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I totally understand the phasing out of male co-anchors during the latter third of last century, for obvious reasons, but as women have broken through and feature more prominently in weather and sports coverage, I don't know why even one-off fill-ins of male co-anchors are still seen as a non-starter. It just seems silly that stations look like they're afraid of the virtually non-existent blowback.

There is an anchor at WXYZ who just announced she is heading to Chicago. Not gonna bore anyone with the details, as there aren't any, but she is someone to keep an eye on, perhaps for that early slot. Mike also mentioned that Scott will have a Sunday morning program in the works, as he eases into the beat. I'd assume it'll air in the Friday and Saturday 9:30pm slots, as well.

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.

Studio 1A, as always. No reference was made that they'd be leaving for tonight's relaunch. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ctr3XoHp4B_/

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:

KCAL's is nice. KYW's is great. I doubt WCBS is going to debut anything remotely poor.

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.