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They only did it for that night. They had the Nexstar ABC gfx pkg for their 11 AM show.

The move to Reserve was probably three-fold.... 1. They needed a little more space for all of the WOIO folks moving in with them (even with the number of layoffs between the two stations at the time). WOIO's facility in Shaker Heights was even smaller and is now a Goodwill store. 2. A developer made WUAB an offer they couldn't refuse. Parmatown was a thriving mall at the time across the street and WUAB was surrounded by a growing number of big box stores on Day Drive. OfficeMax was still locally owned and wanted to put a store where WUAB was. Soon after, South Park mall was built over in Strongsville and slowly sucked the life out of the area. Parmatown was eventually de-malled as the stores left and the big boxes left too (OfficeMax is now a Planet Fitness.) But there's a nice vacant Toys "R" us next door, and lots of space around town for a station to work with. 3. Downtown was/is the place to be. WEWS and WJW were firmly entrenched in their spaces on Euclid and South Marginal. WKYC eventually moved out of the East Ohio Gas building on 6th street to their sparkling new digital broadcast center on Lakeside in 2001. Even WVIZ, the PBS station moved downtown and merged with local NPR station WCPN. I think WQHS is still in Parma close to their transmitter, and it may be the same facility that Kaiser-owned WKBF used until they went off the air in the 70s. WOIO would have to be leasing that space downtown. Usually, stations own their own facilities. Another Gray station that leases their space is WTVY in Dothan, who is in the former Houston Hotel (The Woods Building) in downtown Dothan. The building itself is owned by the Woods Family, who used to own WTVY before Charles Woods sold the station, and it was sold again to Benedek. The former facility in Webb is still there, but has been rapidly deteriorating over the years. They even considered buying a former REX TV store on the main drag (Ross Clark Circle) a decade ago to move to, but have stayed downtown.

I'd argue that the 4 note signature from their early-mid 90's ID counts as a jingle.

Amy Speropoulos has left WATN/WLMT and is now working as an investigative reporter at WHBQ. This means she has now worked at every station in the Memphis market.

When it happened earlier this month, seems like they added in an extra story later in the broadcast and some additional network promos. The first block ended earlier than usual but the newscast itself ended around its usual time with the cold close.

I’m sorry Ryan but the standard font is so much better than Arial that’s being used. It’s a soft launch meaning a test.

This is a nightmare!!!!

It's refreshing (and maybe even a little comforting) to see it finally sourced and published, but as much as I want to have high expectations, there have been quite a few new meh graphics launched as of recent, so I...won't hold my breath for CBS, given how they seem to bungle everything they launch. Edited for my own takeaways: CBS is not synonymous with a notable 'jingle' of sorts (like NBC's chime), so I'm interested to see if this will catch on. Well, we just saw CBS Evening News go through a massive change last year, but this definitely means the current look is being whacked. CBS EN, CBSN, and CBS Sports all have different fonts albeit similar in being "skinny-ish", so I'm kind of wondering how bold (or not) they'll go. Lol this just reminds me of how KDKA went rogue a few months back. As far as this specific forum is concerned, this is the most relevant development and also the biggest clue about what will change -- definitely going to be really different because CBS EN is blue all over and CBSN is red all over. Interested to see what will come from this beyond what's visible from the debate coverage graphics. This is the one main component without a stated timeline, so we probably have a lot longer to wait for CBS O&Os (and CBSN Locals, if they're even switching over either). Just IMO but I feel like the "pieces" part (referring to the new design elements for the Eye) might actually take kind of a large role with the O&Os in an effort to make things feel "modern" and "sleek," which we can't really describe for the current deployment of the Eye. Pulling for CBS here to actually develop something stunning given how major of a network it is, but it's generally lagging so far behind the other two nets so in the end, will graphics really make a difference? Probably only for us newsies.

That's their Investigative unit package. They've had it for a while. From what I've heard from people "in the know": -The weather graphics were only changed to the CBSN local package because most stations don't have the resources to maintain two looks. -Any plans for new graphics are indefinitely on hold due to the Viacom takeover and COVID. I'm considering closing this thread, it's becoming a "graphics speculation" thread where people just point out any random oddity as a "sign" of new graphics.

That's why Annette Peagler said this was a soft launch tonight. They're still fine tuning some things.