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I think so! GH which will now be the lowest rated soap on tv may be the next to go after it's 60th. Either to Hulu or outright cancelled. CBS has always been more celebratory of it's soaps in recent years, but eventually Y&R and B&B will go to either to Paramount + or off the air totally.

Just realizing that with DAYS gone, NBC Daytime has finally collapsed after years of faltering behind CBS and ABC in terms of soaps especially. It's amazing that cable was touted as the next big thing only to fall apart in just a few years once Netflix began streaming original content. Cable was like CDs & DVDs... replaced VCR/casettes only to not last as long because streaming took over.

Do we see NBC News Daily lasting? ABC's The Chew and The Revolution are both gone. Surpisingly CBS has held down the Talk and Lets Make a Deal (replacements for As the World Turns & Guiding Light) for over a decade now. Yet another hour of news covering assuredly the same topics, or another celebrity guest talk show isn't really needed either, but we still have it. The only way I could see soaps surviving is if they're truncated to 30 minutes two or three days a week with cast trimmings, rather than a hard five day a week one hour model.

Late but, after seeing this TMZ interview it's pretty evident why Wendy Williams was absent from her show's final episode.

That Jay Scott has a great announcer's voice! Rolanda Watts great as always, wish she would have became a bigger newscaster outside of the talk show. WNBC was really graphically solid during the early 1990s.

Agreed! If we're gonna get more news, mix up the formatting at least!

WOW! After 57 years. I always knew that Days would be the first to go in the final 4 soaps, being that it had the worst budget among them. The lighting was at it's cheapest point and sets kept getting smaller and more repetitive. Storylines (like all sopas) were in a bad state. At least this isn't a full blown cancelation, and the idea of soaps on streaming might be more acceptable this time around versus when All My Children and One Life to Live tried it in 2013. As soaps continue to go the way of the dodo bird, I doubt that more news and more short term talk shows are the answer. As for the news we will get, it'll be more of the same: inflation, January 6th, COVID, the supreme court and pop culture. No unique international coverage, just wash rinse repeat. As for B&B, it should stay at 30 minutes. Soaps should've never been expanded to an hour , due to the amount of scripts and budgetary constraints. I don't think CBS wants to mess with Y&R's 12:30 time slot as it's still the number one rated soap (if that's still worth something) and O&O newscasts aren't top performers.

Lollllllllll! Why isnt Bianca included in the 9am hour? Unless Fox 5 wants to keep the rotating guest host format?

Probably posted already but this is the one of the earliest WNBC newscasts I've ever seen online. Eastern Airlines crash & more local news from 1975. Featuring Churck Scaborough, Tom Snyder & Dr. Frank Field Earliest NYC newscast I've seen overall. WCBS (1965) featuring Robert Trout.

Chrlamagne that God and Rosanna were good this morning for the discussion segments. I like that the other anchors gave dry opinions without getting into full blown opinionated debate. Has anyone noticed how stretched out and pixelated the Central Park skyline background behind the ice cream sandwich couches are?

That's not necessarily a bad thing. News overkill is done to the death on alot of stations with nothing but repeats, fluff and the same stories every other station is doing. Then again I suppose the point of more hours of news is not to get the same audience watching continuously for hours but the ability to have different audiences tune in at multiple points during the day for news at almost any time of day.

I'm not liking the trend of filling programming gaps with news news news to the point of fluff and repeats.

I wonder what the guest line up of Jennifer's show will look like. Kelly Clarkson was pulling in A list level guests similar to Ellen, I wonder if Husdon will be able to as well. As upset as I was at Steve Harvey's cancelation, The Kelly Clarkson Show has proved to be a delight with decent production values. Sherri Shepard I suppose will feature relality stars like Wendy's show did, unless her line up will be more similar to Nick Cannon's. Are we feeling the prospect of 9am and 3pm newscasts??

Funny, I also had Marcia Kramer (and John Elliott) in mind as the exception to the rule. I second your point about the emphasis on 2's Westchester & Long Island whereas PIX 11 & Fox 5 feel more borough oriented. "CBS News New York Now on WLNY" is a mouth full and doesnt roll off the tounge. CBS 2 News really bounced back from 2007 onwards after about 10 years of mess, but it seems like they're just going back down the same rabbit hole again. On the bright side, CBS 2 has the best set and video wall in the market.

idk who opted for it to be replaced by the current 5 second trash intro.

As I said before CBS local's problem is that it feels like a generic corporate model duplicated across many cities with no uniqueness to individual cities. Even though NBC ABC and Fox all replicate models across O&O's, each station has its own distinct feel. Fox 29's Mike Jerrik is uniquely Philly as Fox 5's Greg and Rosanna were uniquly New York. WNBC stands apart from WTVJ because of its use of Rockefeller Center and the christmas tree, ice skating rink and close residence with national NBC News. Not to mention the CBS local reporters (especially in NYC) don't stand out and just seem like transplants from different markets.

Breifly at 15:35, Church Scarborough fills in for Brian Williams on Weekend Nightly News in 1995.

6:00 is an understandably preferable slot as it's not too early or late of a shift and it's the lead in to the evening news. I like how strong of a role Bill Ritter still plays (despite some of his on air commentary) given that once anchors reach a particular age their role slows down. I actually had no idea Ritter was was in his 70s until he started graying. To bring it back to WNBC, I hope to see Chuck at 6 for as long as possible!

*IF that was the case, the top brass --or any job for that matter-- is gonna want more for their money than just 30 mins for $2 Mil. (recognizing that anchors do more off camera as well). Then again Chuck also does just 30 minues now. Across markets, 6:00 seems to be the place where they plant vets who aren't ready to hang it up yet. Chuck Scarborough, Bill Ritter, Ernie Anastos (retired now), Dana Tyler, Jim Gardner in Philly, Bill Beutel back in the day. I assumed 6 PM was the most critical afternoon newscast but it seems like 5 (and 10/11pm) is where stations put their "fresh, newer" faces these days.

Sheba and Sibila were pretty decent anchors, and I though Sheba was good with Tom Llamas, but Sue Simmons didnt need to go. Sue should still be with Chuck weeknights at 6 (and maybe even 7) up to this day. Chuck has not had a stable partner to this day. Add to that anchor lineup these days is pretty scattered with Natalie and David individually anchoring 14 different newscasts. Out of curiosity, why was just Sue axed and not Chuck aswell? I remember Sue kept saying in her last broadcast "I hope to find employment elsewhere", which made it clear she did not want to go. Overall that was a major NY broadcasting blunder along with eighty-sixing Jim & Kaity on PIX weeknights.

Yes! i'm curious to see My 9's numbers. I wonder if later hour reruns of Fox 5 talk shows gives them a bump. For example, being able to see Wendy Williams at 4 o'clock because you're missed it at 10 AM.

Earnie Anastos 25th anniversary tribute video from the mid 2000s! Nostalgic seeing all the old New York anchor teams from back then

Was Dari's removal ever officially explained? On that note, was Earnie ready to go or was he pushed pushed out? Lori is is solid news woman but IMO Eyewitness News was a better fit for her. It's like Roz. Abrams at CBS 2 verses ABC 7. Same person, same ability, just different stations. Her and Sukanya's departures from their respective stations were really a seismic shift in the mornings.

I've said before, given CBS's history of a revolving door of morning shows, i'm not sure it makes sense to rebrand their local newscasts around a national morning show that may not see the end of the decade. Off-topic but, they should've just stuck with "CBS This Morning" as they already had it going for about 9 years. EDIT: the rebrand to be more aligned with CBS Sunday Morning could've just as easily been done with the og CTM branding. Agreed that "Mornings" sounds like a programming block more than an actual newscast title. The layman viewer probably just thinks of "Mornings" as The Gayle King Morning Show.