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Good for Scott Pelley

Isn’t NBC News Daily live from noon to 4 Eastern? If so, the 3p hour they’ll be airing should be live instead of a repeat. Repeating a 3-hour-old newscast in the middle of the day seems a bit … risky, especially for an O&O in such a large market.

I thought I'd never see the day. WPSD is kicking off June with a real BANG. 18 years with the old look and all HD references are FINALLY GONE. This comes a couple of months after moving into their brand new building. Welcome to 2026, WPSD.

Pelley ain't happy.

It’s time for Bill Ritter to retire entirely from his anchoring duties. Or they need to strictly prohibit him from going off script when reading a story.

I wouldn’t necessarily trust the guide metadata just yet and get too hung up on the new/repeat indicator. Maybe it’s correct, but in general I’ve seen enough inadvertent missed labels to take it as gospel truth.

And here was some of his final moments at "WPMI" (WEAR 3.2).

January is pretty optimistic if the building currently looks like the photos above. Maybe they start the process of moving in January, but I really don't think this will be ready to broadcast from in 6 months. The HVAC isn't even up yet. My guess is they start the process in January and broadcasts move over in May (at the earliest) for Sweeps. EDIT: For example, the new WMAQ/WSNS newsroom/studios looked like this in late June of last year and didn't show up on-air until mid-January, and that was only moving the newsroom within an existing building. The idea that the WSVN facility will advance from a concrete shell, to something close to what we saw from WMAQ last June, in the next month is unlikely.

On Monday, WCAU will be moving Kelly Clarkson back to the 2pm slot (where she originally was from 2019 to 2022) and adding a second hour of NBC News Daily at 3pm. According to the schedule, the 3pm airing will be a repeat of the 12pm airing. Access Daily (currently at 2pm) will move to 2:33am, while Dateline at 1pm remains untouched. Good news for Drew Barrymore, who will now have the only talk show in the 3pm hour (her show airs on KYW), unless you count Maury reruns on WPHL.

The way that banner reads sounds like that chopper is gone too.

WFTV is a shell of itself. Same in other Hearst markets. WTAE now has the only copter in pittsburgh. WPXI has been gutted. The Cox stations cant keep staff either. They all post reporter openings daily.

This would probably be confined to the West Coast O&Os, as it would interfere with 4pm and 5pm newscasts for the Central and East Coast O&Os. I expect a lot of O&Os to air a second hour of NBC News Daily.

With this move by KNTV, I believe that the other NBC O&O stations will do the same by ending syndicated programs and replacing them with NBC News Now programs or expanding local news coverage. https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/hallie-jackson-nbc-news-san-francisco-streaming-1236761163/

New pics from 7 west, WSVN's new home in Miramar.

When Gannett bought WATL, they clearly had Channel 36’s facility in mind because it offered much more space than WXIA-TV’s old building on Peachtree Street. In fact, WXIA eventually moved its operations into the One Monroe Place facility after the acquisition. is well-suited. NBC still has a strong presence at the One Monroe location, and honestly, I don’t see Nexstar Media Group leaving anytime soon. It’s a large, modern, and spacious building that makes sense for long-term operations.

It’s still active on my end. And I assume a new logo/branding for WTVQ?

NBC NewsChannel vacated that facility in early December 2023. NewsChannel is largely a remote/work from home operation now (though still "based" in Charlotte,) from what I have heard. NBC's Mark Barger posted photos of the empty newsroom at the time. If you look at that building on Google Earth, the last time the parking lot had any significant number of cars in it was 2019, with some improvement in 2023. StreetView shows it empty in 2025 after the June 2022 pass. They probably went WFH for the Covid pandemic and never looked back. There was some rumors circulating that they re-purposed the building for the Tegna Stream Center, but I find it unlikely that they replaced the existing facility that opened in 2021 already. Perhaps a combined Nexstar/Tegna would use it for some kind of mega-hub.

WBIR in Knoxville has a fairly large facility in the Belle Morris area of town. This along with WATE, which operates inside of a historic mansion, are probably this nicest-looking studios of the three news operations.

Just a few blocks apart. Old location is conveniently near the OB/GYN on top. Current location is at the bottom. Sounds like the plan is to house the combined WUSA/WDCW operation in the current WUSA studios.

Thought you guys might appreciate these. They actually don't include the studio portion of the building along the back of the building though.

It's a very large building, it was an old Armory before KUSA built there, so part of the studios are part of the old armory. It was the largest news room in Denver before FOX Television Stations, LLC & KDVR built there current home. The KUSA studios have 2 or 3 floors (one floor is non news and is for the sales dept).

Yeah, that looks messy -- especially if you're not used to eating pizza in that shape.

KPNX has their building in Downtown Phoenix (one of 2 stations that call DTPHX home along with KSAZ) on Van Buren & N 2nd St. which was shared by the Arizona Republic newspaper before they moved last year to Midtown. That area could soon become a hotspot with development taking shape around there & the Central Avenue area couple of blocks to the West where the light rail is.

It was built in 1993, so it's a bit dated now, but I always found it to be a nice place. It's mostly a single floor so there's a LOT of walking and long hallways.

Speaking of old Gannett properties, if you have $3m laying around you can buy KSDK's old building in downtown St Louis https://www.cbre.com/resources/fileassets/US-SMPL-191835/0b9f369e/3eca36dc-0eef-4313-adae-df7facea907e.pdf Almost worked there... but was turned off by what St Louis calls pizza.

It also appears that Scripps has completed the WTVQ sale. https://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?facid=51597

WPLG is acquiring Family Feud from WBFS this fall.

Possible quiet consolidation of morning newscasts in Fort Myers? Can't legally download/share, but saw on a media monitoring service I have access to for the day job that WBBH and WZVN were simulcasting morning newscasts today, show open had no network logos on it, while the bugs had NBC/ABC depending on which station. (Which makes sense, most places have logo/time/temp bug from NewsTicker downstream from the news control room switcher so it can easily be put up over any source) On TitanTV the WZVN morning newscast has changed from "Good Morning Gulf Coast" to "Gulf Coast News Today" which matches WBBH.