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I look at KDNL in St. Louis, which supposedly ABC has not been happy about yet they keep agreeing to affiliation agreements with Sinclair in the end. The issue becomes how does a network drop an affiliate? If there is a strong independent station, that can work or if they plan to start their own station as NBC did in Boston (which probably would not happen anymore, especially outside a top 10 market). If there was a whole affiliation switch in a market, then some other network gets stuck on a Sinclair station, just maintaining the actual problem.

As mentioned above, the program guides indicate the 4:30 start tomorrow, Tuesday after the MLK holiday. We will see tomorrow if in fact it begins later.

From the looks of things, she is not the only on air talent at WNBC that is pregnant. Rana Novini is due in February.

Considering the St. Louis market is so locally focused, I can't see how this succeeds ratings wise other than it fills some time for low cost. When I lived in St. Louis, KDNL was an absolute joke with no local news presence, no HD til much later than the other channels, no local presence....

I haven't been to WPB for several years. Is this observation during this holiday period where many reporters take time off or during the past year? It is a shame to hear about it.

it's family time. I don't blame them not to. Plus, did the stations take back all the equipment?

Watching News 4 at 6. The first 10 minutes were holiday interest stories (meal programs, volunteering, the service at the cathedral, Rev. Al's holiday get together including the mayor, Gov. Hochul's Christmas message and that no celebrations in Nazareth (again)). After the break, a couple of quick real news stories - a son killing his father in Boonton and subway changes, plus the lottery update for tonight's drawing (note all available on their webpage or app). Then a story on the 5 most popular holiday beverages, leading into the weather update. Honestly, anyone not watching hardly missed anything. I find it hard to believe Ch. 2 would be any different. It's Christmas, and most stories are predictable. No need to be concerned for not having a morning or midday news show, or that other stations skipped some broadcasts as well. Just relax and enjoy this day.

I'm sure the bosses all looked at multiple factors from it being a historically slow news day for local stories (the wars are not local stories per se), low viewership, network programming and sports programming, they all made decisions on what to do today. Both CBS2 and ABC7 morning shows lacked real news, mostly features, a weather update and for Ch. 7 reading emails. The 3 network morning shows were primarily taped with features with a short news and weather updates. None of the big 3 offered a midday news. NBC did air a NYLive at 11:30 which had stories you would find on other channels. 4 will do a live 6 and 11 pm news, plus network at 6:30. CBS 2 did a half hour 5, 6 and 11. ABC 7 will only have an 11:30ish pm news. I'm sure all stations have crews available should a major local story develop that requires breaking into other programming. This is just not a day people sit in front of the TV for news. Even MSNBC and CNN did not have a full day's schedule using taped docs and shows. Unless a major local story is not being covered, then it's really not a big deal. There are lots of choices today to keep up with breaking news. Tomorrow everyone will be.back to their normal schedules.

Probably a good decision. It's a historically slow news day, and they covered the puff pieces the other stations carried on their NY Live taped show. I tuned into 2 and 7 for a bit and they too had limited news, the biggest covering the masses at St. Patricks. Besides, probably a good portion of the viewers slept in or were busy opening presents, not paying attention to an early morning news show.

they have been doing it for TINY for a few months now. It recently expanded to other newscasts. Seems to be at 11 and 40 min marker.

My one wish is that they would have used a curved screen for the corner set up like they have in both the Today and MSNBC 3A studios. The desk is an improvement (no longer see through) and can accommodate standing (which is fine) and seating which happens during TINY. it’s an effective use of space (yes smaller than 3K but larger than when they were in 3C). Is it fancy - no. Is it in the family of NBC sets -yes. And it is functional where the story is the focus , rather than the set or anchors.

Not today. 11, 4, 5 and 6 from the old set (3K).

That I get. Especially with another new studio launched yesterday in 6A for Kelly Clarkson.

I mean nynewsguy's source. Someone at the station? Clearly it hasn't happened tonight.

What was the original source? Switching to new studio in the middle of the 4-7:30 pm block doesn’t make much sense.

Sounds like Discovery channels stuff. Why bother?

They continually say she is off and show promos with her in it. None of us know her personal situation, other than she is off the air for now. She may be sick, someone in the family sick, a death in the family, or who knows what. There is no law that says she has to share every aspect of her personal life with viewers. She (and all anchors) may be on TV but they are entitled to privacy.

I don't think he worked for WWOR before it was bought and marginalized by Fox.

Does anyone know if WPIX is back on DirecTV? I don't think it went off when the so called Mission stations did, but when the entire Nexstar group did. It seemed Nexstar was playing games here. Hopefully now that the FCC is at full strength, they will take a look at these "sidecars" whose only purpose is to skirt ownership caps, and at the expense of viewers. I was in RI where Nexstar controls three stations. Only one was restored - the CBS affiliate. The Fox and CW were still off the air (owned my Mission on paper).

My understanding is that the Mission “owned” stations are not included. Nexstar has more work to do before claiming “mission accomplished.”

Will this include the Mission "owned" stations? Some have been off the air longer than the Nexstar directly owned stations.

The bigger question is does anyone watch them at all? Evidently viewership of Freeform is pretty low, one reason Disney agreed to letting Charter drop it. Look for Comcast, Optimum and others, especially in the NY area, seek something similar.

Perhaps it was her choice.

Anyone have a before and after comparison?

For most of us in NY/NJ, the events of 9/11 and the aftermath are as clear today as they were on Sept. 12 2001. Everyone here was impacted one way or another. If we do not know someone who died in the attack, we know someone who does. I do not see any of the Big 3 network O&O's backing off the annual reading of the names anytime soon. Cutting in and out as you suggest, would cause a large number of complaints from survivors on why their loved one's name was not mentioned. That would be very difficult for a PR person from each station to explain, including the family of each station's engineer that died when the towers came down.