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Eyewitness News is a format that has evolved over the years. It originated in Philadelphia (KYW) and early on in New York, (WABC), emphasizing more detailed storytelling from the perspective of the reporter and their constituents out on the field, providing an Eyewitness accounts on the story rather than it being reported from the desk. It was more compelling and made the story itself more interesting than the traditional news often boring reading that was done prior to that format. There is also Action News, also originating in Philadelphia (WPVI) which emphasized more faster paced news, with reporters still out on the field, but delivered at a faster pace, and timed, to allow more stories to be told and to cover a wider area. At the time of their debut there were distinct differences especially in the earlier days. But today, unless you really attention and are laser focused, there are some elements derived from both formats, its a blend. It's really kinda the same thing and Eyewitness News is just a title now rather than a format. Some stories are faster paced, some stories are slower depending on the context. Today, when I watch WPVI and WABC, who pioneered these formats, there is hardly a difference in their delivery and storytelling style maybe a few elements but they have loosened up a little bit. WPVI still kinda holds onto their Action News format with less reporting and more delivery, whereas WABC, embodies the storytelling from the field approach with the anchor introducing the story and the reporters telling the rest of the story.

At the time it was a format. It was said that Eyewitness News emphasized faster pacing, reporters on scene, eyewitness reactions, anchor teams, and happy talk banter. Now that all newscasts have evolved to doing the same thing, Eyewitness News has been reduced to a title rather than a specialized format.

In my opinion, it is pretty pathetic "reporting" for NewsNation. My guess is that Savannah's attention and energy are focused on her mother, and not on work. This "report" essentially reads like the opinion or theory of a NewsNation Senior Story Editor. (Not even a reporter) Is it possible that Savannah doesn't return? Sure. But many things are possible. I'm sure many people wondered if Katie Couric would return after the loss of her husband. It is gross for NewsNation to speculate on such things. To me, it is telling that not even Page Six picked up on this. And P6 is the outlet that recently published pictures of Savannah's husband and kids at an airport in Florida, along with descriptions of what the three of them were wearing, as if it were a fashion show. Note to NewsNation: when your gossip is too much for Page Six to cover, you might want to check yourself.

Does anyone have any links to the new version of "Summon the Heroes" NBC is using during primetime? They used it during Paris also. It's catchy and gets stuck in my head!

Here is Shern-Min Chow's final goodbye from earlier this week. This is not my video, btw. The TV signal does go in and out at times, especially towards the end where it mattered the most. Regardless, here's another goodbye to a Houston institution.

The only other one of the original 5 that refers to itself as Channel 7 is the orphaned one. It’s kind of surprising cause you’d think “channel x” would be a pretty standard thing across local TV. I don’t know that it really made all that much sense to go to ABC 7 in the first place. By the time they did it everybody knew the channel lineup no matter what city you were in.

That's exactly the reason. It's a minor change (so minor that mostly only people who read this site will notice), and all of their stations will have a consistent identity.

This is amazing KOMO during their longtime locally-owned Fisher days. This is KOMO 4 News at 11am in full from Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 (got the day from a brief Wall Street market check during the news). KOMO legend, anchor and Problem Solver Connie Thompson anchors the newscast. She would join the station in 1974 and spend the next 46 years there until her retirement during COVID in 2020. She is truly one of KOMO and Seattle's greats. You'll also see Rachelle Murcia very early on, who's now the main evening anchor at KBAK/KBFX Bakersfield (since 2015), as well as Meteorologist Todd Johnson, who spent 13 years there at KOMO before leaving in 2008. Finally, Cindi Rinehart, the unofficial Queen of Soaps, gives a daytime soap preview at the end to also help promote KOMO's longtime afternoon program Northwest Afternoon, which ran for nearly 24 years from 1984 until fierce competition from syndicated programs at the time (Dr. Phil on KING, Rachael Ray on KIRO, Maury on KCPQ) forced its cancelation in 2008 (Cindi was the only one there for all 24 years of NWA; KOMO would replace with a new syndie at the time, The Doctors). First News at 4:00 would always air after NWA. KOMO was really really solid during these days. Its too bad Fisher took the bait and sold it to Sinclair out of all companies and now we know how that turned out. Also to note... - KOMO 1000 News, that was a thing. An interesting name but I always loved it before they would add Radio to the name a year or so later in 2006. Obviously, they no longer own it because its now Lotus who has KNWN AM 1000 and 97.7 KNWN-FM as Northwest Newsradio. - The newscast is still an hour-long to this day, and still on at 11am, though I think they once stopped it before bringing it back later down the road. - KOMO didn't own KUNS at the time. Someone else had Channel 51 before selling it a year later to Fisher which would turn the station into Univision Seattle. Its today's current owners at Sinclair who stopped that and turned it into arc Seattle in 2024 with CW programming mixed in. Enough analysis, context, and history lessons here. Here's the newscast in full, local commercials, KOMO promos, and all. Enjoy!