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Thoughts on Welker's tenure so far?

The intro was okay, buy everything gets weighted down by terrible Sinclair graphics and studio lighting.

Again, Toni Yates is my preference but it hasn't happened in all these years so it's either her choice or their's.

I would have to disagree. Y&R gained strength at 12:30 because it had a jump on Days and All My Children which started at 1 PM. The two soaps you listed: Port Charles and Loving, did poorly in the ratings because they had to go up against Y&R which has been the highest rated soap since 1988.

Wow those L3s are big and terrible. CBS needs to give up on this NOW thing. it just feels like a cheap generic storebrand of a newscast.

Dont know where exactly to post this...thought for a moment CBS returned to their old screen bug. But it looks like a temporary glitch.

I don't think expanding their noon newscast to one hour will do CBS affiliates any favors. To my understanding, maybe I'm wrong, CBS noon news shows (on the east coast at least) largely do well because they follow the Price is Right and lead into Y&R. I think Y&R was the only soap to really do well at 12:30. That slot kept audiences from changing the channel to DAYS or All My Children at 1:00 because viewers were stuck watching from 12:30.

Did Drew Carey rejuvinate Price's demos? I guess it is an old people's show but from the way Drew put it in the latest special, people still think of it as Bob Barker show. This I would have to attibute Y&R's longevity to veteran cast member stability. Other than that the show has been stale since it's creator's death in 2005.

The 10 am slot helped send Guiding Light to the grave. For whatever reason 11am to 3 pm, exculding noon, seems to be the best time for a soap. I believe in parts of Canada it airs at 4:00pm. Y&R (at least back in the day) had a serious and shadowy yet glamourous tone that would make it fit in the evening, especially as it gets dark early. LIVE feels like a morning show because of it's light tone. In my personal preference, not based on anything, the lighter shows like Kelly work earlier in the morning, while the more "serious" or mixed tone shows like Judge Judy and Oprah fit great in the late afternoon, especially before the news.

Fair points. I had it as 5 and 11, as that would allow Team B to come in 3:30pm to 11:35pm, giving them not too much over 8 hours of work.

That's good because morning start times have been increasingly pushed earlier and earlier over the years yet the noon responsibility has not changed on many stations.

Broken record but...I think stations should get away from morning news anchors having to do the noon because of that long stretch of hours, working from about 3:30 am to 1pm ish. If anything: TEAM A 4:30-7, GMA cut ins, 10am TEAM B: Noon, 4, 6 TEAM C : 5 & 11pm.

Off-topic from WABC...Though I can admire Bond's presence and his no nonsense attitude, I think that his style should not be duplicated. I'm more of a keep it to the facts less of your feelings believer. I would accept Bond's style strictly in a commentator role, however. As for the WABC Seventies clips, again, colorful language, but we could do without trying to make up the viewers' minds for them.

Circling back to an earlier discussion of Bill Ritter's editorializing, and someone's characterization of Eyewitness News NY as tabloid, I'm realizing the station has a long *history of editorialized or colorful language in reports. Look at John Johnson's report on NYC's urban *decay from 1978 from (9:46-11:13). "We spend 20 million where SHOULD be spending $500 Million." "Pieces of rot..", "It hurts to tell you we have only allocated less than half a billion this year". "The Woolworth building is just a symbol that makes us more noble than Peoria, and the city of New York goes begging." Fantastic descriptive language that doesn't dull the report, bull still a testy step into opinion. There was this report on John Gotti's conviction. Jim Dolan's classification of the jury as "12 courageous New Yorkers..." or Bill Beutel saying he can "only look at the moon through jailhouse bars". Again colorful language that makes the report interesting. Some could argue tabloid. Some could argue a testy step into editorializing.

NEW: WABC (2003) Bill Beutel retires. He and Roz Abrahms should have anchored together *permanently* at some point. That would have been a solid counter to Chuck and Sue.

agreed. We need warmer lighting in this Hi Def era. Cold washed out lighting looks horrendus on HD screens.

Amazing and historic footage. What makes this unique from any other coverage that day was live audience reaction to the events as they happened. Thanks for the notice. I wonder where this actually aired?

He was there in the late 90s, early 00s.

I'm saying he works there now, so would WNBC be the only station he's never been on?

Not the best, not the worst. Better than a lot of Nexstar

22 Years Ago today: First Regis & Kelly after 9/11. @MD TVI had no idea Al Roker was still on Live at 5 as late as 2000.

Agreed! Has Ernie been on every station in the market now? Only exception I can think of is WNBC.

Ernie looks GREAT!!! I would love to see him on the weekends with Kaity.

Cool Hand Luke please!!! Otherwise keep the current theme.

Rather, Jennings and Brokaw were all solid on that day. Which of the big 3 networks, did you find handled the tragedy the most masterfully? I think, during the attacks, The Today Show was strongest in coverage. Just watching The Today Show from that era, especially how they handled 9/11 and the following days, it felt like a public affairs program, rather than what it devolved to now. For the Wed-Fri following the attacks, I would say ABC News was really strong.