CBS News

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

This video isn’t available in Australia

3 Likes

Not sure why they didn’t use this opportunity to drop the Weekend branding, and go with the format everyday.

5 Likes

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?

4 Likes

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…

4 Likes

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.

2 Likes

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!

7 Likes