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As you suggested, Jamie is outgoing; whereas, Rudabeh to me is reserved. Both of their respective personalities feed off and work well with each other. Due to Jamie's network commitments at the mothership, and so forth, there will be times when Jamie is away from the CBS Los Angeles anchor desk. Kristin Smith is a nice fill-in for those occasions (and filling in for Rudabeh, vice-versa) indeed. I always enjoyed Kristin whenever she anchored and reported for the station's "Sports Central" broadcasts previously, where I felt she was a bit under-utilized. Time will tell, but it is a good morning program so far!

My thoughts exactly. I will admit that I have slightly become more accustomed to 'The Desk,' but it still feels very awkward though. The same information that Mike Rodgers and the other assignment editors gathers and then conveys to the audience can easily be relayed to have an anchor/reporter deliver such instead. Given its overall ratings, there's nothing wrong with CBS Los Angeles trying to not reinvent the wheel, which is certainly another example here. 'The Desk' is actually a decent addition, but it seems unnecessary to have the anchors toss to it many times per hour -- slowing the rhythm of the news broadcasts -- and indeed having these segments helmed by the assignment editors on-camera, as well.

I feel that former KCBS-TV director John Lipmann, who helped mastermind the "Action News" format in the 1990s, played a role in the perception of newscasts on the station as well. I'm old enough to remember how over-the-top it was to watch at the time. But, over the years, KCBS-TV is pretty much like those certain sports franchises that perennially have been plagued by poor management, that are close to, if not, last in the team standings and quite a few players (in this case, reporters and anchors) who leave to go to other teams (the competitors across town, etc.).

I happened to notice that during the 5am hour today that morning traffic anchor Kaylina Astrinos was doing a local traffic cut-in on "CBS Mornings" on KCBS around 5:25am or so, while "KCAL Mornings" over on KCAL was in a commercial break at the time.

I would imagine that they will have Mario Solis and/or bringing freelancers on board to handle the sports anchoring at least on an interim basis. Or, the news anchors may do it perhaps for a time as well. With Roggin's retirement, I was just thinking that very few on-air veterans are left at the station now. Conan Nolan, Ted Chen as well as Colleen Williams are three of the current vets who come to mind for me.

Yeah, it makes sense to replace "KCAL News Los Angeles" with the "CBS News Los Angeles" bug over the local "KCAL News Los Angeles" bug, which is still seen on channel 9, so the streams are more identifying and consistent to CBS Los Angeles audiences online.

I am currently watching the local over-the-air feed of KCAL, and the "KCAL News Los Angeles" on-air bug still remains on screen.

I have seen weeknight sports anchor Rob Fukuzaki of KABC in Los Angeles anchor a sports wrap up show following the 11pm newscasts on Sundays for a few years now.

At one point, Channel 13 was the broadcast home of the L.A. Marathon, televised Clippers basketball and had its own news department, with nightly news broadcasts. Once the news department was shuttered, it seems like the station started to fall apart. Nowadays, other than some syndicated courtroom shows and daytime talk show programming, the station resembles KDOC out of Orange County.

I can probably count the number of times on one hand that I have watched Channel 13 over the past decade or so.

Yes, "Good Day Live" used to be a great program to watch on weekday mornings too! Here in Southern California, it was often fascinating to watch the different contrasts between the local (7-9am) and national versions, in which they stayed on set to host live at 9am local time.

"Good Day L.A" has not been the same since the days of Steve, Jillian and Dorothy co-hosting the program. During their tenure, it was competitive with the "KTLA Morning News" from time to time. It will be interesting to see what Jennifer and Melvin will be like on "Good Day L.A."

Actually, Billy Bush is the weekday host of "Extra," so it should have very little to no bearing with regard to Jenn and Melvin's schedule at FOX11 during the work week. In addition to weekend co-anchor, Pascucci serves as a reporter on "Good Day L.A. She technically has a greater profile now than she had on KTLA, which there were some long stints when I didn't see her on Channel 5. Given her following, FOX11 would be wise to use her in prime spots in the future.

For whatever it's worth, at the conclusion of the regular season episode of "The Challenge" just a few weeks ago, which was a sports trivia and sports highlights show that Roggin co-hosted with former USC football player Petros Papadakis following "Sunday Night Football" games on NBC4 for many years, they rolled extended end credits of the production staff on the show that actually led me to believe at the time that it was possibly its finale. I had the pleasure of meeting Roggin once, who is as much of a terrific person off the air, as he is behind the desk. Such a living legend in the local Los Angeles-area sports scene. I will miss watching his sports reports on NBC4.

The time/temp bug is not as necessary at any time of day as they are during morning newscasts (as it is before traditional work and school hours), in my opinion. In this case, they probably were seeking to establish different on-air looks between both morning and afternoon/evening newscasts.

On CNN, Bill Maher would potentially bring in decent ratings. I doubt he would agree to do a full hour there, however, because his unfiltered style and creative freedom that he's successful with on his own show HBO would be more restrained at CNN.

I was thinking similarly that it looks similar to the time/temperature reading on the CBSN ticker. They finally joined morning news programs just about everywhere else with on-screen time/temp bugs, which is great! As an observer, the placement of it on the bottom-right of the screen seems buried from the rest of the lower-thirds and is small, however. The color scheme doesn't match the rest of the banner, either.

Happy retirement to Tony! He is a glue and one of the remaining originals from the early years of "Good Day L.A." who is still with FOX 11.

On DirecTV, it still shows "My Network TV" for KCOP on my end, but I did notice the "FOX 11 Plus" logo on the bottom of the screen when I turned to Channel 13 this evening. In many ways, Channel 13 basically has been Fox 11 Plus for a long time now.

Yeah, I have seen him fill in both of those roles too. It's a shame that he and Cortese will no longer be co-hosting "5 Live," as they have had wonderful chemistry between each other. I have always been impressed in how he has come across on KTLA, so I would also imagine that he will continue to maintain a role on there in some form or another, going forward.

I happened to tune in to KTLA when Sam Cortese was a fill-in anchor on both dayparts over the holiday season. She's a good anchor -- both serious and light-hearted depending on the time of the day of the newscasts! I can imagine a 4pm newscast having a somewhat light and casual feel to it (kinda like how their 5pm newscasts are now), with the more hard news later on in the day. Have seen clips of the "5 Live" set, and it does look awesome! I wonder what will become of Sam's co-host, Andy Reismeyer. In the past, I believe that he worked in some type of behind the scenes capacity, so perhaps he will return to that, or possibly he will just transfer to a 4pm newscast, as well.

Like "Off The Clock" at 2pm weekdays, which used to exclusively be online, I am surprised that "5 Live" wasn't moved to television, as well. The 4pm hour in the Los Angeles market is saturated with local newscasts on weekdays already.

Yeah. In this day and age, it is counterintuitive for Nexstar to be having this anti-technology stance, indeed. As it pertains to the quality of news sets at its television stations, they are notoriously cheap there, as well. But, to be fair, they did give KTLA carte blanche to construct a beautiful new studio, in celebration of the station's 75th anniversary, which debuted fairly recently.

After sampling a few "KCAL Mornings" broadcasts over the past week or so, I feel that it's certainly the best morning product that KCBS/KCAL over many years. Whether or not they can ever overtake the solid and dominant "KTLA Morning News" remains to be seen. One glaring aspect that is missing that KCAL should incorporate in the mornings -- which is important to morning audiences who are preparing to head out for school and work, etc. for the day -- is an on-screen time bug. All things considered, a good start to the station's new morning program.