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CBS did have DuBois on the ground for tonight's CBS Evening News.

That reporter and some others may care too much with how they appear on camera. I live nearly 30 miles away to the south in Orange County. And, while we are not being impacted as severely as those in L.A. County, I am not taking my chances and am wearing an N95 mask when I'm outdoors for now.

I can’t help but wonder if people are taking too big a risk of not wearing a mask at all times. Just because you may not be directly near a fire doesn’t mean the air is safe to breathe in. It would be a different story if it rained at some point to cleanse the air. Plus, I saw a reporter from KTLA touching burnt debris with his bare hands. I can understand getting caught up in the moment, if you will, but people really need to be careful.

There at least trying to promote him to some extent.

I thought they started on that and would push in. No. That's terrible. I'm guessing the anchor is the floor director or they don't even have one anymore.

That's certainly a wide shot!

Hoda’s farewell today might one of the more lowkey ones the show has done decades.

KABC-TV is having signal issues this morning and due to obvious reasons from the Eaton Fire getting close to the TV transmitter tower there at Mount Wilson. Thankfully, we live in an era where if the signal goes out, streaming picks right back up and continues the coverage.

KTTV, KCBS/KCAL, KABC all went to normal late night programming early Friday. KNBC stayed on the air live, as far as I know. They've been mentioning how many consecutive hours they've been live, so I anticipate a marketing campaign around that soon.

Venu is dead: https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2025/01/venu-sports-will-be-discontinued/

Not local definitely none of the New York local news stations except for WNJU stayed on the air commercial free for those 6 days. It was mostly network and cable that stayed on continuously with no interruption. No local station can sustain being on air for that long of a time. When Hurricane Florence hit NC my local stations did maybe 2 1/2 days if I recall for coverage straight 24/7 maybe 3 days. After Hurricane Harvey I heard KTRK did 5 days non stop but 6 days is impossible at some point the GM has to say hey we’re losing to much money, we have to cut off. Keep in mind LA stations are also loaning crews from their sister stations look I have no business or finance degree but that a lot of upkeep. This is not gonna outdo 9/11, if there already breaking the revolving door will come for the other stations. Tommorow the fire will be manageable.

Amongst the L.A. network affiliated stations, only KABC is airing primetime programming with the other stations still on wall-to-wall coverage, although they did do an update during one of the local station breaks.

I was wondering the exact same thing, especially in this era of broadcast cutbacks: How much do no commercials impact them? Not only that, commercials also serve as a moment for staff to gather themselves and take a breather. But again in the grand scheme of things the fires are more important. When record keepers say 9/11 had the "longest continuous coverage" I wonder if they're specifically referring to the major broadcast television networks, and perhaps the news cable networks.

Yeah that’s commitment right there. They always outdo themselves.

You can see that in that they carried the Spanish statements with captioned Spanish even as other EN stations just broke off from the latest combined LA metro conference.

WABC did take a break in the overnight hours when 9/11 happened. In fact they weren’t even on 24/7. Yeah a lot of money will be lost in ad revenue. But they have big budgets though this ain’t some smaller market station.

Everything has been sterling about KABC's coverage, but what I dreaded the most about the 'live view' element in the new opening has been happening through this and I wish they'd just turn the weather ticker pane off or fill it with 'Continuing Coverage', 'Red Flag Warning' or any other filler text because a general forecast is just not working right now.

I saw WNBC's Sarah Wallace report for them.

As a lifelong resident in the Los Angeles media market, the past 30-plus hours has been some of the best coverage from all L.A. local television stations I've seen ever! Essentially, all local stations have had continous coverage and have bypassed network programming since the morning hours Monday.

All stations are/were wall to wall. It's pretty bad out here right now. I'm in the Inland Empire area of SoCal and the winds haven't been this bad in years. I was in Riverside this afternoon when the Palisades fire broke out. Turned my iHeart app on KTLA who started breaking coverage at that time. Got home (I usually WFH) around 1pm and all stations were in rolling coverage. Thus far, all stations are definitely serving the public. Coverage has been top notch. Grades, ratings don't matter when lives are in danger, but KTLA and KNBC have been top notch.

Surprised CBS picked up Rob Marciano after the widely-reported personnel issue at ABC.

Also noticed this as I was listening on the iHeart app. I live in SoCal and wanted to stay on top of developments. The stream on iHeart would go down for several hours before coming back.

The Eaton fire is spreading towards Mount Wilson. That's where basically all of LA's tv signals are: https://ktla.com/news/california/wildfires/live-view-of-the-eaton-fire-from-mt-wilson/ https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-wildfires/eaton-fire-mount-wilson/3599568/

It should, and perhaps in the short term it will; but overall it's wishful thinking unfortunately.

What a terrible situation Angelinos are going through. Just completely awful.

2025 is pulling out all the punches just 7 days into the new year!!