WPLG has laid out their plans after leaving ABC:
- Live with Kelly and Mark is moved from 10 to 11am to cover the hole left by The View, creating a daytime news block including the former GMA spot from 4.30 to 11;
- A new global news bulletin, Local10 World News, launches nightly at 6.30pm, with quite an on-the-nose wordmark to WNT (according to this Tweet);
- The 8-10pm hour, currently with Bachelor, is split at 9 to make way for another nighttime news block from 9 to 11, thereby replacing Family Feud at 10;
- In addition to the expanded news slots, weekends will also see live sports updates at 9.30 and 11.30pm, supplementing in between and after the news
Meanwhile, WSVN’s news will be simulcast on the new ABC Miami, which is also on the low-power channel 18 (WDFL, previously affiliated with NewsNet) as another outlet.
Update 26/7 WSVN’s full plan is out - the 6pm simulcast billed as ‘power hour of news’ with WNT at 6.30:
Meanwhile, Scripps has rolled out a new local news graphics package in May. It’s first used in WFTS Tampa, then WEWS Cleveland last Thursday.
Designed by California-based Defiant, the design claimed to be based on the group’s lighthouse logo, though the curved trail reminds me of the weather open in the ABC O&O package:
The ending logo at the title sequence might be a bit small though.
The supers is fine - suits the ABC stations well, and would’ve matched the old 10 News look too…