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Meh.

If I understand what you’re asking correctly, this is similar to what a number of networks do. ABC in particular often has general reporters stand opposite sides of the street from their studios on 66th St and notes the location as simply “New York, NY”.

Chuck's last newscast was good, and he had a poignant commentary at the end. Especially loved his speech from his 50th anniversary dinner in which he challenged his coworkers to absorb the gravity of where they work. There was a distinct lack of Sue Simmons in tonight's newscast. I was hoping for a pre-taped tribute, or an in-person appearance like she did for Gabe Pressman's death. At least we got a full conversation between the pair during his 50th Anniversary Special.

WLUC has a weather team of three- and one of them doubles as an MMJ. Far smaller department than most CA stations (KCAL has 7, for example, with some of them working 2 a shift) and the average salary for a TV met in the UP of Michigan is certainly far lower than that of one anywhere in CA. I guess my point here with respect is that they "could" do the microclimate, but it's also for lack of better words an "I don't get paid enough to do the extra work" and/or "we don't have the staff/resources" situation. I would assume that those who have lived there a season or two know when it says "20's" if they are on the upper or lower bounds of that scale based on their geography to the lake.

Not that Kari Lake has the experience to lead an organization of any kind. She was an anchor. She never made it to the corner office. But that's endemic of this new Trump Administration. Only recent replacements like Bondi have run any departments with scale (let's be real, Bondi isn't good at it).

They actually debuted it weeks ago - right after the election. NBC expanded this space and used it for their election night coverage - that’s where the curved video wall came from (but they used it with AR to make it look taller). Ana Cabrera and Katy Tur use it most days for their respective reports shows.

And don't forget that there isn't as robust an observer network (or even WeatherBug) for smaller markets where you can confidently provide solid number ranges, the weather office has to cover a wider swath of geography with some variation, especially to the northwest of Marquette, and that this is usually an area that measures snow in the tens of inches rather than fractions. These broader ranges are pretty well expected and were still generally used in even middle markets up to the 2000s. Also WLUC does more detailed regional breakdowns outside the 7-day, along with with ski reports, so the finer details are in the forecast, if not in that graphic. It's certainly better to provide a range rather than what stations do with those '(station number) degree guarantee', which pointlessly forces mets to have a solid number for the next day or else (most of them contribute to charity if they hit it but like most of these gimmicks such as 'round up for the hungry', just donate the money and do promos about the big donation).

MSNBC & NBC News unveiled an updated studio 4E last night, it appears Ari Melber was the first to use it. The former set had 2 video walls meeting at a 90 degree corner and a moveable show/network vertical branding banner. Now the space has been updated with a curved video wall that runs along the entire space, a new dark wood geometrical design piece that incorporates the NBC peacock and a color changing peacock motif display near the glass doors, they also replicated the desk MSNBC uses in studio 3A just with different finishes. Overall a huge improvement, it’s been really interesting how that small space has evolved since its introduction in 2016. Only caps I have as of now.

For those of you that still care and are interested in such things, on this day thirty years ago, the Big Network Switch of the mid-90s came to Milwaukee. Channels 6 (WITI), 24 (WCGV), and 58 (WDJT) were affected, as Fox moved to 6 from 24, 24 spends a month as an independent (again) before joining UPN at its launch, and 58 goes from an also-ran independent to the sixth station in the market (fifth as a fulltime affiliate) to air CBS programming. Even though WDJT was already airing certain CBS programs that WITI was preempting at the time, the affiliation agreement between 58 and CBS came practically at the last minute, days before WITI was to switch to Fox. WDJT's tenure with CBS has been long and by far the longest relationship the network has had with any station in Milwaukee television history; WITI's thirty-year relationship with Fox is their longest relationship with any network in their 68-year history. Channel 6 spent most of its first three years as an independent before starting its first of two stints with CBS in 1959, then swapped with WISN-TV to carry ABC programming in 1961, and then returned to CBS in 1977. With those two stints, WITI spent a combined 19 years with the Eye.

The CNN Tonight version she anchored was simply the best format I've ever seen on a news channel both in Europe and in the US. People got the time to express their ideas, it was welcoming guests from anywhere in the political spectrum but rather in an intellectual perspective (not so much a partisan talk which NewsNight obviously is), and talked about a wide range of political subjects. During a short period of time, the 11pm-12am segment was a bit different but fitted very well next to the 10am-11am "opinion" style debate, as it welcomed only the journalists from the newsroom to talk in depth about the subjects they were working on (on a white sofa, in an Outnumbered style). This segment was called "tomorrow's news tonight", and this whole version of CNN Tonight deserved a really longer run!