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And next weather also debuts. So much for being put on hold. Hope y’all like the new set. If they keep this one as long as the old one, It will be 2037 before they get another.

The new set is finally here.

Does that average viewer care? I always wonder...

I love the news desk! I'm glad they chose not to do the trendy standing anchor desk! Something about them make me so uncomfortable/unease

I tried tuning in from CBS News New York (which is in the newscast name, mind you) and couldn't obtain the feed. And to hear it was not even produced in New York with the local anchors? It seems like they're trying to make it a standardized national newscast for local news. After I typed that sentence, I even realized how wrong that sounds.

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Once they lost most of their sports rights (Nets, Yankees, Giants simulcasts) and their newscasts, it was game over

CBS News New York on WLNY wasn't good at all. It seems like it was produced for multiple stations and the stations did a local cut in. This wasn't a good move.

Exit 10/55 hasn’t aired since Richard Rose retired and moved to the Philippines in 2018.

Even in a Gray market with that branding, it eventually does blend in over time where they just have the one call-out in the sponsor tag, and otherwise it's scripted 'in weather tonight...'. I'm glad it's there, but that the branding overall isn't that absurd. I think this will eventually be the case with the CBS intro of the Next and First Alert trademarks.

I’d honestly rather they go by “Weather.” It’s simple, unpretentious, and it’s what everyone calls it regardless of how much money stations spend on a weather brand. Names like “First Alert” and “Next” sound awfully tacky, and it’s the exact opposite of the forward-thinking approach that CBS is supposedly going for at its stations. People check the weather, they don’t check the “First Alert Forecast™.”

It seems to me that CBS O&Os are finally taking weather seriously with either a unique weather brand (Next Weather) or an overly used brand (First Alert Weather) but at least they're not just going by Weather anymore with sounds very boring.

Former CNN Newsource reporter Darryl Forges returns home to New Orleans to anchor WDSU's noon and co-anchor its 4 pm newscast.

To be honest, I take anything FTVLive says with a grain of salt.

Agreed. I think a significant barrier to WLNY's success is the fact that it simply isn't available over the air in the majority of the market, including the five boroughs. Despite cable availability, it's not like, mentally a channel that exists to a lot of people, unlike KCBS/KCAL. If NYC ever gets ATSC 3.0 maybe WCBS could add a WLNY subchannel, but until then I can't really envision WLNY ever being competitive really.

I think Fox made that decision years ago. I would not hold my breath. They seem to be weathering the NJ Congressional criticism since they removed any news product on the station which violated the original Ch. 9 license conditions once RKO General had to give it up.

This feels like the move of a station on its last legs.

https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/allen-media-group-to-launch-we-the-people-with-judge-lauren-lake-in-95-percent-of-u-s/ This could go to either WMYT or WAXN in Charlotte. Or even WCCB but they don’t have any court shows. This actually could be WJZY’s replacement for The Good Dish at 1pm, could lead into Judge Mathis and The People’s Court, and/or WMYT’s replacement for The Real at 4pm (leading into the same two shows).

It appears Lindsay Clein has left or is leaving WJZY. I figured this was coming when Nexstar took her out of the anchor chair at 6 and 10 in favor of Alicia Barnes. She didn’t even get the noon and 4pm spot. She did fill in when Annie Szatkowski or Alicia went on vacation but was relegated to a reporter role. Best of luck Lindsay. https://www.instagram.com/p/CgIojDVsp1y/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=