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I don't know about the Chicago market specifically, though I'd be fascinated to know what their security situation is there. When I was in Chicago a few months ago, I was shocked to see a WBBM live truck with full station branding on the exterior. Where I am, all of our live trucks are unmarked, and without going into too much detail, we take pretty extensive measures to ensure crew safety in the field. While live-for-the-sake-of-live definitely still happens, we try not to do it. Usually, if one of our reporters is live somewhere for the late shows, it's because that's where their story was. It often makes sense for the crew to stay on the scene, finish their story, do the live shot, and then drive back rather than rush back to the station and slam something together to make slot. A lot of stations are also just putting fewer resources into their late news and assigning fewer reporters to it. It used to be that the 10/11p news were many stations' bread and butter, but late news viewership is falling the fastest out of any daypart.

I love it! The last set was amazing at the time it debuted, but honestly, it aged quite a bit so it was time for a new one! It's simple, not that complicated, but I love it for that, and the colors and lighting all tie into together nicely. I see some inspiration from parts of the old set, and some from Europe, like the use of the main wall as a set extension (which is beautiful). My eyes at first did not know how to take the new logo but I think since it debuted, it's grown on me. The graphics are pretty stellar as well. I think I seen that this set will also become Washington Week's set as well, I wonder how they'll change it for WW. Their outgoing set was a beautiful set too, probably better than the News Hour set. Overall, I actually rank this as my second favorite of the main four evening newscasts' sets, behind the CBS Evening News set!

This is PBS news.

I think NBC should use USA Network to air some Big East games and not have it all for Peacock kinda like the NBA deal as well.

Okay... so watch it there.