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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.

Assuming WOI is still in the ratings basement, I expect this to be a merged newsroom sooner rather than later.

"... and STAIRS" This is very blue and New York-coded. Southern California feels like warm tones. IMO KTLA is still the best in the market.

Consistently the market leader for ratings (I'm not sure if it's still every single newscast, but historically it's been a clean sweep) and a cash cow for Scripps. Their investigative team consistently wins Peabody awards. When I worked there it was one of the stations CBS trusted to let local reporters do national live shots. Even with the Scripps influence and the overall decline of the industry, it's still one of the best stations out there. And for this specific use case: A high-quality in-house creative services team.

Unsurprising, but the best station in the Scripps portfolio has the best implementation of these graphics so far. However, that voiceover sounds like AI. It's very stale.

You're not wrong, but WBIR has been doing that for a decade+

Related: After decades with some variation of a red 2 and NBC peacock logo, KTUU recently launched a peackock-less WBTV knockoff station logo and more stylized "AK News Source" news logo.

Downtown Seattle has a TON of vacant office space. I'm sure they're getting a good deal. The other three stations have very visible locations in the core of the city: KOMO across from the Space Needle; KIRO a few blocks away in Belltown; KING across the street from the baseball stadium. KCPQ has been the least-visible of the four. They'll now be closest to the interstate, but those blocks are often pretty gridlocked. Not sure it will get them out of the city any faster during breaking news.

Segment from the morning show today:

Surely this generic white guy will be the ideal configuration of deck chairs on the Titanic!

I don't know the answer for WSVN, but I worked at a station in the Mountain time zone which would deal with this. 9pm news was pre-taped earlier in the evening for the secondary channel. As soon as football ended on the main channel the news went live with a shrink-to-fit show until the top of the hour when the live 10pm news started.

The CBS 24/7 set was so much better than this. It feels so small, flat, and cheap.

I get the business intent of doing a straight knockoff of ABC WNT - it's what viewers expect on that channel at that hour and they only had a few months to pull it together with little to no capital investment - but I think I'm still a little shocked that it is really that much of a knockoff. I gave up trying to believe TV news is driven by an actual strategy when I left the business almost a decade ago, but one would think this program slowly develops its own identity which makes watching worthwhile. Not all knockoffs are equal. Will this be Kirkland Signature World News or Great Value?

I'm impressed this insane conversation has sustained itself for weeks now. Really great job everyone.

While a bit generic, the graphics are an upgrade from the Powerpoint package they've had. I'd be interested to hear what other cuts the music package has because that one was quite underwhelming and forgettable.