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I wonder if such a thing like the scoreboard layout is mandated, so to speak, by the leagues, so all camera angles can be consistent when certain broadcasts appear across different networks. Words are failing me, but moral of the story, the new graphics are being used for high school football tonight on the mothership.

Drury, Rosenthal, Sanders, Suppelsa, Donlon, Cortopassi. So continues the grand WGN tradition of down-to-earth, midwestern, middle-aged white dudes. Meanwhile, I thought he looked familiar...

No promises.

Robb Ellis has effectively replaced Megan, though without a formal announcement, and McGill has been on weekend evenings. If the rumors prove true, and Mary Kay leaves, Tammie could could slide in seamlessly.

C'mon, be better. 1. His name is Dave, and 2. It's summer. He's just taking some time off. 5 days off-air isn't enough to file a missing person report.

So, they'll basically only have co-anchored shows on Sunday mornings, and at 4, 5, 6 & 10pm. I've heard that more layoffs are coming to NBC properties, so perhaps this redistribution will lighten the blow, as Katie resigned and Dick passed.

There's gonna be a little personal exposition here, but I'd been thinking all day about how to put into words just the impact Jerry Taft had on my path in life.

Unless Mary Kay is following her husband to Florida. Jim Williams and Brad were paired together for a few nights earlier this spring. It's wasn't the worst dynamic, and nobody burst into flames, despite 2 men co-anchoring.

The pandemic delayed the debut, but it will go live for the White Sox opener this Friday.

Okay, we all get the point. Some meteorologists anchor. No need to derail this thread to just list them all.

I didn't see any mention, either. She debuted on Friday's Evening News. I had to do a double take when I heard her thick Irish accent. Canadians and Latino reporters not included, I can't think of anyone in Chicago news that's had a foreign accent.

Elizabeth Matthews has been filling in for Natalie a lot, during her leave.

ABC7 & WGN have appointment TV-level viewer loyalty, and 7 & NBC5 also following first tier syndicated programming. Fox32 has neither, so good friggin' luck, is all I have to say. If they wanted to make inroads at 4, they'd wisely poach the first-run slate of Family Feud from sister My50 to lead into the 5 o'clock newscast.

And where is the money coming from to staff and produce a soap, without it being a joke? These employees are already ABC News employees, with experience in this type of production. It's not happening.

I totally agree with these sentiments. This informational format (health, finance, people-doing-good fare. etc.) is so much more substantive than SS&K, and would serve as a more worthwhile 3rd hour to the mothership. Keep Strahan on the early hours, bring Sara back to The View, and let Keke go back to things...that aren't a talk show? Pair Amy and T.J., better-bridge the look with GMA, and boom, an instantly more respectable product that doesn't feel like a mind-numbing knock-off of every daytime ensemble talker to ever exist.

And interesting, those changes in the 10pm hour come as that latest newscast had what's likely its most competitive month ever, forging a tie for 2nd in the demo. Meanwhile, freelancers Eric Runge and Shannon Halligan have been brought on full-time. He'll report for Morning and Midday, while she formally replaces Amy Rutledge, doing Evening traffic. https://www.robertfeder.com/2020/06/29/joe-donlon-bows-hunt-new-top-anchor-wgn/

I can't say I've seen it on social media, and if they didn't mention it on-air, then where's the proof? It's not that I doubt it, but how do we know?

If you had any money on Ben getting the lead anchor spot, you'd be a little poorer. A job posting for an anchor position specifically refers to the "Evening and Late News." I guess that could also point to a weekend evening position, and Tahman has been pulling a lot of 5-7pm shifts, lately, but I doubt that's the case. https://nexstar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/nexstar/job/IL-Chicago2501-W-Bradley-Place-WGN-TV/News-Anchor_REQ-4528

I thought that was the case, but couldn't recall for sure. My O&O's set has 4 chairs all around, so that's my most familiar version. That said, my thought about the video walls stands. The weather stand-up area isn't as versatile as the monitor array.

Seating them this way allows them to distance while maintaining a video wall behind each anchor. Pretty simple. Under the desk, like a foot pedal? The desktop one is probably easier to operate, and frankly, the handheld ones you suggest are more hideous, if you will. When anchors hold those, it's so obvious, and it looks like they're doing the weather or playing a video game. The model WCBS is using looked like a mousepad to me, at first glance.

CBS This Morning returned to the Broadcast Center this morning, too, so they must've gotten some kind of okay over the weekend.

Yes, we already established this yesterday. If a tree falls in the forest...

Of ALLLLLLLL the talk shows on TV, SS&K desperately needs an audience to be remotely palatable, so it's no surprise that the noon hour got a name change, for the long haul. Honestly, I wouldn't object to this change becoming permanent.

Hoda might live in an cramped apartment, but have 2 very young kids might be the issue. She might not have a space at home that's shielded from the sound of crying babies.