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EW Scripps is a mess. If they do give it to Hearst please. I would love to see ABC (now Disney) take it again, but I don't think they're in the business of buying tv stations anymore. I hate pointless live shots, especially ones far away, and especially when sports pre empts programming. I don't think the audience cares about a static live shot in front of a dark building. Live shots should be reserved for an active scene, breaking news/rapidly changing info, or when there's not enough time to assemble a package. Otherwise live for live sake adds nothing to a broadcast. At my old duopoly station, there was a policy that the secondary station could pretape newscasts delayed by sports. The primary station however had to go on live, even though they would just be copy and pasting the same broadcast on to both stations. I don't think ratings will drop if the broadcast is not live.

The remixed theme didn't sound that bad, it was just slightly more serious. It could have been preserved for special report cut ins or braking news. As the old saying goes, if it ain't broke don't fix it. Some themes are too iconic to switch, Action News is one of them and (Off topic) the Today theme is another. Still hoping NBC brings that back.

Exactly. Why not just say CW 33 Miami? Significantly smoother. CBS is also terrible at wordy brandings. And the call letters and license city don't need to be at the bottom of the logo, it's an eyeful.

Allen is experienced but he also seemed a scripted with exaggerated facial expressions on WANF. This is a good jump for him though, from on CBS station to a much stronger one. Allen's video was well edited! Other videos where he announced job changes were well done aswell.

What confuses me is that the Miami metro is over 6 million people and Tampa is just over 3 million. I guess that goes back to the number of persons per household. What did surprise me was just how massive that 3 county coverage area is. The top of Broward County (Deerfield Beach) to the bottom of Monroe (Key West) is a 4.5-hour drive, 210 miles. Not to mention Miami stations will go into Palm Beach County if news permits, such as the Trump assassination attempt.

Lower third white box is too plain, otherwise pretty good

Same! The issue is allegedly displacing another anchor to get your desired shift.

"The Gates" rolled off the tongue more. Excited to see Tamara Tunie! She is well experienced with daytime as she was Jessica on As The World Turns. During part of that run she pulled double duty as the medical examiner on Law & Order SVU. Interesting producer names: Robert Guza. While he is great at disaster and adventure plotting he helped purge General Hospital of several veteran cast members and helped make it a show about the mob. Victoria Rowell, ex-Drcuilla Y&R, would be a great addition but likely not due to her falling out with CBS.

Pardon my lack of understanding but in general the numbers have always confused me. In the NYC metro which has 19.5 million people, there are only an estimated 7 million households (36% of the local population) with a television?

I know unfocused conversation threads are frowned upon here, but this might be a solution to markets where there is noteworthy activity but not enough to justify individual station threads. Unfocused conversation threads somewhat already exist. We have threads about station groups where the goings on at multiple stations are discussed. Example: if major changes were happening at say WFAA unless you start a whole new thread, one would have to post it in the Tegna thread. That might not be relevant because it doesn't affect the whole company just the station.

Since there may not be enough conversation to warrant individual threads for each Dallas station, can we amend the rules to allow for one big Dallas market thread? I ran into this issue while trying to create an all stations thread for Atlanta.

Late to the party but musical chairs at WPLG. Wendy Williams' niece Alex Finney leaves weekend mornings to become the weekday morning co-anchor. Longtime weekday AM anchor Jaycee Birch moves to weekend evenings. According to FTV live, it's not a demotion, she reportedly demanded to be taken off weekday mornings. Her IG says it was her choice. That bounces Layron Livingston out of the weekend PM co-anchor chair (which is a shame because he is a strong personality). AM traffic/noon anchor Alexis Frasier wil now also co-anchor weekend mornings.

Channel 10 Australia late news (9/11/01) Just as people were going to to bed down under, news of the first plane crash hits at 13:18. Ironically at 20:00 there's a chocolate bar ad featuring a man who is sucked out of an airplane window. Interestingly, the second plane crash is not shown as 10 going to commercials.

The Gray One L3 graphics are too big, boxy and basic. At the very least there is some luster to the color schemes used in gray not just flat red.

It's great to see this legend on TV doing her book tour across programs.

Looks like CNN is no longer using the white CNN logo in a red box to differentiate the international versus domestic channel. It would be cool if CNN I had its own distinct identity --especially since International had a far greater news reputation than domestic in recent years. I suppose brand uniformity is what they're going for.

Assuming this is reliable, my notes Florida: Orlando has jumped from 16 to 15, Tampa has jumped from 13 to 11. Miami is still at 18 (from when I last checked rankings). Idk why I had thought the household gap between NYC and LA was much wider.

Peter Jennings 9/11 kids Q&A session. (9/15/01)

What do you think would have happened to Kristine in that case? Laid off or relegated to field reporting?

This is not a bad idea. GMA First Look would roll of the tounge better though.

So that breaks up WCBS's leading team assuming they were moving the needle. From this I'm jumping to the conclusion that Dana Tyler's ouster was moreso a cost cutting measure than ratings.

Not a rule just a preference... I think there's generally better energy with dual anchors on a local broadcast.

Has WCBS or CBS News announced the future changes on air yet? Getting way ahead of myself here but.. if Maurice decides he can't pull double duty longterm, and if Lonnie's role expands, would CBS be willing to destabilize 2/3rds of its flagship station's A team to propel it's fluid flagship national broadcast. Again, big promotions but I would keep my WCBS job on the back burner since that has lasted way longer than the last few tenures at CBSEN.

The new L3s aren't bad, I prefer the old ones because they were a departure from the ubiquitous white box look. The old graphics just needed some luster and needed to not be red all the time.

WPLG has new lower thirds to go with their new set. versus old: