The Walt Disney Co. is slashing just under 200 jobs at ABC News and at its Disney Entertainment Networks division.
ABC News will be hit particularly hard, with the data-driven digital news brand 538 being shuttered, teams from Nightline and 20/20 being consolidated, and all three hours of Good Morning America moving under the same top producer, Simone Swink. The company is also merging its digital and social operations.
with the data-driven digital news brand 538 being shuttered
The writing has been on the wall for a while now. They folded the site into the main ABC News site, took away most of the branding, and then Nate Silver left/got shown the door. But Silver owned the forecasting models on which the whole shebang was basedâŚ
After being mistakenly crossed to in the Trump/Zelenskyy Special Report last week, World News Tonight has moved into the new set, with their current supers stretched to 16:9-safe.
Itâs still too dark I think, compared to the bright blues on other networks⌠So few studio shots too, with them going to videos fairly quickly in each report. The opening is veeery long - 2 and a half minutes for the entire rundown!
Over on WABC, Bill Ritter is handing the 11pm seat to Mark Marza.
surprised they didnât take this opportunity to relaunch WNTâŚ
Dear lord why is it so dark?! Is David a vampire?
Bizarre set design with practically sitting in a black hole there. How depressing.
Dear lord why is it so dark?! Is David a vampire?
Bizarre set design with practically sitting in a black hole there. How depressing.
ABC couldnât afford it. Having a team writers to write an intro sequence thatâs 15349 minutes long chews up a lot of cash. /s
Normally the us does great set. This ABC world news set is terrible. So dark dreary and depressing.
Sets in Australia are better than this
The actual set is nice, itâs just lit too darkly and the GFX palette is too black.
