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RE: American News Presentation - BrandonGiesing - 02-05-2023

(01-05-2023, 07:42 PM)London Lite Wrote:  What is Sinclair doing wrong that other local station groups are able to do better with regards to sponsorship of segments in their bulletins?

It's likely less "they aren't making money from sponsorships", it's more of the fallout from their Diamond/Bally Sports venture going bankrupt, they claimed Diamond was "financially separate" but it seems like that's not the case.

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RE: American News Presentation - sky303 - 02-05-2023

(01-05-2023, 06:55 PM)W. Knight Wrote:  And as if the list isn't long enough yet, KPTM (Fox, The CW) in Omaha and WGFL Gainsville (CBS, MyTV) are reportedly on the chop as well:
https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/sinclair-shutters-five-news-markets-we-just-turned-off-the-lights-for-many/ 

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Moving on to CBS News streaming, a new daily politics programme, America Decides, started tonight from DC bureau. It replaces of Red & Blue, and acts as a build-up for John Dickerson's Prime Time:
https://www.youtube.com/live/7dVUQl4KW-c?feature=share 

In their own words:

Quote:CBS News executives are betting that younger audiences want more depth and nuance in news programming. “In this polarized environment, politics often gets a bad rap. People say, ‘I’m not interested in politics,’” says [Anthony] Galloway. “I think what people are not interested in is that fight. They are tired of the on person on the left and the one person on right, generally people on the extremes arguing with each other. You don’t learn a lot from that type of programming.”

[Robert] Costa, who joined CBS News in 2022 after a four-year stint moderating PBS’ “Washington Week,” believes viewers will flock to a hard-news program. “The audience wants respect,” he says. “If you can show the audience respect and bring them really good, fresh information, you can build an audience.”

In weeks to come, says Galloway, executives may look at opportunities to take “America Decides” on the road to debate and convention sites. On some important evenings, he says, there may be plans that involve both CBS News’ streaming and broadcast programs and ways to get audiences to move back and forth between them. “With some of the races last year, it was really effective,” he says. “I think we are going to try to invest and double down on that.”

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/cbs-news-america-decides-streaming-politics-washington-1235592036 

Those are two more Sinclair stations where KPTM- Ohama does their news from Fresno, California and the Gainesville station is done from West Palm Beach, Florida.  Gainesville has always been an essentially a one news station market that's WCJB-TV which has the highest news viewership by a margin. The FOX Station is repeater of the Orlando station, the NBC station's newscast is that CBS station's news cast.   Alot of these felt more like they were running "local news" for political ad money versus serving anybody. They are/were doing local news from South Bend, Indiana for Toledo and Scranton, where the same anchor in the evening did both places.  I think because Ohio and Pennsylvania are election swing states. The station in Scranton used to have news done by WNEP and later the  WYOU/WRBE combo- Scranton is a 2 news market.  

I think another factor is also the Diamond Sports thing is effecting them no matter what else they say, that has been a big mess for their company.

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RE: American News Presentation - W. Knight - 02-05-2023

Moving on to other local station: WFTX in Southwest Florida (Fox/Scripps) debuted a new set, with physical monitors and an L-shaped desk replacing the virual set.

Before (2021): https://youtu.be/UXSZTH4irks 
After:
https://youtu.be/tKJQfNBMyeA 

Seems like they have two sets of screens for the weather (one with the desk and one without and larger)?
https://youtu.be/McrcYcSb2gw 

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(01-05-2023, 06:55 PM)W. Knight Wrote:  And as if the list isn't long enough yet, KPTM (Fox, The CW) in Omaha and WGFL Gainsville (CBS, MyTV) are reportedly on the chop as well:

Update: Gainsville cut confirmed:

Quote:Beginning May 15, WGFL-CBS4 will cease all local news broadcasts, according to an emailed statement sent to The Gainesville Sun on Tuesday from the station's owner, Sinclair Broadcasting Group.

The company has notified its local news staff that they will no longer have a job, but that some may be able to transfer elsewhere within the company. It's unclear how many local jobs will be lost, but it could be at least 10, based on the station's staffing website.

From https://eu.gainesville.com/story/news/2023/05/02/sinclair-shuts-down-local-gainesville-tv-station-lays-off-employees/70174013007/ 

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RE: American News Presentation - London Lite - 03-05-2023

I remember WFTX from Hurricane Ian where they had the most ghastly virtual set in the Fort Myers/Naples market. That is a marked improvement.

While WINK now has the worst set in that market due to storm damage, I hope that current set they use is only temporary as they have been able to do much better in the past. With Hearst soon to own WBBH and produce local news for WZVN which has another licence holder, they really need to up their game.

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RE: American News Presentation - London Lite - 03-05-2023

There was a shooting at WHBQ in Memphis where a gunman attempted to gain access to the building. Nobody inside the building was injured and a man was arrested.

Here's how Fox 13 Memphis covered their own story.

https://youtu.be/4i5Pbs8WMcc 

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RE: American News Presentation - Medianext.MX - 03-05-2023

(02-05-2023, 11:36 PM)W. Knight Wrote:  Moving on to other local station: WFTX in Southwest Florida (Fox/Scripps) debuted a new set, with physical monitors and an L-shaped desk replacing the virual set.

Before (2021): https://youtu.be/UXSZTH4irks 
After:
https://youtu.be/tKJQfNBMyeA 

Seems like they have two sets of screens for the weather (one with the desk and one without and larger)?
https://youtu.be/McrcYcSb2gw 

(03-05-2023, 12:06 AM)London Lite Wrote:  I remember WFTX from Hurricane Ian where they had the most ghastly virtual set in the Fort Myers/Naples market.  That is a marked improvement.

Looks quite Nexstar to me, but, as London Lite said, it is really an improvement. Is WGBA still using its also really ghastly virtual set?

Here's NewscastStudio's take:

https://www.newscaststudio.com/2023/05/03/wftjx-fox-4-new-set/ 

WFTX's new set reminds me of KATC (another Scripps station) but smaller; they also took the Nexstar route for their current set:

https://www.newscaststudio.com/setstudio/katc/ 

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RE: American News Presentation - W. Knight - 03-05-2023

KAIT-TV, Gray's ABC/NBC/CW Plus affiliate in Jonesboro reverted their name back to K8 News, used between 1998 to 2005, while retaining the existing graphics: https://youtu.be/V_pTaKwGwtU 
https://youtu.be/5e4pi7BNsSE 
https://youtu.be/IntI179SkDU 

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A busy day for local TV today, as 69 News (WFMZ Allentown) also had new graphics, which holds up well against those big station group ones IMO: https://youtu.be/O-nYjD1nnsM 

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And WBBM Chicago finally adopted the new CBS News graphics, and it's the boring boxed one with their channel number: https://youtu.be/GOuPYtgiWBE 

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RE: American News Presentation - sky303 - 04-05-2023

(03-05-2023, 08:30 PM)W. Knight Wrote:  KAIT-TV, Gray's ABC/NBC/CW Plus affiliate in Jonesboro reverted their name back to K8 News, used between 1998 to 2005, while retaining the existing graphics: https://youtu.be/V_pTaKwGwtU 
https://youtu.be/5e4pi7BNsSE 
https://youtu.be/IntI179SkDU 

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A busy day for local TV today, as 69 News (WFMZ Allentown) also had new graphics, which holds up well against those big station group ones IMO: https://youtu.be/O-nYjD1nnsM 

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And WBBM Chicago finally adopted the new CBS News graphics, and it's the boring boxed one with their channel number: https://youtu.be/GOuPYtgiWBE 

WFMZ's new look is a nice evolution of their old look. The Woosh sounds are bit much though.  

WBBM is using two different twos as well the CBS 2 in the intro is their logo, the one in the box on the left of the screen is WCBS' 2.


Also on WBBM, I was 1/2 right on the BOX CBS 2 , but the name was off. 

(13-04-2023, 08:23 PM)sky303 Wrote:  I figured WCCO would stay WCCO News , they like WBZ had a CBS4 logo but that was dead weight that existed, before the 2010 standardization they and WBZ didn't even use a CBS 4 logo.
Their twitter account has changed to the black box with WCCO in it , it had the old CBS 4 WCCO logo yesterday
https://twitter.com/WCCO 
Would be interesting if they do all red and white look,  that's not usually done, minus KRON-TV. They've been using the parts of the new graphics when they launched their 4pm newscast, and that's blue and white so.. hmm.
My other guess for the other stations
WJZ will probably use WJZ News as their name still
WBBM will probably still use a  CBS 2 box, but go by CBS News Chicago
KOVR will probably use a CBS 13 box,  random guess of still going by CBS 13 News because why not? Will be interesting to see what they do with Good Day Sacramento's look since it's not in the standard design, hopefully that will be allowed to keep it's quirks or make new quirks for it , it had the same look for almost a decade or something so...
https://youtu.be/Hr7ra7Oh4Vw?t=18 
Edit: WCCO News has the new look at 4pm, the graphics were already being used for this newscast, so it's the new bug and logo box thing 

Also, also, I like how KYW also added green to the weather graphics makes a nice mix there  and the blue works with it. Also interesting to see the graphics can also go without a ticker. 

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RE: American News Presentation - Medianext.MX - 04-05-2023

(03-05-2023, 08:30 PM)W. Knight Wrote:  A busy day for local TV today, as 69 News (WFMZ Allentown) also had new graphics, which holds up well against those big station group ones IMO: https://youtu.be/O-nYjD1nnsM 

This looks and smells Nexstar. If Nexstar had taken over the station, it would be easy to fit with sisters (WFMZ is locally owned by Maranatha Broadcasting Company). The thing is that these graphics were done by Rey Rodriguez (who currently is Nexstar's creative director and also works as freelance under his Linear Drift moniker), who also did the previous graphics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8tcDNOEUfQ 

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(03-05-2023, 08:30 PM)W. Knight Wrote:  And WBBM Chicago finally adopted the new CBS News graphics, and it's the boring boxed one with their channel number: https://youtu.be/GOuPYtgiWBE 

They also adopted the new weather graphics. But still, a mess of branding:

https://www.newscaststudio.com/2023/05/04/cbs-2-chicago-new-graphics-2023/ 

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RE: American News Presentation - W. Knight - 04-05-2023

Moving on to cable news channels now... Scripps News, rechristened from Newsy earlier this year, has a new lineup, including more live morning news and a new live programme, Scripps News Tonight, from 8-10:

In their own words:

Quote:Scripps News had originally planned to program live news continuously within two years of its launch, but viewers were changing the channel during shows that were rebroadcast,” Kate O’Brian, president of Scripps News, told Broadcasting+Cable.

“We saw viewers come and stay for live and then, when we would be airing shows that were not live, we were losing audience,” O’Brian said. “The audience would come back after we went back to live.”

The network conducted an experiment and replaced its taped repeat of In The Loop at 11 a.m. with an extra live hour of its Morning Rush program. “In one day we saw that we were not losing the viewers that we had been before,” O’Brian said. “It was pretty definitive.”

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The new Scripps News live lineup starts with Early Rush from 6 a.m.to 7 a.m. ET; Morning Rush from 7 a.m. to noon; Scripps News Live from noon to 6 p.m., Evening Debrief from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; and Scripps News Tonight from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

The channel’s documentary show In Real Life, which premieres on Sunday nights, will have repeats at 4 a.m. on weekdays instead of 2 p.m. The show The List moves to 5 a.m and The Upside (previously called Afternoon Focus) moves to 5:30 a.m.

(From https://www.nexttv.com/news/scripps-news-expands-lineup-of-live-shows-and-launches-promo-campaign )

This is how Scripps News Tonight looks on screen: https://twitter.com/ElianaBlock/status/1653205146610835458 

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