NBC 5 Chicago

Looks like WNBC is getting their own radar... [MEDIA=vimeo]195291987[/MEDIA]

WMAQ played rotating anchors today. Alex Maragos anchored at 4pm with Marion Brooks. Dick Johnson then joined her at 5pm. At 6 it was Dick Johnson and Lauren Jiggetts. Then at 10 it was Allison and Dick. WMAQ is in desperate need of male anchors but seems to be in no hurry to find any.

My DirecTV guide starting August 22 has NBC 5 News @4pm with Access Hollywood at 1pm and Extra at 1:30pm. I checked the next day and it says the same thing.

NBC 5 unveiled their 4pm newscast extension today. Surprised it was during the Olympics. Looks like Rob Stafford and Dick Johnson will alternate the 4pm anchor position alongside Marion Brooks.

When Lauren said Andy Avalos was in I thought she miss spoke for a moment. Its interesting to see him at 10. But I don't think this storm was severe enough to warrant 2 meteorologists. But there was a lot of flooding and some concerts going on in town so... Andy was only seen during the beginning of the newscast. During the actual weather segment it was all Pete Sack. Maybe even they realized it might be overkill.

The normal morning music. They've only really changed the music on the promos and like Brant's weather photo's. Little things like that otherwise they've used the same music for everything else.

New graphics on the news at 11! Same generic open with no voice over. Same music. They have the bottom bar but no top bar. Top bar only during breaking news and weather. They had the 7 day during the weather segments but at the very end of the newscast they showed the 10 day.

I'm loving the time lapse video of the city!!! I hope they use video for the open! Everyone else's are so bland!

I find this incredibly interesting. I wonder who's leaving? I'm just surprised that they hire someone for weather while two anchor positions are vacant. I wonder what changes are a coming...

If you listen carefully it doesn't sound like a live drawing. It sounds like she recorded each number separately and they just put them together when they draw the numbers. That's why it sounds weird. The intro/outro could have been a little peppier though.

Alex filled in for Stefan who is anchoring all evening newscasts tonight. Much like Zoraida has done before.

A pretty interesting promo aired during saturday's 10pm news regarding the new Sky 5. They've never promoted Sky 5 before that I can recall.

NBC 5 went 22 min before their first break. That is unusual for them as well. First commercial break is usually 10:07/10:08 unless there is a serious news story in which that's around 10:12-10:14.

I find this very interesting. Zoraida anchored the morning show and is back again at 10pm. Susan Carlson did the 11am show and Lauren Jiggets did 5 and 6. I didn't catch the 4:30 so I assume she did that one too. I wonder why they've chosen Zoraida to fill in on the 10pm and not Lauren when she is main anchor on the weekends and already did the evening shows?

Man, Zoraida is doing some major double duty today. Anchored the morning show, 11am, and 10pm. Then she'll be back tomorrow at 4:30am!

WMAQ Tuesday did a live toss to Lester Holt for a preview of Nightly News.

I love how everyone is bashing her about being in this market. She has already been in this market for a few years already. I do agree with the statements about her delivery. Since she has been at ABC 7 her delivery seems to be lacking the intensity and flow since her days over at NBC 5. I chalk all of that up to nerves and getting use to the flow of a new station. She was a little lacking when she came to NBC 5 but she ended up being really good with her delivery. You also have to think a lot of this has happened very fast. She was hired at the end of December then given a new 7pm show. Within weeks was then promoted to the 4pm and 5pm show. That's a big jump in such a short time. Give her some time and she will get better.

Yes. However the first was only a few months after they debuted the new set. It coincided with the "skyline" monitors install. And they only made a slight change to the top. This seems to be a complete update.

Has anyone noticed the lack of shots of the weather center. During tonight's 10pm news I noticed as Brant stood at the desk behind him there was nothing but blue with an NBC 5 graphic. Gone was the white tones and monitors of the weather center. Kind of interesting that they are already refreshing the weather portion of the set.

I finally got home to see the 4:30, 5:00 and 6:00pm shows. I really like this update! The OTS has been updated as well. The weather day parts (tonight, tomorrow) and the 7 day have all been updated too. The bug FINALLY has been reverted back to TIME and TEMP instead of the temp and then time. They changed that years ago and it bothered me. I too wish the opens would have been upgraded with some video instead of the same static pictures. The city is too beautiful to have some weird static image for all day parts. Cant wait to see the ticker during the morning show tomorrow!

They debuted today? New opens? Or is it just the bug and lower third that are new? I saw the copyright last night at 10pm was the new lower third. I figured it would be this weekend or Monday when they would switch over.

http://vimeo.com/114139582 Could this be signs of a refresh coming soon? This potential new bug looks similar to the Sports Sunday bug. Wish it animated better but I like it! The lower third looks similar to the updated promo graphics.

I've posted entire newscasts before from WMAQ and nothings happened. Hes good.

It really bothers me that the cold open intros look better than the actual open itself! They put skyline video behind those graphics can they please do that for the opens? Their look is really good just a open refresh is needed.

Looks like ABC 7 is expanding their weekend morning news in response to NBC 5 expanding their weekend news starting this weekend. This was from Stacy Baca's Facebook page. She said this is the schedule for Saturday and Sunday mornings. Even though the graphic only depicts Saturday morning.