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Looking at KPRC from 2004, it looks exactly like WSVN in the 90s. No doubt that Channel 7 had to have had some inspiration on the formatting in Local 2. WSVN 90s

Was George not aware that he was being recorded? While George is certainly entitled to his opinion off the clock, journalists have to be careful about where when, and to whom they share their opinions. This to preserve their image of neutrality. In George's position, I would have probably said " My lips are sealed as an objective journalist. I have to keep the public away from my stances." EDIT: This was nothing major and George should be left alone. Again...beware of fans and watch what you say around them. You provide perfectly valid and balanced points. Totally agree that we need to be careful of insulting/dismissing the public's intelligence to explain their preferences. Subjective statements ahead lol...I have to maintain that GMA's abuse of "breaking news", "breaking overnight" and constantly speaking in present tense adds a false sense of urgency to the news, which is problematic journalism. GMA and WNT play on sensationalist fear mongering and click baits to maintain an audience rather than informing and educating them. But, GMA is only a small drop in the bucket. Yes, TV news must evolve and change with the times, but let's make sure we aren't deevolving. We don't even necessarily have to look to the past. International outlets like BBC World News and France 24 really hightlights how insulated and watered down many American news programs like GMA are. There has to be a way to preserve intellectual quality while maintaining an audience. CBS Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes' continued successes prove there is an appetite for such. The notion that the continued dumbing down of journalism is just what has to happen to keep up with the times is bad. Meanwhile, audiences will turn to YouTube channels and podcasts to get the in depth reporting and serious conversations they cannot get from the news.

I agree that those channels have become useless rerun vats. Not to verge too off-topic, but what is the future of cable television? Non existance?

Watching WSVN's 10pm Sunday newscast. I'm noticing the anchors tracking multiple packages throughout the newscast. I haven't really seen this on any other station. From observation a lot of those packages seem to be regional, not local stories. Perhaps this is how they have to do it because Sunbeam only has two stations, so they simply track wire service stories. Moreover, I haven't seen them run many Fox News packages.

WZVN/WBBH is an interesting duopoly as its an ABC & NBC station that share talent with newscasts on at competing times. How was this allowed by the FCC?

Minor observation: Since the rebrand, WCBS and the other O&Os have are having their reporters use stick mics less and going for the lav chest mics more---much like the national correspondents do. From a production stand up why have national newscasts traditionally opted for a more hands free look during stand up shots?

Per his IG, WFTV's Raphael Pires (a WSVN alum) is leaving tv news after only 8 years. He is one of many 'day in the life of a news reporter' vloggers that I have followed. Almost all of them, namely Clancy Burke, have left the industry. He has not stated his reasons for doing so but all his fellow vloggers have stated pay, conditions, deadlines, work environments and industry trajectory and are bowing out early. Can't blame them.

I suspected it was a temporary set because the anchors are seated differently...but their standard set, which is 9 years old, is not much better. The bad camera quality is more obvious on a blown up flat screen tv than a cell phone screenshot but here it is:

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.