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FOX O&O to add more NEWS

 

WNYW New York increases a half hour at noon Monday-Friday starting July 23.

 

WTTG Washington adds a half hour of news at 11:30 p.m. Sundays, starting April 29.

The station also adds a 7 p.m. half hour Monday-Friday July 16, while sister station WDCA goes live 9-9:30 p.m. Monday-Friday that same day.

 

WTVT Tampa Bay adds an hour at 4 p.m. Monday-Friday starting July 16.

 

KSAZ Phoenix goes live 4-5 p.m. Monday-Friday starting July 2.

Sister station KUTP adds 7-8 p.m. Monday through Friday on the same date.

KSAZ tacks on a half hour at 10:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, in early August.

 

WJBK Detroit starts its news operation at 4 a.m. Monday-Friday in September.

 

KMSP Minneapolis adds a half hour at 6:30 p.m. Monday-Friday starting in July, while sister station WFTC gets a 7:30 p.m. news also in July.

 

Charlotte and two other Fox markets still to be named are also slated for expanded news offerings.

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FOX O&O to add more NEWS

 

WNYW New York increases a half hour at noon Monday-Friday starting July 23.

 

WTTG Washington adds a half hour of news at 11:30 p.m. Sundays, starting April 29.

The station also adds a 7 p.m. half hour Monday-Friday July 16, while sister station WDCA goes live 9-9:30 p.m. Monday-Friday that same day.

 

WTVT Tampa Bay adds an hour at 4 p.m. Monday-Friday starting July 16.

 

KSAZ Phoenix goes live 4-5 p.m. Monday-Friday starting July 2.

Sister station KUTP adds 7-8 p.m. Monday through Friday on the same date.

KSAZ tacks on a half hour at 10:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, in early August.

 

WJBK Detroit starts its news operation at 4 a.m. Monday-Friday in September.

 

KMSP Minneapolis adds a half hour at 6:30 p.m. Monday-Friday starting in July, while sister station WFTC gets a 7:30 p.m. news also in July.

 

Charlotte and two other Fox markets still to be named are also slated for expanded news offerings.

 

WJZY Charlotte gets an extra hour at 5 p.m. starting in September.

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WTSP finally hires a news director...

 

Kelly Frank comes to WTSP from WBNS in Columbus where she was ND since 2015:

 

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/112778/kelly-frank-named-wtsp-news-director

 

Very interesting considering Tegna's approach to news is so different from WBNS, a station long considered to be the market leader. Meanwhile, WTSP's ratings are usually in last place, except in late news.

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Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but WSOC in Charlotte got a new news director about three weeks ago. Mike Oliveira joins the station from WFXT in Boston where he was the news director during the Cox takeover. Before that he was at WPXI in Pittsburgh.

 

Inside sources tell me that Oliveira has been a welcome change and is bringing fresh ideas over the stagnated previous management who apparently wasn't too open to new ideas and change.

 

The rumor mill is that WSOC might be getting a new set in the next year to replace the BDI set that premiered in 2012.

 

WSOC also dropped Bill Ratner as their VO guy and replaced him with John Cramer (the guy who is the main voiceover guy on the EntertainmentStudios court shows). It's an interesting choice but having heard his voice on WSOC, it actually works well.

 

 

WSOC also hired a new VP/GM, Cedric Thomas, late last year. He was previously Director of Sales at CMG Pittsburgh. Joe Pomilla, WSOC's long-time VP/GM was promoted to VP/GM of CMG Boston.

 

https://www.coxmediagroup.com/cmg-announces-new-broadcast-leadership-in-boston-charlotte-memphis-orlando-pittsburgh-jacksonville-and-miami/

 

I've heard that WSOC/WAXN's ratings haven't been as strong recently as they once were.

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Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but WSOC in Charlotte got a new news director about three weeks ago. Mike Oliveira joins the station from WFXT in Boston where he was the news director during the Cox takeover. Before that he was at WPXI in Pittsburgh.

 

Inside sources tell me that Oliveira has been a welcome change and is bringing fresh ideas over the stagnated previous management who apparently wasn't too open to new ideas and change.

 

The rumor mill is that WSOC might be getting a new set in the next year to replace the BDI set that premiered in 2012.

 

WSOC also dropped Bill Ratner as their VO guy and replaced him with John Cramer (the guy who is the main voiceover guy on the EntertainmentStudios court shows). It's an interesting choice but having heard his voice on WSOC, it actually works well.

I always wonder who's the VO for WSOC.

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WTSP finally hires a news director...

 

Kelly Frank comes to WTSP from WBNS in Columbus where she was ND since 2015:

 

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/112778/kelly-frank-named-wtsp-news-director

 

Very interesting considering Tegna's approach to news is so different from WBNS, a station long considered to be the market leader. Meanwhile, WTSP's ratings are usually in last place, except in late news.

If their new news philosophy is now “be more like Dispatch”, then they may be alright.

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Mike McGuff reporting Natasha Barrett has left KTRK/ABC13 in Houston.

http://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2018/04/natasha-barrett-leaves-ktrk-13.html

 

George Smith will leave WFLD/FOX32 in Chicago to become lead anchor at WKOW/ABC27 in Madison, WI.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/112781/wkow-adds-george-smith-as-evening-anchor

 

MaryBeth Jacoby is named news director of WVLT/Local 8 in Knoxville, TN where she held the same job at WLTX in Columbia, SC.

http://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/WVLT-Names-News-Director-479732873.html

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WSOC also hired a new VP/GM, Cedric Thomas, late last year. He was previously Director of Sales at CMG Pittsburgh. Joe Pomilla, WSOC's long-time VP/GM was promoted to VP/GM of CMG Boston.

 

https://www.coxmediagroup.com/cmg-announces-new-broadcast-leadership-in-boston-charlotte-memphis-orlando-pittsburgh-jacksonville-and-miami/

 

I've heard that WSOC/WAXN's ratings haven't been as strong recently as they once were.

 

I have a pretty reliable source who says the numbers show them back on top again for the most part. WBTV does give them heat in a couple time slots, but they seem to have regained the lead.

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I have a pretty reliable source who says the numbers show them back on top again for the most part. WBTV does give them heat in a couple time slots, but they seem to have regained the lead.

There was no doubt that WSOC was back on top. I think they lost one ratings period, and people are like the house is on fire. Cox makes sure their on top in Atlanta, Charlotte, Orlando, Dayton and I believe they should of never caved into FOX with KTVU.

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WEWS is now down to just one person in the sports department as Marisa Silvas announced on her Twitter she was leaving the station for a new opportunity yet to be announced. Lauren Brill is the only person at the station still on sports.

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WEWS is now down to just one person in the sports department as Marisa Silvas announced on her Twitter she was leaving the station for a new opportunity yet to be announced. Lauren Brill is the only person at the station still on sports.

Scripps quality lives on...

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KLKN is losing its entire sports department. All three of them will be gone by the end of the summer. Their contracts all came up within a couple month span of each other. To be clear, they're not shutting down the sports dept, just completely rehiring it.

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WEWS is now down to just one person in the sports department as Marisa Silvas announced on her Twitter she was leaving the station for a new opportunity yet to be announced. Lauren Brill is the only person at the station still on sports.

Gutting a tv station sports department isn't going to fly in a town like cleveland

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WEWS is now down to just one person in the sports department as Marisa Silvas announced on her Twitter she was leaving the station for a new opportunity yet to be announced. Lauren Brill is the only person at the station still on sports.

 

History is repeating itself - the same thing happened 10 years ago with Sue Ann Robak.

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2007/05/clevelands_am_tv_personalities.html

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By "quality", I think he meant pushing out veteran talent for young talent, and "social media-driven" newscasts has somewhat taken over. I may be wrong about this..

 

But you're not. Lol.

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