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Speculation, but I'm sure Sam would love to have his GMA job back. He took a chance on the weather channel gig, much like Josh Elliott the grass wasn't greener on the other side. At least Sam has the good position of AM metrologist for the #1 station in the #1 market. It's crazy how brief and how long ago that era of team Robin, George, Lara, Josh, Sam was. They were a good team. Has the news reader been filled since Amy was let go? ABC might aswell put Michael or Lara in that role instead of adding another person to the lineup.

Can she take Tamsen's spot as evening anchor anchor instead please.

The KPIX Late News format feels like trying to add a sprinkle of seasoning to otherwise bland food. CBS still cannot shake this inauthentic corporate looking format that they have on their local stations. Other than anchor personality, background music choices, graphics and how they write when they report all contribute to the "spice" of a station. Tegna has this issue to. KTLA is a good example of a station that has cookie cutter corporate elements but still manages to have its own individualistic spark. Fox O&Os are also somewhat good at this too.

Cool to see Stacy Ann back in the mornings as she had Inez's job on GDNY.

Lol, The agenda will be complete once WCBS gets the rebrand.

WCBS's best graphic pagace and set look. They really gutted this after 1995. The "2 News" era also looked pretty good.

Why not just have Chris anchor 4 & 5 and Mr G 6, 6:30 and 10? I know they usually mix-and-match timeslots for anchors but meteorologist is unusual. Who anchors NY Living Now? These days you don't really have time to get used to talent arrangements as things switch up so rapidly.

Newsroom was fine. Was hoping they'd get back to an actual Newsroom look. Guess this goes with the reinvention.

the subway tile is a nice detail. very creative.

Wait, I thought they were referring to the stations as "CBS News ANYTOWN" at all times, even outside of newscasts. Otherwise "CBS News Detroit" during newscasts and "CBS Detroit" during regular programming works fine. Hopefully they drop the "Afternoon Edition at 5/6" branding. It's too wordy. Try CBS News Texas at 6 or CBS Evening News: Texas. Something less clunkly.

Let's see how it looks. So far WTTG looks like the best in the market.

The majority of these are valid points. I get the idea behind a younger host but as we see with figures like Alex Trebek or Lee Lin Chin on SBS Australia, if the host is "hip enough" or carries that nostalgia factor, they'll also resonate with younger viewers. Plus marketing the experience of veteran anchors like Jim Gardner did might help. I also think presenting the news from an educational standpoint (a condensed version of explanatory journalism like various youtube channels and VOX, on top some positive --but not fluff --story choices might attract viewers. EDIT: I'm game, so longs as CBS doesn't dumb down the product to appeal to a younger audience (Today & GMA)

WNBC Live at Five intro (1994). Great synergy with the main NBC as Matt was Today's newsreader and the 5:00 show was broadcast from Studio 1A. I wish WNBC stuck with the Live at 5 format. Despite great aesthetics and decent talent WNBC saw a decline in the late 2007 before picking back up around 2012. They didn't have a noon or 5pm newscast for a while. Still curious as to the factors behind the afternoon block switch ups.

Those 2-3 pm and 7-7:30 slots are entertainment news shows produced by KTLA 5 so 7:30 pm is truly their only free daytime slot. All Live! Not even NY 1 is live all day.

Jodi Applegate was a capable talent who would've worked on another timeslot, not at the expense of Jim & Kaity. She could've been a great successor to Suki on Morning News. WPIX could have tried new formatting without dismantling it's set and placing the newscast in their cheap looking newsroom. The poor mobile immitation graphics made things worse. They should have at least remodeled the newsroom to make it broadcast friendly, something of a CityPulse news look. SB: Why does Jodi bounce around networks so frequently? She's a stong enough talent to put down roots at a station.

That was the confusing part for me. Hazel Sanchez (to my recollection) was always a reporter and never in an anchor much less light banter personality role. What made them see Hazel specifically and think to swap her for Betty in the critical AM slot? Not a knock on her, just curious. Do you all think the WPIX Morning News has improved in the post Sukanya era? Personally I think the show was at it's best when John Muller was anchor along with Lynn White and later Suki. Outside of Frances Rivera, I don't think any of Suki's later pairings clicked. The team of Jill Nicolini, Larry Hoff, Linda Church etc, were all great additions. At least 11's trying to get back to that team atmosphere now. Overall, I'll give PIX a slight edge, but them and Good Day New York aren't particularly strong right now.

They should reverse the naming so it doesn't sound excessively long like CBS' O&Os "PIX 11 NewsNation at 6" flows better. "PIX 11 NewsNation's Kaity Tong is in Midtown with the latest."

Do we have an explanation as to why Pix axed her?

Looks like Today is returning to some 2013 camera angles. The mixed utilization of this angle and the window is cool rather than one way for the entire broadcast. Overall though the studio needs to be redone. Can't believe it's going on 10 years since Today's reformatting! The set reversed course from an orange rebrand back to baby blue. IMO orange/gold hues with window frames, lamps, cityscape wallpaper and monitors looked better:

Hopefully they don't tinker with the background too much. WCBS has the best set and background in the market.

Minus the L3 boxes, looks like an improvement

Fair points. I wonder, does the public think what we get now is quality journalism or are they just consuming the best of a bad situation (WNT and GMA being #1)? Though standards have dropped, even less media savy people complain about CNN & FNC so there is some understanding of good versus bad--even if they aren't basing their opinions off the Cronkite era like us. Maybe I'll die alone on this hill alone, but there must to be a way to cultivate a modern day audience around a better quality product while being profitable.

Network news now is in the business of ADHD pacing and high story count. Cram 'em with as much dumbed down info as possible in the shortest amount of time to sustain their shrinking attention spans. This is a tall order but all media needs to collectively slow things down a bit. How fast can we really go as a society. All of this tik-tok level pacing we consume is giving us collective attention defecit. It's coming not just at the expense of quality journalism but how we process information.

It's too much, too chaotic, too loud and cheap looking. At least the long WNT open is just David introducing multiple stories one at a time. The CBS This Morning eye opener was good, they should have played off of that more. The Evening News was always faster paced, going back to the Rather days. At least they were well written, didn't overuse present tense, didn't seem like they were shouting, and didn't splash "Breaking News" over everything. I miss the days of the one story cold open, intro, then cut to anchor. If we have to introduce muliple stories the Bob Schiffer era did it well:

Big names as substitute anchors: Ed Bradley in for Bob Schieffer (1980) Katie Couric in for Tom Brokaw (2000) Brian Williams in for Meredith Vieira (approx 2008)