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Staying in Chicago, a complete 6 p.m. newscast from WLS, 1980:

WBBM's morning newscast premiered on August 12, 1996. Before that, channel 2 used to air Rush Limbaugh at 6am, CBS Morning News at 6:30 and This Morning at 7. When the show began, Rush Limbaugh and CBS News were moved to 5 and 5:30 respectively, followed by the news at 6am and This Morning at 8. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-08-09-9608090214-story.html

In 2007, WMAQ would once again experiment with an unconventional morning format: Barely Today at 4:30 a.m., anchored by former WFLD sportscaster Bruce Wolf. This is what the first broadcast looked like: After a few months, the show was scrapped and the 5 a.m. news was expanded to start 30 minutes earlier. Interestingly, Barely Today used Newswire for its close, about a decade after WMAQ stopped using the legendary theme.

Meanwhile, in this weird, alternate universe, WGN Morning News was a calm, sophisticated hour of serious news. And still, no one watched WBBM.

A curiosity from 1996: a KTVK "Fast Break" two-minute newscast from halftime of a KUTP Suns game! The music is original using the "Arizona's Family" musical signature. The sponsor bump at the end is voiced by Steve Wood — very early work from him.

I Saw on FTVLive this morning FTVLive BNC that some dude named J.C. Watts Jr. & his business partner Bob Brillante are starting the "Black News Channel" to be targeted at young African Americans, and it is to launch this fall on Dish Network, Comcast & Charter. I wonder if this will get off the ground or not? something tells me this is going to fail, but then again if NewsNet can do it why can't these folks. They have been planning for this since May 2017. Their website say the headquarters & master control are going to be located in Tallahassee, FL, with bureaus in Atlanta, Washington D.C., New York City, L.A., Chicago & New Orleans. Any one else think this logo kind of looks like Master Card's logo? www.blacknewschannel.com

It's not exactly a law, but if you have a contract with labor unions and you try to go outside of the proper union to get work done, you're might end up with most (if not all) of your union employees not at their desks, picketing outside. NABET has a national contract with NBCU that covers a lot of engineering/production/technical jobs. However you also have IATSE's various chapters doing various things across the country. You might have a NABET camera operator and a IATSE lighting technician and a carpenter from a completely different IATSE chapter that's focused on scenic. Chicago has at least 8 separate IATSE chapters (Locals 2, 110, 476, 750, 762, 769, 780, and B46.)

Nah, I'm thinking more around this time, when they pulled a 180 image-wise. I don't recall when their morning news began. That said, they weren't relevant in the morning realm until this pairing in the latter part of the decade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq2AE5n41N8

Why? So they couldn’t hear Chapin yell the last names of the anchors? Here’s a KENS intro from 1979: And a WTVR open from the same channel:

Now here's the Eyewitness News 11PM open from July 4, 1986 KABC Ch.7 Eyewitness News 11PM open - July 4, 1986.mp4

Could a clue be in another post on today's FTV Live? https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2019/4/26/black-news-channel-to-launch-this-fall Or...is her ego so large she's headed towards something a bit more....mainstream? I'm not so sure though since she undoubtedly has a very "urban" style...and was a major component to WOIO's success in the mid-2000's. (Her sparring with Mike Trivisonno was classic.)

WPGA looks like HC2 bait to me. How would Marquee make the station profitable without a major network affiliation? This was the Registers' mistake for dropping ABC over morality issues. TV is business. If you don't like what's being broadcast, sell the station.

More than anything the job will go to Shon Gables. to me it seems like Tracye Hutchins actually enjoys doing the morning show. Can't like I got sad a lil bit once Sharon announced shes leaving I really enjoyed her work shes very passionate. My guess her next stop is for the big time CNN or NBC Morning Show I'd be shocked if she stays in Atlanta (WSB or WXIA ect)

A smaller wall with carpentry around it to make it blend into the set the way the old "window wall" did probably would have cost just as much as this massive wall. LED tiles are only getting cheaper, and labor to design and build set pieces (especially in Chicago) is not.

While WLS preferred a straightforward, just-the-facts approach to its morning news in the early 1990s, WMAQ responded with a more wacky, informal newscast titled First Thing in the Morning, featuring the antics of Bob Sirott, a former WLS-AM disc jockey:

I hope that’s the case! I will say he’s good at the 8am hour when it’s lighter and he can play off the audience and he’s also good at lifestyle/sports/celebrity interviews. But at 7am, sorry, I don’t want to see Michael Strahan interviewing the former NYPD commissioner about a terrorist incident or talking about Washington politics and California mudslides.