TennTV1983 742 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 The one I really don't get is WFTV having a noon newscast on the weekends when their isn't any sports programming. Can anyone explain the logic on that one? It's a Cox thing for some reason as I believe WSB-TV does this as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 It's a Cox thing for some reason as I believe WSB-TV does this as well. Yes. WFTV, WSOC, WHIO and WSB all do weekend 12:00pm noon newscasts. WFLA does their on Sundays only for an hour and WKYC used to do one until they canned it back in September of last year. I'm surprised that no station in Los Angeles does one, considering how many hours all LA news stations do, each weekday and there's still a huge amount on weekends too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Former Member 207 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 KABC used to have a Saturday noon newscast up until a few years ago, when the station shifted that newscast to 9am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennTV1983 742 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Per WREG's Twitter feed, the station is adding a "new" face to their morning newscasts beginning Monday morning (adding that she is a familiar one to Memphis television). [MEDIA=twitter]698192202565025792[/MEDIA] My guess is that it's Donna Davis, who hasn't been in the news business since 2008 when WMC-TV was forced to lay people off due to budget cuts by Raycom at the time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1675 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Yes. WFTV, WSOC, WHIO and WSB all do weekend 12:00pm noon newscasts. WFLA does their on Sundays only for an hour and WKYC used to do one until they canned it back in September of last year. I'm surprised that no station in Los Angeles does one, considering how many hours all LA news stations do, each weekday and there's still a huge amount on weekends too. I'd say it would be difficult to have a regularly scheduled noon newscast on the west coast due to sports being well underway. There probably would be numerous preemptions that I'd think would make it difficult for them to find a dedicated audience. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I'd say it would be difficult to have a regularly scheduled noon newscast on the west coast due to sports being well underway. There probably would be numerous preemptions that I'd think would make it difficult for them to find a dedicated audience. Yep. The East Coast is lucky. But also, the West Coast is more towards having 5pm weekend news than the East Coast where if you are CBS and NBC in the East Coast, forget it. ABC is more relaxed now and so much so that WABC 7 has 5pm weekend news, several FOX affiliates in the East Coast (WOFL, WSVN are examples) have 5pm news, CW if it has a news department (WPIX 11 does one) and MyTV, but there's no MyTV stations with news departments in the East Coast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvcg66b3r 97 Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 ABC is more relaxed now and so much so that WABC 7 has 5pm weekend news... Are there any other ABC affiliates on the East Coast with 5pm weekend news (current or planned)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriangleTriadMediaNews 267 Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Are there any other ABC affiliates on the East Coast with 5pm weekend news (current or planned)? Off the top of my head, the only other I can think of is possibly WPLG? I know WJLA technically has one, by way of News Channel 8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Yes... WPLG 10 has one. WABC 7 has one. WCVB 5 and WMUR 9 have them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnya2k6 171 Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 UPDATE: As of January, an ex-CBS46er has joined Fox 5; that's the good news. The bad news (at least for now)? It's Annalee Penny; however, Stephany Fisher may still join her as she was reportedly in contacts with David Chandley and other Fox 5 talent on Twitter. My guess is they'll make some sort of official announcement by May sweeps, meaning the new "News Edge at 11" with her and Tom Haynes will still not be far behind. As for Penny? Fox 5 needed their own version of WSB's Heather Catlin, and that they may be developing a "Hot Topics"-like show around her on the weekends. Stay tuned! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jterry 43 Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Per WREG's Twitter feed, the station is adding a "new" face to their morning newscasts beginning Monday morning (adding that she is a familiar one to Memphis television). My guess is that it's Donna Davis, who hasn't been in the news business since 2008 when WMC-TV was forced to lay people off due to budget cuts by Raycom at the time. That seems most likely. Donna Davis actually recently co-hosted a few episodes of 'Local Memphis Live' on WATN a month or so ago. Perhaps the bigger question may be whether a substantial format change may be coming to WREG's morning show, similar to the change WMC has undergone over the last year with three anchors (but with more of a primary focus on two female anchors), assuming Markova Reed is staying which there is no indication she isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 NorthPine has given us a better understanding of what "KXJB-D2" was meant regarding the CW affiliation agreement with Gray: Gray Television has brought the KXJB callsign back to the Fargo market. The FCC says low-power station K30LT-D (Horace), which is not yet on the air, became KXJB-LD on Jan. 27. KXJB was the callsign associated with the CBS affiliation in the market for decades until Gray moved "KX4" to channel 11.2 of KVLY-TV in 2014. The KXJB callsign had been parked on a Gray translator in Wyoming. Gray announced last year that it would carry the CW on KXJB-D2 in Fargo, though that announcement was made before the callsign was changed. Gray is taking the CW affiliation from Forum's WDAY-DT2 (Fargo) and WDAZ-DT2 (Devils Lake-Grand Forks) this fall. (2/14/2016) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennTV1983 742 Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 That seems most likely. Donna Davis actually recently co-hosted a few episodes of 'Local Memphis Live' on WATN a month or so ago. Perhaps the bigger question may be whether a substantial format change may be coming to WREG's morning show, similar to the change WMC has undergone over the last year with three anchors (but with more of a primary focus on two female anchors), assuming Markova Reed is staying which there is no indication she isn't. Well, as it turns out the new face of WREG's Daybreak was really more of a promotion from within the station than an actual new person joining the staff. Reporter Stephanie Scurlock has moved to weekday mornings to anchor alongside Markova Reed as of today (she was previously a weekend anchor before then). Not sure what this means for Adam Hammond though since he wasn't on air this morning. EDIT: Per Adam Hammond's Facebook page, he recently accepted an anchor job at a news station in another city. Unfortunately, WREG was unwilling to let Hammond finish out his current contract and immediately replaced him at the morning anchor desk with Scurlock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 NorthPine has given us a better understanding of what "KXJB-D2" was meant regarding the CW affiliation agreement with Gray: NorthPine said: Gray Television has brought the KXJB callsign back to the Fargo market. The FCC says low-power station K30LT-D (Horace), which is not yet on the air, became KXJB-LD on Jan. 27. KXJB was the callsign associated with the CBS affiliation in the market for decades until Gray moved "KX4" to channel 11.2 of KVLY-TV in 2014. The KXJB callsign had been parked on a Gray translator in Wyoming. Gray announced last year that it would carry the CW on KXJB-D2 in Fargo, though that announcement was made before the callsign was changed. Gray is taking the CW affiliation from Forum's WDAY-DT2 (Fargo) and WDAZ-DT2 (Devils Lake-Grand Forks) this fall. (2/14/2016) And the other two translators that'll serve north of that LP are K28MA-D Argusville & K30LR-D Grand Forks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Denise White is back on Tampa Television. She's now doing University Beat with co-host Hetal Gandhi, Sunday nights at 6:30pm on WUSF Channel 16, the secondary PBS station in Tampa. http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/92329/wusf-tampa-hires-two-journalists Glad to hear that Denise White is back on Tampa Television. Well respected, well honored and well deserved. Plus, I guess she wasn't ready to "retire" after all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Sorry to double post, but WISH going from CBS to CW really did affect them. No affect to WTHR because they are still #1: http://www.ibj.com/articles/57204-cbs-shift-in-2015-rejiggers-tv-ratings?utm_source=this-week-in-ibj 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius22 120 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Sad Breaking news everyone. WBNS Drops This Is Your News after it has been used since 1998. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Sad Breaking news everyone. WBNS Drops This Is Your News after it has been used since 1998. If by "sad" you mean "a little disappointing", and by "breaking news" you mean "happened a week ago", then yes, that's some "Sad Breaking News". 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius22 120 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 If by "sad" you mean "a little disappointing", and by "breaking news" you mean "happened a week ago", then yes, that's some "Sad Breaking News". Yeah i meant a week ago my bad. also what's worse they took the News part of the logo out so now its just Simply 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTSC1980 96 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 NorthPine has given us a better understanding of what "KXJB-D2" was meant regarding the CW affiliation agreement with Gray: And the other two translators that'll serve north of that LP are K28MA-D Argusville & K30LR-D Grand Forks. I guess they'll put their KX4 CBS in HD in their main signal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 I guess they'll put their KX4 CBS in HD in their main signal. That is basically their intention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 802 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Yeah i meant a week ago my bad. also what's worse they took the News part of the logo out so now its just Simply 10. I posted the new opening last week here a link. Plus it was time for a new theme. http://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?threads/wbns-10tv-columbus-oh.15260/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 802 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Stefan Holt moves from WMAQ/Chicago to WNBC/New York as the new 4pm anchor. http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/stefan-holt-to-join-wnbc-as-anchor/163942 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mardek1995 200 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Sorry to double post, but WISH going from CBS to CW really did affect them. No affect to WTHR because they are still #1: http://www.ibj.com/articles/57204-cbs-shift-in-2015-rejiggers-tv-ratings?utm_source=this-week-in-ibj Have they been #4 since then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOneManHerd 553 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Sad Breaking news everyone. WBNS Drops This Is Your News after it has been used since 1998. The sad part is what they replaced it with. Aerial is such a cheap and uninspired theme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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