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Newscasts end with a copyright graphic. I’m sure every station was given the new music version for the 2020 copyright Look for the Florida push to continue with West Palm going next. There’s pressure for the person in charge to get more large markets on, so Phoenix, Denver and Detroit will be going in the next few weeks, plus some more smaller market stations. The rollout has been very bumpy with many stations frustrated with the Cincinnati corp team in charge. That caused more of a slowdown than the holiday schedules. It still exists for stations who want to use less resources on a newscast (it can be used with no local inserts), but its not locked into being a 4pm only show now.

The Roundtable segment starts around the 31-minute mark.

Is this the new graphics?

I don't know why they would go to the trouble of another remodel when they're a couple years out from moving to Hudson Yards though... I could see this being a permanent spot for This Week for 2020 to be honest--a lot of the BG elements look too produced for it to be a one-off as it is, and the execution was solid.

WABC is the only major market ABC O&O to carry only 4 meteorologists, with one of them being a veritable talking head (I love Same, but his arrangement limits his availability outside of M-Th mornings). With a middle of the road weekly output, there is absolutely no reason why they can't have a permanent 5th, or at least a regular, locally-based freelancer.

I'm curious in what exactly they are frustrated about regarding corporate. Is it the graphics they are frustrated by--or something much broader than that?

Hearst and AT&T reach agreement. https://www.koco.com/article/a-message-for-directv-subscribers-2/30370617

The car commercial in the second one before the news is voiced by Ernie Anderson! KXTV in April 1992, this look probably just had been rolled out: I can possibly assume this was the same company that did KRON’s and WOWT’s 2D graphics due to the former being in nearby San Francisco.

My mom said it was "Skinny White Women in Black Night...and Ravi" on ABC 7.

From KPRC-TV in Houston: Inside Big 2 News (October 1978): https://texasarchive.org/2018_00996 Big 2 News at Six (7/20/1979) https://texasarchive.org/2019_00673

NewsNet is essentially a small business. You can't expect them to produce the same caliber of content as the networks do. I'm honestly amazed they've been able to accomplish this much. I say they are doing as good of a job as they could. I would've kept more live coverage on the local "Northern Michigan" cut-ins...maybe a half-hour of national, then a half-hour of local news, then repeat. But clearly they see more profitability in the national audience. I'd say that's a smart move because, as a small business, you cannot spread yourself out too thin. NewsNet deserves more credit than they are getting. I hope they succeed. I truly do.

Where do they find their on-air “talent”? Seriously. Wow.

So the discontinuation of MI News 26 is extremely sloppy, and from the outside seems to be happening with no thought put into it. The old minews26.com website is being updated as of Friday, but things like weather have frozen in time, being last updated before the transition to Newsnet. Even their own website still features the MI News 26 schedule, with only the website header image referencing the transition to "Newsnet" from MI News 26. The stream appears to have ceased working, and again, there's no redirection to the working Newsnet stuff. It's kind of sad that they've just completely trashed the relatively good idea of hyperlocal news coverage for CNN Lite, and are too busy caught up with trying to make that happen to even transition away from the hyperlocal thing right.

yet as long as the owner keeps putting cash into the furnace, NewsNet will continue for the foreseeable future. I don't understand why people don't just give up or think about it before going into this business.

90% of their content comes from CNN Newsource (which is a bizarre arrangement itself.) If CNN gets worried, they can essentially kill the network by yanking their access to Newsource. Newsnet wouldn't have anything left to broadcast.

Not to mention... BREAKING NEWS every time they kick off the broadcast. It's effing ridiculous.

I don't think it looks that bad at all.