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Had.

It’s textbook. We’ve seen this play out over and over in countries throughout history and around the globe. It never, ever ends well.

Yeah….no. The shows are expensive. That is reason to give group management pause and warrants careful evaluation as contracts renew. But the bottom is what matters and if the business benefits from having the shows on those stations, they will stay. Big boys and girls understand business is business. Sometimes you get into a tiff in one area, but no one with an ounce of common sense would base a business decision involving millions of dollars just on spite.

Which they are literally going to do.

Good for the cast and crew, a nice steady paycheck for a while. Well…those cast members who aren’t killed off or what have you in soap land.

I may be the only soul who liked the format of What You Need to Know, sort of a throwback to the old days of GMA/Today, with a somewhat less sensational and fluffy approach than is currently employed on the mothership. So be it; budgets and numbers are what they are and if the decision is to change, they have the data that gives them the reason to change it. More power to ‘em if they are pivoting to a new approach. Or an old approach as the case may be.

One has nothing to do with the other. No viewer cares a whit that they prerecord shows. They don’t get remotely hung up on the name of a show. What does matter is it’s a stable, reliable performer that brings in the cash via the syndication arm of the Disney octopus. The idea you’d deprioritize something that has worked well on your owned stations over a production schedule change is illogical. Not going to happen in the near future. Not going to happen then either. The situation is not comparable to NBC and the path forward isn’t replicating that in the near term.

Did they stop the full intro at 6 previously? Huh. Didn’t realize that. I knew the 11 was long a super short version, but could have sworn that they did everyone’s name with the full intro at 6. 6:30 is a short one on the streaming side.

Because they wanted to? Maybe they feel Philadelphia has a stronger name ID. It’s entirely reasonable to reevaluate longtime practices and make changes in some cases, and stay stays quo in others. The visual in the open includes Philadelphia, so there’s some consistency there, along with other stations going with the city as a reference point.

I don't think it was with the spring intro a week or so ago. It noticed it on the 5 am news today, but didn't watch yesterday in the evening or night. The VO sounded ever so slightly different with the "Action News..." beginning - just a rerecording with the Philadelphia vs Delaware Valley. Eh, whatever.

NCIS: Albuquerque and FBI: Office Cleaning Crew look to have potential. But seriously, let’s stop with the “let’s do what they did decades ago” reactions. This ain’t then, and that ain’t happening.

We’re number one!* *….in the left-handed lumberjacks demo

That seems…unlikely.

CBS has its challenges as do all of the networks, but cutting loose a show at 12:30 am isn't exactly the sign of the apocalypse.

Reasonably sure that has all been considered and factored in.

It’s unlikely they didn’t consider multiple options as any company would deploy the resources they have. There can be plenty of reasons that are not anyone’s business.

Not surprising. A rapidly changing reality at the macro and micro levels sometimes necessitates substantial changes. By no means unique to any company or industry, just the way life goes.

Are they matching over their affinity for candlelit dinners and nighttime strolls on the beach on a dating profile or finding out if it’s going to rain tomorrow? Honestly, give the viewers credit for understanding things like non-traditional workweeks and schedules. It’s a small number of familiar faces and they’ll be just fine hearing from person A some days and person B on others, much the same as during vacations, illnesses and such. This…is a plan. I can say through multiple jobs in multiple industries a plan often means allocating resources to do what needs to be done to cover the work, and adjusting on the fly as circumstances dictate. There are multiple variables and the unexpected bumps that require adjusting even a temporary plan. Budgets and processes are what they are, and seldom is it a cakewalk to have exactly what you want when you want it. We live in the real world where things are messy.

They definitely didn’t. After populating the advance schedule with specific infomercials—by name, not just paid programming — for multiple weeks, it reverted back. Good for them.

I think he’s fine and that’s the thing, a lot of it is subjective. Some folks love to tear down others over some personal hangup.

It’s almost like big changes take time to “take.”

Over time, I’d suggest formats have become more mailable within their brands. WPVI’s tempo and constructs vary from morning to midday to afternoon to the 6/11. The differences were more stark in the past, and while not suggesting everything has disappeared, there has been a lot of blurring to adapt to audiences under the big brand umbrella. At this point, no one is sitting in a newsroom saying that they can’t adopt a given tactic because that isn’t what Eyewitness News was at the start; it’s a question of how something works for today’s viewers. Successful brands evolve with the audience.

My schedule means the 4:30 is the portion I watch, and Pellman does fine with that weather segment. Seems a good way to handle it.

And I insist I will have the same hairline and waistline I had back in high school in 2026. Godspeed and good luck to us both.

I happened to like having it on then based on my personal schedule. Sure it got truncated or bumped for sports semi-regularly, but it was a convenient time for some of us. There is ABC sports starting at 12:30 the next few weeks, but rather than the 1/2 hour version they used to run ahead of NBA Countdown, it’s informercials on the schedule. Oh well.