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Congratulations to Donald Trump, who has been indicted under all four different CNN graphics variations since the spring. (Yes, I know this is beyond nerdy.)

I don't see why the would now. With the small update today its basically back to what they had before. Even the transitions for the reporters names is the same minus the black bar. They no longer swipe with each one. The main header squeezes to the top to introduce the name then comes back down like it was before with the black bar. I like this hybrid of the two styles the most.

And now WMBF News has the GrayONE graphics.

Don't like the reduction of the afternoon version of News Central, but at least they didn't cancel it and its morning counterpart. Should have eliminated the ticker all together. There is just too much clutter on the screen imo.

As for when the new primetime starts... Wolf Blitzer just congratulated Laura Coates on getting the 11:00 slot. He asked her when it starts and she said, "As soon as I can go live!" A few seconds later, after Wolf said that he loves her (it wasn't creepy at all the way he said it, despite how it may come across in my typing!), Laura said, "Wolf loves me! Let's start tonight!" And then Gloria Borger chimed in, "You might!" It seems that CNN is intending for the new primetime to start tonight (the promo made it seem like the new lineup is effective now) but they're also waiting for news on the former president's likely fourth criminal indictment so perhaps CNN's schedule is in flux tonight. However, Pamela Brown's 3:00 show did not begin today.

They just ran a new promo for the new Primetime line up. They didn't have a date so I would assume tonight starts the new primetime lineup.

I do like that they moved the clock and the program title back to the right side. They should have kept the new headline ticker instead of going back to the old scroll.

So I made another discovery tonight. Hello News II.

Like what happened in 1988, it's likely that as far as sitcoms/dramas (what few are left), they'll wait to launch those until the strikes are settled; also expect Kelly to launch late, and Tamron and Sherrie to focus on different topics so we're not getting into 'cast members from non-union Tubi movies' territory as far as guests.

This deserves some backtracking...... From this thread in 2014: And there's some more discussion regarding Hello/Great News in this archived thread from that time.

Also, that means three out of four of the existing indies (KTXA, WBFS, WSBK and WLNY) will be airing it in primetime as well. Not KCAL, for obvious reasons.

I was confused and thought Ryan was guest hosting for a moment but then I realized the show is going into summer reruns despite having a new host. The bug has Mark's name and the mugs say Ryan. That's cool. Some shows would make a major deal out of the discrespacy and avoid reruns.

Something notable from CBS’ press release about 48 Hours entering syndication next month:

Noteworthy programming changes announced at CNN Kasie Hunt anchors Early Start Mattingly gets permanent spot at This Morning; no third anchor announced. PM News Central shortened to two hours Pamela Brown given PM show King Charles airing as planned, Wednesdays at 9pm in the fall, as a "limited series" Abby Phillip and Laura Coates take 10p-midnight slot from Alisyn Camerota Blackwell, Wallace, and Amanpour get Saturday AM shows Manu Raju takes Inside Politics Sunday

Molly was doing Weekend Recharge Sat & Sun.

It's certainly been theorized by a few outlets, given the Diamond Sports bankruptcy. I think their best bet for sports rights at the moment would be Pittsburgh. With Warner Bros. Discovery closing shop on their RSNs, the Pirates and Penguins need a new home. While it's been theorized that, since the Penguins are owned by the same guys as the Red Sox, they might move it to NESN, one of the few RSNs still doing reasonably well, but with several other teams going OTA, anything can happen.

And another distributor is trying to partner with Amazon to bring reruns of Judy Justice to syndication, so they could be competing eventually with the original Judge Judy.

I wonder if Couples Court will continue to air in reruns now? I guess they still could, it wouldn’t be any different than Jerry Springer and Judge Jerry airing at the same time or Greg Mathis and Marilyn Milan’s new shows airing at the same time as the old reruns.

Nice to see court judges come back without Byron Allen producing it. I only wished this new production company gave Mathis and Millian their new shows instead of Byron.

I respectfully but entirely disagree with this. Rosanna’s commentary and interview segments are borderline egregious in terms of bias. Her job at Fox5 is to report the news. It’s not to be an advocate for the restaurant industry of which she has a very clear conflict of interest as a partner in her her family’s restaurant. Especially because she goes out the way to explain how certain actions by the city government might be harmful to her family’s business. It’s unbecoming of a news anchor to brazenly advocate against things that might impact their personal business endeavors.

Bianca came off much more objective in that interview. I remember years ago the outer boroughs complained about poor snow plowing which got neutral coverage. When the Upper East Side, the location of Fox 5's studio wasn't plowed adequately however, Greg --and especially Rosanna -- were going in on the sanitation comisioner. Wish I could find the clip. Again I like Rosanna. I respect that a morning news host has to tow the line between objective journalist and tv personality, but she has to watch when her biases slip out.

The big surprise was that it wasn't Allen.

Good to see that they didn't get sucked into the Byron Allen void of daytime TV.

New court show: Cutlers Court, with husband-and-wife duo Dana and Keith Cutler of Couples Court fame. Sold in 80% of the country.

Yeah, Rosanna is especially vocal anytime a story about restaurant regulation comes up. It’s particularly egregious because her family owns Fresco by Scotto in midtown east. No idea why Fox 5 seemingly doesn’t have an issue with blatant bias.

The Fox Weather weekend afternoon/evening programming is airing right now instead of Kelly Costa's overnight weather update loop (I suspect Kelly had the night off).

I like Rosanna Scotto, and I agree with her on congestion pricing, but her bias really comes through on some news stories. This interview made it obvious. During the Lori era I noticed that Stokes always tried to keep it straight news woman whereas Rosanna inserted her personality and sometimes two cents into certain news matters. Her time with Greg was no exception. Has anyone else noticed this?

Due to today's severe weather outbreak, America's Weather Center is fully-live today for all 3 hours. Bob Van Dillen is joining Kendall today; however, they're not being billed as co-hosts. Instead, Kendall is the sole "host", and she tosses to Bob occasionally for updates. She's at the desk, while he's standing at the video screen. Looks like the "one host" ideology of Weather Command and Fox Weather Now has rubbed off on America's Weather Center. That leaves Fox Weather First and Fox Weather Live as the only weekday shows that still have actual co-hosts.

Obviosity it's good that MMJ's are getting raises (right now they get paid significantly less than reporters and longtime photojournalists) but that likely means there will be no longer reporters that don't shot or photographers only. Even with all the new technology in the last few years, I still think photojournalists play a very important role in a newsroom, its better to have a second pair of eyes in large crowds or reporting in dangerous areas (near roads) and quality does suffer when one person does all of these jobs compared to when it took 3 people just a few years ago. None of these moves will make improvements to ratings or increase the quality of newscast. Outside of WPTV, longtime Scripps stations before the McGraw-Hill deal were in 2nd or 3rd place or even worse, stations like KSHB and KJRH ratings have been downright garbage most of the time. The thing is unless if you're a yes man Scripps has put in place their own management team shortly after acquiring new stations/groups and it doesn't matter how well the stations are preforming. Some of those ex Journal stations have gone through 2 or 3 scripps mangement teams already. WTMJ has been number 1 at 10pm only one time since Scripps has owned the station that came only a few months after the sale was approved largely under Journals former management team (news director, station manager) and before scripps made any big changes to the stations. Ratings have declined ever since and now WTMJ is in danger of CBS58 over taking them in the ratings in some day parts, I know this was long time ago but when I moved to Milwaukee in 2000 WTMJ had over 15 rating and CBS58 was at 0.7 at 10pm.

His shows are junk but I have to admire what he has built from those shows. Allen made some of the cheapest shows he could make, package them up, and gave them to stations to air anytime the stations pleased. 2AM? No problem. 4AM? Sure. 9AM on a Saturday surrounded by informercials? Yes! A lot of syndicated shows didn't want to be in those ugly time slots so Allen was abled to get his shows shown practically nationwide by accepting those odd times. He saw the need and filled it. But yeah we are still pretty far from Allen being decently respectable.

I assume that within the next few weeks, they will be totally back to the pre-Licht graphics?

Yeah WPKD is definitely getting these. Just have a hunch.

Maybe when General Hospital gets kicked over to Hulu or Disney Plus

Another update to the graphics again as of 9 a.m. Keeping the overall Licht graphics but everything is back to the Zucker placements: Show title, time, and Live. The lower third no longer has the red transitions, and reporters' names animate in again instead of seeming to appear on "another slide." The CNN logo is back in reporters' titles (instead of just text). Oh, and the ticker is back. Regarding the lineup changes: Interesting that Laura Coates finally gets her evening show after it being announced and then taken away. And the return of "NewsNight"! Surprised that Alisyn seems to be lost in the shuffle. Also interesting that women lead four of the five hours from 7 to midnight.

Since were now getting a 10AM newscast, who do you think will anchor it? And do we yet to have an actual lineup for noon?

KCNC has the new ticker. To me, it looks off since they don't use a channel number box like the other stations.