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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

Another Nexstar station has switched to an aging package.... KOLR has also rebranded to "Ozark's First"

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.

I don't know of a single person that actually called KOLR10 "OzarksFirst" outright as its name, outside the context of the website. KRBK and KOZL are essentially complementary to KOLR10 (the virtual duopoly of Nexstar owning them with Mission owning KOLR notwithstanding). OzarksFirst.com is a well-established domain name. But to just supplant the legacy brand of KOLR10 News? I'm not sure I quite understand that logic. I guess time will tell if the name holds as the actual on-air brand. Overture is always a personal favorite but it was probably time for a change. I kinda wish SAM had created new PM cuts for Overture back when they did new cuts for AM shows. Guardian is a good choice music-wise. That is probably the best thing I can say about this change. Graphics isn't bad but I think the CBS package is aesthetically far superior to the ABC one.

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.

I don't think that's a green screen set. It looks like the actual set. The back floor of the set is a screen.

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

Tonight on CBS News 24/7 will be the debut of CBS Evening News Plus.

KNXV has named Fay Fredricks as the successor to Katie Raml after her retirement. She will co-ancher with Javier Soto beginning May 19. https://www.abc15.com/about-us/news-releases/abc15-arizona-names-fay-fredricks-as-evening-news-anchor?fbclid=IwY2xjawIXOqRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZL0RJEBi6A1E-YP5X3pmh7IxVysrXgV3OdfEZOtCy6tOBOtWG1-tw4AjA_aem_w04AdsKk0pNwpnqDCZ3xcQ

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

Wow that is a nothing set. Yawn. And the lighting is Yeesh. But i guess for them....congrats on the new building.

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/

I'll try to find it, unless someone can clarify quicker, but I thought I read after Allen pulled the plug on replacing the local weather teams that one of the chief mets noted on their Facebook page that for weekends and fill-in that TWC could/would still be used.

For many in the Denver area, Avs & Nuggets games (sans nat'l & KUSA/KTVD simulcasts) are back. It has moved to a premium tier much like what Xfinity has done with other RSNs. https://www.altitudesports.com/top-stories/altitude-sports-returns-to-xfinity/

Well, say hello to the new medium... Political Threats I really hope NPR and PBS survive this term.

I have always said that PBS & NPR can make it on their own with the donations they get and I'm sure they have rich donors as well. Plus, my tax dollars shouldn't have to fund PBS & NPR, and they need to be defunded plus I want my money back since it is a waste of taxpayer money to fund them defund PBS & NPR now.

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

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 have been predicting this since WSWG got sold to Marquee. And this won't be the last one either.

I know we're talking about a station in Cheyenne, WY, but wow, those IDs are terrible.

I was very pleased with what we watched, and I'll definitely be watching the repeat on CBS News 24/7 later tonight. It's definitely got 60 Minutes meets PBS News Hour meets local news. It was a nice relief to just have the intro going into the A-Block and not have a headlines sequence to open the broadcast. So happy that the 1987 theme is back (in its 2011 remastered version), but I can also agree that it would've been nice to hear the 1991 theme for the first time in 19 years.

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.

This is so bad that Jerry Springer and even Morton Downey Jr. are rolling in their graves.

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/

Griffin also has their food business keeping them afloat.

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

I sorta saw Maurice departure coming. He was either gonna go to network at some point. As for Lonnie never thought he be part of the package deal but CBS is doing something different by adding a meteorologist to the picture as if there brining morning news to the evening news. It will be interesting. I can see Maurice advancing to solo anchor of the EN if John leaves it. I don’t see him coming back to WCBS after this opportunity.

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

The 12pm and 3pm newscasts are being done from the newsroom, while the others are in the Morning Edition studio. Is the KCAL model coming?

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

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.

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.