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4 hours ago, FiveNews said:

Dang! AM news not until 5:30? I know they are the new shop in town, but 5:30am start time is very 1999.

It’s being built out incrementally; likely that you’ll see the start time pushed further in the coming weeks to 5am and 4:30am.

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Locally, Sandra Ali made her debut today.  Didn’t air until 6 am and second hour aired at 7 on the app.  Execution was rough the first hour but was way better in the second.

 

Morning newscasts are fairly new so that’s to be expected.  Midday and evenings flow way better.

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43 minutes ago, CircleWXYZ said:

Looks like weekend newscasts debuts on 3/25 at 6pm.

 

https://www.tvpassport.com/tv-listings/stations/cbs-wwj-detroit-mi/128/2023-03-25

As it stands now, TV Passport isn’t showing any 11:00 p.m. newscasts on that weekend. It’d seem weird to just launch a 6:00 p.m. newscast (that will be preempted by NCAA basketball tournament coverage on Sunday the 26th) and add the 11:00 later (especially since that’s not how it launched the weeknight editions of both broadcasts), so either the continued listing of syndicated SEAL Team reruns (Saturday) and Joel Osteen’s weekly ministry program (Sunday) in the weekend 11:00 slot is a misprint or WWJ somehow chose to stagger the weekend evening newscast launches.

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8 minutes ago, T.L. Hughes said:

As it stands now, TV Passport isn’t showing any 11:00 p.m. newscasts on that weekend. It’d seem weird to just launch a 6:00 p.m. newscast (that will be preempted by NCAA basketball tournament coverage on Sunday the 26th) and add the 11:00 later (especially since that’s not how it launched the weeknight editions of both broadcasts), so either the continued listing of syndicated SEAL Team reruns (Saturday) and Joel Osteen’s weekly ministry program (Sunday) in the weekend 11:00 slot is a misprint or WWJ somehow chose to stagger the weekend evening newscast launches.


They are still hiring for weekends.  That’s why.  11pm will be in April, more than likely.  From what I’ve been told, they wanted to slow down on adding new newscasts to give Detroiters a chance to know the new anchors and reporters.

 

Also heard the ratings so far, are a lot better than expected.

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5 hours ago, CircleWXYZ said:


They are still hiring for weekends.  That’s why.  11pm will be in April, more than likely.  From what I’ve been told, they wanted to slow down on adding new newscasts to give Detroiters a chance to know the new anchors and reporters.

 

Also heard the ratings so far, are a lot better than expected.

When you say ratings are better than expected...how much better?  For close 30 years the people of Detroit has been waiting. On another site

the set was a topic of discussion.  Have they talked about expanding the set.  The topics have been how small it's etc.  The station has the space

because it inside WKBD studios from their time from then FOX/UPN. Just want to know what discussion have been had.  Their newscast seems great

 and slow pacing. Less crime stories, so overall it does seem a well put together newscast. 

WWJ news certainly & hopefully nothing like WOIO or WGCL/WANF.

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The 9am newscast is much different from the regular newscasts. It's much more conversational and doesn't focus much on hard news. The noon/4pm team of Terrance Friday and Rachelle Graham join morning anchors Kris Laudien and Sandra Ali.

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