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To this day, their move to Time Square has been pointless. If you're a new viewer to the show, you would have no idea that they were broadcasting at "the crossroads of the world". They would have saved so much money if they stayed at Studio 57.

Problemas técnicos fizeram com que CBS Mornings fosse do Studio 57 em vez do tradicional 1515.

First look at what I'm guessing will be the new graphics/theme via a promo:

I have to hand it to Gray, they did a good job and the flexibility of the set is fantastic. I'm curious to see the new GFX package next month.

Unexected but not surpsing given how busy Seacrest is. Mark is a solid choice. I suppose Kelly didn't want to go through months of guest hosts and the audience is already used Consuelos. Hopefully the saying about working with your spouce doesn't happen here -- but they all ready worked together on All My Children. I expected Kelly to leave before Ryan, in that case Maria Menunos would have been a solid replacement. As for the future of the show, (this was tried already) but Michael Strahan, Sarah Haines and Keke Palmer were good together. I believe their show didn't work out because GMA 3 was an unkown show duplicating a saturated format. LIVE on the other hand has an established brand and maybe the trio --or Michael and one of the two ladies-- would work. But please keep LIVE going rather than replacing it with GMA 3.

Looks like more changes in the syndication world, this time to TV's number 1 daytime talker, I wonder If Disney tried their hardest to have him stay onboard. I can't really blame Seacrest though, he's a busy guy and the back and forth during Idol season must be really exhausting. Kudos to him being a hard worker, but his personal time must have been quite limited. I really thought Ripa was going to pass the baton to Seacrest in terms of succession. Consuelos will be a good match with Ripa, but if they both "retire" at the same time years down the road, then it will ultimately bring some instability and more questions about the future of the Live franchise, it is a personality driven show that needs chemistry; I wonder if Gelman has started mapping out possible successors already. Heck, since they are a couple, Ripa and Consuelos will most likely be off during the same time period when they go on family vacations together, so they will most likely have trial runs with matching up people when they're off. It does gives GMA3 an open possibility of taking over the slot as well if that show can get their act together. Personally, I would have preferred someone like Josh Groban taking over, he was my favorite when he tried out all those years ago.

And the new theme sounds like it’s an evolution of the current theme.

Also they could have at least done CBS News North Texas

Obviously, the CBS News Local standard makes news division names simpler. So, this is easily one of the simplest local news division names yet

Good use of multiple colors at once.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CoqbDL4rDf0/?igshid=MDM4ZDc5MmU= Looks like WCBS was testing a revised background on its set earlier this week. Note the large blue curves on the left and right sides of the background on the TV screen in this video. Could we be close to a launch at WCBS? Edit: Took a screenshot from Instagram to zoom in on the background.

According to Zap2It, KTVT is rebranding their newscasts to “CBS News Texas”.

Maybe I'm late to this, but there's been a proposal to turn the base of 1515 Broadway (where CBS Mornings originates) into a casino. Who knows whether this would ultimately happen, but it does make me question whether Paramount will keep CBS there long-term. https://www.curbed.com/2023/02/times-square-casino-slgreen-caesars-jay-z-security-bratton.html I believe there's an ordinance or some other requirement that every building in Times Square be flashy or have some sort of prominent use. I think Viacom got away with it during the TRL days because that show would spill big crowds into the street, but the way that studio space is currently used certainly isn't flashy or anything to keep people lingering.

Ryan Seacrest is leaving Live, and Kelly’s husband Mark Consuelos is his successor.

Talked to one of the main anchors yesterday and he said 6 am would start today. However, there wouldn’t be a full morning newscast for a few weeks. More than likely, weekends will debut first, then the 4:30 am and 5 am newscasts.

It’s being built out incrementally; likely that you’ll see the start time pushed further in the coming weeks to 5am and 4:30am.

I for one am looking forward to the great culling of cable channels. It's long overdue. The multiplexes should be among the first to go, of course -- all the extra HBOs, Showtimes, MTVs, Nicks, VH1s, etc. It's 2023; who needs eight flavors of HBO (plus their west coast feeds) when you have HBO Max? But the absolute first channels that need to go? Music Choice and its ilk.

They sound like they didn't want to read that script on the teleprompter. But the boss forced them to do it like they're in a hostage situation. Update: They removed the video that @tvtime07 shared. Oh yes....a definite backtrack now.

Fair points. I wonder, does the public think what we get now is quality journalism or are they just consuming the best of a bad situation (WNT and GMA being #1)? Though standards have dropped, even less media savy people complain about CNN & FNC so there is some understanding of good versus bad--even if they aren't basing their opinions off the Cronkite era like us. Maybe I'll die alone on this hill alone, but there must to be a way to cultivate a modern day audience around a better quality product while being profitable.

I don't love the quarter eye logo behind text in the bottom left, but otherwise, I think it's a great open. There is a marked disconnect between what TV news junkies on a message board like and what the general public likes. Is it how Cronkite presented the news? No. But this style is what catches people's attention in 2023 and it has sent ABC WNT to #1. I actually quite liked the cuts syncing with the music. I think this version nicely delivers the headlines in an active, attention-holding way without the doomsday drama of WNT("As we come on the air"..."Happening right now"...every verb ending in -ing).

If they grow like that into year two and three... ANF could really theaten WSB-TV's longtime dominant decades-long #1 status.

Not to mention before Sharyl Attkinson and Lara Logan went off the deep end.....

It's too much, too chaotic, too loud and cheap looking. At least the long WNT open is just David introducing multiple stories one at a time. The CBS This Morning eye opener was good, they should have played off of that more. The Evening News was always faster paced, going back to the Rather days. At least they were well written, didn't overuse present tense, didn't seem like they were shouting, and didn't splash "Breaking News" over everything. I miss the days of the one story cold open, intro, then cut to anchor. If we have to introduce muliple stories the Bob Schiffer era did it well:

FWIW, the anchor desk graphics have changed.

I can't wait to see how they re-brand The Movie Channel. "Paramount+ with Showtime and The Movie Channel"? This just feels like Paramount is either raising the white flag of surrender and acknowledging HBO's superiority in the premium cable space...or doing the equivalent of saying, "Hey! No one messes with my son Shoey! He's a PARAMOUNT!"

And no new graphics at five Notably I do like the warmth in this shot

So they're coming up on dogsled through the Iditarod...hopefully the dogs don't get tired delivering that flash drive. (yes I do know Fairbanks isn't on the route)

I'll tell you one thing about Nate Burleson. Paramount is really using him good in this synergy. Maybe because he's very talented, or maybe because there's something else I don't know about. Expect him to host Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards this year. Nate Burleson & Charli D’Amelio To Host Kids‘ Choice Awards – Deadline

Marquee has introduced a new look at WHIZ in Zanesville, Ohio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkiZWDuwNOE The graphics are a major improvement. Set is blah (basically a monitor on a brick wall). And the technical issues are rampant, since this is probably automation, and in a place like Zanesville, it's a 180 from the way things may have been done for YEARS....

Tim McCarver, champion catcher turned famed MLB broadcaster, dies at 81

Turns out things aren't much better over at AT&T SportsNet https://awfulannouncing.com/wbd/att-sportsnet-rsns-reportedly-short-three-mlb-teams-on-rights-payments.html

None of the CW affiliates owned by CBS are airing it.

Dang! AM news not until 5:30? I know they are the new shop in town, but 5:30am start time is very 1999.

If I had to guess, it’s probably because Peacock is starving for content (and subscribers). Also, IIRC, they can’t simulcast on Peacock and USA due to some archaic reason related to cable.