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NBC News Daily replaced Days, because Days was doing very well on streaming, to the point that since the move, the last couple seasons have charted viewing minutes in the billions and often one of Peacock's top shows. Streaming is the natural home of soap operas, considering how frequently they used to be recorded on VHS/DVR for later viewing. It made sense to move it streaming-only and free up the linear time for even lower-cost programming. Basically, Days is a draw for Peacock, so I doubt they will be reversing that anytime soon. I could see NBC just expanding NBC News Now programming and making that available to local stations. MSNBC's departure from 30 Rock has left them with several studios and control rooms sitting idle, so the resources are there to just come up with some podcast-format show that they can produce for cheap.

Last year I started an archive of contemporary TV listings for all 210 markets, and you're definitely correct. I thought that these shows had good slots in most places because I live in an NBC O&O market, but they really don't. Especially Access Daily -- it's in a prime afternoon slot on the O&Os, but in most other markets, it either doesn't air or is on at 7AM on the MyNetworkTV affiliate or something.

I'm really not surprised. The internet has made celebrity newsmagazines pointless and it has been that way for at least a decade. I'm sure every NBC owned station is thrilled Access Hollywood & Access Daily are being cancelled. Ratings have fallen dramatically over the years and it was pretty clear they were only airing in high profile time slots on NBC O&O's because they were produced by NBC Universal. If you look at markets where NBC doesn't own stations, these were not airing in high profile time slots if even cleared at all. Access Hollywood had been demoted to overnight on a lot of non-NBC O&O's and there are a lot of major markets where Access Daily was not even broadcast. All these shows were doing is bringing down the ratings for NBC O&O's. It's a better problem to have to find new programming than be stuck with dying shows that you are only buying because they are produced by the network that owns you. My guess is the NBC O&O's either launch another local daytime newscast or start broadcasting a 2nd hour of NBC News Daily to replace Access Daily and I expect all stations to expand their 7pm newscasts to a full hour to replace Access Hollywood. NBC stations have the benefit of little local news competition in the 7:00pm hour as most ABC stations are committed to Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy while FOX is with Extra / TMZ and CBS is with ET / Inside Edition. I do think it will be hard for local news to rate worse than Access Hollywood.

Another Atlanta legend is giving up the weather clicker... WAGA's David Chandley. After 42 years in the business with 25 years at WSB and the last 11 at WAGA, he's retiring. His final day is late April. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox5atlanta.com/news/david-chandley-retiring-chief-meteorologist-fox-atlanta.amp

They may as well bring back sitcoms in the afternoons.

NBCU is continuing to offer Steve and Karamo as reruns, and apparently the Maury reruns they distribute get surprisingly good numbers in a number of markets (Milwaukee being one of them). I also wonder if simulcasting blocks of stations’ diginets could be a strategy; maybe Sinclair stations could simulcast parts of Comet or ROAR’s schedules

I really wonder what's going to happen to the CW, MyNet and independent stations, since the trash talk was a staple.

Link please?

Well, keep in mind that all of the shows that are ending are syndicated, so not every NBC station would need to fill gaps. If they wanted to bring back DOOL, they would need to either replace NBC News Daily (which wouldn't solve the problem since there would still be two empty hours), take another hour from the affiliates, or syndicate DOOL/make it exclusive to the O&Os. None of those seem all that likely to me, but I guess anything is possible.

Could they bring back DAYS OF OUR LIVES to the broadcast/linear/mother channel? I also don’t think it’s a bad idea for them to make a syndicated version of Password to air at 7:30.

I wouldn't be surprised if they did something like that. They could air Law & Order reruns to pair with Dateline.

Also, WRC doesn't need to do anything early evenings since they still have an hour-long 6pm newscast plus an existing 7:30 newscast.

Well, looks like NBC O&Os (except KNSD, who has the Sony Fun Hour) will be launching hour-long 7pm/6pm newscasts this fall. And they need to figure out what's gonna replace Access Daily and Clarkson, too. Access Hollywood ending is a total stunner. It's like syndication finally flatlined this year.

Ugh, , Damn. This is some difficult news to bear. I really revered him. Im honestly a little bit heartbroken. I seemed to believe he could live much longer because of how well he l had taken care of himself. Even though he was no longer on TV, it seemed like he was always available in someway. I mostly remember him on Fox 5. The face of that channel really at the time. I remember watching him leading in, after American Idol in the late 2000s and 2010s. He was so respected and well liked here on these forums, we always talked about him. Especially during the earlier days of this forum. Ernie Anastos was is on par with all of New York's great anchors we all know, Roger Grimsby, Bill Beutel, Chuck Scarborough, etc, he was the face of WABC in the 80s and then of course WNYW in through the 2000s. I miss his calm demeanor and his smile. Great wholesome man with a lot of integrity, valor and trust. He will be missed. May he rest in peace and may our memories of him keep his spirit alive.

Sade and Mike anchored a special Sunday 7pm hour of EWN, then anchored the 11pm hour with Lee Goldberg on weather. 4am start for Lee Goldberg, Brittany Bell and Dani Beckstrom. Pretty cool to see Lee with Shirleen, Pedro and Heather. Sade and Mike back for a special 2pm EWN. Channel 7’s coverage has been incredible.

Yikes. NBC's midday lineup has been weak for years, now Access Daily (and Hollywood) are done. Especially since Passions was cancelled NBC's 2pm hour has been a revolving door. You know it's bad when Dateline reruns -- something you would expect from a My Network TV or CW -- is airing on NBC stations in the daytime, especially in O&Os like New York. What are some stations going to do at 7:30 PM et/pt? What's left? do a second run or re-broadcast of their lifestyle shows at 7:30? Expand O&O 7 PM newscasts to a full hour?

I don't see the other O&Os expanding to an hour at 11. The second half is their pay to play lifestyle show like NY Live. It is followed by NBC News whatever (the streaming feed) and a Deadline repeat. It does leave a 2 hour gap in the middle of the afternoon (AH live and Kelly Clarkson's hour) but I'm not sure another repackaged version of the news is the right move, especially if they end up with a full hour from 7-8 pm. We'll probably won't know the plans until late summer.

Sinclair (or anyone else for that matter) isn't going to cancel a show unless it's not turning a profit. It's not "cheap" to not want to flush money down the toilet on a broadcast that barely anybody is watching. Weekend morning newscasts aren't big draws, which is why the latest round of Nexstar cuts targeted them, too. Nexstar is trying to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic, while Sinclair is being realistic. I suspect we're going to see this trend continue through the year, and probably come to a peak at the very end. Everyone will try to make it through election season before, I strongly suspect, weekend morning newscasts become increasingly rare.

Sinclair is (re)introducing a morning newscast (they cancelled in 2023) on WACH in Columbia... https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/wach-launching-good-day-columbia-new-morning-newscast/ It probably costs a fraction of what the old one did. But still noteworthy for a station group that loves to gut their local news departments in favor of piped in propa....i mean "content"....