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Was this in the first half hour or second? (Or both?) This could have been a staffing/covid or studio issue, OR perhaps they're thinking of adding CBSEN after the first half hour instead of replaying it. 

Tamela is promoting an interview with VP Harris; I wonder if they kept her out of the studio for a while as a way of quarantining her before the meeting. Whatever the situation is, it's a weird one. 

Adam mentioned earlier this week on Twitter that him broadcasting from home is only a precautionary measure due to an uptick in covid cases. Perhaps that's been broadened out to the rest of the newsroom. 

13 hours ago, panewswatcher69 said:

What are the ratings for Live with Kelly and Ryan?  Over the past month, noticed Live has been airing promos on various cable networks.  With the promos, have ratings fallen compared to what they have been in the past?

Are you watching a lot of FX/FXX or the Nat Geo networks? I feel like since they've come under the Disney umbrella, the synergistic ads have been on in full force (including for corporate sibling Live)

I’m curious as to what exactly the closed captioning is picking up tonight on Night Light (YouTube TV blacks out the picture when taking screenshots or screen recordings) 

1 hour ago, Action Newsroom said:

NOW DailyMailTV has been cancelled. Its run will officially wrap this summer.

Even now with one confirmed done, I’d be shocked if The Doctors continues. Presumably this is one situation where the pandemic actually helped, as I’m guessing production costs have plummeted with it being down to one host and no studio audience. However, no viewership isn’t exactly helping…

2 hours ago, Big Rollo Smokes said:

I haven't seen anything official about either of these shows having been canceled. Could this have been an April Fool's joke?

While not official, also not just rumor (or an April Fools joke)-  ‘The Doctors’ future in doubt – Deadline

Is it that surprising that two bottom-of-the-barrel shows are likely on the chopping block? "The Doctors" has been waiting for someone to call "time of death" on it for years now.

I wonder if WCBS has their old TWC set piece lying around somewhere... time to dust it off!

Just got a 6am ET push notification plugging the morning show and saying "FOX Weather's new, expanded programming lineup launches today".

I put it on in the background while I'm working and caught this graphic-

Also, in the rotating promo corner they showed "America's Weather Now" running from 7p to 10p, with "FOX Weather Wild" airing at 10p, so it looks like live programming through 10pm is now standard starting today.

For those who enjoy context and sources, here's an article on the expected shutdown from the LA Times

I’m curious to see which current stations that air Maury stick with the rerun package vs. the new Karamo show. While the Lie Detector Spectacular may be going out of production, it doesn’t mean it’s going away… just look at the Springer rerun package. It outlasted Judge Jerry!

George Solis announced on his Instagram that he'll be leaving WPVI, no mention of a next stop yet

Another departure, and it's a big one- Hurricane Schwartz is retiring in May

Has there been any word on Tammie Souza joining the weather team full-time? I noticed in a weather promo she's featured prominently alongside the three other female forecasters. I know she was also pulling double duty filling in on other CBS O&O's since WCAU gave her the shaft. Glad to see her (possibly) staying in Philly.

Isn't the whole missing person/murder mystery shtick what brought Nancy Grace success on her old HLN show? Oxygen was just entirely revamped recently as a true crime network. How long until it becomes the entirety of the "Prime" hour?

Starting today, they're giving the 6:30 run of Dish Nation the boot in favor of rotating local shows, starting off with "The Pulse with Bill Anderson", coming from a new retrofitted podcast studio. Checking Zap2It, other shows throughout the week look to be "The 215", a return (or reruns) of "The ClassH-room", "Kelly Drives" and "Props & Locks". All except "Props & Locks" also appear to be airing earlier in the day at 1pm.

Noticed this morning (EARLY morning here on the west coast) that FOX O&O sister station KCOP is also simulcasting America's Weather Weekend in addition to the weekday hour. I wonder if the aforementioned stations running the weekday hour are also airing this as well. KCOP does seem to be in a programming world of it's own- less syndie content, a lot of Decades simulcasting and FOX Soul shows. 

With all the recent comings, there's also a going- as noted in the WNBC thread, Violeta Yas is heading up I-95 to NYC soon

Is an hour of FWX really any different than an hour of "Better" or "Daily Blast Live"? It's in-house content that's one less timeslot to have to worry about for syndication. 

FWX has now been added to the Roku's lineup of free streaming channels. Flipping through, Accuweatner NOW is airing a feature on the Superbowl into a Superbowl/West Coast forecast, Weathernation is airing their typical rotating weathermaps and forecasts, and FWX is airing a canned weather special. Granted there was a brief weather update when they returned from commercial, but it's funny that FWX is the most "Weather Channel" option of those three choices right now...

Suddenly independent WJMN will reportedly begin airing NewsNation's "Morning In America".  Interested to see if there will be an additional roll-out to stations with smaller news profiles in their portfolio to provide a morning news block.

1 hour ago, mrschimpf said:

Just in case anyone was interested in what happened if a Scripps station decided to choose the oddest colors possible for their graphics...here's WCPO with orange and black Bengals colors in their L3's. Be glad Seattle doesn't have a Scripps station or a team in the Super Bowl; they could be worse. 

 

 

With such staunch standardization across station groups anymore, I'm all for ANY variation, even as visually unappealing as this (specific) implementation may be. KDKA's black and yellow CBS O&O variation are another great example, and I've recently seen a yellow and sky-blue variation of the FOX O&O graphics here on KTTV for the Rams' superbowl run. If there isn't going to be any variation from station-to-station anymore, at least let them have fun with what they're stuck with.

I welcome the addition of another weather subchannel. I don't really understand why so many came & went, particularly the O&O based ones; they seemed like perfect companions to news-focused "trust us with your weather" presentations (and yes, I get that weather is available on demand on any internet-connected device).  Seeing how so many are now gone (save for the sporadic carriage of WeatherNation), FWX may well have the market all to itself in most areas.

Also of note, it seems the commercial load on the YouTube TV version of FWX is different than that on Tubi. I'm assuming the Tubi feed is coming from a FOX News-integrated backend that populates the same commercials you'd get on any other FOX News-originating stream (hence all the commercials for FOX Nation and Jesse Waters). On YouTube TV, I haven't seen any of those. Just a lot of "Hi, I'm Joe Namath!" and finance app ads. 

FWX has been added to YouTube TV, making it the only weather channel currently available on the platform (Byron Allen recently signed a deal to get TWC onto YTTV, but it still hasn't been added yet)

20 hours ago, Wildish said:

The fact that they actively promote fox news shows is a turn off. I didn’t care to see Jesse Watters promoting his show while watching storm coverage. They should have kept it separate.

This. 

I was looking forward to checking out their coverage of this storm, but I got to the the first commercial break yesterday and decided I'd seen enough. I could deal with the FOX Nation commercials, but I can't deal with seeing Hannity, Tucker, and the rest during every break. 

I'm surprised they kept her up for as long as they did. I know it's the top of the newscast and a main story they're covering, but they couldn't shift to the next report and give her time to regroup and then come back to her?

Also that accent of hers had me feeling like I was back home and I had to look her up. Sure enough, Tori Yorgey is a Philly-area native.