This freshly uploaded clip shows what the failed format looked like on the air – it’s immediately obvious that they were trying to create a very different look and feel:
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KOMU, the NBC affiliate for Columbia and Jefferson City, is owned by the University of Missouri, run for profit, and its journalism school operates the news department. Senior staff anchor most programs though undergrad and grad students have vast opportunities to report and anchor.
The 135th market is rare in that it still has three independent broadcast operations - two of them group-owned - and that they are all fairly competitive ratings-wise.
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Just some casual karaoke on the news set. 
Again, from ARD Germany’s Tagesthemen. I don’t think this one actually went to air, it was just featured on their Facebook page in 2017.
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KTSF, San Francisco; news in Cantonese:
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And we already have a major shakeup:
https://www.robertfeder.com/2021/01/25/rebranded-newsnation-moving-joe-donlon-solo-news-hour-6-p-m/
Excerpt:
After five months as co-anchor of NewsNation, the signature primetime newscast on WGN America, Joe Donlon is being reassigned as solo anchor of a one-hour news show at 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
“The Donlon Report,” billed as a mix of “news and interviews with today’s newsmakers,” will premiere March 1 — coinciding with a rebranding of the Nexstar Media Group cable network from WGN America to NewsNation.
“We’ll dive into the biggest stories in news, sports, entertainment and culture while staying true to NewsNation’s mission of delivering objective journalism,” Donlon said of his new show.
Donlon was in his third year as principal news anchor at Nexstar flagship WGN-Channel 9 when he was tapped to launch the Chicago-based “NewsNation” in September along with co-anchors Marni Hughes and Rob Nelson, imports from Seattle and New York, respectively.
In response to dismally low ratings, Nexstar announced plans to cut the renamed “NewsNationPrime” from three hours to two.
Effective March 1, the NewsNation evening lineup will be:
- 5 to 6 p.m. NewsNation Early Edition with Nichole Berlie
- 6 to 7 p.m. The Donlon Report with Joe Donlon
- 7 to 9 p.m. NewsNationPrime with Marni Hughes and Rob Nelson
- 9 to 10 p.m. Banfield with Ashleigh Banfield
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So the 3 hours of primetime national news that has failed to make any headway at all is now being expanded to 5 hours and the whole network being rebranded from WGN to Newsnation
Seems like It’s turning into a 24 hour news channel
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Another article:
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@Leo_Puglisi6 they’re coming for your market!
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This freshly uploaded clip shows what the failed format looked like on the air – it’s immediately obvious that they were trying to create a very different look and feel:
WWOR in New York, an independent (i.e., unaffiliated) station, also tried an unconventional, walking-around-the-newsroom format in the 1990s:
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That’s arguably what Nexstar should have done from launch - build up a national news infrastructure large enough and get some osmosis going with their local stations. From what I’ve heard in the TVNewsTalk forum, the 3-hour newscast was basically two hours of content anyways as the third hour retread the first hour. At some point, that became just a replay of the first hour.
Nexstar has a gift in getting basic channel package (whether cable or OTT) circulation - something I hope it would’ve used better to its advantage ahead of competitor Gray Television starting up a shoestring national streaming operation called “Local News Live” where some of its stations across the country host programs while they aren’t airing news on their OTA channel. Then again, LNL will be available with their stations’ own OTT offerings. Will that be just as hard to figure out how to find? Dunno.
I know Sinclair also has The National Desk, but I think that’s mostly value capture for the stations with low-tier network affiliations it can’t bother to air local news on.
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I can’t see any of them making any impact.
I feel If Americans want national news they will turn to one of the big prestigious national news outlets: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, PBS or MSNBC
They won’t turn to a local news group trying to do national news with local resources
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It’s a desperate effort to arrest a disappearing cable audience. News and sports only thing that get audiences on cable but 2021 is far too late to be starting an unbiased news service. They are about 35 years too late.
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Next, the critically acclaimed “alternative” 6 p.m. newscast on KUSA in Denver, has a new look:
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An investigation by UK media regulator Ofcom found that licence holder Star China Media Ltd (SCML) did not have editorial control over the English-language satellite news channel, and concluded that the China Global Television Network Corporation (CGTNC) was “ultimately controlled by the Chinese Communist Party” rather than SCML.
Typical.
A compilation of current news opens, public and commercial (the latter relatively rarely seen on YouTube), from France’s overseas territories:
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The news TVE in Spain has a new look:
Also today, Serbia saw the launch of a new news channel, Vesti:
Here are some clips of the new NewsNation programs (as discussed upthread):
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Oh boy. I saw the promos.
It all looks so folksy hometown 1980s-ish in vibe
Nothing important feeling about it at all
And the ratings just in reflect that
17,000 viewers in the US in a market 13 times bigger than Australia is like 1300 viewers in Australia
https://www.thewrap.com/newsnation-ashleigh-banfield-ratings-relaunch-wgn-america/
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A compilation of current late local news opens from New York City:
