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He anchors from the regular CBSEN studio. It’s worth noting the a majority of the new studio is simply video walls. All that surrounds John in the attached image (from Monday night) is a single U shaped video wall. The “monitor” Weijia is in - totally fake. I attached a pic of the building timelapse showing all the video walls and floor. The only actual set pieces are the wooden header, the desk, and the floor in front of it. In fact, the floor behind it is also a video wall. You’ll notice they pretape a lot of segments (including the penny one attached) on their set - it’s actually really creative.

The image of the two anchors looking at him while he says his spiel for whatever story they were talking about almost screams “Hi! Boy are we glad to have you over here now!”.

Seems weird that they dumped their prior package for one that's just as old. If memory serves me correctly, they were one of the first if not the very first ones to get the CBS package that many of their stations use.

I get that sentiment and agree with it but it’s probably unlikely that viewers determine who they watch based off of set design.

No KOLR has always gone by Ozarks First on the website so they just kept the name and go by Ozarks First News now.

I'm sorry. Gray is literally everything but creative and innovative. It saves them money. New to a market is cheaper than a world's first.

Ozarks First what? F1RST ALERT? Gray and Nexstar are going to merge, aren't they? -_-

WKBN has been "FirstNews" for over 30 years, well before they even started WYFX, and when they were still locally owned and operated by the Williamson Family. If anything, I think they should have separated the branding a little more rather than using the "27" for both their CBS and Fox newscasts. Nexstar uses "Fox Youngstown" for general promotion, but their newscasts are all lumped into the "27 FirstNews" brand with the CBS look and CBS eye.

Like WKBN I've never liked the co-opting of 'First News', a brand that was clearly intended for only morning usage, to an entire day, and especially in a compound way like this. It just needs to be 'KOLR 10 News' and feels like a bad back to the future step for Nexstar's early century obsession with long and bulky CamelCase web brands. I do understand it supports three stations now so they have to keep the branding, but few in Springfield associate the Nexstar shop with KRBK, and until the latest KY3 CW contract ends, KOZL is a pointless spare outside its 3.0 lighthouse usage.

Looking ahead, I could see the station do the following: 5pm/11pm: Marc & Jovana 4pm/6pm: David & Coleen 11am/3pm: Phillip & Leslie Mornings: John & Rachel I have never been a fan of the three anchors in the morning. Although all three of them are great, the chemistry seems off - or maybe it feels off because there is three of them instead of two and it just feels too crowded.

If I recall correctly last time she was out she did the same thing for a few weeks. Glad she’s back.

Just a bit of a squeeze on their website though. It's decompressed on the reference page: So probably a style sheets issue.

In addition to stations already mentioned, WAVY, WKRN, KXAN, WXIN, WGHP, KELOLand, WDAF, and WSPA now stream live and have Roku/Fire TV apps as well. Its about damn time Nexstar got out of the livestream gutter and caught up to the 21st century. https://www.amazon.com/s?i=mobile-apps&rh=p_4%3ANexstar%2BBroadcasting%2C%2BInc.&language=en_US&linkCode=sl2&linkId=a2879ac5f46addecead377a6577a4371&search-type=ss&tag=lukebk-20&ref=as_li_ss_tl

Are you serious? The Hall show relocated to ABC's new headquarters at the start of 2025. She's now sharing The View's studio.

Columbus weather legend Jym Ganahl has passed at 76. He came to WCMH in 1979 from KWWL, one of the youngest TV meteorologists in the nation. He 'retired" from WCMH in 2016. After a year, he returned to the air on WSYX/WTTE, retiring last year. This is a huge loss. His 'weather lore' was the best. RIP Jym.

True. We always have to strike a balance between being critics who have a more acute eye for certain things and assessing what the audience actually cares about. But If the news station dedicated a segment to draw attention to their new set it shows that they want the audience to care about it.

From working in a newsroom, they push you to be innovative and think outside of the box with stories so that we aren't just doing the same thing as the competition. Why doesn't that apply to design standards? The majority of newscasts in this country feature bland video walls with no physical set pieces, and some generic white box design for their lower thirds. Somebody switch it up please.

Goudie made his debut yesterday during the 6P. Unclear if he will make daily appearances and if so, it will be at 6P (like he did while at WLS).

With this, schedule changes... KCBS now airs the CBS Evening News at 4:00 with Plus at 4:30 while keeping the second EN airing at 6:30. KPIX now airs the CBS Evening News at 4:00 and drops their 4:30pm news to air Plus. KOVR airs Plus LIVE at 4:00pm PT, but that also means that KOVR now starts their local news at 4:30 instead. WFOR drops their 7:00pm news to air Plus.

From what little I've seen, Plus seems to be the more traditional format. (It had headlines at the beginning)

WSYX 6 News 1994 (clip at 28:52) WCTV Eyewitness News 1996 (clip at 30:00) WKCF 10:00 News 1995 (clip at 34:38)

There were some photos shared in an earlier post here. Ryan Field posted some photos on his X account on the unfinished studio, but nothing recent has shown up, they are probably keeping it under wraps for now.

Looks like it's spreading fast. WJXT has them too. https://youtu.be/GmCA88r9jE4?si=cGXStUnGnDQD-hna

Not that the FCC pays attention to these things, but the WZVN Legal ID in this newscast open isn't exactly legal. It needs to say Naples first. Also, quite the unfortunate mispunch rolling the dead fish because of red tide VO when they talk about the new identity. Thank goodness smell-o-vision isn't a thing. If I were a betting man, I'd put money on Hearst's long-term unspoken plan is likely gradual consolidation through natural mid-market turnover attrition. Saturday evenings are the easiest place to test those waters because of low HUT levels.

6abc posted an in depth video about the new set. https://6abc.com/videoClip/15868410/

Updated to say that he died at 81. But it doesn't matter the age... he was the TITAN, the GIANT of Bay Area TV news to the likes of Van Amburg and Dave McElhatton. I just woke up to this, and this one hurts badly. There will never be another one like him again.

Another day, another sports rights agreement with Gray. This time, a deal with FanDuel Sports Network K.C. will carry 10 Sunday games on KCTV, KSMO, and some other Gray stations across Royals territory. https://www.facebook.com/GrayTelevision/posts/pfbid0cvFbdF11e26HYatjcwtHXLki8jNtnpmSHNcbwDFq1NBpSMTRkv5EuNX4Vag4w7Bcl

They almost assuredly will not in a form we would consider comparable to how they exist today. If the past 100 or so hours haven’t made it clear, whether Congress authorizes funds or not is no longer material. One person and his band of accomplices are rapidly taking over every disbursement, not to mention previously private personal data. Entire agencies are being dismantled; with control of payment systems, no checks (figuratively) will go to those organizations. Congress is not stepping in to any of this, as we’ve seen. Perhaps someone will mount a court challenge; great. By the time it meanders to the SCOTUS, of which we know the makeup, it’s a moot point. This is not the world of checks and balances. There are no guardrails. There is nothing that is going to stop it.

I understand on the surface level why Nexstar implemented the delay: forcing viewers to watch newscasts live. But that only works if the competition does the same. If I can't stream my local Nexstar station online, what stops me from turning into my local Hearst or Sinclair station which does? There's also less incentive to watch a newscast live If stories are clipped and uploaded to various platforms shortly after being aired. (Granted a station still benefits from impressions to their website for ad revenue) but still less incentive for live viewership.

KSAT posts full newscasts on their YouTube page after they air. WDIV posts the A block of their newscasts on their YouTube page. I’m not aware of other stations that do this

Nobody comes home to watch the news anymore. Not even the local news at 5pm, 6pm and 11pm (10pm on central/mountain). Certainly not the network evening newscasts. More people are streaming nowadays, not to mention getting their news on the internet. CBS News's YouTube channel offers full-length episodes of the CBS Evening News. After they broadcast on their local affiliates, CBS News uploads that night's newscast like 4 hours later, so people who prefer online can watch on YouTube at their own convenience. ABC News YouTube channel, same deal with World News Tonight uploaded like 4 hours after they broadcast on ABC affiliates. NBC News YouTube Channel uploading the NBC Nightly News the same night. Talk about ease of access! Why aren't local stations following suit with the networks? That is, uploading the local newscast on their stations YouTube channel the same night after they aired it live?

TBN still runs non-commercial stations, and very, very few (we're talking about mainly small town stations where it's justified appropriately to support their ministries) religious stations and networks run any kind of advertising, even K-LOVE (who always converts their stations for the most part to non-coms upon acquisition); TBN is a craven outlier who has made it clear their priorities are not those of the founding Crouches (spreading the gospel in whatever ways they could), but just about becoming a race to the bottom regarding whose ministry gets the most money. And their ties to Merit Street, which is antithetical to every single part of the most basic of religions, show who they really are.

I feel the same way about all opinion "news" channels, especially FNC and MSNBC (here lately, new news is no news).

I enjoyed the broadcast. Hopefully CBS won't let their intrusive thoughts win lol. But yes, a very solid broadcast. I love the similarity to a local newscast, but national. And smart.

Jessica Moore and Krisitine Johnson are anchoring again tonight. I think they are still testing pairs, but again who knows. Jessica and Dick seem to be the main candidates. If it was definitely Allen Devlin why wouldn't he be on tonight?

Sadly you have to question her judgement. She put both Dr. Oz (twice reprimanded by FDA due to fraudulent claims and failure to disclose equity interests) and the fraud Dr. Phil who pulled this disgusting stunt.

Phil McGraw has always been a fraudulent assclown, and the sooner this waste of bandwidth of a TV network disappears, the better off we would all be.

Sadly there is a segment of the population that eat this stuff up, no matter how most of us feel. The good news, most don't know where to even find the station. Doe it even register in terms of ratings? The bad news, it is a bubble, reinforcing what folks want to hear and believe. Something all media is becoming.

It's Jimmy Fallon whose show cut back to four (new) episodes a week, not Kimmel.

As we further examine the decline television news, these two articles say that the days of the high paid television anchor are over. In in the storytellers thread on Facebook someone even suggested the days of the local anchor making over $100,000 a year are done. The articles point to Hoda Kotb's departure from the Today Show after allegedly being asked to take a salary cut. They also point to Jimmy *Fallon cutting back to four new shows a week, and the removal of the 8G band from Late Night with Seth Meyers. https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/anchors-tv-news-stars-pay-cuts-exit-1236180206/ https://jacobsmedia.com/death-by-1000-salary-cuts/

It was great that they had a formal goodbye and tribute package for Maurice and I thought that was well done. I am a bit surprised by WCBS leaving viewers in the dark about a replacement, but perhaps they are waiting a few weeks out of respect for Maurice? On a separate note, I don't recall seeing Alice and Kristine anchor together all that often (like the rare combo of Dana and Kristine), so that is another interesting test pairing.

KDRV wasn't mentioned amongst that list. However, they're sticking around too and if that's the case, so will KEZI and all their stations. https://www.kdrv.com/news/top-stories/allen-media-weather-update/article_38bd38aa-d9e3-11ef-aaad-abd33b46c1f7.html

Considering the extreme weather that part of the country gets, I'm not surprised one bit.

I would rule out WMAQ. Haeberle and Randhawa have the investigative beat covered. WFLD is looking to produce more content and a weekly investigative program would be interesting. And as crazy as it sounds… NewsNation. I know Zouves is the designated investigative reporter, but she also anchors. Having a full-time person with as much experience as Goudie could be invaluable. In theory, he also could work for WGN splitting his time between the two.

Looks like the set we were speculating for is dead. Juliette Goodrich posted on her Instagram Story they were prepping for the election night rehearsals from the virtual studio, I noticed something was off and it was more bigger than the first Virtual studio. looks like they built a secondary virtual studio but more bigger. You can see the portion of the old temporary set which was the existing previous set that was used when they were in transitioning before full chroma key newscasts. The newsroom set is now only used for weekend mornings and Noon RPReplay_Final1729744848.mov

i hate HATE HATE VR sets. Is this the beginning of the end? I surely hope not. They are the norm in Germany and the've always looked like crap. Its just a cheap way to get out of building physical sets. Boring.

The Virtual Weather Studio got a redesign with a brown wooden tone look similar to its CBS News 24/7 10am stream The previous look was more of a vacant office floor

Quick minor correction that Enlace is cable/pay distributed so it's unlikely they'll lose any carriage based on that. However, Spectrum did dump most of the TBN suite several years back outside Original Recipe TBN and Enlace, so they'd need to restore that coverage. Even the channel finder they have outside the main TBN stations and must-carry coverage, is just a whole lot of 'request it' links to a boilerplate form. There are also some low-powers which carry Enlace as a .1 without any English services, so they haven't lost all of their OTA coverage. But with two weeks to go until launch, not a great sign regarding network carriage.

WABC had to use LED lighting because of the low ceiling in the studio. Read this artcile from TVNewsCheck for more: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/10/06/54528/wabcs-new-studio-gives-it-street-cred

Can't they adjust the cameras to make the video level a bit brighter from the interview area. With the WABC Green screen if they do stand closer to it the wall the lighting is better but if they move away the lighting gets much darker. With WCBS I find the overall lighting for the AM news is darker then the other newscasts. Specially where the weather and sports people sit on the ends of the desk.