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One of the plus sides of an anchor suddenly leaving a station is you get to see different faces in new places. At WABC, it’s been nice to see Sandra Bookman and David Novarro in the morning on some days.

I think it may be due to the successful culture WSVN has built through the decades in Miami/Fort Lauderdale. Many of their English-language rivals in the market have taken key elements from them or in the case of WPLG, flat out copied them completely.

People who work nights? I know if I was working nights, I'd prefer early morning news over infomercials any day.

We're getting closer to a DTC service for ESPN: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2023/05/18/espn-plans-to-launch-subscription-streaming-service/70233888007/

The other news orgs have merch around their shows too. https://www.nbcstore.com/pages/nbc-news https://www.cbsstore.com/collections/cbs-news https://shopabctv.com/collections/good-morning-america

And now they've added a super tacky "News for All America" tagline on the screen not in one place, but in two places! Both taglines alternate with the channel logo and the show logo. The taglines seem to appear once every minute or so.

That may be it. Of course, I'm in no rush to see that man go. He's part of my childhood and he can still go. Let him break the record and then ride off the sunset after. He's only doing one newscast anyways per weekday...

The network's first upfront under the new ownership took place on Thursday, and here is an interview with the programming chiefs.

A nightly 7PM sports show was added this past week, with onetime Met Nelson Figueroa as a co-host: https://pix11.com/sports/ny-sports-nation-nightly/former-new-york-mets-player-nelson-figueroa-joins-pix11-sports/

You know what, that’s a good point actually; I’m sorry it skipped my mind. To be fair though, WSVN does air a repeat of the late news during that time, so those viewers do still get relatively (depending on the story) up to-date news, even if it isn’t live.

I don’t know that it’s fair to through WCBS in the same category as KCBS and WBBM. I think they’ve worked hard at recovering from the 1996 massacre and having become a competitor again. The new music may work for some stations, but it’s too light for New York. It’s why WABC has stuck with the 1999 version of the Eyewitness News theme. The version KABC uses is way too light for NYC.

Some of y'all apparently didn't read this.

Local news (especially top 5 markets) provide stability and a great income. Not everyone aspires to be on National Tv News, living out of a suitcase and flying from city to city. Some would argue you may even get more name recognition as Top 10 Local Anchor at an O&O than being a field reporter at a National News service.

Because WCBS is lost and doesn't know what to do and doesn't know what there doing.

I think this thread is losing focus and becoming a list. In the end, an employee was let go for using a slur about a coworker at work (presumably) to another coworker. We can do better than trying to figure out whether the woman deserved to be slurred by her coworker at work.

IMO it's better they don't start the newscast at 4 AM, at least from the talent's point of view. I like that they rerun the 11pm broadcast at that hour. If this pushes Sherri Shepherd down one hour hopefully it knocks Byron Allen's fake Justice with Judge Mablean off the schedule---(even though I love her). It's strange that a market with such leisure and culture as Miami/Ft Lauderdale doesn't have a lightweight morning newscast. Even the 9am hour on WPLG and WFOR are straight news. (Not counting Deco Drive or 6 in the Mix). Looking at the quieter overlapping market West Palm, Fox 29 is straight news from 7-9. WPEC and WPBF are also strictly news at nine. Thats five hard newscasts at 9am in South Florida.

Tony Perkins, Derek Mcginty, Bob Ryan, Jeremy Hubbard, Rob Nelson, Mike Barz, Spencer Christian, Bill Beutel, Bill Ritter

John Muller. Jodi Applegate. Antonio Mora. Tamela Edwards. Jane Robelot. Whit Johnson (Was with CBS network and then went to KCBS).

I don’t think they will use call sign as branding. It’s a new news operation and they don’t think people will recognize it from call signs.

Funny you mentioned that; my first thought was “thank God it’s 10am and not 4am.” I know it’s become conventional for stations to start at 4 or 4:30am, but is there really that much of an audience there? Granted, most people are at work by 10am, but you can at least get stay at home moms/workers and people in waiting rooms to watch you.

Downloaded a game I thought was kind of interesting from an ad on TikTok (warning the game sucks lol). The game started with a fake newscast. Can you tell where their inspiration came from? FullSizeRender.MOV

These videos have a wealth of classic clips from "Today" outside of the usuals we see circulating.

WRBL Eyewitness News Update (October 3, 1986) WBAL Action News Special Report on the Colts' move to Indianapolis (January 1984)

And that that WMAQ weekend early edition still had traces of the Serif Gothic font, especially in the editorial segment at the end.

It intrigues me that as late as 1985, WMAQ was still using news opens from the late NewsCenter 5 era (which ended in 1982), with "Channel 5 News" awkwardly overlaid on top of the original "NewsCenter 5" title:

In this 1987 clip, CBS Sunday Morning media critic Ron Powers takes a look at the state of television news at the time and sees some disturbing trends:

There’s a good reason why WCBS, WBBM, and KCBS are all in last place in their respective markers. All are a complete and utter clown show. On the other hand, we can clearly see why all the former Westinghouse stations like KYW, KPIX, KDKA, WBZ, and WJZ are all the better performing CBS O&Os based on their handing of the new CBS I&O graphics rollouts.

Someone finally posted Today Show coverage of the day following Princess Diana's death (1997) Another "new" Today post from 1997, 3 yers before the tragic events. Back when September 11th was just a regular date!