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Difficult time for the staff of WSB-TV. The loss of Don Farmer and now Jovita Moore battling 2 small brain cancers. Prayers are with Jovita, her family and her extended family at Channel 2 Action News in the difficult time.

Depending on what happens Norah may have been better off if she remained on CBSTM as their ratings are decent.

The collateral impact to GMA if CBS snagged Stephanopoulos might make it worth it. I gotta disagree about Jane Pauley being better in mornings. She was Brokaw’s primary fill-in for years and led NBC’s first successful newsmagazine. I think Jane would definitely have the presence to fill the CBSEN chair, but why would she want it? She has the best gig going on broadcast news on Sunday Morning.

Faux News hasn't had a good pulse on its viewership since they ran off Roger Ailes. They think the average Faux News viewer worships the ideas of Bill Krystal, the late Charles Krauthammer and the rest of the neocon/globalist contingent, but that has never been the case. Faux's viewership has more sympathies with Rush Limbaugh and Trump than any of the Washington military industrial complex. By putting their thumb on the scale to try and swing the election, they urinated off a big chunk of their viewers. I haven't watched them since the election and I don't intend to. I need Washington propaganda from the right even less than I need it from the left.

Fox News as well as CNN & MSNBC are bad for the American public. They provide a hyperbolic sense of urgency to many continually unfolding matters and instill a fear in their viewers of the opposing political side. It's unfortunate that a lot of the less media literate will eat up whatever CNN, MSNBC, and Fox spews. What I've also noticed is that many average viewers don't make a distinction between The Fox News Channel, the Fox broadcast network and their local Fox affiliates. Case and point, someone I know questioned why I would watch "Fox News", after I had shared a screenshot of a weather forecast from a local Fox affiliate. Similarly, a friend of mine expressed skepticism that a network like Fox (associating it with the Fox News Channel) would air something like "Empire" , unaware that broadcast Fox had a history of airing urban and (and less conservative oriented) shows like In Living Color, Martin, Living Single and Married With Children. Interestingly enough big Fox airs shows like Family Guy and The Simpsons which have openly lampooned Fox & Fox News. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other major media entity that lets such sharp in house criticism of its parent corporation go uncensored.

Group W was always the stronger station group. They should be taking their cues from what works at those stations instead of making everything a pale imitation of WCBS.

Why are we talking about this? The head of CBS News is stepping down, not Norah O'Donnell. There's no indication Norah is going anywhere. Is it a possibility? Sure. But it's not a guarantee. Whoever takes over the news department will certainly want to make changes, but I'm inclined to think CBS won't want to make another anchor change so soon after the last one.

I have a ton of articles saved from that time, but they're not too handy right now. Ron and Max were the main 10pm team (possibly at 4:30, but the newcomer was off half the time, anyway), but it didn't last even a year. Max's report card basically said "does not play well with others." He brought his wounded, yet still inflated network ego to a perennial 3rd place station. After Robinson's quick exit, Magers would find respectability and SLIGHTLY higher ratings with Carol Marin & Deborah Norville. If you or anyone else has any other questions about the history of Chicago news, feel free to message me. I've done a ton of casual research.

I think George could have left ABC by now if he wanted. Let’s be honest there is a arguable point that the face of GMA anchor is better than anchor of the basement evening broadcast.

Not just later that year, she left just a month after this broadcast. And while they never permanently anchored a show together at WLS, this is from their final show together in 2016, just months before both retired.

Wow! Well let’s see how the CBS Group improves in the O&O markets. KPIX will definitely need some restructuring in my Market.

WMAQ, Chicago; 10 p.m., 1984; BTW, both anchors would eventually join WLS -- Linda Yu that same year and Ron Magers 14 years later:

I still run into people that think FOX and/or FOX News are owned by Disney. They heard about Disney buying 20th Century, and didn't realize that the purchase excluded FOX and FOX News.

That's exactly what I'm insinuating!

KNDO News 23 Late Edition, 4/6/1992 (partial). Jim Lewis is the anchor. He was at KNDO in the late '80s and early '90s timeframe. https://archive.org/details/capture-a-529 KAPP 35 commercials aired during The Thorn Birds on 7/20/1993, but also includes the first two minutes of Northwest NightCast at the end. Kevin Shaub and Tyffani Peters are the anchors. I believe NW Nightcast originated from KVEW Kennewick and not KAPP. https://archive.org/details/capture-a-522

It’s pure speculation at this point but it’s not entirely far fetched - Norah all but demanded the position and was placed there by the new president who is now on her way out unexpectedly.

I agree. Hopefully, the new leader of both CBS News and the O&Os can help provide a much needed vision for the future. Women are the face of nearly every news program currently on CBS, so I can’t see them pushing Norah aside for a guy or adding a male co-anchor on CBSEN.

We're probably getting into speculatron territory, but I see Vladimir Duthiers as a potential co-anchor as well, as he has a higher profile at the network level.

Some of the prior moves by Nexstar just defied common sense of websites. These unwieldly names buried the branding and identity of the stations, while simple and short addresses. The smart thing to do is keep the old address around for redirecting purposes, and some (now part of Nexstar) got smart, and did like WJW and adopted Fox8.com, ditching the myfoxcleveland.com instituted by Fox earlier. Going into the mobile era, these shorter websites are much easier to type than the longer unwieldy ones. In the breakup of Newport, Inergize was one of the divisions that became part of Nexstar and ended up taking a lot of the old websites with them. This was a problem for some of the stations that were not picked up by Nexstar but spun off to other owners like Sinclair. Stations like WHP got burned and ended up with Local21news.com, as opposed to what they had before. As a side effect of the reallocation in Columbus, "Fox 28" still has the myfox28columbus.com while WTTE itself now has WTTE28.com, which was the original address that Sinclair started for them and basically used the same pattern for most of their stations at the time. Nice and simple. Essentially going forward branding is going to be anything these stations have, channel numbers aren't going to matter (especially on OTT services) Catchy and easy to remember is going to be the key, and so is a long established brand to a legacy product.

They could split the difference between Holt and Muir and go with Maurice DuBois from WCBS. But there’s no way Norah walks away willingly. Perhaps the return of the dual-anchor format ABC tried some years ago?

It’s possible and I think she would do well although you’re probably right about a younger anchor being picked. Who would be good?

I think they'll pick someone younger. Jane's a great anchor, but ABC has done great with a younger anchor in David Muir. You never know though.

Sometimes I forget that the average viewer doesn't memorize callsigns like we geeks do. Those horrible domains hadn't even occurred to me as a problem, so much as just stupid.

Knowing CBS, they'd pull a trick on our sleeves...

Goodbye Norah.

Another thing is that Nexstar doesn't stream there stations on NewsOn. Gray, Hearst Television, Cox and Tegna stream there stations on NewsOn, but not Nexstar.

Cable (and network) news in general are a joke. Theres barely any news there. But I digress

I am a democrat and I have always told my other friends who hate on Fox about their journalism and how they can turn it on when they really need to. Example, they called the Election before anyone else did. Yes, the political director was kicked out of the building for telling the truth. But anyway, yes, they do have the chops for a big news story but now with every story having some intertwined political side, they lost their way. So no. It’s not news.