ns8401 846 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 I'll see if I can get a screengrab, but usually KGTV uses it with bulleted points and it has a box for an image or video. Yep those are the ones I was talking about. I first noticed it was slightly updated last year around April or may iirc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1806 Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Umm..I know journal owns WSYM TV FOX 47, but since they decided to mothball their news department and outsource it to Gray's WILX , a question comes into mind, would SCRIPPS continue with the News Sharing deal or would SCRIPPS end the deal and build a news department up from scratch (like KSHB TV ) To add to the question, if SCRIPPS stayed with the deal to let GRAY continue to Produce the FOX 47 NEWS from WILX studios , would they (WILX) have to take the scripps package for WSYM , or keep WSYM with the Gray package from promos to news open ?? I said somewhere else that it'd be wise if they just put a few reporters/multimedia journalists at WSYM and hubbed one or two 30 minute shows out of WXYZ every night. You get big market production values with little work and WXYZ gains a "bureau" in Lansing for Capitol stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoadStar 363 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 The Journal/Scripps merger and spinoff has been approved by the shareholders. (Breaking news "banner" on JSOnline.com, the webpage for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.) Developing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country News 435 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 The Journal/Scripps merger and spinoff has been approved by the shareholders. (Breaking news "banner" on JSOnline.com, the webpage for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.) Developing... Official Journal press release confirms - http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=145779&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2024782 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoadStar 363 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 I wonder how quickly they'll look to close. "Early second quarter" almost makes me think they'll fast-track this and they'll close by 4/1 or possibly 4/15, but definitely next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1806 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 I wonder how quickly they'll look to close. "Early second quarter" almost makes me think they'll fast-track this and they'll close by 4/1 or possibly 4/15, but definitely next month. Employees of Journal who will be going to Scripps were already told that retirement funds were scheduled to be transferred to Scripps' plan on like, April 8th. So somewhere around there I'd imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2876 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 (Oops, meant to put a post in the other Scripps thread.) But it will be interesting to see how Scripps and Journal integrate and how quickly Journal station viewers will see changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1806 Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 My sources say the deal closes April 1st and that Scripps takes ownership of the Journal properties that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 846 Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 My sources say the deal closes April 1st and that Scripps takes ownership of the Journal properties that day. Yay... More sister stations to get filler from soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestTV 1173 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Yay... More sister stations to get filler from soon... More like more of The NOW. Good God, I can't envision that show being plastered on the Journal stations. It would be an utter disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 846 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 More like more of The NOW. Good God, I can't envision that show being plastered on the Journal stations. It would be an utter disaster. I was thinking news reports on things like the Madison shooting... But putting The NOW on really wouldn't effect much of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrtraveler01 737 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Anxious to see how they'll run WFTX. Scripps hasn't owned a Fox affiliate since the 90s. Maybe they'll actually invest in the station so its more competitive with WINK and NBC2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanewsguy 509 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Anxious to see how they'll run WFTX. Scripps hasn't owned a Fox affiliate since the 90s. Maybe they'll actually invest in the station so its more competitive with WINK and NBC2. yeah right, have you been following the trades? Because Scripps is looking to cut costs, not invest... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3442 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Scripps is turning into the Advance/Newhouse of television. Taking something that's not too broken and fixing it horribly. The next thing they'll probable do along these lines is only do news three nights a week and start swiping stories from their competitors (with only slight editing). :bang: And the poor people have in Cleveland have it twice as bad with WEWS and the Plain Dealer. Thank goodness for the Beacon Journal in Akron and too bad WAKC went away so many years ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glimmer 238 Posted March 19, 2015 Author Share Posted March 19, 2015 I wonder if this will lead to a cutback in news at WTMJ. There were rumors last fall about the 3pm news getting axed, so I wonder if that would be the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1806 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I wonder if this will lead to a cutback in news at WTMJ. There were rumors last fall about the 3pm news getting axed, so I wonder if that would be the case. I could see the 3pm show becoming "The Now Milwaukee" and "Wisconsin Tonight" getting replaced by "The List". I doubt they'll eliminate much more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRob 919 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Scripps won't cut news in the coventional sense. But if I held a management position at a Journal station, I would be worried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 846 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I could see the 3pm show becoming "The Now Milwaukee" and "Wisconsin Tonight" getting replaced by "The List". I doubt they'll eliminate much more than that. The NOW up to now has been exclusively a 4pm lead in.... I doubt they'll change that thinking and put WTMJ on the east coast time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoadStar 363 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 You know, the one thing I haven't heard anything about: with the Journal newspapers and their soon to be former sibling television and radio stations are going their separate ways, has there been any talk of establishing a content sharing agreement between the two? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1806 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 WTMJ ushered in the Scripps era Tuesday night by mentioning how the sale goes into effect today over one of the station's original ID cards, which proudly proclaimed the station as "The Milwaukee Journal Television Station". http://i.imgur.com/N99lZAv.jpg Kind of sad that 88 years of continuous ownership on the Radio side and 68 years on the TV side came to an end today. Not many stations were able to say that, even the oldest of the network O&O's can't technically say that considering how many times ABC, CBS and NBC have been bought/sold/spun off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTSC1980 96 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 WTMJ ushered in the Scripps era Tuesday night by mentioning how the sale goes into effect today over one of the station's original ID cards, which proudly proclaimed the station as "The Milwaukee Journal Television Station". http://i.imgur.com/N99lZAv.jpg Kind of sad that 88 years of continuous ownership on the Radio side and 68 years on the TV side came to an end today. Not many stations were able to say that, even the oldest of the network O&O's can't technically say that considering how many times ABC, CBS and NBC have been bought/sold/spun off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToriElectra 291 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Also, why is TMJ still branded as "Today's TMJ4"? I know that JC Burns created the original look for it, but ever since then, the name's kinda lost it's meaning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoadStar 363 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Both Scripps and Journal have made changes to their corporate sites. Scripps launches a total makeover of their site, while Journal seems to have only changed their logo and removed the broadcast properties from the site. No obvious changes to the station websites that I checked. In fact, TMJ4's website is still hosted on jrn.com, the domain for Journal Communications. Many email addresses on the site are still jrn.com addresses as well. As was noted in another thread, no obvious changes to TMJ4's morning newscast, other than anchor Vince Vitrano having a Scripps coffee mug at the desk. (Edit: an extremely brief mention at the end of the newscast of the change in ownership, mentioning "you'll see a new copyright" but "nothing else is changing." They closed the newscast with the copyright card with the Scripps lighthouse.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1806 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Also, why is TMJ still branded as "Today's TMJ4"? I know that JC Burns created the original look for it, but ever since then, the name's kinda lost it's meaning. Brand Recognition I'd guess. I think the "Today's" needs to go as well, as most people seem to call the station "TMJ4" anyways. Just "TMJ4" and "TMJ4 News" both sound weird though... I wish they would just go back to News 4 Milwaukee. In other news, the jrn.com/{station} URL trickery has been replaced... with the even worse "scrippsmedia.com/{station}" scheme. I wonder how fast Scripps is going to move them to their platform with addresses like these... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 846 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Brand Recognition I'd guess. I think the "Today's" needs to go as well, as most people seem to call the station "TMJ4" anyways. Just "TMJ4" and "TMJ4 News" both sound weird though... I wish they would just go back to News 4 Milwaukee. In other news, the jrn.com/{station} URL trickery has been replaced... with the even worse "scrippsmedia.com/{station}" scheme. I wonder how fast Scripps is going to move them to their platform with addresses like these... Probably pretty quick... Unless the intent of it is to be as seamless as possible to those viewers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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