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Good luck if you’re in Billings, Montana or Alpena, Michigan or Wheeling, West Virginia, or any small market that can’t support one 10pm news, let alone two or more. Or in any market that is not in a political swing state (Wyoming, Mississippi, etc.) and won’t get that easy money. The pending death of syndication and the presumed death of scripted primetime will inevitably result in the death of local news programming for television stations, many of which will simply become relay stations for large-market stations and/or O&Os. And those stations may be reduced to being nothing more than a turnkey diginet or rerun farm. If the audience no longer exists for syndication or scripted primetime programming, how in the wide wide world of sports is it going to remain for local news???

Good. It doesn’t help the affiliates to be forced to program an extra hour of primetime in an environment where syndication is an endangered species.

NBC to keep the 10pm hour (at least for next season)

Because of a logo change? That’s a bit of an overstatement IMHO. ABC and NBC’s new logos are more mobile-friendly, and the new CBS bug is less intrusive. Besides, we’re the only people that are consciously noticing this stuff; all of these changes are so minuscule that I’m not sure it’s even worth calling them different logos.

This would have been news 30 years ago. Or even 20.

1. I'm glad they did not do that. They have some real good 10 pm shows. 2. I would not be surprised if they are trying to convince another network or both to join them. 3. It gives local stations more time to consider what to put on - it could be a boost to syndicated dramas or comedy. Let's be real, just how much more local news or Family Feud do we all need. Many DMA's already have one or more options already for news at 10, and, have cable options as well.

The irony of the old NBC logo that was used in Deadline's cover image for the story.

That was quick. Makes me wonder if she got whacked. I wonder if she just sucked at meteorology, which shouldn't really matter since, after all, it's only tv. It's not like these guys are forecasting to plan for troop invasions or anything like that. During his last gig, I remember him being a nice enough guy, but he didn't have any kind of an "it" factor. Just another boring everyman TV personality. He should fit in very well over there. I hope he doesn't like racy pictures of prepubescents. (That was a joke by the way.)

One day after Baracy’s departure, Jerry Martz (formerly of WSYX) has been named Chief Meteorologist at WBNS. https://www.10tv.com/mobile/article/weather/jerry-martz-10tv-wbns-welcomes-new-chief-meteorologist-columbus-ohio/530-df9eb8c0-0131-441b-b61b-7f75ecb75fa2

I keep hearing it said that flatness is more mobile friendly. In what way? It's a fair statement to not nitpick too much given that the average viewer just cares about channel content more so than presentation elements. A tweaked logo isn't the end of the world. On the contrary, a large portion of what we critique here like lighting, studio setup, and graphics, only industry junkies would care about. My point remains though, a lot of these graphical "updates" networks are doing to their logos seem to take a step backwards. The NBC news logo IMO is the perfect all around peacock design to settle on. White borders with depth, gloss, and gradient to the colors.

NBC basically gave the peacock a chemical peel and a little filler in the beak.

There has been a recent uptick in COVID cases in NYC to where the health department is recommending masks both indoors and outdoors. Also, NBCUniversal is in the middle of layoff/buyouts at the present moment. If anything, WNBC may just switch to a taped performance out of an abundance of caution and cost-cutting. It's not the end of the world.

I think they made a mistake keeping the 10pm hour. A lot of network programming is crap and whatever is sort of the weakest can move to cable and Peacock.

They'll also be running an hour long special this Thursday at 8PM to say good bye to him.

Oh you're big mad about this.

Seems like they didn't do their usual singing in front of the Rock Center Prometheus this year. Instead, they have a bunch of kids from Queens singing. Disappoiting.

As for the “why is flat better for mobile?” question, I’m far from a design expert, but I think this article puts forward a good argument for it (and explains it better than I ever could). Long story short, flat design allows for greater contrast and more flexibility. When you’re working with a smaller amount of space, gradients and gloss can be unnecessarily complicated and distracting. It’s the same reason why IOS and Windows dropped their old glossy designs they had for their operating systems several years back. I’m not against the old peacock or anything, but on the subject of NBC News, their visual presentation is looking rather dated IMO (although not nearly as dated as ABC). I’m sure they’ll eventually adapt their graphics to suit the new peacock, but I doubt they’re in any rush to do it given the similarities between the logos. I can be nit picky about this stuff myself, but I honestly didn’t even notice the changes when the new promos first aired. That’s how subtle they are IMO. But to each their own.

Would like to see an afternoon hour returned to Brianna Keilar.

And just like with the ABC logo change, the average viewer will not notice or care as long as Lester Holt and The Voice are on the same channel they've always been on.

Jesse Jackson would support David Duke for President for the right price. He is the grandfather of all corporate shakedown artists.

And now Jesse Jackson of all people is on board with the deal.

It's an outdated rule Sinclair & Nexstar should take The FCC to court and not pay the fine either I wouldn't if I owned either Sinclair or Nexstar. And if I was on The FCC I'd have voted for no fine Jessica abused her power as she knows this clearly is an outdated rule that needs to go like the DINO. And I blame this rule why there is no Sat morning cartoons on FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, The CW anymore I know even if the outdated rule does go bye, bye, bye broadcast isn't going to air Sat morning cartoons. Which Sat morning cartoons would be better than the nature/E/I crap that no one watches.

Apparently, Jim Gardner will have been there for the balance of that half-century of MCTYW, the way I understand this.

Yup! No one at the station cares about the wonderful tradition that has been part of New York broadcasting for so many decades. Last year, when Covid restrictions had already began to ease, WNBC chose not to produce the "Holdiay Song" outdoors. When I questioned management about this, the excuse was that the Prometheus Fountain area was in the midst of alterations. Surely, there were other outdoor locations that could have been used. But no one seemed to care! Also, last year, was the first and only time that the music chosen was a "Christmas Song," not the longstanding policy to only use "Holiday Songs." When I pointed this out to management, the response was "Really?" Ignorance and Apathy rule supreme at 30 Rock!

Well the new ABC logo has grown on me. I don't really mind it now. The CBS logo bug still kinda bothers me as I think it should be bigger, but that's really much ado about nothing. As for the NBC logo update? A white border around the peacock would make it look better, but it doesn't look all that bad.

I like the abc tweaks, makes it a little bolder. Hate the miniscule cbs eye. The peacock doesn't look right without the white. I liked their 1980 peacock the best with the tail feather and two feathers for each color.

Ana Cabrera has confirmed her departure from CNN.

This was unnecesary and not an improvement by any measure. First ABC ruined their logo, then CBS gets a miniscule screen bug, now this. Its like the networks are dertermined to spend money for a worse product.