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On 12/23/2019 at 6:44 PM, wabceyewitness said:

New augmented reality graphics and for WABC that mimic the standup/interview area in the main studio. This was shot in the newsroom (you can hear the newsroom phones ringing in the background). 

From the looks of it it just seems to be a chroma key. I imagine she’s standing in the newsroom weather center. If they wanted to make it slightly more realistic they could back up a bit and put some green on the floor.

6 hours ago, ns8401 said:

What are we product placing for Amtrak now?

Maybe just an Easter egg goof or someone thinking Amtrak runs the NYC subway (which would be odd given all the intricacies they put in). 

1 hour ago, Webovision said:

they must be pretty confident nobody will ever contest their inability to follow embargoes...

That is a good point. They probably are thinking stations won't even be monitoring the local NewsNet station.   

4 hours ago, ns8401 said:

Where do you see that?

Look next to the pillar...

16 hours ago, RGSJenkins said:

Steve left some gifts for WABC since he helps design some of the weather graphics the O&O's use. Here's a preview of those graphics. (Hint: look at the train on the left.)

 

 

I was going to say I saw nothing then I saw an Amtrak logo.

2 hours ago, Spintech33 said:

Is her dad: Senator Robert Menendez?

Yes.

In the new year Ali Velshi will be leaving daysides and will be hosting his own show from 8-10am on weekends, replacing UP and David Gura will host MSNBC Live from 2-4pm.  It’s up in the air who will take Velshi’s 3pm weekday slot but sounds like Stephanie Ruhle will be staying at 9 and 1pm. 
 

Also didn’t know Velshi taught at Wharton....

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/msnbc-ali-velshi-weekend-schedule-1203449474/

Additionally Alicia Menendez will anchor MSNBC Live at 4pm Saturdays and 6PM (bumping a rerun of Meet The Press) Sunday’s. 
 

Would like to know where the Phoenix anchor and Kendis Gibson will fit. 

On 12/21/2019 at 1:07 PM, Eat News said:

I would expect all kinds of strange "musical chairs" at all the ABC production/ news studios in the NYC area.

The reason is the upcoming move at Columbus square and all the tech craziness that will be part of it.

 

ABC and WABC will need to improvise over the course of the move.

 

IE: EWN being able to work out of Times Square if needed for an hour, week or month. There will need to be some redundancy practiced "just in case"...

 

You plan for the worst, and hope for the best.

 

 

 

 

 

I imagine they period they’re leasing back will overlap significantly with the build in /move out.  
 

Also is the new developer of the current ABC property going to demolish all of it it or will keep some studio.  Like what happened when NBC sold the Burbank lot, some outside developer came in to own it but kept it as studios.

1 hour ago, MidwestTV said:

 

Depending on the market it might be. As already said, TV pays *poorly* when starting out, especially in small markets. A LOT of stations still give out salaries as low as 22-23k. They're getting paid less than some fast food workers.

There was one person who worked on WHAG / which is part of the DC market who lived out of his car. 

On 12/13/2019 at 10:26 PM, jbnews said:

But a must-run like this is harmless...

On 12/13/2019 at 9:36 PM, TSSZNews said:

 Hearst just made a position for Today alum Jeff Rossen's consumer reports and his team. Must-runs aren't going anywhere on Hearst.

I don’t think they will be Daily features. If they’re like his Today show ones they’re probably once a week.

Huh, looks like on my TiVo at least WBAL and WBFF are running their local news in full.  WBAL is preempting their noon news for Christmas in the Air with Tom Brokaw and at 5pm the Magnificent Mile Light Festival.

On 12/16/2019 at 12:04 AM, Drew said:

I wonder when the new MSNBC weekend lineup is coming: they have hired 3 new anchors for it already. They also have Kendis Gibson and Alex Witt

I imagine it will be later in the evening. They already rerun Richard Lui’s 4pm at 6pm. 

On 12/13/2019 at 4:58 AM, LinCruzNYC2014 said:

Channel 4 has not doing this year's Holiday Sing Along for the first time in 5 years. the most recent cancellation of the Holiday Sing Along promo taping was in 2014, due to bad weather caused by snow. Instead, the station has recycled last year's promo featuring "Deck the Halls", which will be the last NBC4 Holiday Sing Along promo for this decade, but with some alternations including the removal of "The Grinch" animated character, and the removal of Jummy Olabanji, Wale Aliyu and even Chris Cimino, all of which was been released by the station throughout this year, but also added with the Christmas Card-Inspired opening/closing animation for the first time since 2017. newcomers Kay Angrum, Maria LaRosa, Gilma Avalos, Anajali Hemphill, Myles Miller, and Matt Brickman did not included in this year's promo for some reasons.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wXfjtX4dYs

I’d like to know if this was scheduled to be recorded on the day of the hostage situation in Jersey City,

45 minutes ago, 24994J said:

...And ABC. I believe 'Nightly News' was first to do this.

I haven’t seen the O&Os on NBC do it nor many affiliates?

After seeing a second CBS Evening News recording on my TiVo I did a look around and saw that most of the CBS O&Os rerun the Evening News overnight. Sounds like a ratings play. 

9 hours ago, kfc513 said:

Not me. After an issue that I had one year in a student program at WCPO, I stopped caring. The FCC can revoke their license for all I care.

Now you have to tell us.

1 hour ago, WxNerd said:

(If you know what you're looking for, you can.)

Barons maps and radar appears differently from WSI. 

21 minutes ago, WxNerd said:

Not necessarily. Like WSI, if CBS sends the elements and Style Guide to Baron, they can re-create it at their shop, zip it up and drop that style (with guide) into their system. Then all the met has to do is swap out the old stuff for the new stuff.

Ah, I wasn’t sure if it was the same as WSI. But (off topic) could a hub create look, implement it and share it amongst sister stations or does WSI or Barron need to be involved? I heard that new templates had to be installed (or sent to the WSI box) by them. 

53 minutes ago, WxNerd said:

For WJZ to Transition with Baron Lynx, wouldn't be hard at all.

True, but the stations that are transitioning are all WSI - the templates are mostly already premade and aren't they easily pushed to stations?  Where as WJZ would have to recreate it for Lynx?

Also, I cannot stand that black and white ticker they use, nor the previous ticker CBS O&Os used.  I much prefer the WJZ version and hope they dont screw it up.

All the weather graphics that launched are at stations that use TWC/WSI’s platform. WJZ and maybe KDKA still rely on Barron for their graphics. 

WJZ transitioned.....

j/k it will be ages before they transition. 

9 hours ago, C Block said:

 

No way that's going to last long term. Moving the show to DC was clearly all about Norah.

What do you mean? The bulk of the team being in NY, or the show being in DC.

5 hours ago, TheRyan said:

 

After they left Studio 47 in 2016, they revamped that newsroom.  I don't know for sure if the Studio 47 space was "absorbed" into the remodeled newsroom, but the pictures released at the time the remodel was unveiled didn't show any signs of the studio still being there.   I would be curious to see if anyone has better knowledge on this matter.

 

All of that to say:  Besides the CBSN setup, Studio 57 (CBSTM set) has become the primary place for CBS News network broadcasts when originating from NY.

Every  studio CBS Broadcast Center is booked. The only place I think they could use to switch out sets would be using the CBS Sports Studio.  They’ve used the studio before for a few of their town halls they did during sweeps. But the news division doesn’t have any other major studio space except for Studio 33 which I imagine is just a chroma key studio for 60 Minutes. Studio 45 which is half Inside Edition’s virtual set and half hard set for Sunday Morning which I don’t think they dare touching (aside from maybe painting and technological upgrades has it changed from the beginning). And Studio 57 is the bulk of their operations. 
 

There are also two studios converted into newsrooms - Studio 57 and Studio 47.

The rest of the space is booked.

41 - The Mel Robins Show

42 - Last Week Tonight, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Desus & Mero
43 - CBS Sports

44 - CBS Sports Network

46 - WCBS/WLNY. 

I’ve been told that the EP will likely be in DC but most of the crew will be back in NY. 

Hey guys, we don’t need you to constantly rehash complaints with the package as a whole.  However if it’s a station specific one feel free and feel free to post how they evolve locally. 

1 hour ago, DirtyHarry said:

Does Tegna make any money from these networks? It seems like a real small niche.

In the beginning the likes of MeTV paid for carriage or barter. However now with them at least I can see the stations paying for MeTV. Other nets probably start out paying for carriage. 

1 hour ago, DirtyHarry said:

Just black. But it's basically a simulcast of what's showing on 23.2, which is in full 16: 9. Weird. 

Does the image seem compressed from 23.2 like fitting the 16:9 image in 4:3 or just center cutting it. 

1 hour ago, iron_lion said:

Norah uprooting herself to go to D.C. just feels unnecesary given her uncertain future at the anchor desk. 

She’s more like heading home. Her husband has moderately high end restaurants (which are great) around DC and Maryland along with two restaurants at Regan National and Dulles.  She was based there before she got the CTM job and she was flying herself & and kids back to DC on one of the shuttles every weekend.