North American Affilliates/Network Set Design

That's better than at least two New York City stations!

Your are right about WPIX 11. I guess thats why I hate it so much when it premiered, because there is no excuse for the #1 market have such rubbish sets. Wausaw/Rhinelander is market #134!!!! 134! And I think those sets are great. Simple clean and modern. They did mess up though in the interview area, the camera angles are super funky and awkward. Of course the graphics are ehh and theme music is super dated.
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/tv-station-directory/dma/133

WTXL - Tallhassee FL (Capital of Florida) This is a case where even if you can...... should you? Ehh. They "built" a downtown streetfront studio to supplement their regular studios. Even has a mini control gallery. Dont know what it looks like on air. Lighting/Sound issues....Very simple elements. Likely a rented storefront or lobby. Quite simple.

http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/WTXL-studio.jpg

WTXL

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Simple but much nicer than most the sets you post here, though as you say what it looks like on screen will be interesting as I suspect they'll be awkward shots of half the plasma screens then the gap above the sofa.

WLS 7 - Chicago (ABC) They are about the debut their new set in a few minutes. The set is similar to WABC but without the huge desk logo. They shifted and flip-flopped things. The anchor desk seems to move toward where the weather centre was. And instead of being directly facing the street it now faces at an angle. Leaving more room for the weather centre and the interview soft set. It looks good on air. Nice and bright. I think the lighting it superb. Audio is a little strange. Slightly echo-ey IMO. Overall nice job from JACK MORTON and BLACKWALNUT. Now hopefully WGN and WBBM will get their acts together.


from the anchor desk toward weather desk



WLS-Twitters

WLS's 10 p.m. newscast is being anchored from the newsroom tonight.

EDIT: And now they are on the new set again. Wonder what happened?

Obviously teething difficulties. You can cancel a newscast on a weekend if there are severe technical difficulties and the majority of viewers won't notice. But if you cancel the weeknight version you will get loads of complaints.

At least they were able to get the newsroom cam running. Did the part from the newsroom include full graphics?

It included lower-thirds but no OTS graphics.

I'm actually a bit disappointed with WLS's new set. Not much to it apart from the desk and video wall, much like WABC (which I'm also not a big fan of).

KTRK in Houston got a much better set in my opinion, although I realise they have much more space to play with.

Meanwhile in Pittsburg. KDKA 2 (CBS) and WPXI 11 (ABC) will debut their news sets on the same day. This coming Monday.
This WPXI 11 Preview-

WPXI
Paul Martino from KDKA posted a preview pic of their new set. But i cant find it on his Facebook.

Preview of KDKA posted here:
http://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/10/25/pittsburgh-stations-prepare-for-set-debuts/

Big video wall with an interesting surround and footer.