Eyewitness News This Morning to start at 4:30am

WABC-TV's Eyewitness News This Morning will start at 4:30am, beginning on Tuesday September 7th. This follows a recent trend in which WPIX, WNYW, and WNBC have moved their newscast start times up to 4:30am, in order to cater to viewers who get up earlier for their commutes. This leaves WCBS's CBS 2 News This Morning as the only morning newscast in the market to start at 5am.

Questions and Answers: Rob Morrison

                                                   CBS 2's Rob Morrison reporting in Haiti

Rob Morrison was kind enough to speak to me for the debut edition of Questions and Answers. A former Marine, foreign correspondent, and morning anchor for WNBC, Morrison headed from 30 Rock to West 57th Street to anchor the weekend newscasts and report for WCBS in 2009.

NYNewsBlog Break

Adirondack Mountains

NYNewsBlog will be on break from Friday, August 13th to Tuesday, August 17th. We'll be back with a few great stories we're working on, including an interview with WCBS's Rob Morrison.

Thanks, 

James

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Former WNBC Pres./GM off to CNBC

Tom O'Brien

        Former WNBC President/General Manager Tom O'Brien has taken up the newly created position of Chief Revenue Officer at CNBC. O'Brien left WNBC in June in order to head NBC Local Media's Nonstop division, which is meant to expand the concept of NY Nonstop across other NBC O&Os. No reason was given as to why O'Brien switched posts after only two months. 

WCBS News Director Promoted

                 David Friend, Vice-President and News Director of WCBS was promoted today to become the senior vice president of all O&O news operations, a new post. He will continue to oversee WCBS's news operation as News Director. Under Friend's leadership, WCBS's news operation rose to 2nd place in the market, after being perennially 3rd place for most of the 2000s. Friend joined WCBS in 2006 from CNBC, where he served as Senior Vice President of Business News.

Unused WNBC Graphics

 

                                                                                    WNBC's Version of Look C                                                                                                                     Look C is the standardized graphics package of NBC's O&Os, save for WMAQ in Chicago and WNBC. While looking at the website of NBC Artworks, the in-house graphics department of NBC, I watched the demo of Look C, and noticed something interesting.

WNBC Debuts "Daily Connection"

 Tracie Strahan and Erika Tarantal host the first edition of Daily Connection

       When I first heard that WNBC was going to launch a local version of Daily Connection, I must admit that I was skeptical. The premise of Daily Connection is that NBC will send the show to its O&Os nearly complete, with stories, graphics, and anchor scripts already made. Each station can tweak it to their liking, but for the most part, it is a pre-fab current affairs show. First launched at WRC in Washington last autumn, Daily Connection has expanded to WMAQ in Chicago, KNBC in Los Angeles, and (obviously) WNBC in New York.