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WDIV is opening a coffee shop in the western Detroit suburb of Plymouth with the oh so clever name “Fourgrounds”. https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/06/24/local-4-to-open-coffee-shop-community-space-in-downtown-plymouth/

KWGN's slogan should have been "2 the Deuce. You can't polish a turd." Back to WFNA.... It was one of the few non-Tribune stations at the time to de-brand their CW affiliation with their newly minted (at the time) call letters. On paper, they were W F(lorida) aNd A(labama). The logo was a big "W" with the "FNA" inside. The slogan.... FNA baby! (Like the term f-in A) This was done under LIN when it was co-managed with WALA. Thankfully, They pulled the plug in 2012 and it reverted to CW branding as CW55. At some point either late in Media General's tenure of the station or early Nexstar, they went back to "Gulf Coast CW" , their original brand pre "WFNA". It definitely serves the market better as a WKRG sister station as opposed to a WALA one, because it gives WKRG a duopoly partner. Media General "kept" WFNA in the LIN merger and had to "divest" WALA to Meredith, even though the opposite happened operationally by WFNA being shifted from WALA to WKRG.

The floor is made up of LED panels.

Big Brother at least is understandable on paper since it's cheap summer filler in timeslots that would otherwise be used on reruns or other cheap filler, the show's format necessitates multiple episodes per week, and unlike what they've done with MasterChef in Australia where they'll put it on in consecutive days, BBUS' episodes are spread out throughout the week. Of course, the show's been allowed to become so stale, predictable and childish over the years that they're now grasping at straws for content to fill three episodes with most weeks. Just another symptom of CBS' decline.

I guess I'm an outlier, but I like this set a lot. It is cavernous, but I think there are a lot of retro nods. More set pieces might be a good thing, though. About the floor: is it "real"? It looks like it wants to be wood, but is way too glossy for that. Is it a massive screen?

Went to KMGH. Was ousted when Scripps bought them and subsequently kicked GM Byron Grandy to the curb. Grandy served out a stint at a few Nexstar stations before returning to GM KDVR|KWGN and brought Becker back with him. Becker is doing the job he was never made for - Micromanaging, blindly listening to SmithGeiger, and spending stupid amounts of money for a new set that didn't need to be replaced. Becker doesn't know how to move the ratings dial at all.

Update Just like all other big-name journalists recently (i.e. Jim Acosta, Joy Reid, Don Lemon, etc.), Jorge Ramos is going independent as well. He recently launched a Substack and has launched a new program, Asi Veo Las Cosas (This Is How I See Things). This is the first episode with Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.):

Just saw this...Agreed, but I will say, despite being unstable in the mornings and evenings, CBS News has the best quality reporting of the big three. Yes about primetime. CBS barely take risks, it's been police procedurals, competition shows and sitcoms for years now. But I don't blame them for sticking to what works because for years they were the number one network off of that formula. Agreed, because CBS news and programming tends to swing center left.

Maria Taylor is joining the NBA and WNBA on NBC as the lead studio host. https://x.com/NBAonNBC/status/1937237476508377281

Jeff Hogan is leaving WRAL-TV to head back home to WBNS 10TV Columbus. At the same time, Chris Lovingood will now do mornings with Renee Chou from 5-8 a.m. https://www.facebook.com/WRALTV/posts/lets-hear-it-for-two-incredible-journalistswral-jeff-hogan-is-stepping-into-a-on/1303438451148284/

Yeah I was wondering, during the coverage of today's events after the special report, the quality of the set seemed different, so that probably explains it.

That problem shows up on CBS during the summer with multiple nights of Big Brother. Heck, it could probably also be blamed for the hilariously-inappropriate-for-CBS Love Island.

And spinning the wheel for today’s Special Report, It’s John Dickerson! I’m fully convinced that CBS doesn’t really care who does the cut ins- but rather who’s available at the moment to go on air. You could chalk that up as a weakness since they don’t have that trademark name and voice (read: like Muir for ABC); but I think that says something about CBS’s bench and culture that they’re comfortable running with whoever is ready to go on air at that moment (this time of day, could have also still been someone form mornings so Evenings could prepare for their show)

The police drama overload is because of demographics, not politics. Procedurals are for the elderly what true crime podcasts are for Gen X and millennials. Their lineup has only gotten more lopsided as streaming peels away the audience of everyone under 60. They're also a crutch Paramount uses to hide their utter creative bankruptcy. When they don't have that crutch, you have Network Ten's primetime lineup of MasterChef Australia multiple nights per week and back-to-back episodes of House Hunters on Friday. Or Channel 5's parade of documentaries about air fryers and electric cars that all recycle footage from the previous 20 documentaries about them.

Are there any renovations being done at 57? (It's probably for CBS Mornings, which, like GMA, is also leaving Times Square) The CBS Morning News was in a different setting today.

Interesting. So he left (or they got rid of him) and he came back?

Nexstar's WETM has made history by having the first all female, all black weather team -- Don't know what the demographic is for the Elmira, NY area, but you'd think this would've happened in a larger market.. Nonetheless, a great feat indeed!

Well, the Archdiocese of Boston owns CatholicTV, so in a sense, the Vatican has access to that.

It was Clyde Becker. The former and current Creative Director of KWGN|KDVR.

It's probably coming at some point. I've seen it on holiday weekends where they'll just put the WKBN newscast on WYTV. WKBN is merely a license formality since they sold their overkill spectrum in the auction and is hosted on the more market-friendly WYTV. In this case the brand is worth more than gold since WYTV has always lagged and got subsumed by WKBN in 2007. I guess some parting gifts are worse than others. Seems like some stations benefited from it, especially WJW. (Their current set and graphics) They were long overdue for a change with their "parting gift" from Fox getting really stale by the end of the Tribune era...being the O&O set and a heavily mutated graphics package based on the original.

The set at Studio 47 appears to be permanent, see Jericka edition of CBS Weekend News on Sunday. Additionally, the ending graphics now similar to CBS Evening News one. Here's Studio 47 for Weekend News Here's previous set at Studio 57.

While that’s still true in theory, the NFL has loosened its scheduling in recent years and now, it’s not uncommon to see an NFC vs NFC matchup on CBS or an AFC divisional battle on Fox.

ABC had the most extensive coverage of the Iran bombing Saturday night, with Whit Johnson anchoring a full hour ahead of NBC and CBS who joined in later to cover Trump's speech from the White House.Then David Muir was the only lead anchor called in to take over coverage at 10pm. Then he anchored World News Tonight with a special Sunday night appearance, and Tom Llamas made it back to the anchor chair on NBC for a special Sunday appearance also. Nothing special on CBS, as Jerika Duncan anchored the Sunday newscast as normal. My preferences remain with ABC.

Ehh…I have a feeling Nexstar will just “combine” WKBN and WYTV and give us “27/33 First News” or something stupid. Also, Nexstar wasn’t the ones that unified WYFX into WKBN’s branding. It was LIN, who also gave us the hideous virtual set. Yes, it was launched under Media General, but LIN likely approved it right before the sale.

The funny thing is that EWTN and the Vatican have a terrible relationship because of a lot of things, including EWTN's hate of Vatican II. If Rome could start its own American operation with EWTN's carriage, they would dump them in a heartbeat. And sadly, 'Christian television' has become just a euphemism for 'right-wing' content; the local religious station in Milwaukee airs a lot of wingnut shows and full podcasts now, including the Worldview Report, which actually gets an audience as an 'alternative' to the local newscasts at 10 p.m. and The National Desk.