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My early guess is that the peacock logo goes so viewers still don't associate it with NBC. 

1 minute ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Methinks Nexstar wants that shot that way so it shows off all of their branding in one shot.

 

But the "only one person in the studio" could ring true as well.

On 1/10/2025 at 7:10 PM, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

I thought they started on that and would push in. No. That's terrible. I'm guessing the anchor is the floor director or they don't even have one anymore.

From what I've seen in midsize markets, the anchor is the only one in the studio. The cameras are robotic, and no one is on the floor. 

The 4th Hour goodbye I thought was the best part of the Hoda tributes.

AT 6:31, Didn't realize "4 New York" jingles occured during the News Channel 4 era.

With Hoda Kotb and New Orleans in the news, here's Hoda Kotb anchoring WWL 4 News (1992).

Final Hoda & Jenna FULL SHOW....sidebar the 4th hour is 29 minutes worth of commercials!

NBC's Fire and Ash: Devastation in LA was a really comprehensive break down of the entire situation. I especially liked the beginning In which Lesther narrated the timeline of how the fires started and got their names. Keith Morrisons poetic editorial on the magic of LA was especially poignant.

3 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

WVLA/WGMB now goes by Louisiana First News. It has taken the WKRN route in terms of the graphics.

 

https://www.brproud.com/news/fox-44-nbc-33-news-is-now-louisiana-first-news/

 

Pardon my OCD, but if the shot is going to be that wide she might as well be centered at the desk.

Also, the L3 ribbon does not align with the Local 33 logo bug.

The Louisiana First News branding feels very Gray Television.

Studio loks great though.

5 minutes ago, NYAZSporty said:

CBS did have DuBois on the ground for tonight's CBS Evening News. 

 

Nice!

On 1/8/2025 at 10:29 PM, Georgie56 said:

Norah’s last newscast has moved up a day due to golf.
 

 

With everything popping off in the news from Jimmy Carter's funeral, to the Trump sentencing, to the LA wildfires, in hindsight this would have been the perfect start for the new news team. 

If they aren't already, it would be smart to have either DuBois or Dickerson on the ground reporting from the fires or  the other two major events to ease their audience in.

It's hard to believe this anchor transition is happening in just over two weeks.

1 hour ago, MorningNews said:

Hoda’s farewell today might one of the more lowkey ones the show has done decades.

Today has been getting less grand as the years go by. The plaza is shown less. The 70th anniversary was very low-key. 

47 minutes ago, newsdude said:

Times have changed. That's no longer the case for most local anchors.

Wow!

And To clarify I assumed anchors were still picked up in BIG markets. Mid to small markets definitely not. 

17 hours ago, GraphicsMan said:

WABC did take a break in the overnight hours when 9/11 happened. In fact they weren’t even on 24/7.

Yeah a lot of money will be lost in ad revenue. But they have big budgets though this ain’t some smaller market station.

I was wondering the exact same thing, especially in this era of broadcast cutbacks: How much do no commercials impact them? 

Not only that, commercials also serve as a moment for staff to gather themselves and take a breather. But again in the grand scheme of things the fires are more important. 

When record keepers say 9/11 had the "longest continuous coverage"  I wonder if they're specifically referring  to the major broadcast television networks, and perhaps the news cable networks.

Has anyone else had trouble accessing KTLA's coverage online? I'm getting a whole bunch of commercials and a logo screen on their webstream, and I'm not seeing a live stream on their YouTube like the other stations. I wonder if this is Nexsar being Nexstar. 

Around 7:43 AM PT, I noticed GDLA anchors Melvin Robert and Jen Lahmers getting openly opinionated and frustrated with LA Mayor Karen Bass about the lack of support for firefights and the predictability of this catastrophe. 

5 hours ago, CraigViewer said:

As a lifelong resident in the Los Angeles media market, the past 30-plus hours has been some of the best coverage from all L.A. local television stations I've seen ever!  Essentially, all local stations have had continous coverage and have bypassed network programming since the morning hours Monday.

I wonder if this will break 9/11's record for longest continuous coverage.

I really hope this tragic event underscores to the public the importance of broadcast local news, and local tv journalists, and why would not necessarily serve us to have institutions like these go away.

On 1/7/2025 at 6:50 AM, NowBergen said:

Companies will see the MTA Money Grab as a cost of doing business, just like regular tolls on bridges, tunnels, parkways and turnpikes.  As long as Disney (Paramount, NBCU, Nexstar, oops, I mean Mission and Fox) reimburse employees when covering stories the impact is more palatable to producing and on air staff.  The one's getting hurt are those that have to commute into the city via private vehicles that don't normally get reimbursed for tolls.  I would think many of them already take mass transit.

I would think the anchor talent gets picked up but the reporters I've spoken with in field definitely have to drop themselves home.

On 1/7/2025 at 4:20 PM, MorningNews said:

Irrespective of one’s own opinions on congestion pricing, I’m surprised at the lack of MTA perspective in most reporting. Most reporting I’ve caught over the last few weeks focuses entirely on the citizen’s angst or support about the tolls and does little to share why the MTA is implementing them.

From most stations I have seen the point hammered that the MTA is doing this to raise revenue for Subway repairs as well as ease traffic gridlock. Josh Eineger even went all the way to England to assess how congestion pricing worked out for London.

But I do agree that there is a negative undertone for congestion pricing coverage. I think it's because the proposition is that unpopular in New York City it's bleeding into reporting. 

On 1/8/2025 at 12:52 AM, Reweivvt88 said:

Massive fires happening in southern California.

 

In the 9:00pm PT hour, CNN has live coverage, FOX News has live coverage, NewsNation is simulcasting KTLA, ABC News live is simulcasting KABC. CBS News 24/7 is live simulcasting KCAL 

 

MSNBC is airing repeats. 

 

I don't see how MSNBC can argue this doesn't impact its core audience. A left wing cable news channel has no viewers in California? Nobody who watches MSNBC cares about a major climate disaster in California? 

 

NBC News Now is just as bad. They are also airing a repeat of Top Story with Tom Llamas covering the fire from earlier in the day. When MSNBC is spun off it will be hard to argue how bad losing access to NBC News will really be when this is how they are covering major breaking news with access to NBC News. Maybe they can partner with a news org that is more committed to providing breaking news coverage because NBC News clearly isn't very good at providing coverage of breaking news when it happens outside of regular eastern times. 

 

This! Would it kill MSNBC to take a break from Trump for more than a few minutes to focus on other issues in the country/world. As bad as Fox News is it's breaking news component is significantly better than MSNBC's.

On 1/8/2025 at 6:38 AM, NowBergen said:

It is one disappointing aspect of MSNBC - not covering live breaking news as strongly as others.  I'm also not sure what is up with NBC News yesterday.  Even their coverage of President Jimmy Carter's arrival in DC, memorial at the Navy Memorial, and procession to the Capitol was minimal and focused only on the rotunda ceremony.  ABC and CBS both had more comprehensive coverage.  As a NBC viewer, I was disappointed.  

That was surprising from NBC. Granted it is okay to offer the public alternatives. In the past, I've literally had viewers calling to the station to complain about constant General Hospital preemptions due to special reports. 

But from a news competition standpoint it did look bad that NBC was the only one not on the air for Carter until about 4:00. I was wondering if it was just my local affiliate not taking the coverage until I went online and saw NBC News now was basically the same.

23 hours ago, Reweivvt88 said:

 

23 hours ago, Reweivvt88 said:

It also seems crazy to me that the priority of NBC News Now seems to be producing newscasts air that weekdays at the same time and basically compete against shows like the Today show, NBC Nightly News, and MSNBC Reports but does nothing live for west coast primetime or the weekend even if there is breaking news (unless the story is big enough to justify an NBC News Special Report which is then simulcast on the main NBC network) 

Yes! I would think they'd streaming  to bolster access to Today on the internet in order to boost their audience. Then again do CBS or ABC stream CBS Mornings or GMA?

Just now, T.L. Hughes said:

That wasn’t Carter’s funeral, it was his lying in state service at the Capitol; his funeral takes place Thursday (January 9).

Correction noted

2 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

I know. I understand it's not. It was in the heat of the moment that it's astonishing.

In all fairness to you, we all criticize shows etc on this message board that we don't like. Yes, everything is not for everybody but we are all free to point out things about a show that we think are not good. 

The View sustains an audience which justifies its expansion from a ratings and financial standpoint, but I totally understand your frustration with the show.

It went from a show about multigenerational women talking about life and a variety current events, to mostly middle-aged women parroting/arguing over one sided talking points while hiring an outrageous conservative to stir the pot and gang up on.

But as others appointed out we are free to not watch.

13 hours ago, Reweivvt88 said:

I would think, especially for the streaming channels, that moments like these would be when they get the most viewers. How many people are making a habit to regularly tune into a bland streaming newscast at a certain time every weekday? Especially when they are competing directly against so many other newscasts on other channels. Major news happens after hours. Lots of news happens on weekends when the major networks are pre-empting all their newscasts all day for non-stop sports all day/night. There is a major over saturation of news on weekdays during the day and then there is a massive void of live news available on weekends and west coast primetime. 

NBC was also pretty late coming into Jimmy Carter's *lying in state* coverage with a special report. NBC News now was just running it as a headline but not doing full-blown coverage until a Special Report at about 4:00 p.m. Eastern. In all fairness ABC and CBS were covering it, so there were options, but it was still surprising.

Overall fantastic and compelling coverage from all stations especially KTTV and KABC. This is more dramatic than any hurricane coverage I've ever seen.

8 hours ago, MisterBill said:

 

So basically, she was perfect for that show.

On 1/7/2025 at 5:49 PM, IceManNYR said:

Not sure why Rosanna Scotto needs to be a panelist on the Fox News show The Five today.
She made a notable mistake in U.S. history

 

So Rosanna isn't even trying to hold up the guise of an objective journalist....not that she's good at hiding her opinions anyway.

But from her days with Greg Kelly it was very obvious -- even though not explicitly stated -- that they were Trump supporters. Thats fine for FNC but not for the local broadcasts which already live in the shadow of the "Mother Ship's" bias. 

Kttv also had pretty good dramatic pictures of a medical facility evacuation.

Dare I say it was concerning how up close and personal some of the Fox 11 reporters were to the fire, especially the interview one of the reporters did with two people who tried to evacuate a horse.

I have a love affair with the Miami News Market but I finally took some time to investigate the history of its overlapping neighbor West Palm Beach.

I was surprised to learn that WPBF only launched in 1989, and I liked their '90s newscasts which were modeled after World News Tonight. I really liked the walking around newsroom shots.

It's Especially cool that the station still uses a newsroom set to this day which looks very similar to this. 

2025 is pulling out all the punches just 7 days into the new year!!

On 1/6/2025 at 8:23 PM, TheRolyPoly said:

KNTV was probably the longest stop in Terry McSweeney's long and legendary career. He retired last night after a twelve-year run there and more than four decades in journalism, with stops at KTXL, WPBF, KSAZ, WTEN, and even KGO along the way before rejoining KNTV for the second time. He was also there from 1987 to 1995.

 

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/nbc-bay-area-longtime-anchor-terry-mcsweeney-retires/3752027/

Full circle.... McSweeny is retiring months before his former WTEN colleague Steve Caporizzo retires... Which you also mentioned.

Glitch...

On 1/6/2025 at 8:23 PM, TheRolyPoly said:

 

On 1/6/2025 at 8:23 PM, TheRolyPoly said:

 

On 1/6/2025 at 8:23 PM, TheRolyPoly said: