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37 minutes ago, Vlad said:

If an average joe doesn't pay attention they can easily be mistaken for WABC:

If an average joe doesn't pay attention, they don't know what WABC is.

38 minutes ago, Vlad said:

Would've been so fitting to see them keep these light blue colors and the music for their new package. That would've really make them stand out more.

Stand out more among who? Nobody but us would be watching multiple ABC O&Os at once, and everything outside of the opens are similar enough to the old look that those same average joes won't really notice, so nobody should be confusing them with any of their LA competitors.

As for the shade of blue, that's just what it is. Opportunities to customize the package are based on literally any other accent element that isn't the primary blue pieces. Look at the CBS package, the in-show branded bugs have been seen in blue, red, orange, green, gold, black, and even purple, but the standard lower third doesn't change. Same thing for ABC, but they're blue.

Since John & Rachel were on at 4, but not on now, is the 7am co-anchor assignment a rotation, pairing Leslie & literally anybody? Also, Brianna is doing weather, not Leslie. Is that another 7am switchover, or is it either of them on any given day?

There is a job listing for a meteorologist, but I'd guess that the podcast she had with Erin Kennedy burned all bridges to returning to any broadcasting, and she's probably okay with that.

The reopen at 11:30 used a properly-cut & edited version of the WABC cut, so the 11am bumper open MIGHT have been a fluke.

Please don't bump a thread that hasn't been touched in 14 months, unless, in the case of this thread, primetime on NBC was actually being cut down. A one-off schedule change, even if previously mentioned, doesn't warrant the bump.

1 hour ago, TheNewsTV said:

Does anyone know when Sade will be back at 5pm?

When she's ready.

29 minutes ago, TennTV1983 said:

Before this thread gets out of hand, there is probably no chance of ABC swooping in to buy WJLA. If they didn't buy the station when Albritton put itself up for sale years ago, what makes anyone think they would even do so now?

ABC was interested, but Allbritton wasn't interested in making multiple deals. That said, a decade later, I don't think Disney would be interested, for modern reasons. I also doubt Sinclair would be willing to part with their largest market.

This is already been discussed elsewhere. 

Bring back Eyewitness News at 7 on The U, you cowards. 

Ginger and Somara Theodore can handle 90% of what the network needs, with frequent calls to the affiliates for weekend fill-ins. They call up Sam to do a little weather & a little entertainment stuff, but there's zero need for him to return to the network, full-time. I like Sam, but he can't (won't) commit to 5 days a week at his current job, so why would anyone expect him to commit to a hard schedule at the top?

Frankly, if the network's 2 meteorologists (which Sam is not) were men, I don't think we'd have this constant conversation, pushing for Sam's return. Just saying.

1 hour ago, mer764KCTV5 said:

In Chicago, WMEU-CD has an UHF simulcast of WBBM because of the fact CBS knows that some areas of Chicago wasn't able to get the VHF signal. 

Not anymore, since WBBM upgraded their signal.

2 hours ago, ns8401 said:

This one is a WLS version from well… 24994J would likely know. 
 

In-house package, 2001-05

2 hours ago, wofchristian said:

6ABC finally got rid of the old ticker at the bottom of the screen. But they don't have the new one yet.

They only run the ticker in the mornings and early evenings. No ticker after 6pm. 

Oh, and that one logo wipe was used at a Ratner-VO'd rejoin, in place of the reopens, this morning.

On 2/25/2024 at 1:04 PM, cpet228 said:

I believe I had her speak at a class when I went to Columbia College years ago.  Always on top of things in the morning.

Any rumors/speculation on her replacement yet?  Will ABC7 hire from the outside?  Or will Diane Pathieu get it, since she seems to be the primary fill-in already?

Diane is obviously the internal candidate, but as is standard procedure, there is still an open job listing online.

Meanwhile, the first half of the week has been a celebration of the morning newscast's 35 years, and there have been some special guests along the way. Earlier, media manager and apparent news nerd David Fell joined the show to talk about a lot of station history.

Wednesday (today) was the official anniversary, so some familiar faces made their return between 6 & 8am. The Gray Beards, as I called them to a friend, reminisced about the old days, and Judy Hsu pre-taped a retrospective segment.

No no, we need more mock, speculative schedules based on hunches and inklings. Move the local news? 30 minute soaps? Network shows that air at 9am ET? What are rules?

It's a one-time show, sounds like it'll be at least party live, the brainchild of all the main show's comedic minds.

Annnnnnd, I think we're done here.

54 minutes ago, JTT said:

If this is not temporary and they want to put more news content on both stations,  why not put current news presentation when kttv is not showing news? For example Fox 11 shows news from 4-11am weekdays, then Kcop should air current news from 11am - 3pm weekdays.  I think they should expand their good day LA with weekend mornings as well on both stations. 

People have explained multiple times why KTTV/KCOP shouldn't and wouldn't do all-day news. They're not looking to compete, they're merely filling airtime, in the current bleak syndication landscape.

55 minutes ago, TheNewsTV said:

I know, I just wanted to comment. Since it only lasted 30 minutes and was recorded with Dana Tyler. And as it is a news program also produced by WCBS...

You know it's Atlanta, but you said Detroit.

8 minutes ago, wofchristian said:

Are they switching the animation at the end to what the other channels are using? Aka this... 

No. How it launched is how it will remain.

57 minutes ago, TVNewsLover said:

Will we get pics of the anchors in the opens?

Temporary, as in they basically pasted the new logo animation over the end of this season's winter opens. With spring coming up quick, what debuted Tuesday won't last long. No talent faces are coming. Status quo and familiar is the plan. Sorry if my wording suggested otherwise.

And Alex Cheney is apparently gone? I couldn't tell you when, but when I saw her post, I checked to see that his bio was gone off the website.

1 hour ago, Abraham J. Simpson said:

Yeah, that misalignment was irking me, and I full well realize that’s a personal issue with me.  That and there’s still a remnant of the old package being used subtly on the vertical monitors off to the side of the anchor desk, at least during one segment. 
 

That said, I like some of the new transitions as part of the package. 

Our inside source says it'll be a few weeks before the ticker and set screens get switched over. Heck, the new opens are temporary, since they're still the winter ones.

As discussed in the ABC graphics thread and on our TheNewsCenter Discord, someone at WPVI simply cued up the new open, by mistake, for only one of the Sunday morning hours. Nothing has technically debuted, but the FULL rollout should be later this week.