The Channel 6 Action News Thread

[Abraham J. Simpson 315]

Maybe she’s the one who wants to get out earlier for the weekend this time. 

[SF1964 63]

24 minutes ago, Abraham J. Simpson said:

Maybe she’s the one who wants to get out earlier for the weekend this time. 

She tweeted that she had a family commitment as the reason for the shift in schedule.

[Abraham J. Simpson 315]

Easy peasy 

[SF1964 63]

On 1/29/2024 at 5:36 PM, wofchristian said:

To my complete surprise, Action News has a new meteorologist!

 

https://x.com/paytondomschke/status/1752096810137436165?s=46&t=kSdgGOGiaM-lEjfQmkMEig

Payton will be making her 6ABC debut on the noon news today, 2/28.

[rear_flank 43]

Here is meteorologist Payton Domschke's debut at noon today.

 

[Abraham J. Simpson 315]

Good debut, seems absolutely fine. 
 

The question of how they use a 6th body remains. The social media responses that this brings them back to what they had previously is technically true but also misleading, since one was primarily the traffic reporter with some weather hits (and of course in fairness covering the earliest part of the morning show and the prep, with David Murphy also doing noon four days a week). 
 

Give her some early morning duty to give Karen a well-earned later start (later being relative) some days? That would seemingly make Payton the built in coverage for Karen’s days off in that scenario. So no more weekday shows for Sowers (for the most part). 
 

Have her do noon and any afternoon coverage on Brittany’s days off? That puts Adam back to evenings only, and also removes a weekday slot from Chris most week. And it’s two days a week. 
 

Flex her all over for coverage (who loses out?) and reporting on weather topics? Maybe. 
 

Maybe a coincidence, but the timing is interesting that on the day she debuts, Sowers talks about plans to do more of his home-based livestreams. 

[SF1964 63]

She could also do some weekend evenings, filling in for Brittany.  They had to have Adam or Cecily fill in on those shifts just a week or so ago.  Chris has also pulled some doubles, doing morning and evening weekend.

[Abraham J. Simpson 315]

They can certainly use her for the few weekends Brittany would be off. But clearly they need to use her on a regular basis and that would seem to mean the part-timer gets less shifts. 

[cg41386 132]

Hmm?

 

 

Oh, it was already posted in Graphics. Whatever.

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3 hours ago, cg41386 said:

Hmm?

 

 

Oh, it was already posted in Graphics. Whatever.

It looks like it will be a gradual rollout. They are still using the old graphics as of this morning.

[24994J 5575]

As discussed in the ABC graphics thread and on our TheNewsCenter Discord, someone at WPVI simply cued up the new open, by mistake, for only one of the Sunday morning hours. Nothing has technically debuted, but the FULL rollout should be later this week.

[newscopter7 232]

And this is supposed to be an update?

[Abraham J. Simpson 315]

It’s all live as of noon today. 

[Flyer78 66]

So the Big Story so far is... the opening looked like the short-version from Sunday morning (no fancy live weather, etc.)

 

Did have the usual spoken talent intro, however.

 

Edited March 12, 2024 by Flyer78

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They are still using the old ticker at the bottom during the 4pm show. It does not lineup with the time and temp bug.

[Abraham J. Simpson 315]

Yeah, that misalignment was irking me, and I full well realize that’s a personal issue with me.  That and there’s still a remnant of the old package being used subtly on the vertical monitors off to the side of the anchor desk, at least during one segment. 
 

That said, I like some of the new transitions as part of the package. 

[24994J 5575]

1 hour ago, Abraham J. Simpson said:

Yeah, that misalignment was irking me, and I full well realize that’s a personal issue with me.  That and there’s still a remnant of the old package being used subtly on the vertical monitors off to the side of the anchor desk, at least during one segment. 
 

That said, I like some of the new transitions as part of the package. 

 

Our inside source says it'll be a few weeks before the ticker and set screens get switched over. Heck, the new opens are temporary, since they're still the winter ones.

[TVNewsLover 779]

4 hours ago, 24994J said:

 

Our inside source says it'll be a few weeks before the ticker and set screens get switched over. Heck, the new opens are temporary, since they're still the winter ones.

Will we get pics of the anchors in the opens?

[24994J 5575]

57 minutes ago, TVNewsLover said:

Will we get pics of the anchors in the opens?

 

Temporary, as in they basically pasted the new logo animation over the end of this season's winter opens. With spring coming up quick, what debuted Tuesday won't last long. No talent faces are coming. Status quo and familiar is the plan. Sorry if my wording suggested otherwise.

[Abraham J. Simpson 315]

4 hours ago, TVNewsLover said:

Will we get pics of the anchors in the opens?

Why would they suddenly do that?

[wofchristian 45]

23 hours ago, 24994J said:

 

Temporary, as in they basically pasted the new logo animation over the end of this season's winter opens. With spring coming up quick, what debuted Tuesday won't last long. No talent faces are coming. Status quo and familiar is the plan. Sorry if my wording suggested otherwise.

Are they switching the animation at the end to what the other channels are using? Aka this... 

 

[24994J 5575]

8 minutes ago, wofchristian said:

Are they switching the animation at the end to what the other channels are using? Aka this... 

 

No. How it launched is how it will remain.

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Speaking of mishaps after the graphics change, here is a blooper from March 13. Someone hit the wrong button in the control room. 

 

[Abraham J. Simpson 315]

Always assume the camera and mic are live

[Abraham J. Simpson 315]

Highly likely I missed this before, but found it interesting to see a reference to chopper 6 once more. 
 

Not a criticism at all. There comes a time you return to such references. Just the first time I remember seeing the term used since the tragedy.