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1. We don't call it NBC9 or MyDenver20... We call it 9News and Channel 20. Also, who cares? All speculation at this point and you nor I have any control over these assets.

Staying out of the speculation in this thread.

Nope, there is one other answer he could’ve given: no answer at all. Yet, Lee Goldberg clearly replied “addition only,” so I’m not sure how else to spell it out. There is no sacred rule in the TV News Ten Commandments that limits stations to four (and no more than four) meteorologists. Instead of making wagers on who’s leaving based on evidence-free speculation, let’s wait until there are signs of an impending departure *before* starting the guessing game. It’ll at least save you a few bucks on your next bet.

Here’s the full debut edition of the show, recorded off WBFS.

Or maybe, JUST MAYBE, they're finally adding a 5th meteorologist, even if she doesn't carrying a regular show assignment. Besides, as much as we love speculating, there's no reason to not take the chief at his word, for now.

Thing is, WLNY wasn’t getting viewers (for a number of reasons that I won’t get into here.) In WBFS’ case, there was no news at all. CBS is probably thinking “why spend more on a newscast that won’t get much viewership when we can rake in the same ad dollars with less effort?” Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t watch this newscast either, but since CBS owns a ton of non-competitive, non-CBS stations, it will last as long as the ad money comes in. Also keep in mind that we’re in an election year, and the 2024 presidential campaign begins next year. Stations will rake in political ad money, and CBS can maximize its profits by spending less on certain newscasts.

Sounds like they're trying to replicate Sinclair's News Central. Hmm... maybe News Central was two decades ahead of its time, now that a major network is copying them

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

Some pics:

The new set is finally here.

This isn’t just a branding change for the newscasts on the CW/myNet stations; this is a completely different newscast. It looks a lot like Sinclair’s News Central experiment in the 2000s, as it combines national content with local inserts. I wouldn’t call it a true local newscast. It’s more of a way for CBS to collect ad revenue with minimal effort/expense on their non-competitive, non-CBS stations. I suppose it’s better than no news at all.

The now-garbage 2016 graphics has reached the beginning of the end. Good riddance. I wonder how WJZ will look like with this.

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.

Looks nice. I'm surprised they didn't get the same set everyone else has gotten.

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.

A few comments on the branding side of things: FWIW, there isn’t a single 3 in sight on the set itself. However, you’ll notice that the desk and one of the big screens have “Eyewitness News” logos imposed over what looks to be the new graphics. These details aren’t indicative of anything (and they could very well be temporary,) but they’re interesting to note. As far as the set itself, it’s a massive improvement, and it feels much more spacious than before.

KYW now has Next Weather.

Have they hired people to do the local news and weather cut-ins in Atlanta, Seattle, and Tampa?

Yeah, but wasn’t that just a branding device for their combined newsrooms? Not an actual content play?

I saw that.. my money is on Sam Champion

First episode and they already got a lawyer sponsorship? I think that should answer why CBS is doing this. Also gives something they can run on the CBSN locals that's not just a repeat of the local news.

What’s bad is in NY it replaced an actual newscast even if it was a repurposed version of WCBS 6 pm. In markets with actual newscast competition or a co-owned newscast I can’t see this lasting.

It shouldn't be too much of a surprise, as that set design seen elsewhere, while obviously attractive enough and totally serviceable, is over 5 years old.

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™.”

They may be getting new graphics sometime this fall https://www.newscaststudio.com/2022/07/12/cbs-miami-next-weather/

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

Do not talk about Orlando. Everything is staying put. The owners are happy with their stations, and SERIOUSLY have no plans to sell anytime soon. Not now, not for a long time. To put this into perspective... WESH has been owned by Hearst since 1999 (WKCF since 2006), WKMG with Graham since 1997, WFTV since 1985 (WRDQ since 2001), and WOFL since 2002 (WRBW since 2001). To think that NO major Orlando station (not counting WKCF, WRDQ and WRBW) has changed ownership in twenty years is just purely amazing, and it also tells you that these stations are not being planned on being sold anytime soon.

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.

And I should have a million dollars. It doesn’t matter who buys whom. The main issue is consolidation in general. We don’t even know if the existing deal will go through as intended yet. Chances are CMG and Standard will end up merging while the conflicts get spun off (which would’ve made sense if they’d just done that from the start.) Regardless of what you call the thing, it would all be under the Apollo umbrella to some extent. Whatever legacy CMG had under the Cox family has been irrelevant since 2019, and doesn’t apply here.

Also, the phrase "CBS Philadelphia" was uttered a couple of times throughout the newscast.

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.

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

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

A lot of different stories and pieces of information out there in this. What we do know is she was initially offered a buyout in 2008 and refused. Sometime after that, she signed a new three year deal set to expire in 2012 and it was made clear then that it would be the last contract WNBC would offer her. She hoped WNBC would change their mind along the way but in the final year if the contract when no renewal talks were offered, she began telling close friends it was her last year at NBC. She was being paid upwards of $2 million a year (some estimates say $5 million) and, in her final year, was anchoring just one 30 minute broadcast. Some reports say she seemed to have lost interest in the job, started phoning it in and NBC execs were not thrilled. Other reports say it’s just a classic case of a woman not being able to age gracefully on television. As we can see, her coanchor of the same age is still with the station in a high profile role.

I'm more curious as to how My9 is still a thing. I wonder if the upcoming changes to the 9pm news on 10/55 might actually lead to more news there.

It sounds like Indie-Band News and Chris Crane had a baby.

For the first time since I believe October, Good Day Philadelphia is back in the streetside studio. They had been using the main studio since then.

WSB.

And Lee Goldberg just posted a welcome to Dani Beckstorm, whose FB page says that she's joining WABC from Las Vegas. As when Brittany joined and Amy subsequently left, odds are that someone will be leaving in the next few months.

What's gonna happen in Denver with KUSA NBC9 and KTVD MyDenver20?

Nexstar could buy them as Mission Broadcasting stations. Scripps is also against the cap. My point was that if TEGNA became Standard, Cox merged with Standard, and then Hearst merged with Cox. Orlando (and many other places) will have new owners with an O&O or someone like Allen or someone else expanding their reach to fill in the gaps.

I forgot about that. I fixed it with Nexstar. I had ONE misstep and you want to jump down my throat on it. Hearst's graphics hub can be moved to another station if needed. I'm sure WBAL-TV would want it.

Yes, KTXA produced the newscast which was shown on WLNY and other sister CBS stations. This means there is no CBS2 produced newscast on WLNY at 9pm.

Only caught the end of CBS News New York Now on WLNY, it appears from the credits, the newscast was done by KTXA and was not shown on CBS News New York.

News Nation going with opinion shows from 8PM to 11PM I see. I wonder if the last news anchor will leave NN now that there isn't going to air primetime news anymore M-F when it launched 2 years ago come Sep.