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Just depends on the monitor/tv manufacture. Some default to blue...some to green and some to black when signal is not present. Funny monitor story... In the mid to late 1990's CNN Atlanta was slowly replacing the original CRT monitors in the newsrooms, edit bays and control rooms. As engineers and contractors replaced the sets, many of the old ones ended up stacked in corners, hallways and break rooms. As you can guess...some of those monitors "walked away" and found new homes as video game monitors, extra tv's for kids rooms or grandmas house... It was not unusal to find some low paid CNN VJ or production type watching an old Sony monitor...with "CNN" burned into the CRT in the lower right corner of the screen. (For you youngsters...CNN was not as graphic intense back then....but the yellow/orange CNN bug was always there, so the image would "burn in" the screen after being always on screen year after year.)

That blue at WLS definitely looks like "no signal" blue. I doubt it's something they do intentionally (as in they're not going "hey lets put blue on the screens when we're not using them,) it's probably just what the monitors do for a while when no signal is routed to it. I suspect they'd eventually turn off automatically if they weren't routed something (the poor man's remote control).

Happening Today is Exactly What It Says On The Tin, a report of certain event(s) taking place on that day. You see it a lot on morning shows, local and national. Some stations may do a Happening Tonight or Happening Tomorrow, as well.

The Lighthouse's flagship outlet celebrated a milestone this week. WCPO celebrated its 70th anniversary. And throughout their newscasts this past week, they've replaced its main bug for its old 60s "9" logo for this occasion.

And Norah will be removed in another few years for reason X, Y, or Z. CBS’ daily news shows are unstable and have been for over a decade. That is not a recipe for success or resonance with viewers.

Nah, it's just NBA playoffs and finals time.

I was wondering why I didn't see her last month. That's so gutting.

WGGB/WSHM Dave Madsen's last day is Friday after 27 years at channel 40, 13 years at WWLP and nearly 50 years of being in Springfield media from WMAS radio to Western Mass News. https://www.westernmassnews.com/news/looking-back-at-dave-madsen-s-career/article_24858d02-b229-11e9-905c-877a4624e51f.html

I remember a few eyebrows being raised a few years ago when it was announced that Peggy Kusinski was shifting from daily reporting to a special projects/investigative role, an odd arrangement for local TV sports. As an irregular NBC 5 viewer, I hadn't seen her much since, and was a little surprised when she was talked about as if she was a former colleague during a recent interview with her and her son on Sports Sunday. Sure enough, she's only been at work 7 days in the last year. Now we know why, and it's heartbreaking... https://www.dailyherald.com/sports/20190729/rozner-whatever-happened-to-peggy-kusinski