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If "Larry Ellison's Trust Fund Kid" has a name–and he does–he should be referred to by his name here. No need to describe him by a sophomoric moniker. Just sayin'...

About the studio lighting, I think there is a reason alot of stations have dropped street side studios, its really hard to control lighting. Lighting is just as important or even more than camera quality. WLS I believe has huge screens to block out light, you can tell when they aren’t in use it’s not great. It probably wasn’t as big as a problem when everything was in SD.

The new set debuts at 4pm today, and it is the KCAL set.

They're unsalable because, with a few exceptions, they mostly show reruns, terrible reality shows, or reruns of terrible reality shows. Also, I would think most teenagers don't watch linear TV these days... Don't forget about the digital multiplex channels such as MTV2, MTV Live, MTV Classic, etc. Surprisingly, MTV Classic actually shows music videos...but I bet more people watch those on YouTube.

Already happened they are officially broadcasting from the new building.

He has resurfaced back in San Diego at KSWB. Caught him just now reporting.

I wouldn't be surprised if KYW is the next O&O to fully shed the channel number from its branding. The Eye-3 logo is really only vestige of it left as they don't mention 3 at all verbally. Everything is "CBS Philadelphia" and "CBS News Philadelphia". They might as well just finish peeling off the band-aid already.

Our favorite destroyer of networks (and possibly our democracy thanks to his former BFF) may be waiting in the wings for Skydance's leftovers.... https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/7/8/skydance-to-buy-paramount As Moe Syszlak once said, "Oh dear god, no!"

A little brag about this story. My grandfather was an anchor at KLZ in the pink building.

Tyrannical Bastard answered the question very eloquently, but to expand on his point...let's say, for example, that the new sports streaming joint venture between Warner Bros. Discovery, Fox, and Disney becomes a success (and if it gets off the ground), if that doesn't put a nail in cable TV's coffin, it'll expedite the process much further. It also probably doesn't help that streamers such as Apple TV, Peacock, Prime Video, ESPN+ (with separate content from linear ESPN) and now Netflix are offering more and more live sports content, along with certain individual NBA and NHL teams now offering in-market telecasts via streaming and/or over-the-air TV without the use of a cable/satellite subscription. Traditional TV providers are continuously losing subscribers left and right, either to the likes of YouTube TV, Sling, or Fubo, or going back to the old "rabbit ears", with the streaming platforms serving as a complement. Not even the news channels are strong enough to keep cable alive IMO, especially when you have multiple streaming outlets to get live news from--from the Big Four themselves, their O&Os, their station partners, or independent outlets (including certain newspapers like the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times). Also, we've seen in recent years that you no longer need the use of cable/satellite to watch the premium movie networks...if you're not a sports fan, or even a news buff, those alone can entice you to "cut the cord", and subscribe to whichever individual streamers that may have your favorite movies. With the current setup, it's going to continue to make traditional cable TV even more useless outside of live sports and news.

Basically live news and sports. CNN may have thrown the gauntlet first with putting a live feed of themselves on Max. (which is basically the same as linear CNN). This is likely because they've pushed themselves into irrelevance unlike the others. Until Fox News and MSNBC do the same, cable tv has a lifeline. ESPN may be helping to break the system once they go fully a-la-carte. But yes, the Paramount channels are mostly rerun vats. And basically added value for the clueless cable tv subscriber who wants their fix of shows readily available on streaming or on-demand.

I agree that those channels have become useless rerun vats. Not to verge too off-topic, but what is the future of cable television? Non existance?

Ryan moved back to Sports. It’s just Audrina and Dana in the mornings now. Not sure if anyone else will help support them (no morning anchor(s) position(s) have been posted as of today).

Did WBBM's morning anchoring change or was this just a special occasion? Audrina did the 4:00 half hour by herself and Dana Kozlov showed up from 5am. I saw that Ryan Baker did the sports news yesterday at 5/6/10.

With the advent of streaming, one could argue local tv news ratings don't really matter as much as they once did. WBBM, WMAQ, WLS and WFLD all have streaming channels which serve as revenue generators along with their respective linear channel. Plus, people are pretty set in who they watch that there's not much (if anything) anyone can do to change that.

This set is ugly! The previous one was gorgeous. In style, colors, lighting.

Perhaps one thing I could agree with Mr. Muck is that all of the Paramount cable networks are all-rerun farms, outside of what you've mentioned. As an example, because I watch plenty of classic reruns on days I work from home (if I'm not watching news or sports), Logo is all-day/evening marathons of either Bewitched, The Facts of Life, The Nanny, Mama's Family, Will & Grace, Three's Company, or Married...with Children; the few original programs they had in the past that are still running have since moved to either MTV or VH1 (particularly RuPaul's Drag Race). BET Her is more or less another all-rerun channel, with repurposed content from linear BET or BET+, along with the annual simulcasts of their award shows. BET's Jams, Hip-Hop, and Soul channels also play all-day music videos. I don't watch any of the Nickelodeon channels or TV Land, and haven't in years. Comedy Central, of course, still has some original content, but most of their broadcast days are all-day reruns of the same dozen or so shows, or the same couple dozen movies they currently have rights to. Honestly, with the success of Pluto TV, they've made the Paramount cable networks rather useless, but they're still sticking around just to get retransmission dollars from the various TV providers around. Eventually, and who knows when, several of these networks will shutter and what original content they'll still offer can move to either Pluto or Paramount+ (or whatever becomes of that platform).

The new slogan is based on what people say when watching—“For the love of Chicago, turn it to channel 7!”

That window shot is so cool. For all of their woes, WBBM has done great with this and their last CBS mandated set. What they did to the 2008 set at the end was criminal.

Jeff Shell, the former NBC exec who will come aboard the post-merger entity as President, has stated that “I personally think the linear business is going to be a strong business for decades to come...” https://deadline.com/2024/07/linear-tv-cbs-broadcast-paramount-jeff-shell-bundle-1236003157/

Minor observation: Since the rebrand, WCBS and the other O&Os have are having their reporters use stick mics less and going for the lav chest mics more---much like the national correspondents do. From a production stand up why have national newscasts traditionally opted for a more hands free look during stand up shots?

WCCO 75th anniversary

WOWT Vintage 80's News intros KSDK Newschannel 5 1992

Anyone else not a fan of this virtual setup? In my option there are way too many wide shots and too much going on. I think studio 57 is much cleaner.

CBS 24/7 has debut it's new VR set to be used for its flagship streaming news show (according to LinkedIn). IDK if this will stabilize the streaming brand but it's a pretty cool concept. Almost a CNN News Central kind of feel. As much as I love Norah's current set, it would be cool to see a format like this on CBS Evening News to differentiate it from NNN and WNT.

KERA PBS station did a story about the two stations in Dallas/Ft.Worth in 1976.

The surrealness seeing CNN simulcast on Fox!

Here's the thing: David Smith's inability to understand how a newspaper works will make this a disaster from the start. A newspaper is not insulated by retransmission revenue like his Sinclair stations and cannot withstand any loss of subscribers or advertising. The Sun also has competition from the Banner, which has clearly found footing as a digital enterprise and would benefit if there was an actual "cancel the Sun" campaign. If David Smith wants to literally blow hundreds of millions of dollars with a good chance of no return on investment, that's bad for him, bad for his other commercial enterprises, and ultimately good for the rest of us.

I'm shocked at how KCCI has essentially ignored this story, just hoping it goes away. The local paper did a fairly lengthy story. The Nexstar station in the market did one, too. It's gone viral, Hearst. Might wanna do something before your reputation takes a bigger hit than it already has.

Oh Brudda... Robert sez's... "Stupid fired civil defense worker git job at Island News...he sit on station Twitter keyboard during disaster drill. He scare me, da Howlies, Auntie and da rest of di Island".

The new set has launched, and CBS 2 News is officially history. It is indeed now CBS News Chicago.

WATN in Memphis is getting close to making the change but hasn’t made them yet as of 6am central time this morning.

One of the perhaps challenging things is to step back from being an “insider” and the tendency to minimize or explain away audience tastes and preferences as them just being misinformed, or not exposed to the “right/better” way. Quality is often more subjective than we give it credit for. We dismiss viewing patterns as “oh, it’s because of the local news lead in, not GMA” as one example. No one is saying lead-ins don’t matter, but A doesn’t automatically equal B. The degree to which inertia is a factor is next to impossible to quantify, whatever our “gut instincts” say. Nothing wrong with hypotheticals and musings, but they’re not objective data points. Similarly, those of us of a certain age (ahem) might think the young ‘uns just don’t know the Cronkite era (quite probable) and would view today’s media very differently if they did (not provable). Tastes and desires change over time. The “old rules” are ones we cling to, and when there’s a little movement or pushing at the edges of those rules, we get indignant that it hasn’t been done that way and it’s wrong. And if the whippersnappers don’t understand it’s wrong, they’re wrong. I go well back to the David and Joan era of GMA. I get that today’s version is radically different. But that’s not better or worse in itself. If what they do works in today’s media environment (which doesn’t remotely resemble back then), more power to them and the audience. The audience isn’t wrong for liking what they like….though I do wish those darned kids would get off my lawn.