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KABC has a different logo, wordmark, formal verbal news branding, and package color scheme. Even if the theme was 100% the same, they still wouldn't be a carbon copy of WABC.

If Graham is "blessed" with the CW affiliation in Detroit, they'll probably be forced to give it the KOMO treatment. Just keep whatever subchannel programming and they already have and blow out primetime for the 2 hours of CW programming a night. Once they pick up some Andy Griffith reruns to throw in here and there (or any other programs)....voila!

As other NBC O&O stations are doing, the time and temp have been moved to under the bug.

Technically, it isn't.

This looks better than when it extended leftward. The time/temp bug would look better in black like the screen crawl.

Please explain to me how Graham is going to magically come up with 22 hours of programming a day when syndication in that market has been stretched insanely thin among all the stations. It doesn't take a MENSA member to see them taking a hard pass on creating another subchannel for the CW. And is this a bad thing?

I'm not sure if this has been brought up, but there was a time not that long ago that the network news divisions staffed the news departments of the TV and radio O&Os. Example: When Chuck Scarborough joined WNBC-TV fifty years ago, he was an NBC News correspondent assigned to the local anchor desk in New York. The same for his predecessors in that role, Jim Hartz and Frank McGee, and others. And if you're old enough to remember, channel 4's newscasts ended with an NBC News production mention and disclaimer. Over at ABC, Roger Grimbsy, Bill Beutel and Howard Cosell had network responsibilities aside from their WABC-TV duties in the earliest days of Eyewitness News. CBS may have done the same thing, but not to the same extent. We do know that it was CBS News that hired Jim Jensen to the WCBS-TV anchor desk in 1964-65 when the network reassigned Robert Trout to Europe. Apparently, the O&O newsrooms became independent of the network by the late 1970s. So perhaps in a sense, CBS News and Stations is bringing this form of staffing synergy full-circle.