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  1. Sinclair has a half dozen or so of these sets (of various sizes) floating around. KIMAs is a little different than KEPRs … KLEW had a version of this for a short time before Boise took over … KVAL/KMTR in Eugene also has this with different color treatments … KTVL had this set when Sinclair decided to call it a day. As a former viewer in the market, there is a good chance this was KTVLs. KBAK put this up over the weekend as Friday’s news was on the old set.
  2. No ticker on KXLY. There is a ticker on the KXLY+ steaming channel. The ticker disappeared when they switched to the monstrous lower 3rds in Spokane in the last year or so.
  3. Here we go ... KRCR ... Northern California's legacy snoozefest ... now has three solo anchors for their evening newscasts. Glenn Cassie has been added there. So, one anchor from 5-6 that retires every few years and then comes back, one from 6:30-7, and then one that does 7/10/11. Either they're prepping for a third retirement for the 5 anchor or they have money to spend. A better idea would be to pair up and have traditional two anchor newscasts because the 6:30 person is very green.
  4. Wow. It only takes a five-year career to make it to WGN now. They might as well just start recruiting in Laredo or Eureka for that matter.
  5. On the US feed of CNN International the “Live” bug is kept under the CNN logo in Licht-style. This differs from the parent network which reverted to something close to the original.
  6. JKOC is awesome. Surprising to see him in Yakima. He left KIEM to work for a local online news publication.
  7. KLEW is actually in the Spokane market but is a satellite of KIMA Yakima (as is KEPR). Sinclair could really cut costs but selling off the frequency and eliminating a redundant station. If cuts came to KIMA/KEPR, I’d imagine the KIMA newscast would stop as they only do 5/6 weeknights — everything else is simulcast KEPR. All the action for “Action News” is in the Tri Cities.
  8. Reports have also surfaced that KAEF wiped out their news operation — sans two reporters — in tiny Eureka, CA. This is bad for two reasons: one, Sinclair put out the best product in town and, two, their competition is KIEM. Longtime participants at TVNT know how terrible KIEM is with their junior high-level production quality. That station now puts on newscasts full of screenshots of local news blogs with very few local sound bites. Hopefully but not ideally, the KAEF changes just mean that newscasts are produced from their sister station or there are local inserts in the sister station’s newscasts like in the 80s and 90s.
  9. My favorite part of “NonStop Local” is the pre-recorded late night weather forecast on “Mother Q” as she’s affectionately known. In the three weeks leading up to the launch — barring the Friday before the launch — the 10p/11p weather was taped. The quality is crap, but kudos to Claire and Blake for making the toss look live. The late forecast was live on a Tuesday, perhaps, during launch week and one other time during last week’s snow. Interestingly enough, Blake is live for the weather cut-in on NBC News Daily. If any forecast is taped it should be this one … it’s plays during a program where KHQ controls very little of the ad inventory. You’d think they’d allocate their labor to programs where they control all the ad $$$ like their local newscasts. So far, all other stations in the Cowles group are airing live weather. re: The 4PM regional newscast is two things — a money grab for political ads and a reason to not have to pay for a syndicated program. re: Tracci Dial … there has been an opening for a co-anchor posted on the careers page for so long. At this point, I’d bet they’d hire anyone.
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