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The international streaming offering of the NFL, Game Pass International, is leaving Endeavor Streaming. From next season, they are teaming up with DAZN and, as a result, they will be integrated into their offerings. https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-dazn-enter-long-term-agreement-delivering-game-pass-international-beginning-

Hoping it's a Matt Quinn design. This could be a much needed improvement for their legacy and Raycom stations.

Yep. Quite surprising. I don’t think they are going to launch this thing on Monday, unless they make a soft launch, maybe debuting the new KCAL set and going on with the new hirings, which is the most likely thing. No new graphics or “CBS News Los Angeles” until after the holidays or when CBS News Detroit launches (or maybe yes), which could be the moment to promote the new product and finally get KCAL to produce the other hours. Unless, as you say, it is postponed at the last minute and/or withholding it for the New Year.

There are other renders indeed... They were presented on a virtual news conference on Midterms Day.

Nope. The other site says is a BDI design. And from the preview it has indeed a BDI design feeling to it.

Gray is really going big for this.

The BBC has unveiled its long-awaited new set in Studio B, the former BBC World News long-form programming studio, and also used by Newsnight, The Andrew Marr Show and Victoria Derbyshire, among others. The new studio is completely different from its predecessor, as it has cues from the Washington D.C. bureau set, Scandinavian sets, whilst retaining nods to the overall architecture of New Broadcasting House and the first generation of sets after moving there. The new set is also video wall-laden, including a "catwalk" explainer zone, a large touch video wall and a vertical screen designed to present content in a mobile style. The set was designed by Simon Jago, and the new camera technology comes from Electric Friends, a Norwegian tech company related to TV 2 Norway, also based in Bergen; the technology was pioneered by TV 2 themselves, and has since been used by many broadcasters worldwide, including SRF, Al Arabiya, TV 4 and the Beijing Meteorological Bureau, among others. The new set will be used by the domestic News at Six and News at Ten, as well as the BBC London News and many political programming, including the election results programming; News at One and the News Channel will remain at Studio E for the foreseeable future, however, other news shows, including BBC Breakfast and the nations, will gradually switch to new sets in due course.

Rupert Murdoch's new TV project in the UK, TalkTV, has launched just under an hour ago. The new channel, operated by their radio subsidiary Wireless Group (but owned directly by News UK), is the new home to Piers Morgan's show (which will be also broadcast on Sky News Australia and Fox Nation), but it is being mostly built on the basis of Murdoch's opinionated DAB station TalkRadio, which going forward will be a radio simulcast of the newly-launched channel, and most of its programming taking on a filmed radio styling. The three new TV-focused shows, involving Morgan, former The Talk panelist Sharon Osbourne (with exactly the same name for the new show) and The Times political editor Tom Newton-Dunn, have bespoke graphics designed by Jump Design (with lots of cues to Fox News, indeed), music from Sitting Duck and set designs from Jack Morton and MOOV. These same premises worked with ITV Daytime/Good Morning Britain previously, and their executive director, Erron Gordon (who also championed Morgan as GMB co-presenter) has made the presentation much more professional than that of rival GB News. If anybody's interested (for presentation purposes), the channel is live on YouTube and surprisingly, not geoblocked (however, in the US and Canada is not available thanks to Piers being on Fox Nation, also in AU and NZ, but it is in the rest of the world). Each hour is being individually posted both live and on-demand, as it was the case with talkRadio beforehand.

As far as I can see, everyone is bashing NewsNation. Even with the scandals and chaos going around the station, there should be definitely a room for NewsNation for many reasons. First of all, they are quickly finding an audience thru new media outlets and MVPD services, and they are slowly picking up new deals with both traditional and MVPD providers. Second, there is space for a right-leaning news outlet to compensate for the direction Fox News and Newsmax have taken. Maybe you've got executives which have some kind of relationship with a former President, but, as far as I can see, there is not Fox-like rhetoric, and, if they finally make the programming and content right, NewsNation can easily target the more traditional conservative audiences by making their news-based pundit programming as a selling point to disaffected viewers. Finally, they have a larger network of resources (the Nexstar local stations, WGN Radio, The Hill, BestReviews) that they can boost the network's audiences, and make additional programming with an infotainment focus. Live PD could also be a fit for their weekend primetime hours, as one of you suggested, as their direction into true crime-based specials with the Missing in America franchise (which should be spun-off as a weekly show) can also attract viewers. They also need to use more their wasted staff, like Rich McHugh, which could do a semi-regular, long-form investigative series. The thing is using the Nexstar stations as their only external source is not going to be easy enough to attract an audience, they should use the rest of their national brands and resources to make additional programming. The other problem is that their transitional Blue Bloods/news/opinion schedule is making both audiences and advertisers to go away from the network. They should go all-news/opinion/infotainment as fast as they need to build an audience.

Nope. The new logo is very different from the Sinclair-era logo. Although it has the same order of positions, the new logo has that new wordmark inspired from the historic KOMO-TV logo from the 80s, whilst the former used Helvetica, in a style similar to the logos used during the final years of Fisher ownership.

Right-wing pundit Piers Morgan, known for unsuccessfully replacing Larry King at CNN, and for its stint at ITV's Good Morning Britain, which took in a more opinionated direction and increasing ratings until his resignation early this year because of unappropiate comments regarding the CBS/ITV Oprah with Meghan and Harry special, is joining Fox News. His new show, produced by News UK (which is launching an equivalent network called talkTV, based in London Bridge, and which will use resources from their radio division and newspapers to rival GB News), will launch next year and will be also broadcast on Sky News Australia.

And NBC News has revealed the name for the show... Top Story with Tom Llamas. The show debuts September 20.

Many people often associate the theme from KIRO's News Out of the Box era as a composition by Gerard Schwarz. It is not. Although the Seattle Symphony recorded the theme package under Schwarz as conductor, the themes were composed by Mark Haffner, as shown in this newspaper report from the Morning News Tribune: Haffner would later compose the more traditional News Now package, used during the NewsChannel 7 era, and which had the same sonic logo as the News Out of the Box package.

From what I can see, it does have the new ABC logo. But the logo itself looks very poor. It looks like a scrap attempt to reposition WKBW, but it is really lacking an identity and has really a small-market vibe. Doing away with the Circle 7 would be detrimental for the future of the once-proud station. Anyway, back on track...

And it has been a rocky first month for GB News, as the channel has become fodder by viewers and media alike, with its programming being beset by many technical problems, including vision and sound out of sync, poor lighting at the station's studio (designed by office design studio Morgan Lovell), sound and vision outages, and botched format changes, including moving all programming to the soft set, and dropping the Fox & Friends-like format of its morning show in favour of a more conventional style. Additionally, there have been compliants of overtalking in a negative way about taking the knee, which has been already made by English athletes to protest racial injustice. This led to a hot water situation when, during a Saturday morning slot, presenter and former government spokesperson Guto Harri did the gesture on-air in solidarity with the England football team. This caused GB News to suspend the presenter, describing the event as an "unacceptable breach of our standards". Harri, which also works with ITV Wales, promptly resigned. However, ratings fell to a record low, even to the point of registering the equivalent to hashmarks. In the aftermath, founding programme director John McAndrew, which championed a concept focusing on "regional news and talk", also resigned, and chairman and lead presenter Andrew Neil is out on vacation since late June, being filled in by Colin Brazier in his primetime slot (he is set to return in September). Presenter Alastair Stewart is also out, this time, due to health issues. In the midst of this, line-up changes are already being made. Since July 19, former UKIP and Brexit Party leader and LBC broadcaster Nigel Farage has been the lead anchor of a 7pm commentary show, Farage, which airs Monday-Thursday. The show follows Michelle Dewberry's slot, shortened to two hours. Although the right-wing punditry is still part of the show, Farage's style is less shock-jock-like, taunting and aggressive than those of other GBN commentators. There is also a quite gimmicky segment, Talking Pints, where Farage and a guest politician debate about the day's political stories while drinking some beer. The show, professionally produced unlike many GBN shows, did had some incidents however, where pundit-reporter Tom Harwood was attacked by protesters using swear words, however, Mr. Farage did manage the incident in a very courteous way. Here's a look a the first show: Additionally, the weekend edition of Tonight Live has had a commentator change: comedian and pundit Mark Dolan joined the station to present that edition, with Dan Wootton remaining Monday-Thursday. The content under Dolan has become more shock-jock-like, which is no surprise, however, as Dolan was presenter on Murdoch-owned radio station talkRADIO, where Wootton also worked. The launch weekend presenter, Naka Akua, has moved to weekend afternoons to present an human interest led show, which is set to debut soon. Additionally, hourly newsbreaks are set to be introduced from September, and improvements to the studio are being developed.

The logo font looks like Futura Condensed Black and not Neue Plak. It does not look bad however, it has a quite retro feel and it harkens me to the golden age of TWC. As I can see from this write-up, it looks like there will be some foes within the Fox News organization. We know that Fox commentators do what they do, but it is really good to see Fox Weather will be overseen by their news department and not their opinion department. And the response from TWC it's clearly aggressive. Let's see what will happen next.

Great update of Look N!!!! It looks very good and, as said, it mixes elements of that look, Look G and the NECN graphics. I wonder if they were planned to debut for the delayed 2020 Olympics, but, honestly, they update their O&O graphics every Olympic cycle.

And so it went... GB News launched last night with an hour-long show led by Andrew Neil and introducing their presenters, as well as the first edition of its opinion show Tonight Live with Dan Wootton. The launch was very messy: during most of the launch night, sound was out of sync with the picture, additionally, the studio built in their Paddington HQ suffers from bad lighting and sound problems, and their PTZ cameras were out of focus during the introduction program. Theses problems clearly came from their studio, as playout is outsourced to Red Bee Media and, otherwise, everything works fine. When the Dan Wootton program began, some of this technical difficulties were solved, however, the most critical (the sound out of sync, for example) still remained. At times, content was still ongoing when, suddenly, commercial breaks (without break bumpers, the standard in the UK) appeared. Wootton's show is very Fox-like, and after the first day it is already being compared to Tucker Carlson by many local media critics and insiders. This is no surprise, as Wootton was editor of The Sun and had a show on talkRADIO (a Murdoch-owned talk radio station in the UK). However, this Fox-like style of ranting and promoting conspiracy theories goes against their promise of not being "shouty", and might be enough to run afoul of Ofcom's very strict impartiality guidelines (to which Fox News succumbed in the UK, resulting on Sky UK dropping the channel). This video features the full four hours of launch night with the launch program and the Dan Wootton pundit show.

From the Netherlands: an intro history compilation of Hart van Nederland, the tabloid/regional newsmagazine from SBS6.

Next Sunday, the UK will see the launch of its first ever 24-hour news channel since the launch of Sky News in 1989 and BBC News (24) in 1997, with the launch of the GB News channel. GB News is backed mostly by Discovery, but also by think-tank Legatum and hedge fund manager Paul Marshall. The channel is led by former BBC star presenter Andrew Neil, who acts as chairman and lead presenter of a prime time slot, and former Sky News Australia director Angelos Frangopoulos. Although it is expected to be right-wing and pro-Brexit-leaning, and it is being compared to Fox News, it is adhering to the stricter impartiality restrictions made by Ofcom, and, as a result, the channel is offering a dual programming concept similar to that of Sky News Australia, with hard news in daytime and punditry in prime time, it pledges even to be less "shouty" than Fox. The channel will have a line-up of stalwart presenters like Neil, Colin Brazier, Simon McCoy, Alastair Stewart and Kirsty Gallacher, alongside a range of other established presenters and journalists, like Rosie Wright (ex-Euronews), Darren McCaffrey (ex-Sky) and Gloria de Piero (ex-GMTV and more recently Labour MP), alongside established politicians and pundits, like Michelle Dewberry, Mercy Muroki, Alexandra Philips, Naka Akua and Dan Wooton. Comedian Andrew Doyle and conversationist Neil Oliver complete the line-up of star presenters. The channel is being FTA from the start, available on all major platforms (Freeview, Freesat, Sky, Virgin, Youview...) and it will also stream live online on their website and social media. The YouTube live stream will be available outside the UK. GB News is also attempting to launch a SVOD streaming service akin to Fox Nation, where exclusive content from their presenters will be available.