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Studio debut on Tuesday

Just a rendering. They may have thought they were at one point. It could also be as simple as designer just tossing in it in there.

I'm not sure how long Tom could have done MTP prior to his cancer diagnosis.

I hate to be that guy, but it’s “Abrams” and “WCBS.” Still though, very cool find.

I'n not sure if VHSgoodiesWA has seen this, but here is a video that YouTube recommended to me recently showing how KIMA made their commercial break tapes in 1991.

No, Tom isn’t the king of Chicago weather… he is the God of Chicago weather and the God of local TV weather.

They also have a new open with a slightly modified logo. Both debuted a month ago. They are getting new graphics, but the whole thing hasn't debuted yet.

Hey @nynewsguy, are you saying they are replicating their current set in the new studio? If so, that is a huge disappointment. Not to mention it is extremely odd to recreate a look that is 7 years old. I would have guessed a version of WRC's set given WNBC's half of 3A is similar in size and shape to WRC's portion of Nebraska Avenue's Studio A.

WNBC shooting promos in new set guessing it debuts soon

I stream, cast or airdrop everything these days. Very rarely do I watch TV (in the traditional way) or listen to the radio even. There's just too much content spread across too many platforms. I too long for the days on old-school local TV news were stations would truly compete with each other. Hard-hitting investigative stories are pretty much non-existent and even big events like election night lack the excitement it once did.

There used to be fun to TV in the afternoons, where people did live shows and there wasn't a news story to be found. Now the fun is limited to the last part of the newscast and met/sports anchor interplay, and with even Jerry and Steve in reruns now, it's either bad court shows, news, or repeats of sitcoms only palatable to older audiences, and the newer tolerable sitcoms are absurdly easy to access in full and commercial-free (or with saner commercials) on streaming services. Only three game shows (and one, Family Feud, doesn't even get near a 1/10 of an entendre and makes me embarrassed to watch) are left, and it seems except for PBS, broadcast, cable and streaming have unilaterally decided that all kids watch is Fortnite and play Roblox and refuse to put money into any children's content (the Saturday morning E/I Hearst 'for kids...but really old people' racket doesn't count), and David Zazlav showed his true hand by culling every bit of kid's content from HBO Max and ready to cut Cartoon Network to the bone. Don't get me started on the refuse that is the Discovery networks, or alleged movie channels Sundance and IFC carrying not one independent film. I'm sure cable providers actually want to cut useless filler like MTV2, TruTV and 4 of the Discovery networks, but the big companies are like 'oh, you don't want Yellowstone or the NCAA tournament? Or SpongeBob? Welp, then you don't get CBS or Nick because you don't want to carry a diminished TV Land!' Big events get held hostage because of small networks which started as 'special interest', but now carry nothing but reruns.

Debmar-Mercury is developing a Ken Jeong daytime talker for 2024.

Don’t expect anything earth shattering. it’s smaller than 3K that they are in now. Essentially, think of 3B but with curved walls. Same style lucite desk. Same blue Peacocks all over. if I didn’t know it was a different studio; I wouldn’t have guessed.

Strange but WNBC briefly cut away from the National Anthem at Ground Zero to take NBC's special report about the ceremonies this morning. Lasted probably about 30-45 seconds. Wonder if it was automated (didn't seem so as the beginning of the open was cut off) or if a master control operator saw a special report coming down and instinctively pushed the button.