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wow that is a stark contrast between WFTV and WSOC. WFTV has three daily runs of Family Feud on an ABC affiliate! Thats a CW tier lineup! Meanwhile at WSOC it's strange to see Kelly and Ryan Wendy Williams on the same station. Aside from a few exceptions I always picture Wendy as a Fox/CW/MNT talk show. Overall, SOC has a solid lineup.

There's such a thing as over exposure. If I have an anchor team that I reguard as my best, I wouldn't want them on every living newscast to the point where the audience gets tired of seeing them. I don't even find Kori and Tamsen to be that strong of an anchor team to be the lead duo. Going down this road again but Kaity Tong should still be on weekday evenings & nights, especially given that Mr. G is still there. The 10 PM slot has not recovered quality wise from her and Watkins' departures. PIX 11 needs a more diverse anchor line up in the evenings, and a less cheap looking aesthetic. They have some things going for them like an authentic New York local feel, (something WCBS lacks), but there's still major room for improvement.

Muller was good next to Sukanya and Lynn White. He was and would be a good fit for the mornings, and the 10 am lifestyle slot. IDK what the consensus here is about Dan Mannarino. He seems to have a good energy. My same feelings about Craig Treadway. He gets bounced around without being given a proper slot despite his tenure at the station. I liked him with Tiffany McElroy back in the day. Add to that, PIX needs a better evening lineup than Kory and Tamsen on every living newscast.

When Brooklyn's Labor Day West Indian parade was broadcast on TV! Maurice DuBois and Sue Simmons WNBC (1998). Wonder why they stopped broadcasting it?

The Darkside of the 90s from Vice has an interesting episode on morning show wars from the 1990s.

question: exactly what is the future of daytime TV. I'm definitely sure broadcast television will not completely go away, after all we still have radio. But at this rate what will station lineups look like in the next 5 to 10 years, certainly news all day cant suffice?

Big improvement! Love the return to it's roots theme, taking a great page from ABC! Hopefully the late era Rather theme makes a comeback one day. The L3's are horrendus but the dark theme for the video walls is great, especially considering how bright and washed out newscasts and daytime tv looks with HD these days.

cbs 46 news has really turned around but this is a lot.

I'm surprised to see syndicated Dateline on an NBC O&O rather than the, CW or My Network Tv. That's how you know the station is running out of proramming options. I recall in the years after Passions was canceled, WNBC really struggled to fill the 2 pm slot, in addition to the 11 am and 12 pm slots. Not likely, but I'd like to see Steve Harvey get his talk show back (the first incarnation). We can't completely blame streaming for all of this. Networks have been doling out sub tear talkshows with stale formats and declining budgets since the mid 2000s. Not to mention the contnual collapse of soaps in terms of presentation and story quality. Viewers were bound to turn away eventually.

Talent opens are like lengthy old TV theme songs. It adds something to the program. i'm glad WABC still does them. But as someone pointed out earlier, it's hard to retain talent opens when station anchor lineups get unstable.

Not that a national newscast at 10 PM is implausible, but Nightly News is a fixture in the evenings after work. It fits its time slot. Would we want to mess with that?

I said months ago the television networks should consider doing this and I'm surprised it's actually under serious consideration. As much as I'm not one to advocate for more news on station lineups, I support this proposition. The terrestrial channels have been struggling for about the last decade in primetime. The difference between cable, streaming and broadcast, is that the first two can put out a show when they have something good. Broadcast must fill three hours of prime time Sunday through Thursday leading to several crappy shows getting the green light. (To be fair Netflix and cable have their fair share of misses). To avoid another Leno situation, I think it's best that all big three networks switch to a 10 PM ET/ 9CT newscast and move the late-night talk shows up to either 10:35 or 11 PM ET. If it's industry wide, then audiences will have to adapt. Perhaps the late night talk shows such as Fallon or very late night like Corden *MIGHT* get higher TV viewership because they're on earlier.

Looks like the Today is doing cold opens before the headline preview montage now.

Is Fort Myers even that lively of a metro area to require that many newscasts? (wouldn't combine with previous post)

I thought WSVN was extreme then I saw KTLA. At least KTLA's morning product is infotainment. WSVN has a straight hard newscast in the morning time. if they can pull off Deco Drive for this long I'm sure they can try their hand at "Good Day Miami".

IMO thats the issue, more news. I'm not sure how high quality of a news product NBC News Daily will be if we use the Today Show and Nightly News as a barometer, not to mention MSNBC. Its probably going to be more of the same, COVID, Climate Change, Ukraine, Jan 6th/Trump, and Inflation, viral video, wash-rinse-repeat. Plus, I think the pessimism stems from the fact that daytime television is now beoming a vat of stale repetitive talkshows, and local news overload. As bad as soaps have become people still like the idea that a bit of traditional comfort viewing remained in daytime. If you think this is bad, WBBH NBC 2 in Ft Myers, FL barely has a daytime lineup outside of news. The only thing keeping them from a 7 PM newscast is Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!

About a two years ago I though CNN was hopeless and done for, then a few rays of light in the post Zucker era. Will CNN finally be great again? Don't want to get my hopes up because the 2024 election is right around the corner so CNN might go back to non stop Trump coverage mode. Never forget when Ted Koppel told Brian Stelter the reality of what CNN had become:

19 years ago today was the great Northeast blackout of 2003:

I was thinking of that pattern too, but I opted for the simplest split, Mon-Wed/Thu-Fri. Understandable. Profitability aside, my point was that the five new one-hour episode per week model is contributing to soaps quality struggles. Poor quality is part of the reason why audiences have drifted away from the genre. If soaps reduced their episode output and show length, that would lead to fewer *perhaps better* scripts and a smaller cast. A smaller cast means a smaller budget, more focused stories, less actors to pay, and fewer sets. Better quality might not get Luke and Laura level audiences to watch in droves but it would get some of the dedicated fans who gave up to tune in again. I'm not sure if Days of Our Lives on Peacock will have a five day or one day per week output. I'm curious to see if fans of the genre would be accepting of a one new episode per week structure.

For example CBS has two soaps. Y&R would air Mon to Wed from 1 to 1:30 and B&B would air Thu-Fri from 1-1:30. Give the affiliates that empty 30 minutes. (If this were a different time period I would say repeat that same pattern with As the World Turns and Guiding Light in that empty slot.)

Didn't MSNBC see ratings imporvement in 2015 when Andy Lack lessened the opinionated programming and ran with more (albeit biased) news. Seems backward that they would move in the opposite direction. I guess they're trying to be the leftist answer to Fox News but it hasn't worked for them when they stray too far off from news. I loved the olden days when Alex Witt took up like 5 hours on wekends with "MSNBC News Live". Back when they were partnered with msn.

The very frequent interruption of programming for "Special Reports" some of which could easily wait until scheduled newscast times, I'm sure has not helped daytime tv, especially soaps. The reports arent five minutes either, sometimes they take up a show's entire time slot with nothing but conjecture.

And it's shocking that Y&R is still #1 because any current viewer of the show knows that nothing happens: the writing is stale, uneventful, and dry comapred to the other dramas on the air. But the soap has retained alot of veteran actors and hasn't fully sent their older cast to the backburner which may have helped them keep the #1 spot.

Im surprised they wont just cancel her already. As far as I've read Hot Bench was a decent preformer in the ratings, yet they moved it to experiment with Drew Barrymore.

I love Cindy on weekends against Pat Battle and Michelle Charlesworth. I dont necessarily think a 9am newscast is the best thing for WCBS, but I think the most sensible option would be to have Cindy do 9 AM and Noon, to relieve some of the hours off of Chris and Mary (working pre 4am to about 1pm). What happens now, Drew Barrymore sliced to a half hour or Hot Bench at 9:30? Elise is more suited for a serious nighttime newscast. John Elliot has the personality of an essentric/lively morning weather person a la Al Roker, Bill Evans, Linda Church, Willard Scott, Ira Joe Fisher, etc.. it was literally nonsensical to remove him from the newscast. What was the reasoning, to follow the mostly female anchor trend in the mornings? CBS has the look, all they need is just some more lively talent and locally authentic newscasts. Fox 5 and Pix 11 are really good at feeling like really local NYC stations.