Calvin Hughes, currently a reporter and weekend anchor at KYW, the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia, will be replacing Mark Schumacher on 10’s morning newscast very soon. Before moving to KYW Hughes was the main anchor at WGCL, the CBS affiliate in Atlanta.
Monthly Archive for August, 2006
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Tipster says – changes at WPLG have happened!
Schumacher is off mornings, he will take the place of Will Manso and Manso will go back to doing sports. Charles Perez has been oficially anonced as Neki Mohan’s new co-anchor
MSNBC has debuted a new graphics package today as expected by some. Not sure who did them, but they are very angular and look a lot like what CNBC had before they went 100% CGI on their lower thirds.
I saw the promo today for the new 4pm newscast on 7. Not surprisingly it’s called ‘7News First At 4′ and as previously mentioned on this blog it will be a half-hour newscast followed by ‘Geraldo At Large’. They doesn’t tell us what day in September they’ll debut or who will anchor it. And unlike the 5pm newscast, ‘First at 4′ will have traffic reports according to the promo.
I wonder if they are renaming the 5pm newscast to something else the way they did with the 11pm when it used to be ‘7 at 11′ before the red graphics makeover!?!
I think First at 4 should have been a whole hour newscast though, ‘Geraldo’ is useless. And they maybe should add news at 7pm when most all people are actually home by that time and not stuck in traffic.
Video after the jump
Continue reading ‘7News First At 4pm in September’
WTVX Channel 34 in West Palm has converted their web site to CW already. Looks like the old template on the UPN/CBS stations but very green!
34CWTV.com
First, KUTV have braved the new online world and posted a video with bloopers from their own newscast. Towards then you can even see former WTVJ chief met Roland Steadham goof off with his mic while live on the air
Then a talk show host gets the giggles because of his guest’s high pitch voice
New promos featuring Bob Mayor and Pam Giganti in New York with the Today Show hosts is running on 6 already. They have Bob and Pam talking with Vieira and Matt Lauer on the interview couch talking as if they’re getting to know each other and then at the end all four are standing up with the Today set behind them with Matt and Meredith mentioning NBC6. I guess it’s pretty generic and probably same or similar promos are on the other NBC stations.
Starting September 5th WPEC News 12 in Palm Beach County will launch the area’s first 7pm newscast right after Catie Couric. The same team that anchors the 6pm will anchor the 7pm. WPEC which also produces newscasts for WFLX will add an hour to that station’s morning news program from 7am untill 9am.
News12Now.com
Newscast to Launch
I missed it, but got a note from a tipster saying 7 debuted the promo for the upcoming 4pm newscast.
Thanks to the tipster who sent me this.
The Boston Herald’s Inside Track reports Sunbeam TV owner Ed Ansin might be making a move to buy Boston’s WB56, owned by Tribune, in case NBC decides to make a move and aquire a station of their own in the area and drop the NBC affiliation with WHDH. If Sunbeam were to buy WB56 it would create a similar situation like WTVJ and WB39.
Sunbeam TV are the owners of both WHDH in Boston and WSVN here in South Florida
The Boston Herald Inside Track
Ed’s out to thwart Peacock with channel change
BTVN says WHDH’s GM has denied the rumor and that WHDH has more than 2 years left on their contract with NBC
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