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Why? They showed the same picture at previous inaugurations.

The format sounds like a souped-up version of The Now, which dropped the whole national concept pretty quickly on. Depending on where this lands in the schedule, this sounds like a great way to screw up KUSA's 4pm newscast, which already has a following, unlike KMGH's attempts at a 4pm show.

According to CNN Commentary, CNNI's European mid-morning business show, CNN Money View with Nina Dos Santos, has been cancelled. A simulcast of New Day has been running in its place. CNN Commentary says it's only temporary. I really hope it is, as CNNI's offerings recently are starting to feel pretty slim with so much domestic content on it recently. https://cnncommentary.com/2017/01/10/cnn-cancels-nina-dos-santos-show/

I'm a little torn on all this reignited Russia spat. On one hand, a lot of it seems credible and fits in well to the narrative, though intelligence that's credible and fits into a narrative yet isn't confirmed and fully vetted doesn't . As for the C-SPAN stuff, the router issue seems reasonable, though it is strange that it only affected the web stream. Then again, the Ruskis have scrambled American television signals before:

KPIX, 1998. Includes Drew Soicher, some of the more interesting cuts of Battery, and an amusing online promo at about 8:25.

Definitely strange. I was never much of a fan. I always thought his brother Marc was much better.

You're complaining that CBS didn't cover a breaker when its two competitors weren't even running news on one of the lowest staffed and least watched news days of the year?

I've never been a fan of the Hearst look and never understood why it was so well-received. The color palette and typeface are nice, but the rest of it is just way too busy. It hasn't aged well, either. Simplifying it and cutting down on all the flash would make it look a lot better.

Wouldn't be surprising. She's pretty much the only dinosaur left who hasn't taken a buyout. But I guess even if she isn't on TV, she'll always be there to tell you that YOU are delaying the departure of THIS train.

Possibly the same thing with the same hacks, just on the NBC payroll?

KUSA morning anchor Cheryl Preheim leaving after 18 years to become the morning anchor at WXIA: http://www.9news.com/mb/about-us/cheryl-preheim-is-off-to-atlanta/354885927

Still in Studio 57 this week. It looks nice, but it does feel temporary. They stuck to a shot of Scott standing in front of a video wall for most of the show.

Just off the top of my head, KUTV still only runs the 8am hour. That is probably the biggest exception by market size. KGMB runs it in full, but from 8-10am according to schedules. There may be a few others as well?

If anything, at least MSNBC's sets are still decent. CNN, meanwhile, runs on a cobbled-together newsroom set and a CBS This Morning knockoff, all while mothballing their old studio.

This really is a headscratcher. The previous set in 3K was beautiful and much more appropriate for the several shows that came from it, and WNBC's 3C set looked much more polished than the current version in 3K.

It was said best on SNL tonight — who would have thought the most important Bush in this election would be Billy?

There aren't any correspondents dedicated to network O&Os, or at least none that I'm aware of. They do get priority booking custom lives over other stations though.

I never really thought her delivery style fit KDVR or morning show formats all that well. I never thought she'd stay at KDVR for very long, but then again, nobody does.

I really wish I worked in that era of news.

Longtime Denver Post sports columnist and ESPN commentator Woody Paige is joining KMGH, per Tony Kovaleski: [MEDIA=twitter]760188859275763717[/MEDIA]

KCNC's Lauren Whitney has been doing weather on WFOR this week. According to social media posts, it's only a temporary thing "to help her better understand hurricanes."

There's probably a lot more to it than just "she needed time to get over Phil Collins." Stations lie in press releases about this kind of stuff all the time, the most common example being "wanting to spend more time with family."

This is the most likely scenario out of anything suggested here (directors making graphics? Really?), but even then, that producer wasn't just picking an OTS image, he/she was also writing the script, making sure it was accurate and readable, finding video to match, having the video edited properly, writing a lower third to go with the VO, adding an anchor cue, worrying about timing and stacking, and many other things. Considering how many cutbacks have happened and how fewer people are working on more newscasts today even in big markets, it's surprising things like this don't make it to air more often.

Mark Koebrich said he's still going to fill-in as an anchor occasionally. Of course, those "still going to come back to do special reports" rarely, if ever, last long at all. Larry King said he'd be back on CNN when he left...

KUSA anchor Mark Koebrich to step down in 2016 after being at the station for 35 years: http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2015/11/10/9news-anchor-mark-koebrich-to-retire-after-37.html