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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.

Anyone else think it's time for Phil Griffin to go? Doesn't seem like he's been able to accomplish much, and if anything, things have gotten worse under his tenure.

They're the highest rating thing on msnbc aren't they? They won't be going anywhere. More people watch msnbc on the weekends when they aren't airing news compared to the weekdays when they actually are. That must sting.

Not a bad name. Meh, I disagree. If they're trying to take a more serious, hard news approach to their product, hiring more Republicans wouldn't help that. They'd also probably be seen as trying to become Fox News 2.0.

But what would you change the name to? It also sounds like, from the article, that the staffers there didn't like the idea. NBCNC (NBC News Cable)?

There were rumors back not too long ago that the Now in Kansas City would either be canceled, put on hiatus, or moved. Seems like that's no longer happening since they changed it to a 2 anchor format earlier this month or late last month. However its ratings are still abysmal. I believe it's only placed 3rd one time, above Ellen, but that had to have been an anomaly because it went right back into the gutter. There was once a day it rated sub 1.0...

My first mistake was reading the comments. Why did I read the comments? I hope this is as true as what the sentence implies. msnbc doing more straight, hard news is a very exciting idea. However I don't think having Brian Williams anchor for two hours is a good idea at all. msnbc has enough credibility issues the way it is, the last thing they need is the man who was removed from the highest rated evening newscast in the country due to lying and falsifications in his reporting anchoring the news again regularly. Viewers will have a very hard time believing anything he says. Either way, these changes are very very much needed for the network, the question is whether or not they'll actually work. Seems that Rachel Maddow and Joe and Mika are untouchable though.

For KSHB at least, it's just a mess. Hand held cameras everywhere so everything is shaky and dizzying, constant weather teases without a full weathercast until late into the newscast, often times has a tabloid feel, covers more entertainment and technology stories than actual local news, the Now national segment is anchored by someone who, I feel, is not experienced enough. It's destroyed KSHB's evening newscasts.