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All the 9-to-5 employees are in the building at midday, too. Why pay overtime to all the techs and such to keep them late or bring them in at 4am?

The biggest difference by far is WCVB kept the diagrid "slants" in the graphics. WBBH/WZVN's are def boxier with elements of diagrid. Even the animated backgrounds are different -- looks like WBBH/WZVN kept the current animated backgrounds with the bluey/yellows, and WCVB is more modern with the "stripey" things on the left side there... With that being said and from what I can see, WCVB's is by far more easier to read and easier on the eyes IMO...

Ugh these corporate group graphics are becoming more and bland and boring. Geez. With the automated rundowns and lockdown cameras and bland samey theme music. Todays newscasts are BORING.

Yes, Mega TV is still on the air. HQ is still there along the Palmetto (SR 826 in Doral).

I think that was the point, a CW/FOX style long continuous block of morning news. Agreed that ABC 18's schedule is not bad. I'm also surprised --and impressed -- that 18 opted to pay for syndicated programming in time-slots already covered by 7 News. Examples airing Extra at 10 and Tamron Hall at 4 when they could have just simulcasted 7 News.

Spectrum did light up LLT yesterday, though you wouldn't know it's called LLT as there are no promos or bugs calling it such; it's basically the main Local News Live feed as a regular old 1080i cable channel. Commerical breaks are a DRTV/PSA/Gray promo black hole rather than local ads on the web/Zeam feeds. Hopefully they do a lot better to adjust the channel to being a cable channel in the next few weeks, because my first impression is that they need to adjust a bit as far as presentation.

It won’t surprise me if WMUR also gets the boxier looking graphics when they switch over.

That's actually a good idea - do a test run on a newscast less likely to be seen in case there's a glitch, so the ones with more viewers are less likely to see technical difficulties. Conversely, all of the NFL's broadcasters choose to debut new graphics during a Super Bowl, which in my opinion, is really stupid. If something goes wrong, everyone sees it and the broadcaster becomes laughingstock. Also, why debut new graphics at the END of a season rather than at the beginning?

Noon is typically a low-viewership period, so it's a good time to debut and work out the kinks before the big shows at 5, 6 and 11/10pm.

Here it is:

I got my hands on the local NBC-Fox-ABC-CW affiliates'' fall schedules, and found two timeslots where "Family Feud Favorites" was added to the schedule. Two additional airings, along with the four more recent episodes that are already there. I know in some markets there are up to six Feud episodes a day already -- does this mean they can show up to eight, or are two of the current six being repackaged as "Favorites?"

For all we know, they may have entered into a (shelled) outsourcing agreement where Sinclair provides services to Rincon to evade ownership rules. Sinclair's gonna Sinclair. Prove me wrong.

Sooner or later we'll be like Canada where the (remaining) networks will decimate local content in favor of strong regionalism or outright national delivery of most content. CBS and their O&Os have gone the furthest in this direction in terms of their branding. I just await the day when the networks tell the NFL to pound sand and they start suffering. Time and time again, I say that it's a tax on the American TV consumer, and it needs to stop NOW.

WCVB will roll out updated graphics on the noon newscast today

According to LinkedIn, Matt Quinn was in charge of this, as well as the new CBS Evening News look, not sure if the latter was ever mentioned.

Since this week, the network made a major update to their generic split screen credits for the first time in 21 years.

Pretty big job for them. Pretty much only NewsNation DC and this are their only projects beyond New York City. (They did two floors of WPIX as well.)

Corrected.

hardly. NBC demands to negotiate retrans on behalf of affiliates in exchange for a contract. You can make an argument stations don't have to agree but the network makes demands like branding must include NBC in the name, promoting programming, etc that ties up the affiliate to the network, robbing it of its own identity, and making it harder to leave. And let's not forget what they did to WHDH, to show what they're willing do to other affiliates who think of saying no. After Ansin told them no NBC returned with an offer - lose the affiliation or sell us WHDH facilities for ~$70 million and shut down the business. Not sell us the station, sell us the facilites, when as a whole WHDH was worth $400-$700 million. That's about as unprecedented as ABC landing on 7.2 in Miami. NBC wanted to crush discent and decided to do it to one of their top rated affiliates. Newsmax are on the record as being against any further consolidation, they appear to want the opposite - hard ownership caps with no wiggle room. Sinclair wants unlimited station ownership. They've been harping on this for almost a decade ie merging itself with Tegna, Nexstar, Gray to own as many stations as they want, forcing ATSC 3.0 on everyone with channel encryption - afterall their big brains thought up that standard - and "compete" against streaming becase scale or something...

This took place in May but I'm only starting to find about it now. WJAN, long known as America TeVe in my home market of Miami, is still on the air but all live and originated content is on pause thanks to a court order resulting from a shareholders dispute. Its messy so long story short, it is currently airing pre-recorded content and reruns of their programs to keep the station's license on the air. Their sister radio station, 1260 WSUA (which I don't believe is even owned by them, yet, somehow has control of it) is unaffected and their programming remains as normal. The website is still posting as normal too, which is making me think its still going with WSUA and not WJAN. I just checked and instead of the 10pm news and El Espejo (news, debate, and analysis), it will instead air the comedic and talk program La Mesa Nostra instead, meaning that live weekday news at 4, 7, and 10pm are all cancelled. The Hialeah Gardens facilities (I'm literary five minutes away from the site by drive) are shuttered and now a sign is displayed that says another company has taken over, shut it down, and let all WJAN employees go. I won't go into more details because I'm still learning about it and trying to process it but its shocking and surprising that it was very abrupt. Hell, its almost three months since this happened and only now I'm learning about it. https://en.cibercuba.com/noticias/2025-05-09-u1-e43231-s27061-nid302435-desalojo-despidos-america-teve-canal-41-miami-cierra https://www.cubaenmiami.com/en/america-teve-pone-pausa-a-sus-transmisiones-en-vivo-y-despide-empleados-tras-orden-judicial/

YTTV added a few small market CW channels today. WJBF-DT3 (Augusta, GA) is now on YTTV as of today, alongside WVIR-DT3 (Charlottesville), KLCW (Lubbock), KTEN-DT2 (Ada), WLFI-DT2 (Lafayette, has the main CBS channel by accident as of now), and KCWT (Rio Grande Valley).

He still won’t be David overall though. ABC is too familiar.

His numbers have been great since his debut. Better than expected. And he’s actually beating Muir/abc in the key demo a few times a week.

NBC is beyond the most reasonable RTC'ers and hasn't revoked an affiliation outside the WHDH situation, and this is stupid. NBC was proactive in equal time by bringing him an equivalent audience to the Kamala appearance.They resolved the dispute right away, and yet he's still going after them. Crossing my fingers that they do fight and this doesn't get stupider; you know advertiser refusal for something idiotic (bad BBB record/account in arrears but is 'oppressed by The Man') is going to be next.

Isn't that retransmission consent to begin with? But there's stuff that's going on much worse than the KYW/WKYC trade, RKO General, and probably even the things that cost WLBT and WJIM (WLNS) their licenses back then. Retrans is out of control, but NBC/Comcast is probably the most cooperative out all of the networks in terms of the partnership between affiliate and network.

The fact he used Newsmax to announce this is all you need to know about his motivation.

Carr has sent a letter to NBCUniversal stating that it is going to investigate station renewals that "...attempt to extract onerous financial and operational concessions from local broadcast TV stations." https://deadline.com/2025/07/fcc-comcast-nbc-investigation-affiliates-1236474051/

They aren't that cash poor. Yet. But that's one benefit of having scale, if ownership had to, and it was worth it, they'll throw money at the problem because other stations are cash flowing. WANF is in the black more than likely, they're just handing over less of the profit to the mothership

Also to note that Tamron moves off WSFL to ABC 18 with no timeslot change, with JHud moving an hour back on WSFL, so we may be seeing some more schedule horse-trading through the next two months. But for a channel put together with only a few weeks notice, WSVN hasn't done too bad outside Extra being dead time spackle in the morning and evening, but you're going to just have those spots where you just need to keep the lights on. I just don't understand moving Live up an hour on WPLG at all, where you could just air it live at 9 rather than keep the news going until 11, but I suppose they want to try to counterprogram The View. Miami is basically New York South so I don't think that makes any sense, but People Puzzler being the Family Feud prime time substitute here works well enough.

See that entails another problem I’m autistic I worked in a newsroom and I loved it because it was mostly if not 100% virtual. But since KMSG shut down I had to work office jobs my disability can’t handle the social interaction I get extremely burned out. So imagine if I was working in a big city newsroom like the newsroom of WPVI in Philly or WABC in New York or KABC in Los Angeles those narcissistic folks the ones who wanna be on tv like you said would have a field day with me everyday because I just figured out I can’t mask my disability anymore and in a big city newsroom I could see myself getting made fun of a lot. That why if I ever decide to reenter this business I wanna work in a small market, or Raleigh-Durham (my home market) or in a mountain town, because being in a small market being autistic and different is more acceptable there than in a big city. I considered moving to Asheville, North Carolina after school is done or working in a smaller NC market there 10 markets that cover all 100 NC counties (believe it or not Clay County, NC is covered by the Atlanta market). So they’re are only technically 3 big markets serving North Carolina. Anyways there is hope though there this autistic meteorologist who works at WITN in Greenville, NC about an hour and 90 minutes outside of Raleigh I could see myself being a reporter in a market that size, because that great for an autistic person it’s small mistakes can be accepted there, and you won’t feel bad for being different it’s that or the mountains. Btw that meteorologist might be the first autistic tv weatherman in broadcast history. Also on TV you have to be yourself I will say as an autistic person being yourself gets you fired from your job that what’s masking does. Now I’m saying all this because the job I just had made me accept my autism because of how bad I was treated at first I hid it but a week or 2 later I came out and told them I was autistic. That wasn’t until the boss was talking about marijuana use in the workplace, and we had a meeting and he pointed me out specifically and said you’re different you don’t need marijuana. A few days later I told him I was autistic he said I know. Long story short I was called retard*d a few times and when he left the company the big boss said that he said that I was a failed abortion. Now I forgave him, though I was hurt I felt like I was the problem for a minute I later left that job. After that I was like I just can’t see myself doing tv news at least not in a big market, not even outside the state of North Carolina. I don’t think It could work. Yeah so this is another thing this maybe because of my disability or not but I formed romantic parasocial relationships with tv meteorologist and tv news anchors and reporters. I think that is dangerous as well as it was for me and its why I’m rethinking going back into this industry. But yeah that another thing they just wanna be on tv and share there pretty looks. It could be because of my disability since I get no relationships of friends that I feel attached to people but still I think Ike was right it more about being on TV than the job.

Not the most reputable of sources reporting this, I wouldn't be surprised if they shrink the production shoots to record more episodes in a bunch so she has more time off, saves money too.

I would rather have the surfboard desk wings (and a real surfboard on the wall) rather than the 20+ surfboard TV screens. Aww, I'll miss the old set: https://www.The Other Site.com/setstudio/kswb-2/

I wish someone can post screenshots of the differences between the packages on WBBH/WZVN and the one WCVB debuted today (outside of the L3's and time/temp bug). I'm curious what makes WCVB's version the one that everyone else will use but WBBH/WZVN's version will stay within them.

It's still there on the 7-Day, just in a different form. https://www.wcvb.com/article/video-downpours-storms-today-sunshine-returns-for-weekend/65565287

so an affiliate complained. Sounds like the house of cards is slowly collapsing on one end with cable TV losing high-value subscribers and $30-$40/monthly broadcast fee revenue per subscriber, and this new development on the other end. If stations are given their retrans fee back it will destroy the network business model for sports. Or networks will have to stop being greedy. Ads alone or Peacock can't support the $3B NFL yearly fee.

Yea, like I highly doubt that NBC, Comcast and NBCUniversal wouldn't be co-operative. Plus, Retransmission, like what you said, is pretty much out of any control. Like, why focus on NBCUniversal when the FCC could potentially if they can that is focus on the streaming services and tell 'em to knock it off?

It didn't, however WHDH spent 25 years doing heavy brand building. And WJXT became independent in 2002 , a much different world than today where this summer for the first time ever 18% of linear viewership was broadcast. 15 years ago when linear TV was all the rage, AlJazeera America spent (or is that wasted?) $500 million and failed spectacularly.

There have been rumors that if she does decide to hang it up, Hoda Kotb could start a talk show to take its place.