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plus Steve did the 10 pm that night too! Crazy schedule.

On 8/23/2021 at 7:33 AM, fox5fan said:

They brought Steve Lacy in. Interesting.

Also, seems like Nick and Mike (in Italy) are off. Audrey (and Reagan) have been holding it down.

seems like they have a staff shortage and it’s showing.

Give Regan Medgie the spot with Bianca. She has a vibrant personality for for mornings.   Find male co-anchor for Rosanna. Sad about Kerry though.Robert Moses might work on “The Noon” though.

3 hours ago, Liugrad2020 said:

I guess you’re not a fan of WCBS. What do you think WNBC can do to improve their anchor rotation? 

Add another female anchor to cover 5 and 7pm is all they need to ensure that all newscasts from 4-11 have an anchor duo. With this method, each individual anchor would have a relatively even distribution across newscasts. That way (for example) Natalie wouldn't have to be on at 4,6,7 and 11.

As for CBS 2,  I think the issue is the newscasts feel a bit corporate at times rather than genuinely New York. It’s hard to explain but I see CBS o&o stations are struggling in other big markets too, so there is that factor about there is newscast that doesn’t beat out the competition.

With all this talk about past anchor teams I’m surprised Roz Abrams and Bill Beutel were never official  co-anchors, granted that they were two large presences at Eyewitnesses News during that time period. It would’ve been like Chuck and Sue, the straight-laced news man with the more vibrant and personable female coanchor. I grew up on Diana Williams who was awesome, but I feel like Roz would’ve been a stronger presence with Bill B at 11.

The desk standing looks bad, the solo anchoring isn’t the best, the “COVID” desk looks very mediocre especially because we know WNBC is capable of much more based on studio 6B and earlier sets.

To their credit News 4 is the second best news team in the market after Eyewitness News they just have a few kinks when it comes to their anchor rotations and visual presentation.

Wow! Nate seems like a cool guy so he should be a cool addition. Hopefully CTM's move to Times Square doesn't begin a directional change that dumbs down the program.

GMA is already the Times Square morning show so this will be interesting.

so abc really paid a graphics agency to do this

From WABC during General Hospital today. Not awful, but certainly not better than what they had before. Arguably, the previous gold red blue ABC design was the best logo in the network’s history. The onscreen bug during WNT looked like it was made on Microsoft paint.

On 8/8/2021 at 11:20 AM, mountainave said:

 

The anchors at WNYW control the teleprompter themselves with a remote, which would probably screw with anyone's delivery.

Really? I would think that would make an anchor feel more comfortable and in control. 

On 8/8/2021 at 11:12 AM, MorningNews said:

And despite Lori being a really nice and genuine broadcaster, Sade is much more polished in her presenting style.
 

I don’t remember Lori being as woeful reading the news at channel 7 as she is at 5. It must be something in the air at Fox.

Dari and Steve are the same way. Lori does sound a bit choppy sometimes. 

For whatever it’s worth Sade was a solid choice for the evenings.

On 7/24/2021 at 3:16 AM, Liugrad2020 said:

I don’t think you need two anchors at 11pm as it’s only a 35 minute newscast. 

As much as I see what you're saying, a dual anchor team feels stronger to me on a local newscast.

4 hours ago, MorningNews said:

While Katie and Matt were a great duo, Today’s best pair in my opinion were Matt and Meredith. The way they played off on one another and weren’t afraid to take it a little more risqué in the morning was fun to watch (maybe less so following Matt’s inappropriate BTS behavior).

I can't decide between Bryant & Jane or Katie & Matt as Today's greatest pairing. The Bryant/Jane years to me was the most refined , intelligent and sophisticated era of the program. The Matt/Katie years had the best pacing however.

14 minutes ago, Newsjunkie24 said:

I also don't care that they sort of copied WNT's method of "shouting" the headlines at the beginning for drama.

I noticed that too. On the contrary I can’t stand it for the same reason, drama. It makes the news seem more stressful, if that makes sense.

As for grooming CBS didnt invest well in that during Dan’s tenure. John Roberts was a frequent substitute but that didn't amount to anything. NBC handled succession the best of the big 3. ABC had rocky moments but Gibsion, Sawyer and Muir were all solid picks.

3 hours ago, wabceyewitness said:

My personal favorite version of CBSEN was when Bob Scheiffer was interim anchor from spring 2005 thru summer 2006. 
 

I think Norah is a solid journalist but I haven’t been thrilled with her version of CBSEN. 

30 minutes ago, GodfreyGR said:

Agreed. It's the same mistake CBS made with Katie Couric on CBSEN...

 

 But the bench has been weak for decades- evident when there was no clear successor for Dan Rather ( Diaz-Balart and Snow at NBC, Davis and Johnson at ABC who all make appearances on the network's weekday shows and cable/OTT platforms.

That clear successor was (in my view) Bob Schiffer. It looked like they were grooming John Roberts with his constant substitutions for Dan, but Bob was better. I like that he kept Rather’s exact same theme, graphics, and set design with a few formatting tweaks added. Im being repetitive but Bob should’ve stuck on CBSEN until his retirement. Perhaps they thought he was “too old” to be their star anchor? But that’s pure speculation.

Norah and Katie exemplify that success in the mornings don’t necessarily translate to be evenings, or elsewhere.

Linsey Davis is showing real promise at ABC!

According to a Fox News article (obviously CNN isn’t their favorite) New Day ratings are struggling to hit 500K viewers. Yahoo & the Wrap confirm this as well. Yahoo reports that Morning Joe pulls averages 903K, Fox & Friends 1.1M. Both Fox & Yahoo are blaming the anchor shuffling at New Day, especially after Brianna Keiler began anchoring.

Personally, New Day and CNN in general are too politically charged. Morning Joe isn’t much better, it’s single subject focus on Trump and the right are obsessive and repetitive. Fox & Friends, not my favorite either,  of course has theirs specific audience. 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/cnns-day-hits-7-ratings-175702525.html

We’ve reached the two year mark with Norah as anchor and the face of CBS News. Personally, I don’t think she’s the worst nor do I think she’s the best. In reality who else does CBS News have?

Again I ask are you all satisfied off dissatisfied with the current state of CBSEN? 

On 7/22/2021 at 11:29 AM, Daybreak said:

The only thing I agree with was the Ann Curry situation. Ann Curry and Matt Lauer had zero chemistry together hosting Today but I was one of the few that dipped out Once Ann was canned. 

 

The article discusses how ratings are the "lowest" it has ever been in 30 years. Reaching below 3 millions viewers. However, ratings are down as a whole on all Morning Shows. I believe part of the reason why the ratings are down because, the news is depressing, over sensationalized and they never really get down to the facts. I do think the Olympics might help some in the coming weeks. What are you all thoughts? 

Ann and Matt had zero chemistry. Ann to her credit is a serious newswoman and should have remained as the newsreader. BUT as much as I’m warming up to Savannah, Ann was superior. I just wish Meredith would have never left!

Once Ann was out, coupled with the reformatting of Today when Studio 1A went from orange to blue around 2013, marked a sharp quality decline in the program. Add that against the team of Robin/George/Josh/Lara/Sam on GMA, and there was no going back for Today. Worse yet, Today is severely dumbed down compared to the days of Jane, Bryant , Matt and Katie.

CBS This Morning is the best on the air right now and deserves to be #1. I agree that morning news ratings are down as a whole because of changing viewer habits and the litany of depressing news over the past decade. COVID and the Election on repeat became annoying after a while. Moreover, the quality of tv shows from as a whole from cable to broadcast isn’t as good as it used to be IMO.

I like Bill but I’ve gotten that vibe from him too. Everyone said it best already, its one thing to say “sad story” or “tragic” bit its another to insert your outright opinion. Perhaps because he knows retirement is not far off, he’s more comfortable editorializing.

I agree that a lot of the anchoring today is monotone and just reading the story, case and point Steve Lacy on Fox 5. At least when I say I want an anchor to add a personality I mean like Roz Abrams or Sue Simmons who used to add flare, voice inflections and charisma when they read the news, not their personal political opinions. 

Rosanna Scotto (and of course Sukanya Khrisnan did so as well) does this a lot on Good Day New York (but for the other political team). Lori always tried to keep it straight news woman when she read stories on Good Day from what I saw.

When it comes to Sam Champion, if I had the opportunity to work only 4 days a week, especially if my work days were 10 hours, I’d take it. 

23 hours ago, MisterBill said:

 

 

They have reporters they could bring in to co-anchor if they felt it was necessary to have two people. Jen Maxfield did at least one 4pm broadcast this past week according to her IG. They have not been using a replacement co-anchor on TINY recently, either. Maybe still limiting due to Covid-19? They do bring in Emily West to sub for Lauren on traffic during her frequent days off, so obviously not a concern there. But it's more important to have someone doing traffic than it is to have a second anchor.

Thats crazy that they’ve had 1 anchor doing TINY solo some mornings. Are the purse strings that tight at 30 Rock??

Seems like they've been doing all the afternoon/evening newscasts with solo anchors for the past week or so. This has been said so many times but...just assign a fifth evening anchor.

IF another meteorologist is added, a good arrangement could be

Sam

Mon-Thu 4:30 am

Amy

Mon-Thu Noon & 4pm; Fri 4:30 am & noon

Lee 

Mon - Thu 5-11pm; Fri 4-11pm

2 hours ago, NBC 5 Chicago said:

 

Just to clarify that peacock variant is actually a transition as the L3 comes into view. It starts out colorful over the whole L3 then shrinks down to the bottom and transitions to 2 shades of blue and red for breaking news at the bottom. It doesn't stay that way. I was trying to capture the transition element although I really wouldn't mind seeing it like this. 

It would be nice if that was the actual color scheme all the time and not just the transition. It looks really good.

Weary of the flat white box look as always, but not bad! NBC again proves it self to be the best of the bunch graphically, even in the flatness era.

The peackock color variant below the white box is a nice touch especially. It reminds me of the WNBC light spectrum graphics from the mid 00s:

I’m glad that they eighty-sixed the white bar (except for weather) that used to occupy unnecessary real estate at the top and bottom of the screen. More of an actual picture now.