BIG GOOF ON MY TV 9 During Commercial Break during morning News

[MarcB]

I was just watching NewsChannel 8's 7AM NewsCast on MY TV 9 and during a commercial break around 7:20AM there was a big goof. On the Screen was the old "UPN 9" Logo and it said NEXT: Mad About You 3:30PM The Parkers 4:00PM Montel. WCTX has been using MY TV 9 branding since JULY, so why is this old schedule/logo still in the computer? They used that schedule until September.

 

[4dude]

Arent they still using UPN for some programming?

 

[KML0224]

UPN doesn't exist anymore.

 

[upn38fan]

I know this isn't big because of the close relationship to these two stations, but something like this happened on TV38 this morning at 7AM after an infomercial. Instead of showing promos for TV38, they showed two for CW28 in Providence. One "The King of Queens" and the second "Raymond" which isn't even on 38. It surprised me, but after that they showed the TV38 sign.

 

[KML0224]

That's the beauty of master control covering more than one market! That's what plagues WTNH/WCTX a LOT lately. New Haven TV stations being controlled from Chicopee, MA? Geez!

 

[Garrett]

Yeah. Pre-consolodation, it was unusual, but it's not as big a goof as it would seem these days. In San Diego, I began noticing KNBC promos running on KNSD late nights during SNL and also on Sundays. It turns out that both stations are run out of LA now (both are O and O's, and I guess KNSD has no local staff other than the News studio in Downtown).

But I can also comment first hand that it happens here in Lubbock a lot. When I worked at KLBK/KAMC as an MCO, the two mastercontrol rooms are separated by a sliding glass door, so it's really just one room, with two computer playlists running off the same server. At one time, the logos and promos were very similar, with simlar numbers (different series of numbers seperate the different stations and promos now). It was not unusual for an "ABC28" promo to appear on "CBS13's" programming, but it was usually a mistake. In those cases it was because PSA had a tag on it from one station (the wrong one). So it doesn't happen as much with the Nexstar duopoly.

On the other hand, the RAMAR stations control Fox, CW, and MyTV here in Lubbock and they have no probem cross promoting any of the three stations on each other. So, you routinely see Fox34 promos running on CW Lubbock (22) and MyLubbockTV (14), and any other vice versa combo you can think of.

Of course, any time you hav a station change logos or identifiers, it could take weeks and even months before all the old logos are gone. We have had that problem here in Lubbock too, back when we swithed "NewsCenter13" to "CBS13." I had the News Director running into Master Control several times when an old undeleted promo ran.