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More staffing announcements for the soon to be independent MSNBC, including Marc Santia of WNBC moving to MSNBC as an investigative reporter.  

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/new-msnbc-white-house-correspondents-1236301824/#recipient_hashed=2f7cb34ffeaa3e39a87d758a6ae607df33e2f08d8c096f9b797f49f20b59fc68&recipient_salt=df67624928cc1bda6f060918e6afb0f265976cd8e5e36f75d381be50544f5d3c&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=Breaking News&utm_content=618232_07-01-2025&utm_term=17980216&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=1751378363-Breaking+News&utm_content=618232_7-1-2025&utm_id=618232

It was a live news event.  I'm sure Carr will not investigate airing what trump says, considering he is his puppet.

I don’t know. I turned it on at 5 and thought it was the wrong station due to ads.  

Is something going on with News 4 NY studio tonight?  The 5 pm show started about 5 min late after several commercials.  It was mostly Gilma delivering her script over video and the sound was off.  When Gilma was finally on, it was a close in shot that looked more from the newsroom with the background than the actual set.  Halfway through the Combs story report, the sound cleared up, including when it was thrown back to Gilma.  We'll see if they are in the studio once they are back from more commercials but something definitely seemed off.

9 minutes ago, Vlad said:

Wow thats A LOT of airtime from that building haha how do they fit all of those sets there? I'd imagine they have spaces below ground too? The studios are rather large so I wonder how they fit them all into the building.

I'm not sure why the level of surprise here.  One of the many reasons for the new building was to provide more studio space for shows originating from NY whether live or taped.  It's not unique.

Out of 30 Rock right now (which will change somewhat at the end of the year with the Versant spin-off) shows include from NBC: Early Today, Today, NBC News Now (most of the day and early evening),  Kelly Clarkson, NBC Nightly News, Tonight with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers; From WNBC: TINY, News4 at 11, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 11, New York Live; From WNJU: Noticiero 47 Telemundo Primera edición, Noticiero 47 Telemundo al mediodiá, Noticiero 47 Telemundo a la 5:30, 6 and 11; From MSNBC: Way too early, Morning Joe, Ana Cabrera Reports, Chris Jansing Reports, Katie Tur Reports, Deadline White House, The Beat with Ari Melber,  All in with Chris Hayes, Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell and the 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle.  MSNBC shows originating in DC may still use 30 Rock facilities for live/taped interviews during those shows. This does not include weekly shows like Saturday Night Live and Dateline.

Honestly, with ABC’s full capitulation including terminating reporters still dedicated to facts and truth due to criticism of this president smells of authoritarianism.  How can ABC News maintain any trust?  And worse, Shari Redstone seems intent on settling his bogus claim and destroying CBS News in the process.  

15 minutes ago, Chicago2008 said:

More about that https://www.chron.com/sports/article/fox-26-houston-cuts-sports-department-will-kunkel-20362890.php

Let me guess, anchors give a few words with video, no in-depth coverage.

10 minutes ago, MorningNews said:

I also don’t understand the staggered departure from 11pm and then 5pm. Would’ve been more grand to just have it done at once for his and Mike’s sake.

There may have been some personal issues behind it, or a negotiation with ABC.  Neither of which need to become public.  Whatever, I'd just accept the decision.  

8 minutes ago, nickp said:

I think Gray may just be thrilled of letting go of the CBS affiliation because no sec football games

Yes, however, they kept all other CBS affiliations and they over index in SEC territory markets (GA, FL, SC, AL, MS, TX (granted not all are CBS stations).

47 minutes ago, Yankees15 said:

 

But won't CBS just air the games on their new local station? How would Gray get the rights

The only games Gray could get in Atlanta are if they bought a pre-season package of 3 meaningless  games, and any local rights to a Thursday night Amazon Prime game if the Falcons are in the game.  The regular season football package is exclusive to CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN/ABC and to their O&Os/affiliates.  

Will they hire, build and launch a newsroom and product in just 10 weeks?   If it is outsourced again to WCBS, WFOR, KTVT, WBZ or other O&O, I just can't see how they will have an actual local presence and build viewership.  Because there is a large Gray affiliation agreement part of all this, I wonder who pushed whom?  It puts a little different light on this.

2 hours ago, GraphicsMan said:

Maybe WXTV will move to NYC from there Patterson, New Jersey studios.

Their studios are not in Paterson.  They are in Teaneck at the Glenpointe Corporate Center, not far from the GWB.

2 hours ago, Jase said:

I agree. The shared WNBC/WNJU newsroom is nice. Curious to see if WMAQ/WSNS can top it when they move to their new space later this year.

Anyone know where in 30 Rock this is?  It has a lot of the exposed building supports and reminds me of the MSNBC 4th floor space (which they will be vacating at some point).  It was hard to tell from their balcony area.  The 3rd floor is full of studios (MSNBC, WNBC, WNJU, NBC News Now)....

I would assume the floorspace at the Fletcher Ave. studios in Fort Lee will be reduced for the bureau (WNBC's NJ bureau has been there for years).  The building included the original CNBC studios, America's Talking which became MSNBC prior to their moves to Secaucus (MSNBC) and Englewood Cliffs (CNBC).  The Secaucus studio is now MLB Network but they will be moving in a few years as well, to Elmwood Park NJ. I'm assuming MSNBC ruled out the former Fort Lee T47 space, even temporarily after the spin off.

23 hours ago, civic110 said:

Thousands in NY, NJ to lose access to NY1, News 12 in cable dispute.

 

It appears Spectrum is going to drop News12, and Optimum will drop NY1 effective 6/30/2025.

 

https://gothamist.com/news/thousands-in-ny-nj-to-lose-access-to-ny1-news-12-in-cable-dispute

It was in my last Optimum bill.  TBH, since Optimum added NY1, I've never watched.  I don't live within the 5 boroughs.  Now if News 12 NJ went back to it's hyperlocal roots and was live more than ~3 hours a day....

On 5/19/2025 at 2:31 PM, Megatron81 said:

I have had Charter Spectrum since 2000 way better than the cable company formally known as Suckyvision Oh, I mean Cablevision in Kazoo County I was without Wood TV for a full year had to watch it on rabbit ears Jan 97 to Jan 98 didn't get Wood TV back until 2 days before SB32. I didn't see this one coming Charter & COX merger and yeah, I see Spectrum adding Spectrum News to the new footprint, as Spectrum News just launched in Michigan. As I saw it in the lineup on Fri when the power flickered once again after the nasty storms on Thur guessing that the power company was working on something in my opinion. I have watched it for a few minutes more for the weather the top stories was those nasty storms on Thur and St. Louis getting those nasty storms on Fri. I have had no problems with Spectrum either.     

I had the opposite situation.

I moved from Cablevision's NY systems, which were quite advanced to St. Louis and had to settle for Charter.  Besides poor installation that had to be redone, and outright lying, there was very little HD, slow internet and worse.  It was a definite step way down.  After they ddi some work in the area, my internet kept going out every 45 minutes or so (this was even before streaming).  This was 2005 and 2006.  Ironically the then VP HR for Charter, lived in my complex, though that is a role that is extremely temporary with that company.  After lots of investigation, digging and more, they were incapable of finding the issue.  I finally threw them out for DirecTV and ATT internet (slow but at least reliable).  Horrendous experience and biases me against Charter today.  Note I also moved away several years later back to Cablevision territory, which has gone down hill since Altice purchased it.  What it does mean there is no more speculation that Charter will purchase Altice at this point.  Their only partner seems to be Comcast, which in NJ would make a lot of sense since Charter's area is very limited right along the river.

15 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said:

KSDK is joining KMOV in leaving Downtown St. Louis, but unlike KMOV, KSDK is staying in the city.

 

https://tvnewscheck.com/business/article/ksdk-st-louis-to-move-broadcast-operations-to-new-location/

Looks like it's across Highway 64 from the St. Louis Zoo and Forest Park.

6 minutes ago, Action Newsroom said:

Spinco now has an offical name.

 

Say hello to... Versant.

Evidently it is the name of a power company in Maine that is disliked by customers.  Didn't they do a trademark and use search?

Note they don't give any specific examples.  Never.  Glad they will fight back and not become a propaganda channel which is what is wanted.  Lots of legal barriers they can use to fight this. 

1 hour ago, NYAZSporty said:

It'll be interesting to see if any of the main evening news anchors are actually en route to Rome & considering the time of day the news broke here early in the morning, wouldn't be surprised if this is the case, that they're reporting from the Vatican in time for tonight's newscasts at 6:30 ET.

Network O&Os are sending anchors and reporters.  WNBC is sending anchor David Ushry and reporter Gaby Acevedo.  I believe WABC sent Mike Marza.  I don't know about WCBS.

7 hours ago, J.W. Rodriguez said:

Obviously not the first time NBC has used talent from their key station on a national level

There is a long history of WNBC news talent showing up on the network - Chuck Scarborough used to do national prime time updates during a commercial break.  Chris Cimino did weekend Today weather.  Al Roker.  Matt Lauer was doing both TINY and Today at first.  WNBC investigative reporter Jonathan Dienst shows up often on the network and for now, MSNBC. It's not what I would call an exception for NBC.  

Interesting Natalie was off at 4 and 6 but was on the 11 pm news.  

2 hours ago, MorningNews said:

What was the point in moving before the studio was ready? The last few weeks of “Live” production has been odd.

That article indicates it is a Disney PR approach to showing off their new NYC digs.  Disney is the king of self promotion.

1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Nexstar has entered the must-run game.  Why?  So they can try and own more stations.

https://thedesk.net/2025/04/nexstar-fcc-must-runs-ownership-caps-deregulation/

 

No thanks.  They have enough stations as it is.

And their tactics of delaying web streams and shaking down viewers for a dwindling pool of retransmission cash is bad enough.

Agreed.  They and Sinclair want to own multiple channels in every market if left unchecked.  That's not good for viewers. 

12 minutes ago, MediaZone4K said:

I mentioned that several times. Please read the full post...

This is supposed to give us an idea of where things were in recent years not exactly where they are today.

 

Let me go back and put that at the top of the post to again emphasize that.

Sorry, as I read it I did not see you mentioned the date until I pulled up the article from the now defunct magazine.  I have deleted my comment.  The bottom line no one except insiders know ratings anymore.  And that does suck for all markets.

23 minutes ago, MediaZone4K said:

WSVN is no longer market leader, and they're already in competition.

 

Based on the latest numbers from Nexttv (if we trust them)  WPLG tops the English language stations in overall households in several time slots, with WSVN coming in second but competing for the demo.

 

The Spanish language stations however appear to be averaging at #1 & 2 overall in the ratings in multiple slots.

 

WFOR is in better standing than I thought they were, coming out as # 1 in english 11 PM. I have a family member that lives in So Flo who didn't even know there was a Channel 4 if that's any indication of their market standing.

 

They separated WTVJ's number so it's difficult to ascertain their average standing. 

 

https://www.nexttv.com/news/local-news-close-up-south-florida-holds-the-keys-to-successful-local-news (2022 Ratings)

 

What's the rest when not news?  Endless Family Feud reruns?