So this just aired and it's one of the most awkward hour-to-hour transitions I have seen on KTVI. Normally, right after they say the next hour is starting, the opening plays instantly or they play 2 minutes of ads (from :57 to :59 usually). Here it goes to black for about 10-30 seconds, cuts to them not knowing the camera is on, back to black for another 10-30 seconds, then the intro happens, cut to black for a second, then they put the wrong camera in the shot.

Yeah but if that did happen, the appending of News or Finance would be a compromise as unless you combined the channels, you don't want two with the exact same name. Also, I doubt many people even know that it's an acronym to begin in the general public. It could be CNBC 1 and CNBC 2 but that would be weirder than the redundancy. Either way, I was honestly just typing names as I thought them without going back and removing weird ones. Like the NBC Verge one was because I was on The Verge looking at Tech news at the same time.

Maybe if they keep the opinion shows for primetime they can do a dual-branded channel. This would be similar to what FOX did for their movie channel a few years ago. (FXM for current, edited movies and Fox Movie Channel for Classic, Uncut movies). Otherwise, I think some name options could be: NBC Shift (after the online-only Network) NBCN (too close to CBSN) NBC News or News NBC (straight forward) Universal News (since they have rebranded some NBCU channels to Universal branding) Partner with another online site for a name (Y! NBC anyone? LOL) NBC Verge (an edgy news name) Use their BreakingNews.com Brand NBC Dispatch NBC News+ (after the old NBC Weather Plus channel) CNBC News (and rename CNBC to CNBC Finance or CNBC Business)

Seems KSDK is starting to move away from the News Channel 5 branding and is using "5 On Your Side" more. (used to be just for their investigative stories and now it's the whole newscast logo)

It wasn't on-air right? If so, it makes no sense to fire somebody for playing the game BTS.