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The news desk is sacred, and the main anchors should be chained to it. Having a "personal life" is not allowed.

I guess I’ll ask this question: Has NBC considered moving Nightly News to 10 instead? From my understanding, the US is really the only country where a major broadcaster doesn’t carry a nightly evening newscast in prime time.

It was pointed out that Universal Television wouldn't be happy with having fewer slots to sell shows to NBC in. I'm sure a lot of Hollywood types would need to be pacified as well... (Then again, none of them had any advance knowledge of The WB and UPN joining forces!)

That's not a bad idea. Have two feeds, let the affiliates choose.

It’s a Friday in Late August; Norah like David Muir is on…… you guessed it Vacation.

Since tonight and late night are both taped they should have an 11pm and 11:35 feed and let the stations choose. On CBS y&r has the 11am (12et) and 12:30pm feeds.

Hopefully they fix this before it goes to air

Notice sent to affiliates via newspath earlier today.

They probably should air it at 10 and make it hourlong, and they already replay it at 10 on NBC News Now. Doing so would guarantee a monopoly on national news at this time. They sell shows to themselves?

I wonder what's the reaction will be not only for the Fox affiliates, but also the independent stations as they also program local news at 10PM (ET/PT) or 9PM (CT/MT).

I said months ago the television networks should consider doing this and I'm surprised it's actually under serious consideration. As much as I'm not one to advocate for more news on station lineups, I support this proposition. The terrestrial channels have been struggling for about the last decade in primetime. The difference between cable, streaming and broadcast, is that the first two can put out a show when they have something good. Broadcast must fill three hours of prime time Sunday through Thursday leading to several crappy shows getting the green light. (To be fair Netflix and cable have their fair share of misses). To avoid another Leno situation, I think it's best that all big three networks switch to a 10 PM ET/ 9CT newscast and move the late-night talk shows up to either 10:35 or 11 PM ET. If it's industry wide, then audiences will have to adapt. Perhaps the late night talk shows such as Fallon or very late night like Corden *MIGHT* get higher TV viewership because they're on earlier.

Yeah but I’m just saying if CBS decided to cut an hour of primetime, WBTV might choose the 11:35 feed The poster pointed out that CBS is the one that offers dual Y&R feeds so they might do the same with the Late Show if they decided to cut an hour of primetime. Sorry for the confusion.

WBTV is a CBS affiliate. WCNC is the NBC affiliate in Charlotte.

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Another problem... For the SSA/JSA stations in a market that are already "maxed out" with content under the 15 percent rule. They can't add another hour of news without taking away from another timeslot. Then again, that may force them to merge their programming off the shell station onto the owned station's spectrum as a subchannel, much like the many Cunningham stations have done onto their Sinclair counterparts. And lest we forget that ABC has basically turned their Sunday nights into a reboot of old game shows that the network aired in DAYTIME 30-40 years ago! CBS too, with bringing LMAD back to replace Guiding Light.

FOR THE RECORD... 'World News' returned to 'World News Tonight' BETWEEN permanent anchors. Sawyer retired from 'World News' on a Friday, the weekend shows maintained status quo, it had a generic 'World News Tonight' open on Labor Day Monday, and he debuted on Tuesday, with his name on the program. Anyway...

Main anchors not showing up for the final newscast of a graphics package being part of the downfall of a long-running network evening news program is certainly a new one.

What do you mean? She has to be there the last day the graphics are in use?

It’s a bit ironic that NBC is the first traditional “Big Three” network that is rumored to want to do this. Ed Ansin must be smiling from the Great Beyond and thinking, “I told you so.” This move would make sense for both sides. The networks see streaming as their most important commodity, while the affiliates view local news in the same regard due to the ad revenue. The networks can focus on their OTT platforms, while the local affiliates can focus on pumping out more local content.

It would not surprise me if they do new music with the CBS 5-note mnemonic.

Does that really matter?

Heavy emphasis on arrows throughout the newscast, as well as more infographic changes (including the font being switched to TT Norms)

CBSEN will fail forever opposite the other two, they really should move the newscast earlier to 5:30 or even 4:30. They should also consider adopting a more tabloid "Inside Edition" format in contrast to the other traditional newscast. If it bleeds, it leads. Worked wonders on the local level with Miami's WSVN. If all that fails just make it a 10-15 minute insert that can be placed into the local news blocks whenever and call it a day.

We are getting to a point where the local news bubble will burst and stations will be going off the air or sold to other groups. Many people aren't watching local news and it shows in many markets. Just to add a newscast for ad revenue is ,and will always be, wrong. That is one of the reasons why groups like the GOP (which I can't stand in its own right) want nothing to do with media these days is because the Station Owner CEOs are only in it for the conflict and money. It hurts journalism integrity/viewership even more when you see statements like this from Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/19/2098963/-Sinclair-Broadcast-Group-CEO-says-a-politically-divided-America-is-very-good-for-our-business

This worked so well last time. Worse, many 10 pm shows are top rated shows. Chicago Wednesdays and Law & Order Thursdays would become half days? Bad idea.

It was already added before you posted this. Simulcasting Is a terrible idea for the viewer and shows how greedy you are as a company. Also, I would ask WBRE/WYOU, WJXX/WTLV, WICU/WSEE, and WJAX/WFOX how simulcasting "helps" their ratings. It doesn't. Fox would still be upset if their newscast is simulcast with an NBC Station. Count on it.

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They could’ve kept Dancing With the Stars on linear…

A lot of people barely watch anything but 10pm evergreen content such as the L&Overse and Blue Bloods. The timeslot has been dying since it became the 'DVR catch-up' slot, and it's nothing now with streaming. Most nights it's just filled with Dateline episodes and obviously the Big Ten Saturday night slot and SNF aren't included by contractual force Funny that they're doing this now when WHDH had the right idea thirteen years ago to try to dump it for news.

I thought they learned their lesson with "The Jay Leno Show"?

I don’t think there’s an affiliate in America that wouldn’t approve of this. I’m sure they’d all love to have an hour-long 10.

The cost-cutting is inevitable. If NBC drops an hour, everyone else will too. I doubt the scenario of shifting the late-night line-up 30-60 minutes is realistic.

Picture from memo sent to all affiliates

My friend Cirren Jones will upload the Newscast to his YouTube Channel when it debuts. I will post it here.

New CBS Evening News graphics will debut on Monday, August 29. The look will be in line with the new CBS deconstructed eye look that has been rolling out.

Andrew Kozak has joined CBS PHILADELPHIA Next Weather team. https://twitter.com/AndrewKozakTV/status/1562452142631161856?t=pqsuGIN2fmdOPLq0r_a4JA&s=19

[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 feel like Talent opens are a thing of the past though now. If i'm not mistaking, I think only WABC does talent opens the rest of the stations don't have them.

They finally added a talent open to the weekend morning newscast

David Muir has much better ratings then CBS so no.

No way will SNL move up an hour but I don't see why the tonight show wouldn't, and get a 35 minute jump on cbs and abc.

One would be naive to think that station owners aren’t already greedy. Why do you think stations have news at 3pm now? Also, you’re focused on ratings when the driving factor (for the local affiliates, at least) is ad revenue. As many have pointed out many times now, local ad revenue is just as important to stations as ratings. I’m not saying that news expansion is a good thing from a creative/journalistic point of view (I hate it as much as the next person), but it makes sense from a business standpoint. And why the heck would NBC care what Fox thinks? Is there a rule that prevents NBC from upsetting Fox? If NBC can take away viewers from Fox stations at 10pm, all the more reason to do it.

Thing is, why would NBC and their stations care? If anything, they would want to take away from Fox’s prime time news audience. Besides, there’s no guarantee of it being a blow to every Fox station either (see: KTVU, WTVT, KDFW), and more local news competition can’t be too much of a bad thing, even if it is just a sign of less creativity in the TV business. This lack of creativity isn’t anything new either. I remember when NBC programmed Deal or No Deal 5 nights a week. They practically squeezed the life out of that show with how often it was on. Same could be said for Millionaire in the early-2000s. I wish TV hadn’t gone through such a creative slump over the past 2 decades, but a lot of that creativity has moved over to Amazon, Netflix, and Disney+. Peacock is way behind the game when it comes to streaming (if you want proof, look at some of the movies they have on there). NBC needs to do what it can to make it more lucrative. Besides, the local stations would prefer local news over yet another Dick Wolf series or Dateline rerun. What “decision” do they have to make? Just simulcast the damn thing. The stations would be more than grateful for the extra ad revenue.

People are thinking this is going to be another Leno deal. I think local news moves to 10 and the late night talk shows move up a half hour. Broadcast TV is dying.

Well, I don't. NBC does this, it's going to lose viewership and ratings at the 10pm/9pm slot.

ER was the number 1 show in the country three different years for NBC in that 10 PM slot with 30 million viewers a night