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So they are identical except that somebody figured out to make the WLS ones work well with the light. Got it.

Anybody feel like posting a side by side comparison of the two?

WDIV has expanded it's Noon news out to 1 hour effective today. This replaces paid programming which had been running for a couple months after they took off a rerun of Jeopardy!.

Why would that cause alarm? I think we're past that now.

Jennifer Bisram has joined WXYZ as a reporter, she came from WSVN FOX 7 in Miami. She's gonna work on the morning show. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/jennifer-bisram-joins-detroits-wxyz_b131968

Maybe he would. I think Jim Rose seems to still have some pep and enjoys his job (at least he projects that). So Rose would probably step into Giangrecos shoes if it came to that. I actually prefer Rose to Giangreco personally so I wouldn't mind that change.

From my perspective coming from about half the market size, the idea of having a separate 4pm meteorologist is kind of puzzling. On the other hand we have a dedicated noon meteorologist here now. I suppose it varies with the station and news director as well. The multiple anchor arrangements and weather and sports arrangements certainly harkens back to better times in broadcasting.

Sooner or later 7 is going to screw up, maybe this is that event. None of the other 3 vets that are there would likely be at all happy. Scott has nowhere near the expierience to do the 10. Why you would have one meteorologist do one show is beyond me. Ideally one meteorologist would do 4, 5, 6 and 10 the way so many other stations do. Not having that 11am complicates that though unless they want to drop to 4 mets from the 5 they have. The job should be Caplans. Period.

My internet was slow enough that I could read it but thought I'd mention it, I hate paywalls.

This will be interesting, btw, the story only appears briefly before the pay wall goes up, maybe synopses are better after all. The home page displays the first two paragraphs. Linking directly to it is virtually useless.

The only trouble with that is that it has happened several times before this season that there was a risk of random pop-up storms, so if you are right and they updated it a while ago then they were probably just itching to use it. A tornado watch (and later warning) for part of the area makes a GREAT reason to use it. You trying to be a Meteorologist there J?

Gotcha, I wish the radar map was bigger though and maybe in an upper corner, it looks small and cluttered in between the ticker and OTS Box.

Looks nice, is this due to the severe weather in the area or is this gonna be a new daily feature?

I gotcha, I wasn't sure if you did or not. Those others look decent as well.

You recorded that in front of the TV... I hadn't realized that. Maybe get a tripod for like $15, it'll be stable from the get-go and then you won't have to mess with it later. That's what I did until I got the tuner card.

Is it my imagination or does the EWN logo shake all over the place when it appears in the lower right corner? It looks really weird. Otherwise it's not bad.

WJBK weekend evening anchor / weekday reporter Robin Schwartz is leaving after 17 years. She is taking a job as Director of Communications at Bedrock Real Estate. This is the third anchor/host to leave WJBK since August, 2 of whom were hired when FOX spruced the place up around 1996 and one from the New World days.

Kam Carmen, who hosted "The Nine" in the mornings on WJBK left the station last week. She had been there since 1991 as a meteorologist and later co-host, word on the street says it wasn't voluntary and was a budget thing.

It looks like he's bundled in with everything else Tribune related, so it'll be safe to say you will likely get it, I refuse to pay $99 for a subscription to read one blog - a good blog but still.

Feder is going subscription only on Tuesday, that sucks. It's cool they are getting the auto-show back even if a lot of what ABC7 does is sanitized, it's news operation is fairly sterile and safe to be honest. That extends beyond just the auto show.

That desk still doesn't look right for some reason, maybe it's too small... not that there isn't acres of empty floor in there.

Ok that makes sense, I see it now. Thanks for posting the pic. Now I just gotta remember that :lol:

Silly question, but I wasn't around to see it... Did ABC 7 ever have a desk that resembled that in regular use? I know we said the duratran was 2003 or maybe a little older... One thing I realized while catching up on some of the I-Team stuff yesterday: In the State street studio refresh they inexplicably left the panels that say ABC7 News alone so it doesn't really match anything. It looks odd. I wonder if they will get a fully new set sometime in the next 1-2 years?

It may not be unfair but it is boring as hell. Chicago is like that, New York is like that and apparently Philly is like that. I assume LA isn't much different. Competition is more fun. Seeing articles every sweeps about WPVI, WABC, KABC and WLS winning everything or nearly everything gets old. I'm glad Detroit isn't like that at least because we only have 3 stations and not 4 so it's an actual competition and there aren't three stations splintering the remaining numbers while 1 station wins all the marbles.

The slow exodus continues... She was never my favorite but 42 years is still a long time.