Gannett stations are rolling out a new website design: See the test market at WBIR: http://www.wbir.com

Just went to the WBIR studio yesterday for a shadow with their chief meteorologist, Todd Howell, and a couple of engineers were telling me that they are working on a new set which should debut in a couple of months. They are making 2 giant rooms into one big set. The new weather center will take up a lot of space and the green screen or "Weather Wall" will be much bigger and will go all the way from the ceiling, continuing onto the ground. They have not said anything about it on TV or online, but I do know that they are going to put in the studio in the nexts couple of months. Couldn't get a photo of what they were working on, but here's a photo of their current studio which was finished around 2011 or so. (The background of the news desk was updated around 2018. It used to be more blue, now it's purple) Stay tuned.

I just searched "Tegna" on Vimeo and suddenly found this. Will it be the Tegna station's new graphic? EDIT: It's just a "pitch." [MEDIA=vimeo]240311720[/MEDIA]

Macon's leading news station which is next door to a Waffle House, has debuted their new studio at 5pm today....and it's a TEGNA set-in-a-can. Video: https://www.13wmaz.com/video/news/tour-of-13wmazs-new-studio-set/93-63e69caf-4cc0-45ca-bfd1-a91575d39bb2

Oh boy..... http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-sinclair-anti-trust-lawsuit-20180801-story.html I don't know why it was filed in Illinois, but Sinclair and Nexstar are (or were) owners whose stations carried their ads (most likely WPMI and WKRG) The other groups seem out of place, but they all own (or will soon own) stations in nearby New Orleans...

It looks like the KFMB stations / TEGNA are going on a [intern] hiring spree.. https://www.jobs.net/jobs/tegna/en-us/search/?location=san diego

I will say this first. I been keeping this under my wraps and monitoring the on air changes til it was official. In the past few weeks they have been slowly taking the current set apart. I came across the morning anchor John Anderson IG feed today and noticed a picture was posted. [MEDIA=instagram]BdsJ55DFjiG[/MEDIA] 1st pic is from Dec 28th. The upstairs set is still intacted. 2nd pic is from Jan 5th. Upstairs is gone expect the frames. And floor is cut. 3rd is wide shot of the set and studio.

HLN's attempt at it bombed. Tegna's attempts are somehow still alive even after massive backlash. So now I must ask, is there any social-media focused newscast on TV that doesn't reek of corporate consulting?

Why do you think Channel 9 has dominated the Denver market for so long? What were the ingredients to their success? We all know their news product is mediocre, and they don't do any hard news or investigative reporting. A friend of mine told me Mike Nelson left KUSA for KMGH in June 2004, and he's still at ABC7 today. ABC has been number one in the late 70s, and under KBTV in 1976, channel 9 began dominance alongside ABC. After the switch from ABC to NBC in 1995 under KUSA, NBC was number one in the late 90s, and 9NEWS and NBC were side by side in dominating the Denver market. Could it be because 9NEWS was #1 side-by-side with the then-number-one networks? Could it be because Channel 9 launched the on-air cosmetic look of red-white-and-blue, where other stations owned by Gannett (now Tegna) followed suit with the patriotic look (including WXIA, WUSA, KARE)? Could it be because 9NEWS was the first station in the Denver market to get a news helicopter called SKY9? Could it be because KUSA was the launchpad of anchors and reporters moving onto rival stations? That includes Jim Benneman and Linda Benzel of CBS4; Kevin Torres, Ron Zapollo, Nick Carter, Tom Green and Aristea Brady of CW2 and FOX31; Mike Nolan, Mike Landess, Mike Nelson and Bertha Lynn of ABC7. Despite having a piss-poor news product, what made KUSA so successful for such a long time?