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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.

What I will give them is the "local" accent is instantly recognizable to anyone who has spent time in Spokane as the Monroe Street Bridge. For market 70-something in 2025 it's not bad, and in fact pretty good. It will resonate with a local audience. Some of these other "we took design cues from local architecture" sets use a slightly different color faux brick and expect people to get it.

NYC studios are often constrained by space (especially height.) It's only been in the last decade with slimmer LED lights and video arrays that you could make smaller spaces feel grand and not cramped. KTLA vs WPIX - same set style but one is on a Hollywood sound stage and one is in an office tower in Manhattan.

This is likely the touch screen recycled from the old set.

Build the anchor bench twice as fast and it only takes those journalists out of the reporting mix one day per week as opposed to two.

In theory I don't hate the idea of an evening version of the Eye Opener, but in execution this was chaotic and cheap looking, IMO. The 2018 version shared above felt better executed than this.

Looks like CBS just got consultant-bombed. This new opening sequence is an absolute disaster. If this is supposed to hook viewers it did the opposite to me. I wanted to turn away

Branding issues aside, from every clip I've seen so far, what would make KCBS/KCAL unwatchable if I lived in Southern California is every single anchor sounds like they're cold-reading their scripts. It comes off as disjointed, cold, and robotic. When KTLA is a few clicks away, the choice would be obvious for me.

What is this absolute nightmare of a brand? Where are your eyes supposed to look? How much of this mouthful is going to be used on air? "You're watching CBS News Los Angeles This Morning on KCAL." "KCAL CBS News Los Angeles This Morning starts now." WUT.

The only time in the last decade+ ratings went up.

Ratings are measured on the quarter hour (:00, :15, :30, :45). If there is a super block of news from :00-:15, they don't really care how many people stick around for the remaining 15 min. They just need butts in seats and eyeballs glued at those critical times. It's also why news starts a minute or so before the top and bottom of the hour, to make sure you are firmly in content and your audience is locked when the meter clicks.