#KXAS

[oldshowbiz]

Channel 5

[grundoonmgnx]

KXAS-NBC, Dallas

Southwestern Bell van, Texas, 1970s.

(via)

[tapakah0]

It started~

[petsincollections]

Photograph of two cans of Tabby Cat Food on both sides of a stuffed cat, ca. 1966.

This photograph is part of the collection entitled: KXAS-NBC 5 News Collection and was provided by the UNT Libraries Special Collections to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries.

[obsidiennes]

"Apologies if these feel a little thrown together last minute, I only just learned yesterday that your birthday was on saturday." Andi presented Karin with a folder full of the various life drawing sketches Andi had drawn of the Kurosaki girl, some she'd even gone over and recolored with pastels and colored pencils. "There's that... plus a little extra." Andi tapped a painted fingernail against a thumbdrive taped to the folder... it had nudes... Andi gave Karin a thumbdrive full of nudes. "Happy birthday."

Karin received the folder with a fairly thoughtful expression, brows lifting appreciatively after she opened it to review the contents. The artwork was all rather more gussied up than she remembered having seen at the time she'd posed for it, and the differences gave her pause as she slowly flipped through the works. It was flashy enough that she didn't immediately notice the thumb drive, instead rather taken by some of the coloration choices....

When her attention was drawn to the device, she blinked and raised an eyebrow. She was used to passing and being passed such things as part of her job, but for the moment the intention behind it escaped her. Her first thought, given the phrasing, was maybe that they were digital versions done up differently! Still, she put the mystery aside for the moment.

"This is... definitely the most personalized thing I've gotten in a while. You really didn't have to do all this, Andi. It's not like 33's a big milestone or anything. But... I appreciate it." Closing the folder, she pulled her artist into a big hug!

[nattikay]

Enjoy this spooky Na'vi audio story I wrote for a Halloween-themed listening practice session on Kelutral! Transcription below the cut for those who want to read along. I'll also be adding the English translation in a reblog (adding that separately so that those who want to practice—I know there's at least a few of you out there hrh—can read along with the written Na'vi without accidentally "cheating" by looking at the English 😉)

Fì'u lu vur teri Rimun. Rimun lu 'eveng.

Po za'u ftu olo' alu Kame'tire. Pori solalew vomuna zìsìt, ulte poru sunu fwa lang.

Mì tanlokxe Kame'tireyä lu vawma slär apxa. Rimunä sa'nok peng poru san kawkrr ke kä nemfa tsaslär, taluna lehrrap lu sìk…slä Rimun newomum.

Rimun new slivu nìtxan ne tsamsiyu trro, ulte tsamsiyu txopu ke si. Po fpìl san tse, lu oe tstew sì txur nìtam fte livätxayn ketsrana 'uti a tok tsaslärit sìk.

Ha trro a'aw, pawm po ta 'eylan alu Anuk, srake nga new livang oehu vawma slärit aingyenga'? Slä lu Anukur am'a. 

San stolawm oel fmawnta tsaslär lehrrap nìtxan lu sìk plltxe Anuk nìhìpey. Var po san peng oer tsmukanìl futa tsaslärmì kelku si tirea vrrtepä asnewsye! sìk

Plltxe Rimun san yayl, nìlaw pol tsat poltxe fte ngati txopu sleykivu nì'aw! Nìsung, nga new livu tstew na tsamsiyu kefyak? sìk.

'eyng Anuk san …li… sìk, slä nìlaw ke so'ha po.

Tafral tsaha'ngir tsameylan ultxa si fte wrrkivä ne slär. Tengkrr mefo serop, yapay akxum sngä'i ziva'u. Lu letrrtrr fìtìlen mì tanlokxe Kame'tireyä, ha mi sngum ke si meveng, slä sleru ngäzìk nì'ul fwa tse'a.

Nì'i'a pähem ne kxa slärä meveng. Ayskxe apxi 'ong ta kllte sì ta fäpyo na aysre' palulukanä, ulte aysawnuä ke tsun mefo tsive'a ke'ut kaw'it mungwrr tìvawm.

Tsìsyì Anuk san tam, rolun oengal slärit...set kxawm sweylu txo ke fpxiväkìm oeng sìk.

'eyng Rimun san txopu rä'ä si ma 'eylantsyìp! Lu tìvawm nì'aw! sìk.

San ke sunu oer fwa ke tsun tsive'a tsatsengmì sìk plltxe Anuk.

Rimun nìn nìskien, nìftär. Plltxe po san tse...kop ke tsun oeng tsive'a fìtseng sìk. Anuk nìn nìteng ulte tseri futa Rimunur tìyawr...polähem txana yapay fìtxan kuma lu txur teyrpin pxawngipä nìftxan na tìvawm slärä. Tafral po mungsye...ulte nong 'eylanit nemfa slär.

Tìvawm mevengur lew si na srä aku'up. Ke lu na'rìngna fìtseng, taluna ke lu kea syuratan kaw'it. Nìsngä'i tsun tsive'a nì'aw mefo sanhìti sneyä, tsun stivawm nì'aw aysäkeynvenit sneyä. Tsìk hì'ia pamol ahiyìk Anukit speykä.

San txe'lan mawey, skxakep lolu nì'aw payìva a kllteti takuk sìk plltxe Rimun...slä nìngay ke 'efu po am'ake.

Len nìmun tsapam...tsakrr za'u ta slär nìtxukx lahea pam asnewsye 'rrpxomna a lìm. Nìk'ong slu tsapam wok nì'ul'ul vaykrr tsal reykìkxi slärit nìwotx.

Tsìk tseri mevengìl futa atan ahì'i srer alìm...tsakrr lolu meatan...tsakrr pxey...tsakrr atan atsìng, ner nìtun, rerikx 'awsiteng...na aynari swiräyä!

Leym Anuk san LATSU TIREA VRRTEPÄ! LI TUL, LI TUL, LI TUL! sìk.

Fìalo ke tsun wiväte Rimun, ulte nìftxavang meveng tul, tul, tul, ftumfa slär avawm sì nemfa yapay ateyr. Mi ke tsun tsive'a nìltsan mefo, tafral hola alo keynven nìnu ulte zup, slä ke ftang tivul vaykrr ne tsray tolätxaw, kxuke slä txopu seri.

Furia mevengìl folrrfen tsaslärit lehrrap sa'nok Rimunä sti...slä Rimunìl tsole'a tireati vrrtepä a fì'ut poanìl poeru peng a krr, poel poanti ke spaw. Nìfkeytongay, kawtul ke spaw nafì'ua vurit lekye'ung!

Slä omum Rimunìl sì Anukìl teyngta tse'a mefol peut, ulte ne tsaslär kawkrr ke tolätxaw, fteke nìmun ultxarivun tsaswiräti aingyenga'... 

[cosmic60s]

July 16, 1973

While I'm still a university student, I'm taking full advantage of the access I have to various research databases and online archives to look for materials relating to Dean & Jerry. Since I'm still a relatively new fan, I've been seeing a lot of this stuff for the first time which is exciting :-)

(sourced from the NBC5/KXAS-TV News Collection in the University of North Texas Libraries)

[thedemonlady]

Text messages between Kayn and Akali are exposed, sparking heated discussion and speculation among fans.

Recently, the music industry has once again made waves. Private text messages between Kayn, a member of the new boy band Heartsteel, and Akali, a member of the girl group K/DA, have been exposed. The contents of these chats triggered widespread heated discussion, and fans are speculating about the text messages and the meaning of the expression in it. It is reported that Heartsteel's newly released debut song "Paranoia" MV also contains a "Kaykali gate" easter egg. We will reveal it to you in the next issue of Canyon Entertainment News.

Kayn painted a ramen on the Yone's box drone in reference to Akali, who loves ramen. 😭🖤✨

▶ All KxA official easter eggs

[oldshowbiz]

KXAS TV - Channel 5 - Fort Worth / Dallas

[hooked-on-elvis]

Elvis in Fort Worth, Texas, on January 11, 1958

Incredible footage colorization/restoration by 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐒 on Youtube.

I swear I felt I was watching a modern times interview, like our own time's artists. The original B&W footage is awesome by itself but this restoration is such a fantastic job I just had to share with you right after watching for the first time myself, since the video had been recently updated to Youtube (today, March 7, 2024, actually). I have to add that all that channel's content is fabulous. ♥

I'll share the original footage again, just in case you'd like to watch in B&W and without the music on the background:

Footage uploaded on Youtube channel "Elvis Presley News" | Original source: UNT (University of Texas) Digital Library. On their website: "Creation Information: Bookmark this section WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Texas) January 11, 1958. This video is part of the collection entitled: KXAS-NBC 5 News Collection and was provided by the UNT Libraries Special Collections to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries."

FOOTAGE INFO:

Elvis was at stopover in Fort Worth, Texas, on his way to Hollywood studios in Los Angeles, to begin filming 'King Creole'. On December 1957 Presley received his draft note from the Army. It's said he cut his sideburns shorter to look different for playing his character in King Creole tho, not because of the army.

In the interview above, there's a moment Elvis is asked about if he was worried cutting his famous sideburns off. He said "If it was a situation they'd cut them off and I never could have them anymore then I would worry about 'em, but I can grow it back."

[pialexx]

➤MOOTS!!

(In here,,i put my moots since i cannot follow due to my phone being glitched..) ─────────────────────────────────

➤ @selvyyr

➤ @kxa-vivn

➤ @akto-is-my-boy

➤ @waynestates

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[jarchaeology]

i know the answer is most likely no, but....

any of you happen to have hookups at good morning texas or channel 5 KXAS? or maybe know anything about tv stations or commercial work in texas from the 80s and 90s?

[crescent-coral-base]

Channel 5, KXAS now but WBAP-TV until 1974, is (and was) the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex's NBC affiliate.

7:30 pm Central time is 8:30 pm Eastern time, so this billboard is advertising Star Trek airing weekly in Prime Time over the NBC network. During STAR TREK's first season, its timeslot was, in fact, Thursday evenings starting at 8:30 Eastern/7:30 Central and Mountain. From those nuggets of information, we can date this photo from sometime between September 1966 to September 1967.

STAR TREK billboard in Fort Worth, Texas, ca. 1970.

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[dankusner]

Dr. Phil’s Fort Worth-based Merit Street Media lays off 38 employees

The nascent network is laying off its first batch of employees since launching in early April.

Merit Street Media, the network owned by Phil McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, is laying off 38 employees, according to a Merit Street Media spokesperson.

The Fort Worth-based network said it’s cutting jobs by consolidating positions throughout its departments.

Among those hit hardest is the network’s news team, which works on programs like Morning on Merit Street and The News on Merit Street.

“The goal since day one has been to eliminate duplication and create a singular editorial and production group that services all Merit Street content. This is a step in that direction,” a Merit Street Media spokesperson told The Dallas Morning News over email.

Since the employees laid off were recently hired, they do not qualify for severance.

Approximately 100 employees remain at Merit Street Media.

“Following the brief summer hiatus of ‘Dr. Phil Primetime,’ Merit Street implemented ongoing consolidations of departments and roles in efforts to achieve efficiencies at the highest level, which unfortunately resulted in some layoffs,” a Merit Street Media spokesperson said.

Employees said they were blindsided by the layoffs, according to what a staffer told media news website Mediaite.

“These layoffs came as a complete shock to everyone on the staff. We knew changes were happening at the network, but didn’t realize this would be one of them,” they said. “Some people uprooted their entire lives to move here for this job without a safety net and now the rug has been pulled out from under them.”

Derik Lattig, a former member of the production staff on Dr. Phil Primetime and an industry professional for 35 years, said on X that he enjoyed his time at the network, but was one of the many laid off.

“Overall, it was a positive experience. The staff was very genuine, like a family, and really cared about the people that we lined up for interviews,” Lattig said. “It was interesting to see this style of media, as opposed to the day in, day out, journalism that I’ve known, and everybody was very supportive, from the managers on down to Dr. Phil. It’s just a sad thing that this has happened.”

One of the differences between Merit Street Media and other networks, McGraw said, was that it was committed to eliminating the traditional “siloed approach” in news programming, where teams work separately.

The layoffs are intended help the company achieve the vision of eliminating internal news siloes, according to an internal letter sent out to staff obtained by The News.

The letter was signed at the end by Joel Cheatwood, the network’s executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Going forward, Dr. Phil Primetime and Morning on Merit will no longer have their own producers, according to the letter.

“You may have noticed some changes across the network, including adjustments to department structures and the elimination of a small number of positions that were deemed redundant as our reorganization took shape,” the letter said. “These changes were necessary to eliminate barriers between different shows and to move away from the practice of having production staffs dedicated solely to one show or project.”

Despite the layoffs, Merit Street Media signed some big names and media rights deals ahead of the network’s proposed February 26 launch date, which was later delayed to April 2. Fort Worth-based Christian broadcast television network Trinity Broadcasting Network has been acting as Merit Street Media’s distribution partner since the launch.

The company has inked deals with names like Steve Harvey, Nancy Grace, Mike Rowe and Bear Grylls to air their programming and has signed former KPRC 2 Houston host Dominique Sachse and former KXAS-TV (NBC5) host Kris Gutierrez to help lead its news programming.

The company also signed its first sports broadcasting rights deal when it announced it was teaming up with the Professional Bull Riders league, becoming the exclusive home of the league’s premier individual tour, Unleash The Beast.

However, the staffer told Mediaite they are unsure of what Merit Street Media’s future will look like.

“Those left are being told very little,” they said. “We are understandably nervous and have no idea as to the future of the network.”

Still, Merit Street Media maintains it has a bright future throughout the media world.

“We are confidently getting better at what we do,” a Merit Street Media spokesperson said. “Merit will continue striving to create more synergy between all divisions including staff expanding their roles within our live news, original programming, and sports and music endeavors.”

In the letter signed by Cheatwood, he said he believes the network has better days ahead.

“It is with great sadness that we have had to say goodbye to some of our colleagues. While our focus as a business must always be on achieving higher quality and greater efficiency, we must also acknowledge the significant impact these decisions can have on individuals,” the letter said. “However, as we continue to grow Merit Street Media — and believe me, we are just getting started — I am confident that the strength of our brand will create an abundance of new opportunities in the future.”

Dr. Phil's Merit Street Media cuts jobs in Fort Worth

Merit Street Media Inc. — the TV production company and network of Phil McGraw, aka Dr. Phil — has laid off employees less than a year after it announced its move to Fort Worth.

Merit Street Media said fewer than 40 of its 100 employees were laid off Friday and Monday.

Staff on the "Morning on Merit Street" and "The News on Merit Street" programs were the most affected.

A Merit Street Media spokesman said in an email to Dallas Business Journal the layoffs were made to "achieve efficiencies at the highest level" following the summer hiatus of "Dr. Phil Primetime," a talk show hosted by McGraw.

"We are confidently getting better at what we do," the statement said.

"Merit will continue striving to create more synergy between all divisions including staff expanding their roles within our live news, original programming, and sports and music endeavors.”

Numerous staffers affected by Merit Street's layoffs declined to comment or did not respond to interview requests.

But Carson Taylor, a video editor based in Los Angeles, said he was prepared to start a job this month as a video editor for "Dr. Phil Primetime," but was told the show was put on "indefinite hiatus" three days before he was supposed to start.

"I had already bought a $600 flight and started looking at apartments," he wrote in a LinkedIn message.

Merit Street Media launched last November inside a building at 5501 Alliance Gateway Fwy., at AllianceTexas in far north Fort Worth. Joel Cheatwood, a former executive at TEGNA, CNN and Fox News, is Merit Street's chief operating officer.

The network had debuted numerous original shows. "The Morning on Merit Street" and "The News on Merit Street" launched in February. The channel also featured outside content: In May, Merit Street struck a deal to cover Professional Bull Riders events live.

So sorry to those of you who were not told in a timely manner and already committed time and effort into the Dr Phil show.

I was actually walking to my leasing office to cancel my lease when I received the call to literally “find a new job” and the whole time I thought it was just me.

I almost relocated from California to Fort Worth, Texas for the show.

This has given me the insight that; I could run a studio more efficiently than this.

They didn’t even send me an NDA or confidentiality agreement until I posted my story on here.

Layoffs with ‘no warning’.

What’s going on at Dr. Phil’s Fort Worth media company?

Many of them moved across the country to start what they believed were stable, well-paying jobs.

Then on Friday, after just a matter of months, they were told they didn’t have jobs anymore.

The layoffs at Dr. Phil’s media company, Merit Street Media, were first reported by Mediaite on Friday.

By Monday, several of those laid off were already sending out résumés.

Popular TV psychologist and talk show host Phil McGraw ended his long-running show “Dr. Phil” in early 2023 and announced later that year that he would start a new Fort Worth-based media company with news and a new talk show.

“Dr. Phil Primetime” launched on April 2.

The employees were laid off as part of “ongoing consolidations of departments and roles in efforts to achieve efficiencies at the highest level, which unfortunately resulted in some layoffs,” according to a statement sent by Merit Street to the Star-Telegram.

While a source within the company told the Star-Telegram fewer than 40 people were laid off, another source who was among those terminated said it was closer to 50.

The source who was laid off, a producer who had been with the network since before it went on air, said the downsizing came as a shock.

The former producer said it was a traumatic event, with human resources staff pulling aside one employee at a time throughout the day.

Employees who were laid off would return to their desks and begin packing up.

Often they were in tears, and many employees who hadn’t been called in for a meeting with HR yet were also crying.

The former employee, who asked not to be named for fear of being blacklisted as they searched for a new job, said nobody was receiving severance pay as part of the layoff and were told their insurance would run out at the end of the month.

The source still with the network said no severance was offered because none of the employees had been employed long enough.

“We were just let go from a job out of nowhere … no warning, no anything,” said another former Merit Street Media employee who also asked to remain anonymous.

Some of the former employees reported having moved to Fort Worth from states “more than 12 hours away” just a few months ago.

They had no idea how they were going to pay rent on 12- and 15-month leases they recently signed.

Other former employees had just wrapped up a taping when they were called in for a “powwow” and told they had been let go.

“That’s what she called it, a powwow,” the former employee said.

Two of the former employees had already applied for new jobs and become each other’s competition by Monday morning.

Others were still reeling from the news.

Several already had the #OpenToWork logo on their LinkedIn profile photos on Monday.

“It’s overwhelming, and I can’t even think about next steps,” said another who also asked to remain anonymous.

“I’ve never been fired or let go from any job in my entire life, and I’ve never been in a position where I felt this vulnerable in terms of if I’m going to be able to keep a roof over my head.”

An internal email shared with the Star-Telegram said the company eliminated a “small number of positions that were deemed redundant as our reorganization took shape.”

The email from Joel Cheatwood, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Merit Street, said the layoffs didn’t mean the company was done growing.

“It is with great sadness that we have to say goodbye to some of our colleagues,” Cheatwood said in the email.

“While our focus as a business must always be on achieving higher quality and greater efficiency, we must also acknowledge the significant impact these decisions can have on individuals.”

Cheatwood wrote that the network will no longer have producers for specific shows, they’ll all work collaboratively on all programming.

He said separate planning for news, entertainment, sports and other programming on the channel was an outdated approach that hindered productivity.

One former employee said they weren’t sure about that.

Many employees now aren’t sure what their jobs will be, and they expect to have more work to do across more areas.

The former employee said that would make it harder for employees to be specialized and could cause volatility in work schedules, reducing efficiency.

The way the layoffs were handled has also already impacted morale at the network, a former employee said.

The former employee said morale was already noticeably damaged on the day layoffs were happening, and the former employee has heard from employees still there that everyone is on edge.

Some still employed told the former employee they don’t feel like their jobs are safe and that anxiety from witnessing layoffs has stayed with them.

The Star-Telegram also spoke to a Merit Street freelancer who was not let go, but said he disagreed with how the layoffs were conducted.

“It’s so sad, it’s unthinkable,” he said.

The freelancer said that while the layoffs were taking place, a large buffet had been set up for talk show guests, including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who was at the Merit Street studios to tape a roundtable discussion with Dr. Phil and others “about whether God spared the life” of former president Donald Trump during the assassination attempt last month.

“It was basically this split screen of everybody’s getting laid off, and all of the higher-ups are having this big, massive celebratory buffet for, like, the new direction of the network,” he said. “So I think that also rubs people the wrong way.”

Also in attendance for the taping was Matt Crouch, president of Merit Street Media partner Trinity Broadcast Network.

A TBN blog post from March titled, “Where Values & Vision Meet: TBN & Merit Street Media,” states that “Dr. Phil underscores the enduring importance of shared values in shaping a just and prosperous society.”

The layoffs came as no surprise to Mansfield native Carson Taylor, who now lives in California. He was hired by Merit Street Media for an editor job in July, but was told on Aug. 1 that his hiring had been canceled.

“From my point of view, it’s extremely disturbing and disappointing to see such television industry titans with years of experience run a production company like such amateurs,” he said in a written exchange. “Especially with Dr. Phil’s mental health background. To uproot people from other states, offer them a relocation package and their dream salary and then turn around and have nothing.”

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Staffers at Dr. Phil’s Network Left in ‘Complete Shock’ After Sudden Layoffs

Merit Street Media, the network helmed by Phil McGraw, popularly known as “Dr. Phil,” laid off multiple staffers unexpectedly on Friday morning, Mediaite has exclusively learned.

A Merit Street Media staffer with knowledge of the layoffs told Mediaite at least 15 staffers from the news division — including “Morning on Merit Street” and “The News on Merit Street” — were let go without reason or a severance package.

The staffer told Mediaite, “These layoffs came as a complete shock to everyone on the staff. We knew changes were happening at the network, but didn’t realize this would be one of them.” They added, “Some people uprooted their entire lives to move here for this job without a safety net and now the rug has been pulled out from under them.”

The Merit Street studios are located in Fort Worth, Texas.

In February, McGraw announced his show, Dr. Phil Primetime, would premiere on the new network and explained the reason he chose the name “Merit.”

“The name of our new network, Merit Street Media, holds a special significance. I chose ‘Merit’ to honor the meritocracy upon which our amazing country was built, and ‘Street’ to represent ‘Main Street’ America. We are now headquartered in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where a brand-new, state-of-the-art broadcast center, spanning over 5 acres, is near completion. Many dedicated ‘Dr. Phil’ team members have made the transition with me, relocating their families to Texas, so we can continue working together, alongside all of you at home,” the statement read.

Meanwhile, the staffer opined, “Those left are being told very little. We are understandably nervous and have no idea as to the future of the network.”

Mediaite reached out to Merit Street Media for comment, but did not receive a reply.

This article will be updated if we get a response.

Lt. Governor Patrick joined Dr. Phil and Matt Crouch on TBN last night discussing whether President Trump's survival from the assassination attempt was luck or divine intervention.  ⁦

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(sourced from the NBC5/KXAS-TV News Collection in the University of North Texas Libraries)