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why did they turn down Bryon Allen, that's what I want to know.

Always loved the opens during that time ... "The First Team!" -- Matt

WCBS "Channel 2 News" 1993: Appears to be a 2 set arrangement like WNBC. Top set: features the common multi monitor background of that time period. Great detailing with the Rather era CBS Evening News like world map. A black accent instead of blue on a different newscast. Bottom set has window pane like elements with crinkle cut fry shaped beams featuring a monitor on each "fold".

WNBC "News Channel 4" (1995) had 2 sets: Set A: Live at 5: detailing with legal books, plants and a window blinds type blue glass, with a few statuettes. Set B: News Channel 4 at 6pm Most stations I see today have only 1 set

WKYC has turned What Matters Most from a newscast name into an overall station slogan. The 6pm news tonight was identified as "3News at 6" instead of What Matters Most.

"Welcome to our great new weather channel! We proudly present to you 6 live hours of programming on weekday mornings, 4 live hours of programming on weekday afternoons, and 6 live hours of programming on weekend mornings! Any other time you tune in, we'll be happy to present either long form programming or an automated loop that doesn't present a whole lot of actual weather information!" I've noticed that TWC blew Fox Weather out of the water in terms of live hours of programming during this past week's winter storm. TWC was live until 1 AM ET each night, while Fox Weather was calling it quits around 9 or 10 pm ET every night. Ever since the December 10-11 tornado outbreak where Fox Weather went all in on the overnight coverage, it's all been downhill from there with a constant reduction in live programming hours every couple of weeks since then. It feels like they didn't like the (presumably low) amount of viewership they got from that overnight coverage, and some exec said, "You know what, we're done with all this live programming. We're only going to be live during peek hours, and those are the only timeslots where it's valuable to be live." In other words, the same logic TWC execs used on their current programming strategy, but somehow even WORSE. If they continue down this path, there's no bright future ahead for Fox Weather.

Well, after looking up some airchecks from WOIO and WUAB in the 90's....I guess my vision of what they had was sort of jumbled together. It seemed the banks of monitors that both WOIO and WUAB used on their respective sets resembled what I saw when the WDTN and WKYC sets were shown here. None of the "highway bars" like the other sets had. WOIO had their "newsroom" set all the way to "Action News" and WUAB had a separate set until the same era. This was the pre-Reserve Square set that WUAB had at their studios in Parma. I guess the image I had in my head was what WTTE used for their first newscasts. This was in 1996 so I don't know if WSYX was involved yet (about the time Sinclair bought River City and spun off WTTE to Glencairn).

Would have see a pic to say. Their current set is from BDI. The previous 3 were Park Place sets. These sets are by Gil Jimenez. They had a few tweaks and updates over the years.

Devlin Design Group was pretty good in the 90’s KFMB 1995-2001 KTLA 1997-2004 (WCCO) had a similar design but was more focused on Brown tones on its design

Don't know if this is a permanent change; but noticed that CBS2 News Saturday Morning aired this morning from 9-11AM; as opposed to 6-7AM and 9-10AM. It appears to be permanent in the guides.

It was very homey... So much so, that back in the summer of '89, I took a nap on that couch on the left. The powers that be did not like that.

Bryant looks bored there. LOL -- Matt

WSVN Newsplex mid 1990s! Very CNN. It matched with their hard/tabloid news station format they were aiming for. Today (NBC) 1990. Gorgeous Manhattan apartment style set that was used from the mid 80s until Sep 1990. Love the window level view of the skyline, and the sunrise toned rainbow behind the anchors. The living room area was very detailed with various trinkets and pieces that make it look realistic as if it were going to be used for a soap or sitcom.

Longtime WTSP chief meteorologist Dick Fletcher reads a promo in 1984 for the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon followed by a "Storm Seeker" Radar promo. Lots of Tampa Bay clips on this channel (See them before they get pulled!): A WTSP promo from 1983: WTVT promo from 1994 promoting the switch from CBS to Fox: Roy Leep from 1984: John WIlson in 1984:

Portland 11PM News clips 3/7/94 - flipping around between KATU-2, KOIN-6, KGW-8 KOIN NewsCenter 6 at 5pm (partial) 3/8/94 And another Carole Simpson ABC World News Sunday clip, taped September 28th, 1997 off KMGH Denver.

Apollo is unlikely to be much better. I've heard the Cox stations are miserable and ran quite literally as cheap as possible. If Apollo can get rid of you, they will. Tegna employees are the real victims here.

They would be run as separate companies. Otherwise it will never get past the FCC. As it is stated, Apollo will not have any voting rights. They are acting like a bank. If and that's a big if, ownership caps go up, then the two companies may merge down in the future.

ABC News set from the late 1990s. I know that another backdrop of Cleveland mainly with The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was used on the other anchor desk photo 2. Another was a sunrise for Good Morning Cleveland.

Tucked away in some cabinet at my parents house is a stack of 35mm film photos of me sitting on this set in 1997 when I was a 9 year old obsessed with TV weather. Got to hang with then-weekend met Jon Slater for the afternoon and 5pm news. Good memories.

WDTN set from 1994-2005 updated in 2002. The weather center area was used till 2012.

Basically Nester runs PIX11. From management to all programming and station operations. Mission is a sham for Nester to get around ownership caps. Until the FCC or Congress decides to do something about this, they will be permitted to exist.

It seems there should be some separation between Mission and Nexstar carriage agreements. Sinclair tying deals to their sidecars necessitated separate deals that were entered into with each station owner group. Because this ties into programming, that is the legal tie to the licensee on how the station is being "programmed". Hopefully, these carriage deals with Altice/Optimum/Suddenlink are either a coincidence or grandfathered into a prior arrangement, and not some form of collusion between Nexstar and it's sidecars. There have been separate disputes where Nexstar got dropped and Mission stayed on a provider, and vice versa.

Mission is such a sham. Everything about the station is Deathstar except the ownership papers on file. I assume their “agreement “ with Mission includes retransmission rights. The notice is at the top of the website. Yet it’s still on the air

About time. Interesting that it has a different "look" than the NFL package - Fox might be hopping on the different looks for different sports train. Some more: https://www.sportsvideo.org/2021/10/07/mlb-postseason-2021-foxs-new-graphics-package-showcases-gamification-natural-elements-of-baseball/

I guess Micah Ohlman can only work so many shifts. He's been a main anchor at KTLA for a dozen years. In a while he'll almost be in position to approach Hal Fishman status.

Sad news Clint Boone who had just joined KOTV a month ago has passed away