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Not at all. That said depending who GMA replaces Strahan with, I'd be worried if I were Nate Burleson...

Any show or network overtaking another is a tough task in the modern streaming era. For most networks and shows, its about retaining the viewers you still have. To start, if Tom (or whoever the successor may be) can hold Lester's numbers, that's a fine win. As @EVVTV12 summarized above, Lester isn't leaving because of ratings, health, major shakeup... His exit is on par with his predecessors, and seems by all accounts to be in his terms- That suggests NBC has been happy with how things have fared with NN, and if anything they'll want the successor to maintain the status quo.

And unlike Norah (and every recent iteration of CBSEN), Lester always pulled decent ratings.

1) Money. There are certainly far fewer eyeballs watching Plus than the regular CBSEN- that means lower ad rates and lower revenue. 2) Not sure, but John might very well have it in his contract that he gets to do a solo show as he has seemingly had one either on air or on the streamer since his stint on FTN (with a few small gaps)

From a design perspective, they made the absolute correct choice to embed the ABC logo inside the "C" and have the peacock hanging off for a litany of reasons.

If this turns out to be a correct prediction, and history suggests it likely will be, you gotta give it to Hearst for taking things in steps instead of blowing the whole thing up at once. Methodical and calculated.

I'll try to find it, unless someone can clarify quicker, but I thought I read after Allen pulled the plug on replacing the local weather teams that one of the chief mets noted on their Facebook page that for weekends and fill-in that TWC could/would still be used.

North Dakota has a bill in the legislature to cut funding for Prairie Public (Statewide PBS and NPR). Screenshots from the Fargo newspaper's report on it (since the site shared with the local ABC affiliate is paywalled) https://legiscan.com/ND/bill/HB1255/2025?utm_campaign=rss&guid=6AZCrjXqTN07L59cm1XQUj

CBS is test driving the new EN team with the prime time Inauguration coverage.

The more likely of the scenarios.

Anywhere. Good luck anywhere. We have all been there with a new reporter or met doesn't know local dialect and pronunciations of a city or county and encounters a good learning opportunity on the fly. For Allen stations- yes, Hawaii, but I also think of the Wisconsin markets that use a ton of Oneida, Potawatomi language in community names. For some mild entertainment, got to YouTube and search "How to pronounce town names in (insert any state here)"

Could they shut them down in the literal sense? Or would the creditors likely create a proxy company to keep the stations on air and a going concern in the short term while new buyers are found?

Consider both to be done with TV. Brokaw is battling cancer, and Smith is doing some adjunct lecturing back home in Iowa after retiring from NBC. Given what Comcast is trying to conjure together with SpinCo, my guess will be they will be limiting as much crossover between The Network and the companies being spun off as much as possible this year unless it's something that has been previously in action.

Congrats to Jim Nantz who is currently calling his 500th game right now with the Bills/Broncos matchup. https://sports.yahoo.com/cbs-jim-nantz-reach-rare-221034183.html

NIce... but font-wise, we're already ditching that Mandate huh?

Just did a scan- since any LA Fire coverage interests me more than my local news. Unless KNBC is still live OTA, their website is streaming the "Peacock Edition" of an earlier newscast. KTLA is the only station still going with live continuing coverage. That said, with curfews in place, little to be able to show on TV this time of night, probably not the worst idea to let everyone try to get a little sleep unless the winds suddenly kick back up. EDIT: KTLA's newscast just ended as well.

C'mon now... NBC can't do worse than the goodbye for Ann Curry's 15 years on the show... Tom's busy with "Top Story" on the streamer while he waits for Lester to retire. No way he left his gig at ABC to not eventually get the Nightly News chair.

Just curious- if anyone has insight- on how gathering info via helicopter is being worked out... There was the story earlier this week that a drone interfered with a copter working on putting out the fires, and I see this morning that KTLA is making use of "Sky 5" as a split screen during morning press briefings. Are stations sharing a helicopter to reduce interference with the firefighting effort? Are news stations keeping well away and zoomed in like all hell? You can see it on the faces and hear it in their voices that anchors and reporters are all getting fatigued (also- camera operators and producers!) All of the reporting and news gathering I have watched this week has been an all-star effort from all the news teams.

I had that late Tuesday night on their website and FireStick app... And briefly this morning on their website. Could it be crashing from increased traffic?

It should, and perhaps in the short term it will; but overall it's wishful thinking unfortunately.

Worth noting that it appears to be that NBC NewsNow is going about their normal day- Cali Fires easily the Top Story, but they're also showing New Orleans Terror Attack and Space Shuttle in their 2E/1C Headline run. NBCnews.com front page is streaming KNBC-TV's Live Feed though!

Agreed! And KLTA has been phenomenal tonight (Just what I've left the TV on at this point... Tired of clicking around) But... Get rid of the NewsNation bar- With all of the life and death info right now that needs to be displayed on the L3 and ticker- this is just distracting clutter and to be honest, no one in LA is watching NewsNation tonight when the headline is their own backyard.

This. Exactly this. Also why when there's weather and Al, Ginger... Whoever the respective network has... is not available they throw it to an O&O met in NY or Chicago and not the weather guy in market 100-whatever.

Long story short- the GM took a couple minutes of the newscast to explain WBRE's long-standing affiliation with NBC and that NBC is more focused on Peacock than providing programming for their affiliates, which he then lamented loses millions of dollars while listing all the Peacock-exclusive programming. Comments were also made how while doing all of this, NBC/Comcast is squeezing more money out of the affiliates. Anyone else feel free to add anything I missed.

It seemed rogue... I don't believe any other of Nexstar's NBC affiliates produced anything like that. From a negotiations standpoint, nothing productive could come from airing that. Right up there with the affiliates saying that DirecTv/Dish/Comcast et al. are taking their quality local programming away when there's a retransmission dispute.