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Llamas is a safe (predictable) choice much like Melvin was (when he succeeded Kotb). The only surprise is Tom keeping ‘Top Story’ in addition to Nightly. That’s a lot to take on.

So it’s oficial Tom Llamas takes over “Nightly News” as anchor and managing editor, he’ll also continue to do “Top Story” on streaming. So they making him the face of TV and streaming. https://www.nbcnews.com/media/tom-llamas-anchor-nbc-nightly-news-rcna194961 Me too I think he’s fine also. He might have to battle with CBS for second place because they are catching up. But he will maintain the status quo.

I think he’s fine and that’s the thing, a lot of it is subjective. Some folks love to tear down others over some personal hangup.

@TampaBowler I've removed the leak, at the request of an frustrated Nexstar staff member. I don't know where you got those images, but I suggest you run stuff like this past me or other mods before sharing sensitive info like this.

Interesting concept but a little weird when the majority of the shot highlights empty desks and powered-off monitors.

CBS News now feeling more confident in its new Evening News product, that it tweeted that it is up in the demos for the second week in a row. https://x.com/CBSNewsPress/status/1897076513079746785?t=S-HzVE0mQHaKxzrx05-2IQ&s=19

That’s gonna be hard to tell last time he was with NBC he was in the local level his only national exposure is with ABC (7 years) and now this stint here (4 years). That’s 12 years on national news he’s still still relatively new and young.

I'm sure someone at Apple would love to have stores that look like that...with or without the video "tank" in the middle. Link's broken. You need to remove the extra "http://" at the beginning.

I'm not going to speak for the OP, but a member on our Discord verified the authenticity of these shots.

NBC announces Tom Llamas as Lester’s replacement. They deserve to fall to #3 lol, that guy is so bad.

It’s almost like big changes take time to “take.”

"Whatever you have ongoing in thte next few hours ... I hope it's profitable!" - Richard Quest /ding!!! God I love Richard Quest. -- Matt

Thank God CNNI viewers aren't subjected to that crap... I'll take Quest Means Business over this ANYDAY.

Another YAWN talking head political show. The interview she gave TVNEWSER she tried to explain what makes her talking head panel show different from the 50 other talking head panel show. "You get the full picture, both sides, blah blah blah." PASS.

They finally determined what the channel was.

I hate this. This and the virtual extensions of the Atlanta set just give cheap vibes. This is not the CNN of yester-year. The money and the personnel are gone and they are trying to do what they used to do. They are trying to make Atlanta "HQ" feel "big" like CNN Center used to. And it just doesnt. Its done. Why not do realistic VR instead of this ridiculous OTT VR? It just looks stupid. Sadly FNC is the popular "Kool-Aid" channel. They have given viewers the ammo to fuel their views and that outrage brings in viewers. Not much you can do to compete with that. I cant see CNN ever coming back to popularity. They will be forever chasing viewers. FNC is a outrage commentary channel. CNN feels sadly like a directionless lost cause.

Virtual weather studio for CNN. Looks like an Apple Store.

Tough sell for many affiliates. First off in the Midwest, Evening News is already sandwiched in the 30 minutes between local newscasts (I know it's a different story on the coasts). Second, the network would have to take that time away from affiliates who almost guaranteed have something that likely either gets higher ratings (i.e. WCCO and WDJT showing Wheel Of Fortune), or they have a local newscast in that slot where the station gets to keep all the ad revenue for themselves (i.e. KELO, KBJR, KXMB) and not have to share with the network. Same argument for "forcing" the other networks to follow along with something that this panel likes, but still can't perform in the ratings. You first need to be able to offer them something that consistently proves to be better than what they currently have. If it were an optional add-on, perhaps you get a few affiliates to dump Inside Edition or ET. But if I had Wheel, and you wanted me to replace that with an add-on to a distant 3rd place newscast, I would tell you to pound sand.

She also called out the new MSNBC leadership for the fact that all the non-white hosts are all losing their shows, mentioning Joy Reid, Alex Wagner, and Katie Phang, saying it is "worse than bad, indefensible" and lashed out at how horrible the new MSNBC leadership was treating the staff at these shows. Saying "this has not happened at this level at the network before, because this is not the right way to treat people. it's inefficient and unnecessary", and went on to say and it "kind of drops the bottom on if people feel like this place is a good place to work, so we generally don't do things this way" and went on about how the way to be successful is to treat people with respect and that's something that they could "do a lot better on, a lot better". She has been critical of MSNBC in the past, but I have never seen her go this far against network leadership before. I think Rebecca Kutler just realized she can't behave the same deplorable way she did at CNN at MSNBC. Hosts are going to attack you for your horrible decisions on air, staff are going to record your private meetings and release them to the media. She has clearly lost the support of MSNBC's most high profile host, and that's really not a good position to be in as president of the network. Rebecca Kutler can make all the excuses she wants, but this looks really bad. The Reidout was not bombing in the ratings, it was outperforming all the CNN primetime shows. The viewership of Joy Reid's show was similar to that of Jen Psaki. Yet, Joy's show gets cancelled and Jen gets promoted to take over Alex Wagner (the only other non-white weeknight host) in the 9:00pm slot. Meanwhile, the show that has shed the most viewers (The 11th Hour) remains unchanged. The show that has angered a lot of MSNBC's audience (Morning Joe) remains unchanged. A panel show that airs weekend mornings is now going to air in primetime, that's a huge risk, it will need to gain hundreds of thousands of new viewers, and will need to win over very upset viewers of The Reidout. It's a very reckless decision to try out a new show like this at 7:00pm ET. And the changes she made to the weekend schedule seem idiotic to me. While MSNBC's weeknight primetime ratings were strong, weekend ratings struggled, and she has decided to take the 2 highest rated weekend shows (and the only weekend shows MSNBC bothered to promote) off of the weekend schedule and move them to weeknight primetime, so the new weekend shows will have to launch without the benefit of having a strong lead-in / lead-out. Repeats at 6:00am ET when everyone else has live news, a new 3 hour panel show at 7:00am ET, followed by 3 hours of Ali Velshi, 3 hours of Alex Witt, an hour of repeats, Al Sharpton, and then another panel show starting at 6:00pm (and I assume running until 9:00pm, so 3 hours of the same new untested show) is the new weekend schedule. So if one of these new panel shows bombs in the ratings (which is likely, especially the 6pm ET panel show which will have repeats & Al Sharpton as a lead-in), it's going to bring down 3 hours of programming with it. There's not really much of a reason to watch MSNBC on the weekend if you want some variety. Basically 4 shows each running 3 hours.

Bosh was Clarice Tinsley's co-anchor at KDFW from 1984 to 1990. RIP Bosh and Godspeed.

I just came across this. Steve Bosh who spent 30 years at KUSI in San Diego has passed away. He also notably co-anchored Independent News Network INN News and WPIX Action News in New York with Pat Harper. https://fox5sandiego.com/video/remembering-steve-bosh-kusi-reporter-passes-away-at-85/10478323/

One of Cincinnati's all-time great sportscasters, Greg Hoard, has passed away. He was 73. He spent a good amount of time at WLWT (working with Jerry Springer and Norma Rashid) before becoming WXIX's first-ever sports anchor in 1993 and staying there until 2004 to return to print journalism. https://www.fox19.com/2025/03/01/greg-hoard-first-fox19-now-sports-anchor-dies-73/