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True. We always have to strike a balance between being critics who have a more acute eye for certain things and assessing what the audience actually cares about. But If the news station dedicated a segment to draw attention to their new set it shows that they want the audience to care about it.

From working in a newsroom, they push you to be innovative and think outside of the box with stories so that we aren't just doing the same thing as the competition. Why doesn't that apply to design standards? The majority of newscasts in this country feature bland video walls with no physical set pieces, and some generic white box design for their lower thirds. Somebody switch it up please.

Sade says she's back tonight per her IG

CBS Evening News ( Dec 1989) recaps the 1980s. The Challenger disaster segment was very poignant.

Didn't know that could open! Is that a video wall with wheels or an actual door. Cool nonetheless.

The NBC and ABC live streams are now available on the same page on their website. From comparing both stations side by side, their lead stories were different, there were times when the same story was airing on both stations simultaneously like a Dollar General shooting. For the most part, the same stories were airing minutes apart on both channels. Wouldn't want any anchors to lose their jobs, but simulcasting makes sense if they want to cut costs.

I am surprised they don't already simulcast newscasts instead of having two separately branded newscasts with the same reporters, on live, at competing times. SB, just me being a nerd with OCD: it feels odd, especially in the cord cutting era, when broadcast stations brand by their cable position rather than over the air. Is it that 2 and 7 catchier numbers, or "sexier" numbers from a logo design perspective than 20 or 26?

On the surface level, I understand Nexstar's reasoning for the streaming delay: forcing people to watch the news live on TV. But that only works if every station group does it. If I can't livestream my local Nexstar affiliate what stops me from turning to my local Tegna or Gray station stream? Then again...if no TV group streamed wouldn't audiences just turn to digital video outlets? My own food for thought.

Rare clip, Today Show outdoors (1972) featuring Frank McGee and Barbara Walters

I understand on the surface level why Nexstar implemented the delay: forcing viewers to watch newscasts live. But that only works if the competition does the same. If I can't stream my local Nexstar station online, what stops me from turning into my local Hearst or Sinclair station which does? There's also less incentive to watch a newscast live If stories are clipped and uploaded to various platforms shortly after being aired. (Granted a station still benefits from impressions to their website for ad revenue) but still less incentive for live viewership.

Thanks. Meant to say Fallon but had Kimmel in my mind.

Not sure but I'm excited to see what they come up with. There are mid market stations with better sets, lighting and camera quality than WABC. Time for some change.

And now it's happened in another city with wall to wall local coverage, smh.

Christine anchored on TV as well as streaming, and it appears it was from the regular CBS studio. But when she anchored it was about 9:00 p.m. Eastern so she probably had time to go to the WCBS studio.

Good points, but i think all of American media today is a rat race to cover the same thing. CBS's attitude might be, we haven't won trying to keep up with everyone else, they can get that elsewhere, lets be different. To your point I do wonder if viewers will feel like they're missing out when watching this and turn to NBC/ABC to see what happened with say RFK Jr .

To the previous questions about how will the dual anchor pairing handle breaking news, we did not get that answer tonight. Kristine Johnson anchored coverage of the mid air collision in DC. Let's see if the new team will be on the ground tomorrow.

Someone had just brought up the Baltimore bridge collapsed to me, now this. This has not been a good year for aviation! WCBS' Kristine Johnson anchored CBS' coverage. NBC had a huge Chicago crossover going on tonight but even they interrupted limitedly, with the MSNBC bug on screen. Hallie Jackson earning her stripes again. Compared to the key bridge crash where DC stations were in Baltimore, I'm not really seeing Baltimore stations in DC for this event.

I will say the YouTube comments have been a mixed bag of positive, missing Norah and complaining that the format is too slow. I also saw one or two complaints about having two men and "no women".

Looks like WNYW is Doing a (daily?) 3 p m online news update, this one was anchored by Linda Schmidt

I wouldn't mind if they did a singular tease for their lead. Something out of NBC's playbook... Critics are also chiming in, like us Variety magazine likened the show to PBS NewsHour https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-evening-news-format-change-john-dickerson-maurice-dubois-1236288061/

CBS is showing Hollywood Squares at 2 pm ET rather than The Price is Right. This fills the gap between The Talk's cancellation and Beyond the Gates' premier.

I don't know if this was already posted, but CBS is showing Hollywood Squares at 2 pm ET rather than The Price is Right. This fills the gap between The Talk's cancellation and Beyond the Gates' premier.

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CBS has the strongest Evening News, Political Affairs, and morning shows and News Magazine journalistically speaking. I still don't understand why they/Paramount seem to be struggling much more than NBC and ABC. Hopefully people give this a chance.

@Geoffrey I think the two anchor format is just to be different from NBC & ABC. By God, this may be their best revamp since Bob Schiffer. Hopefully CBS stays the course. Loved the international coverage, more of that please Overall I think CBS shines when they do what they do best: hard documentary style/mature/intellectual reporting, not imitating the competition.