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Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar anchored the afternoon CNN News Central from Atlanta today. They sat the whole time, which is fairly common, but it wasn't obvious they weren't in DC until they took the occasional wide shot. The desk looks much more impressive than what they use in DC. Though maybe it should have been obvious as they replaced the DC photography in the background with Atlanta (a skyline I'm not so familiar with).

I don't see anything wrong with it. This is for the 7am streaming show, not the TV broadcast that airs in many markets at 4am. I think it looks nice and bright.

Any other O&Os doing this yet? Just saw WCBS with a new "Super 7 Day Forecast." My favorite part is that the low temperature is now aligned to show that it occurs in the morning. (When it was below the high temp, I think it was natural to assume it happens chronologically at night.) Rain chance looks to be a permanent feature now. Other stations have been doing this forever. There's also a night percent which is kind of hard to read. They also have the average high and low. I'm not sure when it happened but they updated the icons at some point. When this look debuted, the weather conditions were too vague and seemed like background images, I like having information but this seems rather cluttered now with a wide variety of font sizes, including some tiny text. Previous look from the noon broadcast for comparison: Edit: Strangely, they seemed to use the 7-day from the noon broadcast at 5:51 p.m. The old format, older numbers...

Aziza did not anchor this weekend. Yesterday, it was Natalie Duddridge and Jenna DeAngelis. This morning, Doug Williams was back with Natalie.

CBS Sports is celebrating 50 years since The NFL Today premiered... They really committed to the bit, from the open, well done virtual studio, and graphics. They didn't even use the ticker.

Important to note that Kimmel did NOT say that the shooter is MAGA.

The consensus seems to be that this is GOOD for the criminal currently in the White House as his toadies get to spout lies and ensure they get on TV (even if they're fact checked), and that they can be more successful at derailing interviews as the journalists will now have new limits on time. https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17573388183000683ce4a64a4/raw

I like the tease at the top and that it's quick. NBC and especially ABC seem like they go on forever.

The new name is incredibly clunky. What's the point of keeping the MS? How will it be pronounced? Will there also be a Mr. Now? The logo looks like a 1990s search engine. "News, opinion, world"... World what? World news? Redudant? It's a poor attempt at a backronym. Can't imagine the employees there are impressed.

Congratulations to Jessica. It seemed like she was the favored internal candidate as she was doing it three nights during the week while she was still doing weekends. I'm still surprised that it took them half a year to make it official, and it makes me wonder how seriously they might have been looking at external options. Not a fan of the solo anchor thing, especially at 11pm.

I agree with this. I guess it looks "cool" but it gets stale pretty quickly. In fact, I think it gets in the way of showing the weather. Where we used to have weather maps and graphics taken full screen, they now exist on only a portion of the screen. I don't care if it "looks bigger" because the talent is tiny in comparison, if it takes up less of my TV screen at home it's smaller and harder to see. Instead of seeing the maps, we see fake walls that add nothing. And having the weather talent in a different room than the news anchors just makes everything feel less friendly. I guess it's interesting for viewers to look at, but it's distracting and takes away from presenting information.

Scott did 5:00, and Vanessa did 6:00 (which is supposedly Scott's show, along with 8:00).

Definitely weird for them not to have picked a replacement as it's been about five months. Such a long gap makes it seem like they're hiring from outside, otherwise it should be easy to promote someone from within. I wonder if all the uncertainty around CBS/Paramount and the new CBS Evening News has them keeping a seat warm for Maurice just in case.

I haven't had much of a chance to watch the show since the update, but it feels a bit grittier. Interesting for them to leave a studio to go into the newsroom. I kind of wish the daytime newscasts would go back into the newsroom (though I didn't care for the boring flashcam setup).

Lonnie Quinn returned to WCBS and CBS this evening. He announced March 14th that he was taking several weeks off to recover from a concussion that was later determined to be a traumatic brain injury. He returned to the newsroom to applause, hugs, balloons and cake today:

Very concerning. CBS News feels the need to bow down to a president with authoritarian tendencies to have their Paramount/Skydance merger go through.

Monday morning, Gayle King is scheduled to go into "space" on an eleven-minute joyride as part of a PR stunt for Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin. CBS Mornings will have a special hour at 9 a.m. to cover "Gayle Goes To Space." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-mornings-gayle-king-space-blue-origin-crew/

Now that it's mid-April and winter weather seems to be in our rear view mirror, CBS 2 CBS News New York has rebranded the Mobile Weather Lab, which launched in March 2012 (I took some of these photos) and was redone in August 2016, as the First Alert Weather Tracker. John Elliott says it has "so many cameras," including a "slush cam" down below, though they only showed a roof camera today. Interestingly, the CBS 2 logo square appears on its own, instead of next to the "CBS News New York" portion of the logo. The truck also uses the "CBS New York" (not "News") version of the logo.

What is the purpose of the "LIVE" box rotating with "BREAKING NEWS" when "BREAKING NEWS" is already on the lower-third?

Deborah Norville announced today that she's leaving Inside Edition after 30 years when this season ends: https://www.tvinsider.com/1184654/deborah-norville-leaving-inside-edition-final-episode-date/ Mary Calvi anchors the weekend edition and fills in for Norville during the week. I wonder if she's in line to take over, and if that would affect her duties anchoring the morning news.

Rob's shadows on the wall ruined any illusion that the wall is anything other than a screen.

The Times Square location never made sense as they never took advantage of the location. The show could be broadcasting from a basement in Kansas for all we know. Might as well not waste money using expensive real estate if there's nothing to gain.

Virtual weather studio for CNN. Looks like an Apple Store.

This strange bug appeared for the first 30 seconds or so of yesterday's noon broadcast, before being taken down and replaced by the usual blue one. Anyone have any theories as to what's going on? Do they use this for streaming at all?

is there a way to make this message more prominent? I just happened to notice it but I don't usually check the site announcements section.