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[Station ditches talent opens] "Booooooo, they suck! No sense of tradition!" [Station updates talent opens] "Booooooo, not good enough! These are crap!" This new open is absolutely fine. The fact that they're using existing shots makes keeping talent opens a more viable option, in the future.

I mean, these particular talent opens aren’t going to be around for very long anyway, so this is much ado about nothing imo.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Chj8v2VuCqi/ Just new lights. Temporary set is the old "Everyday Health" set (a sponsored segment that used to air at the end of the midday news iirc) in Studio D. The lighting in Studio A was already mostly LED and fluorescent, but the fixtures date to the installation of that set back in 2012, so they're probably about due for replacement.

Anyways... let's get back on topic...

It’s just a matter of time before Brittany is named a Permanent Weekday Meteorologist.

With all due respect, if they wanted a smaller cast and a tighter script they might as well go once a week. The appeal for me has always been multiple plots at once with characters rotating between front and back burner status. Twice or thrice a week is fine, but then that slippery slope will lead to season breaks. If you have Long breaks then it's a telenovella not a traditional soap.

Notice that the new weekend open has the talent against studio backdrops and not the plain white background of the other opens… also they skipped the “team shot” at the end of the open. If I had to guess, they threw this together based off recently filmed promo material or recently filmed material for the upcoming graphics update. If the latter is the case, no clue why they wanted to get this to air quickly unless they’re not expecting the full O&O graphics rollout to them for a few more months.

Here's a link to a WKYC story. He served as the prior sports director to Jim Donovan, after his time at WJKW. https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/wkyc-sports-anchor-cleveland-browns-broadcaster-jim-mueller-dies/95-c10bc1a0-4d5d-47d5-a636-26ccf0e11289

TBH, the first caller is my spirit animal. But seriously, if someone tease a story as "next" it better be the first story after the break. It's slightly forgivable if it's second or even third (if the preceding stories are maybe short VOs), but if a story is teased as "next" but is multiple stories later or even several blocks later, it's super annoying. At least some viewers notice if not a lot, and I'd argue it adds to distrust of "the media".

I wanna puke just hearing that... Good Day Miami. Thank god its morning news is Today in Florida (which dates back to their NBC days). This article says otherwise saying it will return later this year. Also, WILX has Funny You Should Ask. That'll probably air since Wheel doesn't do second-runs. https://www.wilx.com/2022/07/29/wilx-studio-10-takes-hiatus-launches-studio-10-presents/

It’s hard to have a talent open when you don’t have any stability. Things have stabilized at WCBS, but for time people were coming and going or being reshuffled every other book.

It’s about time. I wish they would do that for the 5 & 11pm newscasts

They finally added a talent open to the weekend morning newscast

Oh nice! Jim (S31MA) featured her in a recent newscast for WRSP. What a jump in markets she has made.

WGCL also stole another investigator from WXIA a few weeks back: Andy Pierrotti. Looks like Gray isn’t messing around when it comes to making CBS 46 a contender.

Here's a behind the scenes photo they showed today, in tribute to the director who is leaving. Really sad what the quality of this show has become.