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Mannerino got anchor just the way I said it would happen. Clearly GM Chris Wayland is making alliances with Staff to protect him once Sinclair moves in = job security. Nothing to do with getting the best talent for the job to increase ratings. Just Maintain the Status Quo. Clearly now - Wayland is like the new face on Star Trek with the Red Shirt that gets beamed down to Planet PIX11 and gets eliminated. They spared Easterly as best they could by bringing him back to Chicago before Sinclair takes over. Meanwhile Wayland needs to get the staff to like him VIA Fear or Kissing Butt - before Sinclair comes in and lets him go

Actually, those are original to the 2013 package. In fact, they even go back to the final update of the '05 look.

As you know I'm a big fan of BriWi but I love that the shows on at 11PM. It's a great alternative to the other networks that are in reruns and beats Don Lemon. I think the show needs to stay put because it's a great place to get immediate analysis from news articles that just went online for the next day's print addition. Additionally they seem to have gotten contributor contracts of many of the people breaking the news. As for Lawrence I don't know how to describe it but while his show is undoubtedly liberal and opinion focused there is something else that only he can bring to the table. Maybe it's the fact that he was a congressional aide and then senior advisor role to the late Senator Patrick Moynihan. Later he served as staff director for two different Senate committees the first being the Committee on Enviroment and Public Work and later the committee Committee on Finance. With that type of expierience he knows what he's talking about rather than many of the other opinion hosts on MSNBC and other networks. Then he has some show biz expierience writing sixteen episodes of The West Wing, either produced or co produced 23 episodes, consulted on 44 episodes, the executive producer for 22 and won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series. Finally he can frequently get his point across eloquently without resorting to the average cable news tactics. And yet we haven't heard from Lawrence O'Donnell and there are five days to go. Maybe with Phil sticking around Lawrence will stay as the show launched under his watch.

Looks like some more graphics updates. Not sure if these were around earlier in the day (the Cubs game preempted the 4 and 5, and delayed and shortened the 6), but only the promo lower thirds appear to be changed. The bug and transitions are the same. Perhaps we might see the new talent opens soon.

The spiffed up cable access level talent names are pretty ugly hanging above the graphic... good for 1990... kind of dumb in 2017...

Yup, I immediately recognized this from Kirk Varner's writeup! Heck, I even remembered the "ten minutes" line. I was expecting a stripey classically 80s "did Gannett own this station?" desk, and did 'FSB deliver!

Look mom! No ABC logo cluttering up the circle 7... they just debuted this nifty background... I forgot how nice it looks without it...

Can we re-focus this to discussions of News4NewYork and WNBC please? Please take your discussion elsewhere. Thank you - signed everybody else on this board.

Maybe now, they'll learn to proofread. but seriously, I would not be surprised. Maybe next time, they'll think this stuff through.

A weekend edition of WCPO's 9 Newswatch in 1985:

[QUOTE="Info Junkie, post: 181250, member: 3593"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EnnB0GyVeo Don't think this has been posted yet - this is an evening newscast from January 4, 1983 on WFSB and WTNH. A WFSB open appears halfway through, using the pre-1984 Gannett graphics (you know, the red & blue lines crawling across a black screen with random shots around them).[/QUOTE] I [I]knew[/I] we'd find that WFSB open someday, and I knew exactly what to expect when we did - that look was what a certain group that would go down in television history [URL='http://jcbd.com/kv.php']was tasked with replacing[/URL]... (@Raymie) On another note, note the theme used in this KLTV snippet. This is in the NMSA as the WDIO/WIRT 1985 theme, and it must have been production music, because KLTV 1985 was definitely in use alongside it (seen at 1:43). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=41_QU87K79Y;m=1;s=12

I would describe that as more of an "umbrella open," KMBC trying to make it look like they have several urgent stories when they really don't. That's a producer/executive producer decision, not a Hearst thing.

Steve doesn't anchor that much, but Alex has filled in quite a few times on the morning newscast.

I would argue that reporters should determine what's the best course of action is. My guess is that these people were acting like fools before Patrick went live, so he probably should have said 'hey guys..hold off coming to me, etc...until I can get to a safer position.' While I'm not excusing the actions of these idiots, this situation, like many others; can go sideways in a heartbeat, so there's no reason to put oneself in harms way when you don't have to. That said, there are times when things are outside your control, so it becomes a process of assessing the odds that something could happen and your surrounding environment.

You're talking to a wall. No matter how many times someone tries to speak to him respectfully, he always gets defensive and rude.

KJRH has some egg on its face http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/5/18/scripps-station-drops-the-ball-on-big-story