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well this will only be their second time around at having 5. the first was a couple of years ago with Michelle Apon, but she left after a year and they just now got around to replacing her

KSHB has hired Nicole Phillips from WETM-TV as their 5th meteorologist. It looks like she'll be joining them on their morning and midday shows. I also can't recall the last time KSHB has had a black meteorologist in the past at least 15 years. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=770807886378645

The new desk is SO. MUCH. BETTER. Hell, frankly, ALL of it is so much better! This is what the set should have been to start off with. White is a Today Show color, and the use it well. Everything is so much lighter, and the anchor area looks much improved with that new desk. Personally, I wouldn't mind if the base was larger so you couldn't see Natalie or Al's legs, but I won't complain too much. It's better than what was there before. Good job, bravo. A-.

Again, it's still on KSHB after nearly a year and a half despite the fact that it was a huge part in their ratings plunge to last place.

Their entire on air identity does. Set, graphics, maybe even music.

Didn't Today reveal their Orange Room first, followed by GMA's Social Square? I thought that's what it was, just that GMA came up with the idea first.

So really all they did was take out that awkward wall and made the video wall bigger.

It'll last. It ruined KSHB, taking them from first to worst, yet they're still stuck with it. It's actually amazing how they're just now getting the the show.

I don't think that set was ever meant to look flashy. If they wanted flashy, they wouldn't have added so many "homey" elements to it. But anyway...

Today and GMA's sets are nothing a like. GMA is chrome and futuristic like, where as Today, as Al Roker put it, was designed to be "America's living room." Actually, the current set more resembles their pre-2006 (or 7) all-white set than GMA's current one.

Aside from the Orange Room changes, why didn't they do any of this when they first built the set?

Well they did say they removed standing set pieces and the Orange Room is being completely redone. Frankly, it'd be cool if they just built a new set. Never felt ecstatic about their current digs. I don't see anything.

If that's all they're doing then there surely wouldn't be a need to dismantle the entire studio, unless there was important wiring or something that was running underneath the floor in those areas.

If they're replacing the studio floor, then why didn't they do that when they built the new set? Doesn't make sense to strike the old one, build a new one in its place, then decide a year later that they need to replace the floor too

I think the logo might look better if the 19 was in a different font. I like the L3s and how they animate.

Seems that WPTV is making some changes. Don't know what I think about moving an anchor team that's anchored together for 20 years to a different newscast. http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2015/8/20/bounced-out-in-palm-beach

oops http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2015/8/19/oops-dc-news-director-emails-new-hires-salary-information

Interesting that they're already feeling the need to do updates

From user "TheRob": "Jane Monreal is joining Richard Sharp as a weekend morning anchor at KSHB. Monreal has most recently been anchoring at KIII in Corpus Christi, Texas. The two are among a large number of new faces you'll see at KSHB with all the turnover recently. Three new reporters are joining the station this and next month as well."

"News 6" is still better than the "Local (channel #) News" branding all of the other post-newsweek stations use

KSHB has hired Richard Sharp from, what appears to be, KCRA in Sacramento. This is surprising, primarily because of his age. He started his career back in 1997 at the station and was at KCRA for the last approximately 11 years. KSHB, and frankly the rest of the Kansas City stations, have been hiring younger and younger, so to see them pick up someone so "old" is different. Additionally, I would think he could find a better job than a weekend morning anchor gig in KC.

here's another article regarding the shakeup, although it's not really saying anything new http://www.wsj.com/articles/msnbcs-reboot-more-news-less-leaning-1439337035

Linking this because msnbc has begun to stop using their "Lean Forward" slogan. http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/msnbc-begins-pivot-towards-live-breaking-news-coverage/268736 All I can say is, good! It was stupid to start off with. Only good it ever did was get the other networks talking and countering with their own short-lived slogans, like Fox News' "Move Forward" (which I believe was better). "Lean/Move Forward" is way too political sounding. Hard to believe they had it for nearly 5 years too. Wow. Honestly, they might be better of not having a slogan for some time.

For some reason I'm inclined to think of the actual universe when reading those names.

Wow. Never realized how bad that duratran looked until they put in that monitor array. So much better! The whole set might look better if they replaced the duratrans on on either side of the anchors with monitors as well.