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April Fools???? -- matt

Why hasn't the station try to create a local sports show on weekend afternoons regularly? For example, most sports programming from the network ends at 3pm local time. The station usually have infomercials right after sports programming. Instead of that, why not just air sports related programming locally between 3-4pm. Then have their regular programming afterwards. Or they should start their afternoon / evening news early then.

On this day -- April 1, 2025 -- Live aired its final edition from its studio of over 40 years at 67th & Columbus in the Upper West Side.

Disappointed Tegna NBC affiliate WCNC Charlotte has cancelled their Sunday morning political program Flashpoint. It was an informative program with newsmakers and political leaders that aired after Meet the Press, as sort of a local version. Good program, sorry to see it go. Victim of cutbacks, I suppose. They are now airing infomercials in its place. WSOC still airs its Political Beat program on Sundays on the Cox ABC affiliate in Charlotte, and the Hearst NBC affiliate WYFF in Greenville-Spartanburg still has their Sunday news and public affairs program.

WABC also uses Eyewitness News This Morning… CBS’s national show used to be called CBS This Morning.

The Seattle Storm now has an OTA TV home with KOMO and KUNS. Out of 47 games in total, 33 of them are on KUNS, 13 are on KOMO, and there's only one national game this season, but also on KOMO. https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/seattle-storm-sets-komo-kuns-as-exclusive-broadcast-tv-partners/

Gannett stations are rolling out a new website design: See the test market at WBIR: http://www.wbir.com

Chicago Sun-Times reports.

It's the definition of "acquired taste", that's for certain. It's really gonna take getting used to.

SKY News has updated its graphics package. Gone is the gradient, conventual shape look, in favor of more boxes of various shapes, and flat colors.

They may not need sports related programming on both Saturdays & Sundays every weekend, but I believe it's better to have that than infomercials after network sport's programming. KCBS doesn't have their sports central show consistently either. They have it when they have no other programming & it's better than airing infomercials at that time.

They more or less tried that early in the digital subchannel era, it was called "News Raw", on channel 4.4; it lasted for at least a year or two before KNBC eventually did away with it. Now with the NBC 4 Los Angeles News streaming channel, they don't necessarily need to create a new subchannel for news & locally-produced shows, although it could be a better replacement than the redundant American Crimes channel. They could try to expand The Challenge to be a year-round show, and have it air weekend afternoons after network sports coverage. However, at the same time, there's really no time to air such a show (consistently), certainly on Sunday afternoons during NFL season without bumping whatever syndicated show they have at 3pm and Nightly News at 3:30; often times, NBC would run a live sports event as a direct lead-in to Football Night in America. It'll be even moreso once the NBA returns back to the network next season, where they will be Sunday night games weekly after the NFL season. There is also still an outside possibility that NBC could go after ESPN's Sunday Night MLB package, although ESPN can still renew.

Antonia Hylton and Elise Jordan will be joining Ayman Mohyeldin and Catherine Rampell as host of The Weekend's new primetime extension. It premieres in May. https://deadline.com/2025/04/msnbc-antonia-hylton-elise-jordan-the-weekend-1236355725/

I remember those days as well since I grew up in the 80s & 90s watching Star Search WXMI FOX17 on Sun at 4PM and some syndication sitcoms I was into as well. And not many put on movies like they once did in the 80s to early 2000s other than maybe one movie a week WXSP Sat afternoon 1PM to 3PM & the same movie repeated on sister station WOTV on Late SAT/Early SUN. That is wrong that some TV stations just air paid programming in blocks during the weekdays I get maybe an hour at most it shouldn't be 2+ hours of paid programming. Or split it up like the new CW does M-F 6AM to 7AM, 12PM to 1PM, & 3AM to 4AM that I have no problem with. Not surprised that WPLG is going with a lot of news since Miami is a pretty big market to do the all news for most of the day and as many stations across the country say news on your time, meaning that you shouldn't be watching all the newscast which will be rehashed and maybe an update every so often.

A meteorologist shouldn't be calling the hub to tell them to get on or off the air at all. If there's severe weather their focus needs to be on the weather. A producer, manager, or director should be the ones calling the hub (and frankly there should be a producer in the booth during extended severe weather coverage anyway). However, given how poorly staffed and inexperienced many newsrooms are nowadays I wouldn't be surprised if some mets in some markets have had to take up that responsibility as well.

WPTZ News 5 intro mid 80's Classic WMC ID it says 1985, but I'm sure it's older than that. KMPH TV 26 "Get to know us" presentation 1979. WEAR Gulf Coast News 3 1984 WTAE 4 News 1994 WTVN Action 6 News 1985 Intro

With the 9pm evening start, I wonder if they’re hedging on being contractually able to run Jeopardy! and Wheel at 8pm…

I've often wondered about that also. I figured that once World News Now disappeared from the O&Os, the ticks on the clock would ring louder...but the newswatch continues. It is a relic of a bygone era, a time when the Big Three embraced the emerging 24-hour news cycle after the Gulf War and during the '92 U.S. election cycle. But NBC ended Nightside in 1998. CBS's Up to the Minute lasted a little longer, making it into the 2010s before morphing into its current incarnation. My guess is that while WNN can't be making that much money for ABC News' bottom line, that show must be really cheap to produce.

What channel was it, one of the Pannoni channels or someone else?

And unfortunately the ban hammer got dropped on this channel. I need to start saving these videos! He had a bunch of older Super Bowl Pregames on his channel!

I would buy Nexstar and take over The CW but you know... I don't have money. I don't know if anybody else has money either... *shrug*.

I'd add Drew Carey and Wayne Brady to the list... CBS still leads in daytime, correct?

Say goodbye to "Sportscenter...from Los Angeles". L.A. based editions of SC will shutter by May with All SC editions fully based in Bristol again: https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/03/26/espn-shutters-la-based-sportscenter-and-soccer-programming-relocates-to-bristol/

CBS has its challenges as do all of the networks, but cutting loose a show at 12:30 am isn't exactly the sign of the apocalypse.

I honestly saw the Gray triopoly in Phoenix trying to snatch-up the Diamondbacks OTA rights, but good for Tegna for getting those broadcast rights, along with the Padres and Rockies. Even said, as far as San Diego, I would thought that KUSI would have gone back and put-in a bid to carry some Padres games once again. That said, good for KFMB (another station that spent some years carrying in different times in the last 45 years airing some Friars games), as well as the duopoly in the Mile High City. Of course, as some folks know, KTVD carried a fair amount of Rockies games up until 2008.

This is really the year CBS is being starved; we're getting yet another Yellowstone spin-off too and they already cut 2/3rds of the FBI's to allow another one to start up. But this is on Paramount for instead of contracting with someone you know will stay in Hollywood for several seasons, hiring a comedian at the height of her career who makes much more in touring host the show. I can't blame her for walking away when it seems like the format and limitations of broadcast TV just never worked for a show that started on cable, a very hands-on management trying to file every edge of their network down to satisfy the FCC to get the Skydance merger closed, and a certain heiress that needs to have her nose in everything who just needs to be given FU money and told to go away already. I already sense that Taylor and the writing team was getting network-noted to death to not comment about current political events (which they sadly won't do for Colbert, who I've just stopped watching because it's NOTHING but that) and just had no further appetite for the show. As for the timeslot and local stations, it'll either be sitcoms, tabloid news shows, CBS's cheapo syndicated game shows, or infomercials. Nothing new or creative is going there.

The dc tv legends are all starting to retire One more year of Bob Carpenter

Now that you mentioned it, it makes sense when you see the logos after Regis retired. The newer the host, the smaller the "Live".

Starting a blanket thread since there has been so much change in college football especially on television. The major changes are CBS losing the SEC package to ABC and ESPN as well as the Big Ten's new deal, not to mention all the realignment and NIL, transfer portal stuff..... So (try to) enjoy the games and share your thoughts here!

English and Spanish-language rights.

or @tyrannical bastard could rename the thread since he is the creator and active.

CBSSN has the updated scorebug!

Umm... it looks like the PAC-12 could be coming back from the dead. For those wondering about the logos, that's Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, and San Diego State. (via a report shared by Yahoo Sports on FB)

CBS's "updated" graphics looks like it belongs on a random NFL game in Week 2

Also of note, TNT Sports now has its own dedicated CFB graphics for its Mountain West package (don't know if they'll show up on the CFP games it has sub-licensed too because reportedly ESPN will be producing them). Scoreboard looks like a cross between the March Madness one and the Monday Night Football graphics Something else I noticed that's a bit odd about the new CBS graphics. For some reason, certain games have been using a scoreboard where the game clock area is white instead of black, and this has happened on games with both the new and old scoreboard.

ESPN is serious enough about the SEC on ABC that even the BottomLine has an SEC on ABC logo instead of an ABC one. Something else I noticed was that the separate ESPN on ABC bug is gone on college football now, with that logo replacing the usual ESPN CFB insignia on replays instead. Also CBS's mistake of a scoreboard refresh: you thought that team name font looked bad enough with abbreviations? Meanwhile the temporary ESPN graphics for college football on The CW are gone. Replaced with what is now basically the old CBS one with a different font. For some reason I was expecting them to take the Pac-12 Network graphics and shove a CW logo into them (given that its staff is producing the Pac-2 games) or use some version of the third variant of the ACC basketball graphics. I wonder if they gave them to Raycom for the ACC games too.

This definitely looks a lot more "2020s big network" than the earlier design.

The graphics have been tweaked.

Glad to see The CW use different graphics than ESPN yeah, The CW didn't want to rush and just used the ESPN graphics for football year 2 will have different graphics for ACC football.

I do like they leaned into their longtime font rather than the 'Dare to Defy' font with the design; it's clean and simple in that sense, but I'm just tired of oversized scoreboards. Whenever scoreboards compress to show some stat it looks much better in a smaller form than as a full-screen banner, but sadly vertical video has made a middle score compulsory for social sharing.

Not a big fan of the look. So many things to touch but I'll keep it short. I like the fact they are trying to go for a clean futuristic feel but it's just executed horribly. If you're going to a super wide scorebug, at least find a way to put the school logos in with all that space. Another annoying thing is the network logo placement, I don't get why networks like NBC do this but you shouldn't have your TV logo in the scorebug and as a screenbug in the top right corner. Makes it look repetitive and a mess. Just make up your mind and keep it in one area in order to keep it simple and effective. The last thing is the font, not sure why they made the clock use a skinny font and the period and shot clock bolded. Makes it very hard to see for viewers. Overall, they definitely have some work to do but at least they are finally going their own creative direction. I'm glad to see that the ESPN graphics was just a temporary solution just to get their ACC broadcasts up and running in a short time frame.

Not sure if i love it yet

Bally, being a competing sports network was able to port their graphics package to Raycom to produce the ACC games they did in the past. As for the CW? Seems like Nexstar didn't want to pay the extra $50 to come up with another graphics package.

The CW is a competing OTA network to ABC where those graphics usually air the cw just said to espn we will take your template and graphics and just slap cw on it

I still would've wished that our digital transition in the US would've solidified network channel numbers hell or high water. Fox has different channel numbers and managed to work things out, but it would've been a lot easier if we had went the Mexican transition direction, let a network pick a number nationwide and CBS was on 2, NBC on 4, Fox on 5, ABC on 7...etc. (and if you lost your affiliation a la WJMN, WZMQ got 2 and WJMN would be bumped down to whatever number Fox scrounged up for MNTV). Even the Canadian direction where all the networks/systems pretty much killed channel numbers altogether would have been better. Sadly outside a couple of outliers who tried (Tribune with that channel 72 attempt that died the moment WGN, WPIX and KTLA 'lol no'ed the idea, though I think that was more for interactive services that never panned out), it just never took root and the PSIP system in the US, instead of allowing a one-time remapping opportunity, just had the virtual channel system hobbled with legacy numbers and ideas like KCEN trying to move from 6 to 9 for a year and somehow getting 'feedback' that they were wrong and had to reverse back. Or those who did try to move from an absurd channel like 65 get yelled at by the FCC and other broadcasters for daring to take channel 10 even though nobody else in 150 miles had it. PBS is finally forcing their stations to have a unified logo and identifier, something that's been long needed, and it might be time for the major networks to do the same. And when most pay homes these days just tune to the network identified on YouTubeTV or Hulu, or say, channel 604/1004 for NBC in HD instead of 4 in SD...is there any need to hold onto 2-69 numbers?

This is what a forward-looking news organization looks, sounds, and feels like. I'm sure there will be people upset that the "Westinghouse channel numbers" and "iconic" other cruft disappears, but these stations existed before that stuff came around, and will exist after. Most of these stations never had a firm "logo" for their first 20 years of existence and they did just fine, without "confusing" anyone. Most of these logos have outlived several generations of logos at major brands. I'm still not sure why it's seen as important for a local television station in Baltimore or Pittsburgh or wherever to keep the same logo forever, while major companies like United Airlines or Hyatt Hotels get to update theirs just about every decade. TV has this bad history of treating viewers like they are absolute idiots. "Oh, we can't change anything because someone out there might get 'confused'." If someone told me RJ Fletcher's speech in UHF about the "pea-brained yokels" watching TV in his market was based on real worlds said by a real TV station GM, I would not be that surprised. There's nothing wrong with a little nostalgia, but it can't get in the way of progress. When a station branded as "TV 7" in 1954, that's because that's where it was. On TV. On Channel 7. That was it. The first signs this branding didn't work in the modern era came in the late 90's when every "ABC 7" and "NBC 4" was fighting for a relevant web domains. Then came Social Media. If I go on Twitter right now and search for "ABC 7" this is what comes up: Talk about "Confusing viewers" when the first one offers no way of identifying which station it is, and looks identical to the rest of the ABC7s there. No, most viewers do not know offhand how to differentiate between the different Circle 7s out there. There is no confusing where these CBS stations are located. I don't buy into these stations "losing" any "local flavor" with this branding, because locality is baked into the heart of it. You can be any one of a bunch of "CBS 2s" out there, but there's "only one" CBS News Chicago.

Reporter Gene Kang says he too was laid off from NBC.

The bios are under the “contact us” tab. But yeah, really hard to find and poorly organized. The NBC O and Os were doing so great the last few years. Valerie Stabb and co investing heavily in facilities and investigative units etc. Its what led to their growing dominance and rebirth in many markets.. passing CBS O and Os and giving ABC O and Os a run for their money. Now they seem to be destroying that??? In Boston for example, they are down 2 investigative reporters and a main anchor. Any NBC insiders understand this think process?

Looks great! Better than a lot of the newer websites being developed. (not sarcasm)

Wow. Comparing this to the current sites azcentral.com (Arizona Republic + KPNX) would have a very hard time switching to this layout. It's Gannett's only newspaper-TV duopoly IIRC.