The View screens have people walking all over them and performances, it’s probably some sort of hard wearing plexi
Idk why the weekend news uses different graphics tbh, I don’t think the theme really fits idk why
I think it fits well. That’s what missing in the main news during weekdays
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Not sure why they didn’t use this opportunity to drop the Weekend branding, and go with the format everyday.
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Don’t like this at all.
All looks very mishmash now, especially with the mix of old and new fonts.
Why can’t it come from the main set too?
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yeah, the inconsistencies don’t do it for me either - they could have at least moved it up to the newer super design, than adapting the older supers with the newer fonts…
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The format, right now at least, is quite different between the weekday and weekend bulletins, with the latter being of a regular national newscast rather the Sunday Morning-style telecast they’re aiming for with the weekday bulletin.
That was my point
Ah whoops. I’m guessing the weekday format is harder to produce, longer format stories etc.
The ratings weren’t very good for the new Evening News last week (the statistics excluded Friday though):
The CBS Evening News rolled out its new format to 4.812 million total viewers and 688,000 demo viewers [Adults 25-54]. The first week with the new dual anchor format consisting of Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson week saw the broadcast fall -2% in the former category and -4% in the latter compared to the previous week. Relative to 2024, it was down by -4% in both total viewers and the demo.
ABC was first and NBC second, both doing better than same time last year.
It’s a pretty big change, so no surprise it would’ve turned some people off - especially since they’ve gone from having one female anchor to two males.
Will be interesting to see if there are any further drops over the weeks & months ahead.
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John Dickerson’s Evening News Plus seems to be a more traditional affair - with leading stories (using the same supers as RoundUp) and headlines (with a different transition) in the cold open:
I quite like the shoulder graphic…
But this is probably not the best generic green screen background - the correspondent looks like a magazine cutting!
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CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King will be taking part in the next flight of Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos‘ space company.
Per CBS, also on board will be Katy Perry, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen and Kerianne Flynn, as well as Lauren Sánchez, who is engaged to Bezos.
The full segment (which also includes a chat with coach Craig McRae) is now available on YouTube, nearly two years after its US premiere.
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RATINGS: @CBSEveningNews is up in the demo for the second straight week, and the only evening newscast up week to week, according to Nielsen data for the week of Feb. 24.
For the season, the show is cutting the adults 25-54 gap with NBC to its smallest margin in three decades.
https://x.com/cbsnewspress/status/1897076513079746785?s=46&t=RPKXX3QJ5bwM_6c5rMb0SA
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Not panicking when the audience shifted around and people found it.
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After watching its debut, tonight I ‘found’ CBS Evening News again and it is wonderful. It didn’t assault me with fast news. Elegant, thoughtful. Anna Coren’s report from China was top shelf.
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Just as a side point, and perhaps more suited to another thread (mods - feel free to move) what is stopping linear channel CBS America from ‘taking over’ Channel 10 Australia and streamlining its resources and budget towards Australia, seperate from Paramount’s streaming/entertainment agenda?
Why can’t we have a local CBS10 Melbourne, CBS10 Evening News, Inside Edition nightly, 48 Hours, and maybe even 60 Minutes (I don’t know the existing commitments), combined with existing local Aussie reality/entertainment?
Really go after the broader/slightly older demographic that still turns on free to air.
Could you imagine that announcement? It would be a game changer in Australia.
I have a feeling this might have been the original plan when CBS first bought 10, pre Viacom.