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Guess I'm in the minority of not hating Gayle. She has her ways about her but she's not all that bad. Perhaps I'm overstating Gayle's importance but isn't she the identifying factor of the show? A lot of people know what That CBS Morning Show is because Oprah's friend Gayle King is on. Replacing her with a CBS random doesn't carry that same name recognition factor that Robin Roberts, fomerly Hoda -- and especially now --- Savannah have.

Why not Fox Ft Myers. It keeps the alliteration intact.

All of this, plus Sunbeam only owns FL stations in Miami. They have no other station to air it on unless they syndicate it. Is anyone's cable boxes listing ABC 18 as "ABC 7 News", tvpassport has the same thing.

that's been my conventional thinking as to where the ratings stack but are those numbers available anywhere as hard proof?

There was a time I wouldn't mind hearing CBS News and CNN are merging because both names had prestige. Now they're both dumpster fires with CBS News being the worst of the two. Anderson Cooper left 60 minutes just to possibly have to face the same corporate overlords. Cue The CBS Evening Situation with Wolf Blitzer .

Miami, New York's Capital Region and Orlando to name a few places.

It was an interesting concept at first, but the VR sets look meh. They work for weather but in my opinion they look so/so for an entire newscast.

Im shocked at Mark's layoff. He was a staple on that show. I hope he gets to say goodbye. If they're afraid he'll go rogue and do some tirade, let him shoot a pre-recorded goodbye. Is News Nation doing well financially? If not, Nexstar can cut from there instead. Nexstar has one of the worst reputations in the industry, especially concerning pay. They often pay lower than Sinclair. Before stations used to cling to veteran talent, now they're fully willing to sacrifice them in favor of underpaid unknowns to save money. Mark aside, this is a warning shot to any high paid veteran talent who might be thinking of asking for more money, or being inflexible with demands. You are dispensable.

At least from my viewing habits, male traffic anchors in general are indeed rare. I hope they leave him and Kaity Tong alone. What a shame. John Muller left and returned home only to be laid off. As someone else said, I would love to see him or Craig land at FOX 5. I was so/so about Kori but you never want to see someone lose their job this way. From my vantage point WABC and WNBC appear to be the most stable products in the market right now.

Longtime TV host Tom Bergeron noted the similarities between the evening news personalities lol.

Jerry is on this morning. You are correct, Jerry along with Nick Cannon and Sherri Shepherd all had had shows that spawned from Wendy Williams. Sherri was the most successful one. Again, seems like Good Day is struggling to find a coanchor for the last 9 years since Greg left. Curt was good. Who else at this point? I would say Mike Woods, but he gets awkward and stuttering when he does non-Weather segments.

Mike and Sade in on a Sunday for pre blizzard coverage.

A return (if true) would be great. Norah never should've been moved off of mornings in the first place. IF that were to happen, would Norah want to rearrange her life again and move back from DC?

I like her quirky on their personality and reporting style. She and Gail Pascal Brown are really good.

The national show idea reminds me of The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, and when there were rumors across this thread that Greg and Rosanna would or should start a national syndicated talk show. Jerry being there for talk show testing is no issue. Rosanna needs someone to match her energy -- though Jerry can be over animated at times. If they extended the idea to making Jerry --a comedian-- the main co anchor of Good Day, that would be iffy for the program's credibility as a newscast. At least in Curt was a sports journalist who had previously worked at Fox 5.

On the subject, a Roger Grimsby obituary from World News Now (1995) just to mind. Kevin Newman basically said that though 1970 clips of WABC Eyewitness News looked similar to '95 newscasts, it set the standards for modern formatting. Anyway back to graphics...

At the time it was a format. It was said that Eyewitness News emphasized faster pacing, reporters on scene, eyewitness reactions, anchor teams, and happy talk banter. Now that all newscasts have evolved to doing the same thing, Eyewitness News has been reduced to a title rather than a specialized format.

Not awesome, but certainly better than what they had before. That set lighting is really dark and grainy. WPTV was one of the Scripps' better stations. I wish they got treated as such ---visually

That was a smart cost-effective option. Utilize the same set, just virtualized the new weekday background.

Craig is an underrated longtimer in New York City news. Grew up with him on the early morning news for almost my entire life!

Agreed. I'm glad they've moved away from live for live sake. Live shots are useful when there's an active scene, breaking news, or the reporter doesn't have enough time to assemble a package. Reporters can get more creative with their pre-recorded standups versus trying to remember their lines with an active live shot. Live shots also slow things down. There's nothing worse than being live at 6 o'clock 90 mins from the station when your shift ends at 6:30. Editing packages is also significantly easier in a studio edit bay than a crammed the news van while waiting to go live. But as you say, without the reps, reporters struggles when they finally have to go live.

I saw them do snow coverage with Lisa Evers on the weekend. they don't have a "Good Day Weekend" listed for this Saturday or Sunday though. "The 6 o'clock News" has expanded to a full hour.

Not sure if this is posted already but WNYW's "6'Clock News" has expanded to a full hour. If I recall correctly, Family Feud was on at 6:30pm, it's now been pushed to 11:30 PM as "Family Feud Favorites".

Very identical. KABC simply refers to themself as ABC 7 on YouTube. There's been times at first glance I wasn't sure if I was watching them or KGO (not paying attention to story content). I suppose WABC's Eyewitness News format was so successful that ABC wanted to duplicate that format across all the O&Os. Added bonus of many of the stations being on channel 7 to look extra identical. Interestingly since they're going for uniformity, the flagship WABC still calls itself "Channel 7" and hasn't been returned to the brief "ABC 7" branding.

Music sounds slightly better then the bubblegum pop theme many Tegna stations were using. What's up with station groups and those annoying transitional sound effects.