mouseboy33

wrong thread.

CBC's the National underwent a massive reformat after the venerable Peter Mansbridge retired. They couldnt pick just one anchor so they chose 3 and 3 locations. But the format became very cerebral and clean and calm. New logo, new music new graphics. Everything. It had a very European look. The format basically remained. But the 3 anchor/3 locations was ended. I imagine after a while CBS will probably start tinkering. Because the ratings wont immediately put in them in 1st place. We know they can leave things as they are.

According to Deadline: She added that she has “made a long-term commitment to CBS News to continue to do the same storytelling and big interviews that have been our hallmark. I will continue to contribute to Evening News and all of our news broadcasts, including 60 Minutes.”

I have to agree that CBS doing something different. Im exciting to find out what the tone will be. The broadcast sounds like the CBC NATIONAL. They used subtle graphics with frosted panels and simple elements and they also did the triple anchor presentation. THe programme lasts an hour.

the angled peacock logos are awful. it seems like it would be in violation of the NBC Style guide to use the NBC peacock that way. Those sets are nothing much to begin with but it guess they could only work with what they had. Bit of meh makeover to me.

I like that they are wearing 9 pins. Reminds me of the Circle 7 pins the ABC affiliates used to wear. I think only KABC still does this

People watch this channel? So many stations and channels are suffering financially and this indie channel is still operating? Interesting.

Breaking : Hoda Kotb is stepping down as co-host of NBC Today https://x.com/NBCNews/status/1839280600861081919

Well one BIG HUGE DOWNGRADE is the size and look of the weather center. WHOA thats what jumped out at me immediately. ITS TINY. Oklahoma CIty is is Tornado Coverage. That typically means that the Weather Center is usually just as big or bigger than the news desk. The previousl Bob Mills Weather Center has behind the scenes area. Particuarly when there is a massive tornado outbreak there could be tons of people behind the weather desk. It looks fantastic and typcially during tornado coverage there are multiple people behind the weather desk USUALLY ive seen 4 people. THere are gonna be tight behind there. And it seems This is a downgrade.

She was at WBBM? Who knew. LOL. Wow missed that. She graduated from University in 2016 and was already in Chicago. That was fast to make it top 3 market and be gone already to a network..

CNNI is a shadow its former self. They let go or many walked anchors and reporter are gone. So anchor and reporting team is quite thin. All the major reporters and anchors are all gone. The dont have really many reporters in Africa. I dont know of anyone is South America. YOu never seen any reports from their. The Hong Kong Broadcast site is basically shuttered. Krisit Lee Stout is apparently still there but there is are not programmes presented from their. Andrew Stevens is gone. Its like a ghost town. Becky Anderson seems to be the only person in Abu Dhabi and there is only her programme that comes from there. And the channel has some original shows but alot of domestic simulcasts now. When a major story happens the International anchors are shelved in favour of the US domestic anchors. CNN is nothing like it was. WHo remembers THe WORLD TODAY and INTERNATIONAL HOUR. Alll the actual news hours are gone in favour or political talking head bobble-fests every hour. They were so stupid to shut down Headline News. Now you have 1 billion rolling news channels that stepped into that role. Like Scripps News and NewsNation. That was the dumbest move. They should have just reinstated the old school Headline News with the tight 30 minute wheel. "Around The World in 30 Minutes This is CNN HeadlIIIIINNNNE News." Al Jazeera English is the international heavyweight now. And the BBC of course. BUt they recently merged their 2 news channels into one channel and only when there is signification domestic news, the UK will opt-out to a domestic stream. SkyNews is a big international player. But they are sister to NBC.

WBBM has been a disaster for decades. The reporters they have are awful. Im sorry. There are some good young reporters that are good. But then you have some who are so sleepy and dead in their delivery its like watching paint dry. I do like the new weather people. But the anchor team is just plain awful. And sadly because everything is automated now. Its been stripped of any creatively in camera shots and graphics and music. Its terrible. Thats partially down to the News Director. I look at KCBS/KCAL and WCBS and they are far more livelier productions. WBBM is just s l e e p y for a market the size of Chicago. Its too many small market people bringing small market ideas. And now that Paramount Global is broke its not like they can afford to bring some top talent. Im not sure anything will ever help them climb out of the basement. SAD

I was thinking the same thing. Sky has very very very clean graphics. I will be interesting see. They are bring a decent studio team over from the UK and going to have a former correspondent return to be their "Steve Kornaki" analyst. It will be interesting to see an outside perspective. It seems that Sky and NBC are closer than they were sisters with Fox "News".

SkyNews announced they will be using the Meet The Press studio for their coverage of the US Election. We are starting to see NBC and Sky working closer and closer together. We are seeing with SkySports and NBC Sport collab on English Premier League coverage that just started recently with commentators appearing on both channels.

Ugh these corporate group graphics are becoming more and bland and boring. Geez. With the automated rundowns and lockdown cameras and bland samey theme music. Todays newscasts are BORING.

i hate HATE HATE VR sets. Is this the beginning of the end? I surely hope not. They are the norm in Germany and the've always looked like crap. Its just a cheap way to get out of building physical sets. Boring.

i know its local. But yeesh that Olympics set is.....something.

I felt bad for Kevin Jeanes because until Brant called in he was carrying the entire coverage. I dont under why they had Brant on the phone. Why cant they train him to dial in using Zoom, they audio at least would have been much better. Aisha probably was looking stuff up and doing behind the scenes stuff. But it wasnt good enough especially in a Top 5 market. Kevin literally asked her if she had anything new,, she said nope and threw it back to him. They need to show her the door along with quite a few people at Ch5. I only used to watch Ch5 exclusively but not anymore. The reporters and many of the anchors are not Top5 material. Its Mid Market level to me. I agree about Ch2. David and Mary Kay did a good job considering the barebones Weather Team. Still dont know why why got rid of the other guy. David is new to Chicagoland. YOu can tell he still has a lot to learn about Chicago terms. Like saying Chicagoland instead of "The Metro". I hate that term. Its for small cities like OKC and Omaha. Dont bring that "Metro" crap here. We are an entire region. But he is good. I like Mary Kay, but they really need to get a replacement here. This remote business is tiresome. PLus it just seems like Albert is never on tv when I turn it on. DOes he actually work there? WGN to me is not good. I just dont like their style of presenting breaking weather or their weather radar and tools. Either its zoomed out too far or microscopic levels or its covered in the lighting icons so yoou cant see anything. Or they are gving WAAAAY to much historical data which isnt appropriate in a breaking situation. WFLD is a mess. I dont remember who the Chief Met is. She seems nice and capable. But she kinda has a demeanor in her presentation style that I personally dont like. Its very-matter-of-fact. Or Id-rather-be-doing-something-else style. Its not my personal taste. Mark Strehl is typicall behind a screen and looks like a man stuck a in old fashioned phone booth. The whole thing needs to be revamped. All of the stations including Ch7 need to look at how OKC and Birmingham stations do rolling weather. Because the way the their weather computers are setup they cant even put up a live video behind the anchor on a green screen and have them point things out. Case in point, the Ohare Tornado cam video. What a mess.

They added the 4 red stars from the Chicago Flag to the logo. Ehhh. CBS NEWS Chicago.... Most people will still call it Channel 2. No matter what the networks do to try and brand local stations. People continue to say Channel___. Dont think its going to change anytime soon. Some quick-takes: Looks good. One glaring issue with the new set. Is the awful background noise. ITS VERY ECHOEY!!!!! Goodness. And there is a noticeable static noise when it goes from the studio to b-roll or live outside. Overall the studio audio is garbage. The lighting on the set is blasted with light. It washes out the video walls. Weather looks like crap with the lighting issues from the green screen. Channel 7 screens faces the windows and dont seem to have all those reflections from passing cars and lighting issues on the weather wall. There are definitely some technical issues that seemingly were UN-anticipated or yet to be fixed. I like the theme music when it premiered.......Now i find it incredibility repetitive and boring. Im sure there are some other cuts. KCAL uses a variety. Kinda boring low-res image down the Chicago River. I guess its better than the ugly river-level blurry images they used previously. Overall the production is VERY bland. Kinda yawn, sleepy production. You can tell its all computerized run-down and super simplified and dry, a Jennifer Lyons trademark. The boring graphics package doesnt help. Nice set. But ehh.

I kinda like it actually. I wish it were a bit brighter design. But it feels more faster paced. I not sure if this will work the entire day. But select hours across the schedule. Sure.

David Yeoman just revealed they are indeed moving back to the streetside studio on this Instagram stories. He called the current set their old studio. So we were thinking it was going to be a streaming studio or big weather set. Well it seems its going to be a new news studio and the whole operation is moving back down the hall https://www.instagram.com/davidyeomansweather/?hl=en

Susan LeMignon said: " thanks for being with us this weekend Kylee." So it sounds like a temporary arrangement. I didnt see alll her appearances. Was she at the desk? Or live from Detroit?

This is a terrible move. CItyNews/Pulse is iconic for having its anchors roaming and wandering its working newsroom and perching on various locations. EVERYONE copied CIty. They did it the best. This new look is not City and not just departure but nothing like the DNA of the original channel. As Rogers has all but erased its orginal format created by Moses Znaimer. The original CityTv CityPulse format was copied all around world or at least elements of it. Its really sad to see it removed and yet another boring desk bound format in its place. Sad day in creative news broadcasting take a hit and yet another boring corporate-mandated looking format in its place.

WBBM used to be number one and they went from this To this and audiences returned briefly and then abandoned ship and never came back .

The new KPRC set is lit horribly. Awful actually. It doesnt even look modern with the weird early '00s curved "iPhone-esque" elements. Not good. Downgrade.