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Jamie Kellner, TV Exec Who Launched Fox and The WB, Dies at 77 (thewrap.com) This was the same man who also killed WCW back in 2001, leading to the sale of some of their assets to what is now WWE.

At the Speer and Lincoln location, lots of TV magic came alive during these past 50+ years. Not to mention lots of changes too. It survived the switch from CBS to ABC in September 1995. It survived KMGH's ownership changes from Time Life, to McGraw Hill to now Scripps. Anchors, reporters and behind the scenes staff came and gone. KMGH Logos, news set design and theme music came and gone. Technology has changed, including going from analog to digital in 2009. Field reporting evolved from film to videotape to digital. Bob Palmer, Bill Stuart, Larry Green and Ed Greene all graced Channel 7 before moving to rival Channel 4 in 1982, which is where most of us remember them most. The two-women of color anchor team of Anne Trujillo and Bertha Lynn lit up the screens. But you know the old saying, The Show Must Go On and Life Goes On. The show and life will indeed go on...at ABC7's new state-of-the-art digital broadcast home in the RiNO district. However, we'll always remember the building as that beacon when entering downtown Denver through Speer and Lincoln, despite its brutalist structure.

Going back to Atlanta, the exception to that 6pm rule is WSB. From observation they usually do live hits in the 6 (even for stories that don't require them). But it's still repeated content from 4 & 5. The logic stations give for new at 4 repeat for the remainders is "audiences stick around for quick hits and don't watch newscasts straight through or for hours". How true that is, IDK? EDIT: To WSB & WXIA's credit, from watching their evening newscasts it looks like they switch up the order of stories between shows. I might run the TV for hours on one station if I'm doing something else, and the repeats are noticeable. A creative thing a station in my market does is a live VO/SOT at 4, half the story in a PKG at 5, and the complete PKG at 6, to give the illusion of new content and to keep people sticking around through shows. From a viewer POV I like it but I've heard reporters complain that turning the package multiple ways adds to their hefty workload. And I get it. 4:00 newscasts often don't leave reporters enough room to make slot. This especially if your editorial meeting begins at 9:30 a.m, and you may not be out the door until after 10:00, plus travel time, editing, etc. The vo/sot at 4 method might alleviate this. And from an employee standpoint the problem with unnecessary live shots, especially at night, is going past your shift hours. If your shift ends at 11:35pm and your 11:00 live hit is an hour away from the station, that has you getting back past midnight which can be a bummer for work-life balance.

They could go greek. Look Alpha, Beta, ... or use a year. I'm sure NBCU suits will have lots of options.

Yeah, every station here and there may have a slightly different idea of what has historically been and presently is their flagship newscast. Put most broadly, I think most stations' flagship newscast was probably the late 9/10/11pm 20 years ago. Now, I'd say it's probably the 5 or 6pm or mornings for most stations. I can't stress enough how much late news ratings have dropped for everyone.

It seems 4pm is the most important evening show now-a-days. In many markets I have seen 4:00 getting all the new packages and then being recycled throughout the later shows, with 10/11-pm maybe having some fresh nightime news. Despite 6 PM having the highest ratings, 6:00 newscasts are often rehashes of the 4pm. In Atlanta, I've seen 11 Alive and Fox 5's 6 PM newscasts featuring mostly pretaped look live shots. This most likely because a day side reporter's shift runs 9-5ish.

A report from earlier in the day when the scene is more active would seem to be maximum bang for the buck. I’m used to the late news being an update show and the 6pm being the most important though… something that dates off and on back to the 1980’s at least.

Just more so a comment on there being soooo many screens, which add what? What do you call this desk? KDKA uses the first occurrence of it, but I don't know what to call it. RE WTMJ:

Per another video posted by Danielle Grant

I wonder when the alphabet runs out what are they gonna name the designs.

Niceeee!

The Miami TV market is a more serious news market compared to Denver and even though the newsplex idea is a little bit over the top and other news outlets copied it, that is what made WSVN unique and the quality of the journalism there is what makes it the news leader in South Florida. As for KMGH, they have been doing the neighborhood news thing and Scripps has been cutting costs lately so it doesn’t really matter if the set is small or not.

This fandom is so out of touch with real life if you're judging a news set to be a dud because it doesn't have all the bells and whistles and zooming graphics like the Fucking WSVN Newsplex. It's always, always, always fucking style over substance.

WTMJ got the "KDKA desk" brand new a few years ago, so perhaps it's just popular within the company. I wouldn't be surprised if that set order was paired back with the "neighborhood news" initiative. The studio looks huge. I will hold my judgement until we see more, but at the end of the day, so what if the set is more "minimalist"? The whole "neighborhood news" initiative is supposed to get talent out of the studio, invalidating the need for the massive sets with 1000 video screens (that consultants, set designers, and bloggers love to claim are for "storytelling", but how much "storytelling" is happening when a reporter is standing in place, fronting a package with a "BODY IN A BOX" graphic behind them?)

I said one of my new favorites. Not that it was better than KWQC. There's a difference.

I don't know, KWQC will be pretty hard to beat... You said it yourself

I'm not sure if this was ever confirmed or not, but after reading this when posted, I've been on the lookout on KPTV for signs of change. This past week they debuted new mic flags with the brand of "12 News", which is definitely new for them. Still uses similar styling. No other graphical or audible changes. Everyone is still tagging out with "FOX 12 Oregon". I'm guessing this probably is an indication of a larger branding change, (and in my opinion dumb), otherwise why the new mic flags? Maybe trying to introduce it slowly and fade out "FOX" slowly?