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.
Will the last station leaving Times Square turn out the lights?
Meanwhile, Nightline reintroduced its 2003 wordmark for its 45th anniversary special :
Some old titles recreated at the end too - namely the inaugural one in 1980, then '97, '99, '03, 2014 (with the new colours?) and the previous lowercase one.
Kind of logical, given they now share the same unit with 20/20, which has a similar condensed italic wordmark. Not too sure on the teal though - does the colour have any significance with the show/anniversary?
Such a better logo too
ABCâs World News Tonight showed ratings growth in the first quarter, delivering an average of 8.13 million viewers, while its rivals saw year-over-year erosion.
NBC Nightly News averaged 6.6 million viewers, off by 3% from the first quarter of last year. CBS Evening News averaged 4.59 million, dropping 8%.
GMA3 looks to have been reformatted into âThird Hour of GMAâ (at least in the on-screen branding) earlier this month, while NY Post/Daily Fail and co are speculating big changes behind the show including host changes.
The GMA3 branding is still on ABC Newsâ press releases though, such as the show preview article that week:
Makes sense, given the âWhat you need to knowâ subbrand is a remnant of the COVID era, plus the producers across the three hours are now the same⌠But it just shows how unstable this hour is in the family with yet another name since 2018!
And apparently This Week moved into WNTâs new studio around the same time, with the latterâs desk rotated and created a pointier look.
Amazing how different the set looks without all the dark black set imagery from WNT.
The 12:06 a.m. (US Eastern time) post called Stephen Miller, Trumpâs deputy chief of staff, a âworld class hater.â
âYou can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.â
âTrump is a world-class hater. But his hatred is only a means to an end, and that end is his own glorification. Thatâs his spiritual nourishment.â
GMA is moving into Disneyâs Hudson Sqaure HQ next Monday.
Ooh very exciting
âWe are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post â which was a clear violation of ABC News policies â we have made the decision to not renew,â an ABC News spokesperson said in a statement to TVLine. âAt ABC News, we hold all of our reporters to the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism, and we remain committed to delivering straightforward, trusted journalism.â
Wow so Fox can spew vile pond scum unscathed but someone at ABC dare to voice their opinion and gets sacked.
So much for freedom of speech. Only when the orange blumpkin is appeased it seems.
Itâs the right decision for ABC to make for their integrity.
Fox are a law unto themselves. The âwhataboutismâ doesnât mesh here
