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On 9/26/2022 at 8:55 PM, Tyler said:

I would argue that an evening news program is best suited in DC versus NYC.

On 9/26/2022 at 10:27 PM, mrschimpf said:

Not to derail, but I always though the true World News Tonight format of London/New York/Washington/Chicago was perfect, though it didn't really account well for the West Coast just because of satellites at the time, and then when everyone shifted to New York, East Coast Bias became too overwhelming. Then CNN bailed out of Atlanta (itself a developing city) once TW bought it, and lost its way to become another ECB outpost. DC is just way overcovered as it is.

 

Like the "TOM" problem of Canadian news where everything along the 401/A20 is over-covered to death and establishing a Vancouver evening news presence just hasn't worked, I'd love to see a true Western Edition, from Los Angeles. Maybe we'll get that this decade; they already have begun to air the Eastern feed live, so that seems like the next natural step.

Not to derail x2, but how did NYC come to be the center of national broadcast news?

Hope this is true. Sibila was pretty good and would be a welcome re-addition to the evenings rather than the over reliance on David and Natalie. I'd like to see her with adam at 5 and maybe Chuck at 7:00pm. 

On 11/2/2022 at 7:35 AM, MorningNews said:

And really I bet that was more Lori’s request. Wasn’t she aiming for an evening spot at channel 7?

Was there an opening for her though? Stokes left before Diana Williams retired, which would've been the only evening vacancy. 

Indiewire says CNN will start cutting back on documentaries as a cost-cutting measure. This, I'm actually disappointed about this because their documentaries are pretty good. 'The Story of Late Night' was extremely well done.

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/10/cnn-documentary-series-warner-bros-discovery-1234777123/?_gl=1*l7yl52*_ga*YW1wLXlfU1pBTUJiNDRkd004c1JubHlzOC1NbnI5ck9EbFdWcy14Z3d4cmpYbHBFdnZMNnBmM2ZMalVqeGNnZEVZbmk.

I dont mind the iconic 1a pulling double duty, but its current incarnation doesnt look good. It's barely even a set, just a barren vat of video walls. 

18 hours ago, MorningNews said:

Wasn’t American Morning’s slogan “the most news in the morning”? Seems akin to their promise to provide all the news needed in 10-15 minutes.

Not limited to CNN but when Today and GMA rush through stories in the first half hour it leaves the rest of the broadcast with fluff or repetition. Not to mention the exagurated urgency and ADHD level pacing of trying to fit stories into a minute or so. 

23 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

Here’s the intro:

 

 

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.

30 minutes ago, MorningNews said:

He and Dari together were abysmal.

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 10/26/2022 at 9:24 AM, bpatrick said:

I fail to see what is so confusing about my thinking. Any NBC affiliate manager in his/her right mind would want to run local news at 10/9 because of the potentially larger audiences and revenues.  The only problem I could see would be on Saturdays if SNL were to move to 11/10 and, in the fall,  a football game was still in progress. What time would SNL start? Sundays, I think NBC affiliates would gladly let NFL games run over so they could inherit their large audiences.  Personally, I would be good with a 10 PM local newscast (after all, if I ran a station in the Central or Mountain time zones I'd have one anyway).  And I don't give a rip what NBC does with Fallon.

 

It won't surprise me if, within the next decade or so, NBC is streaming the majority of its programming on Peacock, and all this is going to be a moot point.  I am thoroughly convinced that, although I may not live to see it, daytime and prime time entertainment shows will go online just as the network radio shows of the '30s, '40s, and early '50s moved either to television or off the air altogether.

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. 

On 10/15/2022 at 2:32 AM, tyrannical bastard said:

If NBC really wants to cut an hour, do we really need FOUR hours of Today?

 

Yes, it's news and in the morning, but i'm sure the affiliates wouldn't mind getting an hour or two back in the AM.

Maybe ditch the 9am hour and make Hoda & Jenna it's own show.  Megyn Kelly should have spelled the end of that timeslot.

Hoda & Jenna's show can go as well. 

On 8/26/2022 at 5:49 PM, NowBergen said:

This worked so well last time.  Worse, many 10 pm shows are top rated shows.  Chicago Wednesdays and Law & Order Thursdays would become half days?  Bad idea.

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.

On 10/18/2022 at 10:07 PM, FiveNews said:

I agree. Watched a few episodes of Today in LA when Lynette took over. It seems like the Today in LA cast is trying to be more like KTLA- personality driven. It doesn't work with the cast currently constructed...comes across as a little fake. I hope they gel in the coming weeks and the growing pains can be worked out. 

thought I was the only one that noticed that!

On 10/10/2022 at 1:11 AM, IceManNYR said:

The first episdoe of the new Showtime series "Let the Right One In" uses a simulated newscast from WCBS.

reminds me of their earlier 2010s L3 which I like much better than the current ones. They were much cleaner and slicker. 

On 10/18/2022 at 9:14 AM, nycnewsjunkie said:

Long overdue IMO. Not that Dana wasn’t a good solo anchor, but Dick Brennan deserves the spot. This also helps on days when one of them is off; the other anchor can just do it solo instead of having the 5pm team fill in.

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). 

On 9/14/2022 at 7:28 AM, NowBergen said:

Really?  This looks like a tiny virtual set up for now.  I have no problem IMO with how 3K looks, however, at this point they will not be making changes (including the desk which is what most don't like) since they will be moving to half of 3B sometime next year.  I suspect some of what WMAQ just did will filter into both the WNBC and Telemundo 47 sets that are relocating to 3B.

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.