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Noon to 1 something in the morning is all day, my friend. More than that.

Thus, “aside from morning.” And apart from that and the Disney parks commercial, it’s 13 something hours of NBA, so yeah, it’s all day.

Yeah one of the more enjoyable things about this week and next is seeing weird things like the lead sports anchor doing the 6pm newscast as an anchor or some young street reporter giving it a try when few are watching anyways. It’s a break from the mundane.

She has been missing for several weeks since her last return with no explanation. She had a knee replacement many months ago but should be back by now.

She had another surgery, according to Bill Ritter. This didn't need its own thread.

Stop over-exaggerating.

KUSA is temporarily in the former Daily Blast Live studio. Kyle Clark said there was some work being done on the main set. Aside from the atrocious white balancing on one camera and awful lighting in one shot, I actually don't think this looks that bad....

What I appreciate about using the DBL space is it’s not a set that’s a desk pushed up against a big monitor. Even more idiotic are the number of big monitors that just have a still graphic skyline in them. Here we have dimension, texture, and some halfway decent lighting. All of those are lost arts these days in local news studio design. What is interesting about this space is that a lot of sets use flats for their walls so the exit sign would never really appear on a set wall, but that must be the actual exterior wall of the studio space. I was in here in 2020 but barely remember it, but appreciated it for what it was and how well they used the space they had.

Putting it bluntly, the New York contingent on this forum has the tendency to be a mind-numbingly aloof echo chamber.

And why are we even speculating that is the case? Some things just are.

This week every news organization is going to have an abnormal schedule. It's the holidays. It's expected. We go through this every year and seem to begrudge people for taking time off during the holidays and...no. Just enjoy different people getting on the air. Some of them REALLY need it after the abuse some of them have had to deal with this year from the public, politicians and c-suiters pushing them to their last nerve. Live with your ABC station not having news on Wednesday because of the NBA being on all day and get over that your local station doesn't have your precious morning news and advertorial show on that morning and instead runs a mass, some bargain-bin Christmas film from Trifecta, or a taped parade. I feel like I have to say this every year and it's tiring. People deserve time off.

Slight L3 change. The left picture box is gone and headlines are now single line only.

Quite a low moment for ABC News and a bleak sign of where media is heading under this administration.

This is over 10 years old at this point, but it shaped the way I was going to approach news design in the future and I think what is outlined here is still relevant today. It made me rethink broadcast design from what was trendy toward designing with a focus on audience experience. Then I left the station I was at and went to an O&O group with a Linear Drift package and all that went out the window.

Linear Drift has absolutely no idea how to design a lower third.

They've called themselves that on the air. And it's not all basketball all day long. There is a morning show at least.