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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"

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.

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.

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).

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.

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)

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

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

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

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.

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/

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Griffin also has their food business keeping them afloat.

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.

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.

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?

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.