I agree, but there are some hardened journos that love being on the road. But as Chief White House Correspondent during a Trump presidency, I feel like Peter would rather be in the thick of it. While Tom is very much into disasters and studio chats, which is great for NN.
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What a wild comment to make. A journalist is allowed to ask questions. Management tends to get more things wrong than right. And sheâs displaying basic worker solidarity.
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No surprise really.
really, the only surprise is that heâs continuing with Top Story - wouldâve thought he would concentrate fully on NNâŠ
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Tbh I think this is way things will be going forward⊠anchors doing a lot more for probably quite a bit less than their predecessors.
I know there was a wave of pay cuts for local anchors some years back. I suspect the same is happening on a national level. I know CNN has made moves in this direction over the last year - anchors are either having their salaries frozen (if theyâre lucky!) or cut.
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Also a surprise but I think he also sees the show as his baby. NN has an entrenched format but TS he can do as he pleases.
Imagine theyâll need to come from the same studio so he can roll from one straight into the other.
It makes sense. Top story often runs the same or similar or extended versions of the taped pieces that run on Nightly anyway.
Or they pre-record the final segment. Itâs usually a feel-good or explainer package to top and tail, no need to go live. That allows Tom to head up to 3C, Hallie Jackson runs until Nightly is played out.
âI actually think building a news organization from scratch is a really fun idea in this day and age, because, first of all, thereâre a lot of good people available, and you can craft a pretty good news organization for a pretty reasonable amount of money,â said former CNN president and NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Zucker. MSNBC is âgoing to actually be building and growing and unencumbered by having to worry about what NBC News thinks about it.â
Others are more skeptical. âIf it has 100 journalists, thatâll be more than itâs ever had there,â said one longtime news executive. âItâs a whole different animal, and thatâs not what itâs built to do.â
The end product wonât actually look a whole lot different from how it looks today: MSNBC will still be doing a lot of resistance bait, in the mornings, at night, and on weekends. Still, the enterprise journalism it commissions will drive shows throughout the day, offering plenty of opportunities for an openly progressive network to blanket stories that Fox News wonât touch or CNN may be wary of owning, such as the ongoing detention of activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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NBC 10 in Philly debuted a new set after repairing from water damage to its building for a year. It also marked the debut of meteorologist Robert Johnson, returning to his hometown after working for WTVD for nearly 5 years.
Class CNBC, the Italian port of the business channel jointly owned by local publisher Class Editori, started their 25th anniversary celebrations in February with a special Open Day strand of live interviews and studio tours, preceded by the ring of the bell at the Italian Stock Exchange.
New CNBC titles and logo bug for the occasion, with the âClassâ serifs and arch updated. The rest of the supers and other programme titles remain:
Come April, the channel airs a live special, 25x25, plus a gala dinner in Milan.
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The reason why Sheinelle Jones hasnât returned earlier this year.
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CNBC debuted a new London studio at the end of last month, alongside the inaugural editions of Europe Early Edition (at 7-8am CET) and an updated Squawk Box Europe (8-11am). The set doesnât really feel very streetside despite the article stressing so, but I like the RHS not completely filled by a gigantic screen.
The two shows are part of the channelâs strategy to produce locally-based daytime programming separately for Europe/Asia/Middle East, announced back in late March:
- Squawk Box Asia was pushed back to 7-10am by U.S. Markets Edition at 6, which provides highlights from the US overnight coverage;
- The 10-12am slot in Asia is now The China Connection from Hong Kong and Inside India from Singapore, focusing on the two East Asian economic powerhouses. They replaced Street Signs;
- and Access Middle East replaces Capital Connection at 12nn-1pm, with more regional focus from their Abu Dhabi bureau.
Now CNBCâs Indian channels are getting the new peacock and graphics too - kinda.
Most of the channel pres are still as overloaded as Indian TV graphics do, but some shows (like closing highlights show, Markets Forward) have been using the flat graphics and opener with the old peacock for a while, leading to this weird mix from two weeks agoâŠ
The logo change coincided with their Prime channel (launched for premium investors in 2011) relaunching to drop the âHDâ in their name and with a new slate of programmes. The openers looked closer to the official mandate, but still a bit offâŠ
Itâs weird to see the current graphics, intended for simplicity and breathing room, laid out in such a busy arrangement of pushbacks, tickers and banners - the colour palette tames it a bit though 
(image from DreamDTH Forum)
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Last Night (Today AUS time) was Lester Holtâs last night presenting NBC Nightly News - a tribute was shown in the final part of the bulletin:
Lester also appeared earlier in the day on Today:
Incoming host Tom Llamas also paid tribute to Lester at the end of his program Top Story:
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Crazy that itâs been 10 years.
Also that starting shot is trippy as hell. For a moment I thought the set was doing the today show turntable movement.
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Lester is a class act.
Probably the best anchor on the major network bulletins.
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Thatâs not the only change happening inside 30 Rock: WNJU, New Yorkâs Telemundo station, finally moved in next to WNBC.
The studio space they shared is split from Studio 3B, which housed Nightly News until the 21st century. Plans for the two stations to share workspace were announced back in 2022, with WNBC moving into their side of the studio a year later.
It is unclear how WNJUâs old studio in New Jersey will be repurposed to comply with their license locale requirement - but they did do a small song and dance to bid it farewell:
WNBCâs newsroom also moved downstairs from 7th floor to a combined one on the 2nd. One of their EPs did a tour around the new digs:
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