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NBC already tried with Rock Center and that Megan Kelly mistake of a show. ABC would rather have Sundays be with AFV with people making fools of themselves than doing a newsmagazine with their "journalistic credibility". Besides they have their 20/20 True Crime franchise.

This to me is a huge downgrade given the great custom work the station has had throughout the years to avoid being cookie-cutters. Oh well, that the way the cookie crumbles (no pun intended).

the new 10 day at the top, their former below. Seems many stations are copying (or trying) the ABC O&Os.

And that's the way it is.

At this point, I really don't care. Simply, people are stupid. Enough said.

I read the entire VF article and to be quite honest and blunt, the CBS Evening News has been irrelevant since the retirement of the late Walter Cronkite in 1981, before I was even born. I had no care for Rather in the chair during the 80s, 90s and 2000s and no matter how many times they have tried to revitalize that flagship broadcast, it long since hit the iceberg and sunk. And that's the way it is.

I'll just put my two cents in. The misanthropic read—the honest one—is that this isn’t some grand betrayal of the public trust. It’s a system behaving exactly as designed. Maximize shareholder value, minimize cost, maintain the illusion of service. If local journalism was truly indispensable to the public at scale, it would have found a sustainable model by now. Instead, it survives in pockets—nonprofits, independents, the occasional stubborn newsroom—while the bulk of the industry becomes a content distribution network with a nostalgic costume. So, the Nexstar / Tegna deal isn’t a shocking turning point. It’s just another mile marker on a road we’ve been on for years, decades even. Fewer owners. Thinner newsrooms. Louder branding about “serving communities” paired with quieter layoffs and more syndicated filler. And the punchline? Most people won’t notice. Not really. The broadcasts will still look like news. The graphics will still spin and be flashy (or not). The anchors will still smile with that practiced urgency. The difference—the slow erosion of actual local accountability—doesn’t announce itself. It just… accumulates. Until one day, something really important happens in a town, and there’s nobody left to cover it who actually lives there. But hey—great margins.

He believed anchored at all the OTA NY stations except WPIX. True legend.

Same goes for WUSA 9 in D.C.

Here's the proof: Roseanne Tellez is latest casualty at Fox 32 Chicago after firing of Scott Schneider, executive producer - Chicago Sun-Times

When "MOD-03" Graphics first came out on WKRN in 2024, they were using a combination of Gotham and Monteserrat.

It's now the New Coke of network broadcasts.

The music sounds like what I would hear on CBC News in Canada.

Seems he's working freelance for now after leaving The Weather Channel last April.

Sorry to bump an old thread, but recently 6 of the NBC Tegna stations (KARE, KPNX, KSDK, WCNC, WKYC and WXIA) have gotten new music (finally ditching C Clarity, thank God!) along with new opens, and transitions and updated L3s.

SORRY TO BUMP AN OLD THREAD: CBS News Detroit has found their new morning meteorologist to replace Troy Bridges who went to Atlanta. Vytas Reid joined their Next Weather team on January 5th. He is the former chief Meteorologist for WPEC in West Palm Beach, Florida, and previously served as chief met in Baltimore at WBFF (remember Sinclair's News Central). He is originally from Michigan (Grand Rapids) and even moonlights as a DJ. Great hire! It also appears Karen Carter and Stacy DuFord are alternating weather on the noon and 4 p.m., with Stacy still doing weekends.

So True.

Nice of Maurice to add a bit of Murrow at the end. Good luck to those two.

This is a bit of a rant. You've been warned. True journalism was adversarial by nature. It made enemies. It embarrassed people with power. It survived complaints, lawsuits, and angry phone calls because that’s the cost of doing the job. When journalism started optimizing for comfort—of executives, donors, politicians, or audiences—it stopped being journalism and became content moderation for adults. And yes, we the public helped kill it too. As we trained newsrooms to fear us. We punished nuance, rewarded outrage, and confused “this makes me uncomfortable” with “this must be false.” We demanded instant takes, moral certainty, and tribal loyalty. Then we act shocked when reporters stopped taking risks. So now we have journalism that is: Carefully balanced to the point of meaninglessness Bravely critical only of people already out of favor Fearless about history, timid about the present “Investigative” as long as it doesn’t threaten access The most damning part isn’t that a story like the CECOT piece can be pulled. It’s that almost no one (aka the higher ups) inside these organizations are surprised anymore. They sigh, shrug, and move on to the next safe segment. The newsroom rebels were replaced by compliance officers with journalism degrees. We didn’t lose true journalism because the government banned it. We lost it because everyone involved decided it was too inconvenient to keep. And that, depressingly, is the most human outcome of all. End of rant.

I remember Lucie when he was at WUSA in DC. Wow.

Along the lines of independent media continually being attacked by the FCC, Trump and his appointees.

Make no mistake: this isn’t just the cancellation of a late-night talk show. This is a neon-lit symptom of America’s degenerative attention span, corporate cowardice, and our collective descent into curated stupidity. And don’t you dare try to convince me it was just about ratings. This is what happens when a culture trades character for content, when it silences the jesters because the kings got tired of being mocked. It’s what happens when we stop laughing at power and start laughing with it. ABC didn’t cancel Jimmy Kimmel. America did. And it should be ashamed.

It has begun!

So finally all the network scorebugs are centered.

I do see YouTube doing more games soon. Also, the graphics were really good.