ToriElectra

Some overpriced consultant must be behind this- they can't just get rid of Pelley, he's been leading the revival of CBS News, they're actually good now.

Good to see you back. I knew that you had given them some clips- you were listed among their contributors- but I didn't know which. Can you upload some of those WCBS "2News" era clips next?

Quadcopter 69? That sounds pretty badass for a drone. I could see it getting usage, given WFMZ could never get a helicopter unless it was bought out by Hearst (which had a love affair with copters back in the late 90s/early 2000s while on their buying/merging spree).

Never saw that before. It also make you wonder when exactly in 1988 they decided to ditch that set and decamp to the newsroom until the UPN era (I've heard it's because they needed studio space for things like Steampipe Alley).

I've seen YouTube video- mainly local, switching to national here and there (mainly to swap out anchors).

I know! Pre-CBS KTVT stuff is super rare.

OK- here's an interesting little documentary about WFTS from 2002- during the very brief 28 News era! (I had originally posted this by accident over in the Classic Video Thread.)

Oh, sorry. I forgot that thread exists- and "viewer confusion" sounds like an excuse for "we're changing to be like our sister station in KC, and also shut up".

Ah, Brave New World. One of the most classy, yet underutilized, packages out there. It's too bad Shelly Palmer hasn't contributed the cuts to News Music Now yet.

Well, according to the Game Show News group on Facebook, someone who attended a Pyramid taping said they shot two openings- one for primetime, and the other for daytime. So the thought has crossed ABC's mind. That same poster said that View's ratings have declined from year to year, but I can't vouch for that.

Right, and even before then, ABC had been losing faith in game shows- look what they did to Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak. It had been in development since 1983 (the first pilot was hosted by Gene Rayburn as Party Line), and they ended up putting it against the first half of TPIR on CBS and WOF on NBC. It's like they were trying to kill it.

I've also been hearing rumblings of potentially bringing back $100K Pyramid, Match Game and potentially Password if their Sunday Fun and Games lineup this summer does well. It'd be nice to have more daytime game shows- ABC was never really a big user of that style of program. They'd probably ditch View, Chew and GH for games.

Yeah, although it would be nice if they instituted some newer cuts.

Yeah- if they cut everything they could while they owned 36, why'd Group W even buy it?

Plus, right now he's also busy taping a summer revival of The $100,000 Pyramid for ABC- that's even more, so he's gotta drop something if he wants a remotely workable schedule.

Off topic, but what happened to the shout box? It's vanished!

We've heard this before- probably not gonna happen. At least for a while.

You mean, the Charlie Tuna who announced Scrabble with Chuck Woolery? No way! He died?

Yeah, we need more game shows, especially networked ones- why doesn't NBC bring back Scrabble (again) or Sale of the Century (the real one, not that ripoff Temptation crap from 2007), or ABC bring back, I dunno, Debt, with Wink Martindale, or maybe The Joker's Wild?

My god- that's awful! As if GMA couldn't go further down the tubes.

Wow, it seems like KYW is facing a mass exodus- only by choice, not by revamp, so it isn't 1991 all over again.

They were probably just superimposing graphics on the map itself.

Thank you Transdiffusion! We really should consider some sort of full-fledged alliance with them- they've got a lot of good stuff.