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CBS 2's most competitive newscast was just launched into the wood chipper. http://www.robertfeder.com/2015/12/17/cbs-2-announces-harry-porterfield-retirement/#more-9771 It was announced this morning that 11am anchor Harry Porterfield, 87, retired last Friday, and will not be saying goodbye on the air. That is supposedly his choice. Meanwhile, veteran co-anchor Roseanne Tellez is being shifted to full-time reporting beginning December 28. At that time, morning anchors/professional pretty people Lionel Moise and Erin Kennedy will assume the midday duties. There goes the only WBBM newscast I watched. [MEDIA=twitter]677542277200412672[/MEDIA]

It seems like she was barely at WPVI long enough to cast a shadow.

KYW just did that, and I think it's too early to see how it pans out.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... It's an election logo?

WBBM's problem is their lack of action, save for their new, ratings meter-freezing female co-anchor. Even if it's all a big bust, KYW is at least making changes, and are willing to take a few (possibly misguided) risks. WBBM has just given up.

I'll just put this here... As a few of ABC's news programs have been given updated graphics, their election branding is seeing a makeover, too. Gone are the stacked bars and narrow type of the previous look, and is, in my opinion, an improvement...even if the brand itself is kind of silly...

Her social media bios confirm that she's permanent, but I'd imagine she'll be a 3rd wheel, serving as a back-up and field reporter. It kind of makes sense considering Ginger's baby boy is due in like a week, and the network has shown weather coverage as a more prominent feature on their newscasts.

That's been gradually phased in over the last several months.

Last I heard, the 5 o'clock show fights for 3rd on a regular basis, so it's far from a dud, considering they're the newest entry in the slot.

And how do you suppose they'd beat WABC at 11? Please, do tell.

I was being sarcastic. You're kidding, right?

Anyone who had Tong/Blackmon in the anchor team pool can collect their winnings at the window. Anybody? No one?

Can't judge what I don't watch. If what I'd think they look like is anything close to reality, they're probably not good.

Really, though, all three networks' special report graphics are bad. NBC's are serviceable, but VERY outdated. The latest CBS package is pretty bad, and doesn't go with any of the network's other well-designed looks (but the CBS This Morning graphics blow chunks compared to the earlier packs). As for ABC, they haven't had a good look in that department since 2009 (1/2) or 2010, if you count the FIRST version based off WN's '09 pack (before they tweaked the scale, fonts, and coloring). Seeing as this year's revamp of World News Tonight is a huge step up from the red, white and puke look, I'm optimistic that new special report graphics should be an improvement, and I'd imagine we'll see a change by the State of the Union next month...if not before then.

This thread...

No, "i before e" is a saying goes back decades, if not centuries.

I can't imagine that this was the first time somebody goofed her name. Between the 'I' and the 'k', and the vowels in her surname, nearly every part of her name is begging to be misspelled. Doesn't make it right, but still...

I'd imagine he's on like a 10 to 12-hour window of availability, say like 6 or 7am when GMA starts to like 5 or 6pm (ET) when all east coasters go to local news and David begins to prep for WNT. If my serves me well, Peter Jennings would be around and available in a similar type of span, not popping up for reports until after the GMA crew was off the hook, and he'd be around (when warranted, under "normal" circumstances) til 11pm when affiliates would go to late news. Where the GMA anchors of old would cover morning special reports, David Muir now does the same in the evening hours.

No, I get it. As for coverage, it's been better than I thought. They've had a tendency over the years (especially during the latter part of Emily Barr's tenure) to go to long on a subject and beat a dead horse. The reporting on this has been well-balanced within the broadcasts. As for the controversial decisions on airing the police footage, they went rather conservative showing it very few times, and considering they received a leaked copy hours before the official release, it's commendable that they didn't go too nuts with it. All this considered, there are two other operations in town that would've crammed it down your throat for shock value if in a similar situation. Heck, I heard that the folks at the bottom of the dial ran the video over and over in a loop, which is about as tasteful as you'd expect. Personally, and I know how terrible this sounds, the video was not hardly as graphic as anybody thought (though still very sad and jarring), and that's likely had an impact on how it's been covered.

KABC consumer reporter Ric Romero is retiring after 25 years at the station. http://abc7.com/society/ric-romero-retires-after-25-years-at-abc7/1100097/

It's definitely worse tonight, but the weather is better, more people are available with more time to "plan", so it's not too surprising. As is frequently the case, the tonight's crew at the Christmas tree are doing nothing to help their cause in the court of public opinion. ...But that's another discussion for another thread on another forum that I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole.

Nothing was adjusted. They were passing the studio around 7, and that broadcast went off fine. They relocated by the city Christmas tree after that and some made fools of themselves there pulling strings of lights off.

Fixed the link. I'd be interested to see what would happen to the numbers if WGN got out at 10, but that won't happen anytime soon. Would 7 and 2 (to a lesser extent) rebound, or would those viewers abandon the time slot? Otherwise, 5 and 7's demo numbers are on-par with recent months, so I don't think either of those two are surprised, or even too disappointed...considering these numbers are didn't really deviate from the October books.

Eh, I'm just going to leave this here instead of starting a new thread. Sweeps are all but over, and the results are not surprising. WLS is down big in total viewers (-1.3), likely robbed by a dead last WGN. WMAQ was up a tick in total, and held a 0.1 lead in the demo (which is likely why WLS went solid for 20 minutes tonight at 10). WBBM barely beat WGN for third. http://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2015/11/24/wls-channel-7-maintains-top-ranking-in-late-local.html

But they can't simulcast Fox NFL games on their stations. It works with ESPN and NFLN because they're on cable. Fox doesn't show games on FS1. If your regional team is playing it's already on the air on local TV in your market.