24994J

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.

Talking (speculating) about station GROUP pick-ups is fine, but we don't (aren't) going to do this for INDIVIDUAL stations. We'll find out in 3-6 months.

I broke off all the CBS talk into its own thread. There wasn't a clean break, so there may still be some of that here from late last year, but the soap and CBS talk continues here...

https://forums.tvnewstalk.net/topic/20889-the-future-of-cbs-daytime/

I've split this discussion off from the NBC News Daily thread, as it veered way off course to the CBS discussion.

If D was doing everything from 4pm on, I think they would possibly opt for a platoon option at midday, but leaving the 5 vacant suggests that SOMEBODY will get a full-time weekday assignment. I'm assuming that it'll be Janssen, Joyce & Donovan until they make an announcement, but I don't think there's any rush.

Semi-related, I never knew they made a sports anchorless 5pm talent rejoin after Dan retired. It's obviously now out of date, but it was just Micah, Ray, Tom & Shannon. I don't like not declaring a sports anchor at the evening hours, but whatever. I hate that they can't officially name JP to the 9. Having a declared sports anchor at 4, but carrying a rotation on all the other shows is so weird.

8 minutes ago, TellyGenic said:

Is Janine Gargiulo any relation to WNBC anchor Michael Gargiulo?

Joelle Garguilo and Michael Gargiulo's last names are spelled differently, so no.

3 hours ago, MediaZone4K said:

This is what I mean by abysmal. Even if the set isn't great the lighting would elevate it like the Mornings on 10 look does.

"This is what I mean."
 

We know what the set looks like. Screenshots don't prove your point.

6 hours ago, GodfreyGR said:

Does anyone know if the needle has moved in Chicago since Jennifer Lyons took over WBBM?

 

That said, how has WGN fared since she left there?

No idea about ratings, but Lyons is a stabilizer. WBBM is competently-staffed, and puts out a quality, if little-watched product. As a viewer and news junkie, that's as important as building the ratings. As for WGN, they didn't miss a beat. They're in the WLS club of Don't Actively F#ck It Up & You'll Do Great.

1 hour ago, MediaZone4K said:

(Skip to 2:32) My knowledge of the Chicago market is still growing so I was  surprised to see the legendary Bill Curtis/Walter Jacobson pairing still intact as late as 2013. I wish stations weren't so averse to do male pairings these days.
 

By 2009, Rob Johnson was anchoring evenings solo, and ratings were rising. That fall, Bill was brought in to shoot some promos and feature some of his cold case investigations. At some point, Walter returned to do his commentaries. In November '09, Rob was off, and the station heavily promoted a one night only reunion of the legends on the 10pm news. It was well-received, and they were installed as 6pm co-anchors by September of 2010. Once their contracts ran out in (I think) February '13, they were "retired." Given a full farewell, but it wasn't really their choice.