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36 minutes ago, TexasTVNews said:

I don't like the changes on KCBS & KCAL not one bit. The expansion, I'm alright with it (if the ratings are good). But KCAL CBS News Los Angeles... NO WAY! I wish the CBS (Television) News & Stations leaves the names as it is like CBS 2 News and KCAL 9 News. I would be alright for CBS 2 Morning News and KCAL 9 Morning News as well.

How is this not 2/9 Newscentral all over again? 

I only caught the tail end of David Muir’s interview, but was taken back by the manipulative, melodramatic score playing under the interview. 

1 hour ago, Daybreak said:

Susan Koeppen and Kimberly Gill were excellent hires when they came on board back in 2011ish? So is Kim Gable and Kristen the lead female anchors in the evening now? 

There’s no female at 11–it’s the old

white man show. Taking KD back to its pre-Patti days. 

3 hours ago, Tyler said:

Forgot about Shumway now that he’s in the morning. As for Highfield, he’s good, but he doesn’t fall in the same category as Rice, Stacy Smith, or Patrice King Brown. 

What a dumb move it was canning Susan Koeppen. 

4 minutes ago, lanman said:

Check out the old branding still up on the walls.  That's been covered up since the late 90s.

Good Lord, bring back the Group W 2. 
 

is there anyone recognizable left at KD besides Ken Rice and Pompeani?

KCAL ought to pick him up for their new morning show. 

Didn’t ABC see erosion across the whole day part with the cancellation of AMC and OLTL? I think it’s a lot like NBC putting Megan Kelly on at 9. It pulled downed the the fourth hour’s numbers. Just like Jay Leno at 10 p.m. 

I doubt NBC affiliates are happy with the show coming in dead last in daytime. 
 

I doubt the producing two hours or news for three-quarters of a million less viewers is a cost effective as you think. 

42 minutes ago, nycnewsjunkie said:

Not surprisingly, they’re basically the CBS News/Evening News graphics. For the most part, they look slick as hell, and it’s good to see the local stations getting the same look.

 

The cut of music they use in the demo is refreshing, but as others have mentioned, it feels a bit too light for some markets (including New York). I was hoping they’d go with a variant of the CBS News streaming theme. Then again, the demo cut gives off a WCCO/WJZ vibe, and will work well on those stations.

Unless they’re referring to the radio station, but of course, it no longer has anything to do with the TV station.

Yeah, right—that’s when the Wendy Bell fiasco when down on 1020 no one called the tv station…

oh wait…

With a station like KCNC, that really hasn’t had a stable brand, there’s really nothing to lose with CBS’ latest branding scheme. But for a station with stability and a known local brand, it doesn’t. I know there some that think KDKA isn’t special, but there is a joke about the visitor to Pittsburgh who asks who “Katie Kaye” is because they keeping hearing Katie Kaye (KDKA) said…

7 hours ago, alyssaodonnell said:

WPVI Action News at 11:00pm, 12/31/1999

 

That’s peak PVI—Jim, Marc & Lisa, Gary, Dave, Cathy and Nora

3 hours ago, 24994J said:

 

KDKA. Is. Not. Special.

 

I’m not a fan of the black and gold graphics but when it comes to ratings—compared to WCBS, KCBS, and WBBM—KDKA is special.

I think the real problem facing KDKA the talent exodus it’s suffered over the last few years. The few times I had KD on, it’s looked like an intern’s demo tape. 

42 minutes ago, NYTV said:

Yeah, most of the NYC stations had retired the talent opens by the mid 2000s, WNBC retired theirs when they returned to the News 4 New York name in 2007.

It’s hard to have a talent open when you don’t have any stability. Things have stabilized at WCBS, but for time people were coming and going or being reshuffled every other book. 

I hope they open it up again—go back to open newsroom. 

17 hours ago, iron_lion said:

Do we see NBC News Daily lasting? ABC's The Chew and The Revolution are both gone. Surpisingly CBS has held down the Talk and Lets Make a Deal (replacements for As the World Turns & Guiding Light) for over a decade now.

Yet another hour of news covering assuredly the same topics, or another celebrity guest talk show isn't really needed either, but we still have it.

 

The only way I could see soaps surviving is if they're truncated to 30 minutes two or three days a week with cast trimmings, rather than a hard five day a week one hour model. 

 

 

I wondered if NBC News Daily was just a placeholder—like the window of opportunity to shift Days to streaming opened and they had to do it in that timeframe. 
 

The success of the Beyond Salem series had to contribute to the decision. The unfortunate thing for OLTL and AMC was streaming was really in its infancy when Prospect Park made their attempt. 

CBS oughta check in with the brain trust at Macy’s about how well standardization works. 

3 hours ago, wabceyewitness said:

 

they could, but a consultant likely told them it wouldn’t capitalize enough on the corporate synergy of the CBS News brand and the local CBS station brand….  

 

 CBS News and CBS Local Stations are all one department now, so they want to emphasize CBS News at every local level possible. 
 

that said, I don’t see why it couldn’t be CBS (Location) News at (time). 

It blows my mind to think you’d want to take these legacy Group W stations—market leaders with recognizable brands—and fold them into a network news brand that has been the bottom dweller for probably close to 40 years. 

3 hours ago, Kenneth Kissel said:

They didn't air the first 2 but I will include them in the list for hearings 3 and 4. 

To be fair, CBS, ABC, and NBC could move the soaps to Paramount+, Disney+, and Peacock if they wanted too. TBH, I'm actually surprised why the soaps haven't been canceled completely yet, the market is very small for them and many affiliates would want that time for more news anyway. 

I’m pretty sure that none of the shows that replaced AMC, OLTL, or ATWT get the ratings of their predecessors. Meanwhile Days of Our Lives’ third Peacock spinoff drops this summer.  

Is there any reason to bring her back? Letting Sue go was a mistake. 

On 4/26/2022 at 7:50 PM, SF1964 said:

I saw it mentioned elsewhere, but they could possibly put Gray on the 5PM show later this year, when/if Rick Williams is given the 6PM after Jim retires.

I think I’d be pissed if I were Matt O’Donnell or Brian Taft. 

4 hours ago, nycnewsjunkie said:

I guess they couldn't decide on the branding. They slapped a "KDKA" in a white square next to the CBS News Pittsburgh logo. They clearly spared no expense with that /s.

They ought to bring back the italicized Group W font and make it fit the box 

KD

KA

That’s the recognized brand in Pittsburgh—not third placed CBS News. 

Why do they settle for such a cramped little set? They should go back to the 1989 open newsroom.

Yeah, KDKA is competitive. Can the same be said of WCBS, KCBS, or WBBM? 

2 hours ago, Tyler said:

They aren’t going to streamline the locals and continue to let KDKA do whatever they want (thankfully). It will be CBS News Pittsburgh. 

The irony here is KDKA is the dominate station in its market while most CBS O&Os are anything but.