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https://pagesix.com/2024/03/31/entertainment/judge-judys-return-to-tv-is-bad-news-for-old-bosses-at-cbs/ Buried at the end of the article is that CBS tried to secure “Judy Justice” to replace “The Talk”. I’m thinking “The Talk” is not long for this world.

Captured from the 6pm show tonight

Well, Jerry is a host of The Talk. I guess it is a little odd considering the Fox connection (although, at least here in Philly, Pictionary airs before The Talk, not against it), but it's not as strange as it would be if they had the cast of The View on or something.

I like to assume that the 'discussions' were like this; George Cheeks or Bob Bakish - "Judy, if you forget all that strife we had about your deal a few years back and drove you from the network, please let us put your show on CBS." Judy - "NO! Get out of my office" George/Bob - "Welp we tried." Shari Redstone - "OK, maybe she'll respond to me as a woman–" Judy - "Hell no, and I'm glad your dad's dead!" Shari - "I tried too, back to inexplicably allowing Pictionary (which airs against The Talk on the Fox O&Os) to have a Talk week and self-sabotage our daytime ratings!" (I did not make up the last item about Jerry O'Connell's Pictionary having The Talk cast on their show last week instead of a CBS game show. Why do that?!)

It's remarkable how Page Six always has " a source" on each topic who manages to speak in very similar tones/phrasing regardless of the topic. Then again, it's hard to always take Page Six seriously anyway. Again, we are a long way from seeing this latest "in development" show become a reality. And viewership data is what it is. Even if we take Page Six as gospel truth, there's a big gulf between looking for cheap filler in the form of a courtroom show to the cost of a soap. They may be able to build a more cost-friendly model going ground-up, but this feels more like a "we need to show something coming from this agreement we entered into and so far nothing else has come from it." Skepticism is healthy.

Loving the Palm Trees! Normally used to trees if it’s for windy forecasts. Very unique and local.

I would love to see The Talk go . Let's be cautious about speaking in absolutes when you also absolutely said soaps were done for. You've also questioned wether CBS would actually get rid of The Talk. The fact that they're even entertaining the launch of an hour long soap in 2024 is indication that wildcards are possible at this point.

There is zero chance Y&R gets cut. Less than zero. If this new show makes it to air, the Talk is toast.

Diane is obviously the internal candidate, but as is standard procedure, there is still an open job listing online. Meanwhile, the first half of the week has been a celebration of the morning newscast's 35 years, and there have been some special guests along the way. Earlier, media manager and apparent news nerd David Fell joined the show to talk about a lot of station history. Wednesday (today) was the official anniversary, so some familiar faces made their return between 6 & 8am. The Gray Beards, as I called them to a friend, reminisced about the old days, and Judy Hsu pre-taped a retrospective segment.

Loving KABC-TV (ABC7 Los Angeles’) New AccuWeather graphics, long overdue! Feels nice, fresh and soooooo modern and the palm trees! I’m as happy as Dallas Raines, it IS like looking outside the window!

Looks like it has to do with signal strength, at least for MeTV. Via Wikipedia: I should note that here in the Boston-Manchester market, MeTV is on subchannels of both Hearst-owned ABC affiliates, WCVB and WMUR, with identical schedules except for the stations' 10pm news and a 10:30pm repeat of Chronicle on WCVB 5.2. Xfinity carries both feeds, likely because of those newscasts.

Just an observation. For two times today, CNN uploaded some of a newscast (The Lead and OurFront), like they always do, but instead of the CNN logo being where it is in the lower third or being absent all together, it was in the top left corner, faded. Reminds me of how European stations place their bugs (news channel, newscast, or even normal programming. The bottom corners seem to be just a North America thing) and honestly, I like this much better. On air is still the same ol same ol but honestly, if there were to be new graphics in the future, this format could allow for more room text, and just more elegant graphics. Just this idea alone would be something U.S TV has never seen and could be very nice.

KABC has finally debuted the new weather graphics.

Cox isn’t mentioned, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that WSOC/WAXN won’t reup.

Tuned into the new 6pm broadcast. The intro is interesting (it uses a different music cue). Kristine is the anchor again, so I'd argue she's the new (solo) anchor. I noticed Maurice anchored yesterday at 8pm, so perhaps he will do the 8pm while Kristine does the 6pm each night. The closest thing this format reminds me of in NYC is when Ernie Anastos (and for a while Lori Stokes) did the 6pm on FOX5 with interviews from the other side of the studio.

I'm in the Los Angeles area myself, and there are at least a couple of factors as to why you'll have duplicate feeds of MeTV, H&I, and Catchy locally. One of which are signal contours...when Weigel finalized the purchase of KAZA-TV, it was about a year later that it began channel-sharing with KHTV-CD, one of three low-powered signals also currently owned by Weigel. However, when the channel-sharing arrangement was made with KAZA and KHTV, there were areas in the Los Angeles basin that couldn't pick the OTA signal. There was a signal boost not long after, and now both stations cover most of L.A. and Orange Counties, as well as the western edge of the Inland Empire. The secondary affiliations with KDOC (MeTV), KCOP (H&I), and KTTV (Catchy) fills-in those gaps over-the-air where KAZA and its low-power siblings have signal issues. Which goes to the second point, at least with the Fox stations group, they have contractual agreements to carry some or all of the Weigel digital networks on their subchannels (except in Chicago, Weigel's home base), and KDOC's contract with MeTV pre-dates Weigel's purchase of KAZA. On Spectrum cable, MeTV (KAZA 54-1), MeTV+ (KHTV 6-1), H&I (KSFV 27-2), Catchy (KPOM 14-1), and Story TV (KAZA 54-2) are all available there, and in 720p picture quality. A long-winded explanation, I'm sure, but that's the gist as far as the situation in Los Angeles.

Take a look, again.

April Fools Day fun at the CBS Duopoly

I didn't get to watch the new broadcast, but I found a screengrab from a website video. I must say that backdrop is beautiful.

♪ Boot salad yummy yummy ♪ At least some of the commenters are calling him out on his BS.

Rodgers *killing it* like usual.

Why?

Meanwhile, elsewhere in WBDland.... Warner Bros. Discovery to Overhaul TruTV With Sports; Sets Nightly Block for Games and More TruTV isn't the only "zombie" WBD needs to deal with...

WJW’s used the “Cleveland’s Own” slogan continually since 1988. In fact, there’s another station that we all know of which uses their (very) long-standing slogan in their logo:

I do like the cleaner look of the logo... Some of these boxed and multi-colored logos just don't work anymore.. especially with certain graphics packages....

I do love the implementation of these new weather graphics. Can easily tell if it's for metro or mountains... My biggest 2 gripes: 1) the sidebar 7-day still needs to be updated; 2) the very very choppy animation of the clouds in the 7-day.. ouch

Looks like they got sick of being on the viewer's side and decided to instead tell them 'here is your news now, now shut up and watch!' Seriously though, massive improvement; the box logo aesthetic just never aged well and finally the 36 can breathe. It's good for a square app icon, but now that we're moving into circle icons in the Google Play ecosystem they pretty much had to change. Expect many more logo changes of this type.

I like anchors sitting on a desk... but NOT on Citytv.

Henry Jessel has editorialized about WPIX; the short of it is 'how dare the FCC actually enforce its market cap rules instead of brushing them aside like they did under 45 and GWB and they should be PAYING Nexstar to run the market's lowest-rated news operation, which cannot survive any other way. Also Jessica Rosenworcel should be giving a medal to Perry Sook for trying to save wireline TV with NewsNation and saving the CW, rather than fining him', which is certainly...a view.

Only four soaps ever started as hour-long programs, all on NBC: Texas, Santa Barbara, Sunset Beach and Passions. All three were at or near the bottom of the daytime ratings throughout their respective runs, but only one never lasted longer than four years. (Santa Barbara ran for nine years and Passions ran for eight years, followed by an ninth that aired on what eventually became the now-defunct Audience Network after NBC dropped the show in 2007 to make room for the fourth hour of Today.) I'm not sure if Santa Barbara (1984–93) was ever dead last in the ratings at any point, given there was a lot of low-rated competition at various points during its run (Loving, Generations, Ryan's Hope, Capitol and, having spiraled into its nadir during its final years following its 1982 move from CBS to NBC, Search for Tomorrow). The Aaron Spelling-produced Sunset Beach was technically the least successful of the three serials, only lasting for three years from January 1997 to December 1999. (Fun Fact: It was the only conventional daytime show to ever be featured on the overnight block once known as "NBC All Night".) Oddly, despite consistently having poor ratings throughout its run, NBC chose to give Sunset a few multi-month renewals toward the end of its run because it performed well among younger audiences. That decision to renew the show short-term in early 1999, along with NBC and Sony securing a deal to renew Days of Our Lives after settling disagreements during contract talks (including issues over same-day PPV rebroadcasts on DirecTV, with speculation that it somehow would end up being picked up by ABC should NBC drop it, despite a lack of room on ABC's daytime schedule at the time to allow for a fifth soap), contributed to Another World getting the axe. Passions (1999–2008; until 2007 on NBC) had similar issues as Sunset Beach, finishing at of near the bottom of the ratings (and doing at least slightly worse in total viewers than the soap it replaced, Another World (which placed eighth in the ratings out of the eleven soaps on the air at the time of its cancellation, ahead of only Sunset and Port Charles), did during the last couple of years of its run); it didn't land in last place among the soaps until ABC canceled Port Charles in 2003, reducing the number of daytime serials from ten to nine. Like Sunset Beach, Passions stayed on NBC because of its performance among teenagers and women 18-34 (it typically placed first among both demographics).