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Why did they stop doing the Almanac as a video with tracked narration? It's just still images with onscreen text now. Now: then:

Looking at this as humanly as possible, I don't mind stations covering the ceremony every year. I do believe the reading of every name will have to be shortened. Perhaps they can amend the ceremony to have a few families and officials give breif speeches each year?

They might as well let Dick and Dana anchor ---if Dana wants to stay that late.

Following the 20th Anniversary of the NE Blackout here is CBS Evening News from 2003. Peter Jennings was in Canada, so Ted Koppel anchored ABC News' Special Report

I know we hate anchor line up proposals but the simplest arrangement: AM & 10am -Mike & Shirleen Noon, 4pm, 6pm David and Liz 5&11pm Bill & Sade

If that's the case, then that makes sense. But I do see GH on at 2ET in several markets.

In this age of cord cutting cutting, this could have been an opportunity for broadcast networks to regain some strength (if not for streaming). Sadly we're running out of syndication options. It's went from too many talk shows to not enough. With the boom of excessive newscasts, gone are the days when you could keep your TV on a local station for hours without changing the channel. I'm sure station executives don't expect the same audience to sit through big news blocks like 4 to 6:30 PM. They're most likely banking on a different audience tuning in at the top or bottom of news hours.

Don't get me wrong. I love my General Hospital at 3 PM rather than 2. But ABC News is always quick to preempt it so I'm surprised the O&O's care enough to keep GH at 3 o'clock and not push it up an hour to collect the ad revenue. Yes, which is why I'm surprised they didn't just leave Tamron at 10, push General Hospital up to 2 PM and do a 3 PM newscast.

So the 10 am will have two meteorologists, or will Dani fill in for Sam when he's off on Fridays? Is Brittany also working with Sam on the AM or is she his Friday fill in? This press release have been worded a little more clearly. My SPECULATION is that Brittany is his morning show substitute, and Danny is his 10 AM sub for when he's off on Fridays. My question is will the 10 AM be a straight newscast or a fluffy morning show? From what I've seen however, CW and Fox stations with their own news departments (not newscasts produced by a big 3 affiliate) are better at pulling this kind of format off. In the case of PIX 11 with a straight news block from 4:30-11am, a 10 AM newscast makes sense. For ABC 7, a 10 AM sandwiched between syndicated programming at 9 and 11 AM, followed by a full hour of news at noon feels odd. I figure they don't want to mess with Kelly&Mark or The View's slots, so why didn't they follow the West Coast trend of a 3 PM?

I can understand a 10 AM newscast in the case of Fox and CW affiliates that have news beginning at 4/4:30/7 AM. For WABC as an example: 10 am news sandwiched between syndicated programming at 9 and 11 AM, then the Noon news feels odd. I suspect they didn't want to mess with Kelly and Mark's or The View's timeslots, so why didn't they do a 3pm? From the way ABC News pre-empts GH, I doubt they care that much about moving it up to 2pm where some stations have kept it for years now. I hope these will be light morning fluff products and not straight newscasts. From what I've seen however, Fox & CW stations with their own news departments (not newscasts produced by a big three affiliate) are better at pulling the looser morning format off.

I'm not always a fan of when news departments reuse an anchor pair for every evening news cast (especially PIX 11 until recently). Nothing against Steve personally, but he's not that strong of an anchor to be their lead man on 3 newscasts. But who does Fox 5 have in house, unless they were to bring in an anchor in from another station? It sucks that they moved Antwan and Teresa off of the morning news for Sukanya and Jen who didn't last long. Now Teresa again at 6. Why has the 4:30-7am anchor chair on WNYW been so unstable compared to the other stations?

I was confused and thought Ryan was guest hosting for a moment but then I realized the show is going into summer reruns despite having a new host. The bug has Mark's name and the mugs say Ryan. That's cool. Some shows would make a major deal out of the discrespacy and avoid reruns.

Rare finds, The Today Show from 1997 and 98.

Surprisingly, MTV was airing music videos and a marathon of Behind the Music in celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. They even had a TRL like audeince show at 5 PM ET. It was teriffic, felt like I was watching Fuse from a few years ago. It was the first time in years that I watched that channel for hours. Sadly, the schedule for tomorrow is a whole lot of Ridiculousness. Niche programming! Wish thise days could return. Maybe then there'd still be a reason to have cable.

I wonder what the local numbers look like now, and who exactly is in last place. All newscasts look virtually smiliar these so its amazing to picture now that the Eyewitness News style was ground breaking. @nycnewsjunkie Out of curuosity, what criticisms do you have for WABC.

Congrats. I was seeing her a lot during recent legal coverage and got a sense that her profile was rising.

Loved the tribute, and really loved seeing the former talent, especially those at another station. Ritter had an interesting line "the sets improved over the years"... they didn't lol. But their 'meh' on air appearence has not mattered at all in terms of the station success! I liked WABC's steps layered set concept from the 70s. Wish they'd try a modern take on that when they get this new set/hq that's been mentioned in this thread.

Can you tell me more about the 11pm Liz rule? I hope Toni Yates gets Mike's spot on the weekends.

Channel surfing on 9/11. Incredible footage. It's interesting that HSN and Food Network suspended programming. TNT carried CNN coverage, VH 1 carried WCBS.

Bianca came off much more objective in that interview. I remember years ago the outer boroughs complained about poor snow plowing which got neutral coverage. When the Upper East Side, the location of Fox 5's studio wasn't plowed adequately however, Greg --and especially Rosanna -- were going in on the sanitation comisioner. Wish I could find the clip. Again I like Rosanna. I respect that a morning news host has to tow the line between objective journalist and tv personality, but she has to watch when her biases slip out.

I like Rosanna Scotto, and I agree with her on congestion pricing, but her bias really comes through on some news stories. This interview made it obvious. During the Lori era I noticed that Stokes always tried to keep it straight news woman whereas Rosanna inserted her personality and sometimes two cents into certain news matters. Her time with Greg was no exception. Has anyone else noticed this?

I'm surprised it won't be a 3pm newscast. If WABC wasn't already producing Kelly & Mark I'd take a lifestyle show over yet another newscast. *If this is happening* I should say.

I'm surprised it won't be a 3pm newscast. If WABC wasn't already producing Kelly & Mark I'd take a lifestyle show over yet another newscast.

Ahh, I knew I remembered seeing them together! I wonder what prompted to change?

That's a unique way to split the anchor slots. They should let Brooks and Lana anchor together, they both have that energetic morning personality.