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So to break this all down, the new newscasts will be... Weekdays: - 7-9am (a return from when they did WSFL) - 10-11am - 6:30-7pm - 9-10pm (a return in the market since WFOR had to drop it for WBFS once they got The CW) The 10pm will be moved over from WSFL. Weekends: - 8-9am - 10:30-11am - 5:30-6pm - 6:30-7pm - 9-10pm (News + Sports) I'm surprised they're getting rid of the weekend 10pm. I mean, what will they do with that? Other than that, WSVN must be a bit nervous but ready to compete in what will be a WSVN vs. WPLG market.

I think the main issue is cost. First, you have to subtract the amount you're getting for the infomercial. So this venture is already in the hole. Then you need to add talent costs; the KABC and KCBS shows have outside talent in addition to the sports anchor. Then you have to sell it to an advertiser or two. KCBS and KABC seem to have a couple of car dealers they can call on when they want to do additional programming. I haven't seen anything consistent on KNBC. So, it's a tough ask. Additional opinion that no one asked for: "The Challenge" is bad enough 17 weeks a year, expanding it would benefit nobody.

THE gold standard of Chicago journalism and investigations at its finest... Carol Marin. Now, she's getting a call from the Order of Lincoln, the state's highest honor. This is a very well deserving recipient. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/veteran-nbc-5-journalist-carol-marin-among-2025-order-of-lincoln-honor-recipients/3674772/?_osource=db_npd_nbc_wmaq_eml_shr&fbclid=IwY2xjawJZuKxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZQgePBQzq7ynFe12dhBzn5t3GZDmuAzKJV7_wWNvf_5URNrYODFWTJp-w_aem_vHG2EjoQOKQmqqdQA3Gnyg

For April Fools I would have expected the "Mix of 96" to make an appearance

April Fools???? -- matt

It's the definition of "acquired taste", that's for certain. It's really gonna take getting used to.

On this day -- April 1, 2025 -- Live aired its final edition from its studio of over 40 years at 67th & Columbus in the Upper West Side.

WABC also uses Eyewitness News This Morning… CBS’s national show used to be called CBS This Morning.

57 years at one TV station? It is unheard of now these days in this business. Yet, longtime KARK camera operator Morsie Eagles did just that. Today, he finally retires at The Morsie Eagles Studio (named in 2018) at KARK. https://www.kark.com/news/kark-4-today/kark-4-news-longtime-camera-operator-morsie-eagles-retires/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJX1BhleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHS0eLyTCFzdcloLYtNqauQLYZANUA2F69eToVGruBf2P6KCN2ZX8MbUz7A_aem_9QydHpk2FLzzGMCPCj9e3Q

So basically they've become "Early Today"...

A lot of stations have installed in weather centers the abiility to interrupt for a cut-in and a mini switcher for meteorologists so they can control what makes air during a cut-in without a director or a crew. Because hub operators are running multiple stations at once, it is a lot easier for a station to call up and say "hey, we're at a risk of severe weather, activate the interrupt switch in the weather center at (call letters) so we can get on air immediately if we get a warning" and they will - so it isn't a game of telephone for the meteorologist to get on air quickly. After the cut-in, the call likely serves a couple purposes. On the technical side, they likely have to reset the switch if there's a chance of another cut-in, or deactivate it if the risk is over so a rogue elbow bump doesn't disrupt programming. Operationally, it is likely standard operating procedure to call so the hub operator can make sure the discrepancy report is accurate for the times of the cut-in and what ads were missed and need to either be made good or have billing adjsuted.

WPTZ News 5 intro mid 80's Classic WMC ID it says 1985, but I'm sure it's older than that. KMPH TV 26 "Get to know us" presentation 1979. WEAR Gulf Coast News 3 1984 WTAE 4 News 1994 WTVN Action 6 News 1985 Intro

nothing else. the syndication market is D.E.A.D.

I don't think it has anything to do with Fox News. They started de-emphasizing network branding when NBC bought WTVJ, and I assume they've stuck with that approach ever since then because it's worked for them.

KTVI and KDVR would be great candidates for this package... Nexstar has some big FOX stations in larger markets that would make them stand out

Deborah Norville announced today that she's leaving Inside Edition after 30 years when this season ends: https://www.tvinsider.com/1184654/deborah-norville-leaving-inside-edition-final-episode-date/ Mary Calvi anchors the weekend edition and fills in for Norville during the week. I wonder if she's in line to take over, and if that would affect her duties anchoring the morning news.

Jane Pauley and her agent can do the funniest thing ever... (I kid, I kid)

If Mary Calvi is chosen to replace Deborah, will she be able to balance it with her work at WCBS?

Deborah Norville will be leaving Inside Edition after 30 years as its host. https://deadline.com/2025/04/deborah-norville-leaving-inside-edition-1236357493/

It's definitely odd to hear.

SKY News has updated its graphics package. Gone is the gradient, conventual shape look, in favor of more boxes of various shapes, and flat colors.

Why hasn't the station try to create a local sports show on weekend afternoons regularly? For example, most sports programming from the network ends at 3pm local time. The station usually have infomercials right after sports programming. Instead of that, why not just air sports related programming locally between 3-4pm. Then have their regular programming afterwards. Or they should start their afternoon / evening news early then.

Lee Peck is now one of the morning anchors at WALA in Mobile. He was an early evening anchor before, and filled in as primary anchor after Byron Day's departure. Eric Reynolds is apparently still at the station, but his whereabouts are unknown. He was a longtime morning anchor at the station, even anchoring with his wife at one time. I'm hearing that it could be health-related, so I send my best wishes to him and his well-being.

Disappointed Tegna NBC affiliate WCNC Charlotte has cancelled their Sunday morning political program Flashpoint. It was an informative program with newsmakers and political leaders that aired after Meet the Press, as sort of a local version. Good program, sorry to see it go. Victim of cutbacks, I suppose. They are now airing infomercials in its place. WSOC still airs its Political Beat program on Sundays on the Cox ABC affiliate in Charlotte, and the Hearst NBC affiliate WYFF in Greenville-Spartanburg still has their Sunday news and public affairs program.

The Seattle Storm now has an OTA TV home with KOMO and KUNS. Out of 47 games in total, 33 of them are on KUNS, 13 are on KOMO, and there's only one national game this season, but also on KOMO. https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/seattle-storm-sets-komo-kuns-as-exclusive-broadcast-tv-partners/

A meteorologist shouldn't be calling the hub to tell them to get on or off the air at all. If there's severe weather their focus needs to be on the weather. A producer, manager, or director should be the ones calling the hub (and frankly there should be a producer in the booth during extended severe weather coverage anyway). However, given how poorly staffed and inexperienced many newsrooms are nowadays I wouldn't be surprised if some mets in some markets have had to take up that responsibility as well.

All good. And yes, the lack of public availability of ratings is unfortunate.

WPLG's 9am is more lighter in nature than the 4:30-7am and other newscasts. I'm betting the new expanded morning newscast will be done by two separate anchor teams, like when they had the 7-9am WSFL newscast. If CBS/Sony allows KTVK to run both shows in primetime...

With the 9pm evening start, I wonder if they’re hedging on being contractually able to run Jeopardy! and Wheel at 8pm…

I hope they use the 7 to 11 AM block to do a lighter morning show (like Good Day Orlando), instead of all hard news. It's surprising that in a place as active and vibrant as South Florida, there was no light morning newscast in the overlapping Miami or West Palm Beach markets, until WPEC added ARC Florida recently. WOFL 35 in Orlando is a great example of a station using creative formatting to fill heavy news output.

WPLG has announced their post-ABC news schedule: Weekdays: 4:30-11am noon-1pm 3-7pm 9-11:30pm Weekends: 5-11am 5-7pm 9-9:30pm 11-11:30pm There will also be half-hour sports shows Saturdays at 9:30pm and 11:30pm and a 9:30pm show on Sundays in addition to the existing 11:30pm Sports Sunday.

Because crime sells. (See also: "If it bleeds, it leads.")

What @nathannah said. It's not because of this move but all of the other bloodletting Paramount is doing in recent months. Almost like when the 1980 Summer Olympics was cancelled in the US, NBC's future as a network was put into question because they were already in deep trouble back then. And then the genius Jeff Zucker thinking out loud that NBC could never be "on top" again with all of his idiot moves. Paramount is in it for the money right now. If an affiliate balks, they'll go to the next willing station, or cut them loose when the time comes. The O&Os are a boring mess, CBS News is irreparably damaged from all of the changes, and any goodwill it has left has been stripped away with every cut they've made. The most stinging was the end of the Christmas specials they've run for DECADES. If Stephen Colbert goes away, CBS is done for, IMHO. And on the streaming side, there's little reason for me to ever get Paramount+. The only way is to give it to me for free from one of my other services. They've gotten Warner Brothers stupid and started cutting classic Nickelodeon content you can't get anywhere else.

CBS has its challenges as do all of the networks, but cutting loose a show at 12:30 am isn't exactly the sign of the apocalypse.

KSWB would be another great fit for this package

If you're of a certain age, you can remember the glut of first-run syndicated dramas, sitcoms, and musical/talent shows that were around during the 1980s and '90s...a lot of that had to do with more TV stations signing on the air during that aforementioned time (thus needing the programming, besides old off-network reruns and whatever live sports they could cobble up), and already-established stations having more control over their programming inventory. Over time, with the launch of Fox, and later The WB and UPN, plus the growth of cable TV (both in terms of subscribers and the number of networks), a lot of these same kind of shows that would be meant for first-run syndication eventually migrated to those outlets, and now 25-30 years later, much of that same type of content has migrated to streaming. The more I think about it, these local stations (including the likes of WPLG) may have to try "re-invent the wheel" in order for them to survive in the long-term...going wall-to-wall news (like a certain CW station in my home city) may not cut it everywhere.

Instead, they'll live off of syndicated crap game shows or garbage programming. Hey, someone has to push the trash talkers and court shows on the unwashed masses. (Also, are there actually twelve episodes of Family Feud every day?) Scripted programming is not in the past; it just often ends up on streaming services because the broadcast networks generally only want shows that have the broadest appeal. Sports and reality shows succeed at that, partly because they're focused on physical ability (sports), competition (most reality shows on the networks), or relationship drama (the farmer wants a wife? Good for him, but absolutely none of my business). On the scripted side, these means a lot of procedurals, both police/crime-solving (CSI, NCIS, the entire Dick Wolf multiverse) and medical (The Pitt, Doc, House, etc.). The more intellectually-stimulating scripted shows wouldn't have a chance of being picked up by the broadcast networks, and cable channels are not grabbing as many of them as they used to as they themselves are dumbing their content down to widen their appeal. (Why do you think BBC America shows Law & Order repeats?)

So Chris and Jacqui are both out after being removed from Storm Center a little over 5 months ago. The fact that they both left at almost the same time tells me that both of them were not being renewed by TWC. As for the Allen station hits, I'm told that Carl Parker and Todd Borek are two of the OCMs doing those hits. Not sure if any others are involved. With Chris and Jacqui gone, plus Carl and Todd focusing all efforts on the local hits, plus Jim Cantore and Alex Wilson off today, TWC went with a super bizarre OCM lineup for today's severe weather coverage. AMHQ Shift 1: Stephanie Abrams, Jordan Steele, and Reynolds Wolf AMHQ Shift 2: Jen Carfagno and Molly McCollum TWC Live: Alex Wallace and Felicia Combs Weather Unfiltered: Chris Bruin and Dr. Rick Knabb Extra 10pm-2am ET shift: Dr. Greg Postel and Mike Bettes So apparently the strategy was to move everyone downward from their normal timeslots just to fill out the schedule.

WPXI has finally found their replacement for Katherine Amenta in the morning... its Liz Kilmer, trading in evenings (mainly for WPGH at 6:30pm) for mornings. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1081912917078427&id=100057791871983

Just shy of 40 years at the station, Joe Schmit has announced his retirement from KSTP Television and April 30th is his last day. https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/joe-schmit-announces-retirement-as-kstp-sports-director/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJZd0dleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcq9Gv1txQpVHa9POYDThbktvXC9u3jbkYKnFS39yWTwMf9RiMDBUlmqlg_aem_2iSJBf2bu5cKPdnCSf6mhA

Jacqui Jeras just posted that today is her last day. She's on now with Felicia Combs.

WWMT when the nasty weather hit Sunday used ARC-WMI for the nonstop weather coverage since MSU was playing Auburn when the storms were about to flare up. Didn't want to deal with upset MSU fans I wonder if MSU wasn't playing if they would've cut in for the storm coverage, they did a cut in before the 2ND half was about to begin. All my years never seen a weather met call hub when the cut in was over on all the local TV stations in West Michigan. Interesting that happened in NC a couple of weeks ago shouldn't Charlotte be master control since that is a big city why call Indy for that.

NCIS: Albuquerque and FBI: Office Cleaning Crew look to have potential. But seriously, let’s stop with the “let’s do what they did decades ago” reactions. This ain’t then, and that ain’t happening.

news overload! but they really have no options.

What channel was it, one of the Pannoni channels or someone else?

I'd add Drew Carey and Wayne Brady to the list... CBS still leads in daytime, correct?

We're getting closer to the days when the local affiliate is no longer necessary for network television. Case in point, my local CBS and CW stations are not on YouTube TV at the moment (but still on the air otherwise). YTTV just pops up a network feed that fills in the local slots with CBS News programming and PSAs, and on the CW, their eastern feed. Given the garbage that passes off as network television these days, I'd prefer a hyper-local station that doesn't have to pre-empt things for whatever crap sports or garbage programming is being sent to the affiliates to run.

It wasn’t a big deal for Fox because they don’t have a national morning show competing against TODAY. ABC does have a national morning show, GMA, who often is neck and neck with the TODAY show in the ratings. That’s the difference here. Also, the morning program on 6 used to be referred to as NBC6 News Today in South Florida.

I don't think so. They used the Bally graphics when this package aired on Bally Sports last season. Plus, they are using their own full screen graphics and their own theme music. My guess is, given they announced this deal Mid-July, they probably didn't have enough time to put together a full graphics package since they only had a month and a half to make it happen. Using the ESPN inserts is probably just temporary for this year or maybe just a few months. Curious to see how this will work for ACC Basketball since ESPN have a different graphics look for College Hoops. I wonder if they will do the same thing there.

So they can look exactly like the USA Today and Gannett's local newspaper websites. Great! *sarcasm*