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Learning the most devastating news of his life after perhaps achieveing one of his life's dreams. Damn! RIP!

In retrospect, the move to WCBS (which is where I remember her from growing up) might have been an attractive offer, but didn't have the best outcome. If Roz still had as much popularity at the time, it would seem like they'd put her on the critical 6 and 11 PM newscasts, but That's the nature of broadcasting. Stations are often ready to put the next new face in the chair. One can say the Liz Cho move paid off as she's still with the station almost 20 years later.

These graphics are so clean and sleek. WABC needs them ASAP. WABC quite frankly has the worst graphical presentation of all the O&Os. KGO and KABC look the best IMO.

I think part of GMA's strength is that it's just two hours (consecutively) and not long and drawn out like 'Today'. I wish their NBC counterpart would just cut it to two hours. As much just disdain as I have for the news quality of GMA, they do occasionally have some good lifestyle and out of studio segments compared to Today. Plus their anchor team is stronger than Today's. Amy and TJ are also solid fill-ins and future anchors.

Wow! I always associate him with WSVN. RIP! Speaking of anchor teams... why did Roz Abrams leave WABC? i'm always surprised that she was never officially paired on a newscast with Bill Beutel, as they would've made a great team. The two were arguably station's strongest anchors at the time. WABC really had a plethora of leading male anchors. Greg Hurst, Bill Beutel, Robb Hanrahan. (Speculation but) I wonder what would've happened if Grimsby and Beutel were allowed to stay together into the 90s.

Plus why do they insist on having Kory and Tamsen --who aren't that strong of a pairing--anchor all of their newscasts.

I know this isn't the PIX thread but you are absolutely right. PIX has yet to recover from dropping Watkins and Tong on the weekdays. I think Fox 5 hasn't recovered the 10 PM slot in quality since Rosanna Scotto and moreso John Roland left the evenings. Nick, Mike, Inez and Rosanna are fine, but a major problem that the 4:30-7 slot has is it's high anchor turnover. It seems like there's a new team every 3 to 4 years. What the 7-10 slot needs is a strong Mike Jerrick, Greg Kelly, Karl Stefanovic type personality to sit next to Rosanna.

Agreed. As I've said before Lacey delivers like the kid who got picked to read in class and didn't want to. He rushes through sentences with no emotion at all. I get that Fox 5 News tries to fit as much stories into the first 10 minutes of the 10:00 news in a fast paced format, but his cadence lacks. Times have evolved but Reporters from the 60s-80s were really good at rythmic but straightforward delivery. None of Fox 5's news teams-- or newscast for that matter-- really stand out. The one thing I'll give the station is that they are really good at covering urban, hip hop, and West Indian communities.

Revisiting the final years of the Oprah show, it's amazing how well produced it was in terms of aesthetic. Talk shows today look so washed out and cheap. The bright lighting has not helped declining budgets in the age of HD at all. Outside of the quality of the show Oprah generally had the best aesthetic look of all the talk shows at the time. The video walls here blend in nicely. I like how the producers use the portrait effect to blur the background. The lighting isn't too harsh and the high definition looks smooth. It's amazing how far things have gone downhill since 2010 for daytime TV.

WABC has always struggled graphics and studio wise but their current look is just bad. Even their 90s L3's had a pixelated look about them that was below the compeition:

Sad. She was pretty good.

Lol!

She gives a supunkier version of Jodi Applegate vibes.

Surprised to see ABC using the bulletin branding as late as 2004. I wonder when they completely dropped using that and just stuck to special report. Special Report is a little overused for repeating events such as the impeachment trial or January 6 hearings. The live coverage designation, like back in the day, would be better suited for such events.

I'm surprised Fox 5 sought outside talent to fill the Wake Up slot with outside talent. Reagan Medgie seemed like the perfect fit for an AM anchor position.

good that dan has a co anchor for the full block now. the formatting of GDNY was strange for a while. hopefully bianca will be with ro until 10am.

Is this a dreamNever thought I'd see the day anytime soon!

Agreed! "Happening Now" works just fine if newscasts need some false urgency. While we're at it, can we stop overusing "breaking overnight", speaking in half sentences, overdramatizing "severe" weather that happens all the time and using the present tense for everything. Don't get me wrong, news always needs a little spice of drama but these days we've just gone over the moon.

Looks like Bill is reporting from home.

Im surprised Fox National broke into local morning news for the Queen's Jubilee and ABC and CBS didn't.

Norah O Donnel off on two critical nights. Is she on vacation or sick?

History of Channel 7 Miami. Loved the affiliation change and "news station" revamp portions.

This set was much better than the cheap blue looking one that followed it. Nothing beats their 1992-95ish set though!

Ch 4 is my go to station for NY and I consider them the next best after Eyewitness News, but it does feel discombobulated at times. The transparent desk and topical video wall cheapens their on air look. Not to mention Studio 3K was already a downgrade from 3C. A studio upgrade really neeed to accompany their graphical update. Their anchor lineups seem mixed up.(Not that the average viewer cares but..) on Today in New York, one day Michael or Darlene is solo, the next they're together. I would think if someone is off or on vacation WNBC would get a substitute to help tackle the 3 hour broadcast. The same with Weekend TINY. David & Natalie anchoring 4, 7, and 11pm solo with no clear pattern of who anchors what newscast. I'm sure Chuck could handle an extra half hour so they could at least utilize him for 7pm as well. Obviously there's no rule in stone that a local newscast must have dual anchors, but the chemistry between partners on-air really does lift a broadcast.

I wish networks industry wide could just take a stand and make all content hard factual news, so audiences have little option but to consume it. But I guess that won't happen so here we are...