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Stations that Show the Time and Temp Bug on All Newscasts

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Joey1986

What are some stations in your local market that show the time and temp on all newscasts (not just the morning news)?

In my market (Los Angeles) most stations that have local news do this. The English-language ones are the KCBS 2 (CBS O&O)/KCAL 9 (co-owned indie) and KTTV 11 (Fox O&O)/KCOP 13 (co-owned MyNetworkTV affiliate) duopolies (the latter being the most recent to jump on this bandwagon); as well as KNBC 4 (NBC O&O), KTLA 5 (CW), and KABC 7 (ABC O&O). The only Spanish-language station that does this is KMEX 34 (Univisión O&O). KVEA 52 (Telemundo O&O) only shows it on its morning newscast; while KWHY 22 (indie-soon-to-be-MundoFox), KAZA 54 (Azteca América), and KRCA 62 (Estrella TV) don't show one on any of their newscasts.

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...when I was in Phoenix five years ago, KTVK/3 and KASW/61 displayed the time-and-temp bugs on all programs, not just the news broadcasts...
 
@Ultimajock: WNYW/5 also used to have a time/temp ticker underneath their logo on the screen all the time; they've done away with the ticker a few years ago... If I'm not mistaken, I think most, if not all, Fox O&O's followed this practice...
 
WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama used to display the current time and current temperature only during morning newscasts until Saturday, April 21st, when they produced their first local newscast in high definition (WALA-TV used to display the current time and temperature for all newscasts years ago). When they produced their second high-definition newscast on the following Sunday, no temperature was displayed beside the clock. They would begin displaying temperatures beside the clock again during the following week.

As for other local TV stations with news operations, (WKRG-TV, WPMI-TV, and WEAR-TV), they usually display the current time and current temperature during all of their newscasts.
 
I always thought the interesting part about showing the temperature on a Los Angeles newscast are all the microclimates, especially in the summer, when it can be 68 in Malibu in the afternoon, 78 downtown, 88 in the Valleys and 98 in the desert communities that are also within the MSA. I know they show the downtown/Hollywood temperature, which serves as a temperature that is fairly accurate if you're within the LA Basin, but anyone in the Valleys, Inland Empire, high desert, etc gets basically excluded.
 
justpassingthough said:
I always thought the interesting part about showing the temperature on a Los Angeles newscast are all the microclimates, especially in the summer, when it can be 68 in Malibu in the afternoon, 78 downtown, 88 in the Valleys and 98 in the desert communities that are also within the MSA. I know they show the downtown/Hollywood temperature, which serves as a temperature that is fairly accurate if you're within the LA Basin, but anyone in the Valleys, Inland Empire, high desert, etc gets basically excluded.
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Yes, that's true of basically anywhere. I live in the nearby NYC suburbs (about 10 miles out of town) and the temperature at my house in the morning is usually about 5 or 6 degrees colder than the midtown Manhattan temperature that is displayed on the bug. Keep driving west or northwest and the temperature can be as much as 20 degrees colder than NYC. Other times, especially during the day, NYC will have a sea breeze kick in and the distant suburbs actually become warmer. Microclimates are everywhere.
 
KPRC-Local 2 in Houston shows the Time & Temperature all the time outside their newscasts-Mainly on Dr. Oz, Ellen, & E.T.; And during their newscasts, They don't show the Time & Temperature bug below the station's logo.
 
All stations here in Kansas City show time and temp during all newscasts. We use the temperature here at the station, which is often warmer than the official airport temperature.
 
TheRob said:
All stations here in Kansas City show time and temp during all newscasts. We use the temperature here at the station, which is often warmer than the official airport temperature.
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ansky212 said:
Yes, that's true of basically anywhere.  I live in the nearby NYC suburbs (about 10 miles out of town) and the temperature at my house in the morning is usually about 5 or 6 degrees colder than the midtown Manhattan temperature that is displayed on the bug.  Keep driving west or northwest and the temperature can be as much as 20 degrees colder than NYC.  Other times, especially during the day, NYC will have a sea breeze kick in and the distant suburbs actually become warmer.  Microclimates are everywhere.
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Pardon me for this message, but since the errors in bold are very common in regards to temperatures (especially in broadcasting), I must post this message: since temperatures are measurements of hotness or coldness in an environment or body, it is better to say high or low temperatures rather than warm or cold temperatures. Whether the air is warmer or cooler depends on the person.
 
Mario-500 said:
TheRob said:
All stations here in Kansas City show time and temp during all newscasts. We use the temperature here at the station, which is often warmer than the official airport temperature.
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ansky212 said:
Yes, that's true of basically anywhere. I live in the nearby NYC suburbs (about 10 miles out of town) and the temperature at my house in the morning is usually about 5 or 6 degrees colder than the midtown Manhattan temperature that is displayed on the bug. Keep driving west or northwest and the temperature can be as much as 20 degrees colder than NYC. Other times, especially during the day, NYC will have a sea breeze kick in and the distant suburbs actually become warmer. Microclimates are everywhere.
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Pardon me for this message, but since the errors in bold are very common in regards to temperatures (especially in broadcasting), I must post this message: since temperatures are measurements of hotness or coldness in an environment or body, it is better to say high or low temperatures rather than warm or cold temperatures. Whether the air is warmer or cooler depends on the person.
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I stand corrected. We use the temperature as indicated by a thermometer at the television station. This temperature is often five degrees (Fahrenheit) above the official temperature measurement at Kansas City International Airport. But in the opinion of the women in my newsroom, who use space heaters daily, the air is never warm enough.
 
In Raleigh/Durham, I know WRAL-TV has a time/temp bug that I'm pretty sure they use on the shows they produce for sister Fox affiliate WRAZ, and I believe WTVD uses time/temp as well. Don't know about WNCN or WUVC.
 
Charleston, all stations use time and temperature in the morning. Channels 2 and 5 use it during all newscasts, and the other two stations use it too. The only time you don't see a time and temperature is when Channel 24 (Fox) does a newscast after a Fox sporting event. It is usually taped at 10pm, even though it might not air till midnight or later.
 
KGW, on their secondary service known as "KGW 24-7 Weather" on xx-02, which actually shows very litle weather-related programming during the day, instead opting to run a tape loop of the most recent local "news" broadcast much of the time. (Decended from NBC Weather Plus+, which xx-02 originally carried.) They take it a step further and add a highly annoying and distracting headline ticker across the bottom of the screen. None of this is present on their regular broadcasts over xx-01.
 
In a similar vein: Does your local newscast remove their corner bug when they go to the weather segment? WTIC-TV (FOX) channel 61 of Hartford seems to do so in their 10 PM news. WFSB-TV (CBS) channel 3 of Hartford seems to remove everything at that time, including their "3" bug and the "#WFSB" written above the "3" logo.
 
Time and temp bug is standard here with the local Chicago stations. And as a longtime business traveler I can tell you that it's also pretty much standard on morning commercial TV just about everywhere in the U.S.

Same goes for Canada and the UK.

And much appreciated by me when I have appointments to get to!

Another feature that I much appreciate in the morning are real-time freeway traffic maps. For years, going back to the early 80s, the only place where I ever saw these was on KSTP-TV in the Twin Cities. They got briefly inserted into local news and weather cutaways as well as for a couple of seconds in local commercial breaks. Fortunately, today, these have become much more common....but not as universal as the time and temp bugs.

Live local momentary weather radar shots are also good.
 
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