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I know it was the first respectable amount of snow in 2 years but did the accumulation totals warrant bringing in the weekday team?

Outside of Good Day New York, Fox 5 needs to change up it's other anchor lineups, besides what they're doing right now. I would say take some talent from other stations but they tried that with Lori and Sukanya. Perhaps they could try mixing up their newscast formatting. WTTG and WOFL are good examples.

But I see what @GodfreyGR was getting, at. It seems both shows are always on past the point of caring anymore, much like The Voice on NBC and The Bachelor on ABC. I don't fault CBS for sticking to what works, but their routine of recycled police procedural franchises and comedies becomes repetitive and generic. I was also surprised at HBO's ratings were that low despite the critical acclaim of a lot of their shows.

As much as I like Sam, and as much star power as he brings to the weatherman role, as an employer I would just get someone who can work full-time rather than hiring a sixth meteorologist. More power to him though for getting that schedule and getting decent time off that a lot of us would wish to have.

Not surprised that they're making changes. While Rosanna and Bianca/Lori got the job done, the pairing wasn't pulling enough to make me tune in like the Greg years. The show has yet to recover. Being that Greg was just going to leave in a few years after returning to GDNY, Dave Price might as well have stayed put. I wonder what made them select Curt? Really interested to see how this goes and I'm glad Fox gave an older anchor a chance. WNYW must be paying him the big bucks! It seems like a lot to fly bi-coastal every week but people do it. Made the mistake of reading the comment section on the New York Post article, yikes at the racism. Sports anchor added to a morning show seems to be a trend in NYC with Strahan and Burleson. Joe Garigiola on Today paved the way.

HLN tied with HBO, I didn't think HLN had that many viewers. CBS dethrowned as most watched! No surprise that kids television isn't doing well. I recently saw Adult swim on Cartoon Network on at 5 PM which used to air around 10. Articles I read up say it's because they're going more for their adult audience since kids aren't watching. It sucks, but well before screaming became a cultural mainstream none of the kids networks produced a consistent class of hit shows since about 2013. How much profit in commercials can TV networks realistically make with less than 500,000 viewers? I guess if those numbers can work for social media/youtube it might stand for television?

Good Day Atlanta is 75 hours long so she could definately fit in there.

Haven't had a chance to sit down and watch KTLA recently. Is most of their heavy news output (outside of mornings) panel/discussion/interview based, or is it regular packages and vo/sots on repeat?

With local news, occupying much of local station's schedules, surprisingly stations havent adopted a cable like discussion model (minus the arguing) to fill airtime. Much of what I've seen are straight vo/sots and packages. I wonder how much of KTLA's heavy news product is discussion based--outside of mornings?

Over the year in general and during the holidays. In the past few years the station had some major talent departures: John Favole, Roxanne Stein and Kelly Dunn. Their current set is very barren compared their their superior previous set. I'll say WPBF 25 is probably the best product in the market right now... (though according to their website, they only have half the number of reporters that 5 and 12 do).

Caught some of WPTV/WFLX's newscasts. The quality is not the same as years past. The packages --based on online employee reviews and observation-- appear to be heavily MMJ and have a college-ish short documentary feel to them. There are a lack of live shots, which is fine compared to sister market Miami where unnecessary live shots are rampant. There were about 5 or 6 in WPLG 's 11 pm A block.

Im surprised I haven't seen some station anchors go the work from home route for the holidays

It's always cool to see field reporters like Tony Aiello and Dave Carlin anchor over the holidays.

Agreed. Let's be fair. People work 300+ days out of the year. I see no issue in setting aside a few holidays for rest. We really need to drop our live to work attitude. Let's be reasonable. One of seven stations slashed a news block designed for people waking up for work, where not many are going during America's biggest holiday. That's totally fine. On a day like Christmas, all you really need is morning news starting late, and 10/11pm. Previewing the day and end of the day wrap up. Christmas is typically a slow news day. In the internet age, skipping a newscast is nothing. Even Today and GMA usually go pre recorded on Christmas with a live headline insert. I'd say it's cool to see the world pause, even the always on TV institutions, for just ONE day. Empathy. The notion that because someone works in news they don't deserve to be with their family and should be at work on a day with below average ratings and dry content is overkill.

I think HSV means tv channel affiliation.

Agreed. And let that mindset be a warning to anyone thinking about entering the industry. If you have to move away from home, don't do it unless you have enough savings to carry you through a few contracts of small market sweatshop pay. Being on tv is not worth being working poor. This applies to almost every job, not just news: your job does not care about you. You are just a number. Ideally, companies would exist for the shared wealth of every one involved. Realistically they're set up to befit the owners, share/stakeholders, and to a lesser extent the customer. The employees be damned. People realizing this has feuled the "great resignation". On top of all this, employers will cry of a labor shortage while being highly selective despite paying low...back on topic. I used to be turned off by big-name anchors demanding huge salaries. Now I see you have to squeeze these companies for as much as you can get because they'll pay you as little as possible given the chance.

John just like Marcia Kramer and a few others have what CBS o&o's need more of...uniqueness and personality. This in contrast to the the clean corperate Spectrum News feel that they're going for.

Oh no.

Agreed. The new color scheme, logo, and anchor desk are all pretty decent. The branding is questionable. I'd call this a better looking WANF. I'm not against the use of red as main station colors but it conveys unncessary urgency just like the "First Alert" branding.

Bialik and Jennings were pretty good. Found it strange that they opted for alternating dual hosts, but it worked. Bialik aside, Jeopardy had a gargantuan task in filling Trebek's shoes, unfortunately it seems any successor candidate has come under intense public scrutiny. It's just a gameshow hosting job, not the presidency, give the new host a chance.

EDIT: Agree to disgree. I'd like to think of this as ideaological back and forth rather than spamming. To it's credit, News Daily much like NBC News Now is a straightforward newscast. Something MSNBC and the rest of cable news could use more of. It's just one of too many newscasts. As a longtime soap watcher my self I can see why networks would have to cancel them. Ratings are low, they're expensive, the demos are old, they've been in a crap quality production and writing state for years. They aren't exmept from a lack of creativity, you are totally right that they're running on auto pilot. Watching B&B you'd almost think the writers were deliberately trying to get the soap axed. Ideally we could salvage them though a number of methods but that is unlikely. The crux of my ranting is...if or WHEN soaps do get cancelled, can you find something, anything, other than another newscast (or infomercials) to replace them. I say this as someone working in news, watching the trajectory of the industry turn journalism into time filler, not just as a disgruntled viewer that's "bashing news". But alas we are all free to watch whatever we want on streaming---to the detriment of linear TV, and myself a linear tv employee.

All I can say is, If a job insists on paying people near minimum wage, stop asking them for experience or a degree. We have a major issue in this country with employers demanding ready-made employees, ripe with experience or education, yet no salary to back it up.

Sidebar: Given the cheap quality of both their products —as well as Sinclair's media bias — these companies need to be nowhere near owning a broadcast network.

Hope I haven't veered too far from NN Daily. *Network executives keep soely pointing to (rather saying blame) shifts in viewing habits without recognizing bad writing plays a role. If you look at the trend of when viewers started leaving soaps--the mid 90s--that's when alot of bad writing trends began, in addition to the OJ trial, shifting viewing habits, etc. "If there was some magic formula for success and a profitable bottom line, someone would be trying it. Millions upon millions of dollars overall are at stake, people's jobs are at stake. No one is just sitting around ordering up another hour from the news division on a whim or so they can get out the door in time to make it to happy hour." --- I would like to belive that, but it's clear, whatever sells milk it. We see it in the movies with heavily recycled franchises and now we see it on tv with news. Not to stray too off topic but As for soaps, they don't have to be five days weekly. They've locked themselves into that model. As we can see having one hour scripted content five days a week with no summer break is an expensive model that is collapsing. If they did Y&R Mon to Wed and one hour B&B Thu/Fri *might* work. You are absolutely right, tastes do change, but the appetite for serialized drama is still there as we see with streaming. Y&R just got a ratings bump from bringing back old characters, showing that there is still an interest (the demo is a different story). All in all, the worse programing gets, the remaining viewers will also turn away and networks heads will still point to streaming as the only reason they can't pull an audience. Just like cable execs keep citing cord cutting as the only reason for it's collapse, without acknowledging the loss of niche programming and poor content. NBC News Daily is just symptomatic of a larger programming issue. We saw it with the over proliferation of soaps, talk shows, and cable dramas. The bubble burst and the same is likely to happen for news.

I respect your 'life is unfair so buck up and keep going' attitude but these news heads don't dererve the magnanomousness you are affording them. The journalists making the product (news) that's being sold, deserve to benefit in it's profits aswell. I'm not saying a reporter needs to be paid $300K, but there is no excuse for a television news job requiring a bachelor's degree to pay the salary a teenager can get at Dunkin Doughnuts. At the end of the day, journalists don't have to go into the industry...but again, no journalism isn't exactly great for democracy.