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Not their best work, lol! Though I prefer the placement of the ABC bug on KGO and KABC's logos over WABC's, it would be nice for WABC to keep it's ABC bug where it is to maintain some semblance of individuality from the other ABC 7s. It'd be cool if the different ABC 7s made the circles a different color or perhaps a different shade of blue for some uniqueness. A bit off topic but, out of curiosity did ABC deliberately go for the channel 7 dial in major markets?

More big name anchors filling in on the evening news: Steve Kroft in for Bob Schieffer Leslie Stahl in for Dan Rather Matt Lauer in for Tom Brokaw

Yikes! It has been season after season of unfortunate events for Wendy since she fainted on Halloween.

My thoughts exactly. Some furniture, some trinkets, maybe a plant or too are my preference over soely video walls and a barren set. Today's studio 1a being the best example of this. If they decide to go the video wall route however, it looks awkward to me when we can see the monitor frames on a skyline shot rather than the skyline occupying the whole backdrop.

Switched over to sister station Telemundo 47 for a bit and I must say their studio looks better than WNBC's. WNJU's set gives a terrace with a view kind of feel. I like that Ch 47's video wall occupies the entire shot, and you don't see the frames or wooden bottoms like Ch 4's set.

Love the black L3's on KDKA's newscasts over the deep blue tone in the other O&Os.

Big name anchors/reporters substituting on the evening news: Barbra Walters in for Peter Jennings (1995) Mike Wallace in for Roger Mudd (1971) Ed Bradley in for Dan Rather (2002)

I'm surprised she 'd want worse hours (if) it were her choice.

I would have been pissed if I was in that studio audience thinking that I was going to get to see the first female vice president live in person. You could hear the disappointment in the crowd.

Sunny & Ana are revealed to have tested positive for COVID on LlVE tv, right before VP Harris' in studio appearance.

Today Show 9/17/01, the nation's reopening after the terror attacks. The intro was the only coverage I've seen of this day from NBC.

Today a screen banner on WNYW confirmed *new* episodes of The Real will be moving to 5PM on WWOR. No more Jerry Springer re-runs on WPIX 11, the show airs exclusively on WLNY 10/55 now. That's Maury and Jerry both gone from Ch. 11.

@H-Town TV Fan it seems something similar is happening in the NYC market. Nick Cannon is replacing The Real on WNYW Fox 5. According to my program guide, previous day repeats are still scheduled on WWOR MY 9. Cannon and Jerry O'Connel were being floated around for their own talk shows following their substitutions for Wendy Williams during her abense. I wonder if The Real's numbers aren't that great for affiliates to experiment with Nick Cannon's new show?

That blue set looked like the precursor to 1A. OG: blue set 1983

I'd say why not "CBS News Net" or "CBS News Stream". Perhaps "iCBS" as it references both internet and the network's eye logo branding. The non video wall elements of the Times Sq set look very good, dare I say the best of the 3 morning shows.

Agreed! What prompted them to move Betty to 4:30am suddenly?

I totally agree with you. It’s strange that we got warm colored, glossy and textured graphics in the age of standard definition, and all this flatness in the age of 4k and HD when tv’s would really be adept at displaying complex graphics. To each their own but flat graphics really look cheap and amateurish in most examples I’ve seen. Hopefully flat becomes less ubiquitous as the decade goes on. We just need more creative diversity instead of one look everywhere!

LOL! It’d be cool if Lynn White and John Muller could work together again

Out of curiosity, when a game runs over time, are local stations against recording the newscast then airing it on tape delay, or is there a particular reasoning for waiting to air live at the pushed back time?

'Today' (1982). Loving how sped up the format is at this point compared to the Brokaw & Walters years. Not too slow and not the ADHD level pacing of today. It also seems that they were frequently experimenting with sets. I've seen the blue version of this current set before but wasn't aware there was a brown variation as well. The sets from the late 70s up until the O.G. studio 1a (which was awesome) were all very well done.

Don’t care for the way the giant “CBS Mornings” box hangs on screen when the lower third is absent.

Looks decent, and they do use the studio better than Today. I hope it doesn’t become like Studio 57 on CBS, used for everything.

Thank You! Was always curious how WSVN’s flashy format would have handled something as cataclysmic as 9/11. It’s also interesting to see the WB Miami station using New York’s WB affiliate coverage, since the network had no national news service. Apologies for taking the thread back to that dark day but this video has a compilation of how several cable channels broadcast 9/11. Apparently Viacom networks (VH 1, CMT, and MTV) showed CBS News coverage, TLC carried BBC World News and even HSN carried some international news service. Facinating. I cannot think of another event in which entertainment cable channels suspended programming to carry a national news event other than BET carrying CBSN coverage of the Derek Chauvin verdict in 2021.

I guess intelligent morning tv would be like the Bryant Gumbell/Jane Pauley years on Today as the best example. Extended interviews, news magazine type feature pieces and conversations with people like military generals, foreign policy experts, and introspective authors. Dumbed down would be modern GMA. Stories on some former Power Ranger actor caught up in a murder mystery or secret recordings of dentists’ snarky side comments while the patients were under anesthesia (ACTUAL stories that they have done). CBS Mornings on the other hand would be focusing on millennial home buyer-ship rates, climate change’s threats to Florida’s oyster population, and pandemic exoduses from cities to the rural areas (actual stories they’ve done). They borrow some bits from the competition but the positives outweigh that for me.

It speaks to the strength of WABC’s news team that they’ve maintained years at #1 with some of the worst graphics and iffy sets in the market. KABC and KGO have better looks and sets. The flat abc logos from the 90s looked better than the 2021 flat logo. Perhaps because it’s surrounded by graphics that don’t match and is on a hd not sd television.