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Very GMA with the opening shot and angle of the three anchors. Very CBS This Morning with the shape of the table and the tri anchor formatting which also has GMA undertones. Sometimes the constant mentioning of working life and kids can come off as forced efforts to make the anchors seem like friends or relatable to the audience.

How has Steve lasted this long? Again, Lacey's issue is that his delivery really has no cadence. He reads as if he were rushing through paragraphs and rarely emotes feeling or personality. Dari lasted really long! At least importing external talent is a start, but Fox 5 News isn't in the best state right now.

Steve is a weak anchor and without Lori (or atleast Teresa) the evening slots lacks a strong presence.

On the subject of cutting/trimming and SNL, why is that show still 90 minutes long? An hour is fine. SNL has about two or three strong sketches with a lot of misses in between. Not to mention sketches have to drag on way past their punchline or weaker bits make it to tv to fill air time. All this on top of constant commercials.

Excellent work from the team at World News Tonight (9/18/01). Calm and lightly sensational reporting in the immediate aftermath of the worst terror attack in US history. Compare this to the overblown hype and constant blaring, breaking news graphics that would be applied to something as light as as committee hearing on today's evening news. KFMB, CBS 8 San Diego (April 1967). You'd be hard-pressed to find a mid to late 60s newscast wether local or national that didn't mention Vietnam at least once.

Looks like CBS 2 got new cameras. Alot of reporter shots have apeture lens "portrait effect" in the background.

I think at this point the networks are already struggling with Sun to Thu , so Saturdays may have to stay as is.

Forgot to add but, how much longer wil networks be able to sustain three hours of new show episodes five to six nights a week? They already seem to be struggling with the 22 episode model. Broadcast seasons even take longer summer and christmas breaks now with random weeks of repeats.

Hoda & Jenna's show can go as well. As others have been mentioning, my concern with the elimination of the 10/9c hour (which I support) is the dissolution of show blocks like Dick Wolf's dramas. A negative is that the successful One Chicago Wednesday and Law and Order Thursday blocks would be split up. A positive is that strong shows would be spread out over several nights rather than just two watchable nights on NBC. Plausible split compromise: (NBC) Tue: Chicago Med and Law & Order Wed: Chicago Fire and Law & Order: SVU Thu: Chicago PD and Law & Order: Organized Crime CBS (if it cut 10 pm; placed in ways that don't compete with Wolf's NBC dramas). Sunday: FBI & (whatever else, East NY perhaps) Mon: FBI International & FBI Most Wanted

Cool to see pre Roone Aldridge ABC News, back when CBS was king and NBC was a close compeditor. Moon landing coverage featuring Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Frank Reunolds and Howrd K Smith (1969).

In terms of copying CBS This Morning ( I can't get with the new title CBS mornings ) I wish GMA and Today would follow CTM's lead with better story choices instead of pop culture and tabloid level human interest pieces. Does this work for CNN? It remains to be seen. Do I have high hopes for this? No. BUT, whatever keeps them from talking about HIM for 18 hours is a step in the right direction. Possible antidote: hard news and non argumentative (preferably non-panel) analysis from a variety of subject matter.

thought I was the only one that noticed that!

reminds me of their earlier 2010s L3 which I like much better than the current ones. They were much cleaner and slicker. Finally! Dick is a good anchor and he'll be solid with Dana. Agreed that she wasn't that strong of a solo anchor. Comparably, I'd say Chuck Scarborough on News 4 is a decent solo anchor but he's better with a co-anchor at 6 as well. As someone mentioned earlier about a 4pm newscast, I hope WCBS doesn't do that and sticks with Judge Judy reruns. There's enough news as is on daytime tv and WCBS's product is already pretty generic (though I do like Lonnie, Maurice and Kristine as a team).

Why exactly did News 4 move from 3C to 3K?

I wonder if WNYW would have bothered to push out Dari Alexander -- assuming that's how it happened -- if they knew Lori would stay only a year and a half.

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Overall, I see why Mester's was a bad move from a career standpoint. A company like KTLA's first priority is to make money and keep talent in line, understood. BUT... on a human level, (not saying his was the best way to handle it) it's nice that Mester stood up for his friend Romero like that. We can debate what is owed and what isn't, but after working at the station for that long they could've let her give a proper goodbye to the viewers. From a viewer stand point, to have a familiar face suddenly gone after 20 years then a different anchor reads a corperate message saying "she's no longer with us thanks and good bye" is just abrupt. Look at how NBC handled Katie Couric leaving for CBS: a nice send off and a thank you. Just that simple. Again I commend him for standing up for his co woker in this here-today-gone-tomorrow corperate (and general) working culture. At this point, Mester needs to tread carefully before he gets black balled in the industry.

What's going on with the black crawl bar at the bottom of the screen on CBS 2. Noticed it was absent since 11pm yesterday. It's present though online.

WANF (and WNBC) included, standing desks sometimes makes the height contrast look distracting. Are they standing for the entirety of the 2 1/2 hour broadcast? They should mix sitting and standing for long newscasts such as mornings.

Was recently thinking about how long Bill had lasted with the network, surprised to hear of his passing. What a legend! RIP

Hurricane Ian's coverage reminds me of Hurricane Andrew's coverage from 30 years ago: WSVN (8/17/92) 1 week before the storm. TS Andrew was a minor footnote in the weather portion: 8/24/92 The night before the storm: Aftermath (date unclear, 1992)

Not sure if this was posted already but according to TV Passport, the "Wake Up Atlanta" branding has been dropped in favor of "Atlanta News First at [insert time between 4:30-9am]." If im not mistaken only the 7-9 am hours were on Peachtree TV, now the 6 am portion is avalible on WPCH aswell.

I read the part about "certain favors" on FTV life and I questioned it's reputablilty. Its amazing though that these circumstances haven't been blown up in the media like national level scandals such as Matt Lauer or Roger Ailes. (If this is true)

exactly what went down, contract renewal issues?

I really thought they would've at least kept some reference to CBS 46 outside of newscasts. ANF gives off a NY 1 type 24/7 cable network vibe. I suppose it works being that the station barely has a daytime lineup outside of news. Even though the importance of channel dials are going down with the Internet, will layman viewers know this is channel 46? This feels like a case of if it ain't broke don't fix it as the CBS 46 branding in recent years was perfectly fine. Hopefully it all works out. Let's see how we go from here.