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I won't say what's going on lately as the info I'm getting is from a source that I can't mention here. However, I'm hearing of very big cuts at Allen once again that are leading to one network's possible last time covering a hurricane as we speak.

Yes. In some BTS shots, you can see that the interview set is the only piece still standing. The green space is placed at the former weather center end, wrapping around to the anchor desk space and the unseen 4th wall.

WBBM debuted their VR studio today they are calling the weather sphere. Is this in their previous studio space?

KLAF actually switched to NBC when it was owned by Nexstar before sale to DeJuan McCoy

KLAF wasn’t a startup; it had previously been affiliated with UPN and MyNetworkTV, before Nexstar (prior to selling KADN/KLAF to Bayou City, DeJuan McCoy’s original broadcasting venture that cashed out to Allen, amid the Media General purchase) switched it to NBC, and built the joint news department with KADN. The “de facto affiliate” model wasn’t viable long-term, anyhow. It primarily relied upon cable and satellite coverage to be sustainable; The WB 100+ started the shift toward creating local affiliates for networks to fill gaps in market coverage that the Big Three and Fox (the latter of which it kinda pioneered through the Foxnet cable network) expanded upon, using low-power stations and digital subchannels for that purpose. Even in the analog, pre-cable era, issues with rimshot signal coverage of the supplementary affiliates made it difficult for some viewers to watch network shows from adjacent-market affiliates.

I hate to say this, but there are certain markets that should have never filled themselves out with missing network affiliates. They were better off having the de-facto affiliates fill in the gaps with their full compliment of coverage, even if it was more distant. Some of these startup affiliates pushed off stations viewers had watched for decades, and were clearly inferior to what they replaced. Many of these stations were startups by companies like Allen. KLAF was one of those stations, pushing off KPLC. And given the recent storms and where they hit, those markets fit that bill perfectly.

While the article quotes one of the laid-off anchors that the morning show was cancelled, it later stated that it’s being cut by 90 minutes (with KADN and KLAF only simulcasting the first half-hour, and KADN carrying the bulk of the show), and will switch to a single-anchor format with a replacement meteorologist. Only the noon newscast on KLAF is fully gone.

I will say this... its NOT the regular TWC.

The CBS Mornings Plus edition was replaced by a special edition of the regular Mornings, featuring Gayle, Tony and Adriana, due to coverage of Hurricane Milton.

I was watching the continuous coverage online on both station's YouTube channels. For the most part, it was 90% WBBH graphics and 10% WZVN. On WZVN's channel, they were showing everyone in WBBH's studio with the WZVN bug.

Despite their website schedule claiming otherwise, MSNBC repeated their primetime lineup as usual from 12:00am to 5:00am ET. The only difference is a repeat of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell aired at 3:00am ET instead of the usual repeat of All In With Chris Hayes. MSNBC's primetime shows pretty much split their time between politics and hurricane coverage. As a loyal MSNBC viewer, I'm fine with this as I'm not interested in watching hours and hours of non-stop hurricane coverage especially before the hurricane makes landfall, but it does look really bad for MSNBC to devote half their primetime shows to hurricane coverage before the hurricane makes landfall and then air repeats of that same coverage at the peak time of landfall. You spend all day talking about how 12:00am/1:00am/2:00am will be the biggest and then when that time comes you go to repeats of the 9:00pm hour. If they didn't want to do live non-stop coverage overnight they at least could have aired the primetime repeats with live hurricane updates replacing the hours old hurricane coverage from before. I remember they used to go wall to wall coverage for hurricanes and would have anchors like Richard Lui anchor overnight coverage (it appears Richard Lui still works for MSNBC even though they almost never break in to cover breaking news on weekends overnight now)

Well deserved indeed. And talk about jumping into the fire, tackling Milton in week one. Granted it’s more impactful on the other side of the state, but a hurricane right out of the gate is quite the beginning. Sundays at noon are pre-empted enough as it is; Saturdays would be a lousy spot for midday news. College football wipes it out automatically for months on end, and they kind of need that hour for the E/I junk outside of that season given all the Saturday sports coverage. Totally get not bothering there.

I haven't worked in that market in a long time, so much could have changed, but from what I recall - NBC was the favorite child, and ABC got the leftovers/looklives, at least in the evenings. And it makes sense, considering NBC has a much more massive news output. But creative lead choices can always lead to making things work. I don't recall how they handled mornings where there's the most overlap. (Although there was a time in the 2008-2010 recession that hit SW Florida worse than most parts of the country when they went down to one AM newscast simulcast on both stations) When I worked in a different market where there were dueling morning newscasts coming out of the same building, it required coordination among producers to make sure they weren't stepping on each other's toes. For a big enough story, you'd occasionally have two reporters on the same story so both could lead with it, and in very rare circumstances - a mini internal generic live shot where both producers agreed to a start time for a live shot and the reporter would get counted down - and they'd start talking whether both stations anchors had stopped talking or not.

If it gets bad enough, that gives the networks the right to void their agreement(s) and yank their affiliations because Allen would be in default of any particular agreement. While it wasn't said why WBNX lost the CW in 2018, financial default by their owners (Winston Broadcast/Ernest Angley) may have been the impetus since their agreement with them was to last through 2021. If this was to happen, it would be a great speculatron thread. Not a lot of local options in their markets given the feelings the FCC has towards networks seeking subchannel space on another station.

19 people at Fox affiliate KADN in Lafayette, Louisiana lost their jobs in Allen Media's layoffs. The weekday morning and noon newscasts are also cancelled. Source; https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/business/kadn-lays-off-19-including-four-from-its-morning-show/article_454e0644-8650-11ef-89df-df9c993ae5fb.html

That bad? Are we talking the possible cessation of all live programming on said network?