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I mean, Sam is the former Chief Met for the top-rated station in the country and he's working early AM. I'd be thankful for him if I were ABC. Who get's someone of this caliber to do mornings? Hell, who get's someone of Lee Goldberg's and Sam Champion's caliber on the same airwaves. Nuts.

Tucked away in some cabinet at my parents house is a stack of 35mm film photos of me sitting on this set in 1997 when I was a 9 year old obsessed with TV weather. Got to hang with then-weekend met Jon Slater for the afternoon and 5pm news. Good memories.

Jim Donovan announced on Facebook this morning that the studio is being revamped. They’ll be anchoring from the newsroom for months.

My first new topic right here. I am talking about news sets of the 1990's and their designers and fabricators. First off is WEWS sets from 1995 and 1998. I don't know who made these sets but they did look good. The 1995 set had desks similar to ABC News 20/20. The 1998 set was a product of its time coming in months after the 1998 WEWS logo debuted. Here is WJW's set from 1996. It went through some changes but the original is the work in progress.

Don't confuse "network" with "national." Yes, she's filled in at ABC News, but so have many from the O&O's. And yes, anything can happen, down the line. BUT...Kelly & Ryan is a WABC production, with a national audience. Whoever is on morning duty at channel 7 can pop up on Live. If Sam was there, it would've been him. He was a fixture on the program in the Regis days, too.

A little less than 2 years, from 1996-98, though the weekend show might've used it a bit longer than Jennings' weekday program.

A new find direct from Beta - about 5 minutes of ABC World News Sunday taped 9/14/1997 with Carole Simpson. Wonder how long ABC used this graphics package as I don't recognize it. And some re-uploads from pre-YT termination... KOMO News 4 at 11 4/17/95, where only one person at the anchor desk (Steve Pool) is still alive today. Kathi, Eric, and Bruce are all up in the skies now. And CNN NewsNight from 1/4/89 - Patrick Emory and Donna Kelley anchoring. Other CNN shows from that night have been reposted, including Crossfire and Moneyline.

It’s for the weather I’m sure.. I would say all stations are starting early especially with the the timing of the storm again. Even News12 is starting early tomorrow.

I never got to see 8’s in person but have seen 6’s old set when Jim Giles was alive and the Chief.

I know that. I meant a variation similar to those "clones".

Those are both clones of the WCBS set as are WBBM, WJZ, KPIX and others. I'm guessing they'll get the same set.

Finally. The updates to the main desk area and the big screen were good, but they needed a completely new set for way too long. While I expect a set on-par with most of the other O&Os, I hope they get a set like KDKA or WBZ.

The WKYC Set from 1993 and its 1999 refurbished version. The weather desk from the 1997 version and the 1999 refurbished version is currently used at the University of Akron in Kobe Hall for their Z-TV. Before that WVPX used it for PAX 23 News. The 1997 version had blue borders on the windows of the Cleveland Backdrop and the NBC logo on the front of the desk. The 1998 version darkened the walls to a red color.

As he shouldn't be. Everything he touches turn to crap

The Express Group. Update by FX. The Express Group. Update by FX. Set by PDG. Now known as Jack Morton. Great set for its time.

The best is Dateline NBC. Their set was like a command center.

ShopHQ was killed ASAP, and they plan to re-launch the station as it was this month, with its pre-RNN and ShopHQ management intact (see comments). Right now it seems to be carrying a simulcast of their Vuit channel, including newscasts and skycams, and extended newscasts will be naturally a part of the new KIKU schedule.

Follow up. Allen completed the KIKU acquisition on Monday (1/31). Don't know when they'll get rid of the endless infomercials they currently air. But the sooner they get that new programming on air, the better...

Good! CNN is a shell of its former self. It desperately needs new leadership.

I highly agree, he may never work at another broadcast network or cable channel ever again.

Today is a great day for everyone at CNN and News as a whole. Stunned? Does Brian seriously have to keep this crap up? He needs to stop letting Jeff Zucker control him. Best of luck to WarnerMedia in the hiring for this, a solid external investigation to really find the problems would be a great thing for the network. Don't let the door hit you on the way out Jeff. Let's hope he remains unemployed.

I also liked KTUL’s set they had from 1994-1999.

I loved KOTV’s set that was used from 1994-2013. The only major changes they did to that set was moved the weather center to its own area, added the kitchen added a different interview set updated the backgrounds and got rid of all the gray to blue then to the brown.

KTRK airs Jeopardy! at 11:30, and Inside Edition at 3:30. I haven't a clue why they couldn't expand the 11 to an hour, end the news at 3, and adopt the WLS 3pm schedule, putting the 2 syndies back-to-back. Feels less confusing, and more streamlined.

Not a new development, but Sam’s obviously been given quite a bit of latitude in the on-air dress code.

Yesterday morning , WWOR had a simulcast of FOX Weather while WNYW had hourly updates during their E/I block.

Wow WPXI got a lot of mileage out of that set - looks like it was basically untouched through 2001/2, got a facelift by 2003, and lasted until they moved to a new building in the late 2000s.

This. I was looking forward to checking out their coverage of this storm, but I got to the the first commercial break yesterday and decided I'd seen enough. I could deal with the FOX Nation commercials, but I can't deal with seeing Hannity, Tucker, and the rest during every break.

The fact that they actively promote fox news shows is a turn off. I didn’t care to see Jesse Watters promoting his show while watching storm coverage. They should have kept it separate.

They launched a 6 pm newscast on weekends late last year as well. In addition it appears they removed the 8pm newscast as well as reduced the weekend morning newscasts by 1 hour airing from 8-11am instead of 7-11am

Los Angeles became the largest TV market to air an ATSC 3 signal. KTTV (RF 11) is the host station, carrying Fox 11, KCOP 13 & KTLA 5 main channels. KTTV's ATSC1 simulcast is on KTLA's RF 35 stick, while the subchannels (11.2-4) are on KCOP's RF 13 stick.

Hopefully WHEN Allen Media takes control of Tegna, TWC can be more of an asset. As it is right now, it was castoff by NBC/Bain after their malignment of the channel trying to "fill time". Now, this "time filler" is the norm after hours and they dropped the ball on this coverage. The local stations could assist TWC in covering the weather where it happens on the ground, and TWC should be able to step in with additional coverage and analysis of weather when it happens for a local station should they be affected by the storm itself. There really needs to be more weather coverage OTA. It's largely gone away in favor of other diginets. You have an AccuWeather or WeatherNation channel here and there, but it's very sparse, and it really hasn't been good coverage ever since NBC's WeatherPlus went away. And that played second fiddle to TWC and could have cause the same with WeatherPlus taking some of the "Weather" out of TWC. Distribution-wise, it's a challenge since the grids (power & data) could be affected by the storm itself. Going digital seems to make it harder to get the information out since cell phone networks could be toppled by a tower collapse or data failure somewhere in the chain. And even the most well-intentioned backup plans can be felled by a bad storm.