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The job listing for the weekend evening slot was online until late last week, while other job slots remain. Whether the search is suspended or completed it unclear. We'll see.

It took like 4 months for Ravi to debut after Rob Johnson left,14 months to hire Mark to replace Ben Bradley, about 5 months to name Samantha Chatman for Stacey Baca's slot, and Elgas & Baichwal weren't named to succeed Alan for more than 4 months. The last example is a freaking eternity to leave your flagship shows without an anchor, despite it being "a logical progression." Ravi's only been off weekends for 3 months. Hiring practices (yes, even if they promote from within) have slowed, and budgets have tightened. If they can roll with a solo weekend anchor for upwards of 3-6 months, I'm sure corporate would be pretty happy, for salary's sake. When it comes time to name who'll join Karen, I'm beyond confident that it'll be Mark.

For literal decades. Even after the hard reset new look a year ago, Chicago's weather graphics have always been rather evolutionary. Hell, there are differences in how WLS, WPVI and WTVD have implemented the weather package. Not every station is going to have the exact same everything.

We don't need anymore ABC O&O line-ups. KTRK isn't using their talent resources particularly well. We get it.

No, that's the outgoing wordmark, but with the new ABC.

Not an ideal schedule, but is he not doing both weekend shifts? Meanwhile, Laura Bannon has been out for several weeks, and it seems like there was a death in her family. That left Albert and Ed picking up some morning shifts, recently, and now fellow former NewsNation meteorologist, Gerard Jebaily, is even filling in.

Other than the daily beat, they'll have to replace the 90 minutes (Fri & Sat 9:30pm, Sun 8:30am) of airtime Mike provided with his prerecorded political show. Granted, the show replace live news, but maybe they don't want to reinstate that or have the manpower to do so.

Probably streaming, but it's on signage all over the inside of the station. Has been for more than a year.

Oops. Too late.

I just wish they'd commit. They were already using 2 different packages (Stimulus for PM opens and AM bumpers/close, and vice versa) before yesterday, and now an open cut that matches nothing. There were clues pointing towards going back to the OG 1992 theme entirely, and THAT would've been miles better than the current arrangement.

No taking notes by WABC. They're getting it. All 8 stations are getting it. Period. WABC changing their wordmark is not clear, either way. 'Similar' is the point. The lower thirds (and likely yellow as an accent color) will be universal. It's the opens, segment brands, etc. where the stations have the freedom. WLS chose this cut for WLS. Everyone is doing their own thing. They're continuing with all the cuts they adopted in 2013, for closes, bumpers, etc. Sorry for the multi-quote. Just easier to break it down, point by point.

There is plenty of room for customization, whether with WPVI's style, or if a station wants to use talent opens.

Here's an ongoing playlist of ALL the opens, as they debut. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRUzFrK0TcW02gjJ62pjIUV1VSzsVM9CZ

Funny you should ask...

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In that initial social media post, Mark had said he'd be doing evenings for several weeks. In addition to an obvious tryout, I'm guessing it aligns with some of Karen's vacation time (she was off Saturday, for example). As for Christian, again, they might as well give someone consistent hours, instead of a downright silly rotation of characters, like the interim period between Ben Bradley and Rivera. I'd bet that this is the eventual permanent line-up, though I still would not rule out an outside hire for either slot. Mark to nights does almost seem like a lock, at this point.

Jim's going to anchor a 3pm newscast.

They're getting a set refresh, and it's being discussed in two other threads on here, and it has nothing to do with the O&O graphics.

It's not so much "give" as the ABC O&O has right of first refusal for the Monday Night games. After that, the CW/MyTV/indies of the world effectively "bid" to air the games. I'd imagine a similar procedure is at play, for the WNBA game.

Discussion here:

As a lifelong viewer, WLS changing their wordmark honestly just doesn't phase me. Outside of the 1984-96 'Eyewitness News' logo, they've changed things up with every new graphics package.

KTRK's look was great when it debuted, but has been tweaked, tinkered with, and butchered to the point where it needs to go.

Like tonight's documentary, other series, and most WWoD movies, content that first debuted on Hulu or Disney+ gets the small ABC bug. It's not permanent, at least not for now.

Gray is now a weeknight anchor, and Walter is not, so the former gets the big show in such a basic hierarchy. I don't know who did the earlier shows, so I don't know that Gray needed to be pulled from his regular 10pm slot, but I'd imagine the 10 wasn't a top priority on a holiday.

Speaking of KTRK assignments. Still unclear if Travis and David's slots have seen change. https://www.facebook.com/TravisABC13/posts/pfbid02JJufJVhPk56u6B2s5PAayPy4nmyp7bTdoMcsCxQMFzm2Jhn84LeDU4APsx6RJUfSl