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I want to say at some point the set was semi-enclosed (doing the time you mentioned), but faced the same direction (toward the newsroom). In theory, this new set could be still face the same direction/orientation it just tough to say for certain.

I know of at least one station that used the 5pm anchors for the noon newscast back in the day… that may be 6 of one and a half dozen of the other to do it that way. It saved killing the morning folks in terms of a grueling day.

Recall that Ken Rosato and Lori Stokes anchored the 4:30 am, 5:00 am, 6:00am, mid-morning news updates, and noon broadcasts until Lisa Colagrossi died from a brain aneurysm that her family attributed to her grueling hours, and Ken and Lori in turn demanded (appropriately) a reduction in work.

Malachi Rodgers is the new Chief Met. at WSPA-TV because Christy Henderson decided to leave after 21 years to transition over to a career in real estate. She was a trailblazer as the state's first-ever woman Chief Meteorologist. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1105696154269169&id=100044863848490

Have they announced yet what Norah's next assignment may be? Or is she leaving CBS?

Reportedly, NewsNight does well (by CNN standards) that it's not surprising they want to promote Phillip. Not sure how different 'Table for Five' will be from NewsNight. Sounds like CNN wants their own version of 'The Five' or 'The View'.

It is absolutely not federal law to break into programming for severe weather. What about stations without newsrooms? Come on. Stations have an obligation to work in the best interests of the public, but honestly an automated severe weather crawl is probably enough to honor the bare minimum. I am not saying it’s right.

To me, this is another HUGE blow if true. It further drives away all respect I had for AMG. They need to sell everything (including TWC) and FAST. I god hope TWC gets new owners. They don't deserve this either.

The Tegna stations sure dodged a big bullet - he was interested in them, was willing to buy them, but the failed Standard General deal came into play.

A tropical Florida-ized version of the KCAL set would be cool.

There though it mostly involved stations with no infrastructure whatsoever in the News Central format, and at least even in the TND era they still use mostly local folks on downtime to deliver forecasts and general breaking weather news. That I have no issue with because they still have that staff for the most part deliver breaking weather, even in the KTUL and WNWO situations. Just having everything come from TWC...say if you're watching on WAOW, are you going to have to deal with severe weather non-applicable to you from WKOW because master control doesn't know the distance between Beloit and Wausau? How do you know local landmarks and street names? And how on earth do you have viewers submit videos and photos now, because they have to go through TWC's national system rather than the known local system? There are a lot of dangerous unknowns in hubbing weather nationally even in a well-planned transition over a couple of years, and it's worse in this ad hoc setup where now you have bitter ex-staff either on a new station or just starting their own efforts online.

I know what the news desk will look like, but I am very interested to know what the new set for CBS News Miami is gonna look like. Time for changes to come in 2025.

I think AMG needs to sell their stations and stop producing most of their low budget programming. It's becoming pretty obvious within the last year or two that they can't do broadcasting right.

And to think this schmuck wanted to buy TEGNA or ABC

I always enjoyed Bob Scheiffer hosting Face the Nation and the CBS Evening News. Washington insider, very congenial, appealing presence. Margaret has a harder edge but does a good job.

Surprised no one here has picked up on this yet - looks Wolf Blitzer is set to move to 10am. The Situation Room is moving with him, and he will co-host with Pamela Brown. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/wolf-blitzer-cnn-daytime-anchor-move-1236276044/ https://nypost.com/2025/01/16/media/cnn-to-shift-wolf-blitzer-to-mornings-in-massive-shakeup-at-network-report/ Not only that, but Kasie Hunt may move from the early show to 4pm, with Jake Tapper shifting to 5pm. And get this... https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-plots-to-bury-the-anchor-trump-hates-most/ the boss wants Jim Acosta to move to midnight! (Though there is talk that this offer involves moving to LA, where it would be 9pm.) It seems like this is a way to get rid of Jim, and he's calling their bluff. Interesting times at CNN.

If all of the meteorologists at Allen stations are history, a boneheaded move will be if it goes down at WTVA. Not only is it an established station in a place known for severe weather, but is in Mississippi State's backyard, where MANY meteorologists get their degrees from. Allen better have a good plan for their chief Meteorologist (Matt Laubhan) since he's very well regarded (and almost like a James Spann Jr. even down to the suspenders!) or this station is toast.