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Since there is no thread for international presentation it looks like NBC has made a holiday promo sans the news division that’s an advertisement for Google Home. It features Will McCormack of Will and Grace, Jennifer Hudson of The Voice, Nicole Richie and John Michael Higgins of Great News, the set of Football Night in America and Jesse Spencer and Taylor Kinney of Chicago Fire.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wNiL/google-home-nbc-light-up-the-holidays-featuring-eric-mccormack

Also, Christiane Amanpour’s show that airs currently on CNN International will start airing on WNET and then next week the wider PBS member stations. Additionally a public affairs show which is still in development will round out the hour.

I think this is a great idea. It expands Amanpour’s American reach and PBS gets an international news programme.

And conveniently plugs a 'Rose' sized hole in the schedules..

The opening and close of the CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor:

Neither NBC Today or CBS This Morning have appointed permanent replacements yet. Several CBS correspondents are going to be filling in on This Morning until they do. All that's known so far is that NBC Today have Hoda filling in for the rest of the week, and after that, we don't know yet.

CBS is currently using their pool of correspondents / CBSN presenters.

Tonight was a hotly contested special election in Alabama for a senate seat. Doug Jones a Democrat won against Republican Roy Moore. Moore has been repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct against young women. It’s a big story - it looks like the entire 0400 GMT BBC World broadcast is devoted to it.

I only really watched msnbc which used their election lower thirds. I flipped over to NBC which ran a ticker during Chicago Med giving the result. The story is big enough nationwide to warrant a ticker but not to break into programming for a report. The ticker probably went out for 3/4 of the country - the west coast, Alaska and Hawaii would be local.





(You’ll see the network squeezed the program and pushed it up to fit the ticker on screen.)

I didn’t see anything on CBS and the fourth tuner on my TiVo wasn’t on ABC.

RKolsen...was that ticker run only by WBAL, (meaning were the affiliates given the option to run the ticker if they wanted to opt in)? I see their dog over to this right side over the ticker.

No. The ticker was embedded in the program feed. If it was a local ticker they would use their own style. WBAL always adds their bug during primetime. I’m not sure how the bug is triggered by the network (as not all stations use them) or they manually trigger/schedule (as they know all the ad break times) it. If it was a true network interruption they’d drop the bug*.

According to this it looks like there was a SR which I assume was for the stations not yet in network.



*During Sports their local bug has been known has been known to jump all over the place.

Sometimes my iPad gives me a trouble editing long posts (particularly those with multiple quotes) and I spent an hour looking for WBAL’s breaking news ticker only to realize it’s been posted on my twitter. During regularly scheduled programming it’s everything below the main Chyron (or VizRT in their case):

Baltimore stations doing wall to wall #breakingnews coverage of the #Edgewood shooting. Thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims. pic.twitter.com/OFDJNxOHVq

— Ryan Olsen (@rkolsen) October 18, 2017

It’s all in the same style. Here’s one a few years back telling viewers to go to their subchannel (UK viewers think of it as another channel in a Freeview multiplex) while they had the local rights to a preseason Ravens game.

Interesting @Ravens preseason graphic to denote the red zone. pic.twitter.com/153tCO62WR

— Ryan Olsen (@rkolsen) August 17, 2014

CNBC is using a neat neon styled peacock for the CNBC Prime programming block.

Excuse my ignorance - why do they have the Olympic Rings on screen?