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The sales staff visits the newsroom:

Something something modern workplace...something something millennials...something something avocado toast.

Just because the preview of the new graphics may look tacky does not mean that the content and/or format of the show will change. I'm going to college for graphic design and I've seen things designed worse than these graphics for CTM (and that's really saying something).

From Chicago, various WMAQ goodies (mostly promos, newsbreaks, and teases) from the late '80s to the late '90s:

A WNYT montage from 1986 revealing more of their set from the 1980s. This was the time period when Ed Dague solo-anchored the news and the station was in its stages trying to beat ratings king WRGB.

KIMA News at 6 in 1999 — using the CBS 1997 Special Presentation theme:

On the Internet Archive is a huge collection of Koppel-era Nightline broadcasts, via the Vanderbilt TV News Archive: https://archive.org/details/godaneinbox?&and[]=subject%3A"ABC Nightline" From 1980-83 and 1988-89, the Cronkite/Rather era CBS Evening News: https://archive.org/details/cbseveningnews-1980 Late '60s ABC Evening News, plus World News Tonight (1980, 1991, 1993, 1998-99): https://archive.org/details/godaneinbox?&and[]=subject%3A"ABC Evening News" As previously posted on the Marion Stokes documentary thread in the tape room, here is some of what's been digitized already: https://archive.org/details/stokestvarchiveexperiment

This is just another ploy by Tegna to replace experienced anchors and reporters ... ...with their very own pets.

We should add KCBS (another O&O) to the list: in 1994 the station canceled its hour-long 6 a.m. newscast and replaced it with a back-to-back airing of the CBS Morning News. The morning show was reinstated on August 12, 1996, beginning at 5:30am.

Can't speak for Philly, but Chicago was generally behind on the morning news trend. Updates in and around the network programs had been standard since the 60s, but no stations aired formal programs until WMAQ and WLS debuted in 1989. That said, there were unsuccessful efforts over the decade to expand. WLS, for example, was toying the idea of a full hour at 6am, but it never debuted. (Chicago Tribune, 3/29/82)

I really hope the new graphics don't look like this cartoonish mess.

As was posted on the KFMB thread, the news staff are fostering a dog (Scoop) until it gets adopted. Now, WUSA is building out part of their newsroom for a play area for dogs (to allow folks to bring their dogs to work) .