Spring Rubber

Just came here to say this. Funny that they didn't even get their own programming schedule right in their on-screen ads. I wonder if other dayparts won't match up, either. I love the unoriginal programming name. The Weather Channel's two daytime shows are "America's Morning Headquarters" and "Weather Center Live", so Fox's answer is to create a show called "America's Weather Center".

Apparently they even have a physical cardboard cutout of this mascot as well. Courtesy: Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-22/fox-weather-launches-in-challenge-to-weather-channel

Interesting, so according to this, they are going to be live with just this team for six hours straight. If they are indeed truly live for the whole time and don't do any type of pre-records, then wow, that's quite a long time for any continuous broadcast, especially when their commercial breaks are only two minutes, and the frequency of said breaks is not very often at all. I don't think I know of any live program, national or local, that does a continuous 6-hour broadcast with the same on-air team. That's a lot of talking!

Courtesy of their on-screen promo graphics in the bottom right corner, here's the programming schedule... Interesting to see that Sky Dome is such a long program compared to all of the other programs. Makes me think that maybe the Sky Dome portion of the schedule will be a mix of live and pre-recorded programming to fill that midday chunk of the schedule. I wonder what "Fox Weather Wild" is...if it's just a fancy Fox branding for a live program or if it's some time of long form program that showcases wild weather, akin to TWC's primetime programming? I'm going to guess Night Light will be a live-to-tape style program that recycles hourly from 1AM-5AM, much like the old days of TWC's pre-recorded overnight hours. Since these programs are all advertised as weekday-only. I wonder how much, if any, live weekend programming they'll have. I speculate we might have to wait until this upcoming Saturday to find out. I hope they don't largely ditch weekends the same way that TWC does these days.

Yeah, even TWC in its heyday didn't do live programming overnight. The old days when TWC was all weather, all the time; they would be fully live from 5AM ET - 3AM ET, and then they'd repeat the 2AM hour at 3AM and 4AM before going back live at 5AM. I wouldn't quite expect Fox Weather to do that many hours live, as I don't believe the demand for live programming that late at night exists anymore. It will be interesting to see how they handle severe weather that goes past their normal live hours, and honestly, just to see how they handle severe weather in general, even during their normal live hours. The good thing is that we won't have to wait very long, as there is severe weather in the forecast Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week, with the Tuesday severe weather looking the worst of the bunch. One of the huge flaws with modern TWC is that as the years go on, they disregard more and more severe weather that occurs outside of their normal live hours. It has gotten so bad that TWC basically doesn't even have the staff available to continue coverage later in the day even if conditions merit doing so. The SPC basically has to issue a High Risk area these days to even get the TWC execs to think about approving additional live hours. Even on days that the SPC issues a Moderate Risk lately, TWC still ends programming at 8pm ET on Weekdays and 1pm ET on weekends regardless of how bad the actual weather is. I would like to see Fox Weather put in some serious, in-depth coverage during TWC's off-hours and force some competition in covering severe weather.

Oh shoot, didn't realize they were going live this early in the morning. I just tuned in. Have they announced what their live stream hours will be? Are they planning on being live 24/7, or are there going to be certain dayparts where they recycle repeat programming?

3D is back in business, baby!

I freaking knew it. The way that the network discontinued weeknight weather segments and dumped him off to the weekends was surely NOT what Albert signed up for a year ago. The minute they gave the weekday morning position to Gerard and not Albert, I figured Albert would not be long for NewsNation. The only thing that surprised me was that it came so soon, after only working one weekend (this past weekend). Hopefully this means he was able to secure another job somewhere. Best of luck to him, and hopefully the next place that hires him actually lets him stay in the position for which he was hired for more than one year.

Effective this weekend that just ended, the weekend edition of NewsNation Prime has been shifted an hour later from 7pm ET-9pm ET to 8pm ET-10pm ET. Also, although the intro still displays Gerard Jebaily's name, the weather is indeed being delivered by Albert Ramon, presumably at least for however long Gerard's gig on the morning show lasts. Either this arrangement becomes permanent after some amount of time, or we'll see some sort of staffing changes if and when a permanent morning weather person is hired and if they indeed choose to not bring back weather on the weeknights at all.

I haven't watched Morning In America with the audio on yet, but the presentation space looks nice. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by the tiny "set" being used for Dan Abrams Live, but I don't think all of the dark black background space looks very good in the way they're implementing it. Definitely looks like a limited space, limited budget issue.

If they do retain Ramon in a regular on-air role, I would have to think it might make more sense to add a weather segment with him to Rush Hour, maybe just one time per show somewhere around :45 past, as having a weather segment seems more in-tune with the "Live news" theme of Rush Hour, compared to Prime where the theme is evolving more toward longer, in-depth stories with longer interviews. If they do bring him back for nightly segments on Prime, that's great too, but I do think he could stand to have a daily weather segment on Rush Hour. Side note: On-air advertising confirms that the "Prime" name is staying the same. Looks like the earlier consideration of rebranding it to "NewsNation with Marni Hughes" has been abandoned.

Wow, so Gerard Jebaily is the one delivering the weather on the morning show. Where does that leave Albert Ramon then? Pushed to weekends, if anything? I don't believe there's a weather segment on weekday Prime anymore, now that the weekday show has become more about interviews (aka what you'd typically find on cable news, compared to the old local news format). At least when I watched two days last week, I didn't see a weather segment.

On my program guide, they have changed the name of the 9pm ET show back to "NewsNation Prime". Guess maybe they decided against naming the show after its host after all? I guess we won't know for sure until tomorrow night.

I did find it interesting that they have "Live PD night" on Banfield almost every Friday night where they interview former officers from the show along with other members of law enforcement. The most surprising thing is that they openly use the "Live PD" name on the segment branding and have not yet (to my knowledge) received a Cease & Desist from either A&E or Big Fish Entertainment (not sure which party owns the rights to the name of the show). I would have figured they would have been hit with a C&D pretty quickly, unless of course they already obtained the rights to the show name without a public announcement being made yet.

Wishing Zoraida well. Certainly a shock to see her go.

I think the most confusing thing is that the tweet is apparently written in Pacific time when it's a nationally-focused tweet.

I was confused by Feder's writing of "Zoraida...returned Monday." Was he referring to last Monday or this Monday? Because if it was today, and the Feder post was released at 6am at his usual posting time, it would be odd to say that she made no mention of her return even though the newscast was still in progress at the time Feder's post went up.

Oh, did they actually break into their programming this afternoon? Was it wall-to-wall coverage or just a quick update?

So, now that the program guide for two weeks out is published, it looks like come September 27th, the remainder of the evening shows will survive. Everything before 8pm ET will shift one hour earlier than it currently is, while NewsNation Prime will be rebranded as "NewsNation with Marni Hughes" (Times in my guide shown in Central)

Renaming the network to NewsNation when you have a fixed schedule with just a few hours of news per day is so ridiculous. Sad to see that they don't even cover any type of breaking news that happens during the day, now almost one year after the network started doing news.

A fond farewell to Andy! Happy retirement!

I like the branding, but the plain and somewhat stretched-out white text seems really generic and uninspired.

WMAQ filled a position immediately? Wow, now I've seen everything.

Congrats to Andy on his retirement! Going to miss him! I saw people in Feder's comments speculating on who would replace him. Isn't it already a foregone conclusion that Alicia Roman would be replacing him? Hasn't she been part of the morning news team for quite a while now, getting ready for this position?

Returning to looks of the 80s and 90s is considered the trend right now. See: Miller Lite, Bud Light, Subway, Burger King, and probably countless others.