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To me it looks like they have a new desk and that's it.

What local TV stations are the most well known nationally? Which stations have a significant dominance in their local market? Off the top of my head, I can think of WGN, WABC, WPVI and WSB. Comment any others you think deserve this title.

When it comes to local newscasts, I've noticed a pattern emerge in most media markets, especially the top 10. ABC is usually no.1 in the market. NBC is a close 2nd, though sometimes it surpasses ABC. But CBS? Almost always in a distant last place. Is there any reason as to why CBS is so bad?

KABC has a preview of their new graphics with this add. Off topic: I haven't heard of a newscast being on the radio in years.

So 6ABC is getting a new meteorologist next week. I wonder if they will switch over to the new graphics when she starts because the news intros would have to be updated to include her.

It seems like it may be Chris making that decision. He seems to always be with his kids, so I assume he may be a mostly stay at home dad while his wife is working.

To my complete surprise, Action News has a new meteorologist! https://x.com/paytondomschke/status/1752096810137436165?s=46&t=kSdgGOGiaM-lEjfQmkMEig

What will probably happen is the usual scenes you see in the intro, followed by the new flying graphics in the new package.

FX team at it again with the actual forecast next to the meteorologists name!

Never in a million years could I see them doing that. What’s likely going to happen is the full theme with the typical scenes of people in the city and the “Action News, Delaware Valley’s leading news program, with…”. The only thing that will change will be the graphic at the end, which will be the new intro that all the stations are adopting.

We've got a new reporter on our hands! Charles Watson. Can't find anything about his past, but here's a video with him. He's so new they don't even have his bio on the site yet. https://6abc.com/perkiomen-valley-high-school-student-fight-montgomery-county-pennsylvania/14145938/

Here’s a look at KFSN’s new graphics. https://youtu.be/nhhx5jvSTIw?si=lTnl45xkE6Nd_KRs

Did anyone else notice 6ABC changed to the new bug in the middle of the parade? They are certainly close to switching over to the new graphics.

Has anyone noticed that Jamie Apody has been missing for a few weeks? Wonder what’s going on.

It is on the horizon. This whole page is about ABC standardizing graphics amongst its O&O’s. They are just rolling it out very slowly.

Its official, John Paul is the co-anchor of noon. https://6abc.com/about/newsteam/john-paul/

They also had a promo in the newscast for the noon newscast. In it, they showed Sarah Bloomquist and John Paul as the anchors, so that probably means John is the permanent second anchor.

Here’s the debut of the 10AM newscast! This is really interesting, it seems they are keeping Alyana, Alicia and Nydia all on the desk as regular anchors at the same time! But this makes desk looks really cramped. Also to note with the intro, for the first time in years, MCTYW is being played in the original key! I am also surprised that they didn’t debut the new graphics today.

So it looks like each station will be able to customize the accent colors. KTRK has red in place of yellow, and the blue looks a bit different. I wonder what they will do for breaking news, as WLS uses the blue with red accent color scheme for that.

Since were now getting a 10AM newscast, who do you think will anchor it? And do we yet to have an actual lineup for noon?

Its not about hierarchy, it's about shifts. Gray already does the 10PM PHL17 cast, so it makes sense to keep him on. If Sarah were to fill in at 11PM, that means she would've been working for 12 hours, which I'm pretty sure no one wants to do.

Are there markets without a MyNetwork affiliate? I’m wondering if they will air WWOR in the Philadelphia market as a temporary replacement. After that I expect them to try to get another local station, such as WFMZ to become a MyNetwork affiliate.

I am pretty sure WPVI is going to wait til September 1st because PHL-17, the network they produce a 10PM newscast for, just announced it is switching its affiliation from MyNetwork to The CW. It wouldn’t make sense to make new graphics for the PHL-17 broadcast when it will only last a few months.