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That is so similar to what they currently have it could be that “they’re the same picture” meme from The Office

"Ciritical" may be a bit of a subjective word but otherwise this is a pretty well known fact. Just because it doesn't fit someone's narrative doesn't make it an opinion or a bias. The fact that others reported the story without this fact doesn't prove your point. Context is important in any story, and perhaps leaving that important piece of information out of stories could be considered journalistic malpractice.

It’s likely just a matter of hitting the right preset button (clouds, rain, snow, etc..). Doubtful it’s any more complex than that.

I appreciate your affinity for NBC and USA. While this is a creative take, it doesn't consider business realities. Cable channels have dual incomes: subscriber fees from cable operators and advertising. For a long time, they were the envy of the media world, but their revenue has shrunk with cord-cutting. (One can make a pretty compelling case that the cable channel programmers have made their ratings collapse a self-fulfilling prophecy, but that's a topic for another day.) So, combining CNBC with MSNBC would eliminate a huge chunk of subscriber fees. Financially, they need to remain separate. Viewership-wise, they need to remain separate as their audiences are not similar. USA and CNBC are two of the more widely available channels, and MSNBC has consistently been among the Top 5 cable channels in primetime viewership. That's why they are all part of SpinCo. The revenue from these three will drive the new company. Lastly, there's Peacock. As noted in the separation announcement, the cable channels being spun off account for very little of the content streamed on Peacock. Bravo content does well on Peacock, so it's staying put. NBCU is focusing on broadcast and streaming. They see a profitable future in Peacock and FAST channels like NBC News Now. But I did enjoy reading your creative ideas!

I was ready to doubt you, but yeah, you're right. Such a lateral move. Their stubbornness and not wanting to actually evolve the show's look is very frustrating. Compare to the current set...

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CBS and Gayle King are getting hammered in the social media comments for this by fans. It might have been somewhat controversial last year, but now with Jeff Bezos cozying up to the current president and his dramatic changes at The Washington Post, this is a very bad look for a news anchor. She will no longer be able to report honestly on a major newsmaker, at least up until the launch, and she will likely feel indebted to him for the rest of her life. The question is whether CBS will be similarly tied.

A stupid idea would be to cut the local stations out of the CW. They should just go the UPN route and sell off any station that does not have a CW affiliation if they want to go that far.

Past the 28:46 mark...WHAT"S THIS? Is that the full-length close we get to hear? Same music as heard on KUSA?

They moved back to home base and unveiled a new desk (identical to WTTG). Not sure if they’re finished with the studio/set remodel (the lighting appears off…lots of shadows, etc…) While the new desk is nice, it is noticeably lower than the previous one.

Sorry for bumping this but has anyone heard any updates on the new building if construction work is still going on or any ideas on if or when WINK will move?

You aren’t the first person I’ve heard say that about WPVI. I don’t doubt WABC is the strongest station in New York for a moment.

Those folks contributing a lot to the economy is also an objective fact. Regardless of status their working means they are contributing and the folks who are working are undoubtedly scared currently. Those are gonna be uncomfortable statements for some people but they are just like the earth being round. That’s why I used it as an example. I’m sure you can find an actual example where he really throws an opinion in there but that simply wasn’t it. Let’s say somebody gets beat up real good and he says “I hope the jerks get what’s coming!”… that might start to blur the lines a bit. I mean if you go to some corner and see folks working doing landscaping there’s at least a chance they are not legally authorized to work but it’s not reasonable to say they aren’t contributing to the economy because [insert flat earth denial reason here]. The first clip you posted didn’t actually include what you were talking about at all by the way. It seemed like a normal intro and then an ABC News sourced report about the fires. I didn’t see where he actually made an off hand remark about whodathunkit in LA. One thing I’m curious about… do you actually work in the news business?

There's no official Gray thread, so I'll start one with the flurry of deals that happened today: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/86603/gray-in-4-new-deals-closes-3-earlier-ones

This is the WABC thread.

Although broadcast meteorologists and the associated technology are very capable of covering local and national weather events day-to-day, what kind of effect could these cuts have in terms of longer-term forecasting or in upcoming major weather events?

"March." Probably the next week or two.

is there a way to make this message more prominent? I just happened to notice it but I don't usually check the site announcements section.

Have they been presenting weather in front of the video wall screen all week like Dani is doing on the 10am show? I can’t remember seeing Lee in front of it. KTRK does that as well and I’m a big fan of that look vs the traditional green screen.

Might as well make a random thread for all things WFLD even though so little of note tends to happen there.

This was during the period where the John Williams theme and the "Only on Today" music package co-existed. The music beds were also jazzier and more electronic.

Is there anything they do that GMA didn't do first?

With all due respect that off hand remark about immigrants is fairly widely reported and accepted as factual so it’s not exactly inserting biases into the equation. If the appeal was more emotional that would be perhaps biased. But those folks having all kinds of jobs others won’t do is a perhaps dirty but known thing. I don’t see that as in any way being inappropriate.

It can’t come soon enough. For the life of me I don’t understand why he insists on ad-libbing as often as he does and making a fool of himself. Just read the damn prompter.

Another local program is coming to WTMJ... What's Brewing Wisconsin. This lifestyle program is similar to The Morning Blend and stays separate from WTMJ's news department. https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/tmj4-launches-new-afternoon-lifestyle-show-whats-brewing-wisconsin

God I wish they would reunite Velshi & Ruhle on Primetime

I agree. Begin the show with that daily news roundup, but instead extend it to 90 second VOs or VO/SOTs for the first 2-5 mins, then get into feature reporting for the remainder. If CBS torches their best revamp of EN since Bob Schiffer, that would be very unfortunate. To the critics: Every news outlet covers the same thing, it's not a sin that CBS decided to go in a different direction. I really hope the audience gives this a chance. It's a jolting transition because we've been hardwired to fast paced high story count newscasts like the competition. But this is a level of quality rare for American TV news that we'd more see from PBS or Europeran sources like BBC and France 24. I hope people will open their minds to this. If this crashes and burns, I don't think the evening news can get much better than this. Just give the timeslot back to the affiliates.

Went back to check it looks like that started today, last week they were using the EN desk. Maybe they are preparing the set for life after the EN, and that involves the new desk? Also just thought this could just be for the coverage of the Inauguration.

YEP! Both news sets from both WXIA and KARE (KUSA's sister stations) DID give off that vibe of the news set from KOA-TV/KCNC (KUSA's competitor) from their NewsCenter 4 days. All of them NBC affiliates, except one affiliate in Denver was owned by GE and then the NBC network itself (became a CBS O&O in 1995). KCNC's color scheme was different from the patriotic red/white/blue American flag color scheme that KUSA, KARE, WXIA and other Gannett stations have used

did anyone notice that they put Robert H. Jordan Jr.?

It’s now been made official, Evrod is now a permanent morning anchor. After 4 months as interim, the former intern under former morning anchor Art Norman made announcement today.

She has joined the media relations team at Northwestern Medicine. I wonder if WMAQ will have someone dedicated to covering health related stories again Lauren was the first one dedicated since Nesita Kwan left the station in 2015.

WFLD unveiled a different color set/skin of the FOX O&O graphics today. Most notable change is that Good Day Chicago has, as described by Mike Caplan, a ‘traditional’ open (delivered by the station’s voiceover announcer) along with new graphic elements. The L3s are a lot more richer/sharper than the previous ones.

The Gates replaces the talk show. I was wondering if the show was still getting viewership, why didn't they just move it to paramount plus for streaming or put it on the other local CBS affiliate in certain markets for syndication?

This might just be production music (or different music pack entirely) with a EWN cut laid over it. The weird "signature" at 1:12 would point to this.

This might be a Warner Chappell production I don't know if this is EWN update.

This is the general News 12 Networks thread.

So the thing I really wanted to talk about right now is the fact that today's NFL game is being broadcast in terrible quality...definitely less than HD. On their SD channel, they're cropping the image at the sides instead of letterboxing. I think somebody left the weather warning crawl system on from probably earlier this morning when they were scrolling the alerts for today's snowstorm, and they never returned the channel to full HD when the crawl was over. How the heck does one get this resolved, especially on a Sunday? Would anyone be at the station to take complaints?

KGTV is running new promos touting its new fall lineup. Here is the afternoon schedule from 3-8pm... 3:00- Let's Ask America 3:30- Right This Minute 4:00- Right This Minute 4:30- Inside Edition 5:00- 10 News 6:00- 10 News 6:30- ABC World News 7:00- 10 News 7:30- The List So KGTV is adding Let's Ask America full time and The List. Inside Edition is being moved to lead into the 5pm news. They should have done a newscast at 4pm to compete with KNSD, instead of having another run of RTM.

Look F graphics have also been used as part of the cold open/intro into the newscasts. This and the aforementioned updated promos have been used for the past couple of weeks I believe.

I have been noticing that WMAQ has begun to use the updated Look F design in its promos. So far, the actual news graphics have not been updated to what we have seen at KNBC and KXAS.

I thought I was going to miss The Early Show as well (even though I hated the last year. David Friedmen messed the show up) but I really enjoy it. I can see CBS keeping this team for a while since the ratings are up dramatically from 2 years ago even though it hasn't overtaking Today in the ratings.

They posted the promo up on their Facebook page... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=518148374908322&set=vb.165583971161&type=2&theater

Twi things I noticed about EWN Weekends: 1) On Saturday evening, at approximately 5:35pm, they aired an "Eyewitness News Brief". It last about a minute and half, summarized three top stories and had a check on the weather. How long have they been doing this on weekends? 2) I noticed the Sunday morning EWN Brief during GMA Weekend was done from inside the studio and not the newsroom flashcam. Why do the weekday EWN Briefs still originate from the newsroom if the studio is available? Is the newsroom flashcam operated from a different control area where, I presume, the studio and "Live!" are being controlled from?

I was in the NY area over the weekend. Those were very nice promos, and Chuck doing the VO? wow.

WABC's Brooklyn Bridge camera has been upgraded to HD.

Does anyone know if Ken Rosato is ok? He's been out for almost 2 weeks now.. I know he had kidney problems about a year or so ago.. Hopefully it's just a vacation.. Anyone know?

nope. Although their website has offered a 7 day forecast for a while. they have it set up like CBS2 where days 6 and 7 share the same column and appear after the initial first 5 days.

heres the part when they come back from break:

Looks like CBS 2 just posted a posting on their site looking for a Morning Anchor. Hmmm...