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Luckily some Nexstar stations like KTLA has not been airing those segments that they are trying to force on all of their stations. Nexstar is clearly going the Sinclair route here with this and you might remember Sinclair got a lot of criticism for running the same pieces on their stations a few years back.

It is sad to see WABC and the ABC network in general leaving its longtime home on the Upper West Side especially with all of the memories, newscasts, and personalities that have been coming in and out of those doors but I am glad that they are planning for the future and 7 Hudson Square will be able to accommodate those needs. The same standards that made the station the most watched in the Tri-State and in the whole nation will continue and will improve with being housed in this modern facility as well as the standards of the ABC News division. I am based in Los Angeles but I know people in New York so it is going to be a change for them when they watch Eyewitness News and network news programming.

It is sad to see WABC and the ABC network in general leaving its longtime home on the Upper West Side especially with all of the memories, newscasts, and personalities that have been coming in and out of those doors but I am glad that they are planning for the future and 7 Hudson Square will be able to accommodate those needs. The same standards that made the station the most watched in the Tri-State and in the whole nation will continue and will improve with being housed in this modern facility as well as the standards of the ABC News division. I am based in Los Angeles but I know people in New York so it is going to be a change for them when they watch Eyewitness News and network news programming. *This will be posted in the WABC thread as well*.

KTLA has probably lost a lot of ad revenue over the last 3 days from non-stop fire coverage and because of that, they have been airing so much commercial breaks during the 1:30-2pm half hour and only like 15-30 seconds or 1 minute of news in between those breaks.

FOX 11 was entertaining Rick Caruso’s crazy statements 15 minutes ago but otherwise they and the other stations have been doing a good job covering this fire.

All the petty arguments on the forum need to be let behind in 2024 and start fresh in 2025 by focusing only on WABC in this thread and respecting decisions to air less news on certain holidays. Have a nice New Year everyone.

FOX Sports L.A. reporter Alex Curry moved to KTLA and is on the 10pm news tonight. They made a good choice hiring her considering her previous experience at FOX Sports.

Yesterday on Christmas Eve, I was taking a little break from the news cycle but I did see a little bit of Omar Lewis doing double duty at 11am and 10pm but I'm not making a big deal out of it because it is the holidays and the main anchors deserve time off because of the holiday season. Merry Christmas everyone.

It is definitely all day especially west of Eastern time for sure.

Aside from GDLA+, KTTV updated its time/temp ticker today for the rest of the newscasts to be more in line with other FOX O&O stations. This also means temperatures for other SoCal cities will no longer be shown in the ticker.

WDIV Local 4 evening anchor Devin Scillian has retired tonight after 3 decades in Detroit television news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aIjIbMO8cY This month so far has been a very tough and interesting one in the news business with plenty of local news legends retiring including Chuck Scarborough in New York, Mike Nelson in Denver, John Clark in Raleigh-Durham, Amy Doyt in Panama City and now Devin Scillian in Detroit and we are still not done yet because Don Postles in Buffalo is still working until the end of the month.

ABC7 morning anchor Leslie Sykes celebrated 30 years with the station today and it just shows that Disney really cares about their employees.

@TheNewsTV Palombo’s investigative reports are shown during the week so that is why the promo says that.

Well, the flip just happened a few minutes ago at Midnight ET so unfortunately WCBS Newsradio 880 is now WHSQ ESPN 880. I was able to catch the last few minutes of WCBS on the Audacy app before the final sign off.

I don’t know when exactly it started this week but KABC brought back talent opens to the newscasts for the first time since 2012. I just caught one at 4:30 this evening.

KTLA started using a remix of the morning theme of their Connect package on the weekend morning news today and I was very surprised by it. I guess they are trying differentiate the weekend opens from the weekday opens to give it its own identity.

KDFW added 4pm and 6:30pm newscasts yesterday to it's line up but most Central time FOX stations start their evening news at 4pm unless it's a smaller market. Other than the open, there is nothing special about the 4 and it the same typical newscast formula just like the other three stations at that hour.

Earlier this week, KTVU changed it’s 4am hour of Mornings on 2 to Headlines on 2 and it’s sounds like a very interesting concept because not too many people are watching news at that time of the morning. KTVU is the only Bay Area station that has a 4am hour because the other stations cut back to 5am due to the pandemic.

Well, it sounds upbeat, fun, and it has a good vibe to it so it’s fine by me.

Since last Friday, ABC7 has been using different music that sounds unrelated to the Eyewitness News theme for the 11am closing credits and whatever it is they are using has that LA vibe compared to the WABC closing theme they were originally using for the credits.

Surprisingly, Liberté Chan came back to fill in for weather on the 11am show not too long ago. It’s been a while since she’s been on KTLA but I know she’s done some traveling and commercials for IQAir.

It seems like the duopoly is only interested in hiring younger people that look attractive because it fits the “LA vibe”. Vaughn is just your typical news anchor but they didn’t have the decency to tell him why he was fired. Then, they hired Chauncy Glover to replace Vaughn as primetime anchor as well as meteorologist Dani Ruberti to possibly push Evelyn Taft aside even though Taft wanted her hours cut back. Last year’s rebrand to KCAL News is a sign that lots of changes are happening and nothing can be done to stop it.

It sounds like the primary open of CBS Enforcer Series 5.

KNXV and KSAZ have been using their weather brandings for a long time now that they are recognizable brandings on those stations. CBS5/3TV and now KPNX (12 News) was just forced into it because of recent Gray and Tegna company mandates.

@C Block I am aware that every station in every market has a different style of covering news and different pacing and in this case, Miami is more of a fast-paced market compared to Denver which takes a softer approach and there is nothing wrong with that as long as the most important stories are being covered.