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exactly what went down, contract renewal issues?

Ken Rosado filling in on a weekend!

I haven't watched a lot of KTLA recently, but I hear it's not what it used to be? does the news expansion have anything to do with that? Facts!!!

in this day and age, I sadly doubt the networks are going to put a canceled soap back on the air.

Pre WABC Sandra Bookman at another major ABC station, WSB!

John is a solid political reporter and analyst. That role best suits him moreso than anchor.

Cool! Didn't Marcia have a public affairs show back in the day aswell! Looks like WCBS looks like did local coverage for the first half hour of the the Queen's funeral at 5:30 AM, then went with network coverage. Their local news is on WLNY right now.

Well dayum! That was unexpected! To think at one point Fox 5 had Lori Stokes, Greg Kelly (pre Lori), Sukanya Krishnan and Rosanna Scotto on the morning block alone. The well is really running dry these days at Fox 5.

What did CNN have before American Morning? Personally CNN should just stick to hard news in the morning, maybe with an international slant. Whether that would be competitive with Morning Joe or Fox & Friends remains to be seen. Hopefully whatever they try isn't as opinionated as New Day.

Kenneth Starr died today at 76. Dannotchnewsvideos posted a compilation of reports from the early days of the Lewinsky Scandal. I suppose this is the new name for the JFK1963videos channel.

You literally took the words right out of my mouth. The program looks and feels like an early morning national newscast. Random unknown anchors that differ based on time zone, and cheap lower thirds. To it's credit the program does look better aesthetically and graphics wise than GMA 3. It was very poetic that the final scene of Days of our Lives was interrupted by a special report, lol. What a lackluster finale that was for Days. No speech at the beginning of the episode thanking fans for the years of watching, or trying to usher them to Peacock. Just business as usual with no grand finale or excitement. As much as we hate on these replacement daytime shows, soaps have not been doing much to help themselves in the past few years.

That video background has a little too much depth, too much going on. Again it's just more of the same: Trump, inflation, COVID and now the Queen. In this era of news saturation, it's every station clamoring to cover the same thing rather than aiming for some streak of uniqueness. I can't act like Days of Our Lives was in the best condition before it got taken off the air, but it will be missed. I wonder how long Dateline at 1 PM will last.

9/11/2002 coverage. looks like all big three networks ran an all day long retrospective on the attacks. NBC Townhall style coverage ABC Barbara Walters takes over coverage from Peter Jennings (9/14/01) at 3:30:05. Cool to see Barabara at the anchor desk in the 2000s.

Shaw's former CNN co-anchor Judy Woodruff's PBS Coverage:

While the world mourns the Queen, this is also breaking today. RIP Bernard Shaw. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2022/09/08/cnn-first-anchor-bernard-shaw-pioneering-black-journalist-dies-82/8023262001/ https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/08/media/bernard-shaw-obituary/index.html

Presumably WCBS coverage of the Newark race riots (1967) https://youtu.be/4yUYaAiWZpw

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.

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.

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.