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this set actually looks amazing.

I'm told KSHB will debut weather and traffic starting Thursday. News will follow several weeks later.

WGN, Chicago; 1 p.m., 1980:

Doug Dunbar (CBS 11/KTVT) now anchoring The CBS Evening News tonight from the KTVT studios.

This ranks right up with WPEC/WGFL and the American Sports Network set in the "sports studios temporarily being used for local newscasts" department. The only overtly-baseball related thing is the platform the desk is on.

I have a feeling KSHB is going to be next, and I think they are gonna follow suit with WMAR, KJRH, WCPO in terms of switching from WSI to Baron.

Here's the screenshot of what it would look like and there should be a button that looks something like that down below in this post In other news, the heat and the pressure on Tegna to either sell the company or face being taken over is being turned up and turned up by quite a bit. Standard General Founding Partner Soo Kim has come out with this statement regarding the situation within Tegna that's been an evolving situation over the last 2 weeks. Is Soo Kim acting like a bully in this situation? Yes but that's only because Tegna (who's just as much responsible for this as Kim is) put him in this spot by not being negotiable with Kim and by rejecting every nominee that Kim has sent to be on Tegna's board that are more qualified for the job and has years of experience working at various station groups in some capacity than what some of the people on Tegna's board are. After all Kim didn't buy nearly 10% of Tegna for nothing.

More vintage Detroit TV... WJBK Eyewitness News (CBS Era).

The last 10 minutes of a WABI show from 1992: There's also some Detroit material:

Meanwhile, here I am noticing the fact that CBS used to own the Yankees...a family reunion of sorts!

So as part of the deal, did YES part owner Sinclair demand CBS2 run any of their must runs?

Looks like CBS2 just got a new temporary studio, thanks to YES Network In Stamford, CT.

It'll be so sad to see the Tower go.

A bit of WISH's news from August 8, 1987, devoted to the opening of the 1987 Pan-Am Games held in Indianapolis (the second and most recent time a US city held them)

I broke up an 8-hour tape I had made of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster from 2/1/2003 into four parts. It features coverage from a few of the networks and some of the Houston stations as well. As the clips go on it becomes more KTRK dominated. I have more tapes from this day since I recall running a couple of VCRs at the same time.

I'm beginning to wonder if it wouldn't be a bad idea for Nexstar to begin to air WGN's shows on WGN America. With News Nation coming up soon, outside of one Cancon import in two weeks that's new for them, it may be better to do for now than their reruns (and at this this point, the FCC enforcing that Syndex provision is as low a priority as possible in an emergency situation).

Glad they kept the classic theme going!

Every other news op in the country is busy with their own stuff going on. And just anchoring outside just throws people out into public areas in an unneeded manner, putting people at risk for absolutely no gain. We're in an uncertain time where the entire 'virtual set' model is showing so many cracks in the social distancing situation it may have been killed, we're seriously going to have to see so many on-air personalities in different shifts to keep everyone sane, and station groups may even have to en masse regional newscasts together. ESPNU literally showed a still screen for three hours because it's too dangerous for the Dan Le Batard Show to air as normal with everyone massed in a studio (everyone called in via Skype and such), and the CBS Morning News went without graphics. As long as information is being presented, that is priority #1 over not seeing your 'news family' in that close around the big desk for the next few weeks.

Thank you for saying this

Let me keep it real: Some of y'all upset WCBS's newscasts was handled by KCBS/KPIX for three days? "Woe is me I didn't see Maurice for a few days, I can't go face the world if Mary ain't on, why does Lonnie have them fancy graphics behind him?" Give me a break! Be lucky you got several newscasts, you could had none at all for a few days! Moving on, don't forget the entire CBS Broadcast operations in New York was affected meaning DC, Boston, LA & SF was handling everything for a few days including Inside Edition, Last Week Tonight, CBS News and if March Madness was still going on, they would've relocated elsewhere.

If this is for the long haul, the morning crew is ready.