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The #1 station in the #1 market (their preferred moniker) has largely lagged behind its sister stations in rolling out new streaming options. KTRK, as an example, is now going live, in some form, until 10am. Others added up to 2 hours of daily streaming. Last I checked, WABC offers the fewest hours of weekday news of the O&O's, with the only known additions being at 6:30pm, and what, maybe 30 minutes after 7am? (Someone correct me on that.) Point being, there's totally room for growth, and only 4 meteorologists has already felt low for both the market and the fellow large-market O&O's. It's time.

Probably because they’re putting it on stations that were pulling zeros the ratings even when they had actual newscasts (and not, say, KCAL.) This newscast is not good, but it’s not supposed to be. It’s cheap by design. It’s there for the ad revenue, not public service. Unfortunate, but that’s the way the business has gone. FWIW, Detroit’s situation should be somewhat rectified when they launch their own news department, so they probably won’t be outsourcing the local segments for long. I doubt this is CBS’ idea of a new news operation. It should be noted that we were all wrong when we called this a rebrand, which it isn’t. It’s a completely different program. Mea culpa.

This is....interesting. I wouldn't necessarily say it's a good product, but it's certainly a clever way at offering a news product with minimal or no local resources. Even as it is now, even in top ten markets, it's extremely hard to find and retain producers, and I can see how some stations might see it as a waste or a burden to keep a staff producer position for newscasts on throwaway secondary stations that nobody's watching anyway. Literally nobody is watching WLNY's 9pm news, so why bother trying to pretend to put together a half-decent newscast? Save that effort and energy for the real newscasts that matter. And notice that this show is not replacing anything good on stations that people actually watch, such as KCAL. This hybrid local-national format certainly isn't going to be replacing flagship 6pm or 11pm newscasts on blue chip stations anytime soon, but it is an interesting idea that we'll probably see more often in the years to come from everyone. Hybrid local-national has worked for decades on the big three morning shows, as well as on a much larger scale in Canada, the UK, France, and elsewhere. US local news currently is a lot of repetition and repackaging of a lot of the same national content, so it's not necessarily a bad idea. With that said, I don't necessarily see how this is competitive in any market where CBS is trying this. This is not going to pull away viewers from KDFW in Dallas, or KTVU or even KRON in the Bay Area. But I guess CBS can at least say that they do have a competing news product at that hour and can sell some ad spots on it. Can somebody please explain to me though how they're attempting to pull off any local content in cities where they have no news department, specifically Seattle or Atlanta? Surely CBS aren't pulling from their local affiliate and then using it to compete, are they?

So we’ve officially gone from “all facts, no opinion” to “here’s every rejected, big-mouth talk show host with an opinion that didn’t even attract good ratings on the big networks. Also, Blue Bloods.” Social media sycophants do not create credibility. If that’s the case, then you might as well say that Alex Jones is a credible journalist because people like him on social media. It should not be surprising that Chris Cuomo’s social media comments are filled with people who could care less about journalistic ethics. Twitter has a block button, and it would not surprise me if Chris uses it. As for Megyn Kelly, she has under 500k subs on YouTube. That’s respectable, but compared to other current affairs channels out there, it pales in comparison. If she can’t generate more subscribers on YouTube despite her fame, she won’t magically generate viewers for a network with distribution/content/editorial/behind the scenes issues from the beginning. Long story short, Nexstar will spend 8 figures to make 7. Oh well.

If WABC follows its own pattern, hiring Dani Beckstorm is a bench building strategy because they anticipate an upcoming departure or additional airtime to fill. They are not suddenly in need of a 5th meteorologist to do what they’ve always been doing.

While they’re at it, they might as well throw some ads on the headline ticker, since they aren’t using it for, you know, headlines.

You can charge a little more for ads that are in local news time. That's what buyers want. In case where CBS is competing against one of its own affiliates, it sounds like they hired a couple of people to slap some local news together, but most of the hour is canned material from the network, or from an out-of-market O&O. Here is Seattle's A-block.

This will be chasing the lawyer and political money - hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up with a segment sponsored by a sports book since that money was still flying around for a bit. This isn’t for ratings, it’s for revenue - and it’s a whole hour they control the ad slots. If it gets some eyeballs, great, but that’s lagniappe. And it also gives them “unique” content for the local CBS News steaming stations, which explains the branding.

No offense to anybody, but I only made it about 2 minutes before I couldn't take it anymore. The guy with the high pitched voice was annoying and Elliot Rodriguez put me to sleep. Nobody's going to dial up a station in the nose bleed section of UHF to watch another boring newscast. Entertain me. Also, how is it this any different than Sinclair's NewsCentral? And why aren't your heads all exploding like they were when Sinclair tried to do it?

Here is a real find! WFLA’s coverage of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Disaster from May 9, 1980 from retired main anchor Bob Hite’s secondary Youtube channel. It is confirmed WFLA used Part of Your Life through 1980.

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.

Perhaps a throwback to the 1997 logo

Just when you think things can't get any more worse at News Nation than what it is already been....

So basically News Nation is the reject news channel? Interesting approach. And so much for "NO OPINION, JUST NEWS" programing.

Breaking news will not exist for them.

That's easy, it'll never have breaking news. It's not live.

Sam's already working only 4 days a week, and it would not surprise me if he intended to renegotiate for either more vacation time, fewer workdays, or more favorable hours (i.e., coming on later in the morning or leaving before the noon show). More generally, he's a flight risk given that he really doesn't need the job. Similarly, though Lee will be around for a while, one can reason he'll at some point negotiate for fewer shows or more vacation time. So, even if there is no impending talent departure, whether it's for bench-building or just vacation coverage, an extra hire is a good thing to do given the status of the rest of the team.

Yes, it was solely for unified branding.

Did production for WTOG's news move from Dallas to Boston? The hybrid national/local broadcast is not a new concept. In fact, CBS and Group W partnered on a very similar effort in the mid '90s called Day & Date, which had local cut-ins and national segments. The program started out news/topical, but later moved toward tabloid and entertainment. It aired in the afternoons leading into local stations' news blocks.

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

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.

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

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.

Yes, it's ridiculous to think that anyone is selling at this point in Orlando, and the only possible buyer is the networks (as NBCU did for WTMO and Fox hasn't floated the WOFL/WRBW duop in years, nor even WOGX). WRDQ is in that group too and staying with whoever gets WFTV. Orlando is rare in being a steady market where there are no sellers and the only buyers are either among the low-power bottom feeders, or the religious groups desperate to get carriage on The Villages cable system, and there the only move is someone selling out inevitably to TCT (the K-Love of religious television right now).

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

WESH isn’t Hearst’s flagship station (even though they have their graphics hub there,) so I’m not exactly sure what you’re on about. It’s not even their largest market. In any case, this whole “X should merge with Y because reasons” discussion is absurdly hypothetical and it’s WAY off topic.

It looks like KCNC is going for a full rebrand to CBSNewsColorado. https://twitter.com/CBSNewsColorado

Here is WZZM's layout -- every TEGNA station I go to has the same layout in dark mode in full desktop mode.

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/orange-county/remembering-angela-jacobs-our-dear-friend-colleague/G3R2JVKPVNEC5ANAIJRMGSKGIM/

I knew it would be taped!! Darren’s weather hit did show some poor quality when they ran the tape on its KBCW show. so how would this work if it’s breaking news?

Atlanta and Detroit’s cut-ins are produced out of KTVT, Seattle’s is produced from KPIX, and Tampa’s is from WBZ.

This is the same as KBCW! Looks like it’s produced by KTXA. Local cut in with the first 2 top stories, a weather hit then back to Dallas. 10:30 local cut in and weather hit and back to Dallas.

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.