NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC affiliates and TODAY

Not really. The networks used to do 1-2 minute "newsbreaks" around 3pm in between soap operas. At their height, they also had them in primetime and other odd times. I think CBS was the last to have an afternoon newsbreak in 2009.



In recent years, a few ABC stations on the west coast (LA and San Francisco, specifically) have started airing World News Tonight at 3:30pm PST, the same time when it first airs live on the east coast. Then, they'll run the updated western edition at 5:30 or 6:30 PST.

Local news is still a big deal here, though the evening national news is also an important part of the early evening news block. Local station schedules can vary a lot from city to city, *but* a typical station in the US generally has local news starting at 4 or 5 pm, the national network news at either 5:30 or 6:30, and primetime network entertainment at 7 or 8pm depending on time zone. A few syndicated game shows and/or entertainment news shows are usually sprinkled in somewhere in there too.

There are a few outliers (some stations do afternoon/early evening local news as early as 3pm and as late as 7pm), but that's otherwise a pretty typical schedule.



Don't forget that the networks also have overnight/very early morning news too before local news at ~4/5am!

Only on American TV would they have a 30 second advert in a 70 second news summary.

ABC did introduce "Good Morning America 3: What You Need To Know" on March 18th that runs at 1pm ET / 12pm CT (6pm GMT), replacing the COVID-19 related bulletin that ran in that timeslot. ABC also offers a newsbrief around 2pm for some affiliates but isn't cleared across the network

Good Morning America...in the afternoon. I never understood that.

Is it in the afternoon nationwide or do some affiliates air it in the morning? Similarly I think the 4th hour of Today airs later in some affiliates, or did initially at least.

GMA 3 is live at 1PM ET and is expected to air at that time nation wide. Similarly for Today the third and fourth hours are expected to air in the morning. However some stations (I can only think of WESH) that break it up so they can air Live with Kelly and Ryan (although it’s ABC produced, mainly airs on ABC stations it airs on a handful of NBC or CBS stations) live at 9AM and play the rest of Today at 10 and 11AM respectively.

Well, they did run a similar program during that timeslot called "Good Afternoon America" for a limited run in 2012.

There was GMA Day as well, which then was retitled Strahan & Sara, after its hosts.

Which, in turn, became, GMA3: Strahan, Sara & Keke, Pandemic: What You Need To Know and, now, GMA3: What You Need To Know.

I'd be surprised if any other show has ever had so many different names in just over 2 years!

Meet The Press officially launched their new studio at 400 Capitol NW. I asked the TD and he said the entire facility (as expected) is IP and UHD ready. Hopefully the videos not geoblocked.



I tried posting Instagram images as embedded .jpgs but they didn’t appear.

That new set looks nice, I like that they went with white lighting fixtures. Spy cam of the gallery (with a physical vision mixer in use!) under the credits for anyone interested.

It's big, and light, but my god do I hate everything else.