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  1. 10.4 is still bars and tone. MeTV (10.2) is HD though, which it wasn't when it was WCMH's 4.2. I was going to say Quest isn't HD, but it might just be this show. On my 48" set their crystal bug and Quest's in-show promos are definitely HD.
  2. Now in Columbus (OH) there is a crawl running on WBNS saying Spectrum viewers will lose 10TV if a new deal isn't met...
  3. I happened to be flipping through the channels and saw Daily Blast Live on WBNS. It was on after James Corden instead of an infomercial.
  4. But, but, but a novelty name for the process that Tegna puts their stations through to bring them in line with corporate standards. EDIT: Why does putting "-itis" on the end of "TEGNA" autocorrect to that definition? I didn't type that.
  5. Gray adding NBC and CW affiliations to KEYC (Mankato, MN) in the form of a new low power station, KMNF. https://www.keyc.com/2019/06/24/keyc-tv-adding-more-network-affiliates-this-fall/
  6. Certainly possible but the stations will see less of that back since each station will have to share profits among the others. One of the downsides of these large groups is that the good stations prop up the poor ones (fiscally speaking).
  7. OK, one more off-topic post . Since being on at WCMH Darlene Hill has said she went to Ohio State in the late 1980s. Her hiring still comes as a head-scratcher seeing how she was still freelancing in Chicago weeks before being on in Columbus. The Doug, Mona, Jimmy & Jym era at WCMH was before my time, but from all indications Doug Adair was a real newsman's newsman, and was also a good guy all-around. I don't really critique anchors too much because I don't want them telling me how to do my job. I also personally know Colleen Marshall. A hell of a journalist, she is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. Her husband also used to work at WCMH as a photographer and editor.
  8. You said good anchors. Some of those folks are rejects, and for whatever reason they have an insatiable thirst for fame and take jobs wherever. Plus reporters in a large market will bolt for an anchor job at a smaller station. RIP Mike Bowersock. He was one of the good ones. Sorry mods for drifting off topic.
  9. WBNS is carried on cable in Miami and Wyandot Counties. Miami County is nowhere near the Columbus DMA, but Wyandot does border Crawford County, which is in the Northern fringe of the DMA, so it may be the same rural cable provider to parts of Crawford County. Same goes for places in Richland and Tuscarawas Counties as those counties border counties in the Columbus DMA.
  10. Who have been rejects from bigger markets? I don't think Colleen Marshall has worked anywhere else. Going back a ways, while yes, Doug Adair worked in bigger markets, he essentially worked at WCMH as a retirement job to be closer to home (he was from Xenia). I wouldn't exactly call him a "reject." Lots of folks have worked in the Columbus market to move on to bigger and better things who you probably didn't realize ever worked in the market.
  11. I'm too lazy to find the exact post about folks with 30+ years experience...Dispatch already took care of that to a degree. About a year ago they had a round of layoffs that didn't make the news. A dozen folks -- some even in sales (bad sign) were layed off or forced to retire. Others were in engineering or promotions. Willing to bet that zero members of their staff are surprised by this. I did think, though, they'd at least wait until after the election. EDIT: TEGNA saying they now reach 2/3 of Ohioans makes sense. WBNS is carried on cable much farther than the other Columbus stations.
  12. All of this is correct. Do the ABC O&Os have an internal bonded cellular grid like pretty much everybody else? Even so, WABC in the heat of the moment may not have been feeding.
  13. Nearly all of those folks mentioned by KDKA took buyouts.
  14. On top of being from NEO, didn't he call Browns pre-season games last year for WEWS? (Not sure if that means he was employed the team, by the station, or both?)
  15. With smaller staffs you don't need as many managers, or rather the structure doesn't have to be so hierarchical. That is happening not just in TV, but business everywhere. When news staffs weren't as big in the early days of local TV news the main anchor was also often the news director or managing editor, or the production manager was also an executive producer.
  16. KOCO 5 (Oklahoma City) weather from 1990 with Mike Morgan (since 1993 at rival KFOR) reporting on a tornado on the ground with a considerable lack of hype compared to today's severe weather coverage.
  17. As was posted on the KFMB thread, the news staff are fostering a dog (Scoop) until it gets adopted. Now, WUSA is building out part of their newsroom for a play area for dogs (to allow folks to bring their dogs to work) .
  18. Yesterday was WBNS reporter Maureen Kocot's last day after 24 years.
  19. Two examples are Grass Valley iTX and Florical Acuitas. Rather than having separate PCs running playlists, cacheing, ingest, QC'ing, prep, etc. it's all in one system. Even EAS and CGs for legal IDs and snipes are from the box as well. Harris I think even makes a system that will do that on top of clips for a newscast. They just seem to streamline a lot of things that all have to connect to each other in one integrated "box".
  20. Or better yet eliminate hubs. They were practical a decade ago when master control first went tapeless, and the computers that ran the playlists and other equipment could be controlled from a hub. Now channel-in-a-box systems eliminate the need for a traditional master control. For live programming they easily interface with a traditional (or virtual) switcher that can be manned as required by existing station staff. I work at a hub station, and when stuff goes down it sucks troubleshooting whether it's something on their end, or a piece of equipment at the station because there is so much back-and-forth.
  21. H4UL4U

    In Memoriam

    He was at the helm of the team at WCMH when for pretty much the only time ever they were the clear #1 station. I did not know he had Alzheimer's later in life. That is tough, but at least he is no longer suffering.
  22. I agree, especially with Jacksonville being in a hurricane-prone area (and to a lesser degree Greensboro where the CBS hub is), but with these hubs having been in place since 2008 it's hard to go back now. I think, though, it's relatively easy for an individual station to switch their Crispin automation to spoke mode, and operate locally.
  23. A post on the broadcasting subreddit says that KUSA's master control is soon going to be hubbed from TEGNA's centralcasting hub in Jacksonville. I did not realize KUSA still had in-house master? Wonder how that will work with all their translators.
  24. While that sounds fine and dandy and oozes of warm, fuzzy nostalgia, don't count on it. The rights fees for MLB telecasts nowadays are way too rich for any local broadcaster. That's not even going into how viewing habits have/are changing. Heck, a few years ago WKYC surrendered Browns pre-season rights to WEWS.
  25. DGA (Director's Guild of America) is another one that represents control room directors at top market stations and at the network level too. And while it's not broadcast specific, a handful of stations' employees are represented by IBEW, too.
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