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Something I've noticed on WNT as well as NNN. After the synagogue shooting in Albany, NY, none of the networks had time to send their reporters there as it happened so close to their broadcasts. Instead of presenting the stories from the newsroom or studio, ABC had a reporter standing on some unspecified street with a heavily blurred background and a locator graphic marked "New York". At least the background on NBC was more visible and the reporter is infront of what looks like a synagogue --- which they didn't bother to specify. It's perfectly acceptable to stand in front of a synagogue in Manhattan to talk about anti-semetic incidents across the country. But to have the background be indecipherable and ambiguously labeled "New York", without specificity for state vs city gives an almost deceptive sense of presence. I like the "portrait mode" effect, but it defeats the purpose of a live shot if the audience cannot see what you are standing in front of. Nothing to die over, small critique.

Obviously experiences differ by station...but good lord, are any of these news corporations good? Do I dare ask about Gray television

Thoughts on Tegna? I've seen the station group criticized for how it manages newscasts and news departments. Aesthetically speaking, Tegna stations are way more pleasing on the eye than Sinclair, Scripps, and in a lot of Nexstar. 11 Alive Atlanta looks far better than it did 10+ years ago sets and graphics wise.

Lauren is always a good and common fill in. Sidebar...Lauren like so much of the talent has been there at least 20 years! What is it about Channel 7 compared to the other NYC stations that they've retained reporters in particular for so long? My first assumption is the pay.

My personal philosophy... be as scarce as possible with the viewers about your personal life, on air and online. Have separate social media accounts for work and your personal. Make the personal social account accessible to friends only. People crave personal narrative to create drama. Don't make it easy for them.

Per Vulture, Holmes was sleeping with a female staffer --on work premesis-- which was ABC's grounds for firing. I don't recall what justified Amy's axing. Aside from all this, scandals like these make you weary of going into the news industry as an on air talent. Especially at the national level, you become a public figire which heavily shrinks your private life. Arguably this is self inflicted but TJ's wife supposedly hired a PI who leaked the pics and made this a spectacle. Rickey Smiley was onto something when he said being "medium famous" is the sweet spot. Known enough to get into places, but not famous enough to be hounded by paparazzi and have your entire life in the tabloids.

C'mon WABC.

TJ & Amy have to stew in their mess for little bit, but does their offense rise to the occasion of never working in the industry again? No. Let some time pass. When their distracting presence fades, then they may be able to get a job again.

CBS 2 was ahead of its time with a 4 PM newscast, which really became common place post Oprah. If WCBS wanted to try another attempt at four --hopefully not-- it might work nowadays.

it's amazing to see all these attempts to boost The CW this late into its existence.

Totally agree. Let her acknowledge that she won't cover the controversy because that's her dad, move on, and let her do her job. I miss the days when weekend mornings was Alex Witt for like 4 hours straight. Glad to see she's getting some good airtime in the afternoon.

On Ch 2 or 55? If you mean Ch 2, hopefully not. Judge Judy would probably do better in the ratings. I'm surprised they put Hot Bench in that slot and pushed Judy back to 3 rather than leaving Judy at 4 and Hot Bench at 3.

Totaly agress, but I suppose they want that live factor for weather and traffic. Since The Couch didn't work, and I don't recall seeing any promos for morning news on WLNY, I wonder how long this will last. Agreed. Cindy is great and only doing one newscast, they might as well utilize her for both. They can also have John handle some segments in the 7-9, Sam Champion style, to lighten the load off of Chris and Mary.

Good Day DC's Jeanette Reyes is leaving WTTG. She says it's focus on her kids. Reyes and her husband/morning compeditor Robert Burton from WJLA went viral for their humorous "news couple" social media videos. Bittersweet because she's in the prime of her career. This feeds into the "can we have it all" discussion: successful careers, and time with family.

Fox and MSNBC succeed in primetime because they have well-known or decently developed pundits that command an audience, and are good at marketing side projects like books and podcasts (Maddow, Hannity). Outside of Anderson Cooper, CNN lacks draw factor at night. Gayle and Charles were obviously an attempt to bring in well-known personalities, but things look iffy. I support Licht's vision of a news first CNN. If there is to be political commentary however, primetime is definitely the place to confine it. I would get a right, left, and independent personality to each have their own show. Pundits with decent social media draws, who aren't spewing misinformation.

Again, fair points. Unfortunately, from working in the industry and seeing journalist vlogs, it seems people are leaving for PR in droves because of that...among other problems. A lot of the topical talk shows like The Talk, and The View discuss the very same news headlines. So even non-news products are feeding into the repitition. Overall, my point is, is it possible to do something profitable, different , and of good quality that draws ratings---rather than low effort programing.

Both fair points. It seems stations aren't going for retaining a daylong audience but rather catching people in and out. For the people that do watch daytime tv for hours --I would like to see the percentage who still do--all news all day must suck. The issue also lies on smaller market one man band MMJs who's news directors may be asking to turn a package multiple ways for the umpteen newscasts.

Sinclair and Nexstar especially. Nexstar pays their employees like crap, while Sinclair stations pay a bit better, but look abysmal. Some Sinclair sets look like cheap college/infomercial productions and their graphics are basic and boxy.

I dont hear must criticism for Hearst and Graham.

I suppose my issue with News Daily is that it's yet another newscast on station lineups that are already saturated with heavy and repetitive local news output. Then again, the syndication options are dry. What could NBC have put there? They've been reduced to airing Dateline on o&o stations.

I'm surprised. NBC News Daily It's a basic headline run down newscast like Early Today.

Having seen so much criticism across these threads for companies like Sinclair, Tegna and Nexstar, I wanted to pinpoint what you all think are the prime issues with station owners like these. Anything from how they manage their stations and treat their employees, to their news presentation styles. Are there any strengths to their methods? O&O groups included.

In Pablo's lovely tribute package they said and showed him anchoring with Cindy Hsu. It had a 6:30 time stamp so I'm guessing AM and weekend since Cindy was in the clip. Anyone recall that pairing? It must have been in the early 2010s based on graphics. EDIT:

Divorce Court with Starr Jones now in Season 25 is releasing full season 2 episodes with Judge Mablean, on YouTube. Unlike Judges Lynn, Faith and Starr, Mablean was deciding matters like spousal support, and (I believe) actually granting divorces, on top of small claims about issues like disputed goods. Lynn, Faith and Starr's eras were basically couple mediation sessions where advice is doled out with hardly anything being ruled upon. What caused this shift?

I'm glad to see Dr Phil reruns dipping into the archives and not just playing episodes from the last 4 to 5 years. They were even doing so when the show was making new episodes. Similarly, I also like that Judge Mathis had a flashback case segment within newly released episodes. l know long running sydicated shows have an aversion to "dated" episodes but they are cool to see.