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It really does and what’s the purpose of doing world/national news when that’s what is being aired on every other station at 6:30…especially if you’re trying to say you’re a “local station”?

Agreed. It screams ABC WNT from "as we come on the air tonight", to the intro tease, to the date posted above the red headline graphic. This might be a stretch but Louie seemed to be deepening his voice to emulate David Muir. Even the background behind Louie (which I like) looked like Peter Jennings era WNT. I suppose they're hoping viewers find this similar enough to World News Tonight and don't bother to switch the channel. Perhaps World News Tonight LITE might be more distinct if it focused on issues relevant to the Latin American and Caribbean communities which dominate South Florida.

Yes. Each team anchors for 1 hour then switches. It's actually nice, they can take almost a whole hour off for a nap

No surprise... ABC Miami is getting the star treatment from GMA. Sam Champion is in Miami all week for the program and Victor Oquendo gives Craig and Belkys some national exposure. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM7x41zvc0W/?igsh=d2NnY3R5cjFrMzFx

I figured they'd opt for the alternating hours anchoring like they do on their evening shows. I've noticed this being the latest trend on marathon morning shows like WANF/WPCH, and WOFL. Swapping every hour instead of Team B 4:30-7, and Team A: 7-10/11am. It looks (so far) like they'll be doing an all headlines style newscast like Today In Florida, and not a soft morning show. New screen bugs per Craig Stevens

Interesting image posting by a WPLG employee on LinkedIn.

It feels almost appropriate that WPLG's last ABC prime time will be ending with the 2003 Freaky Friday since them and 7.2 will be 'switching bodies' as it were, except it's permanent.

Wasn't this the plan all along? CBS never once indicated that local news would debut on launch day.

That looks like it was thrown together 5 minutes before the station went on air.

I don't think it's a great idea to use the NY project as a guide for what will happen elsewhere. The circumstances are wildly different. ABC did not move to the new NY facility simply because some of the buildings were "old". A properly-maintained 100-year-old building will last for another 100 years.

This has heavy "World News Tonight with David Muir" vibes to it.

So basically people will have to switch from channel 10 to 18 on their TV service to get ABC programming. I’m sure a lot of viewers will be mad they can’t find Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! anymore if WPLG isn’t carried. Other than that, I don’t think many will be upset or even notice ABC is from a different station.

Yes it was! Hahaha. It became the last one on WPLG and the first one on WSVN.2/WDFL.

Welp, that sucks. Why Scripps?

Eric Yutzy & Michaila Hightower Andrew Perez & Alex Finnie Meanwhile, the first moments of ABC Miami:

They probably got tired of people asking where to watch ABC Early report from a viewer says Breezline moved WPLG to ch19 and put ION on ch10. Kind of a dickish move

Ch10 logo dude looke like he's about to swing a sword at the abc

Local 10 looks almost naked without the ABC bug at the side. I'm surprised they kept it this late, and didn't phase the ABC out of the logo a lot earlier. Meanwhile Sunbeam continues to pull out all the steps to promote ABC Miami with the Guitar Hotel in Hollywood being a giant billboard.

Having to air World News Now their last overnight as an affiliate is one thing, but having to also air Good Morning America First Look (which is basically an early morning show)? How'd that happen?

Not necessarily. That's their last as an ABC affiliate. They're still gonna run ABC's overnight programming until Independence kicks off at 4:30 a.m.

YTTV added WBNX (soon to be CW) recently in the Cleveland market.

Here it is...the open to the first newscast of WPLG's independent era.

Blink and you miss it it was so short.

They aired that too

Giving the timing of affiliation contracts, MyNet may stay where it is.

Official…CW is moving to WMYT September 1. Haven’t heard WCCB’s plans/where the MyNet programming is going. WMYT has aired MyNet from 11pm-1am since 2018.

I mean Miami a pretty big market using Marza, Krauth, Ozebek and Oqeundo. Former Miami newsers to promote is a good idea. I don’t know what Miami market rank was in 1988, and 1995, but that was long time ago people were literally used to everything until now. So they have to pull out everybody to get viewers used to the change.

ABC pulling out the promotional guns using former reporters./anchors that now work for Disney/ABC but were previously in Miami.

What will the morning anchor lineup be like from 5am to 11am?

The difference with WWJ was because they were literally the station of last resort in Detroit, after CBS tried and failed with every other station there. They at least had the nuclueus of WKBD to start from, even though Paramout (pre-CBS) shuttered the operation before their first merger. Still, the startup costs were much higher the first go-around given the technology required at the time. This time with CBS Atlanta, it's on a shaky new foundation under Skydance. CBS needs the cash and will take back their network affiliation in a heartbeat if they feel they are getting screwed. Watch for more dis-affiliations in the future and more cuts to the legacy CBS network....

From their Sunday AM newscast today:

Didn't this happen with WWJ as well?

Fox decided to work in some of its NASCAR graphics for the (rain delayed) game at Bristol Motor Speedway, although they didn't go as far as to make a custom scoreboard too.

Existing newsrooms struggle to hire talent and keep them away from public relations and corporate communications. I'm not sure why CBS thought they could pursue such an aggressive timeline.

You'd think with ABC going this far promoting ABC Miami that it's like an O&O.

He works for ABC through WABC, so I would consider this part of ABC's promotional campaign.

CBS said the same thing back in 1994/1995, for WGPR now WWJ in Detroit. It took em almost 25 years to get an operation. My goodness WUPA probably looking at 2050 at this point.

WLTZ (Columbus, Ga) KJTV (Lubbock, TX) looks like this will become property of Gray TV https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/gray-looks-to-buy-two-stations-from-sagamore-hill-broadcasting/

It was nice to have syndication not have all these lousy cop shows for a few years (this was syndicated as Police Patrol in 2019-20), but I'm not shocked the backsliding resulted in the return of the format (all the bad crime reenactment shows and "True Crime Daily" bombing didn't help at all).

Appears the news operation won't be ready in time for launch day. A CBS spokesperson noted that the newsroom, set to launch in September, won’t be operational when WUPA assumes the CBS affiliation from WANF, but declined to share further details on its initial scale.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DM0vcYypS-N/ The big switch is so compelling that even former 7 News Anchor, Mike Marza felt compelled to announce it on his IG page from his new home here in New York haha.

With the Hall of Fame Game taking place one week from today, let’s fire up this thread. The Lions have named Jason Benetti and TJ Lang as their preseason broadcast team.

WABC's Dan Krauth is also promoting ABC Miami, as he was a former reporter for WTVJ

I wonder how long the graphics rollout to the other stations is going to take. With the last update (diagrid v2), all stations switched to the refreshed graphics in 2018, albeit in phases. WESH debuted the new look in January of that year; then subsequently, it was rolled out to the other NBC stations in February, then KCCI and WLKY in March, and finally the ABC stations in April.

Or still use Uri Berliner's words as excuse to claim that NPR isn't reliable.

Yes the 1998 switch which was the dumbest move on Sinclair broadcasting part between WLFL and at the time new station WRAZ. WRDC after losing NBC I believe assumed UPN afterwards wasn’t really an affiliation switch since WNCN was independent before becoming NBC. And then WRDC was the one losing NBC and becoming independent and picked up UPN afterwards but yes I’m counting the 1998 switch.

Half of mine were control room, half were inserted by master control. Fun fact: Hearst has/had a heavily modded version of Vizrt. They developed the original diagrid package that when the first lower third in a block would trigger from the control room, it would auto-trigger the bug in master control. (If I remember that correctly). Some CBS stations back in the day ran their newscast bugs out of LIDIA which was usually kept in master.

I'm a Spectrum subscriber, and use an Apple TV device to view their app. I just absolutely refuse to pay for a set-top box, so whatever shows I view for later viewing is all on-demand. I've been actually considering downgrading back to internet-only, especially with the latest price hike, and that ridiculous broadcast surcharge. I keep an antenna for backup purposes, and I have no issues receiving all of my locals, at least the ones that matter to me. My sister in Phoenix has Cox, and uses one of those boxes where it's just streaming apps, plus a few streaming channels, no locals or cable networks. All said though, and it's something I thought about earlier, it wouldn't surprise me if Spectrum phases out live TV within the proceeding decade, or whenever their local sports contracts run out.

Foot the bill for a bunch of their more expensive movies, produce Grace and Frankie...

I suspect the company, regardless of what Skydance says, will be split. CBS and Paramount will go different directions.