l_miro 245 Posted March 2 Posted March 2 Progress as of 3 months ago with layout now more obvious Red - overall newsroom space Blue - news /empty area to the left Deco/Sports edit bays and offices Teal - Deco/weather green wall Green - anchor desk / stand up areas with monitors on each side of it Dark purple - weather desk Yellow rectangle - weather office Yellow line - sports set White lines - desks/newsplex area Orange line - BAM (big ass monitor) wall Solid Yellow rectangle - news desk/live stand up area Not drawn behind the BAM news anchor offices
MediaZone4K 2660 Posted March 2 Posted March 2 (edited) On 1/12/2026 at 2:41 PM, Megatron81 said: Congrats on 30 years of Deco Drive surprised that WSVN hasn't tried to put that program statewide of FL or is it too South Floridia for it to be statewide? On 1/13/2026 at 7:15 PM, l_miro said: They put Deco in Boston on WHDH many years ago, in the late 1990s but it struck out. I was asked once years ago how I see DecoDrive.com develop, told them it should carve out a niche like Perez Hilton/TMZ but they didn't want to invest in resources. Same as now, they don't really need to expand it, Deco rates better than or on par with Jeopardy/Wheel/ET whatever it was up against, so they've kept it going for little overhead. It is very South Florida centered, other than Deco news, all of the segments about events and businesses are for Fort Lauderdale/Miami/Miami Beach All of this, plus Sunbeam only owns FL stations in Miami. They have no other station to air it on unless they syndicate it. Is anyone's cable boxes listing ABC 18 as "ABC 7 News", tvpassport has the same thing. Edited March 2 by MediaZone4K 2
TheRolyPoly 3509 Posted March 2 Posted March 2 4 hours ago, MediaZone4K said: All of this, plus Sunbeam only owns FL stations in Miami. They have no other station to air it on unless they syndicate it. Is anyone's cable boxes listing ABC 18 as "ABC 7 News", tvpassport has the same thing. TV listings still go by WSVN's news as Channel 7 News, though that hasn't been used since WSVN's early tabloid days. 2
l_miro 245 Posted March 2 Posted March 2 1 hour ago, TheRolyPoly said: TV listings still go by WSVN's news as Channel 7 News, though that hasn't been used since WSVN's early tabloid days. the listing on TVGuide said "ABC 7 News" with a space. It's also Channel 7 News on Zeam and "Ch. 7 News at___" on their webiste . There's no standard per se, it just depends who typed the schedule and hit send. 2
SoFloTVClassics 1037 Posted March 21 Posted March 21 New WSVN/ABC Miami building construction photos. 1
l_miro 245 Posted March 22 Posted March 22 (edited) On 3/4/2026 at 11:48 AM, SoFloTVClassics said: A view from ground level. this is looking from the north, from Miramar parkway. that big opening on the 2nd floor will be staff the dining/lounge, with prep kitchen and a regular kitchen, large balcony with seating. 5 hours ago, SoFloTVClassics said: New WSVN/ABC Miami building construction photos. Red rd view, headed south. engineering/sales-traffic offices Right side lobby Edited March 22 by l_miro 1
Recovering Producer 410 Posted March 22 Posted March 22 16 hours ago, SoFloTVClassics said: New WSVN/ABC Miami building construction photos. Because I am a public records nerd... blueprints, structural, plumbing, irrigation, site and additional plans are available here. https://miramarfl-energovweb.tylerhost.net/apps/SelfService#/permit/5A92FC2B-0D52-4707-BB38-2AB6AB77B7C4?tab=attachments Files named G sheets and AI sheets have a good look at the floor plans. The weirdest part of the plan I see is the "safe" room only accessable through the CEO/GM's private restrooms on the second floor.
mre29 1967 Posted March 23 Author Posted March 23 15 hours ago, Recovering Producer said: Files named G sheets and AI sheets have a good look at the floor plans. The weirdest part of the plan I see is the "safe" room only accessable through the CEO/GM's private restrooms on the second floor. Is the "safe" room where they keep the AI?
Weeters 2173 Posted March 23 Posted March 23 18 hours ago, Recovering Producer said: Because I am a public records nerd... blueprints, structural, plumbing, irrigation, site and additional plans are available here. https://miramarfl-energovweb.tylerhost.net/apps/SelfService#/permit/5A92FC2B-0D52-4707-BB38-2AB6AB77B7C4?tab=attachments Files named G sheets and AI sheets have a good look at the floor plans. The weirdest part of the plan I see is the "safe" room only accessable through the CEO/GM's private restrooms on the second floor. There are some discrepancies between all of the documents in there. The structural plans show a second studio and control room (and one of the Structural Narrative documents dated 9/05/2025 states "Footings have been updated at the new Studio B addition.") while the G and AI sheets show the second studio area as offices for Deco Drive and Sports, and the second control room as edit bays for those two teams. There is an audio console mysteriously sitting in the walls of one of those edit bays, which lines up with the second control room's audio booths in other drawings. The G and AI sheets do show the second floor space of Studio B as "void space", and the landscaping plans also show Studio B (slightly larger than the structural plans!) and second control room, but are dated 10/7/24. It looks to me like the original plan was two, then they scaled back to one with provisions to build the second in the future, then went back to two. One page of the G sheets show what appears to be a couch and coffee table in the "Team/Safe" room... so I'd imagine it's exactly the type of "safe" room you think it is. At least everyone who works there can sleep soundly knowing that the CEO and GM will survive comfortably in case the worst happens. 1
TheRolyPoly 3509 Posted Saturday at 09:48 AM Posted Saturday at 09:48 AM And barring any problems, we're gonna have to have our recorders up for January 2027 when WSVN debuts from their new facility in Miramar. https://www.miramarflnews.com/news/local/article315923632.html
Weeters 2173 Posted Saturday at 08:48 PM Posted Saturday at 08:48 PM January is pretty optimistic if the building currently looks like the photos above. Maybe they start the process of moving in January, but I really don't think this will be ready to broadcast from in 6 months. The HVAC isn't even up yet. My guess is they start the process in January and broadcasts move over in May (at the earliest) for Sweeps. EDIT: For example, the new WMAQ/WSNS newsroom/studios looked like this in late June of last year and didn't show up on-air until mid-January, and that was only moving the newsroom within an existing building. The idea that the WSVN facility will advance from a concrete shell, to something close to what we saw from WMAQ last June, in the next month is unlikely. 2
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