IceManNYR

They are still using the newsroom.

Appears that WABC is having some issues for the 4pm newscast. They are doing it from a smaller studio space possibly the newsroom with only one wide camera.

Diana Williams was subbing for Bill Ritter on Up Close. Not sure when WABC officially announced Bill as the new host?

Raegan Medgie did the AM weather forecasts Saturday through today. Vanessa who has been subbing for Elise Finch has been subbing for Lonnie.

Candace McCowan from WFLA in Tampa has joined WABC as a reporter.

Kind of depressing that WNBC's 2016 holiday sing along promo has been edited to promote an animated movie.

Are any CBS O&O stations formatting newscasts for 16:9?

For the weekday morning newscasts they still use the video wall for the quick forecast at the top of the hour and half hour. They also use it for the traffic reports on the 4's.

Stefan Holt anchoring tonight at 6pm. Jen Maxfield was on yesterday.

Jen Maxfield is anchoring solo at 6pm tonight.

Elise Finch was on WCBS this am which had me wondering something. I checked and she confirmed on Twitter in August that she is pregnant.

Is Cindy full-time co-anchor of the weekend am newscasts again?

It's not her. I find in general the audio of the anchors and reporters in studio is has an overall loud and bassy sound and sounds even worse if they do talk louder.

The newscast after the baseball game has a "RECORDED EARLIER" on the top right. There is no current time or temp next to the FOX5 bug.

The top gray bar is no longer always on the screen which is an improvement. It does stay on for some segments.

It looks even worse when nothing else is on the screen.

The white and gray stripes at the top and bottom of the screen from the new graphics are ugly and need to go. Also the lighter gray bar with the social media info is unnecessary. That should be on the right side. It's annoying enough to keep me from watching the newscasts.

The camera shot looked awful when the sun hit the dirty window.

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Understood, just odd how the timing worked out. Dan and Lisa were anchoring at 5am today.

They did not even go a full week with the new anchor teams. Scott is off Thursday and Friday with Anthony DiLorenzo subbing for him Thursday.

I noticed Raegan Medgie from The Weather Channel is now a reporter for CBS2 News.

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Bill Ritter is on 2pm-5pm.

FOX5 is doing at 30min newscast at 10pm tonight then airing is Street Soldiers hosted by Lisa Evers at 10:30pm.