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Do they even measure ratings during that half-hour? I really doubt it'd make any difference. In any event I would say we're through the looking glass here but WCAU did 3am news a few years back so...

Language most likely, though I wouldn't be surprised if it's both. Have to agree, as much as he was correct, an outburst like that on the air is suspendable. Now, of course, this was the same company that let Ernie Anastos go pretty unscathed after he told us to keep fornicating poultry.

Not news, but oh so perfect TV presentation... From my favorite TV station of all time, Philly 57, a 40 minute block of commercials, promos, and clips from a special presentation of an early dub of Dragon Ball (years before it became popular). The whole thing is great, but I moved the start up to this particular gem of an announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=2eXRO2Ib6iI;m=37;s=2 Kim Martin might be my personal favorite announcer ever. You don't see warm and friendly touches like that anymore.

24994J, any thoughts on her? Good/bad?

Here's a full WABC newscast from 1986. I have a few of these in the pipeline, so...

Boo! Bring back Doppler 4000!

Always love it when Jim gets to read the coming up guests for Kimmel... he almost always stumbles over some name!

If I can get it, sure. The DVDs that contain those clips are literally all over the place here, and I'm looking for some stuff myself. Rb1330's channel has made me want to upload the Studio 1A version of WNBC Live at Five (I have the first full newscast), but it's on a DVD buried somewhere and I don't have anything to play my original VHS source of it at the moment. I'll be uploading what I have though! It gets better; he does announcing throughout the show, too, and it's just as live as that open. You'll see teasers with him on camera. It's great.

Hey. So I decided to go back and reup some of my old clips that I did for TVArk over a decade ago. I wanted to see some of the stuff in a nicer format, you know? I'm starting with this - a montage of WNBC circa 1984. Mostly I wanted to get that two minute cut of Scott Schreer's delicious, delicious theme music.

I thought she was the editor when they decided to ditch that NaT look in favor of the horrible ITV News yellow parking lot look. Either way, yeah, there's that connection. While I can see how the look reminds some of the 1980s look, it reminds me most of the 1999 opens, where they had that tremendous straight ahead shot of 30 Rock. This echoes that. I think the best word to sum up this open is "iconic". It really catches the imagination more than 99% of all news opens do these days.

That's actually really cool. Simple but stylish. I like.

They were also using the bottom social media/ticker area to promote where the game was airing during last night's news. When something moves to Cozi, they make it absolutely clear that it's over the air on 10.2.

I kind of disagree about the sponsor tag. While I have to agree that it is tacky, it's really the only way at this point that we're gonna hear a good chunk of the theme at the end. Every other station rushes their close more than 6 tends to.

Having played the game many times, I'd say potentially everybody at the station.

Jon Lovitz working at a TV station? Excuse me while I spam the thread with a Jay Sherman image.

They're an NFC East market. The NFC East is usually one of the more competitive divisions in the league, plus it's got the New York Giants, the Dallas Cowboys, and the Washington Football Team. Popularity-wise it's up there.

I'm not sure this applies to WWSI - for the Broad Street Run, which is being simulcast on both stations, they're going out of their way to use both stations' logos. Only NBC 10 is being mentioned on the broadcast side.

NBC 10 and CSN Philly just inked a deal with the Eagles. 10 and CSN take the Official Eagles Station honor away from 6, preseason games air on 10 this year, and all the fun stuff from the Eagles Television Network will follow. Deal starts with the draft.

When did WMAQ get the KNBC graphics? Looks very good on them.

Whoever's doing the directing on the 11pm news is doing a great job. They're utilizing the video board behind Jim, they have nice camera swoops, and they even just zoomed in on a gas prices graphic on the Big Board without anyone actually at the Big Board. Has been the case since they switched to the fall opens. I believe this is the first time the 6 and 11 Action News broadcasts have had a two-person team.

He's right - I had a lapse in logic. I've deleted them from the channel it was on. If there was an alternate way to make this available, I'd love to. Otherwise... This is the live stream page. Weekday broadcasts are at 4am-7am ET, 11am-Noon ET, 4pm-6:30pm ET, and 11pm ET. If you give a shit about broadcast journalism I encourage you to watch.

NBC 10 kicked ass yesterday. And you know what? I could write a post... or I could just go ahead and show you. I've chosen the latter. I'm uploading yesterday's entire 2 and a half hour news block in chunks. I want people to see WCAU, in its entirety, with the proper context, like I've done a few times with WABC. EDIT: This was a bad idea. Link removed. You can live stream NBC 10 News here. Broadcast times on weekdays are 4am ET, 11am ET, 4pm ET, and 11pm ET. Because I know I'm coming across, at least on some level, as something of a fanboi - the type you'd find on the GameFAQs System Wars threads that'd go "MICROSOFT SUX PS4 RULZ" or something like that. That's not my intention at all. I think 10 is great because I think they are putting together a legitimately high quality, even old-school newscast. There's no HealthChecks or ConsumerWatches. Local stories get covered at some unique angles. And they do one thing differently than everybody else - they give the power to the reporter. It's not Rosenfield or London or Chenault-Fattah, really. It's the Lu Ann Cahns, the Christine Maddelas, the Harry Hairstons, the Cydney Longs.... the huge army of reporters that 10 added after Anzio Williams came along.

New set is live. Not much seen so far. Definitely has the WNBC-type windows!

Not to take away from the (great) discussion we're having about 6 vs. 10, but it's official at least as of tonight... it's Walter and Sarah doing the 6, 10, and 11 on Sundays. Updated weekend intros have been recorded, just about one year after Walter took over from Rob without the newscast missing a beat. It's important for two reasons. It cements the well-deserved promotion of Walter to weekend anchor, where he's excelled. And, on Sundays, for the first time in history on Action News, an anchor team is handling the main newscasts. That's 44 years, people.

Which is why I come across as a 10 fanboy. I think the best product - not the one people are most familiar with, and not the most gimmicky - should get attention. Right now, that's WCAU*. Though I would say it's not for lack of competition. I think every station competes for the top prize, and does so fiercely. (Maybe 10 was an exception during the later GE/Zucker period.) And I honestly would say that there have been very few periods where I think 6 offered the best product in the market. I certainly think they've been at least a solid #2 for most of the time I've watched local news. It's just that 10 put on a great newscast during the 1980s and early 1990s, and after that Fox 29 really shined when Roger LaMay was running things (first as News Director, then as GM - especially as GM, since they were a Fox O&O by then and Fox gave them money.) Then 3 under Peter Dunn was quite good. The thing is, nobody has come close to 6, with the exception of that period in early 2001 where NBC 10 nearly got it** at 11pm. And even then 6 was still killing everyone in the other dayparts. I think of it this way - 6 is ESPN, and 3, 10, and 29 are the other sports networks. 6 has been so dominant for so long, it's that far ahead of everyone else. I think part of it is that people have been trained to watch 6, even from birth. I think another part of it is that while 6 may not have always had the best PRODUCT, they have inarguably had the best TALENT. Most stations would kill to have just a Jim Gardner or a Cecily Tynan. 6 has both, and also a Rick Williams, a Monica Malpass, an Adam Joseph, a Vernon Odom, a Lisa Thomas-Laury... *If you want to know, I'd rank the stations - by product quality - as 10, 29, 6, and 3. **The results are kind of disputed. If you look at Monday-Friday, NBC 10 did come out ahead at 11. If you look at total week, however, Action News kept the crown. I go by total week because news doesn't stop on the weekends.