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It's more inexperience than anything... She's a little wet behind the ears for this market. Maybe she's feeling the pressure, I still believe her delivery has issues.

What does that mean?

Has anybody else noticed the new promos for The View have Scripps looking orange and blue effects? I just saw one and it made me think of it. I know GMA's ribbon looks a lot like the Scripps V1 graphics package from 2009. Does ABC News use Renderon for it's graphics? I'm under the impression they are really trying to freshen up the look of The View lately.

Several of the FOX owned stations seem to do that... Win demos while getting crushed in overalls, I have no idea why that is. Has WNYW drastically improved it's news product?

Maybe it's all in the nostalgia?

I suspect "it" is:

That I'm not sure about, maybe it's an option or can be specially requested that way? I know that prior to the "7 Sports Cave" existing they ran their news till 930 and public affairs till 10 then This Week for an hour, then their Lions Pregame Show. When they cancelled their Sunday Sports Update from 11-1130pm they added a half hour of news 1130pm-12am and created the sports cave and put it on from 11am-12pm with everything else staying the same. The 2014 NFL season is when this 30-minute version of This Week appeared.

They did during the NFL season... Now it's back to an hour if you look at the second part of my post.

Some Changes to WXYZ/WMYD's daytime lineup effective Feb. 2: Currently: WXYZ 10am = Dr. Oz (Moved here in September 2014 to make room for The Now, replaced The Doctors at 10am) WXYZ 3pm = Meredith (Replaced Katie) WMYD 4pm = The Doctors Starting 2/2: WXYZ 10am = The Doctors WXYZ 3pm = Dr. Oz WMYD 4pm = Meredith http://www.wxyz.com/news/dr-oz-the-doctors-the-meredith-viera-show-trading-timeslots I didn't realize Meredith was doing that bad...

That's the kind of thing only a mother could love.

That was really fast... I suspect they were part of that group made a few weeks ago for the 7pm.

Sometimes that's the best part...

That ND isn't a statue either... Things evolve and freshening up the look is part of that. The ND was likely given a strategy to implement and made specific decisions from there which apparently included less strict wardrobes. That the ND is the same for a decade or not doesn't mean much when they start redoing things or they start implementing a new strategy. They probably figured they needed to liven up the place while they still had demos and having the anchors look a little more with the times might help in getting those younger demos to stick around. Frankly I hadn't hardly noticed any change in there wardrobes and they are still rather conservatively dressed and yet they are contemporary. Put another way: just be glad you don't have to look at a 65 year old women's cleavage on a semi regular basis. One of the anchors around here is allowed to do that and it's... Yuck.

If you are gonna go younger and target younger than it's reasonable to assume that the clothing would follow a younger pattern. I don't really know how into the wardrobes Emily Barr really was.. That seems like something for the News Director with maybe a little input from Barr, micromanaging newscasts seems a bit below a GM. The news director is gonna have a lot more direct input into the newscasts than the GM I would think since the ND's job is day to day newsroom management and newscast development. Maybe they even did some research or the anchors started asking or they simply decided to freshen their image. Speaking of stuffy clothes... Cheryl Burton and those funny ascot/scarf/neck thingies... Nothing stuffier than that look. Btw when do February Sweeps start? Waiting for signs of stepped up and over the top stories like the cat cam but haven't seen any.

Ok then....

Probably call in a CLTV person, but I think I've seen Skilling too. I was responding to the comment about wishing it could always be done this way which gave me the impression something had been changed about the arrangement. I still would expect changes even if they are suttle.

It happened last week too... They have a new News Director so I would expect changes and tweeks to personel and schedules and the look and feel of the shows over the next few months. Each ND wants to put their mark on the product. Little changes like this if they stick are examples.

Geez.... Everything's all messed up now.

Wahoo... too bad ABC is so obtuse about showing it's sportscasts, I'd like to see that. I have a hard time believeing a cheap company like Scripps has the rights to air the sports highlights over the internet and the O&O's don't but who knows.

I just don't see her moving to a network and I'm not sold that moving on is her eventual goal right this second or this pressure even exists. Those opinions are of course subject to change if she improves enough to warrant it.

I read it 6 months ago... the point is that a small spat isn't gonna stop them from running commercials promoting other shows in the division if they wish to. If it did then the wheels would quickly fall off ABC News.

There's really not much difference between DMA 1 and DMA 3. WGN has always had Skilling and Ramsey for evenings and a couple folks for mornings. For the amount of news that the station does their weather and sports staffs are really small at 2 each that do evenings at all. Last Sunday at 9pm they had a CLTV Meteorologist fill in for Ramsey so they will utilize someone from the cable channel before they hire somebody else. Bottom line is that they need to hire more folks but probably won't. So it's not so much bad scheduling as having nobody to schedule.

I don't think it's that uncommon to not see certain things promoted at certain times of the day... Putting them in primetime is probably much more bang for your buck then taking time away from national ads on WNT. Plus in theory the people seeing them are starting to think about tomorrow morning in primetime. At WNT time they just walked in from work.

Eric Horng?

More New talent opens! I wonder how long it'll take for them to use them? This is a fairly linear move by 7, only a year and a half of Jerry laughing during weather at 10 to go and counting. Cheryl needs to do a ton of work on her on-air presence if she's gonna do all this and then succeed Jerry. She simply isn't that good right now and the inexperience delivering weather shows. If they change enough stuff and get rid of enough longtime folks in a short time (2-3 years) it will not end well. I don't know if Cheryl could drag the 4 and 5 down a tad or not. TV may be gone by 2018... Maybe one day you'll be posting clips at the flurried rate I do... How did you manage to put a 26 minute video together?