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. 

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.