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Staying with CBS, the long-rumoured new open from KDKA/CBS News Pittsburgh debuted during their News at Noon today. Like their previous package, they broke free of the generic blue and used a black/yellow combination:
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The launch hasn't been without irks, however: they are using the new weather graphics, but with a mismatch of the old and new weather icons.

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More irks... When severe weather struck Pittsburgh yesterday, they did get to air a mess of graphics: new graphics, but old style radar box and the Linear Drift blue ticker... in Arial.

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In contrast, KTVT/CBS Texas managed to replaced their normal DOG with a radar pullout taking its place, similar to CBS News Detroit (picture from TVNewsTalk.net):

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And an inside look on one of the elements of the new format, the in-studio assignment desk (which they call The Desk). One of KCAL's news staples, live helicopter coverage of police chases and major incidents, will continue too; their news chopper has been renamed SkyCAL to reflect the new look:

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Just watching a bit of today's show and The Desk is actually quite a nifty idea. It's basically one reporter who can front up all the kind of stories where they normally have to scrape around for someone to do a two-way from the newsroom.  Plus the assignment editor is there for a bit of behind-the-scenes colour on the current and future stories they're covering.

This nifty idea has started testing in other CBS O&Os, starting with Miami. However, they are using their weather center instead of a normal assignment desk in their newsroom. This is something very unexpected from WFOR, as they normally are not as tabloid as its rivals, specially WSVN, which has three! assignment desks in their newsplex: a normal News Desk, a Satellite Center, and a so-called Plex Deck, which they use for softer stories.

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