bigger news is who is replacing her. Former NBC O&Os news director Vicki Burns. She was once the ND at NBC New York, later at KNBC. She had been consulting to Tribune. Seems like a serious hire to me and an intent of improving the product.

Same with NY flagship WNYW. 5-10 am.

Sorry, it reminds me of Tegna backgrounds like what was used at KSDK in the am. Just more yellow than KSDK's redish/orange. That station (and station group) is not in the same universe of quality as WNBC.

The question is will this be the permanent background going forward (sorry, very Tegna like) or will they go back to the live shot but with the News 4 New York floating near the bottom? Live shots were used at 4. 5 and 6 tonight.

Simpler to read. Especially when MSNBC ditched the ticker. Trump's preferred L3s would be ones with pictures probably.

Anyone know if she is permanent or freelance. They also had another guy not seen before on over the weekend covering the storm that wasn't. His bio is the works for the network in DC. May have just been filling in as a reporter.

Is she an addition or replacing someone. All four current weather anchors are still on the website. I'm assuming Janice is off this week.

I believe these are attempts by NBC to broaden and reach younger viewers on whatever platforms are available.

Just read Tegna stations are off of Verizon FiOS as of 5 pm yesterday.

She is on vacation. Jen Maxwell was doing the early morning news earlier in the week. Chuck and Natalie are both off as well. Many top anchors take vacation time this time of year.

Sorry, I rarely watch Fox. Who is she?

Good old EWN: If it bleeds, it leads.

Considering the reports of all the other problems during construction in the newsroom, and the strong letter sent yesterday by the union to station management about the conditions, I'm skeptical about the internet outage. If there was this issue, why was there weather and weather graphics during the 10 pm show? Something just doesn't make sense when you put the newsroom issues in the equation,. Fox5 newscasts are dated and tired, often PR sessions for Fox shows and unwatchable. I turned in for a few minutes last night out of curiosity and the product was significantly better than the regular product.

She had also been on News12 New Jersey.

I would assume that WGTV would broadcast shows in their prime national days/times, and WPBA will air them on alternate days. That is what is done in DMA 1, where WNET airs the national schedule, WLIW (owned by WNET) and NJTV (managed by WNET) air them at different times. Considering PBS does not often repeat shows this seems to work.

Why history? Many stations across the country from DMA 1 and down have female chief meterologists, some for many many years.

Perhaps the Murdoch family will use a little of the cash they get from Disney to bring WNYW's studio up to 21st century quality.

Is that any different from WCBS airing a CBS News report, etc? The company press release says they are in the same division. It did not say that News12 is becoming i24 -it is already carried on Optimum and I believe Charter. i24 is an international news channel and hopes to get a much bigger footprint in the US. It makes sense to put both news operations under one division (though i24 is actually run out of Tel Aviv). News12 is a hyper local news outfit and will not change all that much other than carrying some reports, just like the carry Cheddar business news.

Here is the actual press release from Altice: http://alticeusa.com/sites/default/files/pdf/Altice%20USA%20News%20Release%20%281%29.pdf Reading through it, it seems they are moving News 12 networks and the US operations/distribution of i24News (it has expanded to Charter Spectrum and one other MSO) into its own division. Nothing indicates there will be any other changes to News12 operations other than moving Patrick Dolan more out of the picture (which should be no surprise). It will allow Altice USA, which is being separated from the parent company, to push for more i24 News carriage across the US and probably some sharing of i24 content on News 12 networks.

KDNL hasn't broadcast news for over 15 years. What else would they have to post other than Allman's rants?

You really think the majority of the general viewing public turns to a newscast because of the theme? I would argue they like familiarity but the driver isn't a theme by itself. The exception is when the theme becomes iconic - like "Get Closer to Your World" in Philly. When ABC changed it, there was push back. But even though WABC has used a version that has some similarity to the Cold Tar theme originally used, it's not that iconic. I doubt most folks turn the station for a song, or a graphic, or a set color. Content, reporters, yes. That's what counts.

It usually happens with stations under common ownershp. WNBC has pulled staff from WVIT (Hartford) and WCAU (Philadelphia) over the years. WNBC staff has filled in on the others as well. Years ago, one of the NBC Miami staff worked at WNBC while his wife was in grad school, then returned to WTVJ.

I read the WABC President/GM is "retiring." I guess someone new will have to figure out the news director mess. http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/111432/dave-davis-retiring-as-wabc-new-york-gm