Geoffrey

Saw a 15-sec promo for CNN News Central. It looks like they're using the CNN Tonight studio, at least for the rehearsals. (I was expecting to see the newsroom for this, but now I'm back to thinking the newsroom might be being redone for CNN This Morning's permanent home.) "Starting today, we're bringing you the news in a whole new way. The stories at the center of your day. CNN News Central, today at 9 Eastern." No new graphics on CNN yet as of the 8:00 hour, which makes me think they're not coming today.

Saving money? They probably think it's more memorable and rolls off the tongue easier.

Still interested to see if new network-wide graphics debut tomorrow... Also interested to see if the new News Central makes use of manned cameras. CNN previously was only using robotic cameras in the newsroom. It really made the broadcasts feel kind of cheap compared to the shows coming from other studios.

KYW broke into basketball coverage with the weather alerts. (Screenshot from the web. Guessing the normal CBS 3 bug is being used on TV.)

Let's please dial back the desire to make everything feel like a personal attack and to become angry at someone's opinions or guesses that do not align with yours. Stay on track and have fun. Thank you.

Interesting! I guess the streaming broadcast has an automated bug overlay and they don't have the ability or interest to change it red.

That 3 is hideous. I thought the channel numbers were only staying as some sort of transitional phase. They're creating a totally different logo and making it much larger than the CBS News Philadelphia logo? And it looks like it is a few decades old. What a mess.

Was not expecting two different launch dates. I also didn't realize that the afternoon block would come from DC, but I should have seeing who the anchors are. I guess this is why Wolf Blitzer has been at a flash cam instead of the usual studio for the last few weeks, at least. I wonder if we'll also see new network-wide graphics on Monday or later in the month.

They changed one of the graphics in the weather center to the "dots with the moving circle." The CBS Sports New York animation used on the monitors for the tease still has "CBS Sports Los Angeles" on the right side. I expected that one to be fixed immediately. The font in the tickerless ticker has been fixed as well.

In at least the first 24 hours of the new look, CBS New York/CBS 2 News/CBS News New York (still not sure what to call them) did not use the red bug and tickerless ticker for breaking news. Except for a few seconds during the 6am open. It's interesting to see that they also have this capability available even though they haven't used it yet. Wonder if they're saving it for big breaking news. But it's a lot of red. And it's A LOT of orange in the morning. They used the long open at 5am and 7am (on WLNY), short opens everywhere else. There's a new station ID bug for network programming (of course it's not aligned properly), but the old CBS 2 logo is still used in the CBS Mornings ticker. (Why can't the ticker during local news... TICK?) By the way, the old Enforcer theme was used to open and close the 7:26 update, closed the 7:56 update, and they finally got it right by 8:26. The graphics are overall nice but I think will age very quickly. The theme, minus the signature, continues to be forgettable.

For I believe the first time in my many (26+?) years of being a CBS 2 fan/TV news nerd, the new graphics were not being seen for the first time as they debuted on CBS 2. Just feels weird having new graphics and it not feeling that big of a deal because we've watched them debut over the last few months. Overall, I think the look is fine. I wasn't a big fan of the previous look as it felt sloppily executed from the start and got worse over time as they used the "CBSN New York look" in many areas. I don't want to repeat myself too much but I'm just jotting down some of my thoughts. I was surprised that Brian Lee's VO in the opens still refers to "CBS 2 News." I'm also surprised that the CBS 2 logo is on at least one side (probably opposite sides) of the mic flag. It's one thing to have transitional on-screen graphics but transitional mic flags are odd to me. I am glad that the "2" remains, for now at least, but using two logos as your logo seems very sloppy to me. The CBS 2 logo is used on its own in at least one transition (breaking news) as well as a topical promo (the blue one below). Curious how long this apparent transition will last (months? a year?). Aside from the two-logos-in-one thing, I continue to dislike the bug. It's... large. I know the size is supposed to match the rest of the network (CBS News streaming, CBS Evening News, etc. -- and this centers around the super small CBS eye during network programming), but it's just big. It kills any sense of sleekness this package would otherwise have. The dots on the bottom bumping the logo up makes everything feel misaligned. And the length of it all means the "live" bug is incredibly long for such small text. Lots of screen real estate is being wasted. And with the bug being on the left side and attached to the rest of the lower-third, the tabs for things like "Breaking News" just feel awkwardly located. I'm very much opposed to using the ticker if it's not going to tick. At noon and at 5 and 6, it was just "THE NEWS IS ALWAYS STREAMING ON CBS NEWS NEW YORK AND CBSNEWYORK.COM"... No animation or anything. Just a waste of space. Essentially an extended bug that serves zero purpose. I do like how the studio looks with the new graphics being used on screens. Interesting how live chopper feeds only have the "live" bug, never yet accompanied by a "Chopper 2" graphic. But for when they play back taped chopper footage, a plain "Chopper 2" graphic was used on the top left. (I guess the whole Sky 2 thing has been abandoned.) While the CBS 2/CBS News New York logo is used on newscasts, localized promos for shows like Judge Judy and Inside Edition use just a CBS New York logo. But the CBS 2 logo is still used to cover the CBS eye for a few seconds when network programming returns from a break. What exactly is the name of this station right now? This is the first time in over 20 years (since late January 2003) that a theme with the Enforcer signature isn't being used on this station. I like the new "This is CBS" signature but the rest of the theme seems bland and forgettable. Overall CBS 2 executed the change fairly well. There were a few instances where the orange "First Alert Weather" tab, presumably intended for mornings, was used on the lower-thirds. Promos seemed to be updated with the new logo, including the Weather Watchers one, which otherwise used the same graphics. I wish the weather graphics had been changed at the same time. I believe the old theme was used after weather for the sports tease at 6:21 but I'm not sure there's an Enforcer signature there so maybe it'll stay. However the animated "CBS Sports New York" graphic on the monitors very clearly repeated "CBS Sports Los Angeles" on the right side. Anyway, it's here.

I think this is the best studio in New York, at least the parts we've seen. Graphics look nice, though the lower-thirds and even the bug ruin it for me. Not a fan of the very thin text bar on top... Text feels squished in there. The way the lower-thirds and the text on the full screens feels clunky to me. But overall I think this is a very big improvement for PIX.

What a shame for viewers to hear that Doug and Danielle are out. Even though News 12 often felt like a cheaper version of the city stations, it was nice getting local news from people who know the island and you've trusted for decades. But with more and more veterans leaving, and the station apparently covering more city and national news, there's less of a reason to watch, unfortunately. Still plenty of good people in front of and behind the camera (and the new people may be fine as well!) but it's feeling much less familiar.

I kept hearing an ad on the radio last month (sweeps) saying Mr. G did weather "from 4 to 10" (which is incorrect in two ways). And now they're beginning to reduce his hours.

I'm sure we're all thinking about the KCBS/KCAL failure with that name but I'm interested to see what they've got.

I miss the days when news sets weren't just screens everywhere. And then to fill those screens with mostly just logos?

I can't imagine local stations/newscasts adopting the NewsNation branding. Specifically because of the word "nation" in there if they want to emphasize being local ("New York's own"). I also think "NewsNation" is a lame name. Sounds more like a news fan club or something. Not a newscast, and certainly not a channel (that only sometimes has news).

Sidner made a name for herself reporting from war zones and on domestic white supremacy terrorists. She was tapped anchor her own daily CNN+ broadcast but that went away quickly, of course. She's scheduled to be part of one of the three-anchor teams when the new "Newsroom" (or whatever they rename it) debuts soon.

I could not disagree more. Fox certainly tries to disguise itself as a news channel. But there is a huge difference between talking about the news and making up the news. And making up the news is called lying, and these texts prove once again that Fox knows they're lying. And it's bad for the country. (See: January 6th and other attacks since then.)

False equivalence. This isn't simply about bias. It's about knowingly spreading baseless and dangerous lies. Fox doesn't believe the disinformation they are peddling. That means they are lying.

It's not news that Fox isn't news. And yet it is still stunning to read these texts. (Summary: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/media/fox-news-stars-executives-court-documents/index.html) Fox is NOT an organization simply presenting a conservative spin on the news and fighting to prove their point of view with facts. Instead, they are knowingly LYING to their viewers by feeding them baseless conspiracy theories to make money. Otherwise, these viewers have been conditioned to seek these lies out from other outlets, and Fox can't afford to lose their viewers. They've decided that lies are good for business, but it's awful for a representative democracy and hurts all of us. Tucker wanted to FIRE a reporter who had the nerve to fact check the former guy via tweet. He said this act of truth telling was "measurably hurting the company." (That tweet was soon deleted.) Bret Baier, the guy Fox often points to when trying to claim to be a news organization, asked the president of Fox to rescind the network's correct call of Biden winning Arizona. (Fox was the first to accurately make this call, days before other organizations. They soon FIRED their politics editor and Washington bureau chief, both of whom were involved in this accurate projection.) Fox. Isn't. News.

I cannot imagine the plan right now is to *temporarily* rename KCBS as KCAL just to drop KCAL less than a year later. The only way this is temporarily is if it is seen to be a failure and they change their minds, or new management comes in and changes course.

I watched this live. It was good to see. Broadcast networks don't really have the luxury of going long on segments. And Kaitlin is a very strong interviewer, reporter and analyst.

My guess have been that sports graphics are getting bigger, after years of being made smaller, because networks want them (at least the scores) to be more easily seen from across a bar. But watching in my own den, these graphics often look comically large.

Is this the best set in NY?