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Yikes sounds like the job my assistant ND was already doing. Dont know where else to put this; ex Graham but still uses the look... What kind of cameras are WPLG using? Their in studio shots looks like SD, the lighting is very incandescent orange and the camera sharpness looks too high. Almost looks like the anchors are sitting infront of a green screen. WPLG is probably the best news product in the Miami market right now but their set isn't

To simplify the busy background I would either dim those virtual screens or have a blur effect over the feeds. Something like this the put the focus more on the speaker.

Similarly, employyes at WROC (CBS 8 Rochester, NY) are picketing over Nexstar's refusal to recognize their union. https://rbj.net/2024/06/10/wroc-union-plans-picket-over-stalled-contract-talks/ From my experience, you need about 75% of Staff support for the union to be recognized. According to the article, Nexstar tried to claim that producers are ineligible for unions because they serve in a management capacity. The National Labor Relations Board however ruled producers were union elligable. Do you all think the unionization attempts will be successful?

Maybe thats the answer because Im baffled as to how GMA is still number one! I like him but Michael would make more sense as a sports rather than news anchor. His presence makes Lara's role redundant. CBS Mornings & Saturday Morning are significantly better news programs. Mornings is stuck in third because it hasn't been on the block as long as GMA and Today. Lets not give Today a pass. It's been significantly dumbed down since its 2014 rebrand. It's third and fourth hours are overdue for cancellation but syndication options are in short supply, so that's unlikely. Overall, GMA along with 20/20 & WNT embody ABC News' biggest problem: tabloid sensationalism. Journalistically, CBS News is the better of the big three. ABC & NBC are better at developing on air talent who can succeed future vacancies.

Surprising there isn't a long term thread for this program. What is your impression of Margaret Brennan as host? On the one hand I like how she holds politicians feet to the fire, right and left. However, in many interviews she comes across very combative. She interrupts guests, gets stern in tone and expression. One could say bias but again she has done this with Republicans like the South Dakota Governor... ...and Democrats like Wes More when she challenged him on Biden's cognitive state after the debate.

CBS 24/7 has debut it's new VR set to be used for its flagship streaming news show (according to LinkedIn). IDK if this will stabilize the streaming brand but it's a pretty cool concept. Almost a CNN News Central kind of feel. As much as I love Norah's current set, it would be cool to see a format like this on CBS Evening News to differentiate it from NNN and WNT.

Subjective statements ahead... Ratings don't necessarily translate to quality. The PBS Newshour is a journalistically stronger show than World News Tonight but it has lesser ratings. People might think GMA is a good show. They may also be watching it out of habit. People may have abandoned Today after the Ann Curry incident and never looked back. People could be unaware of CBS's Morning Show because the network has switched programs so frequently over the years. Keep in mind, everyone is not as journalistically literate as the people on this website. Im calling 2024 GMA hot garbage because I've seen how superior the show was in the 70s to early 2000s. Regular viewers may not have that frame of reference.

Ues, people act crazy when the see the station camera much less the vehicle. People are less likely yo try to vandalize, steal or break into the car if they think its a regular civilian vehicle.

What highlighted the lack of flow with Lori is that she was a straight laced newswoman who came from a station that is mostly hard news. Rosanna is very loud and opinionated. Good Day can be great again. Mike, Inez and Tina are fine. It's Rosanna's co-host and the revolving door at Wake Up they can't get right. If Mike Jerrick weren't probably close to retirement, and willing to move, he'd be great. Curt's hire is another attempt to duplicate Michael Strahan on GMA.

The surrealness seeing CNN simulcast on Fox!

Menefee seems to be a good calm presence. Is he best with Rosanna? Debatable. Rosanna needs someone like Greg, someone who can match her energy.

Good. From experience, waiting for sports to end to do a live shot that would work just as fine pretaped is a waste of time.

My thoughts exactly. To me, local stations sending reporters to national stories with no market ties are a stunt move to flex their resources on the competition. Personally, I don't care about seeing my local anchors at the presidential debate if none of the candidates are tied to the DMA. I'll watch the national news for that. Sending local reporters to national events were more commonplace back in the day when stations had more resources, and weren't part of large station groups.In today's era of mass ownership and budget cuts, it wouldn't make sense for a Nexstar station in Vermont to send a reporter to a California wildfire since the company has stations in 200 markets including Cali, plus they can get a package from network. I understand wanting to control how the story is presented, but as @C Blocksaid is it worth the cost? On the flip side I've wondered... Why do networks spend money to fly correspondents all across the country when they can just take a package from, or ask for a live shot from, one of their hundreds of local affiliates who are right next to the matter. Quality control I suppose? A fresh out of college reporter in market 100 won't turn a package of Nightly News quality?

CBSEN is doing a top story rundown format now.

I'd say mornings after 7 am are the flagship for many Fox/CW stations with their own news departments. Again, six o'clock is traditionally considered the flagship show but many stations have their close-to-retirement anchor or B team, rather than their A team, doing the 6. Examples: WCBS's Dana Tyler, WNYW's Ernie Anastos, and WNBC's Chuck Scarborough.

Sidebar, thanks to whoever brought up the WAGA set. I've been griping that it looks waaay too blue, lol. It's better than KDFW but definitely not one of the better FOX owned sets.

Going back to Atlanta, the exception to that 6pm rule is WSB. From observation they usually do live hits in the 6 (even for stories that don't require them). But it's still repeated content from 4 & 5. The logic stations give for new at 4 repeat for the remainders is "audiences stick around for quick hits and don't watch newscasts straight through or for hours". How true that is, IDK? EDIT: To WSB & WXIA's credit, from watching their evening newscasts it looks like they switch up the order of stories between shows. I might run the TV for hours on one station if I'm doing something else, and the repeats are noticeable. A creative thing a station in my market does is a live VO/SOT at 4, half the story in a PKG at 5, and the complete PKG at 6, to give the illusion of new content and to keep people sticking around through shows. From a viewer POV I like it but I've heard reporters complain that turning the package multiple ways adds to their hefty workload. And I get it. 4:00 newscasts often don't leave reporters enough room to make slot. This especially if your editorial meeting begins at 9:30 a.m, and you may not be out the door until after 10:00, plus travel time, editing, etc. The vo/sot at 4 method might alleviate this. And from an employee standpoint the problem with unnecessary live shots, especially at night, is going past your shift hours. If your shift ends at 11:35pm and your 11:00 live hit is an hour away from the station, that has you getting back past midnight which can be a bummer for work-life balance.

It seems 4pm is the most important evening show now-a-days. In many markets I have seen 4:00 getting all the new packages and then being recycled throughout the later shows, with 10/11-pm maybe having some fresh nightime news. Despite 6 PM having the highest ratings, 6:00 newscasts are often rehashes of the 4pm. In Atlanta, I've seen 11 Alive and Fox 5's 6 PM newscasts featuring mostly pretaped look live shots. This most likely because a day side reporter's shift runs 9-5ish.

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In general live shots at night where the scene is not visible are pointless. The main point of a live shot is to display an active scene or breaking news, the second is putting a report on the air in which there isn't enough time to package. Big markets like Atlanta are the king of pointless live shots. I doubt the audience cares if the reporter is live at an inactive scene, especially if they are consuming news after the fact on YouTube. I had a news director say he didn't want a daytime stand-up for a report airing at night, but the bridge or the cutaway two shots (and the interview) could be in daylight which made no sense.

Not terrible, not remarkable. Gets the job done.

Per the IG page of a News 12 Brooklyn journalist, I see she MMJs. NYC is a chaotic market to do that in. I would imagine the conditions are similar in Jersey, pushing people out the door. I've been told by some Nexstar employee friends that there is MMJing at PIX 11, which could be a contributing factor to turnover.

Late to the party but....the reporter turnover at WPIX along with WCBS and WNYW seems to be frequent. I could not name half the reporters at those stations compared to years past. And this is market 1, imagine the conditions in mid to low markets leading to this same issue.

I agree with your points but I do support the name change as to distinguish the CBS News streaming site from the TV platform. At this point they might as well give in and call it "CBS News +" Lol. My old school mentality says we don't need more new streaming services, but I'll still take the product on those platforms over what we're given on cable news. How are these sites even doing ratings wise?