[mouseboy33]

The Old guard changes.

First the most well know local meteorologist in the America, WGN 9 Chicago Tom Skilling is retiring. The station is giving him a month-long send off.
www.adweek.com 

Tom Skilling to Retire from WGN After 45 Years
"I wouldn’t trade a single minute of it for anything.”
  Source: www.adweek.com

Now its been revealed that one of the first, if not the 1st TV traffic specialists in the country, WLS 7 Chicago Roz Varon is retiring next month as well.
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WLS Traffic Reporter Roz Varon to Retire After 35 Years at the Chicago Station
Varon was Chicago's first TV traffic reporter on the morning.
  Source: www.adweek.com

[London Lite]

WINK News in Fort Myers has moved to a temporary virtual set and it's grim.

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[ginnyfan]

Why is the WNBC 4 NY set so bad? They are just standing or sitting at the glass desk in front of the newswall. You would expect more from New York NBC HQ.

[W. Knight]

Nexstar is rolling out their new Your Local Election Headquarters package, with music composed by Stephen Arnold. So far, it's been seen on WXIN Indianapolis (Fox) and KETK/KFXK (NBC/Fox; the latter under SSA) in East Texas.

Full opener on WXIN:
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Sting on KFXK:
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The full soundtrack for your listening pleasure:
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Celebrating their 70th year, Lockwood's KAKE in Wichita debuted new graphics and set.
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The set is done in collaboration with FX Design Group.
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[London Lite]

Atlanta News First (WANF) have cut their 9am news bulletin to 30 minutes to squeeze in a local lifestyle show ATL Live from 9.30-9.55am.

This is followed by news headlines, traffic and weather for 5 minutes.

Caps from ATL Live appear to use the soft area of the news set and also the traffic/weather area.

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[mouseboy33]

Those lifestyle shows are money makers for these stations. Because alot of the segments are paid. Its a dicey grey area because some of the shows are produced and feature some of the employees from the news department. Hardly surprising really. So many stations have added these types of quasi-talk show programmes to their mid morning schedules. Jon OIiver's programme Last Week Tonight did a programme about them.

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[mouseboy33]

NBC News is apparently going all in on their NBC NEWS Now streaming service according to this article in the WRAP. Its seems they are peeling NBC News away from MSNBC and the network news product is aligning closer with NBC News Now and MSNBC is completely differently beast

www.thewrap.com 

Why Streamer NBC News Now Is the Future of the Network's News
“We’re using the same studios, the same control rooms, and are treating it like …
  Source: www.thewrap.com

[Rdd]

Conspicuous lack of any mention of MSNBC there. Even when they mention rival news channels.

[TheGregmeister]

Those lifestyle shows are money makers for these stations. Because alot of the segments are paid. Its a dicey grey area because some of the shows are produced and feature some of the employees from the news department. Hardly surprising really. So many stations have added these types of quasi-talk show programmes to their mid morning schedules. John OIiver's programme Last Week Tonight did a programme about them.

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I'm sure most of us here are adults that aren't too easily offended, but that video should perhaps have had text above it for strong language and adult humour. Only in case there maybe some people accessing this forum for whom a video of that particular topical HBO comedy show wouldn't be suitable viewing, or actually are easily offended.

[mouseboy33]

Conspicuous lack of any mention of MSNBC there. Even when they mention rival news channels.

Yeah I think NBC News (network news product) itself for the last few years have "moved away" from MSNBC. Lester Holt used sign off Special Reports by telling viewers to tune to MSNBC for more or something like that. Now he says turn their streaming network NBC News Now. Plus the NBC network has give away an hour of airtime on their O&Os to NBC News Daily which is simulcast on the NBC network and NBC News Now. So they are really pushing the streaming product and letting MSNBC stand on its own and they are not having any trouble attracting viewers often beating CNN. So it seems this strategy is to capture the linear viewer and streaming viewer to their product. Lots of viewers for NBC News, NBC News Now, MSNBC combined....impressive.