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This was the 2009 redesign. I liked the moving green red orange color lines concept on the upper bar. The approx 2012 remodel would have been better had it been centered rather than attached to the right, leaving too much space on the left. The 2013 update was just atrocious.

One market's ratings does not a large group's profits make. Nexstar may feel that losing 2-3 morning hours of local news programming across 40+ markets is worth it if the margin is made up in spades. The ratings (and ad-buy revenue) is very strong in proportion to the overall production costs.

Forgive me here, but it does bear some resemblance. The style of the lower-3rd basically seems to be from the same family, though the font is another story. I agree with the others that the previous package was just fine, but...well, if we hate this one, we can always count on a new style come 2024. Now I'm wondering if they'll be modifying the Nightly News package any time soon. And lastly, the O&Os seem pretty all but certain to happen anytime now.

I like this package, but the last was amazing. They were still fresh and didn't need to be replaced.

That’s fine. There’s a better way to approach people here. Whether he’s right or not is immaterial. Being right isn’t a license to flatten people in a condescending manner.

Sloan brings us a treasure trove of New Orleans newscasts from June 8-9th, 1994:

So in other words, it doesn't matter if a syndicated rerun (in which you can watch on streaming and physical media (re: DVD/BluRay) would bring higher viewers or say a syndicated talk show, in which the station has to slice it's revenue pie, with local programming (namely news), they get all the revenue and reinvest it in other properties like (newsvans, helicopters, drones), just to name a few.

I suspect that much of the distancing on screen hasn't necessarily been for actual risk minimization, but public service "modeling" behavior for viewers, which I don't necessarily think is a bad thing! I wouldn't be surprised if things gradually come back to normal soon.

The 2nd image is way too CNN-ish. There really wasn't anything wrong with the previous L3s and graphics.

To its credit, this new L3 (if the white boxes were added to all graphics and not just the breaking news one) looks better than GMA and CTM's, which isn't saying much. I'm surprised to hear myself say this but the generic white box would have elevated the look in this case. GMA is just a big blue box and CTM's graphics (as someone stated) looks like an unreal news program on a TV show. Their best L3 was their debut look in 2012. Except for the previous package, Today has really struggled with lower thirds since they axed the 2009/2010 look.

https://nexstar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/nexstar/job/Nexstar---WDKY/News-Director_REQ-9296 Does this not sound like they are launching an in-house news department? Which if so, is something I've been predicting since the day the ink dried on the transfer from Sinclair. This wording "from near the ground up" makes it seem like the two WDKY-only anchors (Marvin Bartlett and Kristen Pflum), who are contracted to Nexstar, would go to this possible in-house effort, severing the ties with WKYT. Makes me wonder where WDKY would go to do its news. The current office is too small to house a news department (and it's just that, sales and marketing offices; master control had been out of WSYX in Columbus and is now coming from one of the Nexstar hubs, probably Indianapolis). New building? So many questions....

I'm surprised they didn't do something similar to the MSNBC package.

I saw that WDKY in Lexington is advertising for a news director, which I think would be its first.

Agreed. The new package just feels too busy- the angles, transitions... Not good if you have a short attention span like I do! The use of blue as the primary also wasn't great- you know, CTM and GMA's primary color. That said, one of Today's new shade's of blue feels very CTM-ish...

But he's not wrong, here. That makes the difference, in this case.

Whether you appreciate it or not your smug know it all attitude isn’t really welcome. Knock it off. I would try to rebut this but why bother? It’s not like you politely listen anyways.

I know the metrics intimately, they return a strong margin.

They were airing infomercials in the 8AM hour on Sundays. This is the temporary set that is being used for their newscasts while the new set is being worked on. But I could eventually see this be reworked into a set for CBSN Philly...