The shape of the desk is a holdover from the Diane Sawyer era of World News Tonight. It is nice to hear the old Edd Kalehoff theme return, although I will miss listening to the Hans Zimmer theme.
Jesus wept. That headline sequence takes an age to get through just to start a full news bulletin.
Imagine watching that unfold with David Muir announcing the headlines while you're watching him at home every night. It feels excessive, tedious & looks like a chore to watch it all the time. Why did ABC News in America take it to this level if the viewers become eventually annoyed to make them not watch the bulletins after a short period of time.
I don't get their strategy if they think this new headline sequence was a good idea in hindsight.
WGBH Boston, PBS, USA. Recently, WGBH 2, the PBS member station behind
Frontline
, the PBS World channel and the
Masterpiece
franchise, introduced a new branding including a modified version of their long time logo from this
To this
They adopted a new colour and dropped the "W" from their on-air branding (but "WGBH" is still used in its formal name)
ETA: Per GBH, the "W" is off to a new journey
Anchors aweigh! W's first stop: the coast of Washington for whale-watching. After waiting patiently, W was rewarded with a wave and a wonderful start to their retirement journey. #WhereIsW going next week? Find out next Wednesday! pic.twitter.com/SJp8QEmqIl
Jesus wept. That headline sequence takes an age to get through just to start a full news bulletin.
Imagine watching that unfold with David Muir announcing the headlines while you're watching him at home every night. It feels excessive, tedious & looks like a chore to watch it all the time.
Why did ABC News in America take it to this level if the viewers become eventually annoyed to make them not watch the bulletins after a short period of time.
I don't get their strategy if they think this new headline sequence was a good idea in hindsight.
While I agree with you that the WNT headline sequence goes for far too long, their viewers must not have a problem with it considering it's the most-watched news bulletin (and indeed recently, the most-watched show full stop).
Jesus wept. That headline sequence takes an age to get through just to start a full news bulletin.
Imagine watching that unfold with David Muir announcing the headlines while you're watching him at home every night. It feels excessive, tedious & looks like a chore to watch it all the time.
Why did ABC News in America take it to this level if the viewers become eventually annoyed to make them not watch the bulletins after a short period of time.
I don't get their strategy if they think this new headline sequence was a good idea in hindsight.
While I agree with you that the WNT headline sequence goes for far too long, their viewers must not have a problem with it considering it's the most-watched news bulletin (and indeed recently, the most-watched show full stop).
So could NBC reverse the sequence to the old style? Imitating ABC, the peacock made Nightly’s title shorter to 5 seconds, and the studio became darker… Never a fan of this.
Variety Magazine is reporting that CBS This Morning may be relocated to the Viacom/MTV/TRL Studio in Times Square. Making the CBS morning programme neighbours to ABC's GMA down the street. The set space was just used for the CBS election coverage for the presidential election.
imes Square-based Good Morning America may be getting a new neighbor next year.
Variety is reporting that CBS News is considering moving CBS This Morning to a massive studio at the Times Square headquarters of its corporate parent, ViacomCBS, on a permanent basis.
The Viacom studio at 1515 Broadway features panoramic views of Times Square and was once home to MTV’s Total Request Live. CBS News used the studio for 2020 election night coverage, and seemed to enjoy using the space.
“The Election Night set gives us a lot of space to work with and follow all Covid-19 protocols,” CBS News election night coverage ep David Bohrman told us in October. “It’s all the bells and whistles, including dozens of video walls, virtual mapping and augmented reality effects.”
According to Variety, the idea to move CTM to 1515 Broadway has not moved beyond early discussions, one of these people says, and no changes are imminent.
When reached, a CBS News spokesperson declined to comment.
CBS This Morning has originated from a studio inside the CBS Broadcast Center in New York for years, although it was forced to broadcast from The Ed Sullivan Theater for a chunk of 2020 due to multiple Broadcast Center-based staffers having been infected with the coronavirus.
The CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning used to share the same studio in the CBS Broadcast Center, as did HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee prior to the pandemic.
Evening News moved from New York to CBS’ Washington D.C. bureau last year.
I bet they do it, if only to make some big, self-serving corporate statement that CBS and Viacom are one again. MTV has barely used that entire space ever since the first run of TRL ended.
I'm not sure if it's the best idea. Streetside studios can really be hit-or-miss. The Today Show has the original and arguably the best one: good location for crowds, decent view, and right across from headquarters. The Early Show's studio was somewhat underwhelming.
ABC's is okay, though the prominence of the window view has wavered over the years. The bright lights and heavy advertising were a fine backdrop for TRL, but maybe that's not the best for a news program.
One upside to Times Square is that it can certainly draw a crowd. If CBS ends up moving in there and uses the windows (which, unlike election night, I think they would), then it would be a very, very similar execution as GMA. The single biggest mistake CBS made with the Early Show was that it tried to clone too much of what the other two networks had.
It would be a shame to see Studio 57 mothballed. When it debuted, it was stunning, full of energy, and it inspired a lot of copycats. Now, they've stripped away a lot of what made it unique and try to make it look like any other set that you'd see on CNN.
Two very interesting articles below from the LA Times as a result of an investigation into CBS News/CBS O&Os - particularly about how CBS came to acquire WLNY in New York.
Gripped by scandal in 2018, television giant CBS hired outside firms to investigate sexual misconduct claims against its longtime leader, Leslie Moonves, and scour the company of traces of a toxic atmosphere https://t.co/zWrIGm4FKE
CBS’ purchase of a Long Island TV station provided CBS stations chief Peter Dunn and other top CBS executives access to an elite country club https://t.co/bXXlBY9bkp
