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WKYC-TEGNA News Director Out After One Month

"Fox 8 News... We have ALL the top meteorologists in town! Scott Sabol, Betsy Kling, Matt Wintz, and Mark Johnson, all under one roof! See the entire newly expanded Fox/CW/NBC 8/55/3 Weather Team all day long!"

If that does happen, I hope they import the Tegna weather graphics, because they're so much more appealing than whatever homebrewed MyFox leftovers channel 8 is using.
 
jtakach98 said:
"Fox 8 News... We have ALL the top meteorologists in town! Scott Sabol, Betsy Kling, Matt Wintz, and Mark Johnson, all under one roof! See the entire newly expanded Fox/CW/NBC 8/55/3 Weather Team all day long!"

If that does happen, I hope they import the Tegna weather graphics, because they're so much more appealing than whatever homebrewed MyFox leftovers channel 8 is using.
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OMG, yes Fox 8 graphics are terrible. I've never liked their presentation anyways. Dick & Andre were awful. Took them forever to get out the forecast.

My dream team is Jason, Betsy, Matt and Mark.
 
Well, I don't like WKYC's radar. Why is the satellite image in black & white? It isn't the 80s anymore where the technology at the time had limitations.

As for Fox 8, I haven't payed much attention in recent years, but the radar itself is not as detailed as the others. WEWS could show a big red splotch of rain and FOX 8 would hardly show any red in the same exact cluster of showers/storms. WOIO over exaggerated their radar, making it look worse that it actually was, but I think they corrected that after the "19 Action News" era.
 
TVWatcher23 said:
OMG, yes Fox 8 graphics are terrible. I've never liked their presentation anyways. Dick & Andre were awful. Took them forever to get out the forecast.

My dream team is Jason, Betsy, Matt and Mark.
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Dick and Andre came from an age when the weather segment was a big part of the news, so they made it more casual. There's a reason why Dick Goddard was the trusted name in weather around town.

As for Fox 8's graphics, they've been horrible ever since the MyFox era, and I know it was by choice until they got the HD version that they have now, because the other Fox 8 out of North Carolina (WGHP) has the same logo, but they at least modernized the graphics. Any word on if they'll adopt the new Fox-standard news graphics? I know that it looks like they dabbled in that with the New Day graphics - the Fox 8/New Day logo in the corner parrots what the other Fox stations do with their news presentation - but what about for the news itself?
 
WKYC is a lot more watchable nowadays than WEWS, which seems to be increasingly more and more forgettable. Having Mark and Danita on the same station is also helping 3.
 


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