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Given the geography and very high elevation, KABC is one L.A. station that uses Santiago Peak as a location for its weather radar, if I'm not mistaken, as well.

Among all the broadcast network evening newscasts, the "CBS Evening News," along with the other CBS News programs, for that matter, has the most stolid and the least sensationalistic feel to them to me, as well. In some ways, it has reminded me of "PBS NewsHour" for a long time now.

From watching KCAL News for a short while this evening, it appears as if they have given -- and deservedly so -- many of their general assignment reporters a break, as I have seen a parade of out-of-town reporters report from the field tonight. They, along with the other out of town reporters that I have seen on the other local stations in town, have done a fantastic job. Quite a few of them, in fact, appear seasoned enough to report from the No. 2 market full time, in my opinion.

KCAL News (CBS Los Angeles) has coverage as part of its regularly scheduled prime time newscasts right now.

That reporter and some others may care too much with how they appear on camera. I live nearly 30 miles away to the south in Orange County. And, while we are not being impacted as severely as those in L.A. County, I am not taking my chances and am wearing an N95 mask when I'm outdoors for now.

Although Mt. Wilson is most commonly associated with housing many of the TV and radio towers in L.A., important police and fire communications are transmitted from there, as well. That could be catastrophic to the region in the event they are destroyed. Luckily, that doesn't seem to be the case.

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.

Sadly, like the CNN presidential debate between Biden vs. Trump in June, the co-moderators won't be doing any fact checking in the CBS vice presidential debate at all. It is a shame, because Brennan is one of the best interviewers among the Sunday morning political show hosts indeed. More importantly, fact checking in debates, particularly with regard to the upcoming consequential U.S. presidential election, is critically important, in my humble opinion.

True. I may be wrong, but I believe that he was only a freelancer at KTTV so heading to a top 10 media market in Houston where he can now be full time is not too shabby in my opinion.

It means that he and new KTTV chief meteorologist Adam Krueger are basically switching places with each other, as just before he came to Los Angeles, Krueger was formerly the chief metereologist at KIAH in Houston.

I wonder if CNN still has plans for Pamela Brown to anchor her own weekday program, "The Bulletin with Pamela Brown." If so, perhaps her anchoring an edition of the Monday through Friday "Newsroom" is a way for the audience to become accustomed to seeing her on a weekday basis before her program is ready for launch.

Although "Judge Judy" ended in 2021, reruns of her show have stood the test of time in syndication. That's quite amazing! Meanwhile, her Amazon series, "Judy Justice," is now also in syndication, so she is in even more places on broadcast television.

Thanks! I tuned in a few minutes into the show today.

This is an interesting setup for "Inside Politics" on CNN today. It's quite cramped. I am not sure whether or not they are on location at a local CNN affiliate station or that their main set in the Washington bureau is undergoing renovations or something.

Just watched the first few minutes of the new KTLA 7pm newscast this evening. It's co-anchored by Micah Olhman and Cher Calvin on the same side of the studio where the 4pm show is done is well. Seems like a standard 30-minute newscast to me.

More uniformity in name and style. It's similar to what NBC News does between their early morning program "Early Today" and their main morning program "Today," as well.

What's also excessive is how the Los Angeles market collectively has newscasts filled between the hours of 4am and 11:35pm weekdays (with the exceptions for time off in the 1pm hour for "Off the Clock," which is technically produced by the KTLA news department as well as 7:30pm).

Also, KTLA added a 4pm newscast on Sundays several months ago, and that was already part of an expansion of weekend news broadcasts that the station has implemented for quite some time now. Local newscasts are cheap to produce, and while the ratings for KTLA's news shows are not publicly available (nor are they for other Los Angeles TV stations), I would imagine that they are more than decent enough to keep adding newscasts.

When I switched on the "KTLA Weekend Morning News" at around 7am on a Saturday or Sunday a few weeks ago, it was mentioned at the top of the broadcast that they were starting one hour late due to studio maintenence. There were a handful of other times that I have tuned in on weekdays when the "Morning News: Early Edition" also started at a later time, and perhaps for the same reasons. But yeah, with a crowded schedule of newscasts, it leads to less time to maintain their expansive news set and studio. Thus, doing studio maintenance at odd times.

This is not terribly surprising, as I have seen more of Stelter on CNN in recent months. He's polarizing to some, but Stelter is great at media analysis, which there is not enough of, in my opinion.

The hosts look a bit swallowed up by the massive set. That said, I think it's a fantastic new set though.

Indeed. Although ABC/Disney is feeding out its debate coverage to their competitors as a public service, it's still a business at the end of the day. Thus, ABC potentially still stands to lose quite a bit of viewership, whom otherwise would be watching the debate on ABC, given DirecTV's large subscriber base.

Also, ABC is hosting the presidential debate on Sept.10th, which is likely to have high ratings, so that is another possible incentive for Disney to resolve its dispute with DirecTV very soon.

Oh, I see. The area of the new set where the double doors are located, which Ryan and Vanna walk through at the start of the broadcasts, somewhat looks like an awards show set to me. Lol. By and large, I am lukewarm to the new set but perhaps I will warm up to it over time though.

Seems like they might be going for a classic game show vibe with this art deco or streamline moderne aesthetic.