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I assure you the competition doesn't care a singular bit about KPRC's new studio.

NBC Sports California has hired Jenny Cavnar as their new Athletics play-by-play announcer. She becomes the first female lead play-by-play announcer in MLB history, and only the third in the four major leagues.

According to Houston blogger Mike McGuff a desk will be featured on all newscasts but 6 and 10pm.

Quick minor correction that Enlace is cable/pay distributed so it's unlikely they'll lose any carriage based on that. However, Spectrum did dump most of the TBN suite several years back outside Original Recipe TBN and Enlace, so they'd need to restore that coverage. Even the channel finder they have outside the main TBN stations and must-carry coverage, is just a whole lot of 'request it' links to a boilerplate form. There are also some low-powers which carry Enlace as a .1 without any English services, so they haven't lost all of their OTA coverage. But with two weeks to go until launch, not a great sign regarding network carriage.

I had a similar thought this morning that Morning Express would have been perfect for the 7-9/10 show on CNN Max and HLN. It was already an Atlanta based morning show and would have brought more consistency to Max over of the Walker/Whitfield/Acosta shared block. The schedule changes aren’t that dramatic. In the early 2000s Daybreak ran 5-7 and American Morning ran 7-10. It’s only an hour later than the 4-6 and 6-9 schedule from the mid-late 2010s. While it feels weird to get rid of Early Start and have News Central at 7, I can see the logic. 5-7 is for the workers who are getting ready to be in the office by 8. 7-10 is for the late starters, families, and folks already at work. You aren’t going to win the family crowd watching Today or GMA or win back the partisan politics crowd watching Morning Joe or F&F. That leaves you with doing just the news. The only thing I don’t like is that the News Central graphics are a bit cold for 7am.

Today is the annual Mardi Gras Day shenanigans in Louisiana and coastal Missisippi and Alabama. WVUE and WWL had a common theme with their costumes. Meanwhile, WDSU Awas WDSUing: https://twitter.com/wdsu/status/1757446261903413576?t=odUKOkngXg32M4zuQVKOzQ&s=19

The best thing CNN could do is bring back Morning Express with Robin Meade and make it their morning show. Sure, it was originally on HLN, but it was incredibly successful - probably more so than a lot of the shows on CNN, and had in many occurrences rated much better than New Day. To this day I still cannot understand why it got the cut. These latest changes are not going to pan out well for CNN.

Yeah pretty damn bad. No desk?

Why do their screens look like old iPhones?

I've never understood why New Orleans on Fat Tuesday is more like Halloween while Mobile sticks with the more traditional "Mardi Gras" dress with masks, beads, feathers, etc. Speaking of Mobile, WKRG did their traditional 9am to 5pm coverage, WALA ramped up their coverage from 7am all the way till 6:00 p.m. (they used to do 10-2), and WPMI, still ravaged from the Sinclair layoffs last year, did no coverage at all.

Straining your talent by having them stand for an hour doesn't sound great for arresting delivery of the copy on the prompter. Competition must be loving this.

Well it's already a good team (at least IMO) but it'll be made even better if Matt is joining.

Wow that's just bland... Whoopty doo... A wall with a monitored-corner...

WTSP's last four months as an ABC affiliate, then the switch to CBS 12/12/94. I think the woodgrain on the newsdesk reminded me of a school desk. LOL.

Bonus just for fun: Dora from the Nickelodeon feed was roasting all night. For instance: ”Maybe they need a map to find the endzone!” “Swiper no holding!” ”Where are we going? Back 5 yards!”

It's not about people being carbon copies, it's more about putting together individuals that have some level of respect toward each other or at the very least, a connection (whether it be sports, family, etc...) to build on. There was no debate that Robin and George and Gayle and Charlie had 'something.' Just being colleagues and 'hoping for the best' isn't enough to make things work. For example, if Don is the centerpiece, then you surround him with people he can relate with and respect. It's great Poppy and Kaitlan are friends, but this wasn't a 2-person show. Simply put, the three of them together just didn't make sense from the start and by their own accord, they said.. "the show immediately struggled, with the original trio of anchors — Harlow, Kaitlan Collins and Don Lemon — noticeably lacking on-air chemistry and reports of infighting." Had more thought (from top to bottom) been put into CNN This Morning, maybe things would have turned out differently....

Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos are quite different in personality, interests, demeanor, affect, etc and have been number 1 for years. Gayle King and Charlie Rose were pretty dissimilar but helped CBSTM rise steadily. You don't need people who are carbon copies of one another. Your argument that the three on CNN never truly seemed interested in making the show work nor supporting each other is not a factual one. Poppy and Kaitlan were and are close friends; their chemistry has always been evident. Don may have been an issue but could have been replaced with someone else from inside or outside the network.

Forecast chimes are the station's way of trying to get you to look at the screen to see the extended forecast. By the way, the WBZ chime is the CBS mnemonic introduced in 2020 and the WBTS chime are the NBC chimes.

The 2/1 newscast and weather report with "Sexual Eruption" in the background of the forecast is...wow... It feels like it would go well with the film Idiocracy.

Oh, whatever. I'm sure you're a real looker, yourself.

The fact that it's launching as a cable channel says a lot about who the target audience is: older people who are more likely to still have cable TV.

Yup, another good reason to drop cable TV.

What a great move if this was the year 2004

COMPLETELY underwhelmed. This took 2.5 months? Did Graham do this in house? The 10a show has a unique format and is heavy on in-studio interviews so I assume we will see an interview set in the morning.

Did some digging, their website Whois info points to Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) and their press release and trademark applications also mentions "Ft. Worth, TX" as building a new "state of the art" facility there, well guess what TBN has been doing since 2021, building a state of the art facility in Ft. Worth that's scheduled for completion by Jan 2024, exactly one month before the new Dr. Phil Primetime show is announced to premiere. It's 100% replacing TBN.