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On 1/24/2024 at 9:13 PM, VHSgoodiesWA said:
KAPP/KV...I meant APPLE VALLEY News Now, finally added time and temperature to the bottom of that little logo box. No ticker like KXLY.
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.
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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.
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5 hours ago, 24994J said:
WITI reporter and Chicago-area native Brhett Vickery joins as morning traffic anchor.
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.
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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.
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2 hours ago, VHSgoodiesWA said:
Congrats Liz! Good luck in your future endeavors.
Meanwhile, at KIMA Yakima, Jake Taylor is leaving after 6 years at the station. He was our main anchor after Scott Stovall moved down to KEPR. Jake is moving back home, he said (I think he's from Utah).
The replacement? A British-accented man. John Kennedy O'Connor, previously of KIEM Eureka and has done tons of work in Europe, especially for the Eurovision Song Contest. Lots of contributions to BBC/Channel 5/Sky News. Congrats John!
JKOC is awesome. Surprising to see him in Yakima. He left KIEM to work for a local online news publication.
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3 hours ago, GoldenShine9 said:
I agree 100% with that list, with the possible exception of KEYE given the size of the Austin market.
If KLEW goes, would Boise, Yakima or Spokane lay claim to that area? Although the other central Washington area stations are all tied to Spokane stations, they could try to do more there too. In some of the other cases, another owner has dominant status and any missing newscasts otherwise they might fill for themselves (Gainesville, Columbia-Jefferson City, Lincoln-Hastings). For example, I could see KOLN/KGIN launch a new 9 pm newscast on their secondary station, or Gray could poach the Fox affiliation for themselves (I would have said the CW affiliation could be in some danger, but Nexstar is completely absent from Nebraska). North Platte has that and it's a much smaller market.
In the case of Abilene (and San Angelo, by extension), that's an easy cut. I also think the CW affiliation there is as good as gone soon too.
If those outsourced newscasts in Madison and Des Moines disappear, I'd think the station doing the heavy lifting might just decide to place those news on their own stations.
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.
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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.
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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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KBAK New Set
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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.