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the light colors on the faux brick wall look better on UpClose.

the studios were all built with flexibility in mind — meaning they could easily be shared (like Tamron & The View) and used for other things besides a show that airs just an hour each weekday excluding holidays and hiatus… as opposed to EWN, which is on 7+ hours a day every day.

They began airing 5pm talent opens when the new graphics debuted last year in January 2024. It’s the first weekday 5pm talent opens to air since Diana Williams retired in September 2019.

Yup. Still not official as they haven’t added him to the morning promo shot just yet.

Just like when Beutel began his transition away from the anchor desk.. at the end of the 6pm news, he and Diana Williams would toss to Ritter in the newsroom for a look at what’s coming up at 11pm.

she said she filling in for him, not replacing him.

No. See above. They’ve removed him from the morning promos already.

It’s a video wall. Can probably change for different day parts and weather events. And yes - worth the wait.. 13 years and 5 months to be exact.

WABC sets have bled EWN blue since.. forever. There’s only one or two sets in the time span of EWN that were not heavily blue.

The current studio is pretty nice, especially once the screens were updated and the backdrops modernized. Weekend GMA will be coming from Times Square until June when all of GMA moves downtown.

The WNN/GMA First Look set is “temporary”’ until the main studio is built out. They mentioned that in their first broadcast.

Not really … have you seen any of the sets and graphics packages WABC previously had?

This Saturday will be the first broadcast from 7 Hudson.

a week from today

yes, they will.

goal is to originate newscasts from there during presidents week. We’ll see if timeline holds or is pushed back a bit. Many staff are already moved in and working out of 7 Hudson

certainly a thing of the past.

caught this promo again… just a few minutes after another promo aired showcasing Shirleen, Mike and the morning team.

WABC has started airing weekday morning news promos showing the team of Shirleen Allicott and Pedro Rivera, signaling the move Mike Marza to a later time slot as Bill Ritter prepares to cut back. The promo oddly ends showing Shirleen and Mike together (with the rest of the morning team), sans Pedro.

ABC was on the air with a special report from 7:30am ET until 9:06am ET. Affiliates then had the option to take ABC News Live until the network came back on the air at 10am ET.

Thank you.

Liz Cho anchored at noon today, for the one person here who seems to be obsessed with her subbing schedule and feels she should work more.

He’s off Fridays at 11pm. He still does the 5pm and 6pm on Fridays.

He does the 5, 6 and 11.

Katie and Diane both come from hard news backgrounds. Katie is not “more of a talk show host”. Her talk show with ABC failed.