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Given how Nexsar has improved the sets of WTEN, WIVT, WPIX, and WIXN, among other stations, they could have hooked KUSI up better.

This is why it scares me to hear CEO Bob Iger talk about Disney getting out of linear television. It seems to be the least worst of the station owners. They deliver a quality newscast with personable talent, and are often number one in a lot of their markets. I would hate to see new ownership quash that.

Granted, in smaller markets the 11:00 p.m. newscast is typically a regurgitation of what aired at 4:00 p.m, so it might as well be pre-recorded. But in a market as large as Detroit, where I'm sure there's news happening at night, what is to be gained from pre recording newscasts? Are they saving costs, because I'm sure the anchors are still in the building anyway for a full 8-hour shift? If news breaks won't they just keep having to add pre-recorded VOs? And what time is the newscast being recorded? I assume they do it as late as possible to avoid anything new breaking before airtime? In that case, they might as well just go live.

Yes times have to change and evolve but I would question anyone who thinks the overall state of broadcast news right now is good.

I don't mind the no music cuts to break its actually a cool touch. Yeah that 2 minute tease excessive. Agreed! The conversational requirement from professors and news directors can be annoying. Yes, we shouldn't use overly complicated words so that all viewers can understand. We shouldn't, however, be dumbing down vocabulary too much. Viewers can expand their minds. If I dont quite understand a word I'll make inference based on context clues or look it up. News can be a formal occasion, almost like a lecture. Accordingly, all writing wont be conversational.

Part of that is colleges are not doing an adequate job of preparing students for modern or television journalism. In my experience, unless the school specializes in broadcast, the average J School program targets written journalism. An example of outdatedness: Years after I left college, a current professor asked me if it was still useful to have students make a website to reach employers. I said no because instead of having to pay a domain etc, they can just make a LinkedIn page, or post their work on social media and YouTube!

Definitely an improvement over what they previously had. The KUSI logo however still looks cheap, like a fake social media page logo.

Its grammatically incorrect. If something happened seven hours ago it isn't "happening" it happened. Active present tense is overused to create a false sense of urgency or timeliness.

Carrying this over to the WNT thread. I agree with @ns8401. The natural opposing answer is evening newscasts had to switch up the format because it's not the 1980s anymore. Except... Their formatting has largely remained unchanged. What's different is, less international news, reporters like Muir always speak in active present tense, and more stories are being overdramatized to qualify as "breaking news" . Yes things have to evolve, But don't change for a worse product. CBS Sunday Morning remains largely unchanged from 30 years ago and it's now the number one Sunday morning show. 60 minutes retains the same formatting as it has for decades, and it is still one of the best performing news programs. Quality stands to test of time. Cord cutting will always eat away at audiences, but giving them a reason to still turn on the TV matters.

What was up with the frame rate on today's episode? Everything looks weirdly digitized, And the picture color was significantly warmer. Today weird: Yesterday, Normal: I appreciated the warm picture color in the weird one. So much of daytime television today looks washed out and fluorescent which isn't helped by HD. The lighting on The Real was particularly bad.

As sad as I am to see reporters lose their job, are national bureaus for station groups necessary? Don't network affiliations already fill that void? The only beneficiary I can see is an independent station. It's duplicative for say WSB to need Cox Washington packages when ABC News can already cover that. Despite the vast array of media services available to a local station they all cover the same thing. How many sources do we need providing a package on AAA Thanksgiving travel predictions? Wow! Sucks. He had a legacy tie to the station as his dad was big time local anchor Don Farmer. Justin always did This weird singing thing in his anchoring cadence. Has anyone ever noticed this?

Yikes! I would rather see them improve than go away entirely. I still love traditional legacy media, I just hate when it's become.

A very WSVNized KPRC (1998)

New York City is America's media capital and co-cultural center next to Los Angeles. It's also the "mascot" American city for foreigners. In a way the country and part of the world revolves around NYC. Accordingly, producers might be thinking what matters there matters everywhere. I think this is indicative of a larger problem in American media. Because so much of our media is based out of NYC and LA their cultural attitudes bleed into that media while a large portion of the country goes underrepresented.

IDK if this has been asked yet but will MSNBC remain at Rockefeller Center when it cuts ries with NBC/Comcast? What happens with CNBC's NJ HQ, assuming that's still in operation?