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Kudos to Scott Pelley, a wonderful news reporter with impeccable integrity. Getting fired from the festering, anti-journalist and pro-fascism cesspool that CBS has become — and going down in such a blaze of glory — is a badge of honor. Onward and upward.

Scott Pelley’s statement in full: There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes. The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58th season, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. “60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration. The waste is heartbreaking. Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos. For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well. I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return. Scott Pelley

In a world of Bari Weisses, be a Scott Pelley or a Sharyn Alfonsi.

WOW! that b***h is murdering 60 minutes! I hope that those who can walk out! WALK OUT!

Lots of opportunities for someone to put together a program called "The Hour" on Sunday evenings with a rag-tag group of newly free agent journalists.

Pelley ain't happy.

A major change last night prior to the season premiere of AGT, the network changes its curtain raiser again for the first time in 3 years.

At this point, I really hope 60 Minutes ends because nobody will want to do a show under Bari Weiss's control. Let CBS burn if they are willing to go through all of this to appease dear leader.

Isn’t NBC News Daily live from noon to 4 Eastern? If so, the 3p hour they’ll be airing should be live instead of a repeat. Repeating a 3-hour-old newscast in the middle of the day seems a bit … risky, especially for an O&O in such a large market.

Locking this thread as it is essentially becoming a list/database thread.

I thought I'd never see the day. WPSD is kicking off June with a real BANG. 18 years with the old look and all HD references are FINALLY GONE. This comes a couple of months after moving into their brand new building. Welcome to 2026, WPSD.

Animation is cool but really dig the sound.

Well a Wiseman once said it before but we will say it again, Goodnight and good luck mo*********rs

I was about to post about that. It's as heated as you'd expect:

It would be interesting if the networks copied 60 Minutes....except they already have it, and they turned it into true crime formats. The proper way to do it would be to unwind it and get back into hard form storytelling. Second, we're in a world where there's a chance that those who were fired don't have to work at networks anymore. They can set up or join independent platforms. And the settlements at 60 Minutes and CBS is, it's dying, and they're prioritizing access more than getting the facts right without fear or censorship. If they feel the same about all the other legacy networks, then this may well be the current thinking for where these people will go next

Let’s take a little trip down the Channel 7 memory lane because 15 years ago today, EYEWITNESS NEWS FIRST @ 4PM debuted. As many of us know, this newscast replaced The Oprah Winfrey Show, which ended the day before (May 25, 2011) and ran for 25 years and seasons respectively. Today on FIRST @ 4PM, Liz Cho, David Novarro, and chief meteorologist Lee Goldberg celebrated the milestone. FIRST @ 4PM DEBUT VIDEO FROM 15 YEARS AGO (MAY 26, 2011) https://youtube.com/watch?v=cvUPsa63Lrs&si=Y7E4vqbzhYWtVXGA FIRST @ 4PM 15TH ANNIVERSARY VIDEO FROM TODAY (MAY 26, 2026) https://youtube.com/watch?v=eqv9tjVhvcc&si=7EGkYWMWXdklVAzY

It's painful to see arguably the best but most struggling network news organization in this country reduced to a heaping pile of of . What is the goal here? I know the rightward turn is to appease the Trump administration, but doesn't it affect their bottom line if their news department loses ratings??? Are are any conservatives actually turning CBS News----are they aware of the editorial change? It doesn't make sense to destroy your base viewership to chase an audience you probably won't get. It's one thing to mess with the long time failure CBS Evening News but it's another to play with their bread and butter---60 Minutes, and (not yet) Sunday Morning.

Another statement from Scott Pelley: I'm saddened to see the transcript of the CBS News morning editorial meeting. Bari Weiss knows what she said is not true. In the meeting on Tuesday, in which I was effectively fired, there was no effort of any kind to "find a way back," as Weiss said in the editorial meeting. At no point did anyone in the Tuesday meeting suggest that there could be steps taken by either side that would lead to a resolution. Weiss and Tom Cibrowski were openly hostile from the start. "Firing" was raised by Cibrowski in the first 15 seconds. No CBS executive, at any time, suggested "a way back." To say so now is disingenuous. And they know it. In fact, Weiss, Cibrowski and Nick Bilton refused to answer my questions. I asked Weiss a number of questions about why she fired the entire senior staff of 60 Minutes a few days before and without cause. "I'm not answering that question," she said. I asked why she did not come to 60 Minutes' offices to explain her actions. "I'm not answering that question." Why did she fire 60 Minutes Executive Producer Tanya Simon? "I'm not answering that question." Why fire correspondent Cecilia Vega? "I'm not answering that question." Why fire correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi? "I'm not answering that question." Throughout the meeting, the CBS executives were abrupt, dismissive and uninterested in dialogue. Suddenly, and to my surprise, Cibrowski declared, "This conversation is over!" "Why?" I asked. "I'm happy to answer your questions." "This conversation is over!" Cibrowski repeated, raising his voice and standing to show me the door. "I'm happy to keep talking," I added. No constructive dialogue was allowed by the CBS executives at any point. I was stonewalled for about 10 minutes and then, for no apparent reason, "This conversation is over." I am pained that the staff of CBS News was misled in the Wednesday morning conference call. These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists do.

Your turn, Lesley Stahl.... I can't ever recall such a disastrous and destructive tenure of a news organization than what Bari Weiss has done to CBS News. The only thing that seems to come close is when Joel Cheatwood took over WMAQ in Chicago....and Carol Marin and Ron Magers resigned in protest. In fact, this eventually led Carol Marin over to WBBM, and even did some work at 60 Minutes with her ties to CBS at the time.

And.....scene for CBS News! That is a wrap! CBS will still have viewers for NFL and other big events. Today's firing of Scott Pelley is the proverbial nail in the coffin. Walter Cronkite himself could come back from the dead and viewers wouldn't watch.

It’s time for Bill Ritter to retire entirely from his anchoring duties. Or they need to strictly prohibit him from going off script when reading a story.

January is pretty optimistic if the building currently looks like the photos above. Maybe they start the process of moving in January, but I really don't think this will be ready to broadcast from in 6 months. The HVAC isn't even up yet. My guess is they start the process in January and broadcasts move over in May (at the earliest) for Sweeps. EDIT: For example, the new WMAQ/WSNS newsroom/studios looked like this in late June of last year and didn't show up on-air until mid-January, and that was only moving the newsroom within an existing building. The idea that the WSVN facility will advance from a concrete shell, to something close to what we saw from WMAQ last June, in the next month is unlikely.

NBC already tried with Rock Center and that Megan Kelly mistake of a show. ABC would rather have Sundays be with AFV with people making fools of themselves than doing a newsmagazine with their "journalistic credibility". Besides they have their 20/20 True Crime franchise.

This would be a great opportunity for NBC or ABC to copy the 60 Minutes formula and hire some of those folks to do reporting there. The way CBS is going could make this easy for NBC or ABC to do something like this, IF they want to.

I actually really like the weekday morning team. Not as much as when it was Ken,Lori,Bill and Joe but I really do enjoy the team they have now. Dani and Michelle are great together, I wish somehow they would work Michelle into Mornings at 10, she’d be a great fit for that format.

Today is a big day in the WCCO household. 30 years ago, we got introduced to someone new. I think we've heard of her before... Amelia Santaniello. She's become A Minnesota Original (a KTCA phrase) since then and has also given us the longest husband-and-wife anchoring duo as well with Frank Vascellaro (two decades now at the desk).

WESH 2 celebrates their anniversary and giving a detailed look back at their logo changes.

Don Delulio has passed away. He spent more time delivering traffic reports for WAVY TV 10 than anyone else. He started with the morning program in 1989 and kept going until his 2007 retirement. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZH3gB6nSnS/?igsh=b2Vtb3BndmZ5ZzBi

I feel like Bill never reached that icon status of other news men like Bill Butel, Roger Grimsby, Jim Jensen, and Chuck Scarborough. I think part of it was because by the time Bill took the helm at WABC their anchors were treated an ensemble with no one team standing out above the rest. Another long time anchor I'd say that about is WNBC's David Ushery.

Chris Sowers is creating a new website for his weather updates. He is not joining any TV station as of now.

Can't say I've noticed this...I know he stopped caring about his appearance after COVID but I don't think his quality has much. Not to mention channel 7 doesn't seem like somewhere someone could improv into a package or a live report much, maybe into say weather or sports but that's supposed to be conversational. Everything's run pretty tight and if Bill really "meandered on" then it'd be fairly noticeable.

Just generally his presentation has declined significantly in the last few years. He tries to improvise but just meanders until finally tossing to the reporter or their package. It’s clumsy and distracting.

I wouldn’t necessarily trust the guide metadata just yet and get too hung up on the new/repeat indicator. Maybe it’s correct, but in general I’ve seen enough inadvertent missed labels to take it as gospel truth.

Yes they had some great packages -- but they were beginning to get stale. Got real tired of the 3D logos and the weather gfx especially were chintzy. When they switched fonts from Gotham to Roboto, it got dated real fast.

WABC Eyewitness News at 5:00 (partial), 6:00 (partial), and 11:00 (complete) (May 19, 1994) WWLP 22 News at 11:00 (May 21, 1997)

On Monday, WCAU will be moving Kelly Clarkson back to the 2pm slot (where she originally was from 2019 to 2022) and adding a second hour of NBC News Daily at 3pm. According to the schedule, the 3pm airing will be a repeat of the 12pm airing. Access Daily (currently at 2pm) will move to 2:33am, while Dateline at 1pm remains untouched. Good news for Drew Barrymore, who will now have the only talk show in the 3pm hour (her show airs on KYW), unless you count Maury reruns on WPHL.

Speaking of, here's their 9am special on their morning news.

This would probably be confined to the West Coast O&Os, as it would interfere with 4pm and 5pm newscasts for the Central and East Coast O&Os. I expect a lot of O&Os to air a second hour of NBC News Daily.

Also out are Cecilia Vega and EP Tanya Simon, among others, as Nick Bilton (a former NYT columnist with no experience in TV news) is named the new EP

15 years!!! I remember watching the end of Oprah live. WABC's stellar afternoon lineup really took a hit with the cancellations of All My Children, One Life to Live, and Oprah's ending. A testament to the stability of WABC that the same anchor team is still in place at 4:00.

4pm is probably my favorite newscast on channel 7. Liz, David and Lee have that classic channel 7 chemistry. Weekend mornings when Toni Yates is there with Michelle and Dani are a close second.

NBC NewsChannel vacated that facility in early December 2023. NewsChannel is largely a remote/work from home operation now (though still "based" in Charlotte,) from what I have heard. NBC's Mark Barger posted photos of the empty newsroom at the time. If you look at that building on Google Earth, the last time the parking lot had any significant number of cars in it was 2019, with some improvement in 2023. StreetView shows it empty in 2025 after the June 2022 pass. They probably went WFH for the Covid pandemic and never looked back. There was some rumors circulating that they re-purposed the building for the Tegna Stream Center, but I find it unlikely that they replaced the existing facility that opened in 2021 already. Perhaps a combined Nexstar/Tegna would use it for some kind of mega-hub.

KPNX has their building in Downtown Phoenix (one of 2 stations that call DTPHX home along with KSAZ) on Van Buren & N 2nd St. which was shared by the Arizona Republic newspaper before they moved last year to Midtown. That area could soon become a hotspot with development taking shape around there & the Central Avenue area couple of blocks to the West where the light rail is.

It was built in 1993, so it's a bit dated now, but I always found it to be a nice place. It's mostly a single floor so there's a LOT of walking and long hallways.

Speaking of old Gannett properties, if you have $3m laying around you can buy KSDK's old building in downtown St Louis https://www.cbre.com/resources/fileassets/US-SMPL-191835/0b9f369e/3eca36dc-0eef-4313-adae-df7facea907e.pdf Almost worked there... but was turned off by what St Louis calls pizza.

New content this Memorial Day: KWCH Eyewitness News (partial) 5/26/98 via KBSH Hays An amazing find for aviation enthusiasts, or anyone that grew up in Denver: Stapleton Airport closes, and the transition to DIA is on. KUSA 9 News, live from DIA, 2/27/1995 Part of KWCH Eyewitness News Weekend, 6/27/93 (via KBSH Hays again) And finally, one more from KWCH, 11/18/93

They (and Ch. 7) are beneficiaries of those no longer WCBS with the changes at CBS News. I know several who no longer watch CBS News NY (or name of the month). They had enough of David Ellison, Bari Weiss and placating the temporary WH resident.

WFLA "NewsWatch 8" from 8/24/92, the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. Just a month earlier, they debuted the new studio set, graphics, and "(You'll Always Have) 8 On Your Side" music:

This is a bit of a rant. You've been warned. True journalism was adversarial by nature. It made enemies. It embarrassed people with power. It survived complaints, lawsuits, and angry phone calls because that’s the cost of doing the job. When journalism started optimizing for comfort—of executives, donors, politicians, or audiences—it stopped being journalism and became content moderation for adults. And yes, we the public helped kill it too. As we trained newsrooms to fear us. We punished nuance, rewarded outrage, and confused “this makes me uncomfortable” with “this must be false.” We demanded instant takes, moral certainty, and tribal loyalty. Then we act shocked when reporters stopped taking risks. So now we have journalism that is: Carefully balanced to the point of meaninglessness Bravely critical only of people already out of favor Fearless about history, timid about the present “Investigative” as long as it doesn’t threaten access The most damning part isn’t that a story like the CECOT piece can be pulled. It’s that almost no one (aka the higher ups) inside these organizations are surprised anymore. They sigh, shrug, and move on to the next safe segment. The newsroom rebels were replaced by compliance officers with journalism degrees. We didn’t lose true journalism because the government banned it. We lost it because everyone involved decided it was too inconvenient to keep. And that, depressingly, is the most human outcome of all. End of rant.