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The 12pm news has been a staple since the origins of KCAL. The noon and the 8p, 9p news were their popular newscasts. You could always count on a police chase or 2 during one of these newscasts during the week.

CBS LA makes sense. It's not going to change a single thing for them... But it makes sense.

I'm in the minority here. I didn't care for the KCAL branding on KCBS. CBS has owned KCBS longer, and their woes have been the many managers who have changed the station's direction over the years. What made KCAL different vs KCBS? For the longest, they were CBS2/KCAL9 under the CBS arm. I'm glad it's CBS LA, and with these combo stations in many markets. The bigger station seems to get chopped up over the secondary station that is merging with the bigger station.

SkyCAL is fine, albeit weird. I think most viewers know that 2/9 has been merged news operation for quite sometime. Plus since recently taking the CBS LA moniker, they identify KCAL newscasts as CBS LA at XX time on KCAL9 so the KCAL branding is semi-intact.

Not so fast my friend... They worked that in as well.

Or perhaps, “SKYEYE”.

Gosh... Nexstar did something right by finally putting live streaming again for their stations. But as soon as they do, now there's a new hurdle. There's now a five-minute free preview, just like some cable TV channels give you a 30-minute free preview. If you want more time, you now have to create an account to watch it in full. Sign in to create your free My Nexstar account featuring exclusive livestreams Like... why? They're making it harder again.

If CBS was a strong brand in LA, they never would have went with the KCAL branding on both stations for almost 3 years. It's not ideal for CBS (or any major network) to not have the network brand featured in the LA market, it was done because the CBS brand was so weak and they felt the more popular KCAL brand would help get CBS out of last place. It's kind of funny they pick now of all times to go with the CBS brand when the CBS brand is probably the weakest it has ever been for LA viewers. CBS Mornings & CBS Evening News are hitting ratings lows, CBS News being run by MAGA extremists, layoffs and cost reductions on the way (although they found enough money to do a pointless rebrand) As one of the other posters above said, CBS is the worst when it comes constantly changing and confusing names. Rebranding CBS This Morning to CBS Mornings made no sense. Having both CBS News Mornings and CBS Mornings makes no sense. Even with this CBS LA rebrand they are doing CBS LA on CBS News Los Angeles and CBS LA on KCAL9.